Just six weeks ago, I was one of the biggest National Football League fans that you would ever meet. There was nothing that excited me more than the prospect of a new football season. I bled green and white as a die-hard New York Jets fan. But over the course of the last six weeks, a revamped Penn State football team led by Bill O'Brien has transformed into a huge college football fan.
The following is a list of the ten places around State College where the progressive-thinking, independent, edgy, counter culture collective of “hipsters” seek refuge from the ignorant mainstream gestapo of haters. Find Penn State's most hipster hangouts after the jump.
After last week's Presidential debate, the political climate has only gotten more heated. So we want to chill the fiery rhetoric with some cool drinking games. Or is it warm the icy rhetoric with fiery drinking games? I digress, but check out our five favorite debate drinking games and follow Penn State's commentary on the political showdown on Twitter with the hashtag, #debatePSU.
Political filmmaker and radio host John Zeigler, who is known for his iconoclastic personality and projects in support of Sarah Palin and others, is making a documentary aimed at exposing the truth about Joe Paterno's role in the Jerry Sandusky scandal, according to Buzzfeed.
On November 4th, exactly a year after Jerry Sandusky was indicted on 40 criminal charges relating to child sexual abuse, ten of Penn State's a capella clubs will host a concert benefitting the Prevent Child Abuse Pennsylvania charity.
Welcome back, lovers of student government assembly meetings. It's been three weeks since I last covered a UPUA meeting, and the separation anxiety from my weekly fix of unnecessary red tape and regulations got the best of me.