Voters in Houston, Texas struck down a city law on Nov. 3 that protected LGBT people and others from discrimination. The repeal effort was headed by conservatives who alleged that transgender women were not real women and were, in fact, straight men that were using the law in order to go into bathrooms and peek at girls.
As part of an effort to combat the effects of the state budget impasse, Shippensburg University’s Activities Program Board (APB) held a dinner and movie night in the Ceddia Union Building on Thursday. Students were invited out for a free meal and a night of entertainment to take their mind off of their financial problems.
“To stand as a light in the darkness,” said Rev. Janice Bye, Shippensburg University's campus minister, as she led the vigil in remembrance of the attacks in Paris.
Shippensburg University students, faculty and local Shippensburg community members joined five panelists in the Tuscarora Room on Nov.
Four Shippensburg University professors held a public round table discussion in the Ceddia Union Building (CUB) on Nov.
Shippensburg University students showed up in droves at the Ceddia Union Building on Monday evening to get a free meal that was offered to students who are struggling financially because of the state budget impasse. The Pennsylvania budget is nearly five months late, leaving SU students without their state grants.
Shippensburg University students packed into the Grove Forum on Nov. 12 to learn about the successes and shortcomings of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in a lecture led by Richard Scotch of the University of Texas at Dallas.
Shippensburg University administrators offered a meeting to six students who unexpectedly showed up to the President’s Cabinet Meeting on Monday, to ask for help to protest Pennsylvania’s ongoing budget impasse. SU student Kayshaun Fitzgerald took action with his classmates and asked SU administrators to support them in putting pressure on legislators to pass a budget.
The Shippensburg University bookstore, managed by Follett Corp., announced that a new price match program has begun to helps students save money on course materials. The program is designed to keep the cost of textbooks and other course materials at a lower rate so students can use their funds for other materials they may need, according to a Follett press release.
The mention of forensics usually causes one to think of fingerprints and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” but to the students who competed in the Collegiate Forensics Association (CFA) Holiday Tournament, it means something completely different — acting, public speaking and debating. College students from Virginia, Florida, Pennsylvania and West Virginia took over classrooms in the Dauphin Humanities Center at Shippensburg University on Friday and Saturday to compete in 14 events for the holiday tournament.
A. Newbold “Newbie” Richardson, a material cultures historian, presented a lecture at Shippensburg University’s Rowland Hall on Thursday to students and community members about the history of material crafts in the U.S.
The City of Light grew dark over the weekend in the wake of the worst terrorist attack to strike any Western nation in more than a decade, leaving the question of war on everyone’s minds. As the Eiffel Tower’s golden lights were kept off to mourn the scores of dead civilians, metropolises from Sydney, Australia, to New York City illuminated their landmarks in blue, white and red to show their solidarity with France. The massacre in Paris that left at least 127 people dead and injured more than 350 sent shockwaves across Europe, causing heightened security and a distant sound of beating war drums.
The South Mountain Partnership finished off its 2015 speakers series at Shippensburg University on Thursday with “Living on the Wind: Tracking Northern Saw-Whet Owls Migrating Along South Mountain.” Award-winning author and natural historian Scott Weidensaul presented research on North America’s smallest owl, the saw-whet owl, to SU students and the local community in Memorial Auditorium. The night began with short presentations by Katie Hess, director of South Mountain Partnership; Cindy Adams Dunn, secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; and Nathan Thomas, associate professor of biology at SU. The presenters had the same message — conserving the environment. “By being here tonight you are a part of [the conservation legacy],” Dunn said. The South Mountain Partnership includes parts of Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and York counties.
A solemn silence filled the normally exuberant halls of Shippensburg University’s Ceddia Union Building (CUB) on Nov.
Like a ship with no wind in its sails, the driving force to desegregate public schools — to provide equal opportunity to minority and white students — is evaporating in the sea of apathy. More than 60 years after the U.S.
As Shippensburg University’s non-traditional student week wrapped up on Thursday, Mary Hillanbrand, a teacher at Uniformed Services University, led a lecture titled, “The Journey of a Lifetime” that discussed aspects of being a non-traditional student. “Whether you are a traditional student or nontraditional student, you are here,” Hillanbrand said. Often, society sees life like a giant board game and assumes that one moves to the college space after they complete high school.
After Student Senate’s near-unanimous vote to approve the Campus Media Board bylaws on Thursday, communication/journalism students will have greater control of their funding in the next fiscal year. Campus Media Board is an organization that houses the five media organizations at Shippensburg University: Cumberland Yearbook, Public Relations Student Society of America, The Slate, SUTV and radio station WSYC.
A technologist of the American Civil Liberties Union visited Shippensburg University on Wednesday to discuss the privacy and freedoms available in today’s digital age, as well as what information can be accessed by the government. Christopher Soghoian, a former employee of the U.S.
“Dumb jock,” “retarded,” “Oreo” — these are the words many young people use in their everyday language, without considering the impact they can cause.
