USA Today’s Preseason Coaches Poll was released today, and for the most part, the Nittany Lion’s placement seems just about right. Yes, Ohio State is ranked above us, but that only will make the Nov. 7 contest more interesting. Not too shabby of a job by the voters – taking into account that Notre Dame […]
ESPN’s crack comedians spent some time in the past week thinking about how Joe Paterno would use Twitter. The closest we’re going to really get to this is @MeanJoePaterno, but their ideas were funny nonetheless. Here are our favorites. The full images are available at the bottom of the post. About that last one, does […]
Victory for the Kleercut campaign! Eco-Action and Greenpeace triumphed yesterday after a weary battle with Kimberly-Clark, when the overlords of the paper products industry agreed to Greenpeace’s demands to protect the ancient Boreal Forest. Recap: Kimberly-Clark manufactures the Kleenex, Scott, and Cottonelle brands. Also, they had this bad habit of chopping down ancient forests to […]
All in, the average underclassman will see a $1,040 increase in his final bill this year. This is about at 4.8% increase in total cost from last year. But, if you recall one of our earlier posts, Penn State reported a “record number of donations in fiscal 2008-09.” The increase might not be as impressive […]
Penn State students have followed with varying degrees of interest this summer’s budget battles: one between the Democrats and Republicans within Pennsylvania’s state government and another between Governor Ed Rendell and Graham Spanier. The former was over the state’s budget and the latter an argument about the very identity of Penn State: are we public or […]