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Hurricane Florence: Penn State Students Keeping Track of Family and Friends in the Carolinas
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As Hurricane Florence strikes the East Coast, Penn State students from North and South Carolina are concerned about impacts on their hometowns, families and friends.
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Penn State Student’s Home Destroyed in California Wildfires
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The wildfires in California this month that have killed 42 people have also claimed thousands of homes, including that of a Penn State junior.
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Rep. Thompson Says Answers Needed on Flynn, Leaks
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U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Howard) on Wednesday called for an investigation into the circumstances that led to the resignation of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
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Cuban Diplomat Visits Penn State
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Miguel Fraga, the first secretary of the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C., since the United States and Cuba reestablished diplomatic relations, visited Penn State’s University Park campus this week to speak with students and faculty.
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Mandatory Evacuation
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The pace of today’s information pipeline can bring us into the immediacy of what is happening in the world but can also sometimes dull us to what’s going on. How many times do we look at the devastation from some incident on the news and say “Oh that’s awful,” and then go on with our…
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Were You Involved in the Turkish Coup Attempt? Me Neither.
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I have a message for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Stop accusing us Pennsylvanians of plotting against you.
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Urban Meyer, Jim Mora Defend Schiano, Bradley Amid McQueary Allegations
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Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer and UCLA head coach Jim Mora are publicly defending their assistant coaches against the newly surfaced allegations that Greg Schiano reported potential child abuse to Tom Bradley when both were coaches at Penn State.
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The Time Is Now to Make a Difference
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What is wrong with us? What else is it going to take? Where have we gone wrong? We need to care. The time is now to be a difference-maker, every day, each and every one of us.
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The American House We Live In
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There is a song that I heard many years ago that I think about from time to time, particularly on July 4th weekend. The song The House I Live In was made famous by Frank Sinatra. It is wonderful for its universal simplicity invoking imagery of places found to be in almost every town in…
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Supreme Court’s Fisher Decision and Race in Admissions
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A large body of evidence shows so-called race-neutral admissions policies are not as effective for attaining racial diversity on campus. They could even exacerbate existing racial inequities.