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Collegian’s Managing Director Fires News Adviser

John Harvey, the news adviser for The Daily Collegian, was fired yesterday. According to a public Facebook group created by editor-in-chief Emeritus Terry Casey, The Collegian has been looking to make cuts, but this was not a financial decision. It was a personal attack on the man who ran the country’s best training program for […]

Medical Marijuana Legislation in PA

Medical marijuana could be coming to Pennsylvania. According to the Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader, State Rep. Mark Cohen, D-Philadelphia, introduced a bill Wednesday that would allow medical use of marijuana and repeal state prohibitions on using the hallucinogen. The bill says that the drug could be dispensed at “compassion centers.” (editor’s note: that sounds better than a […]

OS Stories: Sam Settle and the Election Seminar

Sam Settle is a freshman political science major who wasted no time this fall getting involved with the conservative groups on campus. He campaigned for John McCain in addition to joining up with College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom. He also seems to be the go-to conservative for Collegian reporters. (That might partially be […]

Students Run For Borough Council

On May 19th, the State College Borough Council will be holding a primary for the seven-member unit. Two of the candidates on the ballot aren’t old enough to legally rent a car. Penn State students — Democrat Bill Van Saun and Republican Brett Fisher — were inspired in large part by last year’s historic presidential […]

Porn Shows OK at PA School

If our previous posts about the University of Maryland Porn Controversy (here and here), haven’t sated your appetite for XXX news, we have more. This time, the news is from Carnegie Mellon University. Today the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote: Don’t expect heavy breathing or shady-looking patrons slumped furtively in their theater seats. It’s true, “The New […]

Update on the Maryland Porn Scandal

If you recall, we wrote about the Maryland Porn Scandal a few days ago. That post drew many comments, and even some copycats (without attribution). But, at the time, the issue had not come to a conclusion. Now, it may have. After campus administrators canceled a planned showing of a pornographic movie, “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s […]

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