Welcome back to your favorite weekly Onward State student government recap, folks. In this week's University Park Undergraduate Association general assembly meeting, there was legislation involving a business report, a presentation about a sustainability committee, and a comment about porn. Yes, you heard me right, porn. If any or all of that sounds interesting to you, read on.
PSU Votes, a university website dedicated to everything election- and voting-related, has posted a presidential election straw poll open only to students. The poll requires a Penn State WebAccess account in order vote and each student is only allowed to vote once.
Tomorrow morning, U.S Senator Bob Casey Jr. will be making an appearance at the Corner Room where he will will meet with supporters and the public. Casey is set to arrive at 11 a.m. Sen. Casey, from Scranton Pa. has served in the Senate since 2006 after a victory over Rick Santorum and is running for reelection against Tom Smith, a republican from Armstrong County and founder of a Tea Party group called the Indiana and Armstrong Patriots. Prior to entering politics this year, Smith worked for decades as a coal miner and later owner of a successful coal mining business.
Dean Christian Brady has just recently lost his mustache after shaving it off at a “shaving party” in Atherton Hall last night at 6:30 p.m. We have all been very attentive to the fact that this month has been about raising awareness and money for the treatment of breast cancer, and now it’s time broaden that awareness to another form of cancer. Brady, along with team members Steven Bookbinder, Ben Stewart, James Halpin, Melissa Doberstein, and Erhan Selvi have decided to work together in hopes of raising funds and attention for prostate cancer treatment and research. This has been a big moment in history for Brady, claiming that he has lived a fulfilling life with his beard/mustache for a remarkable twenty years. The beard was said to have stayed on due to the fact that his kids would stop conversing with him if he lost it.
After almost 24 hours of speculation and anticipation, classes at Penn State University Park were cancelled for the first time in years. University Park was the 13th Penn State campus to announce class cancellations.
For the second time this year, a crowd of alumni gathered on gameday to voice their displeasure with the current Penn State Board of Trustees in an event that they have deemed the Rally for Resignations 2.0. Anthony Lubrano, the newest member of the board, was again in attendance at the event on Saturday afternoon and spoke to the crowd of approximately 150 alumni.