Archival Stories

Royster To Return, Navorro To NFL

By Mark

While LB Navorro Bowman elected to declare for this year's NFL draft, RB Evan Royster announced that he will stay at Penn State to finish his degree and play out his senior season.

This makes sense, as Royster is just 481 yards yards shy of Curt Warner's school rushing record.For at least another year, it looks like the Blue Royster Cult will be more Movementarian than Jonestown.

Penn State Brings Home Academic BCS Victory

By Eli Glazier

1/6/10 2:03 pm

hen you sit down to watch Texas and Alabama square off in the BCS National Championship tomorrow, take some solace in the fact that if the BCS was based on academics, neither team would be in the Big Game.

Instead, you'd be cheering on Dear Old State (ranked #1) as they battled against Stanford (ranked #2) in Pasadena. In the New America Foundation academic ratings of the Top 25 ranked teams, Alabama ends up ranked 8th and Texas ranked a lowly 25th.

Overheard on Twitter: IST Consolidates Major Information

By Nick Johnson

1/5/10 3:34 pm

Click here see what’s what and classes to take.

Search and Seizure in Your College Dorm

By Andy

1/4/10 9:00 am

Can the campus police search your dorm room without a warrant? A startling new ruling suggests “yes.” In 2007, Boston College police officers received a tip that two students were harboring weapons in their dorm room. Three officers and two residence life officials knocked on the students’ door. After some questioning, the students turned over […]

Penn State Wins Ugly In Orlando

By Mark

1/1/10 4:40 pm

It may not have been perfect, but Daryll Clark got to solidify his much-discussed legacy at Penn State with a win.

The Nittany Lions won the Capital One Bowl, 19-17, closing out what could have widely considered been a disappointing ten win season. The victory over No. 12 ranked LSU was certainly not the squad's best play of the season - a 13 point lead in the third quarter quickly turned into a one point deficit - but it was the its first win over a ranked opponent.

Onward State’s Resolution for the New Year

By Davis

1/1/10 12:43 pm

This fall was Onward State's second full semester at Penn State. Our readers are probably aware that we spent much of it preparing to become a business. We have paused those plans.

Onward State is not unique in our approach to covering the news; we are hardly the first to crossbreed snark with objectivity. New (and old) media outlets all over the world been forced to develop new paradigms of entrepreneurial journalism. Reacting to this new era is occasionally fruitful, but always tentative. Frankly, nobody knows what the media will look like five years from now.