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The CDC Offers Preparations for the Zombie Apocalypse
(Photo: Center for Disease Control) Courtney Balcombe News Editor clb6264@psu.edu In 2011 the Center for Disease Control released a blog as well as graphic novels containing preparations if a zombie apocalypse was to begin. According to the CDC, it originally began as “a tongue-in-cheek campaign to engage new audiences with preparedness messages has proven to…
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Coral reefs are turning white due to the environmental strains in oceans
Photo: ecowatch.com/Alexis Rosenfeld Alex Bowser Science/Tech Editor akb6244@psu.edu It should be no secret that the coral reef ecosystems are being threatened in all oceans worldwide. Many warning signs have risen to the public’s attention in the last decade, but very few strides have been made to turn the dying ecosystems around. As a result, many…
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New unusual creatures discovered under Antarctica’s icy surface
(Photo: livescience.com/Huw Griffiths) Alex Bowser Science/Tech Editor akb6244@psu.edu Geologists in search of sediment samples from the ocean floor in Antarctica drilled a half-mile-long hole into an Antarctic ice shelf known as the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Rather than gathering sediment samples, the scientists discovered a rock covered with a number of unknown lifeforms and organisms…
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Is it time to cut down on gen-eds?
Matt Achtziger Op-Ed Editor University students face a perennial enemy: general education classes. Nearly every student can recall a time when a gen-ed class was giving them more trouble than their major classes, whether it was by requiring an expensive textbook or an overwhelming amount of work. Particularly, I often hear my peers…
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Returning to “normal”
(Attribution: Greg Wohlford Erie Times-News) Carolyn Hogg Staff Writer Ceh5530@psu.edu Much to the relief of students and staff, Behrend will be returning to regular in-person classes for the fall semester. For most, this exciting news couldn’t come at a better time. Some students are already taking in-person classes and maybe well adjusted to the nuances…
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Oprah Squeezes Out All the Juicy Details On the Royal Family
Stephanie Logue Staff Writer szl414@psu.edu Let us be clear: this is another interview that will go down in history that reveals the British royal family’s history. This is just like Princess Diana’s Panorama revelations more than 25 years ago that painted a very damning picture of what it can be like in the “goldfish bowl”…
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Women’s History Month: Laura de Force Gordon
Photo: Laura De Force Gordon in an undated portrait. Credit Library of Congress Madison Kwiecinski news editor mvk5945@psu.edu Laura de Force Gordon was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1838, and experienced first hand what it was like to have to fight harder for everything in life because she was born a female in a male dominant…
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Trump Speaks Out Since Election
[AP Photo/John Raoux] Courtney Balcombe News Editor clb6264@psu.edu On February 28th, former President Donald Trump finally took to stage for the first time since his election loss in January. He called for Republican Party unity, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). “Do you miss me yet?” Trump said after taking the stage to…
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