What do you want to do before you die?-- this common question is the basis for MTV's popular documentary series The Buried Life. This Friday, April 1st, the cast of the series will turn this question on Penn State as they speak at SPA's LateNight.
If you have clicked on Onward State or picked up a Collegian sometime over the past 15 days, you've seen headlines dealing with one or more of the four UPUA presidential tickets. Since the start of the campaign season, the media focus on the upcoming election has been on the executive branch of the student government. But do the presidential tickets deserve all this hoopla? Do they wield enough power in the UPUA to warrant such excessive coverage? The power of the UPUA is still in the hands of the 39 members that make up its Assembly, yet there has not been one story profiling the any of the 57 undergraduates vying for either the six at-large, 12 off-campus, seven on-campus or one of the 14 academic college positions in the government's legislative branch.
The Penn State football team suffered two big blows this week, as Curtis Drake and Pete Massaro both went down with leg injuries in spring practices. Both players were expected to be big contributers in the 2011 season. Drake suffered a fracture to his left tibia in practice last Thursday, and Massaro suffered a torn ACL in his left knee on Friday.