
At one point or another while walking down College Ave, you’ve probably walked past the monstrosity of a structure known as the Hammond Building. Stretching two blocks from Allen St. to Burrowes St., this monolithic monstrosity does more than suppress attacks on campus from the neighboring Huns. Buried deep within the lowest levels of Hammond lies the Adverse Environmental Rotor Test Stand: Penn State Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence. Now that you’ve caught your breath after trying to spit out that title, read on to learn what actually goes on in this unique research facility.

It seems like Four Loko sprang out of nowhere this fall, and it's not just a local phenomenon. Colleges across the country are facing a proliferation of the sugary sweet malt energy drink that has as much alcohol as six beers and as much caffeine as four cups of coffee.

If you haven’t noticed, it’s rental week, the time of the year when students line up to get a rental contract for next year. We’ve done a little scoping for you, to make your decision a little easier. Good luck, mis amigos.

It has been 1,070 days since the Penn State women's volleyball team lost to Stanford at the Yale Classic on September 15, 2007. Since that day, the Lady Lions have reeled off 102 straight match wins and have won three straight national championships.
We talked to Coach Rose recently to hear his thoughts for the upcoming year. Find out what he had to say after the jump.

New head coach Bob Warming couldn't have come into a better situation in his first year in Happy Valley. Last year, the Nittany Lions men's soccer team had a 12-8-2 record, good enough to earn them the #7 overall seed and a first-round bye in the NCAA Tournament.
While they lost to semifinalist Maryland in the second round, the experience gained by the nine starters and 16 lettermen Warming has returning will hopefully light a spark and lead them to greater heights this year and help to make Warming's job a little easier (something even the sixth-winningest active coach in college soccer wouldn't mind).