Earlier this month, Professor Justin Walden gave the students of his Comm 180 class an assignment to simply get rid of their cell phones for a week. Naturally, I thought I could benefit from this experiment, and I braced myself for the week ahead with no access to my outdated Blackberry and all the limited apps it provides.
GlobeMed, along with the support of several other student organizations, will be hosting its 6th annual Global Health Conference, hoping to inspire attendants to become more active in the movement toward social justice and global health equity. The conference will begin with keynote speaker, Dr. Nathan Wolfe, or as he is known, the "Indiana Jones of Virus Hunting."
Every "All Sinner's Eve," or Thursday, Gary Cattell preaches outside the Willard Building, just like he has been doing for the past 30 years. We decided to ask the Willard Preacher a few questions about his thoughts on Easter, and how students celebrate the religious holiday.
It wasn't exactly the easiest two weeks, but Katelyn Mullen and Brenden Dooley can now officially call themselves the President and Vice President of UPUA. About 8 percent of the student body voted -- 11 percent lower than last years voter turnout.
After a busy day of campaigning from all the candidates, the results of today's UPUA elections are in. 2950 people voted, and there was a 8% voter turnout. As for the results:
State College is not known for its pizza. We don't have fancy water like NYC, and there is a plague of Sbarro's at every mall in Central Pennsylvania. Keeping all of this in mind, when I walked into Pizza Heaven for the first time, I wasn't expecting much. No pearly white gates awaited my arrival, and unfortunately they were lacking a doorman. So, imagine my surprise at finding perhaps the best pizza in State College. The crust! The cheese! THE SMELL. Maybe putting the word "heaven" in the name of the restaurant wasn't as ballsy as I had originally thought.