The mean kid on the playground?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that government employment showed little change between the months of December and January of this year. For me, that little change was not so little. It...
View ArticleClairton gets Bear’d up for football
CLAIRTON, PA -- The impact of the decline of the American steel industry is all too real in this Monongahela River Valley mill town just 15 miles south of Pittsburgh. At the midpoint of the Twentieth...
View ArticleOff the grid in Centre County—and liking it
Ten years ago, my father decided to build a house. He would do it singlehandedly, entirely of logs chopped from the trees on his personal patch of Centre County woodland, 15 miles northwest of...
View ArticleBullying can take many different forms
A 12-year-old boy named Will steps up to the plate for kickball. The pitcher, John, is Will’s classmate, and he motions to the others on his team to move in. It’s clear by the embarrassed look on...
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Faith in numbers
A Manheim mega church has 15,000 members. A storefront congregation in Philipsburg numbers 60. Despite the difference in scale, they have a lot in common. More than 6.5 million Pennsylvanians call...
View ArticleSpecial Delivery
In December 2011 Jamie Pursley, then a 26-year-old UNC Charlotte student, was rushed to a Charlotte hospital after suddenly fainting in her professor’s office. Pursley, who was 16 weeks pregnant, had...
View ArticleLGBTA Student Resource Center
The LGBTA center located in the Boucke Building on campus is a safe place for Kristin Bauman. It is a place where people of all backgrounds, peronsalities and lifestyles can come together, share...
View ArticleWill Monkowski - DJ “SlickUp”
Will Monkowski is the DJ “SlickUp” for the indie show on “the Lion”, a local student run radio station. He understands the genre indie in his own way. To him, working for an indie show at a radio...
View ArticlePenn State Blue-White Game
The Penn State defense defeated the Penn State offense in the 2013 Blue-White Game at Beaver Stadium.
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Home away from home
Polaris: Striving for balance Polaris Qin, a junior at Penn State, is majoring in finance and minoring in sociology. She is a transfer student from China and aspires to get her dream job in fashion...
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Standing up for sexual violence awareness
Jasmin Enriquez like many young adolescents was eager for all that she was about to endure during her four years of college. She was leaving her family and her comfort zone and moving across the...
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International student pursuing a career as a professional makeup artist
I-I Chen, who is an international student from Taiwan, is a senior at Penn State in the College of Communications. Her name in Chinese means number one, and that becomes her goal and standard to...
View ArticleThe Road to THON
Steve Sawa is just like any other student, except this year he is dancing in THON. To prepare, Steve hits the gym and gets in shape for the 46-hour dance marathon of 2013. ~ by Michael Edler
View ArticleFake-Up Culture
Young women are plagued by unrealistic beauty standards that require layers of this, that, and another thing. Whatever happened to natural beauty? There isn't anything natural about morning make-up...
View ArticleThe Plight of the Small Org
Many organizations participate in THON every year, but you only ever hear about the giant orgs. But what about the small organizations? The one's that get lost in the crowd, but spend countless hours...
View ArticleJapanese Tea Club
Emily Van Clief is in the Penn State Japanese Tea Ceremony Club. The cub performs the traditional tea ceremony exactly how it’s done in Japan. Unlike other tea ceremonies, the emphasis of the...
View ArticleReyna’s Carmen
This story is about a little girl named Reyna. She sings and acts and dances, she basically has a free spirit and is very vibrant. She’s eleven years old and already shows signs of being something...
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The Cheese Shoppe: Best coffee in State College
If you ever walk downtown on a breezy morning, you might just get a whiff of coffee. It’s even possible to be near McDonald’s and catch the sent of this Calder Way gem’s best product. The Cheese...
View ArticleNicole Kelner Designs
Nicole Kelner dropped her phone a lot as a freshman at Penn State. She needed a purse or wallet that she could put her iPhone in and be able to use it without having to constantly take it out. She...
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Penn State Art for Humanity
On Friday, April 5th Penn State ceramics students presented several handcrafted, personally designed ceramic water filter containers in the Borland building. An art instructor developed the water...
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