• Mary Beacon’s Advice How to Keep Your Optimism During a Job Search

    Chase Burdick

    Focus on Your Improvement  For college students, finding an internship, a co-op, or just a part-time job can be quite difficult or discouraging. You can apply to a number of positions, but can only hear back from a few or none at all. Rejection or not hearing back can make you feel unworthy or unqualified…

  • TV Hog

    Chase Burdick

    Samhi C. – Features Editor skc5908@psu.edu The other day, my younger brother told me about an exchange between him and his friend:  Brother’s Friend: Yo, who lives in a pineapple under the sea?  Brother: What the frick are you talking about? I don’t know?  Brother’s Friend: [gasping] What? What do you mean you don’t know?…

  • TikTok strikes again after videos of Disney’s Cinderella Castle on fire go viral

    Chase Burdick

    MADISON MEEKS Editor-in-Chief mvm7037@psu.edu ORLANDO, FL. – Shocking videos and reports on Tuesday scared Disney fans as they watched the 189-foot castle in Magic Kingdom, one of the famous Disney World parks, in flames after a reported fire.  According to The U.S. Sun, a newspaper, the horrifying clip was nothing more than a hoax that…

  • Tumblr CEO Responds to Concerns Over Site Moderation

    Chase Burdick

    AMANDA ROSS Staff Writer amr8469@psu.edu   On Feb. 19, 2024, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg responded to a question on his personal blog “photomatt” from user “cowgirl-cow-girl” about allegations of improper moderation concerning the accounts of transgender women on the social media platform Tumblr. Since the time of this post, a number of responses, allegations, and…

  • Casting Announcement: Dennis Quaid is taking on the roll of the infamous murderer “The Happy Face Killer” in new Paramount series

    Chase Burdick

    MADISON MEEKS Editor-in-Chief mvm7037@psu.edu PORTLAND, ORE. Paramount Plus has cast a well-known face in a new series. Dennis Quaid, a well-known actor for his roles in “The Parent Trap” and “The Day After Tomorrow,” will be playing notorious serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, also known as the “Happy Face Killer.”. This news comes after the…

  • WE ARE screwed but WE WILL be okay: on Penn State’s current financial situation and the impending budget

    Chase Burdick

    SAMHI C. Features Editor skc5908@psu.edu When I first volunteered to write this article, I suppose I expected it to be some exposé on how terribly University Park’s previous administration had been managing their finances and about how now, we, Behrend and the rest of the Commonwealth Campuses as well as the current UPark personnel and…

  • Investigation: AI-generated nude photos of Beverly Hills students

    Chase Burdick

    MADISON MEEKS Editor-in-Chief mvm7037@psu.edu BEVERLY HILLS, CALI  A police investigation has opened after reports of students making fake nude photos of their classmates surfaced. The student in question went to a middle school in the Beverly Hills area.  The deputy city manager, Keith Sterling, announced that students at Beverly Vista Middle School are being investigated…

  • The Value of the Dollar: The Versatility of the Meal Plan

    Chase Burdick

    RACHEL GERZEVSKE Contributing Writer rgg5144@psu.edu    Penn State’s meal plans are valuable assets to students across the country, serving as the primary form of payment at each campus’s dining halls that can be adjusted throughout the semester. What some students may not know, however, is that the meal plan is more useful than it appears.      Penn…

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