Happy Valley usually lives up to its namesake with football games, parties, and good times all around, but there’s one dark mystery that still haunts this place to this day. Betsy Ruth Aardsma was stabbed to death in the Pattee Library on November 28 1969 and as the 40th anniversary of the murder approaches, her killer remains unknown. The […]
I know that you’re depressed now that Homecoming has come and gone. You can’t stop thinking, “Boy, I can’t wait for this year to be over so we can be that much closer to next year’s Homecoming!” Well if this describes you, you don’t have to wait until next year to experience the adventure that […]
The most recent National Survey of Student Engagement has found that transfer students tend to be less involved than “native” students in colleges and universities across the nation. However, “horizontal transfers” – people coming from a different four-year Baccalaureate program – tend to be more involved in “high impact” activities such as study abroad, internships, […]
The government’s Fulbright program recently announced its 2009-2010 Fulbright grants, and Penn State was ranked second among research universities with 11 total faculty receiving grants (7 from University Park, 4 from branch campuses). Ranked ahead of Penn State were Oregon, Michigan, and Michigan State (all tied for first place). The faculty members from Penn State […]
Pitbull coming Friday, December 4, 2009 at 10 pm in Alumni Hall, HUB. Tickets will be free with a valid PSU ID, and will be distributed on November 30th in Alumni Hall from 10 am to 2 pm. How do y’all feel about this?
I bet that by now you’ve probably been handed 2389 fliers for the PSU – MSU Blood Donor Challenge. I also would bet that 2388 of them ended up in the trash (the other one was accidentally washed after someone left it in their pocket). That’s somewhat understandable – I mean, who really pays attention […]