CAMPUS

Pennsylvania has been without a 2015–2016 budget since July, hindering students’ abilities to pay for college expenses.

1/25/2016, 8:28pm

SU to disburse funds despite budget impasse

By Troy Okum

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.

Health care

12/9/2015, 12:30pm

SU students host healthcare forum

By Troy Okum

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

By Christian Bahnweg

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.

Student Senate Secretary Trent Bauer serves food to the students.

11/23/2015, 9:12pm

Free meal feeds SU students affected by budget impasse

By Troy Okum

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.

Fitzgerald and Lewis (farthest left,standing) address the SU president’s cabinet members.

11/17/2015, 10:36am

Students take action against budget impasse

By Troy Okum

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.

Logo Price Match

11/17/2015, 10:33am

SU bookstore offers price match program

By Samantha Long

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.

Forensics 2

11/17/2015, 10:28am

SU hosts eight schools in forensics tournament

By Mary Grace Keller

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.