The Board of Trustees are mandated to manage the welfare of the university. If their governance goes against the whims of the alumni and student body, so be it. It is not the Board’s duty to cater itself to the masses. This is something we -- and I include myself -- ought to remember as the Trustees continue to make difficult decisions for the foreseeable future.
It may have been scripted, but the message was clear -- President Rodney Erickson has the overwhelming support of the Board of Trustees in his actions relating to the NCAA consent decree.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will hold a special phone conference Sunday evening at 5 p.m. to discuss the consent decree with the NCAA accepting the sanctions, a board source confirmed to Onward State earlier today.
The Penn State Blue Band’s Touch of Blue Majorettes brought home a National Championship and quite a few other awards from the National Baton Twirling Association competition this summer. Read more about their accomplishments after the jump!
Penn State scientists helped construct the largest 3-D map of the universe, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is responsible for the imaging of over 200-million galaxies. Using BOSS technology (Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey), Data Release 9 -- the most recent release -- has shown the positions of 800,000 new galaxies, quasars, and stars, bringing the total to over 1.35 million.
The Blue Out was announced for the Temple game on September 22nd. The Blue Out will be raising money for Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape. T-shirts are being sold at stores downtown for $15.