After years of requests for a discounted meal plan for students who live off campus, Housing and Food Services is just now offering plans designed to give "commuter" students a discount at on campus eateries. Well, sort of.
Kelly Dolak, a former Penn State student and a current film professor at Ramapo College, sees the Sandusky scandal in a different light than your average outsider. As an alumna, Dolak felt a connection to our student body when the news broke in November, and she set off with her camera to the chaos of State College, unsure of what was to come.
Penn State student and disabled veteran Patrick Turley was inspired to join the Marines Corps the day after 9/11. Soon after, he was deployed to Iraq, but not before he endured three and a half months of training. His first book, Welcome to Hell, describes his experiences in Marine Corps boot camp.
College Media Matters, a leading blog that analyzes college journalism, gave its not to The Daily Collegian for the "College Newspaper of the Year" recognition.
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Well, it's that time of year when Americans will be out in force with block parties, cookouts, and all other ways of living it up on a Wednesday to honor some pretty ballsy dudes who signed a piece of paper 236 years ago. If you're in the State College area, here's what you need to know to make the best of the Central PA 4th Fest.