Your head is pounding and you just threw up in front of Pattee Library, but you have to keep going. You're on your way to that Accounting midterm that's worth 45% of your grade. "Why did I drink 151 on a Monday?" you ask yourself as you prepare for the worst. But don't panic just yet!
A team from Brown and Boston University recently found that binge drinking the night before an exam doesn't necessarily affect test performance negatively.
While previous research has indicated otherwise, researchers from Brown and Boston University concluded that beng intoxicated on a given night did not influence test-takers' scores the following day. This is because the alcohol did not affect the students' long-term memory or ability to retain recent information needed for an exam. What it did affect, however, was reaction times and moods. So while you'll still feel absolutely miserable trying to figure out the square root of pi, you'll probably be able to slog through it.
Since its emergence from the shadow of Jay Bundy, the Univeristy Park Undergraduate Association has worked hard to establish itself as the legitimate student government of Penn State University Park. While his administration has not been without error, Gavin Keirans-- the face of the UPUA for the past two years-- has done much to increase his organization's involvement in student life at Penn State.
However, Keirans has been unable to effect meaningful progress in the issue that is far and away the most pressing for our university-- the ever increasing cost of a Penn State education.
To find out why we support and endorse Christian Ragland for President of the UPUA, read the full post.
Penn State students tend to do some pretty awesome things-a prime example is John Lindsay, who launched the super-popular DontEvenReply.com blog last year. If you haven’t read this blog, you definitely should; it’s absolutely hilarious.
Lindsay poses as a customer or seller and responds to classified ads making inane, rude, and ludicrous offers to his unsuspecting, gullible victims. Some personal favorites include when he offers a girl looking for a summer job involving animals a job shooting horses on his farm, when he tries to barter his “whore wife” for a ’94 Jeep Wrangler, or when he tries to buy a litter of kittens to feed to his Bengal Tiger (which are legal to have as pets in PA with proper licensing, don’t 'cha know!).
More on Lindsay's outlandish new book after the jump.
The University Park Undergraduate Association Board of Arbitration met tonight to adjudicate campaign violations alleged to have been committed by each of the presidential tickets. Adewumi-Weakland was found not guilty; Ragland-Smith was found guilty on one count and not guilty on the other. Despite the guilty verdict, however, there will be no penalties on the Ragland-Smith campaign-- the Board of Arbitration felt that the relevant sections of the elections code were too vague for them to fairly render a decision.
Read the full post for a more detailed account.
What I saw on Saturday at the Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium made it clear that Onward State's success at Penn State has been no anomaly. Whether it's for THON, the football team, or even Penn State itself, social media is being used across the university to connect and inform in ways that are truly innovative.
Hundreds of faculty and staff gathered this weekend at the Penn Stater Conference Center to talk about how technology can help the university educate students more effectively. Over the next week, we will be writing about some of the cooler initiatives discussed at Saturday's event. Until then, you can read our recap and join the ongoing conversation by using #psutlt on Twitter.
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The Alumni Hall in the HUB hosted Kierra Darshell's 8th Annual Professional Drag Show this past Friday night. The show was the kicker to this year's Pride Week at Penn State and drew an impressive turnout, filling nearly every seat and leaving crowds of students standing in the wings.
Following the event, Joe Pratchenko, a junior-theater major, said:
It was lesbians, gays, transsexuals, all together and all accepting and no issues. It was perfect.