This past weekend, Shaver’s Creek Center held it’s annual Maple Harvest Festival. Centered around harvesting maple syrup. Featuring a pancake breakfast, the festival served up over 7,000 pancakes to attendees. Visitors were taught how to differentiate between sugar maple trees and other maple trees. After finding an appropriate tree, visitors witnessed firsthand how to drill […]
The elections for UPUA will be held this Wednesday. There are three Presidential candidates: Gavin Keirans, Samantha Miller, and Nick Borsuk. We contacted each of the candidates to arrange a ’10 Questions’ interview, but only Gavin and Samantha were able to fit us into their schedule. So, today, we have for you a 10 Questions […]
April March showers bring May flowers, or so they say. After getting a decent amount of rain over the last 24 hours, the grass seems greener, the air seems cleaner and even the ducks have returned to Happy Valley. Also after raining, a really cool rainbow appeared between Mount Nittany Medical Center and Mount Nittany. […]
Old State celebrated Earth Hour yesterday, the global event that promotes turning off light fixtures between the hours 8 and 9 PM. Penn State participated only symbolically however, because flicking the switch on the whole campus might have ruffled a few feathers and, additionally, would have been a logistical nightmare. Instead, lights at various Penn […]
A debate as to whether Penn State students should have to serve jury duty has surfaced in the months following the Presidential Election. Efforts by the Obama campaign led to the registration of thousands of student voters in Centre County during the months preceding the election. Ruth Luse (County Jury Commissioner) and her office pull […]
Gotta love the State College police reports. Jonathan Kissel, a “non degree undergraduate” here, was found unconscious on his porch at 3:00 am on Saturday morning with 192 bags of heroin in his pockets. Any ideas how much that would be worth? According to the CDT, Police arrested 25-year-old Jonathan M. Kissel shortly after 3 […]