Madison Kwiecinski News Editor Mvk5945@psu.edu Penn State Behrend places a priority on students’ safety, with campus police officers working 24/7 for 365 days a year. However, multiple incidents have taken place on-campus in the recent weeks since students returned for the spring semester. Students receive alerts when these criminal acts take place on-campus, and the…

ALANNA GILLIS amg7393@psu.edu Opinions Editor On Wednesday, January 26, students filled the auditorium seating of OBS 101 to hear Dr. Dustin Hemphill speak about quarks, gluons, and how they interacted to form the building blocks of life when the Big Bang occurred.  The presentation seemed like it was targeted more toward people who had an…

Lydia Glenn News Editor lmg5921@psu.edu Texas’ everlasting push for more conservative systems led to what is now being coined, “the war on books”. The most recent uproar over school libraries is basically that it should be censored like the internet.    The Los Angeles Times says that it is “conservatives attempt to ride a wave…

Lydia Glenn News Editor lmg5921@psu.edu On Friday, January 21, a shipment of lab monkeys escaped from a van after an accident on Interstate 80 in Danville, Pennsylvania. The shipment of monkeys was on their way to a Center for Disease Control approved quarantine facility at an undisclosed location when the transport pickup crashed.  The crash…

Lydia Glenn News Editor lmg5921@psu.edu On January 24, youth organizers from Penn State Behrend and University of Pittsburgh interviewed the new CEO of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania.  The youth organizers were Ketara Hinman from Penn State Behrend and Alexa P. from Pitt. Ketara Hinman is the President of the Planned Parenthood Generation Action Chapter…

Madison Kwiecinski News Editor Mvk5945@psu.edu Penn State Behrend places a priority on students’ safety, with campus police officers working 24/7 for 365 days a year. However, multiple incidents have taken place on-campus in the recent weeks since students returned for the spring semester. Students receive alerts when these criminal acts take place on-campus, and the…

ALANNA GILLIS amg7393@psu.edu Opinions Editor On Wednesday, January 26, students filled the auditorium seating of OBS 101 to hear Dr. Dustin Hemphill speak about quarks, gluons, and how they interacted to form the building blocks of life when the Big Bang occurred.  The presentation seemed like it was targeted more toward people who had an…

Lydia Glenn News Editor lmg5921@psu.edu Texas’ everlasting push for more conservative systems led to what is now being coined, “the war on books”. The most recent uproar over school libraries is basically that it should be censored like the internet.    The Los Angeles Times says that it is “conservatives attempt to ride a wave…

Lydia Glenn News Editor lmg5921@psu.edu On Friday, January 21, a shipment of lab monkeys escaped from a van after an accident on Interstate 80 in Danville, Pennsylvania. The shipment of monkeys was on their way to a Center for Disease Control approved quarantine facility at an undisclosed location when the transport pickup crashed.  The crash…

Lydia Glenn News Editor lmg5921@psu.edu On January 24, youth organizers from Penn State Behrend and University of Pittsburgh interviewed the new CEO of Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania.  The youth organizers were Ketara Hinman from Penn State Behrend and Alexa P. from Pitt. Ketara Hinman is the President of the Planned Parenthood Generation Action Chapter…