College Life
An Idea For Intectually Stimulating College Journalism
Premise
Do you remember your college newspaper? Where its pages often filled with thought provoking articles by serious student journalists and in-depth analysis pieces on community goings-on or cultural values, social standards, sexual mores, etc?
Or were the pages of your college newspaper (or other college papers you’ve seen) filled with the banal, the bestial, and the [...]
Jeffrey Hart Asks, ‘What Is A College Education?’
Jeffrey Hart, professor emeritus of English, author, mentor and conservative thinker at Dartmouth, asked the question “What is a College Education?” in 1998 in The Dartmouth Review, that university’s leading journal of conservative-libertarian thought.
I found Hart’s arguments for a liberal and character-forming collegiate experience to be particularly compelling in contrast to the alternative view of [...]
On The Air: The Pennsylvania Television Network
I’ll be on the “Pennsylvania Television Network” (PSN-TV) tonight, discussing a new student fee that the administration at Penn State University is looking to implement. This was my second interview with “The U” on PSN-TV this year, and it’s been a sincere pleasure to sit down with the fine men and women on both sides of [...]
Doing The Unexpected: College Student Elected Town Mayor
One of the things we often wonder at Safeguard Old State is whether the State College community would be better off if students didn’t have more say in the affairs of the town through either the Mayor’s office or the Borough Council. This past week, SOS Executive Director Gavin Keiran’s ruminations on the subject were [...]
‘Claw Back Cancer’ At Arts Fest In Central Pennsylvania
During the course of this weekend The LION 90.7fm will be broadcasting from downtown State College at Are U Hungry Restaurant on 111 Sowers Street for the first-ever “Claw Back Cancer” fundraising event. Deejays will be broadcasting live from Are U Hungry on Friday, July 13 from 9pm until 3am Saturday morning, and then we’ll [...]
