<p>"A Penn State freshman fell about 55 feet from a sixth-floor Beaver Hall window just before midnight on St. Patrick’s Day, Penn State University Police said.</p>
<p>Ryan P. Walton, 19, of Harleysville, was at a party in the supplemental room on the sixth floor of Beaver Hall when the university police showed up at about 11 p.m. and found “a significant amount of beer and liquor” in the room, according to a Penn State statement.</p>
<p>As the police questioned students in the hallway, witnesses said Walton knotted a bed sheet and a blanket together, tied one end of the constructed rope to a bed and climbed out the window.</p>
<p>He “did not even make it to the fifth floor before he fell to the ground,” landing in grass, dirt and gravel on the northwest side of Beaver Hall in the Pollock Halls quad area, according to Penn State’s released statement.</p>
<p>Walton, an information sciences and technology major and a Porter Hall resident, remains in Altoona Hospital, where he was flown by helicopter early Saturday morning, Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon said yesterday.</p>
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