What: Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) will be hosting a series of town hall meetings across the state this week. When: 8:30 am on Wednesday August 12 Where: President’s Hall at The Penn Stater Cost: Free, and attendees who RSVP through Citizen’s for Pennsylvania’s Future will receive a free clean-energy shirt or hat.
The Big Ten Network held its annual kickoff luncheon recently. As is to be expected, Penn State patriarch Joe Paterno was in top form. Here’s a video of his address to the crowd.
ESPN’s crack comedians spent some time in the past week thinking about how Joe Paterno would use Twitter. The closest we’re going to really get to this is @MeanJoePaterno, but their ideas were funny nonetheless. Here are our favorites. The full images are available at the bottom of the post. About that last one, does […]
All in, the average underclassman will see a $1,040 increase in his final bill this year. This is about at 4.8% increase in total cost from last year. But, if you recall one of our earlier posts, Penn State reported a “record number of donations in fiscal 2008-09.” The increase might not be as impressive […]
Penn State students have followed with varying degrees of interest this summer’s budget battles: one between the Democrats and Republicans within Pennsylvania’s state government and another between Governor Ed Rendell and Graham Spanier. The former was over the state’s budget and the latter an argument about the very identity of Penn State: are we public or […]
The Collegian is at its worst during summer session, when the candidate corps is an avowedly less academic group of summer session students and the bulk of its editing army is off in exotic locales such as New York and Washington. But the Collegian’s worst is our favorite. There’s nothing better than a nice fluff […]