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KU mourns the loss of fellow student

Thursday, February 11, 2010
By Josh Austin

His resume merely glimpsed at the professional sense of Andrew Woodward. He wanted to be a high school English teacher and his credentials proved that he would have been successful. »

KU undergrads join ivy league researchers at geophysical meeting

Thursday, February 11, 2010
By Amanda Tyler

Every year the American Geophysical Union holds a meeting in San Francisco, Cali., for professional scientists, professors, and researchers. This year, Michelle Kuhn and Sunshyne Ross, two KU undergraduate students had the chance to present their research projects; the first students in KU history to present at such a prestigious meeting. »

KU librarians ahead of technological curve

Thursday, February 11, 2010
By Matthew Keefer

With technological advancements and the rapidly declining use of paper related sources, it’s no secret that libraries are becoming a thing of the past. »

KU student experiences quake

Friday, February 5, 2010
By Brent Walcoff

When Reverend Cheryl F. Meinschein announced in November a mission to Haiti to work with the local children, senior Elementary Education major Emily Behm seized the opportunity. Prior to the departure, Behm was not concerned with natural disasters, but instead was focused on the attempted terrorist attack that has happened on Christmas day on... »

Public option advocate speaks at KU

Friday, February 5, 2010
By Shawn Gamez

The former head of corporate communications for the health insurance company Cigna, Wendell Potter, known for recently becoming an advocate for reforming America’s health care system, visited KU on Wednesday, Jan. 20. »

The center for children’s environmental health

Friday, February 5, 2010
By Shawn Gamez

Four days before students returned to the university from Winter break, air quality conditions in Kutztown were forecasted as code ORANGE for hazardous particulate matter as indicated by The Pennsylvania Institute for Children’s Environmental Health (PICEH) air quality monitoring station on campus. »

State to modernize legal notices

Friday, February 5, 2010
By Drew Simonovich

In accordance with a nationwide effort to modernize the manner in which local governments disseminate legal notices, the borough of Kutztown has asked local residents to support state legislation that will allow local governments to publish these documents online rather than in traditional newspapers. Local residents and newspaper executives are expressing their concern about... »

Tax relief for Haiti donations

Friday, February 5, 2010
By Shawn Gamez

On Jan. 20 the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that allows taxpayers to deduct donations to the Haiti earthquake relief from their 2009 tax season instead of 2010’s. The tax relief works on cash donations made after Jan. 11, 2010, but before March 1, 2010. In 2005 Congress passed a similar bill... »

KU hosts student advocacy conference

Friday, February 5, 2010
By Josh Austin

This past weekend KU’s Student Government Board hosted a conference for all 14 state schools. The conference titled “Student Advocacy, Multiculturalism and Student Leadership,” included keynote speakers and workshops “designed to provide the skill, management background, and talent needed to be efficient and progressive,” according to Sean Dallas, assistant director of University Relations. The... »

Faculty termination raises controversy

Thursday, December 10, 2009
By Cara Meglio

When Chadd Davis, a senior Criminal Justice major, came into one of his classes halfway through this semester to find a new teacher there, he was confused. Only after he contacted William Plouffe, his former professor and advisor, with a question about his senior comprehensive exams did he found out Plouffe had been fired,... »