Tonight's meeting topic that got the UPUA all hot and bothered was Policy 17, which allocated money for this year's Spring Festival.
As we all know, last year's spring festival, Wallypalooza, featured-as President Gavin Keirans so eloquently put it - "one-hit-wonder suspect artist" Asher Roth, whose career has since skyrocketed straight into a ceiling fan. So this year they want to do something better. In very first-stage budgetary discussions, the UPUA has recommended to allocate $19,931.86 towards the Spring Festival 2010 account.
But tensions arose when Director of Legal Affairs Matt Lachman spoke up on behalf of his organization on the $2,000 allocated from the Legal Affairs' budget. And so it went into debate. And, then of course, another debate. Read on for more details from the riveting meeting.
I passed Tolani on my way to class last week and couldn't help but notice that not only did he look fly, but also that his swagger matched his ensemble. I was just telling one of my friends the other day that I love outfits that are "Murdered out", a.k.a all black with a subtle touch of color or design somewhere. From the Chuck T's to his black framed glasses, Tolani's got this look down. I really dug his shirt though too. It matched perfectly and I really like the Burberry-esque black, red, and grey plaid. I'm a huge fan of ALL one color and then adding a hint of another, especially when the dominant color is black.
Well, good for the Collegian!
Sending a reporter to the tournament is a much smarter decision than that time the paper sent staff to New York Fashion Week... 'cause frankly, I don't give a shit what Collegian staff people think about cutting edge couture.
Doesn't seem like the most apartment friendly creature you could find...
Following up on earlier research, Onward State has examined the latest NACUBO College Endowment Study and updated our findings. Nothing groundbreaking here. The economy was poor, and in fiscal year 2009, the Big Ten endowments continued their decline from fiscal year 2008.
Penn State's endowment lost nearly 21% of its value, which is in fact a middle-of-the-road figure relative to the rest of the Big Ten. Northwestern University experienced the largest decrease in endowment value by percent, almost 25%. Purdue escaped 2009 with less damage to its endowment than any other Big Ten university, suffering only a 16% loss.
The news isn't all bad however. The Collegian reported that Penn State, along with many other universities, has experienced an increase in its endowment since the NACUBO numbers were complied.
From a low of $1.26 billion, the university's endowment has risen to $1.46 billion, a 16% increase. Onward State recently solicited the other schools in the Big Ten for their endowment figures from the end of calendar year 2009 to see how Penn State stacked up.
On their website/newspaper/blog, the Huffington Post recently launched a "College" section, where they publish the work of selected college media outlets. Why am I telling you this? Because they selected Onward State as a partner!
Our "THON in Review" article appeared on the Huffington Post yesterday, much to everyone's delight. To get hyped for this new affiliation, we've added a HuffPo widget on the right side of our page.
This new phase of our bloghood is big news for us here at Onward State. @Writers, we'll have to step up our game. Davis' so-called "duopoly" has erupted into a monopolistic competition, so we'll have to differentiate our product in order to succeed. @Readers, post exemplary comments; the whole world may see them!
In case any of you fine folks really dig the Huffington Post, answer their call for citizen journalists. They'll be recruiting "about 30 students, both photojournalists and videographers, to cover college issues.... There will be weekly assignments, training events, crowdsourcing projects, and most importantly, daily access to HuffPost editors." If interested, click here to apply.