Dr. Manuel Ruiz, Vice President of Inclusion and Belonging, hosted Pedro Rivera, president of Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, to give a speech on the future of diversity on college campuses on Tuesday, September 20. Prior to joining the college, Rivera served as the Pennsylvania Secretary of State and served as chair of the board’s Council of Education.
The Pennsylvania mid-term election is held every two years, on the second Tuesday in November. Residents will vote on senators, congressional representatives, governor and many more positions.
Protests in Iran have been ongoing for nearly a week in response to the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, on Sept. 16.
Hurricane Fiona has caused major damage to the U.S. Territory of Puerto Rico, leaving many without power and water access days after passing through. Fiona moved slowly toward Puerto Rico but was only a Category 1 hurricane when it touched down last Sunday. Different parts of the island received anywhere from 6 to 30 inches of rain, with the southern part receiving the most rain. The rain also caused flooding in rivers across the island, with the Arecibo River rising 13 feet in one hour. The rises led to flash flooding and mudslides in certain areas with some regions measuring 25 inches of rain by Monday morning.
The world was shocked on Thursday, Sept. 8, when Queen Elizabeth II passed away at her Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Immediately upon her death, the throne was passed down to her son Prince Charles who became King Charles III.
Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine has been happening for over six months now, with no end in sight. However, Ukrainian forces have made significant gains on Russian territory in the northwest region of Kharkiv. In the past two weeks, Ukrainian forces have launched a similar counter-offensive in the southern Kherson region. When Russian forces moved south to combat this, the northern offensive pushed even harder.
Last Thursday, candidates gave their speeches for the Student Government Association (SGA) fall 2022 election. Four students addressed the audience and asked for their votes.
On Sept. 15, Shippensburg University’s Student Government Association (SGA) held a meeting in the Orndorff Theatre to discuss bus transportation for students, committee reports and to grant voting rights to committee members.
Your friends are not your friends if they don’t like you. That seems redundant, but I feel the need to say it anyway. I learned this lesson the hard way before coming to college, and it has reshaped the way I view my relationships with other people.
Since August, Pakistan has faced intense amounts of flooding unlike anything seen before in the nation’s history. It is described as a “crisis of unimaginable proportions” by Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s federal minister for climate change.
NASA delayed the Sept. 3 launch of Artemis I due to leaking issues with the fuel. The mission was delayed on the day of the launch as engineers noticed a leak when they started to fill the rocket’s fuel tanks. The leak in the fuel tank could emit hydrogen gas, which is a flammable substance and poses a threat to the safety of the mission. The pressure of the fuel lines was also altered while engineers were cooling the lines down to the temperature needed to store the hydrogen.
Members of the campus community gathered outside on Monday in remembrance of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. A brief ceremony was held outside of the Ezra Memorial Library.
On Monday, Sept. 5, Liz Truss was elected as the next Conservative prime minister of the United Kingdom. She is taking over after the three year administration of Boris Johnson, who stepped down as prime minister in July. Truss will now be entrusted with helping the U.K. recover from its worst economic downturn in decades. She is also the first prime minister to take office in a post-Brexit Britain.
Shippensburg University’s Student Government Association (SGA) held a meeting on Sept. 1 at which Vice President Kennedy Holt shared that elections are coming up and petitions to run were due on Sept. 2.
Student Government Association (SGA) President Andrew Hare stepped down from his position on August 23. The resignation was due to undisclosed personal reasons. Vice President of Finances Chase Slenker said that responsibilities are being shared among the other officers to better distribute the workload. Slenker will be speaking at the SGA Open House in place of the president.
The 14th annual criminal justice symposium was held in Old Main Chapel on Sept. 8. The topic of discussion was abortion, with the event being titled, “Overturning Roe v. Wade: Making Abortion a Crime.”
Starting my fourth and final year of my undergraduate degree at Shippensburg University has been a strange feeling.
On Friday, Aug. 26, at 3:26 p.m. a shelter-in-place alert was sent out to all Shippensburg University affiliated persons via text and email. The alert was sent after the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) initiated a manhunt following a police incident near the Roxbury Treatment Center, which is approximately 1.7 miles from the campus of SU.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), as well as the top medical adviser to the U.S. president, announced that he will be stepping down from his positions in December after nearly five decades of service.
One week before student loan payments were set to resume after the pandemic pause, President Joe Biden cancelled student debt for millions of Americans. Biden also plans to extend the payment pause for another four months. The debt cancellation only applies to graduates who make under $125,000 a year or households who make less than $250,000 a year. Graduates who applied for the Pell Grant can now have up to $20,000 in loans forgiven, and other loan recipients can be forgiven for up to $10,000.
