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Penn State Law’s Colombian Twins: Doubling Down on Issues of Social Justice
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Angelica and Indira Ricaurte Villalobos are twins and Fulbright scholars who are passionate about opportunities to work for greater justice, equity and peace in their violence-torn nation of Colombia and especially for their ethnic group, the Afro-Colombian people.
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Opinion: Differing Opinions Don’t Call for Shaming
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Is it so difficult to believe that people with different opinions exist that some writers feel justified in name-calling and shaming these people?
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When Penn State Football is 0-4, You Are What Your Record Says You Are
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In the final 6 minutes of its loss to Nebraska, Penn State’s offense got into the red zone twice. And it failed. Twice. Since Kirk Ciarrocca makes over $1 million and James Franklin over $6 million, I’d prefer to blame the plays that were called rather than the players not executing them.
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Penn State Football: What Going 1-0 Would Mean
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Penn State needs to go 1-0 this week vs. Nebraska. It’s not just coachspeak. It really (really!) needs a win.
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Opinion: A Time to Bask
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The word that seems to come up more than any other with regard to Joe Biden is decency. At any other time, that might sound like damning with faint praise. After four years of Trump, it’s manna from heaven.
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The Common Sense Mandate
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There you have it America, we have our mandate. We are, basically, split down the middle. Kind of what you would expect in a country of 331 million people. After days of feeling like Bill Murray’s character in “Groundhog Day,” we have our next President. Well, sort of. Now we have to wait for the legal…
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Penn State Football: Life on Dotson Island
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The man who wrote “No man is an island,” never met Jahan Dotson, who is single-handedly carrying a beleaguered Penn State offense on the field and calling out his teammates off it, warning them of loss-inducing “distractions.”
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State High Cross Country Runners Excel Despite Challenges
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Whatever the outcome is on Saturday, I know I will be proud of the young men I had the privilege to coach in my first season of being an assistant cross country coach.
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Penn State Football: Franklin & Locksley are Diversity Hiring Leaders
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As two of the 14 Black head coaches in the FBS, Penn State’s James Franklin and Maryland’s Mike Locksley, represent two of the most diverse programs in the Big Ten Conference — if not the country.
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Presidential Races Get the Attention, but State and Local Elections Deserve Your Energy Too
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In spite of all the bluster and hullabaloo over this and every presidential election, a friend recently noted to me that as far as money is concerned, when voting we should be just as concerned, if not more so, about statewide and local elections.