The Morning Call reported today on a new policy at Kutztown University. The outdoor-smoking ban at Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities that had some people fuming three months ago at Kutztown University could be modified, administrators said Wednesday. A change proposed by the State System of Higher Education would allow puffing in cars as long as the […]
Yesterday, we posted that President Spanier is being considered by President-Elect Obama for Education Secretary, The most notable speculation came from Marc Ambinder, a blogger for The Atlantic. Credit for first pointing out that post goes to @ByDanielVictor, who sent out the link on Twitter. Today, the Collegian ran this above the fold story with […]
NPR’s All Things Considered featured a segment yesterday about Masik, the company that sells the Penn State fragrance line. You can listen to the story on NPR’s website. For more information, check out our earlier coverage.
The Daily Iowan recently ran a story about how the Coralville PD was using Twitter. Coralville is the town adjacent to Iowa City, home of the University of Iowa. For the last month, the police have sent updates, called “tweets,” using this social-networking site. Some updates, such as the one above, are fun. Others are […]
Penn State Live ran a feature yesterday that we couldn’t pass up. In a feature titled ‘Heard on Campus: Sue Paterno,’ an interesting fact was shared with a class by the football coach’s wife: “The reason we have a listed phone number is because Joe doesn’t answer it. There have been problems with that, but […]
So for those of you that haven’t heard, we’re in a recession. This “extended decline in general business activity, typically two consecutive quarters of falling real gross national product” has caused the Penn State endowment to lose $300 million in value. Now you may be saying, “$300 million certainly is a lot of money.” You’d […]