April 2021
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Mount Nittany Medical Center Resumes Work to Expand Women and Children’s Unit
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Work on a major expansion of Mount Nittany Medical Center’s women and children’s services unit has resumed after being put on pause last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Joseph V. and Suzanne P. Paterno Women and Children’s Unit, the largest of its kind in the region, has dedicated medical and nursing teams serving…
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Penn State Athletics Earns Big Ten’s Third-Best LGBTQ+ Inclusion Score
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Penn State Athletics received a score of 80 out of a possible 100 in the 2021 Athlete Equality Index, which was released in early April. The ongoing index provides the “most comprehensive look at LGBTQ+ inclusion across all NCAA Division I athletic departments,” according to Athlete Ally. Universities are ranked on metrics like nondiscrimination policy, sexual harassment…
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Penn State Hockey: Gadowsky Hoping to Use Lessons of 2020 to Answer Questions of 2021
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In the grand scheme of Penn State hockey’s history, a 10-12 season that included an uncertain 0-5 start, an unscheduled COVID-19 break in the middle and a brief but entertaining end will be remembered as a thing that definitely happened and perhaps not much else. After all, without fans at Pegula Ice Arena and games…
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Centre County Adds 115 COVID-19 Cases; Pennsylvania Reports 4,192
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Centre County reported 115 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday to bring its total to 15,959, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Pennsylvania added 4,192 positives for a statewide total of 1,122,662. The county also had 205 additional negative test results, increasing its total to 67,097. Across Pennsylvania, there were 9,418 new negatives for a…
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Annual Report Documents Use of Force by State College Police
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State College police made 1,075 arrests in 2020 and threatened the use of deadly force against five people but did not fire their guns in any of the incidents, according to the department’s annual use of force report released on Monday. In three incidents where deadly force was threatened, more than one officer unholstered their…
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Penn State Basketball: Brockington Reenters Transfer Portal Per Report
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According to a report by 247Sports Thursday morning, Penn State men’s basketball star Izaiah Brockington has reentered the portal. The junior guard previously announced in March that he’d return to Happy Valley to play for Micah Shrewsberry. He was the first of the then six Nittany Lions in the transfer portal to announce his intentions to return…
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StateCollege.com Columnist Russell Frank Wins Best in Journalism Award
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The Society of Professional Journalists Keystone Pro Chapter recently honored columnist Russell Frank for his work published in 2020 on StateCollege.com. Frank won first place for the column writing — non-daily category in the chapter’s 2021 Best in Journalism contest. Three of Frank’s StateCollege.com columns were reviewed by the contest judges. Each was a dispatch…
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Letter: What ‘Defund the Police’ Really Means
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Everybody wants to feel safe and has the right to feel safe. Many of us associate safety with the police, but some do not. This creates a tension as those who feel safe and protected by the police are afraid that safety will disappear if there aren’t as many police. Recent examples of police brutality…
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New Restorative Justice Program Names First Facilitator Coordinator
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Centre County Community Conferencing, a restorative justice program being launched by Center for Alternatives in Community Justice and CentrePeace this spring, has appointed Elizabeth Siegelman as its facilitator coordinator. Siegelman was selected from among more than 70 applicants, according to a press release. While earning her Ph.D. from Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, N.J., Siegelman…
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Next Phase of Atherton Street Project Expected to Begin in 2022
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Motorists will have another year before they encounter substantial planned road work along Atherton Street in State College. PennDOT representatives told the borough’s Transportation Commission last week that the next phase of improvements are expected to begin in spring 2022 and be completed in the fall of 2023. The project is expected to be put…