A Student Peace Action Council flyer urges students to vote “Yes” to the question of optional ROTC in class elections. Penn State students regularly protested compulsory ROTC, which was in effect until July 1964.
Blue-White Weekend celebrations will commemorate the National Defense Act of 1916, which with its signing by President Woodrow Wilson created the ROTC and continued Penn State’s tradition of military instruction, evidenced today in one of the oldest, largest, and most successful Army ROTC programs in the nation.
Students in Art 166 Concepts of Form, are working on their last of three major projects this semester. They were tasked with finding a simple knot design and carving in into stone.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, associate professor of English at Penn State Altoona, with renowned poet and writer Muthoni Likimani at the Meridian Hotel, Nairobi.
Todd Davis, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, will receive the Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities at 7 p.m. April 28 in the Edith Davis Eve Memorial Chapel. Penn State Altoona initiated the Meling Award in 2006 to honor the memory of its longtime associate dean for Academic Affairs, who passed away in 2005. The award is intended to memorialize Meling's love of literature and language and his unwavering support as an administrator for the development of Penn State Altoona's faculty as scholars and artists.
Penn State is marking Sexual Assault Awareness month this April with a range of events and initiatives across the Commonwealth that offer educational opportunities, focus attention on the issue and bring the community together to stop sexual misconduct.
