SU student dies helping victim of drunk driving accident
ByA Shippensburg University student died on May 23 while helping the victim of a drunk driving accident on Route 114 in Mechanicsburg.
A Shippensburg University student died on May 23 while helping the victim of a drunk driving accident on Route 114 in Mechanicsburg.
Mothers across the Shippensburg University campus, on Saturday May 9, received the gift of seeing their children graduate, just the day before Mother’s Day.
Within the last week, whenever someone brought up Baltimore in conversation, it was not uncommon for people to think of another city in such chaos and lawlessness. “I would imagine it’d be a very scary time for the people there, right now.
Harrisburg — Shippensburg University’s budget is largely up to state legislators, who are expected to vote on an appropriations bill sometime in the coming months.
Many Shippensburg University professors were recognized for their academic accomplishments and hard work. From Pennsylvania to Japan, people have heard or will here lectures and research from some of SU’s best and brightest faculty members.
While construction continues at Shippensburg University, students can expect it to be nearly complete by the fall semester.
Shippensburg University became the epitome of academic stimulation on April 21, when hundreds of people gathered in the Ceddia Union Building to learn about the research of dozens of students. The “Minds@Work” conference featured topics ranging from fruit flies to 3D printers. With 30 sessions, including symposiums, panel discussions, lectures and open forums, undergraduate and graduate SU students used the opportunity to share unique projects to classmates, professors, future employers and the local community. The free event began at 2 p.m.
A victim of sexual assault might fear getting caught with an underage drinking citation, rather than worry about their safety.
Shippensburg borough had its 19th annual Ship Shape Day on April 25, starting at 8:30 a.m. Ship Shape Day is a spring cleaning day that many SU students, Shippensburg Senior High School students and community members participated in. Participants met at the Shippensburg Firefighters Activities Center, where groups were given a paper that gives a quadrant, or area to clean up, and instructions for the job. The event is planned a few months in advance, and included instructions for clean up that guided people to wear vests and gloves for safety. It also asked people to stay off public property, place full bags at street intersections and not to block pedestrian traffic. Participants were able to return to the activity center for lunch and certificates were awarded after tasks were completed. Various organizations participated, including the SU Farm Club, football team, tennis team and members of the Latter Day Saints, said James D’Amico, the associate director of the Center of Engagement, Service Learning at SU. The Middle Spring stream, local Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and roadsides throughout the area were places that volunteers cleaned up.
Many Shippensburg University students and local residents filled the seats of the Luhrs Performing Arts Center and watched SU president George “Jody” Harpster open the lecture by introducing Janna Levin. Levin presented her thoughts and findings concerning black holes at Luhrs on April 22.
Shippensburg University professor of English Michael Bibby gave a lecture on April 9, about his research into the identification of institutional racism involving the literary modernism movement.
From Shippensburg to Vatican City, people around the world of every ethnicity, class and creed united to celebrate Earth Day 2015 to promote awareness of the primary concerns facing humanity — concerns that go far beyond pollution and climate change.
Harrisburg — In an effort to increase the funding of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), the tuition rate for state universities may not increase, reported Pennlive.com.
The Shippensburg University 2014-2015 Student Senate convened for the last time on April 23, to vote on the budgets for SU’s student organizations and to swear in the next academic year’s senate members.
Hundreds of graduating members of the class of 2015 will fill the field of Seth Grove Stadium at Shippensburg University on May 9 to receive their diplomas and words of wisdom from the keynote speaker — Frank Brogan.
Numbering in the hundreds, members and supporters of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) rallied in the rotunda of the state capitol building on April 14, to advocate for new laws to license and protect social workers. More than 60 Shippensburg University students and professors from the social work department attended the event.
America is the land of equal opportunity — it gives an equal opportunity for anything, good or bad, to happen.
“An act of violence against one is an act of violence against many,” professor Jayleen Galarza said, setting a tone for the ninth annual Criminal Justice Symposium. Previous years have focused on topics such as rap music and racial profiling, but this year Stephanie Jirard, the event’s moderator, was motivated by a story she heard about a Nevada rancher’s retaliation against the government. In March 2014, the government seized Cliven Bundy’s livestock for grazing on government land, which caused armed protestors to face off with authorities.
On Saturday at approximately 2:30 p.m., firefighters arrived at 22 Deadend Lane to combat a brush fire that broke out in a local scrap yard.
As the sun was beaming through the stained glass windows of Old Main Chapel at Shippensburg University, a group of passionate professors gathered to discuss their new book, which is about imprisonment and disabilities in the U.S.