10/1/2024, 12:00pm

Election Update: 35 days to Election Day Nov. 5

With just over a month left until election day, both candidates continue to campaign in battleground states in a tight presidential race.  According to national polling data from the New York Times, Vice President Harris holds a small lead over Trump in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada. In North Carolina, Georgia and Arizona, Trump is leading by an equally small margin. Neither candidate holds more than a three percentage point lead over their opponent in each battleground state.

9/25/2024, 11:27am

Candidates for Student Government share their visions for campus

Following the Shippensburg University Student Government Association (SGA) meeting held on Thursday, Sept. 19, four prospective SGA senators gave their speeches in McFeely’s in the CUB at 5 p.m. Three of the senator candidates are running to represent the Class of 2028. The fourth is running to represent the Class of 2025.

9/25/2024, 11:23am

SGA approves changes to Budget & Finance standing rules

Shippensburg University’s Student Government Association (SGA) approved changes to its Budget and Finance Committee (B&F) standing rules at its meeting last week.  The amendments to the rules include the addition of a special funding request process that will allow groups to request additional funds to supplement their budget. The committee allocated $120,000 to the fund after SU President Charles Patterson approved a student activity fee increase at the end of the budget process last year. 

9/24/2024, 12:14pm

SGA Corner: September Update

The Student Government Association (SGA) is happy to be running at full steam on campus once again and would like to announce some upcoming opportunities for the student body, as well as report on recent successes. 

9/17/2024, 11:15am

Your World Today Commentary: Wanting a change

As I sit here and write about the upcoming few months, I am reminded of the importance behind wanting a change. It’s easy to want a specific change, but it’s harder to make it happen.  I use journalism as a way to introduce a change. I obviously cannot do it by myself, but I believe that if more people used their voices, change would be much more possible. 

9/17/2024, 11:15am

Faculty voice frustration with rollout of university period product initiative

“It’s free. Period.” Walk into any women’s or all-gender restroom on campus this semester, and you will now be welcomed by that tagline. Announced by SU News on Aug. 12, free period products are now available campus-wide. The announcement of SU’s new initiative was brief — a press release of just over 200 words — but the fight for free menstrual products and gender equity on campus has been long.

9/17/2024, 11:15am

Election Update: 49 Days to Election Day

As the presidential race enters its final seven weeks, both campaigns have been spending a lot of time in the Keystone State. Pennsylvania is among several battleground states that will decide the outcome of the 2024 presidential election with its 19 electoral college votes. 

9/10/2024, 3:45pm

Your World Today Commentary: Being Humble

The start of a new school year is hard. It is not hard in the way that classes are strenuous, assignments are brutal or the balance between school and life is impossible. It is hard in the way that we, as students, almost forget what it is like to practice our core values when a new year develops.

9/6/2024, 10:25pm

Live Like Levi - Maciejewski remembered at service

8/27/2024, 2:30pm

Election update: 70 days to go

Pennsylvania is slated to be a primary battleground state as the 2024 general election continues to heat up. Quite a lot has changed over the summer, transforming the race into one that would have been unrecognizable a few months ago.  

8/27/2024, 2:30pm

Your World Today: My promise to you

One way or another, another summer has ended, and we are back in the routine of the fall semester. This time of year is always full of excitement across campus with new changes, new faces and the promise of a new academic year in front of us.  One of the most exciting changes for me is that I am beginning my senior year as The Slate’s Editor-in-Chief for the next academic year. As EIC, I want to address our readers directly and lay out my promises of what you can expect from our organization over the coming months. 

5/9/2024, 11:47am

SGA swears in new officers, approves 24-25 budget

4/30/2024, 12:00pm

‘That is Resistance’: Lecturer on Palestinian endurance

“Like the cactus, they can demolish the stones, but the roots stay and will come back up.”  This was one of many thought-provoking statements said by James Zogby, chair of the DNC Ethnic Council, in Stewart Hall on Monday, April 22. Zogby’s speech, which was part of the International Studies department’s annual lecture program, focused on the Palestinian culture of resistance both before and after the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza.