John Stewart once said something to the effect of : Penn State is all cows and hot girls. Well, I am very pleased to announce that Mr. Stewart was 50% correct. Penn State has the best looking girls in Central Pennsylvania and here is the proof.
Lauryn DeBaie won the title of Miss Central Pa in February, utilizing her skill in twirling (she is co-captain of the Penn State Majorettes) and a routine titled "Fit & Fun: Fitness for Today's Youth". Along with beating out 19 other finalists she also won $1,100 in scholarship money!
The website for Miss Central PA describes the pageant as:
"Your Stepping Stone to Miss America and Miss America's Outstanding Teen"
However, just one small step remains between Lauryn and competing in Miss America. Lauryn has earned herself a position in the Miss Pennsylvania Beauty Pageant where she competes for the title of Miss Pennsylvania and $8000 in scholarship money. So Lauryn, from us here at Onward State we wish you the best of luck. Go out and prove to the rest of America that Penn State not only has the prettiest girls in the state, but also in the nation!
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You = Drama ;-) - m4w - 22 (State College)
Its been a while since I last saw you. The only thing that I can remember was that kiss in the dance club. You were sitting in a couch and you saw me come up from behind you. You looked up and I bent over and gave you a kiss. The beat was pretty loud and I didn't hear what you said but maybe that was because I could be getting it confused with the sound coming from inside my chest. You have pretty blue eyes and a smile that is contagious.
When in Rome I threw a coin in the Trevi fountain in hopes that I could someday run into you again. I'll be in State College starting Spring Break and I hope to see you. I can't promise it will be as fun as the adventure we took with the ATVs in the Greek isles looking for the Temple of Poseidon, but I think a tour of the ice cream factory will do just fine.
Last time I saw a contagious smile, I got pneumonia... so, you might want to get that looked at.
Congratulations to the Women's Track and Field team, who won their second-ever Big Ten Indoor championship over the weekend.
Trailing in the team standings for much of the afternoon, the Lions screamed into first place with two events remaining, thanks to a 25-point haul in the 200-meters led by a victory from [Junior Shavon] Greaves.
Women's track and field will have a chance to go to the NCAA Championships this Friday and Saturday during "Last Chance Weekend."
Honors colleges offer the resources of a large research university and the community of a small liberal arts college. See any honors college brochure for a similar pitch.
Over 70 such establishments have appeared throughout the country, and their numbers have grown quickly since the mid-1990s, says the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The South Carolina Honors College ranks among the best in the nation. Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, a university dean, explains that the honors college "really attempts to focus on providing that elite, liberal-arts-college experience."
South Carolina honors students live in a separate dormitory, complete a senior thesis, and enroll in seminar-esque honors courses. This neatly parallels our Schreyer Honors College, my personal favorite among such institutions.
According to the National Collegiate Honors Council, most honors colleges use the "best of both worlds" recruitment pitch. Such a pitch rings true. The Schreyer Honors College makes an excellent Penn State education even better.
Over 50 high schools throughout Pennsylvania danced in Mini THONs this past weekend, helping raise considerable funds for Four Diamonds. One such school, Cumberland Valley, raised $61,792.05 this year.
According to the THON website, Mini THONs made up for 10 percent of donations to the Four Diamonds Fund in 2008 and have raised about $4 million to date!
After the jump, check out this video of the Cumberland Valley Mini THON 2010 Line Dance!
On Monday, the Centre Daily Times posted an article in their Op-Ed column written by the self-proclaimed Apostle of the Keystone Church, Perry Babb. Apostle Babb was writing to propose 10 solutions to the "irresponsible, dangerous drinking downtown and in the Centre Region". Admittedly, Babb has been involved in many failed efforts to solve this problem, but evidently thinks that these 10 solutions are the real deal. Why?
Read on to see what I think about each of Apostle Babb's solutions...