The timing of this endorsement strikes me as particularly advantageous for candidate Miller. Here’s the quote from the email the president of the Schreyer Honors College’s Student Council sent out just now:
Today is UPUA election day. The SHC Student Council has officially endorsed Sam Miller and Matthew Smith as UPUA President and Vice President. If you have time, please review their platform and vote Miller-Smith at vote.psu.edu!
The Honors students are, I bet, more likely to vote tomorrow than the typical Penn State student, making them an important groups to target.
As for other organizations, the Collegian and the IFC endorsed Keirans, …

Yesterday, we introduced you to Gavin Keirans, the incumbent candidate for UPUA president.
Today we are doing the same with his opponent, Samantha Miller. She is the current UPUA Governmental Affairs Committee Chair. In that role, she has consistently pushed the government for greater equity in Penn State’s appropriations.
The interview was conducted by the redoubtable Brad Einstein, of Full Ammo Improv and Onward State.
Remember to vote tomorrow, beginning at 6:00 am, on vote.psu.edu.
‘10 Questions’ with Samantha Miller from Onward State on Vimeo.

This is how Casey reacted to handing in her two weeks notice…

Do you blame her?

You can find the archived live blog after the jump.

These debates brought me right back to good old presidential election season ‘08, when mudslinging ruled the media. Despite honorable attempts by all three candidate teams, the debate was rife with name-dropping, fist-banging, and ad-hominem arguments (although some candidates engaged in such activity more than others). So what’s a student to do? Here’s a no-nonsense summary to spare you from last night’s long-winded bravado:
Borsuk-Paseka: Key word–collaborative. And I don’t mean just any kind of collaboration–the team hopes to run a UPUA that would represent and “embrace” EVERY student and EVERY thing (animate or inanimate) at Penn State. This includes toilets. I …

I’m going to be straight up honest with all of you fine folk: I know very little about how our student government works here on campus. I got into it my freshman year, but when then-Vice President of Student Affairs Vicky Triponey came in and pooped on everything, including dissolving USG for what is now UPUA, I gave up. The whole thing seemed just a tad childish and not worth my time. Silly, even.
Which is why I attended the 2nd UPUA presidential debate last night – not only because I wanted to be informed, but also because I wanted to …

As reported in Onward State’s infancy (oh, times were simpler back then), a Penn State team of researchers, led by Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller, were the first to entirely sequence the genome of an extinct animal – the Wooly Mammoth.
The folks over at TIME realize what a big deal this accomplishment is, and have nominated Schuster and Miller for their “Top 100 Most Influential” people issue. For the duo to make the jump from the pool of 200 finalists to make the issue, they need votes:
Time has set up a Web site so that everyone can vote to select …

This is country college in the big city, I guess, but the Nittany Nation has begun descending on Manhattan.
PennStateNacho uploaded this picture of the Fullington convoy that is taking students and other fans to tonight’s game at Madison Square Garden.

We’ll be live-blogging the game, as Mark mentioned earlier, so be sure to check back tonight.

Hey. Remember that guy who got caught with all those bags of heroin a few days ago? We wrote about it, if you recall. The writer of that post wondered just how much the heroin Kissel was packing would cost on the street. We now have an answer.
The bags — which police say total $5,760 in value, or $30 per bag — were discovered in the pockets of Jonathan M. Kissel, 522 E. College Ave., at about 3 a.m. Saturday after two passersby found Kissel unconscious and helped him to the porch of a 500 block South Pugh Street apartment, …

What: Our second Live Blog using Cover It Live technology – a panel of Onward State writers will be covering the Penn State Men’s Basketball game against the Fighting Irish, weaving your comments into a rich tapestry of play-by-play, color commentary, and Notre Dame trash talk.
The live blog will be great for those that want to watch the game along with us and add their thoughts, or for those unable to watch the game and want updates in real time.
Where: Here!
When: Tonight, March 31st, From 9 PM until the game ends
Cost: Free!

Tonight at 6:30, the Pride of the Lions Pep Band, cheerleaders, and the Nittany Lion will host “Rally In The Garden”.  This pep rally will be held in the Theatre Lobby before the Nittany Lions battle the Fighting Irish.  According to Penn State Live,
The best entry point for the Theatre Lobby is through the Madison Square Garden entrance on 7th Avenue.  Fans are reminded that they can only attend the rally if they have a ticket to the game and there is no re-entry back into the Garden if they leave the facility after the rally.
Fans can enter Madison Square Garden …

As it gets warmer, all I can think about is football.  And with all the recent news about Football practice starting up, I thought of today’s question.
Here are the rules:
Step 1: Read the question.
Step 2: Answer the question.
Step 3: Rinse and Repeat.
The Question of the Day is:
Where is the best seat in Beaver Stadium?

In fact, he’s not a creationist at all, at least not in the literal sense. Dr. Michael Behe, biochemistry professor at Lehigh University, was invited by the Science and Bible Club to speak last night, reviewing the arguments of his two controversial books Darwin’s Black Box and The Edge of Evolution, directly challenging Darwin’s theory of evolution. Keep in mind, Behe is no charlatan—he received his PhD in biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and did his post doc work at the National Institutes of Health. The professor even accepts that evolution occurs and that the earth is not, in …

That’s good to hear. The trio’s second and final performance will be tomorrow night at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Kudos to the Center for the Performing Arts for snagging such an amazing group of musicians!

While the drought is over for Penn State fans, there’s not much out there in the way of football news, besides that JoePa is 100%, Sean Lee is chomping at the bit to return, and the graduating class has left a lot of holes for young talent to fill.
Fortunately, there are articles like the Bleacher Report’s 10 Great Days In Penn State History to remind us why we love Blue and White football and never, ever want it to go away again (though it inevitably will).
Among the interesting tidbits from this chronological list of landmark events:
- Joe Paterno was initially …