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FIRE!!!!

No. You still can’t scream it in a crowded room without cause due to the ruling in Schneck v. US, but FIRE, which stands for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, thinks you should be able to say a lot of other things in school that you can’t currently say. Every year FIRE grades […]

Papers Solves PDF Problem

Though Penn State is better known for its engineering than its liberal arts, some of us have had more papers than final exams in the last week. As diligent researchers, JSTOR is often the first place we search. For those of you who don’t know, JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. You can […]

Penn State Live Has Five Favorite Study Spots

Did you know Penn State has mobile journalists? Well, neither did we. Three undergrads in the College of Communication have begun submitting video reports to Penn State Live. Calling them journalists is a little misleading though, as Penn State Live is the university’s official news source. That said, Penn State Live deserves recognition for doing […]

Nittany Lions Nab Newsome

Within a week of the Penn State faithful hearing that highly-touted recruit and backup quarterback Pat Devlin would be transferring elsewhere for next season, another high-profile signal caller stepped in his place. Kevin Newsome will be Lions’ quarterback of the future. The Hargrave Military Academy (Chatham, Virginia) recruit, who is ranked eighth nationally among quarterbacks […]

Patriarch of Penn State, Paterno, Perseveres

Lots of Joe Paterno news today. FightOnState.com is reporting that Joe Paterno and the university have agreed on a 3-year extension to the coach’s contract. The site predicts that the information will be made public by the end of the week. The story has already been picked up by Penn Live and FOX Sports. The […]

SCIFs, Secrets, and Spanier

Utica College is installing a new “sensitive compartmented information facility” on its campus. The Buildings & Grounds blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education posted some technical info about the room’s security features. The most impressive and unusual component is the foil that surrounds the room. Not all SCIF’s have foil linings, a feature that […]

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