Budgets are tight, and jobs are scarce. After carefully conducting insightful surveys, pollsters have deduced: college students are stressed. The Associated Press and MtvU polled 2,240 students from 40 different campuses. The surveys took place at the end of April and beginning of May. According the results, 32% of students worry about financial issues, up […]
Remember the Shell Eco-Marathon? Penn State engineers constructed a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle and attended the California competition. But the goal of this “race” was to go farthest, not fastest. Penn State’s vehicle of victory, “Blood, Sweat & Gears,” took first place in the hydrogen fuel-cell category. Are you ready for this? Their contraption possessed an […]
Remember when you first found your house on Google Maps? The revelation probably freaked you out. Google has created some phenomenal work in the field of digital mapping, but the company has failed the creepers of Happy Valley. For some reason unknown to geographers, Google has never added detailed University Park imagery to its database. […]
Is Beaver Stadium an indoor facility? The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania says “yes,” due to the barrier surrounding the stadium. As a result, the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2008 now applies to Beaver Stadium, so smokers must refrain from lighting up anywhere in the facility. We’ll see how this supposed crackdown pans out at the […]
You were walking back from class one day, and what did you see? Ducks by Old Main, ducks by Willard, ducks by the Alumni Center, ducks everywhere. These mallard ducks returned to the area a few weeks ago, most likely from Mexico, their usual winter home. Here on campus, they seemingly prefer the garden and […]
Not according to Playboy. Playboy ranked colleges and universities based on the five categories of sex (hook-up culture), campus (activities and organizations), sports (duh), brains (academics), and bikini (number of half-nude women lounging about). The top-ten list reads as follows: University of Miami University of Texas – Austin San Diego State University University of Florida […]