Short Notes of Season-Opening Weekend
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Shippensburg University’s student section, more commonly known as the Red Sea, made a big splash this weekend as it hosted two events to kick off the fall 2023 semester.
Students from the Communication, Journalism and Media (CJM) Department at Shippensburg University can be found all over: behind cameras at sporting events and graduation, in the press box, as interns for media companies and governmental agencies. Whether reporting on them or working them, CJM is within every part of our community. Through it all, Carrie Sipes is there to support every student in the department and beyond.
On Wednesday, Aug. 30, Shippensburg was dazzled by the beam of a beautiful blue supermoon, the closest full moon of the year. A perigean full moon, better known as a supermoon, happens when the moon is full during the closest point in its orbit around Earth.
The glory of college is not in finding out what you are good at but what you are truly interested in. I am a self-diagnosed overachiever, and I fully embrace the fact that I have done a lot of things to be praised. For the past three years I had the mindset that I can and will do anything anyone asks of me. I wish I knew as a freshman that just because I can do something does not mean I have to.
The Republican Party held its first presidential debate in Milwaukee, Wis. on Aug. 23 without the frontrunner for the nomination, but the event was still rowdy and contentious despite former President Donald Trump’s absence.
Harun Pacavar, a senior political science major, is the president of the Student Government Association (SGA) at Shippensburg University for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Dear Raiders,
This past July, I had the pleasure of seeing two fantastic movies back-to-back not once, but twice. Those movies — of course — were Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
*Trigger warning: addiction, mental illness*
The H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center has unveiled over a dozen acts that will be included in its 2023-2024 performance lineup.
ShipRec will be hosting a variety of club and intramural sports available to all students, athletes or not, for the fall semester. Club sports compete against clubs from other colleges, while intramural sports are mainly just against fellow Shippensburg students.
Many would describe the Raiders’ 2022 field hockey season as phenomenal. But for a team that had won four of the past five national championships, losing to East Stroudsburg in the title game was a disappointment.
Shippensburg University’s football team is looking to improve on a disappointing 2022 campaign, where they had an overall record of 5-6 and 3-4 in their conference, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) East.
August is slowly coming to an end, and college students know what that means: the beginning of a new semester. As this month begins to wrap up, I have been asking myself, “What have I done to take care of myself this summer?”