After four years of hard work and dedication at Shippensburg University, senior Lavell Simpkins was named a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow. Simpkins is one of 201 people to be named a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow by Campus Compact.
Rinku Sen did not always identify as a woman of color. When her family came from India to the United States when she was a young girl, Sen felt like she stood out in school.
During the first week of college students face orientation. A lot of fun happens, but a lot of touchy subjects are brought up as well — alcohol, drugs, domestic violence and sexual assault. Generally, people try not to think about the last two, but these incidents do occur.
Run to work, attend class, complete homework, socialize with friends — repeat. College students have to become masters of this multitasking routine, but there are ways to lighten the load. Scholarships are a godsend for some students, and the annual Spirit of Generosity Scholarship and Loan Dinner is a way to recognize scholarship recipients and their benefactors.
“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” goes Samuel Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The English poem is about three sailors stuck at sea, who are all dying of thirst, but the only water they can find is the ocean’s plentiful and undrinkable salt water. These sailors are not alone as people around the world are facing water shortages and often have little option other than to drink contaminated water, if it is available at all.
Multicultural Student Affairs (MSA) held a “Rally for Retention” on March 26, in the Ceddia Union Building. The rally, which is an event to inspire students to succeed academically, featured speakers, an award ceremony and refreshments.
While Shippensburg University students were relaxing on spring break, a courageous cluster of Geography and Earth Science Organization (GESO) students were knee-deep in the brackish wetlands of the Chincoteague Bay, swinging machetes. After classes let out on Friday, March 6, 18 GESO students crowded into vans for a four-hour drive down to the Chincoteague Bay Field Station in Virginia. This year’s team, armed with machetes and weed-wackers, were set on weeding out as much Phragmite grass as they could from a designated area of Chincoteague Bay wetlands. Phragmite grass is a big problem for biodiversity in the Chincoteague area.
Walking alone and in the dark, a 63-year-old man emerged on the edge of Shippensburg on March 16.
East versus West. Capitalism versus communism. The space race and the nuclear arms race.
Dominic Giovanniello has been elected to serve as Shippensburg University’s Student Senate president.
The brand new app, Yik Yak, that hit the market just last year has made a huge splash in college campuses across the nation.
Four vehicles were towed from the parking lot of the Our Lady of Visitation Church, located on North Prince Street, in the past week.
More than a dozen local residents sat down with U.S. Senate candidate Joe Sestak at the Wheel House Café in Shippensburg Tuesday morning to hear about his plan to improve emergency services in the commonwealth.
Nearly one year ago, the Women’s Center, and Shippensburg University as a whole, adopted the NO MORE campaign to take a stand against domestic violence and sexual assault.
Eager ears filled Orndorff Theater on Thursday, Feb. 26, ready to learn how to become a successful leader.
Student Senate had its annual executive board candidate speeches on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in the Red Zone in the Ceddia Union Building.
Students and professors hung on to every word as Professor Nicole Santalucia performed her poems for a packed lecture hall in the Dauphin Humanities Center at Shippensburg University last Thursday afternoon.
Wil Haygood sat in front of the students in a simple black suit, pale blue shirt, yellow tie and black Oxford shoes on Thursday evening in the Luhrs Performing Arts Center.
Stretching through two Canadian territories and three U.S. states, the Keystone XL pipeline, if approved, would have the ability to import more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day to the American heartland from a Canadian oil depot, according to TransCanada Corp.
Hands shot into the air at the town hall meeting Tuesday night, following the trajectory that tuition prices at Shippensburg University may be heading — up.
