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 […]
Wow. We don’t know how we missed it but before break the Collegian reported about how… nevermind, I’m just going to let the story speak for itself. The Collegian’s headlined it Break chance for hometown flings. I think our headline might be a little more accurate. We’ve pulled the quotes that tell the story of […]
No matter what college football team someone follows, it’s likely that they have a bit of a bone to pick with the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) selection system. Get ready to hear even more grumblings when a Harris Poll voter predicted that Penn State would face Alabama in the national championship. That would be great […]
No thanks to the pesky rioting, State College was named the second safest city in the country behind Logan, Utah by CQ Press recently. The full Metropolitan Crime Rankings can be found here. The Collegian reports: State College Mayor Bill Welch said this ranking reflects positively on the borough, something that is not always the […]