The University Park Student Fee Board met Friday to hear allocation request presentations from the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments (CCSG), Graduate and Professional Student Association (GSPA), and Office of Student Activities.
Hibah Akbar, the president of CCSG, kicked the Board’s round of hearings off with a presentation of her organization’s request.
CCSG is an organization made up of student representatives from both the Commonwealth Campuses and University Park that advocates on behalf of the Commonwealth. CCSG works toward streamlining the voices of the Commonwealth Campuses.
Akbar outlined CCSG’s request of $4,096 for the 2021-2022 funding cycle. This request is less than years past because the Board is accepting carry-forward requests, allowing offices to bring any unused funds into the 2021-2022 funding cycle.
To conclude a week of lectures and community service, the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Student Committee and SPA held a livestream event called “Art and Activism with Noname” on
New York Times bestselling author Michelle Alexander joined the Penn State community for a moderated discussion Thursday night, fielding questions prepared by the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Student Committee and others in attendance.
The virtual discussion revolved around the topic of Alexanderâs book The New Jim Crow, and the topics of mass incarceration and criminal justice reform.
Before the event, students Mimi Boone and Makayla Ashe said they wanted to see Alexander address racial injustice both at the national and local level in State College. Ashe (senior-applied statistics) hoped Alexander would discuss the shooting of Osaze Osagie.
Osagie was a 29-year-old Black State College resident who was shot and killed by a State College police officer on March 20, 2019. The State College police were serving a mental health warrant when Osagie, who had autism and a history of schizophrenia, allegedly ran at the officers with a knife. The officers unsuccessfully atte
In years past, the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service has given students a chance to give back to their community in a hands-on way. Amid the coronavirus pandemic,
On Tuesday, Penn State s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Student Committee held its "Debate Series Round 1: The Rally for Reform" in which students debated the future of the police