Onward State http://onwardstate.com a Word on State Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:00:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Five Star Penn Stater that place Penn State staff goes for nooners a fantastic hotel.
The Penn Stater magazine recently won accolades in the annual Mercury Awards, a national competition which recognizes various disciplines in the world of professional communications. The Penn Stater magazine is a bi-monthly magazine for members of the Penn State Alumni Association.
The magazine won the following awards:
  • A silver award in the 'Feature Article Writing: University' category for a story about the ongoing investigation into Betsy Aardsma's murder appearing in the Sep/Oct 2009 issue
  • A bronze award in the 'Feature Article Writing: Professional Profile' category for a story in the July/Aug 2009 issue about an alum who is building a time machine so he can see his father again. Seriously.
  • A silver award in 'Writing: University Magazine' for the Nov/Dec 2009 issue.
  • A bronze aware in 'Writing: Magazines - Overall' for the Jan/Feb 2010 issue.
  • Additional honors were received in the 'Magazines: Member Publications' category for the Nov/Dec 2009 issue.
We here at Onward State would like to congratulate The Penn Stater on all their successes and hope that they continue to win accolades in the future... and thanks for putting Onward State in the prestigious company of Jersey Shore's Pauly D in your latest issue's Hip List!]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/15/five-star-penn-stater/ Tickets for Maya Angelou Available Today Angelou is an author who has won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy-Award-winning poet, an Emmy-nominated actress and screenwriter, and a political activist. She has served on two presidential committees and she served as the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference per request of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free tickets for the event will be available starting Monday March 15th for students and Friday March 19 for the public. Details are after the jump.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/15/maya-angelou-comes-to-psu/ Note to Goreham: Taxes Affect Consumption ran an article this morning about a proposed 10% tax on poured drinks being discussed by small town leaders across the state. State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham was quoted as saying,
"It would not discourage people from drinking. If it did, it's not a bad thing."
Thanks for playing, Liz, but you're wrong.
Increasing the price of booze in bars is going to, according to economic theory, do precisely what Goreham believes it won't; that is, "discourage people from drinking" in bars. See the nifty chart I found on the Internet to visualize why this is.
So what would be the actual impact of a poured drink tax? Sure, some bar and lounge enthusiasts might simply drink less on each visit, but another reaction to seeing your bar tab go up 10% would be to refrain from going to the bar at all and take the party elsewhere, to a house or apartment in downtown State College. And that's something that would probably be "a bad thing."]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/15/note-to-goreham-taxes-affect-consumption/ Question of the Day: Spring Break Trips

What did you do that was exciting during Spring Break?


]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/15/question-of-the-day-spring-break-trips/ Found on Craigslist – Missed Connections Craigslist is a big and sometimes scary place. Craigslist Penn State is no exception. In an effort to better serve you, our reader, we have started an new effort to highlight listings we feel should be shared with the greater Penn State audience.
We hope we can find what you’re looking for.

Ugg Boots and Spandex - m4w (State College)

You were walking down College Ave. and you looked utterly retarded trying to imitate the million other retards wearing the exact same thing. You looked like you were freezing your ass off, yet your feet were probably toasty. All in the name of some ridiculous fashion statement. What was the statement? "Look at me! I'm a retard!"

I wonder if this is a broad statement generalizing the stereotype of how women dress in State College, or if this well and truly was meant for one girl. Probably the former.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/12/found-on-craigslist-missed-connections-4/ Get Him to the Greek: A Call to Arms "Get Him to the Greek" is the latest release (set for June 4th) by Nicholas Stoller (the same guy that directed Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Judd Apatow (the same guy that produced Knocked Up and Superbad).
They are having a COMPETITION amongst all the Big 10 schools, and the winning school receives a FREE screening of the film and a chance to meet the cast!]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/11/get-him-to-the-greek-a-call-to-arms/ Cyler Sanderson: Big Ten Champion Read on to learn more...]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/09/cyler-sanderson-big-ten-champion/ Found on Craigslist – Missed Connections Craigslist is a big and sometimes scary place. Craigslist Penn State is no exception. In an effort to better serve you, our reader, we have started an new effort to highlight listings we feel should be shared with the greater Penn State audience.
We hope we can find what you’re looking for.

Topless in class - m4w - 23 (Classroom)

I'm sure you'll remember what I'm talking about because for the life of my I can't remember what class this happened in. I was sitting the the back like usual, probably on my laptop or something. You were up front and not wearing a shirt, boobs out and everything. I'm sorry I don't know your name, but your hair was in braided and pulled back and it looked like your skin had ritualistic ash or ocher painted all over it. So you looked like you were going through a tribal rite or something, I can't remember the specific tribe and color motif exactly. Anyway, I'm sure you remember doing that and I just wanted you to know how gorgeous I though you were and maybe we could go get some coffee sometime.

