The Daily Iowan recently ran a story about how the Coralville PD was using Twitter. Coralville is the town adjacent to Iowa City, home of the University of Iowa. For the last month, the police have sent updates, called “tweets,” using this social-networking site. Some updates, such as the one above, are fun. Others are […]
Penn State Live ran a feature yesterday that we couldn’t pass up. In a feature titled ‘Heard on Campus: Sue Paterno,’ an interesting fact was shared with a class by the football coach’s wife: “The reason we have a listed phone number is because Joe doesn’t answer it. There have been problems with that, but […]
Wow. We don’t know how we missed it but before break the Collegian reported about how… nevermind, I’m just going to let the story speak for itself. The Collegian’s headlined it Break chance for hometown flings. I think our headline might be a little more accurate. We’ve pulled the quotes that tell the story of […]
The Centre Daily Times ran an article today further developing the chicken drama that seems be Borough Council’s primary concern. Here are some of the punniest passages. STATE COLLEGE — Egged on by chicken owners, Borough Council granted hens the right to live in State College after more than three months of debate. While in […]
President Spanier has been with us for thirteen years. Might this be his last? Marc Ambinder, one of The Atlantic’s bloggers, posted some musings on how Obama might fill his cabinet. For Education Secretary, Democrats say that Graham Spainer, the president of Penn State University, and Ray Mabus, the former governor of Mississippi, are said […]
The New York Times ran an article this week about the popularity of club sports teams on college campuses. An estimated two million college students play competitive club sports compared with about 430,000 involved in athletics governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Here’s the list of club […]