A new report from the Congressional Quarterly ranks the State College Metropolitan Area as the safest in the country. The annual report uses FBI crime statistics collected from local law enforcement agencies. The study takes murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft numbers and compiles a score and compares it to the […]
The climate change debate has been going on for a long time now, and public opinion on the matter has fluctuated with each new scientific revelation. Penn State has had a prominent voice in the debate, with one professor in particular having a larger voice than most. Professor of Meteorology Michael Mann has been a […]
An aggressive national campaign put forth by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is calling for all university presidents to boycott Russell Athletic, a leading manufacturer in university-themed clothing. And to many students’ surprise (let’s face it, students protest pretty much everything), it has actually worked. The movement predates almost 10 years, but it really picked […]
The Penn State Student Section Organization has created a Facebook group with the goal of getting Penn State into the Orange Bowl. The page recommends you become a fan of OBIE: The Orange Bowl Mascot Then you should do these things: ***Click on JUST FANS and tell the Orange Bowl how much Penn State pride […]
Last year’s initial panic that Elms Yellows Disease would infect and destroy all the elm trees on campus appears to be a bit overblown. The trees appear to be responding to treatment better than expected. So far, only 37 trees have been or will be cut down out of the 287 on campus. To keep […]
Penn State professor of geosciences, James Kasting, was recently one of thirty scientists invited to attend a three-day conference at the Vatican. The topic? The existence of extraterrestrial life and the emerging field of astrobiology. Wahhhhhh?!?! Is it just me, or does the Church seem like an unlikely host for this conference? Once he’s done […]