• Do your part for the Student Facility Fee

    Madison Kwiecinski – Editor-in-Chief  Mvk5945@psu.edu The Student Facility Fee, initiated at Penn State Behrend by students back in 2008, is a source of funding for improvement projects across the campus. Most notably and most recently, the Student Facility Fee helped to fund the costs of the Erie Hall renovations.  The Student Facility Fee, also known…

  • Club Showcase: Biology

    Welcome to the Club Showcase where every week we highlight one of the many extraordinary clubs you can join as a Penn State Behrend student. Today, we are focusing on the Biology Club. To learn more about this club, let us go to our discussion with club secretary Tyler Stickles.   What is the name…

  • Local Eats: Ember + Forge

    Briona Bargerstock – Staff Writer bnb5387@psu.edu If you are looking for a small café to study, get quality drinks, and have amazing service do not look further than 4th and State Street.  Ember + Forge was founded with a clear purpose to bring the community together and offer a safe space to creatives and individuals…

  • Review: ‘This Is Why’ I missed Paramore

     Nathaniel Clark – A&E Editor  nuc5002@psu.edu On Feb. 10, alternative rock pioneers Paramore returned with “This Is Why.” Coming back almost six years after “After Laughter,” the band left behind the new wave and dance aesthetics of their previous record and restored closer to their pop-punk origins.  While this is a return to form, Hayley…

  • Feb. Nintendo Direct recap

    Nathaniel Clark – A&E Editor nuc5002@psu.edu On Wednesday, Feb. 8, gaming giant Nintendo laid out its lineup of games slated for the first half of 2023 through one of their famous Directs. The company touched on previously-announced titles like “Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe,” “Bayonetta Origins,” and “Pikmin 4” along with the highly anticipated…

  • ‘The Last of Us’ recap

    Madison Kwiecinski – Editor-in-Chief  Mvk5945@psu.edu    Thrilling, intense, and suspenseful, HBO’s “The Last of Us” has been all of this and more throughout the five episodes that have been released so far.  “The Last of Us” is being created as an adaptation to the original PS4 game which came first, which largely explains the extreme…

  • Reading with the Beacon: ‘A Study in Scarlet’

    Madison Kwiecinski – Editor-in-Chief mvk5945@psu.edu Photo Credit: Stephan Bäckman Do you enjoy unique and suspenseful mystery stories? Is the feeling of being inches from the solution as the reader but never quite being able to reach it enthralling to you? Then I have a recommendation for you.  “A Study in Scarlet” is the first piece…

  • Climate is changing in Erie

    Maria DiToppa – Staff Writer mnd5300@psu.edu Climate change is the main driver of evolution and eventually mass extinction. The current rate of climate change is being accelerated by humans in many ways, affecting all forms of life in different ways.  Greenhouse gasses are becoming more and more concentrated in the atmosphere each day, increasing the…

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