The Penn State women's volleyball team got two sweeps this past weekend to join Illinois atop the Big Ten standings. The wins extended the Nittany Lions' winning streak to ten games and pushed their home winning streak to 88 straight matches.
Neither a little birthday luck from Coach Erica Walsh nor a valiant second-half effort from Penn State were good enough to overcome two first-half West Virginia goals as the Lady Lions' season ended Sunday afternoon in Morgantown by a score of 2-1.
The second Council meeting of the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments took place on last Friday and Saturday. They passed three resolutions and tabled another. On Friday night, Graham Spanier made a short speech and then took questions from the Council and the gallery.
The National Federation for the blind field a formal complaint against Penn State last Friday, November 12. The complaint, which was issued by the largest organization for the blind in the U.S., claimed that blind students and professors suffer “pervasive and ongoing discrimination” because of the inaccessibility of the technology available on campus.
The Penn State men's soccer team could not come back to win a third game in a row on Sunday afternoon. An unlucky early goal and some inconsistent calls from the referee seemed to take the Nittany Lions mentally out of the game, leading to a 4-1 defeat to Michigan.
Onward State is happy to announce its 2010 fall tweet-up!
Come join us on Wednesday afternoon from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm in the basement of Irving's for some new media camaraderie.