The student programming committee at the University of Maryland- College Park planned on showing the XXX-rated film, Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge this weekend. When state legislators got word of this, they didn’t exactly approve. Senators debated “the evils of pornography” and the First Amendment for much of the morning, The Sun reported. “That’s really not […]
Mitch (our Production Editor) has been hard at work redesigning Onward State over the past few weeks. He promises that the new version of the site will debut within the next seven days, after we work all the kinks out. He also promised us that users would actually like the redesign unlike another website I know…<cough>Facebook</cough>. Below […]
The NITtany Lions were victorious last night in the NIT Championship game, beating Baylor 69-63. The title was the first for the Nittany Lions in 10 N.I.T. appearances. The senior Jamelle Cornley, an emotional leader, scored 18 points and picked up a technical foul with his partially dislocated left shoulder heavily wrapped. Penn State sent […]
Turnout in yesterday’s UPUA election reached an all time high of 6,801 votes, handily beating the previous record of 5,936, which was set in 2007. The Collegian reports: [Valerie] Russell (senior-political science) added the high turnout could be attributed to the work of the elections commission’s getting the vote out in the weeks before the […]
I guess Nittany Nation has “descended-upon” the Big Apple in full force ahead of tonight’s NIT Championship Game. And, apparently, someone did not appreciate that. Go State! [HT: @Micala]
The Collegian (which– April Fools!– I don’t actually want to buy) has been going through an internal discussion regarding its policy on writers and their personal blogs (and, ostensibly, other online presences). We noticed the ramifications of the internal discussion when one Collegian editor launched, shut down, and then relaunched a blog in the course […]