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So Sarah Palin came to town Tuesday and held a rally at Rec Hall, but unlike some other rallies this election season, Palin's was a "closed" event - meaning you had to get tickets to get in. Well, guess who couldn't get a ticket? None other t

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Penn State University president Graham Spanier, playing with the Tarnished Six Traditional Dixieland Band, entertains some Nittany Lions fans before last week's kickoff.

Apparently in 2005 Penn State created a time capsule to celebrate their sesquicentennial (150 year anniversary for everyone else). Now that I think of it I have seen the time capsule - it's in a case in the HUB near the murals. So the plan is to open the capsule in 2055, wh

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So my Facebook  Mini -Feed just  informed me that my friend  tagged herself in a  picture with  Graham Spanier after a rousing raquetball match last evening.

All I can say is, I'm glad he isn't wearing Penn State Apparel.

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Sometimes the job of a good journalist is to look at how a number of different stories may be related. This is why I write a blog and am not a paid journalist. But, something is troubling me about the recent thefts at Rec Hall, and I think I may have broken open the case. Get someone from ... MORE »

Wow, we're really picking on The Collegian this week, but it's like every day we look at it, throw up a little in out mouth, and then have to write something about it. We didn't pick up an actual copy of today's Collegian (have you looked outside? We're not going out in that mess

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                                                  Watch your back Ebert and Roeper!

What did you do between Thanksgiving and the end of December? Well, apparently if you were the president of a Big Ten school in Pennsylvania earning $545,000 per year you watched movie after m

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The numbers are out and Penn State coach Joe Paterno will make $512,664 this year. No, we didn't miss a number there. The guy is taking in 12.5% of Nick Saban's salary at Alabama, or closer to home 25% of Jim Tressel's salary at Ohio State (which is probably fitting, we're about 1/4^th as... MORE »

All you Graham Spanier fans out there need not worry anymore because Penn State decided to renew his contract as president of the University for another five years, meaning he'll be raising tuition at astounding rates until 2013. So, if you have brothers or sisters

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OTR has talked at length (here, here and here) about the advertisement in the August 8th issue of the New York Times calling for the British University and College Union to boycott U.S. universities in the wake of their apparent boycott of Israeli universities. I

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