NEWS


11/3/2014, 9:49pm

Dance lightly through life

How long could you last in a fight? Five minutes, 10 minutes maybe? What if that fight was for your life? Shippensburg University’s Mini-THON challenges SU students to raise their fists in the fight against pediatric cancer this Friday, Nov.


11/3/2014, 9:43pm

The ‘stache’ is back

Brace yourselves: Moustache Mania has hit Shippensburg University. Call them what you will: lip doilies, cookie dusters, soup strainers, or simply ‘staches,’ these caterpillars will soon be crawling all over campus. The craze started when SU students Todd Hayes, Ravone Cornish, David Stein and the Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) hosted “Shave the Date” this past Wednesday, Oct.


10/29/2014, 5:02pm

Coming home to SU

Sunny skies, warm temperatures and fall foliage created a perfect setting for this past weekend’s homecoming celebration.


10/27/2014, 10:39pm

Take the plunge

A blue thread snaked almost 900 feet below the New River Gorge Bridge as people catapulted themselves into the air, some scrunching into flips before floating to the ground with billowing parachutes.


10/27/2014, 10:24pm

Board of Governors approves new degree program for SU

Shippensburg University students will have a new option in the fall semester of 2015 as the Board of Governors just approved the first electrical engineering degree program. The electrical engineering degree will be the first one offered in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). SU already has had two series of engineering programs introduced in recent years.


10/27/2014, 6:25pm

Tables full of jobs

Rows of more than 100 tables sit in ShipRec waiting for students interested in possible internships and careers. This Monday, Oct.


10/15/2014, 3:37pm

Candidates for Student Senate President deliver speeches

Fourteen days after Michelle Bradley resigned from the office of Student Senate president, four candidates rose from the student body to run for the open seat. The candidates delivered their speeches and fielded questions from the audience in McFeely’s on Thursday, Oct.


10/13/2014, 12:01pm

Burgers and Ballots

Students lined up under the shadow of a giant, inflatable Rosie the Riveter to grab some free food and talk about the upcoming election. Pennsylvania’s American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) held a “Burgers and Ballots” event outside of Reisner Hall on Friday, Oct.


10/7/2014, 10:01pm

Student Senate president resigns

Michelle Bradley, the president of Student Senate, resigned on Thursday, Sept. 25, during a closed caucus meeting. She resigned after physical and mental stress, related to injuries from a car accident, hindered her ability to fulfill her responsibilities as president, Bradley said.


10/7/2014, 9:57pm

Correction

On Tuesday, Oct. 7 an article titled, “Student Senate president resigns” was published in The Slate.


9/30/2014, 12:18am

Helping hands in Harrisburg

The people on the outside are stingy — they keep their wealth for themselves. This is the type of attitude that develops among some of the homeless, Sue Rudy, CEO of Silence of Mary Home in Harrisburg, said. When people volunteer their time and show compassion, it lets the homeless know that others actually care. Catholic Campus Ministries (CCM) and Shippensburg University students from Karen Johnson’s and Laurie Cella’s basic writing classes went to Harrisburg on Saturday to do just that. Rudy and her husband Vern own four homes in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, that homeless people can stay at when they are struggling.