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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Mark Viera, New York Times college sports reporter, had a good article today about Talor Battle and Penn State this season. Specifically, the article focused on Battle’s tough high school years. Notable quotes are: “He just has that innate ability to make other players better,” said Kurt Kanaskie, a Penn State assistant coach. “And I [...]