In an article on the rising healthcare costs for students at Penn State, the Daily Collegian has missed the heart of the issue, although they did get at least one important fact right in that students need to have a bigger role in decision making at Penn State.
Any of us could die in a car crash. That’s why we don’t romanticize it. But there’s only one Joe Dado.
And the sooner we all stop to acknowledge that, to understand just what it tells us about ourselves, the better.
Here are the events you should be sure to check out during Homecoming Week.
Patriot News columnist David Jones described this game as "a beautiful day for a ritual sacrifice." A more apt phrase has never been written. UMass is bad -- one of the worst teams in the FBS -- and it was, indeed, a beautiful day in Happy Valley, with temperatures in the low 70s and the ambiance downtown at its perfect peak.
Forty dollar student tickets will be sold this week for Saturday's homecoming matchup against Northwestern. Attendance has seen dramatic increases this season, averaging 5,395 more people than the first two games of last year.
Penn State showed what it was capable of at Beaver Stadium on Saturday afternoon, demolishing the UMass Minutemen to the tune of a 48-7 victory and an undefeated 4-0 start. Before that game, the Nittany Lions were ranked No. 30 in the AP poll and No. 34 in the USA Today Coaches Poll. One week later, the squad is knocking on the door of the Top 25 in both polls, reaching No. 27 overall in each.