Cadets stand in the Armory in 1894. Built in 1892, the Armory stood on the site that today occupies the Willard Building. As a symbol of the University’s land-grant commitment, it was used for military drill, physical education, and social events.
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.
