Last night's University Park Undergraduate Association general assembly meeting was certainly eventful. There was Christmas music blasting before the meeting began. There were assembly members in red and green, including Diversity Committee Chair Dutch Markward, who wore Christmas-themed suspenders. There was legislation to give a ton of your student activity fee money to Movin' On because they can't afford the acts that they want. There was even a new Academic Affairs Committee Chair elected. Now that I have you hooked, read on.
Penn State alumnus Daehee Park, along with co-founder John Thomas, founded the company Tuft & Needle that not only makes mattresses out of eco-friendly and sustainable material; they also have set up a charity that allows you to donate money to buy a bed for an underprivileged child.
State Representative Scott Conklin held a press conference yesterday, flanked by Anthony Lubrano, where he introduced four bills that would drastically shrink the size of the Penn State Board of Trustees.
A freshman writer reflects on her first real semester as a Penn State student.
People who complain that higher education is infested with leftists and (dum, dum, dum) liberal Democrats just got some more ammunition. The Daily Collegian ran a cool story today about Penn State professors' political donations for the 2012 cycle, and it showed heavy favoritism to President Obama.
A group of approximately 75 students of all different ethnic and cultural backgrounds filed into last night's UPUA meeting to speak about the Chi Omega racially insensitive photo, which has become national news over the past two days.