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The Alumni Hall in the HUB hosted Kierra Darshell's 8th Annual Professional Drag Show this past Friday night. The show was the kicker to this year's Pride Week at Penn State and drew an impressive turnout, filling nearly every seat and leaving crowds of students standing in the wings.
Following the event, Joe Pratchenko, a junior-theater major, said:
It was lesbians, gays, transsexuals, all together and all accepting and no issues. It was perfect.
Yesterday afternoon, President Gavin Keirans and Vice-President Hillary Gupta announced their unequivocal endorsement of Christian Ragland for UPUA President and Colleen Smith for Vice-President. Citing Christian's relationships with both student leaders and the administration, as well as Colleen's work on advancing student interests in local and state government, Keirans called the duo "the best choice to lead".
The endorsement went on to compliment David Adewumi on his charisma and passion, but noted his lack of experience as a distinct disadvantage. Ragland said, "It is an honor to have both Gavin and Hilary endorse us as together they have accomplished a lot." In addition to Keirans and Gupta, the campaign has also received the endorsement of numerous other individuals and organizations.
Read on after the jump for Adewumi's heated response to Keirans's endorsement of Ragland.
In the final round of the women's portion of the NCAA Fencing Championship, Penn State's freshman Margherita Guzzi Vincenti claimed her first National Title in the epee this past Friday.
After transferring to Penn State in January, Guzzi Vincenti accumulated twelve wins prior to the start of the championship. Entering in second place, she added an additional seven victories to her record and earned a spot in the semifinals, where Guzzi Vincenti defeated Notre Dame's Courtney Hurley.
She then went on to defeat Harvard's Olympic Noam Mills for the National Title in the final epee dual.
Read on for more about Vincenti's triumph and Penn State's winning fencing program.
Keeping track of 5.4 million books, some 46,000 online journals and 100,000 e-books is no easy task. Luckily, the Penn State University Libraries website exists to deliver that mind-boggling volume of content to Penn Staters on demand. There's just one problem: the current website isn't exactly the most user friendly. It gives me the same feeling of information overload in my junior year as it did when I was a freshman.
Enter the redesigned, beta test version of the University Libraries website. Declaring it a mere improvement over the previous version would be a serious understatement.
Remember in the fall when everyone was really worked up about the proposed Nuisance Ordinance?
For those of you who don't remember, this piece of legislation proposed to hold party hosts responsible for actions that their guests commit, even after they've left the party. That piece of legislation is back before the borough council, and the division and controversy is starting up again.
More details after the jump.
