10 Questions is a recurring Onward State feature in which we ask people about their Penn State experience. Today we’re talking to Tara Wheeler, who has a resume that sounds like the description of a Bond girl. She’s a beauty queen (Miss Virginia 2008), an Air Force ROTC cadet, an aspiring TV anchor, and an ice hockey goalie. She danced in THON too! Tara graduated from Penn State in 2004.

Where did you live while you were at Penn State? Which was your favorite?
I lived in McKean in East, Stephens in South, and McKee in West Halls and in a …

At job fairs around the country, recruiters promise a summer internship program promising bountiful opportunities and plenty of hands on experience. As some of us know, those promises can sometimes be shattered by menial “intern” work and little opportunity to explore. Ever want to cut through recruiter’s tactful spiel and find out first hand what previous interns think about the company that they worked for?

At the co-op party with the gang. Getting some great pics for Natty Nittany and meeting some cool people.

The Collegian recently published a really fantastic profile of boxer Katongo Mulenga, who is also a Penn State student. The writer, Dean Meyers, shadows Katonogo as he trains at the Altoona Boxing Club (without a coach) and competes in a fight at Uniontown.
The story is very well written, with atmospheric lines like:
Atlantic City is glitz and glamour. Altoona is, well, gloomy and glum.
This is a blue-collar city with crumbling brick factories. This is a town built around a now-defunct railroading industry. Nowadays, this is a city best known for its Double-A baseball franchise. This is where dreams come to die.
It’s …

The Collegian posted a disturbing and confusing story this afternoon.
A 50-year-old State College man was arrested Friday afternoon just hours after police say he broke into a Penn State student’s apartment and performed oral sex on the man while he was asleep.
That’s got to be one of the most frightening ways to be woken up. But here’s the part that convinced us there’s a more nuanced story here than simple sexual deviation.
Before the incident, the student was at Homan’s West College Avenue apartment before leaving at about 4 a.m. today, police said. The student had drank one beer and played …

Sex sells. That’s probably why the Collegian’s article about a new male escort service got above the fold A1 coverage.
The Gentleman of State College (here’s their MySpace… booty calls, anyone?) is offering male escorts for “anything from dinner dates to massages to bachelor parties to bachelorette parties.”
The company makes clients sign statements saying they are not renting (?) the men for sex, but I bet that rule will be broken quite often. (Quoth the company, “In the event that sexual activity occurs, it is beyond the scope of our financial agreement and is between two consenting adults.”)

They set up a …

What: The Security and Risk Analysis Club (SRA Club) is hosting its second event in its Virtualization Series.  On Thursday, January 29th, the SRA Club held a LEONIDAS Virtual Learning Environment Seminar to teach students about virtual machines, a new technology that is rapidly changing the security world.
Now that students have familiarized themselves with virtual machines by installing them on their personal computers, they will continue to learn how virtualization is affecting security assessments from Morgan Franklin.  Speakers from Morgan Franklin will present on “The Use of Virtualization and how it changes the nature of security assessment”.
If you missed the …

Penn Stater magazine put up a short video of the photo shoot it did yesterday with the Women’s Volleyball Team– the video features Kelsey Ream, Megan Hodge, and Nicole Fawcett posing for photographer Bill Cramer (Class of 1985). You can find the full blog entry here.
The most interesting part is how the magazine handled including a picture of a player who is working abroad this semester.
Oh, and one player couldn’t be there for the shoot—Christa Harmotto is student-teaching in England—so we hired a photographer in England to shoot her against a very similar backdrop, and we’ll somehow stitch her in. …

While it isn’t quite “Dollar Dollar Bill Y’all“, Wyclef-style, the Federal Stimulus Bill that passed the House yesterday without ANY Republican support, has $150 billion in it for education.
In addition to increased aid to the nation’s school districts, there will be substantial increases in grant aid to needy college students in the form of Pell Grants, etc. This is perhaps the part that would most effect students at Penn State, especially those that rely on federal aid.
There is also $20 billion in the bill for school and college modernization, with schools getting $14 billion and colleges getting $6 billion.
In total, …

We’re in the process of streamlining how Onward State displays events.
We’ve moved all events to a dedicated ‘Events’ page and we have added a dedicated events calendar that will appear on every page of the site.
Let us know what you think of it. We’re trying to adjust Onward State to meet your needs, so we would really appreciate feedback.

Weekends at college are an amorphous thing. For some, they begin on Thursdays of the Thirsty variety. For others, the week has been made obsolete by the neverending weekend.
In any event, a favorite weekend activity is the mid-afternoon nap. There’s no shame in napping. Remember Churchill napped. Quoth the redoubtable drunkard:
Nature had not intended mankind to work from 8 in the morning until midnight without the refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts 20 minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.
In that spirit, we’ve collected some tips for how to maximize your naps.
The most effective …

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“I Try To Moderate My Drinking”
Hello again to all of the Brosephs and Brosephinas reading my new column. It’s been a little more than a week since I started writing. Wow! Can you believe it? I sure can’t!
Anyway, today’s Bro Call is about drinking. Pretty sweet, right? I can’t imagine a week without it. But I feel like it is something that should be done in moderation, or else I could become an alcoholic. NOT chill at all. So I’ve devised a system to cut back on drinking to when I absolutely MUST.
Here at Penn State, the weekend really starts …

Seth.  On Beaver Ave.
This screams punk, and I love it.  The paint spattered jacket is fitting (he’s an art major) and the “pleated pants with tennis shoes” look is a great complement, but that hair!  It’s incredibly unique and makes this lo-fi look one of a kind.

“The Lone Employee”.  In The Rag & Bone.
Hip guy working in a vintage clothing store?  This is perfect.  End of story.

A Bicycle.  On Beaver Ave.
This is a great accessory, possibly one of the best bicycles I’ve seen on campus.  It’s no Vespa, but a million scene points to whoever owns this bicycle – even …

This is kind of cute, in a really, really morbid way. Who needs pickup lines when you have compatible blood?