When most people hear the term rugby, they think of hard-hitting, aggressive men with the highest levels of testosterone flowing through their bodies. Perhaps something like this comes to mind. While the Penn State Men’s Rugby team is certainly an intimidating competitor on the field, they will combine their efforts to beat a new opponent […]
They say Happy Valley is like a bubble. Sometimes, we can get too wrapped up in our own little world to get a good sense for the national pulse. Obviously, everyone in State College was thoroughly elated when the NCAA announced it was restoring Penn State's scholarship limits sooner than expected. But what was the national perception like?
Last weekend, several Penn Staters traveled to the University of Michigan to compete in MHacks, the largest student-run hackathon in the world. Two of them returned with $3,500 prize courtesy of the Hearst Corporation, which you may recognize as a major magazine publisher and a 20-percent stakeholder in ESPN.
Seedlings, a coming of age story of three college roommates, is running from September 26 to September 28 in 111 Forum at 9 p.m.
Though no legislation was actually on the agenda this week at UPUA, a small miracle happened, and legislation was in fact passed. Hallelujah.
As required by law, Penn State released its annual security report yesterday which discloses crime statistics over the past three years through 2012. The results show a drastic increase in forcible sexual offenses from 2011 to 2012, with reported incidents to the Penn State police nearly doubling over that time period.