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The Trees Rejoice!

Victory for the Kleercut campaign! Eco-Action and Greenpeace triumphed yesterday after a weary battle with Kimberly-Clark, when the overlords of the paper products industry agreed to Greenpeace’s demands to protect the ancient Boreal Forest. Recap:  Kimberly-Clark manufactures the Kleenex, Scott, and Cottonelle brands.  Also, they had this bad habit of chopping down ancient forests to […]

PSU Has No Best Budgetary Move Right Now

All in, the average underclassman will see a $1,040 increase in his final bill this year. This is about at 4.8% increase in total cost from last year. But, if you recall one of our earlier posts, Penn State reported a “record number of donations in fiscal 2008-09.” The increase might not be as impressive […]

PSU More Expensive, Natch, But How Much?

Penn State students have followed with varying degrees of interest this summer’s budget battles: one between the Democrats and Republicans within Pennsylvania’s state government and another between Governor Ed Rendell and Graham Spanier. The former was over the state’s budget and the latter an argument about the very identity of Penn State: are we public or […]

Collegian Covers Day Dream Inspired Novel

The Collegian is at its worst during summer session, when the candidate corps is an avowedly less academic group of summer session students and the bulk of its editing army is off in exotic locales such as New York and Washington. But the Collegian’s worst is our favorite. There’s nothing better than a nice fluff […]

Jimmy Fallon Talks About the Worst Party Schools

I’m beginning to realize that this statistic is going to be brought up for the rest of the school year… here’s Jimmy Fallon making a pretty lame bit out of the news.

Rendell on #1 Party School Recognition

Joe Scarborough had Governor Rendell on Morning Joe this morning to talk about the annual budget impasse… but first, c0-host Willie Geist asked Rendell about yesterday’s top story: Penn State being recognized as the country’s #1 party school by the Princeton Review. Rendell’s comment, delivered with a school boy’s smirk, was: “You know, some are opposed […]

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