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The two leading scorers from last year’s Nittany Lions basketball team will be taking their skills to the professional level. After being bypassed in the NBA Draft, Talor Battle and Jeff Brooks have signed professional contracts to continue their playing careers in Europe. Battle signed a one year contract with Cholet Basket of the French Pro A League, while Brooks will play for Aurora Basket Jesi in the Italian Lega2.
Over the past three days, an internet rally centered around Twitter and Facebook has been waged in order to help THON child Lexi Bartlett meet her idol, Taylor Swift. According to the event page,“Lexi is 6 years old and has stage 4 Neuroblastoma cancer. She has been fighting this horrible disease since she was 3 years old," and "she wants nothing more than to meet Taylor Swift." Well, after Saturday night, perhaps that aspiration should be expressed in the past tense.

Few things excite me as much as times when the university -- an institution whose endurance is a point of pride -- bumps into the ever-advanacing force of technology. Sometimes, it comes in large, navy-looking vessels like the Millennium Science Building... but other times, Penn State runs into the best that the digital age has to offer in a less academic setting. Find out who the robot to the right is -- and why he could help Penn State -- after the jump.