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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