Coach Joe Paterno has been designated as a finalist for the Liberty Mutual Coach of the Year award, which honors both on and off-the-field excellence in coaching. What, you thought the players were the only ones going to get credit for this fantastic season? JoePa is one of 10 Division 1-A coaches out of a […]
Penn State Live put this story up late Wednesday, about a suspicious smell that prompted an evacuation of the Tyson building, home of the Department of Horticulture. At about 6:30 p.m. Centre County 9-1-1 received a call from a Penn State lab technician in the building, who reported a strong, unknown odor in the building. […]
Graham Spanier recently blogged at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Brainstorm about how prepared Penn State is for whatever comes our way. If you can imagine it, we probably have a committee for it. At Penn State we have a Foodborne Illness Committee and an Avian Flu Committee. There is a committee that plans for […]
A number of stories ran today that in aggregate paint a dismal picture for the economic state of Penn State. The Centre Daily Times reported that Graham Spanier told the Faculty Senate on Tuesday there will probably not be any pay raises this year. “The only way to close a gap of this magnitude with […]
President Spanier wrote in the Chronicle of HIgher Education that student activism has greatly diminished since when he was in school (the late 1960s). That thesis seems incorrect to us. Apparently, others felt the same way because his column got quite a reaction at the time it was published. In November, six student groups came […]
We’re not sure why SOMA hasn’t begun advertising the concert yet, but here are the details we have right now. This information has been compiled through a variety of sources. Today, we confirmed with Girl Talk’s agent that he is scheduled for a concert in State College on Thursday. We also heard that the Raw […]