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 […]
All I know about meningitis, I learned from House. In other words, I don’t know a damn thing other than it’s probably not the right diagnosis in any given case at Princeton-Plainsboro. But we might need to research it a bit more now. A student from Alpha Chi Rho is currently at the Geisinger Medical […]
If one were forced to pick an adjective for this week in Penn State sports, it would have to be clutch. Once again, the Lions pulled together to earn another victory in the NIT over former two-time defending national champion Florida. Despite a rocky 7-8 start to their season, the PSU baseball team has built […]