State Senator John Yudichak has officially introduced his Penn State Board of Trustees reform bill which, if passed, would reduce the number of board members from 30 to 23. Yudichak laid out the details of the bill in November and has since garnered 23 co-sponsors in the State Senate.
There are 24 campuses in the Penn State system. The one that gets the most attention is University Park, but what about the other 23? That’s where we come in with our newest 23 part series, Better Know a Branch Campus, inspired by Stephen Colbert’s Better Know a District. Next up: Penn State Mont Alto.
A candlelight vigil will take place tonight honoring the second anniversary of Joe Paterno's death.
Common, a Chicago-based rapper, actor, and motivational speaker will be coming to campus on February 10th as a part of SPA's distinguished speaker series. The rapper, known for songs like "Universal Mind Control", "The Food", "The Light", and "Go!", will instead be speaking at Eisenhower Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Youtube celebrity Joe Penna, better known as the Mystery Guitar Man, typically produces comedic music videos for his 2.8 million subscribers. This week, Penna -- a self-described space nerd -- decided to break the mold of his recent uploads by producing a feature on Penn State's Lunar Lion, the university's entry in the $20 million Google Lunar X Prize competition.
Last Friday's Board of Trustees meeting yielded little major news compared to most Board meetings, at least publicly. But there was one piece of good news that came out of President Rodney Erickson's remarks at the beginning of the meeting: Penn State applications are up, and up big.