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  • Beauty & Health
    • The Personality Of Favorites
      The Personality Of Favorites
    • Glow and Go: Why SPF Makeup Is Your Next Beauty Must-Have
      Glow and Go: Why SPF Makeup Is Your Next Beauty Must-Have
    • The Juice Edit
      The Juice Edit
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • De-Glorifying Celebrity Couples
      De-Glorifying Celebrity Couples
    • Temptation Island: The Men are not Men, They’re Children
      Temptation Island: The Men are not Men, They’re Children
    • Wrapped in an App: Superfan
      Wrapped in an App: Superfan
  • Campus Culture
    • A Toast to VALLEY
      A Toast to VALLEY
    • Celebrities Who Would’ve Been on VALLEY if They Attended Penn State
      Celebrities Who Would’ve Been on VALLEY if They Attended Penn State
    • Call It A Night
      Call It A Night
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • For the Love of Tote Bags
      For the Love of Tote Bags
    • The Stories Within Your Closet
      The Stories Within Your Closet
    • Music Festivals Are Taking Us Back to 2016
      Music Festivals Are Taking Us Back to 2016
  • Self-Improvement
    • A Lady Gaga Summer
      A Lady Gaga Summer
    • Reconnecting With Pink
      Reconnecting With Pink
    • The Unreliable Narrator of Our Lives
      The Unreliable Narrator of Our Lives
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • Opinion: The Reality of America’s School Shooting Crisis
      Opinion: The Reality of America’s School Shooting Crisis
    • Harvard Sues the Trump Administration
      Harvard Sues the Trump Administration
    • Waste Of Space
      Waste Of Space

Christina Chambers

Christina Chambers is a web writer for Valley Magazine. Christina has always been a Penn Stater at heart, as she started visiting the campus and even going to football games at age two. She is currently pursuing a double major in public relations and political science. When Christina is not writing she can be found binge watching Grey's Anatomy (for the fifth time), looking for ways to travel the world, or finding new restaurants that accommodate her gluten allergy.

Campus Culture

Gender: A Societal Construct?

By Christina Chambers

In a time when Title IX will possibly be redefined by lawmakers to exclude transgender individuals, the seminar new series surrounding trans and intersex issues…

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Fashion

Six Things To Know Before Getting Your Nose Pierced

By Christina Chambers

There are a lot of thoughts and decisions that go along with getting a piercing. Where should you get it? What kind of piercing do…

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Campus Culture

Unexplored Job Opportunities

By Christina Chambers

As a student at Penn State, you have often been told about the countless opportunities that the university has to offer. What may be even…

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Self-Improvement

Aspire to Her: A Girl’s Guide to Success

By Christina Chambers

So you want to make a big splash in your career right from the start — but you don’t have any true mentors yet. What’s…

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Entertainment

Podcasts With A Twist

By Christina Chambers

The success of the podcast “Serial” in 2014 left the podcasting doors wide open and allowed everyone who owned a microphone to walk through. Amateurs and…

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Entertainment

Sense8ional Comeback

By Christina Chambers

Filmed in nine different locations around the globe and one of the most inclusive television shows in our era, Netflix’s “Sense8” is anything but simple. …

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Campus Culture

State College Gets Its Stripes

By Christina Chambers

VALLEY is all about pride month. Pride month has everything to do with happiness and equality. What’s not to love? Recently four rainbow crossroads were…

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Campus Culture, Features

Isabel Bejarano Diez: A Voice of Strength

By Christina Chambers

Isabel Bejarano Diez — a strong person with a naturally kind disposition that makes it hard not to like her. The senior psychology and finance…

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Campus Culture

Nine Things I Wish I Knew Before Going to Success in The City

By Christina Chambers

Travel lightly. I made the mistake of bringing my laptop … the only thing for which it was useful was to write this article. Your…

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Self-Improvement

18 Going on 80: Six Elderly Things That College Students Should Do

By Christina Chambers

Do you ever wonder why elderly people seem more relaxed (well, besides retirement)? Don’t you wish you could feel that in this hectic time of…

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Campus Culture

Six Things We Can All Learn from Tarana Burke

By Christina Chambers

Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, has an undeniable stage presence. She possesses an aura of power and grace that is pretty unbeatable—it is…

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Campus Culture

Top 10 Foods of a Penn State Student

By Christina Chambers

College students across the country have some pretty interesting diets, but Penn State students’ diets are perhaps even more unique than what you’d expect on…

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Campus Culture, THON

11 Tips For Committee Members For THON Weekend

By Christina Chambers

So you’re a committee member for THON 2018? First of all, know you’re about to have one of the most amazing weekends of your life….

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Campus Culture

Scott Dikkers: The Story Behind The Onion

By Christina Chambers

Scott Dikkers may be the man who started the first humor website in the world, TheOnion.com, but VALLEY learned it wasn’t always smooth sailing for…

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Campus Culture

Amanda Seales: Our Roles In Change

By Christina Chambers

In the span of exactly one hour, Amanda Seales will make you question your privilege, your existence and most of all, your ability to laugh…

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Entertainment

Disney is coming out?

By Christina Chambers

When you watched Disney Channel many years ago, progressive storylines probably looked like Lizzie McGuire wanting to buy a bra or Raven Baxter discussing positive body image.

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Entertainment

Call It What You Want: Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” 2.0?

By Christina Chambers

Fan theories suggest that Taylor Swift’s new song, “Call It What You Want,” could possibly be a “Love Story” 2.0 for the pop star since there are so many parallels in each tune. So, VALLEY thought it was time to take a look into some of the comparisons between the two songs.

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Entertainment

Simply Complicated: Demi Lovato’s Empowering Life Journey

By Christina Chambers

Demi Lovato has been labeled as many things throughout the years. Drug addict. Alcoholic. Crazy. However, when VALLEY watched her new documentary aptly titled “Simply Complicated,” it was clear that fans and non fans alike will now see her for what she really is—a survivor.

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Self-Improvement

I Don’t Mind: Promoting Communication About Mental Illness

By Christina Chambers

It isn’t every day that movements realize the complexities of mental illness and the negative stigmas that go along with it, so VALLEY is thrilled that this campaign is receiving attention, but wants to give it more!

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Fashion

Why Shopping in the Men’s Section is a Game Changer

By Christina Chambers

The next time you’re in your favorite store, VALLEY recommends that you take a peek to see the vast options that the men’s section has to offer!

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Founded in 2007, VALLEY is Penn State's premier student-run life and style magazine. Our mission is to recognize other students for their academic and extracurricular accomplishments, and to feature local style, entertainment and lifestyle trends. We publish one print issue a semester and also post daily online content throughout the academic year.

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