New York Times and
Centre Daily Times were previously available at stations around campus before they were
Students can access the publication by
registering with their Penn State email addresses. The university asks students to not use the same password for both their Access Account and for the
Centre Daily Times‘ website.
here. However, these subscriptions are only available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Those who take advantage of this program must renew their subscription each semester. Access for the spring 2021 semester will expire on June 27, 2021.
Founded in 1898,
Centre Daily Times has been one of the most prominent print newspapers in the State College area ever since. Its inclusion in Penn State’s Student News Readership Program “aims to offer access to trusted journalism, including breaking news and in-depth reporting on important international, national and local issues, while also encouraging newspaper readership for life,” according to the u
Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m., via Zoom (register) Being Black in Bridgerton: An Examination of Race, Colorism, and Stereotyping, hosted by the Gender Equity Center. The hit Netflix series Bridgerton has been praised for its casting of Black characters in the roles of English royals, nobles, aristocrats and tradespeople. However, when we examine the characters and their storylines, is such casting as progressive as it seems on the surface? Join us for clips of the series and a discussion of race, colorism and stereotyping, and the impact on the storylines of the people of color in the series.
Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m., online
HARLEYSVILLEÂ â With less than one month until the 2021 Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, Executive Director Katie Solomon of Harleysville has had quite the journey.
âOne of my personal favorite things about THON every single year is just the people that it brings together,â Solomon said. âTHON has this weird ability to turn strangers . into families that are rooted in this common purpose in fighting childhood cancer.â
More than 16,500 student volunteers help fundraise each year, according to THON s website. Money raised from the annual dance marathon goes to the Four Diamonds Foundation at Penn State Childrenâs Hospital in Hershey.
Loose Parts cartoonist learned enough to bluff my way through it
Winning the Reuben Award – the top prize for comic-strip authors – wasn’t part of the plan for Dave Blazek, who attended Penn State Behrend. “I don’t really have a plan,” he says.
Comic strips, like board games, never age. The best-known titles have always been there, it seems: The “Peanuts” gang first appeared in 1947, in a strip titled “Li’l Folks.” They’re older than Candyland.
Dave Blazek’s “Loose Parts” is more like the board game Catan – a brainy upstart that reinvigorated the genre. In 2019, Blazek, an Erie native, won the Reuben Award, the highest honor bestowed by the National Cartoonists Society. In September, he won it again.
Engineering and physical plant partner to keep campus clean
With the new software, it ll be even faster for Office of the Physical Plant employees to clean University buildings.
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Engineering and physical plant partner to keep campus clean
Camden Tofil, Miranda Buckheit
January 12, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – In spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought in-person classes at Penn State to a halt, as the semester moved remote after spring break for the remainder of the academic year.
On June 14, Penn State announced students would return to its 24 campuses for the 2020 fall semester as part of the University’s “Back to State” plan.