The Trustees have spoken. It’s official. The tuition increases that are en vogue on college campuses across the country will again affect University Park. I suspect the current financial meltdown isn’t helping things. So far this year, the Penn State endowment, the financial backbone of the school, has declined 11.7 percent. Tuition will go up […]
Gawker has reported a few times about how the Obama victory stimulated the print media market. Check out this link about the New York Times 11/5 issue or this one about how Time went through at least three printings of that issue or this one about the increase in sales of FDR biographies after Obama’s […]
The CDT reported on the crow relocation program in today’s paper. It reminded me of a certain movie… have I mentioned I’m a big Bill Murray fan? Check it out after the jump.
Get yourself a hot chocolate and sit down to enjoy some of the most interesting things we found on the internet this morning. ‘Saved by the Bell’ star Dustin Diamond will be speaking at Indiana University this weekend. This article from the Daily Iowan has us all confused. It reports that Iowa City was named […]
Yesterday’s post about woolly mammoth DNA researcher Stephan Schuster was just the beginning. Today, Penn State Live is reporting that Schuster and colleague Webb Miller, Professor of Biology, Computer Science, and Engineering, will be appearing on tonight’s CBS Evening News and tomorrow morning’s Good Morning America to talk about their findings. All this publicity means […]
A blog post today by the CDT’s Bob Heisse said that the weather this weekend would be too cold for students to celebrate a win over Michigan State in the same style as the infamous Ohio State celebration. While I agree with the writer of the piece that there will not be destruction of private […]