NEWS


5/1/2015, 10:15pm

Cosmologist speaks about black holes

Many Shippensburg University students and local residents filled the seats of the Luhrs Performing Arts Center and watched SU president George “Jody” Harpster open the lecture by introducing Janna Levin. Levin presented her thoughts and findings concerning black holes at Luhrs on April 22.


4/29/2015, 2:57pm

Institutional racism examined in poetry

Shippensburg University professor of English Michael Bibby gave a lecture on April 9, about his research into the identification of institutional racism involving the literary modernism movement.


4/27/2015, 9:43pm

Earth Day gets new purpose

From Shippensburg to Vatican City, people around the world of every ethnicity, class and creed united to celebrate Earth Day 2015 to promote awareness of the primary concerns facing humanity — concerns that go far beyond pollution and climate change.


4/27/2015, 9:38pm

Per-credit tuition may not come to SU

Harrisburg — In an effort to increase the funding of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), the tuition rate for state universities may not increase, reported Pennlive.com.


4/27/2015, 9:34pm

Student Senate streamlines athletic’s budget

The Shippensburg University 2014-2015 Student Senate convened for the last time on April 23, to vote on the budgets for SU’s student organizations and to swear in the next academic year’s senate members.


4/27/2015, 9:29pm

PASSHE chancellor to speak at SU graduation

Hundreds of graduating members of the class of 2015 will fill the field of Seth Grove Stadium at Shippensburg University on May 9 to receive their diplomas and words of wisdom from the keynote speaker — Frank Brogan.


4/21/2015, 12:32am

Social work students rally in the state capitol

Numbering in the hundreds, members and supporters of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) rallied in the rotunda of the state capitol building on April 14, to advocate for new laws to license and protect social workers. More than 60 Shippensburg University students and professors from the social work department attended the event.


4/21/2015, 12:18am

Hate crime symposium brings new perspectives to students

“An act of violence against one is an act of violence against many,”  professor Jayleen Galarza said, setting a tone for the ninth annual Criminal Justice Symposium. Previous years have focused on topics such as rap music and racial profiling, but this year Stephanie Jirard, the event’s moderator, was motivated by a story she heard about a Nevada rancher’s retaliation against the government.    In March 2014, the government seized Cliven Bundy’s livestock for grazing on government land, which caused armed protestors to face off with authorities.


4/21/2015, 12:11am

Connecting the dots: Disability and prison

As the sun was beaming through the stained glass windows of Old Main Chapel at Shippensburg University, a group of passionate professors gathered to discuss their new book, which is about imprisonment and disabilities in the U.S.


4/21/2015, 12:00am

Student uncovers truth about Fair Trade coffee

An undergraduate student presented a lecture about the little known facts of the Fair Trade coffee movement on April 15, in the Dauphin Humanities Center at Shippensburg University. Julia Saintz, who is double majoring in geo-environmental studies and history at SU, received the Rich-Peirce Grant to conduct her honors capstone project, which she presented on for the coffee lecture. Saintz visited Colombia and learned first-hand about fair trade coffee bean farms.  She saw about 11 to 15 farms in South America and learned a lot of information about how fair trade is not entirely as fair as many Americans think. There were several professors and approximately three-dozen students in attendance to listen to what she had learned in Colombia.


4/14/2015, 1:41pm

Students discuss drug policy with expert

A former employee of the Office of National Drug Control Policy within the White House told Shippensburg University students about the dangers of legalizing marijuana in terms of it being an international issue, as well as a personal one. Stephen R.


4/14/2015, 1:18pm

Heroin takes life of SU graduate

The orange T-shirts read, “Two hearts...one soul,” but dozens of hearts felt the loss of Shippensburg University graduate, Brooke Chantel Fiorentino. At age 26, Fiorentino lost her life to a heroin overdose on Feb.


4/7/2015, 11:11pm

Take Back the Night Rally remembers survivors

The unlit candles glinted white in the night, clutched in students’ hands as they marched in support against sexual violence. Their culminating voices chanted so that one blended into the next and rose into the night as a unifying force. Laughter mixed with the sadness as they walked the walk, not of victims, but of victors taking back what was stolen.