NEWS


11/10/2014, 9:58pm

Standing out on campus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.