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The Illini’s “Unofficial” State Patrick’s Day

Every year, we Penn Staters take pride in our celebration of State Patrick’s Day.  The fact that we chose to celebrate the holiday famous for drinking copious amounts of alcohol on the weekend, instead of March 17 (on a Tuesday this year), is a testament to our awesomeness and respect for our own education. As […]

You’d Be “Out of Your Head” to Dislike Fastball

The HUB was the place to be tonight for another free concert featuring some of yester-year’s favorites. Tonight, Nine Days and Fastball were featured in another installment of Penn State’s unofficial “Bringing Back the 90’s” campaign. Both of these bands were large successes in the 90’s pop-rock genre and continued to shine tonight after a […]

The PSU Website: Just How Good is It?

The internet is taking over print media more and more every day. Unfortunately, not every college utilizes it to the fullest. Russell Powell, a PR officer at Elms College, realized this and recently wrote an editorial for The Chronicle of Higher Education detailing his thoughts on what a college website should be like. Powell writes […]

Onward State in the News

BeatBlogging.org, a site run by Jay Rosen of NYU, recognized Onward State’s Twitter account in a post published on Tuesday. Our Twitter account was deemed “worth emulating.” Here’s a link to the post. These are the criteria Beat Blogging used to pick its top tier of Twitter accounts. These outlets are engaging in conversations, utilizing […]

Dance Marathon?

While our THON is over, if you recall from a post OS had a few weeks ago, other schools have dance marathons. In fact, the second longest running one, next to ours, is held at Northwestern University. Held from March 6th to the 8th, aka next weekend (Shortened months are a bitch, right?), they have […]

Fundraiser Switches from Athletics Dept to Smeal

Joe Battista will be leaving his current position as Executive Director of the Nittany Lion Club to become the Director of Major Gifts for the Smeal College of Business. The Nittany Lion Club is the fundraising organization for the Penn State Athletics Department. His tenure as Executive Director introduced him to a wide variety of […]

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