The sun's going down on the Keirans era of UPUA history. The first meeting of Christian Ragland's fifth assembly is tonight in the HUB. Do you think we'll see the Last Stop headliners announced?
So you managed to get an internship this summer? You know that you can put that to some good use other than resumé enhancing--why not get some credit for it? I decided to break down (by academic college) how you can get class credits for your internship.
Read the full scoop after the jump.
Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) spoke in the HUB yesterday to a small crowd of seated students. He addressed numerous state and national issues, ranging from student loans to sanctions in Iran.
Specter is hoping to retain his senate seat in this year's midterm elections and has been campaigning throughout the state. During his stop at Penn State, Specter spoke about the battle he would face come November,
Incumbents are an endangered species.
Find out why he thinks he will prevail after the jump.
When I first heard of the Penn State Clown Nose Club, I thought, "What the hell?" Someone came up with a BS excuse to mooch off our Student Activity Fee for whatever they want. But I found out that "spreading happiness through unconventional positive social risk taking" means a lot more than that.
"We are not about clowns," says the club's president Chad Littlefield. "Just their noses. Horror movies can keep the clowns." It started after a Cirque du Soleil show where free clown noses were handed out. Chad wore his back to his dorm, greeting everyone along the way. "100% of the people smiled 100% of the time," he says. If you've seen the movie Patch Adams, it's along those lines. So from then on he and some of his friends started wearing clown noses around campus, getting similar reactions.
Read more about this interesting new club after the jump.
SPA promised an April full of funny, and they continue to deliver.
After bringing Gabriel Iglesias to Eisenhower Auditorium, the student group will follow up with a quartet of up-and-coming comedians in the HUB-Robeson Center's Alumni Hall.
The Axe Twisted Humor Comedy Tour, sponsored in part by FunnyOrDie.com, will take place at 8:30PM this Friday, April 9th. According to the Facebook event page, the show will feature comedians Donald Glover, Whitney Cummings, Nick Kroll, and Chelsea Peretti.
Read on about the event's performers after the jump.
Many of you undoubtedly remember This American Life's feature on Penn State's status as the nation's #1 Party School last December. Though many PSU students had mixed feelings about the tone of the piece, most of us will agree that it was a realistic and accurate look at Penn State's eclectic nightlife.
For those of you who are too visual for the radio, or who just prefer the facts in one place, there is now an infographic complete with all the information from the This American Life episode.
Get the full scoop on the infomage after the jump.