For the first time since 2007, the Penn State softball team will be in the NCAA Tournament as they earned one of 34 at-large bids and will take on Fordham in Friday's first round. Penn State will host the first round regional at the new Nittany Lion Softball Park. The #13-seed Oregon and Albany will be joining the Nittany Lions and the Rams in Happy Valley this coming weekend. The regional will be double-elimination. The Nittany Lions, who were 29-22-1 on the season, were thought to be on the bubble going into this past week, but four straight wins over Ohio State and Northwestern seemed to seal their fate into the tournament. Oregon and Albany will play in the first game at 2:30 p.m. while Penn State and Fordham are scheduled to follow at 5:00 p.m.
The Penn State Dance Marathon is teaming up with another Major League Baseball team this summer in order raise money once again for the world's largest student-run philanthropy. On June 3rd, the Pittsburgh Pirates will be sponsoring "Penn State Night to Benefit THON" at PNC Park. That night, the Pirates will be taking on the Philadelphia Phillies who hosted their own THON night last year. A portion of the proceeds coming from $20 lower-level tickets or $12 upper-level tickets will be donated.
He doesn't seem to know more than one song, but this sexy sax man has guts-- that's for sure. Here he roams the University Park campus serenading students with the saxaphone riff from George Michael's break-up classic Careless Whisper. Check out the video after the jump.
If you're like most Penn State students, you spent your first week of summer break catching up with old friends, visiting with family, and trying to forget how badly you messed up your Spanish final.
20-year-old David Darr, however, seems to have had a different agenda for his return home. What that agenda was remains unclear. Check out what we know after the jump.
The Penn State Board of Trustees voted this afternoon to discontinue the Science, Technology, and Society program, a cost-saving measure recommended by the Core Council this winter. The program will be discontinued effective June 30, 2012.
Championed by professor emeritus Rustum Roy about forty years ago, the program was one of the first of its kind and unique in its operation.
The STS minor will be discontinued, as will a number of courses housed in the program. Two other minors managed by the program -- the Bioethics and Medical Humanities minor and the Disability Studies minor -- will be relocated to the College of the Liberal Arts.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will convene in the Nittany Lion Inn later this morning. Onward State and our partner StateCollege.com will be providing live coverage from the meeting.
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