Alexander Lindsay, Jerry Sandusky's current defense attorney, filed a motion asking the court to allow secret grand jury testimony in an appeal that will be filed in the next several days.
One would think that it takes an extensive amount of time to build a mobile application or a robot that searches for your electronic devices. From hardware to software, students from Penn State and elsewhere gathered on campus this weekend for HackPSU, a 24-hour hacking marathon. Hundreds participated in the marathon, developing ideas and using computer coding in order to create a finished product in just one short day. In the end, one team stood out above all the others, and it may have come as a surprise.
The name of Kevin Hart's most recent standup comedy tour is "What Now?", a question that Hart said he gets quite often these days. In other words, now that he's reached international fame as a comic and starred in a handful of movies, what comes next? For now, the answer seems to be a pretty simple one: keep making people laugh. On Sunday night at the Bryce Jordan Center, Hart did just that in front of a packed, sold out arena.
The "Steps for State" initiative is in its second year, walking for three days ahead of Capital Day on Tuesday. The UPUA is advocating for higher state appropriations to help alleviate high tuition costs for Penn State students.
The Penn State Alumni Association elections will feature two additional candidates for council on the ballot following a lawsuit. PSAA Executive Director Roger Williams agreed to let Dr. James Smith and Dr. Elizabeth Morgan onto the ballot after Smith sued the Alumni Association. Smith filed his lawsuit on March 12 after being denied a spot on the ballot by the Alumni Association's Nominating Committee.
Robust. If I had to describe the final meeting of the UPUA's Ninth Assembly in one word, I'd call it robust, and that's not just because it was President Anand Ganjam's favorite buzzword over the course of his year in office. Nineteen items of legislation were passed on Wednesday evening as another chapter of Penn State's undergraduate student government came to a close, the culmination of a controversial yet undeniably productive year for the UPUA.