Penn State Live put this story up late Wednesday, about a suspicious smell that prompted an evacuation of the Tyson building, home of the Department of Horticulture. At about 6:30 p.m. Centre County 9-1-1 received a call from a Penn State lab technician in the building, who reported a strong, unknown odor in the building. […]
We noticed the story about ‘sexting‘ circulating the internet this morning, but didn’t think it was worthy of a post. That was probably just because we hadn’t been… sexted? Andrew Sullivan, or at least someone on staff at his blog, thought differently about the story. The Daily Dish posted this evening about sexting, College OTR […]
Graham Spanier recently blogged at the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Brainstorm about how prepared Penn State is for whatever comes our way. If you can imagine it, we probably have a committee for it. At Penn State we have a Foodborne Illness Committee and an Avian Flu Committee. There is a committee that plans for […]
To many undergrads, RAs are “those people that want to take your booze.” An interview with my very own RA, Ed Torres, however, shows they are actually quite amiable (even if they would take your alcohol). If you read closely, you might just learn something. OS: What are some of the perks associated with being […]
We went around yesterday and took some pictures of the jumbo gift tags that the Senior Class Gift Committee put on past Class Gifts to raise awareness. Here’s the original post about the jumbo tags. The Peace Garden was donated by the Class of 1997. There’s more content after the jump.
A number of stories ran today that in aggregate paint a dismal picture for the economic state of Penn State. The Centre Daily Times reported that Graham Spanier told the Faculty Senate on Tuesday there will probably not be any pay raises this year. “The only way to close a gap of this magnitude with […]