SHIP LIFE


10/26/2015, 11:21pm

Star gazing at the Dibert-Roddick Planetarium

The planetarium was lit with an orange glow as people shuffled in and sat down. Their eyes were pointed toward the domed ceiling Thursday night at Franklin Science Center in the Dibert-Roddick Planetarium. Allen Armstrong, a physics professor of Shippensburg University, hosted the planetarium show for the third time.


10/15/2015, 5:58pm

Students pied for a good cause

Students threw whipped cream pies all around the CUB Amphitheater Thursday, Oct. 8 all in support of a good cause. Shippensburg University’s 2015 Homecoming Court has spent the past three weeks fundraising as a part of their campaigns for king and queen.


10/12/2015, 2:17pm

Creeping fingers of fall

Your alarm wakes you up at 7:30 in the morning and — after lying in bed like a potato, contemplating just giving up — you reluctantly slide out of bed and start preparing for the day.


10/6/2015, 9:02pm

Free To Be Me celebrates first year as SU organization

A first birthday celebration had never been so eccentric and glamourous. Rainbow whoopee pies, balloons and tablecloths created the colorful atmosphere for an even more colorful night on the way in the Ceddia Union Building’s multi-purpose room on Friday, Oct.


10/6/2015, 8:59pm

Student shows off pottery skills with exhibit

It’s 10 p.m. on a Thursday night. Many students are hunkered over their textbooks or hitting the bars, but Harley Weigle is in the art building arched over a pottery wheel shaping and reshaping clay as he visualizes the form of his next creation. Weigle, a junior, is a practicing ceramicist studying art and business at Shippensburg University, but his interest in the field goes all the way back to high school.


10/6/2015, 8:46pm

Deciding a major, discovering a career

She wrote creative stories when she was 10, took Advanced Placement English courses in high school and enrolled in college as a psychology major, but graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology — along with minors in physics, chemistry, philosophy and religion. Like many students, Cindy Murray, undeclared academic advisor and learning specialist, had to figure out what majors and minors were right for her.


9/28/2015, 9:43pm

Students visit Saudi Arabia without leaving SU

Like a reed swaying in a current, Mohammed Alhrbi, graduate student and member of the Saudi Arabian Club, swayed to the Saudi music — his white, floor-length robe brighter than his broad smile under the hot sun Thursday afternoon.