By Madison Madison Kwiecinski Living in the political realm that we are in 2023, it is easy to picture how issues on the national stage can oftentimes feel distant from the average voter, or how it is easy for some people to lose sight of the value an individual vote can hold. However, one upcoming…

By Samhita Chitturi On Thursday, October 5, 2023, at 6 P.M., Michael “Mike C.” Czyzniejewski gave a reading of three short stories from his latest collection “The Amnesiac in the Maze” as part of the Fall 2023 Smith Reading Series. He read the following three stories in this order: “The Hemophiliac Engages the Glass Eater”,…

Samhi C. – Staff Writer skc5908@psu.edu “If I could turn my writing into music, I would.” These words were said by Glenn Taylor, the featured writer for the third installment of the Smith Creative Writers Reading Series. On Thursday, April 20, at 6:00 p.m., Taylor took his place at the podium in the Metzgar Lobby…

Yan Pan – Contributing Writer yzp5225@PSU.EDU A group of Penn State Behrend students recently organized a fundraiser to benefit the Erie County Humane Society, a local animal shelter that is a nonprofit, and which relies on donations and volunteers for its upkeep. The rescue takes animals from across the county and provides them shelter, food…

Samhi C. – Staff Writer skc5908@psu.edu Who is Professor George Looney?  You know that one professor who runs a lecture-style class, and yet you never get bored once? The kind of class where every word has you hooked. Each class is filled with semi-serious jokes that beget life lessons, connecting the curriculum to real life…

Madison Kwiecinski – Editor-in-Chief  Mvk5945@psu.edu Penn state launched the ‘all-in-one’ mobile app PSU Go in Jan. of 2020, just prior to when the covid-19 pandemic hit and made a functional online presence all that more important. The mobile app aimed to provide students with campus-specific information, as well as convenient access to all of their…

Samhi C. – Staff Writer skc5908@psu.edu Who is Professor Aimee Pogson?  She is a fan of absurdities that only make sense in fiction yet allow us to make sense of the real world when unpacked. She also greatly enjoys axolotls and hobbits. She is a fiction writer who specializes in magical realism, a Behrend alumni,…

Madison Meeks – Opinion Editor mvm7037@psu.edu BOISE, IDAHO – Idaho mom Lori Vallow Daybell is currently on trial for the 2019 deaths of her two children. Tylee Ryan, 16, and Joshua “JJ” Vallow, 7, went missing in September of 2019 and were found dead in June 2020.  Vallow Daybell is also on trial for a…