Penn State woke this morning to find that campus was covered in a rather unpleasant snow and ice slurry. Though many students have already left State College, a good number still remain. Unfortunately, the weather conditions have upset some travel plans, specifically buses headed north. Weather Underground, the great weather information site founded by Bill […]
National Geographic has a neat feature on their site right now comparing hangover cures from around the world. The magazine says that people in the Netherlands cope with a few glasses of cold lager, and cites the prairie oyster as the preferred solution in America. The Rusisan hangover remedy is the least appealing though. Rather […]
Though Penn State is better known for its engineering than its liberal arts, some of us have had more papers than final exams in the last week. As diligent researchers, JSTOR is often the first place we search. For those of you who don’t know, JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. You can […]
Did you know Penn State has mobile journalists? Well, neither did we. Three undergrads in the College of Communication have begun submitting video reports to Penn State Live. Calling them journalists is a little misleading though, as Penn State Live is the university’s official news source. That said, Penn State Live deserves recognition for doing […]
Lots of Joe Paterno news today. FightOnState.com is reporting that Joe Paterno and the university have agreed on a 3-year extension to the coach’s contract. The site predicts that the information will be made public by the end of the week. The story has already been picked up by Penn Live and FOX Sports. The […]
Utica College is installing a new “sensitive compartmented information facility” on its campus. The Buildings & Grounds blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education posted some technical info about the room’s security features. The most impressive and unusual component is the foil that surrounds the room. Not all SCIF’s have foil linings, a feature that […]