2016 Presidential Debate Reaction
Monday night kicked off the Presidential Debate series. Reporter Kelsie Cairns asked Penn State students their thoughts on how Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton conducted themselves during the first...
View ArticleWhy Is Trump Keeping The Race Close?
Hillary Clinton is ahead in the polls, but Donald Trump won't go away. Reporter Bre'Jon Patrick talks with a political analyst to ask why.
View ArticleHomecoming Week Celebration
It's Homecoming Week in Happy Valley and thousands of alumni and fans are rolling into town for the weekend. For students and others, they've been celebrating Homecoming Week all week long. Reporter...
View ArticleClery Report: Rape Reports Rising
For the third year in a row, the number of reported sexual assaults at Penn State increased. Reporter Olivia Hogan has the story.
View ArticleHurricane Matthew: PSU Students Step Up To Help
Haiti was hit hard by Hurricane Matthew. But the Penn State community was eager to help young Haitians. Reporter Rasha Guerrier has more.
View ArticleLeft Behind Children
When Guocheng Ma and his wife, Chunxia Zhu, left rural Wenzhou to work in Shanghai, the most populous city in China, they knew the sacrifices they faced as migrant workers. “The hardest thing was not...
View ArticleMusician brings Life to high school students
“Why did the melon have an elaborate wedding ceremony? Because it cant-aloupe!” joked Ben Hittie, a 21-year old from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. “My brother made that one up,” he added as he laughed at...
View ArticleFor the Love of Music
It is difficult to fathom that a 24-year-old who quit music lessons as a child and has never played in a band is an expert at not one, but three instruments. State College native Gordon Rogursky...
View Article“The Bridge: The Power of Music”
A year and a half ago, Carolina Negrón had an idea. “I picked [the guitar] up one day and I was like, ‘I wanna learn how to play this.’ And then I did.” Without professional lessons and through the...
View ArticleUsing music to connect to people
Nicole Schaefer has been playing the piano since she was 6 years old. Schaefer's family had received a piano from Santa Claus, and her mother had put her and her sister in piano lessons to learn...
View ArticleJazzMint in Full Bloom
Jazzmint, whose real name is Michael Grasso, started doing drag shows about eight months ago when he met his current boyfriend Michael Duschl, who is also a local drag queen. Music has been a vital...
View ArticlePath to Skiver
Brian Kang is a lead guitarist in Skiver Band, He is a Junior majoring in Communications, he is hoping to get into advertising. Brian started getting into Rock music when he was eight year-old. He...
View ArticleSingonStage: A Music Storyteller
Heidi Biever, who has had over 25 years experience teaching dance, art, music and theatre to children, and she inherited the passion for music from her mother. She takes great pleasure in teaching...
View ArticleHappy Hooping
Penn State student Pranathi Divi, 21, began hooping in high school after quitting her formal dance classes to take up tennis, the family sport. She learned how to hula hoop traditionally as a child,...
View ArticleMusic brings me home
Mary Lai is a senior student in Penn State. She is an international student from Taiwan, and she came to the United States three years ago. She said she started to play ukulele two years ago when...
View ArticleTucker Landis Emerges in the State College Music Scene
Tucker Landis is an emerging guitarist in the State College music scene. He started in the basements of State College when he played basement shows at houses around State College. He eventually...
View ArticleThe Quiet Girl with a Voice
Maggie Rainey, a junior elementary education major, said she is never nervous when she’s on stage. She actually prefers it to having a conversation with someone. At THON 2016, Rainey’s voice boomed...
View ArticleMusic as an art and emotion, as described by Erika Veiszlemlein
Erika Veiszlemlein is a sophomore at Penn State and is majoring in Supply Chain and Information System. She is from Bath, Pennsylvania and is also the Vice President of Penn State’s Music Service club...
View ArticleThis is Not Pierce From Allderdice
Pierce carter is a senior here at Penn State studying Psychology and working towards earning his degree; what his professors and even some of his friends don’t know is that Pierce has dreams of...
View ArticleCongressional Candidates Debate at WPSU Studios
Democratic candidate Kerith Strano-Taylor is running against Republican incumbent Glenn Thompson. The two squared off in a debate at penn State.
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