Jonathan Bergmueller Editor-in-Chief
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Your World Today: Four changes Shippensburg University must make to protect students' freedoms
Although Shippensburg University has made many strides toward achieving transparency that should not be discounted, I feel there are several issues the administration has not yet addressed that need to be resolved as it moves forward into a new post-pandemic academic year.
The Slate reflects on a successful 2019-2020 academic year
We are at the end of another year, and a new team is about to take over and lead The Slate. They take the place of a departing generation of veterans of which I am a member.
Your World Today: Deception during #ReOpenRallies dangerous, unacceptable
The #ReOpen rallies that occurred this past week are prime examples of the corruption present within the modern conservative American movement.
Shippensburg University officials predict university losses between $10-12 million due to pandemic
Where do you find the money to offset a pandemic? That’s the million-dollar question Shippensburg University is faced with as it reels from the hits the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has delivered to its metaphorical abdomen: Students.
Washington renounces student trustee position to help students as SGA president
“If you see something that needs help or needs assistance, you can either be the bystander and sit there and say ‘Oh, that’s unfortunate,’ or you can step in and do something about it,” said junior Stephen Washington.
Anti-shutdown protesters urge Gov. Wolf to re-open Pennsylvania
Amid a national wave of protests against mandatory closures of schools and businesses, thousands of Pennsylvanians gathered on the steps of the Harrisburg Capitol building Monday at noon.
Your World Today: An open letter to whomever is not yet self-quarantining:
It has been a month since the first cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus cropped up in the state of Pennsylvania. When I originally wrote this column Sunday evening, I stated "Since March 7, 11,510 citizens tested positive for the virus, while 152 have died." Now, Tuesday afternoon, I have to change those numbers because 14,559 Pennsylvanians have tested positive and 240 have died.
Wolf extends stay-at-home order to entirety of Pennsylvania
Gov. Tom Wolf placed all 67 Pennsylvania counties under a “stay-at-home” order on Wednesday in response to the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus throughout the state.
Shippensburg University will partially refund students for housing, other services; not tuition
Shippensburg University officials announced Friday the university will offer partial refunds on a number of services for which students pay.
Wolf orders “not life-sustaining” businesses to close
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has ordered all businesses that are not “life-sustaining” to close by 8 p.m. Thursday.
