No Impact week begins this Sunday with the help of Penn State's Eco-Reps. The week will include eight different daily challenges that will teach greener, healthier living habits which can help to collectively change the community.
Grilled cheese, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, cheese steak, cheesecake, cheese wiz, cream cheese; cheese is a good thing. And a good thing like cheese deserves its own club, right? Right.
Since their formation last Spring, the Penn State Storm Chase Team has been hard at work preparing for their summer trip to the Midwest to chase storms and try to see a tornado or two. In addition to a preliminary trip this past summer to train the officers, there have been several small trips in the fall when severe weather threatened near Happy Valley.
He might be the most powerful student at Penn State, and you've probably never heard of him. I'm talking, of course, about Jesse Scott, a down-to-earth 31-year old Penn State Ph.D. student who likes to cook, go dancing with his wife Laura, and watch Doctor Who in his free time. Work time for Scott, however, is a good deal more serious. He chairs the University Park Allocation Committee, which allocates about $4 million in funding to student organizations throughout the year.
Starting this Thursday (1/30), rush week for business fraternities will begin in earnest with the Business Fraternity Council (BFC) Mixer. All of the business fraternities the University has will be present at the event, enabling rushees to meet representatives from all of the fraternities in order to determine which one (or ones) they want to rush.
According to a Penn State news release, a kidnapping of a Penn State student reportedly occurred on Shortlidge Road near Simmons Hall on Saturday at about 1 a.m.