Many of you may have heard of this swine flu business that is sweeping the nation and much of North America. 149 people have died in Mexico and the World Health Organization has called the outbreak a public health emergency. Fears of a global pandemic are running high, but don’t worry, swine flu is not […]
Substitute ‘Wall Street’s mortgage market’ for ‘Penn State’s ANGEL’ and you’ve got the story of our economy.
What: Dinesh D’Souza, author of What’s So Great About America?, will be speaking about America. Highlights from his Wikipedia page: In 1981, D’Souza published the names of officers of the Gay Student Alliance in an article for The Dartmouth Review, including the names of those who were still closeted. Prior to his marriage in 1992, […]
In Jessica Passini’s version of ‘The Last Supper’ Judas is replaced by a referee. Hope they don’t take it personally… Passini painted a parody of da Vinci’s iconic work after “studying abroad in Italy and examining da Vinci’s work,” according to the Collegian. Her version features: Joe Paterno as Jesus Christ The Nittany Lion as […]
Remember when you first found your house on Google Maps? The revelation probably freaked you out. Google has created some phenomenal work in the field of digital mapping, but the company has failed the creepers of Happy Valley. For some reason unknown to geographers, Google has never added detailed University Park imagery to its database. […]
I had forgotten how much University Park changes when there’s a football game until I walked downtown last night. The whole atmosphere seemed familiar but slightly different– like a more casual version of a fall game. We checked out the Twitter search for Blue-White game to see what other people thought of the game. Some […]