While I tend to be skeptical of any college rating system, US News and World Report recently came out with a list of the Top 200 World Universities. Interested how Penn State measures up? Of course you are. 105! WE ARE 105! The top three universities were: Harvard, Yale, and the University of Cambridge (England). […]
The Centre Daily Times ran an article today further developing the chicken drama that seems be Borough Council’s primary concern. Here are some of the punniest passages. STATE COLLEGE — Egged on by chicken owners, Borough Council granted hens the right to live in State College after more than three months of debate. While in […]
President Spanier has been with us for thirteen years. Might this be his last? Marc Ambinder, one of The Atlantic’s bloggers, posted some musings on how Obama might fill his cabinet. For Education Secretary, Democrats say that Graham Spainer, the president of Penn State University, and Ray Mabus, the former governor of Mississippi, are said […]
The New York Times ran an article this week about the popularity of club sports teams on college campuses. An estimated two million college students play competitive club sports compared with about 430,000 involved in athletics governed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Here’s the list of club […]
This evening at 5:00, SOS held the first of three colloquii meetings to discuss the relationship between students, faculty, alumni, and trustees. The meeting in 106 HUB featured two guest speakers; Anne Neal, President of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA); and Charles Mitchell, Program Director of the same organization. Neal was recently […]
How much do you value your privacy? Judging by the number of Sunday morning Facebook albums depicting Saturday night escapades, not much; so, I expect that if Penn State were to conduct a study like the one currently going on at MIT, many students would participate. The New York Times reported this weekend that a […]