You'd think that you would remember which class had topless tribal women in it.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/07/found-on-craigslist-missed-connections-3/ Icers Ready to Battle For Championship Throughout this season, the Icers have compiled a 27-4-1 record while winning the ESCHL regular season and tournament titles. Now there is only one thing left on their preseason to-do list: Win a national championship.
Penn State received the #2 seed in the national tournament and play the SUNY-Canton Kangaroos in the first round on Saturday. If they prevail over the marsupials on skates, they will play the winner of Oklahoma and Central Oklahoma on Sunday.
It will truly be a grueling stretch for the guys who will have to win 4 games in 5 days in order to claim their stake as the #1 team in the country. But after not being in the national championship game the last 2 years after making at least an appearance the previous 10 years, you can be sure that the barbarians on ice will be hungry to bring home a title (and not drunken beach stories) to State College.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/05/icers-ready-to-battle-for-championship/ We’re Taking a Break… You Should Too! Over that period, the site will be updated sporadically. We will resume our coverage in earnest on Monday March 15.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/05/were-taking-a-break-you-should-too/ Disbanded Fraternity House = Temp. Rooming reported:
According to the proposal, disbanded fraternities could temporarily classify themselves as a rooming house for two years, after which the landowner will decide what happens to the property. For on-campus fraternities, the university could seize the property.

The proposed policy also states that the "building ownership entity" or a "local alumni association member" that is in charge of the property itself must reside within 25 miles of State College in case any problems take place. The policy also stated that the disbanded fraternity has to apply for a permit allowing the chapter house to be temporarily used as a rooming house within 120 days of the fraternity's disbandment.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/05/disbanded-fraternity-house-temp-rooming/ PCC’s Top Secret Mission Manhattan Project, the Paternoville Coordination Committee has decided to undertake a mission of putting together the history of Paternoville. The intent of this project seems to go beyond the advent of the modern-day Paternoville which was founded in 2005. They would like to hear stories from its unnamed predecessor. The PCC website had this to say:
The PCC asks for your assistance in compiling information on how Paternoville has grown from the first few camp outs way back in the day (the unofficial beginnings of camping are contested, and could be as early as the 1970s) to the current form. An initial list of over 100 sources has been compiled and the first round phone calls and e-mails should be going out within the next 24 hours.

I contacted Chris Grassi, webmaster of the PCC, and he said that he was keeping this project "pretty close to the chest." He sent out the first contacts on Sunday and, as of Thursday, he had received about 20 responses. He also said that he would continue to do this until he felt he had the quantity and quality of information needed for presentation.
More on that after the jump.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/05/pccs-top-secret-mission/ The STATEtorialist: You Can Never Have Too Many The STATEtorialist is a blog about Penn State, college sports, and fashion. Every week, Ben from The STATEtorialist will be writing a column for Onward State. If you like what you read, be sure to comment and read more at The STATEtorialist!
I'm not going to lie, I have a lot of clothes. So much, in fact, that the studio apartment I live in that is made for two people has two closets and two dressers full of my clothes. But even with my plentiful wardrobe, I never feel like I have enough of certain items. I'm all about re-wearing jeans because they seem to be more comfortable that second time around, but there are certain things you can't pull out of the laundry basket and throw back on without feeling at least a little bit grimey.
So in the past few months I've been thinking and there are a few things I really wish I had an extensive collection of, and I like to think of these things as essentials. Read on for some items that you shouldn't feel bad for overloading on. ]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/05/the-statetorialist-you-can-never-have-too-many/ Texidor Tells Story Radio Free Penn State interviewed Professor José Texidor. If you haven’t heard, Texidor has quite a controversy surrounding him, which was the subject of his interview.
The whole thing started in July 2007 when Texidor received a letter from John McCarthy, head of the department of sociology and crime, law and justice questioning the difficulty of two of Texidor’s classes (CJ 100 and CJ 451).
Read on for more about the controversy.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/05/texidor-tells-story/ Be the M.O.O.D. Cover Girl! So give it a whirl! Just e-mail Senior Fashion Market Editor Mairys Joaquin - mgj5004@psu.edu - with your photo (I heard the provocative ones make the top of the pile) and your resume (as goes with the intelligent ones) no later than 5 p.m. on March 19.
Mairys Joaquin was also the President of the Panhellenic Council (PHC) at Penn State, so that's pretty neat.]]> http://onwardstate.com/2010/03/04/be-the-m-o-o-d-cover-girl/