Last week, President Spanier unveiled the new Presidential Leadership Academy. Funded by Edward R. and Helen S. Hintz, both alumni, to the tune of $5 million, the Academy is structured to develop critical thinking skills and have participating students apply those skills to decisions on complex public policy, societal and global issues that they may […]
Time travel has always been the stuff of science fiction, but one Penn State alumna, Ronald Mallett (’69), has spent his life attempting to turn it into reality. Mallett was ten years old when his dad passed away of a heart attack. Inspired by a comic book version of H.G. Wells’ classic The Time Machine, […]
Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration, is giving a speech at Eisenhower Auditorium tomorrow night at 8. Appointed in 1997 as the first female Secretary of State, Albright was the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government at that time. During her tenure she extended and modernized NATO and inspired […]
An observation about Penn State Football’s legal woes. Abe Koroma and Maurice Evans, the two players convicted of possession of marijuana in the fall, received ARD, a program for first-time offenders (it’s funny because they play defense), and one year of probation. Koroma will be back next year, while Evans has declared for the NFL […]
Governor Rendell’s proposed 2009 budget is out and Penn State appears to be getting its appropriation cut by almost $21 million.The Penn State Live article posted today says: The $318 million proposed direct Penn State appropriation is a $20.3 million cut from the original 2008-09 appropriation of $338.4 million. In addition, medical assistance funds provided […]
Sometimes, those Smealies are lucky. They have their very own beautiful building, their professors are the best paid, and 27 of them, all MBA students, will travel to Omaha, Nebraska on February 6th to meet the world’s richest man: Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Those of you that started reading this expecting a fieldtrip […]