I might have to reconsider my previous post about Carl Wilkins. Wilkins told a group of PSU students last week that “you can’t always know what’s going to happen, but you always have a choice.” Last night, Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, told Penn State students and […]
“You can’t always know what’s going to happen, but you can always know that you have a choice” — Carl Wilkins, the only American to stay in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Mr. Wilkins came to talk to Penn State students last night in order to dissect the events of the Rwandan genocide. He spoke […]
Even though Simmons Dining Hall made a commitment to healthy eating this year, they didn’t skimp out on Fat Tuesday. Last night, the dining hall hung gold, purple, and green streamers and loaded its trays with authentic novelties from the Gulf Coast like King Cake and Jambalaya. The tablecloths and beads further served to conjure up the […]
“Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.” Ralph Ellison, author of The Invisible Man You’ve never seen such a comprehensive collection of Black History as this one. Penn State University’s Paterno Library recently received a generous donation of over 10,000 books, letters, paintings, and sheet music from African-American bibliophile Charles L. […]
Feel like the impending snow will cramp your weekend plans? Take a short walk over the the Palmer Museum of Art to check out its American Naturalistic photography exhibit. The museum has photos from the turn of the 19th century by the father of Naturalistic photography, Peter Henry Emerson, as well by Pennsylvania natives such […]
My travels back to Philadelphia and then to New Jersey have made me realize a few things that I’m thankful for at good old State: The water pressure in Simmons. Truly, it’s like a little slice of heaven. I went back into my bathroom at home and wished I could teleport to the dorm shower, […]