A new Twitter, created by PR student Molly Sheerer, who also interns with the Department of Public Information, aims to get Penn State-related news to the student body, as well as to help bring student voices upfront, from an administrative standpoint. To learn more about PennState411, read more after the jump!
Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner held a press conference this morning in Harrisburg to call for Penn State reform on the state level, specifically on the Board of Trustees.
Wagner released a 124-page report to outline his proposed reforms, the most significant of which would be removing President Erickson as a voting member from the Board of Trustees.
In this week's distraction of the day column, we checked out a few of the 651 videos uploaded to the Penn State's YouTube profile. There are a variety of videos that are educational, funny and just plain awkward. If you were ever approached on the street and asked a bunch of questions, here are the videos that might be your time to shine in the spotlight.
Many people were surprised when Penn State announced last year that the school received a record number of applications for undergraduate admissions across all of its campuses in 2011. This year, however, the prospects aren't as high.
A little internet birdy told me about Penn State's surplus eBay account -- an apparent dumping ground for the various departments at Penn State to sell all the crap they don't need anymore. I thought that maybe the Lion Ambassadors were cleaning out their closet of Penn State secrets so I was like "Let's check this out!" And then it just turned out to be a really sub-par garage sale that was so bad it wasn't even selling headless Barbies or crock-pots.
Good grass isn't hard to come by in Happy Valley. In fact, Happy Valley grows the dankest grass. Today, the 2012 Golf Turf Conference begins at Penn State to provide "practical information on golf course management to practitioners, industry reps, and students." Learn more about the event after the jump.