As a new program for the Class of 2017, University Park is implementing a common reading program, called Penn State Reads. The first book of the program will be Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times, by author Eyal Press. Students will be expected to be prepared for discussions and events planned around the book when they arrive in the fall. But here's the thing: It's not as part of a class, and there is no real way of making a program set up like this mandatory. So will anyone actually do it?
Procrastination: the infectious disease that most can't seem to shake, the kryptonite of the common student. No matter how many things we write out in our planner or how productive we tell ourselves we are going to be, we always have those Thursday nights at 11:30 when a 10-page paper is due at midnight...and we aren't even sure what we're supposed to be writing about.
Frank Aritz Jr. of State College was found guilty for riding his bicycle in downtown State College with a .162 BAC level. Aritz was spotted by police riding his bike without a headlamp on East Beaver Ave. and on the South Allen St. bike route, per the CDT.
According to prosecutors, Aritz's reaction when he was pulled over was, "It's a fucking bike!"
What do the IFC president, a THON Family Relations Captain, a club croquet member, Shane McGregor, and the former president of Nittany Nation have in common? No, its not that they have all gotten kicked out of Café 210 (OK that also might be true). The answer is that they will all be competing in the second annual Mr. Think Pink pageant.
A virtual tour of the Phase I renovation of the IM Building has been released, and from what it looks like, the project is going to be very successful. The $26.1 million partial renovation has become a mission in order to meet student demand for fitness facilities. Take a look inside the future home of intramural sports at Penn State after the jump.
What's HackPSU? Think of the hacking scene -- minus the tequila shots, sorry -- from the from the Social Network; add 160 (and counting) entrepreneurs from Penn State, UPenn, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois, and Pitt; and, for good measure, throw in Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman along with other Silicon Valley big shots as judges for the event.
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