[ Updated Monday, Sept. 11, 2006 ]
As many students gathered in front of the Allen Street gates this morning to commemorate our country's great loss five year ago, they were met by protest.
[ Monday, Sept. 11, 2006 ]
Amid the aroma of coffee and pancakes Friday morning, Centre County commissioner H. Scott Conklin spoke about the need for professionalism in politics.
Next year, students can "Shake Up Africa" -- or at least learn about it -- in a new science general education class offered by Andy Nyblade.
Scrubbing a tan mat with a soapy brush, freshmen Brenna Cassidy and Emily Loyco smiled as Thon officials signaled their group to stand so they could hose off the mats.
Silver coins hanging from Amanda Tylka's red outfit jingled as she gyrated Friday evening on the HUB-Robeson Center lawn.
At 7 p.m. Saturday, even the heavens were crying.
The University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) transition group approved an elections code and elections commissioners this weekend, clearing the way for campaign beginnings at the end of the month.
Though several vacancies exist in the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senate, USG President Nick Stathes said the empty seats are completely unrelated to the upcoming transfer of power from USG to University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA).
Five years later
Joe Paterno walked off the field Saturday, hanging his head like a prizefighter who just lost a 12-round unanimous decision. He didn't glance up once, even at shouts of "You'll get 'em next time!" and "It's OK, JoePa!"
Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira has decided not to seek the death penalty against a State College man charged with murdering a Penn State student in February.
The Pennsylvania National Guard celebrated a warm homecoming in State College yesterday, parking tanks and helicopters outside Beaver Stadium and packing the Bryce Jordan Center with more than 20,000 troops.
When Patch Adams walks into a room, his rainbow-colored pants and Penn State-inspired blue and white hairstyle doesn't evoke the stereotypical look of a medical professional.
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Sadé Council (junior-communications, arts and sciences) was daydreaming like usual, staring out the window of a seventh-floor classroom of a small performing arts school on 19th and Broadway, when she saw a low-flying plane dipping and swerving over the buildings across the street.
Although five years have passed, it still might be too soon to relive the trauma of Sept. 11 for Penn State student Jay Aligo.
Various campus organizations will host memorial services today to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Woman reports sexual assault
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It's a common theme in sports that the level of optimism for a team runs as high as the level of expectation.
For some, opportunity comes knocking but once - for Penn State, however, it came knocking several times on Saturday.
Bumps in the road were to be expected.
Penn State's talented defense finally met its match Saturday, being made to look rather ordinary, as Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn advanced his Heisman Trophy campaign while looking anything but.
When the Penn State men's soccer team went without a goal for the fourth time in five games Friday night, Nittany Lions coach Barry Gorman knew he had to do something to fix his offensive attack.
It was one goal.
After going winless in its previous four games, the Penn State women's soccer team got the victory it was looking for to jumpstart its season.
Offensive inconsistency has been the norm this season for the Penn State women's soccer team.
Already down two-games-to-one and just two points from defeat, the Penn State women's volleyball team circled around head coach Russ Rose, and listened while blocking out 2,371 rowdy Texas fans.
My Opinion: Mark Viera
My Opinion: Game ends up short of lofty expectations
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Five years later, we still remember
My Opinion: Erin James
My Opinion: Allison Busacca
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