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3/21/2016, 11:14pm

Pennsylvania launches voting campaign at SU

A representative of the state government visited Shippensburg University to discuss how students can learn more about voter registration through the Everyone VotesPA website, ahead of Pennsylvania’s primary election. Everyone VotesPA is a statewide campaign spearheaded by Gov.


3/21/2016, 10:54pm

Chess Club Wins State Championship

While some students spent their spring break at the beach, the members of Shippensburg University’s chess club traveled to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where the members won the Pennsylvania Collegiate Championship. The team of six, which is considered large, spent two days battling it out against five other colleges and universities at a hotel in Lancaster. Juniors Anthony Ciarlante and Jacob Painter gained the most points for the team, winning 2.5 and four points, respectively.


3/7/2016, 11:37am

Girls on the Run founder empowers SU students

Finding one’s purpose is a journey that can take a lifetime, but for the founder of Girls on the Run, it happened at age 32 during a run at sunset. Molly Barker visited Shippensburg University on March 1, to share her story about the creation of Girls on the Run, a nonprofit that serves thousands of girls across the country.


3/1/2016, 12:38pm

SU history club discusses nuclear utopias

The history club hosted its annual world history lecture Thursday, which featured the author of the book “Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters.” “I was interested in the origins of the nuclear state,” said Kate Brown, a professor of history at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In an attempt to obtain additional information for her book Plutopia, Brown traveled to Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia, to study the history of nuclear weapons manufacturing During the Cold War, U.S.


3/1/2016, 12:46am

Hill Harper motivates at H.O.P.E. celebration

Helping Our People Excel, H.O.P.E. was given to students as benefactors, committee members and scholarship recipients gathered in the Shippensburg University Tuscarora Room prior to Hill Harper’s lecture to celebrate the 31st annual program. The H.O.P.E.


3/1/2016, 12:33am

Students look to secure positions in Student Senate

Shippensburg University Student Senate elections began Monday, allowing students to vote for new members of the Executive Rules Committee (ERC) for the 2016-17 academic year. The annual election cycle began about three weeks ago when interested students filled out applications, and it will end over spring break with the announcement of the results.


3/1/2016, 12:28am

Commentary: Students lack input in Senate

If you ever look at your Shippensburg University student bill you will see a laundry list of services and fees you are being charged with by the hundreds of dollars. At the top of the list is something called an activity fee, which costs each student $264 every semester.


3/1/2016, 12:16am

Hard Work Pays Off

Shippensburg University’s club sport Kronum won the Target Case Competition and received a $1,000 check at the announcement ceremony on Friday in the Ceddia Union Building. “Hard work pays off,” said Devin Fisher, vice president of Kronum.


2/26/2016, 2:50pm

SU opens pantry for struggling students

Shippensburg University opened a food pantry on Feb. 7 in the Spiritual Center for all SU students as a result of the state budget impasse. The pantry provides free, nonperishable food items to SU students.


2/23/2016, 12:57pm

Shippensburg Borough considers installing trash interceptor in Middle Spring stream

Discussions to install a trash interceptor in the Middle Spring stream began Tuesday at the Shippensburg Borough Council meeting, but its members were reluctant to move forward until they could learn more about it. Blyden Potts, the acting president of the Middle Spring Watershed Association, said the organization along with volunteers pull 12 to 30 bags of trash from the stream every year, during the community's Stream Awareness Day.


2/23/2016, 12:46pm

Gas leak unites neighbors

First responders closed Richard Avenue for nearly an hour Saturday and at least two apartments were evacuated after the Vigilant Hose Co. received reports of a gas leak in the area.