NEWS


4/18/2016, 11:17pm

Organizer helps students gain perspective

“What are you thankful for?” This is the question that educator and community organizer Lori Harris always starts her speeches with, like at Shippensburg University on April 12. Harris went around the room in the Dauphin Humanities Center asking the students of SU what they are thankful for.


4/18/2016, 11:14pm

Latino students speak out for justice

Members of Shippensburg University’s Latino Student Organization marched through the quad Friday, waving signs and chanting to draw attention to a discriminatory Arizona law that targets Hispanic immigrants. “¡La Pa’Lante!” one yelled, waiting for the translation to follow — “Moving forward!” The eighth annual march is meant to gain support for repealing Arizona’s ID laws that require immigrants to show their ID to law enforcement to prove they are here legally, said Jahanny Pean, an SU junior and vice president of the club.


4/18/2016, 11:12pm

Commentary: Innovations reduce need for fossil fuels

On March 31, Tesla unveiled its most affordable, all-electric vehicle to date, the Model 3. While the car will not be available until the end of 2017, reservations for the vehicle have already climbed to nearly 400,000, according to Forbes Magazine.


4/12/2016, 8:36am

SU demands end to sexual assault

The words of a few can heal the scars of many. During Shippensburg University’s Take Back The Night, the stories of rape and abuse pierced the deafening silence of the evening, bringing survivors together. The SU Women’s Center hosts Take Back The Night each year to bring attention to domestic violence and sexual assault.


4/12/2016, 12:50am

Contract prevents flex dollars from leaving SU

For current Shippensburg University students, off-campus flex dollar spending remains an unlikely fantasy. “It is more complicated than most people think,” said Roger Serr, SU’s vice president for student affairs.


4/12/2016, 12:41am

Archaeologist discusses discovery of king

Constant traffic came and went in Leicester, England, but no one knew they were walking over top the skeletal remains of a king. Richard Buckley, the University of Leicester’s co-director of archaeological services, visited Shippensburg University on Thursday to discuss his experience as the lead archeologist on the Search for Richard Project in 2012. He said Philippa Langley from the Richard III Society approached him with the idea about searching for King Richard III’s remains underneath the social services parking lot.


4/5/2016, 12:40am

‘Take Back the Night’ event to be held Tuesday

The annual “Take Back the Night” rally is being held tonight at 7 p.m. in Shippensburg University’s Ceddia Union Building multipurpose room to give victims of sexual assault the chance to feel safe. Everyone is welcome to attend, specifically people who have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault, and the people who are friends of victims.


4/5/2016, 12:30am

Activist unveils exploitation of women in impoverished nations

Whether you are a woman in the savanna of South Sudan, the barren hills of Myanmar or the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal, you are a second-class citizen to your family and strangers alike — but not to a few world-class humanitarians. The staff of the New Community Project (NCP) hails from around the U.S., but works out of Arizona to promote environmental sustainability and social justice for women’s rights.


4/5/2016, 12:26am

Social justice advocate explains radicalization of Baltimore, Maryland

A University of California professor unraveled how modern-day discrimination persists in cities like Baltimore, Maryland, because of their complex history, while speaking in Old Main at Shippensburg University on March 28. Professor George Lipsitz, who spoke to more than 100 SU students and faculty, is a professor of the University of California, Santa Barbara.


4/5/2016, 12:23am

SU Fashion Archives & Museum opens its new home

From a professor’s office to the basement of Horton Hall, and finally to its own property, the Fashion Archives and Museum of Shippensburg University has traveled a long way. What SU Foundation Board of Directors Chair Joel Zullinger described as the unwanted stepchild has now been adopted, as the Foundation officially opened the new location on March 29, with a ribbon cutting ceremony. “For years it was the unwanted stepchild of the university because what do you do with it and where do you put it,” Zullinger said. Many came to welcome the new location and new inaugural exhibit at 501 N.


4/5/2016, 12:12am

SU’s alcohol, drug services offer students helping hand

Tucked away in 210 Old Main is a resource some students may not know about. Shippensburg University offers Drug and Alcohol Services and the Connection Program as a helping hand to students. The program includes Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS), which every student who comes to the program goes through.