Talk of the Nation on National Public Radio recently featured a rather provocative interview with Marty Nemko, Contributing Editor to U.S. News & World Report. Nemko penned an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education this month titled “America’s Most Overrated Product: The Bachelor’s Degree.”
Are College Degrees a Waste of Money? (NPR) May 12, 2008 [...]
I spoke about this past weekend’s “Mifflin Streak” and the students who were arrested yesterday on The LION 90.7fm’s Radio Free Penn State. Listen to the show and hear one alum’s perspective.
The REEL (get it?) Student Film Festival at Penn State has been established and will tentatively take place next Monday, April 28 at 8pm in the HUB Auditorium. Student-run at Penn State. Crazy, right?
As the controversy at Penn State over sweatshop labor continues, the administration continues to ignore what were at first polite requests and have now become deafening cries for change.
The Commonwealth Foundation says that it’s time to abolish the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB). How would Penn Staters benefit from such a move? Read on and be heard.
A flashback to the past, the “Voices of ‘69: The Struggle for Penn State” offers a unique view into the history of our campus and the decisions and actors that have helped determined our destiny to this point.
A concerned reader of Safeguard Old State e-mailed us with his take on why the Student Facilities Fee is so frantically being pushed into place for the May Trustees meeting.
A concerned Penn State parent speaks up on the atrocious “Student Facilities Fee” which was uncovered recently by Safeguard Old State and will tax students an additional $200 annually.
The following is a Guest Blog written by the Penn State United Students Against Sweatshops and Student Labor Action Project. This has been a hotly debated subject by the two organizations and the Penn State Administration. Regardless of your thoughts on the issue, is is important there is an open forum for students to speak [...]
Our club, EcoAction, has joined forces with many other organizations including the Moshannon Group of the Sierra Club to battle for responsible ownership of the Spring Creek Canyon lands, currently owned by the State Correctional Institution at Rockview.
Rockview is selling off large tracts of land that it currently owns, the largest portion of which is [...]