Student Senate elections leave little room for choice
ByElections for 18 Student Senate positions at Shippensburg University kicked off yesterday via student email.
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.
A poetic experience overtook Old Main Chapel on March 31 for students, faculty and the public. As a part of the 2015 Taggart Reading series, poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan visited Shippensburg University to share her work.
“Disability and incarceration in the United States and Canada” will be this year’s subject for the Disabilities Study lecture in Old Main, Room 206, on April 13.
Vikram Gandhi, a filmmaker and correspondent for VICE News, made a stop by Old Main Chapel on Wednesday, April 1, to tell his story and discuss the quickly evolving world of the millennial generation. Gandhi discussed the concept of do-it-yourself (DIY) journalism, his story of once being an aspiring filmmaker, right out of college, with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies and what he decided to do after college, which led him to this moment. After college, Gandhi filmed a documentary where he pretended to be a spiritual healing guru.
Tonight, Shippensburg University’s Women’s Center will be hosting its annual “Take Back the Night” (TBTN) event in the Ceddia Union Building multipurpose room. TBTN was started over half a century ago in Europe.
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.