Maya Angelou, the fourth speaker in this year's Distinguished Speaker Series, will be addressing the Penn State community on Tuesday March 23 at 8:00 pm in Eisenhower Auditorium.
Angelou is an author who has won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy-Award-winning poet, an Emmy-nominated actress and screenwriter, and a political activist. She has served on two presidential committees and she served as the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference per request of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free tickets for the event will be available starting Monday March 15th for students and Friday March 19 for the public. Details are after the jump.
The Collegian ran an article this morning about a proposed 10% tax on poured drinks being discussed by small town leaders across the state. State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham was quoted as saying,
"It would not discourage people from drinking. If it did, it's not a bad thing."
Thanks for playing, Liz, but you're wrong.
Increasing the price of booze in bars is going to, according to economic theory, do precisely what Goreham believes it won't; that is, "discourage people from drinking" in bars. See the nifty chart I found on the Internet to visualize why this is.
So what would be the actual impact of a poured drink tax? Sure, some bar and lounge enthusiasts might simply drink less on each visit, but another reaction to seeing your bar tab go up 10% would be to refrain from going to the bar at all and take the party elsewhere, to a house or apartment in downtown State College. And that's something that would probably be "a bad thing."
I just returned from a family vacation in Portugal. It was the first time that all 4 children in my family had the same spring break, so we decided to do something neat. I had a great time on the other side of "the pond" and now I want to know,
"Get Him to the Greek" is the latest release (set for June 4th) by Nicholas Stoller (the same guy that directed Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Judd Apatow (the same guy that produced Knocked Up and Superbad).
They are having a COMPETITION amongst all the Big 10 schools, and the winning school receives a FREE screening of the film and a chance to meet the cast!
That's right, everyone's favorite interestingly-named Penn State wrestler finished a perfect run at the 2010 Big Ten Championships to bring a title to Happy Valley.
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Topless in class - m4w - 23 (Classroom)
I'm sure you'll remember what I'm talking about because for the life of my I can't remember what class this happened in. I was sitting the the back like usual, probably on my laptop or something. You were up front and not wearing a shirt, boobs out and everything. I'm sorry I don't know your name, but your hair was in braided and pulled back and it looked like your skin had ritualistic ash or ocher painted all over it. So you looked like you were going through a tribal rite or something, I can't remember the specific tribe and color motif exactly. Anyway, I'm sure you remember doing that and I just wanted you to know how gorgeous I though you were and maybe we could go get some coffee sometime.
You'd think that you would remember which class had topless tribal women in it.