Columns
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100 Days Until Penn State’s Season Opener: Who Has the Nittany Lions as No. 1?
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It’s 100 days until Penn State embarks on its 136th season of college football, when the Nittany Lions host Nevada on Aug. 30 in a Beaver Stadium that will be […]
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Ephraim McKenzie Steps Into Father’s Shoes as Pastor of State College’s Unity Church
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A shift in pastoral leadership can be as unsettling to a church congregation as a transition from one ship’s captain to another. But when Unity Church of Jesus Christ in […]
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Op-Ed: May No Act of Ours Bring Shame
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I once served as a member of Penn State’s Board of Trustees. For 12 years. From 1988 to 2000. That seems like a long time ago. But it has been […]
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Today’s Challenges vs. Tomorrow’s Dreams: A Call for Defiant Optimism
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On July 2, 1862 this nation was at war for its very existence. The Union Army was retreating from a campaign to capture Richmond. Victory was far from certain. On […]
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A Nod to Nonnas
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How many different names do you know for grandmother? I did a quick search on the internet (for this column I used “The Bump”) and it came up with hundreds […]
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Hang in There, Class of 2025!
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You’d never know from all the happy faces at commencement on Saturday how anxious the Class of 2025 is. I know because all 19 students in my Editorial, Opinion and […]
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A Spring of Momentous Happenings in Centre County
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There have been a lot of momentous things happening lately here in Happy Valley! One of those was that last week PennDOT announced its recommendation for where the long-debated U.S. […]
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The Baseball World Is Going Bananas
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They are billed as “The Greatest Show in Sports.” They were featured recently on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” They have a 10-game broadcast deal with ESPN networks. They have played in […]
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Masterful Mom Who Triumphed Over Tragedy Earns ‘Mother of the Year’ Recognition
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Life must have seemed very sweet and very full to Jane Linsky as she began her day on June 26, 1959. She and her husband, Penn State professor Chester Linsky, […]
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Candy Is Dandy, but Keeping Your Student Visa Is Sweeter
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In my campus mailbox last week I found a sandwich bag filled with “fun size” packs of Skittles and Laffy Taffy. They weren’t for me, as an unsigned message, handwritten […]