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Free Technology Video Tutorials for Students!

Ever wish that you actually knew how to use Final Cut Pro? Or Photoshop? Or any other popular subject on computers? Well you needn't ever wish that again! Lynda.com is an award-winning video tutorials website that offers instruction on thousands of topics - from creating a website with Adobe Dreamweaver to learning Mac OS X, even learning how to use Facebook!


How can you utilize this website, you ask? Well, if you're a Penn State student, you have completely FREE access to every subject on Lynda.com! That's your technology fee hard at work right there! Click here and you will be able to sign into the Penn State portal on Lynda.com with your AccessID. From there, take a look around and see what interests you.

A Call to Arms

Friends, Nittany Lions, State College residents, lend me your ears. In this short time during which we inhabit this earth, it is seldom asked of us to partake in a venture so grand, something so much larger than any individual, that it could define our very existence.


Today is one of those days.


The U.S. News and World Report is once again holding a contest to determine the best alternative media outlet of 2009. We, the defending champions, are one of the four nominees, and while Onward State currently leads in the polls, it's a close race.

Is Penn State for Lovers?

Nittany Booking will be making its grand return to State College this February 17th with a show at SOZO featuring JT Woodruff of Hawthorne Heights.


The show will also feature post-punk duo The Story Changes, Mark Rose (formerly of Spitalfield), and two local groups: On The Run and British Phil.


Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets will be only $10. Though you can get them at the door, they will be available in town at a TBA location in advance.


Whatever your opinions were of Hawthorne Heights back in high school, I recommend checking out the show. Five bands for $10 is a steal, and who knows, you may actually enjoy yourself.


This will be Garrett Bogden's first Nittany Booking show of the year, and hopefully it's not the last. If this one is a success, he says he has a few more potential shows lined up.


Keep checking Onward State for more concert updates and coverage.

Overheard on Twitter: March Madness?

Looking ahead to March Madness already? The semester just started! Also Jeffrey, you would have known about the bandwidth boost if you had read our post about it before break.

We Are Scientists to Play Free Concert in HUB

After much rumor and speculation, SOMA confirmed today that We Are Scientists will be playing in Alumni Hall on January. Best part about this top 40 charting duo coming to Penn State: the show will be FREE.


That's right kids, you won't even have to sell back your new textbooks to see them (along with openers British Phil and The Exclusive Document).

B&N College Bookstores Offer Rentals, But Not Here

After seeing textbook rentals become wildly popular with online services like Chegg, Barnes and Noble is trying to get in on the game. Since our official bookstore in the HUB is a Barnes and Noble-run bookstore, I was hoping that we'd get the chance to take advantage of the savings that come with textbook rentals.


Turns out we can't.


Of the around 25 participating Barnes and Noble University bookstores, Penn State is not on the list. Our rivals to the west, Ohio State, offering Barnes and Noble textbook rentals, as are those Gamecocks from down at South Carolina.


I'd imagine that Barnes and Noble will be looking to expand their textbook rental program to other schools. Given the fact that we're such a big school, it is likely our official B&N bookstore will be participating in the near future.

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