David S. Alston, the first African American Penn State football player (along with his younger brother, Harry), was immortalized in a bust that was unveiled on April 21, 2012 during the Penn State Black Alumni Reunion "Blue White For the Future Scholarship Gala" at the Nittany Lion Inn.

The bust, sculpted and donated by Penn State Professor of Art Blake Ketchum, will have a public home in the All-Sports Museum, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary. In addition to the sculpture, a scholarship fund is being established in Alston's name.

Published as a letter to the editor.
Alleged homicide at SCI Rocvkiew

Prisoner in solitary confinement unit at SCI Rockview dies after cell extraction

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Linking LGBT Communities In Central Pennsylvania And Beyond

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We are changing the climate on climate change.

On April 30th at 7 pm noted Penn Staters will confront the climate change denial machine and call for deeper action.

Join us.

This event includes presentations by:

          Dr. Donald Brown. of Climate Ethics and former Clinton Administration Diplomat

          Peter Buckland, Co-host of Sustainability Now Radio

          Dr. Janet Swim, Chair of the American Psychological Associations task force on the Psychology of Climate Change 

          Dr. Rick Shuhmann, of Engineering Leadership

          Dr. Michael Mann, director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center, Nobel-Prize co-winner for his work on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.Questions and answer will follow the presentations.

Confronting the climate change denial machine.

Will you act?

 April 30th at 7 pm Venue TBA.  



If you would like to sponsor this event or have questions,send them to Peter Buckland: pdb118@psu.edu

Watch this page for more information.

I am so sad to say that we lost a great friend today.

I still remember the first time i ever talked to Bob Brownlee,
he called me about the voting machines.

I forget if the commissioners had already bought the machines
or were about to, but I had given up. I was frustrated and tired.
I said, "Sorry, it is too late, it is over, we lost the battle."

But, Bob was not going to give up the fight!
He was determined!

On Wednesday night's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart picked up on a story that rocked the science world in 2009: the email hacking that exposed hundreds of exchanges between global warming scientists known as Climategate.

If you remember, the emails weren't a big deal because they proved anything, but because they suggested irregularities in data which in turn encouraged climate change skeptics to continue to deny global warming. As Stewart reminisced with a series of clips, Fox News pundits and conservative analysts on all the 24-hour news networks had a field day proclaiming that these emails proved global warming was a fraud. And it worked, too. As Stewart pointed out, studies show the amount of people who acknowledge global warming dropped nearly 20% since the emails were leaked.

(Post idea from an email received from FRAC-NEWS)

Wastewater from Pennsylvania's natural gas wells, intensely salty and polluted with toxins like barium and strontium
is partially treated, diluted and then dumped into rivers and streams that supply public drinking water. Most states
require natural gas drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/gas-drilling/natural-gas-drilling-polluted-wastewater-map-1.1087350

Click wastewater treatment plants to see

Thank you, Alice! Photo by Debra Grimm

Voices and its readers wish to express heart-felt gratitude to retiring Birdwatch columnist Alice Fuller for her many years of keeping Centre County’s bird enthusiasts well informed and enlightened with her fowl-inspired prose. Alice (left) is pictured here with Jen Lee. Alice is Voices’ longest-running columnist, having started in 1993, the same year the paper was launched. She never missed an issue in nearly two decades.

“Do not discuss the chemicals” 
Lessons from the landman’s handbook

If your uterus is incorporated, the republicans will not be able to regulate it.

http://incorporatemyuterus.com/

Contact: Kathleen O’Toole

Volunteer Coordinator, Downtown State College Improvement District

(814) 238-1126, kxo1@psu.edu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

State College (January 31, 2011) — First Thursday State College kicks off February with a performance by Stacy Glen Tibbets at 7 p.m. at Schlow Library. Parking is free that evening at all municipal street meters, the parking lots on Fraser Street and on Beaver Avenue and Allen Street (across from the Municipal Building), and the McAllister parking deck. All events are open to the public and admission to First Thursday events is free. In addition to the performance at Schlow, events for February 3rd include:

Christian Science Reading Room and Bookstore:

5:30–7:30 p.m. "Spiritual Solutions to Problems—Explore the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" to find spiritual solutions to life's challenges. Readings feature others who have had healings of allergies, cancer, migraines, lack of housing or money, etc, giving them freedom in life.