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Are You Ready for Grand Experiment 2?
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Nothing came of it, but during a kaffeeklatsch I attended in Holmes-Foster Park last week (don’t worry, each of us had his own picnic table), somebody proposed a betting pool: How long until Penn State tells its students to “pack up?” I use quotation marks because the sloganeers in Old Main hope slapping “Mask…
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We Are All Educators
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It does not matter if you are a teacher, professor, administrator, technician, custodian, nurse, cafeteria staff, bus driver, coach, parent, a neighbor, or even a student yourself. We are all educators. We all teach life lessons every day.
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An Epic Title Fight
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Eleven years ago when we purchased the RV, PennDOT did not record a lien on it. Consequently when it was recently paid off and we expected the title in the mail – which should have been mailed the next business day according to PennDOT — they did not send us one, meaning we couldn’t finalize…
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The Avid Gardener: Using Native Plants
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The trend seems to be heavily favoring natives, mainly for their draw for pollinators and beneficial insects. This, to me, seems a good thing. However, native plants are not maintenance free. They will get bugs and diseases. Spent foliage will have to be cut down and its spread managed because some
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Don’t Blame College Players for Opting Out of the Season of COVID-19
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If you were a major-college football player facing the season of COVID-19, would you opt-out this year?
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Nature’s Ways: The Long-Lived Eastern Box Turtle
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A gray squirrel or cottontail rabbit would be lucky to see its second birthday. A white-tailed deer is very old at age 10, and a rare black bear lives to 20. However, eastern box turtles can have a long lifespan — very long. Although no one knows exactly how long, many box turtles live to…
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How to Vote by Mail – and How Not to
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I like voting in person. I like bumping into neighbors at the polling place and schmoozing with the cheery volunteers who sign me in and hand me my ballot. This year, though, fearful that coronavirus will not miraculously vanish by Election Day, I’ve arranged to vote by mail.
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Back on the Ice, the Right Way
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We pulled it off. We completed two weeks of summer hockey camp in Sun Valley, Idaho in spite of the coronavirus. How did this happen? Great leadership, research, planning, compliance, collaboration, and a dose of courage.
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Following NCAA Ruling, Penn State Has A Chance To Do The Right Thing
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It has never been good business to bring politics into sports. And as the NCAA ruled in favor of allowing athletes to wear social justice patches or even change the name on their uniforms for a message, the inevitable uproar arrived right on schedule in reply to nearly every Facebook and Twitter pos
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Looking Back on 25 (or 28) Years of Teaching at Penn State
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Somewhere deep in my personnel file at Penn State, is the date of August 5, 2020. That’s the day I hit 25 years. In just a few days, I will celebrate working at Penn State University for a quarter of a century. It’s actually 28 years, but who’s counting?