It is the same campus but with new people. It is reused pens and old, half-scribbled notebooks. It is a stack of textbooks that may or may not get read. It is the adventure that has not yet unfolded; the late nights that will surely pile up like fried food stacked onto Reisner plates. It is the final exam; it is the final year for many; it is the final first college semester for others.
Bags are unpacked, rooms are decorated and parents are long gone. The Shippensburg University Class of 2020 has arrived.
As first-year and transfer students trickled onto Shippensburg University’s campus for move-in on Wednesday, students of the Martin Luther King (MLK) Academic Retention Program were finishing up the last of their workshops of their three-day early orientation.
College is an exciting and unique environment in which individuals can be whoever they want to be and do whatever they please. As students finally reach the end of their high school years and receive their diplomas, the next step for some is pursuing a college career.
As first-year students looked through the list of events to attend, many decided the Career and Community Engagement Center’s (CCEC) Craft for a Cause was worth attending.
Thousands of visitors filled King Street on Saturday at one of Shippensburg’s most iconic events — Corn Festival. Many locals and Shippensburg University students helped with or attended the festival. As for the vendors, they were thrilled with the turnout.
A wad of spit comes flying through the air, landing smack dab in your face. On the other side of the gob stands an angry little girl.
One student’s passion began with Shippensburg University’s basic photography class, a rented camera and some advice from a wise and white-haired professor.
Standing behind a glass podium in front of an elegant stone wall with a large cross hanging, Pastor Christopher Faylor’s eyes dance and his body becomes animated as he speaks to his congregation about the grace of God.
As downtown Harrisburg undergoes many transformations in its bars and restaurants, the small historic area known as Shipoke offers its own new addition.
Eighteen middle school students got to experience a taste of college life at Shippensburg University on Saturday, April 30. The event, called “Ship Trip,” was hosted by SU’s Honors Program.
Kettle corn, hot dogs on the grill, coffee and the sounds of chatter as people threw Frisbees could be smelled and heard as students walked through The Quad on Thursday, April 27. Filled Up Sent Equipped (FUSE), along with the Coalition for Christian Outreach (CCO), set up Quad Fest and were the ones running everything from the grill to the cotton candy station. “FUSE loves our campus,” Andrew Thiel, president of FUSE, said. Thiel said that this event had been years in the making.
As finals roll around yet again for students at Shippensburg University, stress and anxiety builds within the students in anticipation of the heavy studying to come.
According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), approximately 29.1 million people have diabetes.
After 10 years as Shippensburg University’s Greek Life Adviser, Emilee Danielson-Burke, more commonly known among students as E-Dan, has accepted a new position and will be relocating at the end of this semester.
It is that time of the semester again, hours of cramming information into your brain trying to prepare for final exams.
Shippensburg University’s Delta Zeta held a corn hole tournament on Saturday, March 12 from 12- 4 p.m.
There are 21 freshly-shaven heads bobbing around the campus of Shippensburg University in honor of childhood cancer patients. The civic engagement committee of Housing and Residence Life organized a head-shaving event on April 19 to raise money for the St.
Rolling through life in someone else’s shoes for a day, I experienced first-hand the struggles that handicapped students have to face in order to receive a college education. Julie Price, of the Activities Program Board (APB), organized The Wheelchair Project so student leaders at Shippensburg University could spend one day in wheelchairs and gain insight on what people with handicaps go through.
It is that time of the semester again, hours of cramming information into your brain trying to prepare for final exams.
