Abington Activities – Lion Productions
Joseph Handlin Lion Productions is an organization on campus that works to provide lighting, sound, and videos for various events… Continue Reading Abington Activities – Lion Productions
Culture
Pivoting: In the Age of Corona
Brianna Cover
COVID-19 has slowed job growth, and according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has left 25% of United States workers without income. Continue Reading Pivoting: In the Age of Corona
Abington Activities – The Abington Review
Joe Handlin
Say a student wanted to write their own story. Maybe there’s this really cool thing they’d like to photograph. Perhaps there is even a cool piece of artwork they’ve been sitting on for a while. The campus literary and arts publication, the Abington Review, offers students a place to potentially publish any photography, artwork, or written work they might produce. Continue Reading Abington Activities – The Abington Review
Linda Miller and Her Life with Literature
Samhi C.
Dr. Miller, or Miss Miller, as I am fond of calling her from my time in two of her classes, is a Hemingway fan, avid reader, researcher, writer, and professor. Her insights into literature impact a number of students every year, but they transcend the literary realm and apply to real life and real opportunities. Continue Reading Linda Miller and Her Life with Literature
5 Local Historic Museums to Visit
Brianna DiMaio
As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Instead of making history, we are made by history.” History from the past is a subject that humanity needs to learn and adapt from in order to develop an understanding of the world; of society, and how it came to be. Take Covid-19. For instance, in 10-20 years from now, Penn State Students will be reading about this pandemic in updated history textbooks that the future generation will be learning about. Every single day of someone’s life, they make history happen, whether it may be small or big. Either way, as time goes on, those moments become the past, making it history. But, how does an international or out-of-state student learn about the historic state that they attend college in? Well, Penn State students attending college in Pennsylvania can visit some of Pennsylvania’s local historic museums. Continue Reading 5 Local Historic Museums to Visit
The Abington Dance Company: A Chance to Perform
Samhi C
For years, the Abington campus has offered advanced dance courses geared towards a dance company setting, getting the students ready for an end of the semester performance. But as the curtains were being drawn on this opportunity, Abington’s dance instructor, Scott Park, wished to open them back up. Continue Reading The Abington Dance Company: A Chance to Perform
Still as Sharp as Steel: ‘80s Rockers Still Going Strong
John Mitchell
These past two weeks have certainly been a busy one for the music world, with the release of new albums by two of the most popular artists of our time: Kanye West and Drake. But what many people may have missed amidst all the uproar over the two rap/hip-hop moguls was that on the same day that Drake released his new album, English heavy metal band Iron Maiden unleashed their seventeenth studio album, titled Senjutsu (roughly translated from Japanese as “tactics and strategy”). But after a whopping 46 years and seventeen studio albums, how does this new material hold up? Can any band manage to sustain both their commercial appeal and their creative energy for more than four decades? Continue Reading Still as Sharp as Steel: ‘80s Rockers Still Going Strong
A Legacy of Uncertainty
Ryan Shea
The Matt Groening cartoon “The Simpsons” has been the longest-running cartoon in history, and has shaped the foundation of multiple generations with its relatively realistic satirization of society through the usage of identifiable characters. However, in 2017, one of the characters, the Kwik-E-Mart shopkeeper Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, ended up coming under scrutiny for allegedly being a negative stereotypical portrayal of Indian ethnicity, and this controversy has since resurfaced. Continue Reading A Legacy of Uncertainty
Why Lil Nas X Is Being Sued over “Satan Shoes”
Cristian Rodriguez
Over the past week there’s been an abundance of controversy surrounding Montero Hill, commonly known as the rapper Lil Nas X, with one of the latest incidents being the custom made Nike Air Max 97 “Satan Shoes.” Continue Reading Why Lil Nas X Is Being Sued over “Satan Shoes”
