Nov 15, 2019 | Blog, Entertainment, Features
by Saie Kim ~ “… Now all I have left is this stupid piece of paper and this stupid made-up adventure about killing a stupid made-up dragon.” – Agnes Evans, She Kills Monsters The “stupid made-up adventure” Agnes refers to is the fantasy role-playing game...
Nov 14, 2019 | Blog, Features
by Adia Hearns ~ The lights were dim and the poets, including myself, had just reappeared from the back room. All of the rules had been stated and reiterated, we had shaken our nerves out, and we had done the traditional WORDS chant. We were ready to slam. We had been...
Nov 8, 2019 | Blog, Features, Interviews, Music
by T.J. McCrystal~ Mitch Dobbs, a junior here at Penn State, lives a bit of a double life through his passion for music production. He’s a psychology major who lives vicariously through his music. Becoming a psychologist is far from the reality of his dreams, as he...
Nov 7, 2019 | Blog, Entertainment, Events, Features, Interviews
by Emma Nichols ~ Ever read For Whom the Bell Tolls or The Old Man and The Sea for your English class? Even if you haven’t, you’ve likely heard the name of the author, one of the most famous writers of all time—Ernest Hemingway. What you may be surprised to learn is...
Nov 1, 2019 | Blog, Entertainment, Features
By Sophie Stein~ “My son is really into birds. Like, really into birds.” Maxwell sat with her legs crossed behind the small table at the front of Beth Parfitt’s Intro to Creative Writing class at Penn State. “He wanted me to write a story for him, and it ended up...
