One of Penn State's best known musical theatre groups -- the Penn State Thespians -- will kick off their latest show, a rendition of the famous Mel Brooks' Broadway hit known as The Producers, this coming Thursday night in the Schwab Auditorium. The Producers is the humorous story of a theatrical producer, Max Bialystock, and an accountant, Leo Bloom, who decide to make what they hope will be a Broadway flop so that they can run off with investors' money and bolt to Brazil. Instead, their play turns out to be a huge success much to their dismay.
Penn State University has officially begun settlement talks with at least 20 of Jerry Sandusky's child abuse accusers, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The number of accusers in those talks means that there are more than the double the number of victims that testified during the highly publicized trial, which came to a close this past week when Sandusky was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison.
The Penn State Nittany Lions hockey team has officially begun Division 1 play, losing to American International College 3-2 with just 21 seconds left in overtime last night at the Greenberg Ice Pavilion.
Just six weeks ago, I was one of the biggest National Football League fans that you would ever meet. There was nothing that excited me more than the prospect of a new football season. I bled green and white as a die-hard New York Jets fan. But over the course of the last six weeks, a revamped Penn State football team led by Bill O'Brien has transformed into a huge college football fan.
Welcome back, lovers of student government assembly meetings. It's been three weeks since I last covered a UPUA meeting, and the separation anxiety from my weekly fix of unnecessary red tape and regulations got the best of me.
Penn State alumnus and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism Sara Ganim spoke to a room full of journalism students last night in the HUB Alumni Hall as part of the Foster Foreman Conference of Distinguished Writers. Ganim gained widespread attention in March 2011 when she broke the story of a grand jury investigation into Jerry Sandusky's alleged child sexual abuse, eventually becoming the third youngest Pulitzer Prize winner ever as a result of the article she wrote.