Campus Culture

Oh, the Holiday season.

The time when, after everyone is done freaking out about finals, students pack up and head home for a well deserved break. While some have to drive (or fly) for hours on end, a select group of students only have to endure about a 10-minute commute home.

Goo Goo Cluster; sounds like a cereal for babies, right? What about Happy Happy Joy Joy… or some Arboretum Breeze? Are those air fresheners?

Ye Olde State College Diner may be famous for grilled stickies, but when it comes to tradition, theirs is rooted good food and philanthropy.

The dinner table at Thanksgiving is always a special time for families to share a meal and memories of the past year- or in my case, a chance for embarrassing stories and awkward topics to be discussed.

It’s that time of year again! The weather is getting chilly, the holiday season is picking up speed and what better way to celebrate the start of the season than with local comfort foods and Thanksgiving inspired dishes?

Notice a cardboard town outside the HUB this Monday? So did we.

To kick off National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, a handful of clubs set up cardboard homes in from of the Pollock Road entrance. Set up began around 9 or 10 a.m. and the town displays lasted for hours.

Despite the cold, coffee lovers gathered at a corner of the room in Webster’s Bookstore Café for the discussion on Haiti’s economy and its coffee…

The brand-new Taiwanese bubble tea shop, Tea-Time, opened last Thursday.

Also known as 茶點 (Cha Dian) among the local Chinese-speaking crowd, the tiny McAllister Alley shop has customers braving the weather and cars pulling up for its delicious Taiwanese treats.

America is on the cusp of the election and according to recent polls; Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are still neck and neck. Social media has heavily influenced this year’s election, so if you don’t know what’s going on, you’re living under a rock!

Are you someone who loves to learn about a culture different than your own? Love coffee?

Then tune in to what’s brewing at Webster’s Bookstore Café on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 5:30 p.m.—the Haitian Caffeination.

Here’s a little riddle for you:

What’s fun and filling and only comes around once a year?

Halloween costumes and $2 dollar burritos at Chipotle.

This particular urban legend may be a little far fetched, considering the prediction was made over a decade ago, but if your looking for real haunted stories this Halloween season, you don’t need to look much farther than Penn State’s campus.

As runners took off down Curtin Road Saturday morning, the unofficial start of the annual THON activities began. The THON 5k is unlike any other…

Spirited PSU football fans setup camp outside Beaver stadium Wednesday night hoping to score the best seats for the Homecoming game versus Northwestern. The tent city, previously coined “Paternoville,” lives and thrives by a new name now- Nittanyville.

Bleeding blue and white does not discriminate. From cute little girls in cheerleading outfits to alumni turned gray, Penn State pride spans generations, crosses borders and screams tradition.

On a Tuesday or Friday afternoon, it’s nearly impossible to walk downtown State College and miss the bouquets of wildflowers or bags of apples toted…

Pattee-Paterno Library. HUB-Robeson Center. Business Building. They’re typical study spots…but that’s just the problem- everyone is there. They’re meant to be quiet, but quickly become loud…

Since its 2010 debut, the popular photo-sharing app, Instagram, has taken the world of social networking by storm. Around the globe, users capture all kinds…

You don’t have to be  21 years old or a party animal to enjoy your free time at Penn State. University Park is home to…