CAMPUS


1/25/2016, 8:29pm

Senior student takes initiative, starts charity

Most full-time students are thinking about how to pass classes and have a social life. However, one undergraduate biology major is thinking about a board of executives, a mission statement, and a uniqueness—all things needed for the initial stages of a nonprofit organization. After interning with a third-party patient advocate service, Connect Care 3, a Shippensburg University student is taking what he learned to start up a new nonprofit organization. Alex “Bard” Lombardo is in the beginning stages of creating a non-profit that raises funds to help those with cancer pay for insurance premiums, medications and other hefty cost that come with the treatments.


1/25/2016, 8:28pm

SU to disburse funds despite budget impasse

Shippensburg University announced in January that it will be fronting money to students who are still awaiting their grants from the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) and that PHEAA is expected to disburse funds in several weeks. PHEAA’s website states that it is reviewing the governor and General Assembly’s actions before processing any money. “Rest assured, we are working diligently to disburse award funds as quickly as we can,” the website states.


12/9/2015, 12:30pm

SU students host healthcare forum

With the presidential primaries two months away, Shippensburg University students gathered in Orndorff Theatre to discuss the nature of healthcare in the U.S.


12/5/2015, 11:30am

Transgender people kept out of bathrooms

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.


11/23/2015, 9:12pm

Free meal feeds SU students affected by budget impasse

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.


11/17/2015, 10:36am

Students take action against budget impasse

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.