With Penn State fans tailgating in the fields and parking lots below, a plane flew above Happy Valley this afternoon with a message to the school: "Bring the statue home."
Last night's Rally in the Valley was a big hit ahead of Saturday's primetime matchup with Ohio State, but the most exciting thing to come from the pep rally had nothing to do with football. The men's basketball team unveiled some sleek new throwback alternative uniforms in Penn State's original colors: pink and black.
In what appears to be an annual tradition for the University Park Undergraduate Association around Halloween, the organization saw a large contingent of minority students speak out against comments by representatives that they deemed offensive and racially insensitive. Following a tense and opinionated open student forum, the assembly later convened into a town-hall style committee of the whole meeting to hold a dialogue with the minority representatives.
Jong Seong Shim, a 20-year-old Penn State sophomore facing criminal charges after threatening to shoot people at the HUB, has waived his right to a preliminary hearing. According to a release from the Centre County District Attorney's Office, Shim's charges have been sent to the Court of Common Please. Shim is facing two counts of terroristic threats and one count of disorderly conduct.
Amidst a climate of uproar in the heat of a long, grueling, and vastly fatal Vietnam War, a troublesome pattern of violent protests on college campuses was developing across America. It wasn’t all that long ago when students marched in droves to university president Eric Walker’s house and sent rocks crashing through his windows as the president retreated to safety.
The UPUA may have finally put the closed meeting issue to bed during its Wednesday night assembly meeting when an amendment to the organization’s by-laws hit the floor.