Last spring, Governor Tom Corbett and his Republican majority in the state government waged war against its public institutions of higher learning. Appropriations cuts of up to 50% were announced, which would've caused a catastrophic increase in tuition for the nearly hundred thousand students in the Penn State system, not to mention those at fellow state-related schools like Temple, Pittsburgh, and Lincoln, or the PASSHE colleges. However, this fall, our tuition payments were more in line with what they've been the past few years.
Dispatch was able to sell out concerts in Los Angeles, Boston, and New York, but the crowd Sunday night at the Bryce Jordan Center more closely resembled that for a men's basketball game, and not one against the Michigan States of the world, either. But that was no matter to the attendees, who more than made up for the lack of numbers in their enthusiasm, or for the band, who never gave off even a hint of their decade-long hiatus. Check out the rest of our review after the jump.
The 2011-2012 school year kicked off with a bang for the Sixth Assembly of the University Park Undergraduate Association, but went out with a whimper. Indeed, it was the lone piece of new business on the agenda that drew the most attention, that fostered a lively debate, and that created tensions which clearly demarcated lines of opposition within the UPUA.
Do you drive more than twice a week? Got a desire to make five hundred bucks a year? And are you okay with researchers poking around in your car? If you answered "yes" to all three of those questions, you're in luck--the Strategic Highway Research Program is looking for individuals to participate in the "Naturalistic Driving Study."
It's time for the first day of classes. And while a few particularly unfortunate freshmen are on their way to their early morning courses, others figured out Rule #1 for themselves. But whether you're up at the crack of dawn for your 8 a.m. or sleeping in until 1:25, here are some tips on how to succeed in college without really trying.
Five years ago, the Association of Big Ten Students refused to recognize UPUA as a legitimate student government.
This weekend, their annual summer conference heads to Penn State.