SPA promised an April full of funny, and they continue to deliver.
After bringing Gabriel Iglesias to Eisenhower Auditorium, the student group will follow up with a quartet of up-and-coming comedians in the HUB-Robeson Center's Alumni Hall.
The Axe Twisted Humor Comedy Tour, sponsored in part by FunnyOrDie.com, will take place at 8:30PM this Friday, April 9th. According to the Facebook event page, the show will feature comedians Donald Glover, Whitney Cummings, Nick Kroll, and Chelsea Peretti.
Read on about the event's performers after the jump.
Many of you undoubtedly remember This American Life's feature on Penn State's status as the nation's #1 Party School last December. Though many PSU students had mixed feelings about the tone of the piece, most of us will agree that it was a realistic and accurate look at Penn State's eclectic nightlife.
For those of you who are too visual for the radio, or who just prefer the facts in one place, there is now an infographic complete with all the information from the This American Life episode.
Get the full scoop on the infomage after the jump.
If you're interested in how terrorists are making use of technology to carry out their illicit activities, you're in luck.
On Wednesday, April 7th at 8:00 pm the Security & Risk Analysis Club will host its bi-yearly Counter-Terrorism Panel. The event, held in IST's Cybertorium (113 IST), will bring together experts in terrorism from across the University.
This semester's Counter-Terrorism Panel will shift its focus to "Technology Enabled Terrorism"; more on what your can expect at the event after the jump!
While many of you may be looking forward to Movin' On and Last Stop, there's another spring festival coming up this weekend.
Arts Crawl 2010 will be held from 6-11:30 p.m. on Friday in the Arts Buildings in North Campus. Put on by Students Organizing the Multiple Arts and the Visual Art Student Allience, the multifaceted event is now in its fourth year. There will be performances by a dozen or so local bands, national acts No Age, artist Ira Sherman, as well as hands-on art demonstrations, student films, and an "epic dance party".
A list of acts and times follows after the jump.
Anna Baltzer, an award winning lecturer and a Jewish-American activist for Palestinian human rights, will be speaking at Penn State on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the Thomas Building.
Baltzer, who recently appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (see below), has been to over 400 places around the world with her presentation "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos." She has also written a book, entitled "Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories."
She is the granddaughter of Holocaust refugees and is a volunteer for the International Women's Peace Service in the West Bank. Baltzer's work and reputation earned her the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee's Rachel Corrie Peace and Justice award, as well as a commendation from the governor of Wisconsin.
A long-time supporter of non-violent resistance to occupation of Palestine, Batlzer is part of many groups that support peace and freedom. If the interview on The Daily Show is any indication, it should be an interesting talk about a topic that has been affecting people around the world for a very long time.
Check out the video of the interview after the jump.
Rapper Sean Kingston, who rose to fame after the release of his number one hit and debut single "Beautiful Girls," has been selected for the Altoona Spring Concert in the Alder Gymnasium on April 25th at 8 p.m.
The decision for this year's Spring Concert, sponsored by the Campus Activity Board, was made based on the results of a campus survey in Altoona. Tanya Palovich-Scott, the assistant director of student life, said that the "CAB wanted to include all students in the decision for this year's spring concert." In total, students had 16 performers to chose from. According to Palovich-Scott, Kingston was the "clear favorite."
Opening for Kingston will be God Made Me Funky, a progressive funk band from Toronto.
After releasing his second album, Tomorrow, in September, Kingston set out on a nation wide tour, which will take him well through out the upcoming Summer. He is also currently working on his untitled third album. While no release date has been set, Kingston did release a new single, "Eenie Menie," last month, which features teenage bad boy Justin Bieber.