The Collegian reported yesterday that student leaders will be holding a rally at 12:00 on Monday to protest the $2.3 million cut in Penn State’s appropriations and its exclusion from the Pennsylvania Tuition Relief Act. The rally was organized by UPUA President Gavin Keirans in conjunction with Council of Commonwealth Student Governments President George Khoury. […]
Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright addressed a large audience last night at Eisenhower Auditorium. Her speech was a globe-trotting look at the problems Obama faces. This is also the topic of her latest book, Memo to the President Elect. Albright is a self proclaimed “true extrovert.” Indeed, that’s probably why she and Bill […]
In case you didn’t hear, yesterday was National Signing Day, where college football recruits either follow through on their verbal commitments, or break the hearts of recruiters and fans by signing with another school at the last moment. Every now and then, something completely insane happens – you get players that make you hold your […]
Last week, President Spanier unveiled the new Presidential Leadership Academy. Funded by Edward R. and Helen S. Hintz, both alumni, to the tune of $5 million, the Academy is structured to develop critical thinking skills and have participating students apply those skills to decisions on complex public policy, societal and global issues that they may […]
Time travel has always been the stuff of science fiction, but one Penn State alumna, Ronald Mallett (’69), has spent his life attempting to turn it into reality. Mallett was ten years old when his dad passed away of a heart attack. Inspired by a comic book version of H.G. Wells’ classic The Time Machine, […]
Earlier this fall, the senior class decided that its senior gift would be related to the Old Main Bell. So, the School of Architecture made each of its 45 second-year students create a design for how the bell could be incorporated into the Old Main landscape. It would make sense, then, that the senior class […]