Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission released a report on school zone mandatory sentences. These laws state that if you are caught selling drugs within 1000 feet of a school, prosecutors can seek a two-year mandatory minimum sentence. Not too surprisingly, its recommendation was to repeal law for two main reasons: first, 1000 feet […]
We’ve all been there. You bend down to pick up the ping-pong ball that missed its target. As you pick it up and turn it in your hands, you realize something terrible. The lucky ping-pong ball you’ve been using during your latest winning streak has a dent. You panic and look to your partner. He […]
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The Daily Collegian has begun experimenting with new media, but it still doesn’t seem to have found the best way to incorporate it into the newspaper’s general structure. A couple setbacks to the Small World blog: Visual Appeal This thing wouldn’t win any America’s Next Top Model competitions; it has curves in all the wrong places. That is, […]
Despite a report saying that Penn State only has 4 official Twitter accounts, it seems the Penn State Twitterverse has made quite an expansion over the past few months. Back in February, I wrote a post about a few personal Twitter accounts of Penn Staters. Now, accounts ranging from athletic staff to departments to clubs […]
In case you missed his speech at Schwab Auditorium last Monday, Voices of Central Pa recently interviewed Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. Cousteau speaks with Voices environmental editor Jill Gomez about “the health of the oceans, commercial fishing, and the future.”