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.
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.
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.
America is the land of equal opportunity — it gives an equal opportunity for anything, good or bad, to happen.
“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.
On Saturday at approximately 2:30 p.m., firefighters arrived at 22 Deadend Lane to combat a brush fire that broke out in a local scrap yard.
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.
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.
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning until 7:30 p.m. via text message for the Shippensburg University area.
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.
The fate of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary may already be sealed a year before it kicks off.
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.
Enrollment is expected to go down in the next year, and in order to compensate for loss in revenue Student Senate will have to make budget cuts to some student groups and organizations.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel is listed as the second greatest British man — after Winston Churchill — however, very few Americans have heard of his great accomplishments.
A fire damaged a multi-unit building on the corner of Fayette and King Streets in Shippensburg Friday afternoon.
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.
Elections for 18 Student Senate positions at Shippensburg University kicked off yesterday via student email.
No more than five years ago, a young woman graduated from Shippensburg University, just like what many of us are trying to do.
Shippensburg University’s Investment Management Program (IMP) won first place for its hybrid investing portfolio at the Quinnipiac University Global Asset Management Education Forum in New York City. SU students presented a hybrid portfolio, which consists of bonds and primarily stocks.
Everybody wants to lead a life of significance. Some people do this through their careers, volunteer work or daily acts of kindness. Professor Jay Albanese from Virginia Commonwealth University challenged Shippensburg University students to live a life of significance by putting an end to human trafficking. Albanese came to SU as the keynote speaker for “The Effort Against Human Trafficking” event that the Criminal Justice Honors Society, Alpha Phi Sigma Pi, put on for criminal justice month. The Tuscarora Room of Reisner Hall was packed with students, faculty and other supporters on March 31.
