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Afghan Girl Photo, Shot by Alum, at Palmer

The blog at Penn State’s alumni magazine had a post about Steve McCurry, the alumnus photographer who shot the famous Afghan Girl picture… it got us interested in the whole story, so here it is. Kodachrome First, some technical stuff… see, the photograph was shot using Kodak Kodachrome film. Kodak announced the discontinuation of that […]

In Honor of Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson died this afternoon after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Holmby Hills. TMZ has the rough-draft of his obituary up already… Twitter has the rest. Our tribute is a little more animated though. We found this video from 1998 of the Penn State Blue Band lip dubbing ‘Thriller.’

Survey Ranks Smeal Supply Chain 1st Nationally

A new study came out last week ranking the Smeal College of Business’ Supply Chain Management department as first nationally among universities that offer the program. The study surveyed 126 companies in an industry survey and asked 19 universities for data regarding their programs. The study then broke down the responses into three catagories:  Industry […]

Professors Check for Cheats

This past December, a website came into existence that offered procrastinators yet another tool for getting deadline extensions. Corrupted-files.com does exactly what the URL would suggest. For the small price of $3.95, corrupted-files.com will sell you an unreadable Word, Excel or PowerPoint file. The idea is that you rename the file to whatever your assignment […]

Bryce Jordan Center Hosting Cirque de Soleil

We overheard on Twitter today that the Cirque de Soleil will be performing in eight shows over five days at the Bryce Jordan Center this fall Here’s the schedule, which we pulled from the site for the Amex presale. Here’s the official description of the show… Alegría is a mood, a state of mind. The […]

Reminder: Purchase Football Tickets

Many upperclassmen bought season tickets earlier this week… now it’s the sophomore class’s turn. (Sophomores are defined by the university as people with between 27.1 and 54 credits.) Ticket sales begin tomorrow at 7:00 am. You can access the sale here. Hopefully you remembered to preregister back in May! Here are some additional tips from […]

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