NEWS

12/1/2014, 11:04pm

Breaking News: Robbery on Fort Street

By Mary Grace Keller

Shots rang out near 348 Fort St. as three suspects fled a robbery scene, campus police reported. The suspects are one Caucasian or Hispanic female and two African American males, believed to be around 20 years old. Suspects left the area in a black Explorer vehicle, according to campus police. Shippensburg University students received an SU Alert email at 10:09 p.m., warning them of the crime. Campus police urge students to be cautious and notify Shippensburg borough police at 717¬–532–7361 with any information regarding the robbery.

11/24/2014, 8:29pm

The Present is the Key to the Past

By Bekka Cuadro

In the dim lecture hall of Dauphin Humanities Center (DHC) room 151, Temple University professor Carolyn Kitch opened up on a light note, giving an explanation of why her hair was not in the right place. After teaching a journalism history class in Philadelphia, Kitch hopped in her car and drove straight to Shippensburg University.

11/17/2014, 9:34pm

Gaytheism: Queer survival in America

By Mary Grace Keller

Hunched over and scribbling in their notebooks in Dauphin Humanities Center (DHC) 051, students listened to English professor William Harris read from his newly published book, “Slouching Toward Gaytheism: Christianity and Queer Survival in America.”

11/17/2014, 9:34pm

New halls honored

By Troy Okum

Shippensburg University held a ribbon cutting ceremony, on Friday, Nov. 14, to signify the conclusion of the second phase of the residence hall housing project. The event was held in the lobby of Kieffer Hall at 4 p.m., where more than 50 students, administrators and others involved with the housing project attended. Several people spoke to the crowd, including Interim President Jody Harpster; B. Michael Schaul, chair of the SU Council of Trustees; and Nicholas Johnson, president of the Student Senate.

11/10/2014, 9:58pm

Standing out on campus

By Tyler Downey

How to improve college life for non-traditional students was the focus of a presentation last Thursday by Michael H.

11/10/2014, 9:57pm

SU students battle against cancer

By Mary Grace Keller

Removing a blue bandanna, Bekah Rundall revealed her shaved head. Rundall does not have cancer. Her older sister, Alicia, was a Four Diamonds patient who lost her life to cancer in high school.

11/10/2014, 9:55pm

Voting for Tom

By Marissa Merkt

Students across Shippensburg University campus exercised their rights as United States citizens and voted in the gubernatorial election on Tuesday, Nov.

11/10/2014, 9:52pm

Women’s institute holds leadership conference

By Bekka Cuadro

The Women’s Institute for Leadership and Learning (WILL) hosted its annual event in Dauphin Humanities Center (DHC) last Friday. Stephanie Erdice, director of the Shippensburg University Women’s Center, explained that the conference was created by a combination of the Women’s Center and women’s and gender studies staff and faculty.

11/10/2014, 9:51pm

Pulitzer Prize winner shares life with SU

By Laura Kreiser

Ron Suskind is known as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, as well as an author of several books on the American government, but he did not stop at Shippensburg University to talk solely about any of these topics.

11/3/2014, 9:52pm

Peace Corps recruiter shares her story of service in Ecuador

By Troy Okum

A stranger from a strange land stands in an Ecuadorian village tucked away in a rainforest. The community built a simple house for the newcomer to live in over the next two years. This is what happened to Rachel Brown in 2004 when she traveled to South America after volunteering for the Peace Corps. Brown, a field-based recruiter and former volunteer, visited Shippensburg University on Monday, Oct.

11/3/2014, 9:49pm

Dance lightly through life

By Mary Grace Keller

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

By Benjamin Anwyll

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

By Scott Hershberger

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