Kevin Horne

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The 32-member Board of Trustees candidate field lost one prominent member Tuesday. Jesse Arnelle, who has served as a trustee for 45 years, has “WITHDREW” next to his name on the Board’s election website. The news was first reported by Lori Shontz of the Penn Stater Magazine, who explained it this way: …

The leading authority in educational rankings put 14 Penn State graduate programs among the top 10 in the country. Two Penn State programs came in as the best in the nation.

The group has been a bit of a kingmaker in recent history. All three of its endorsed candidates (Bill Oldsey, Barbara Doran, and Ted Brown) won the board of trustees alumni election by wide margins last year.

The 32-member ballot is the third most crowded in history, behind only 2013 (39 candidates) and 2012 (86 candidates). Voting begins on April 10.

After a year of fundraising, months of planning, and 46 hours of dancing, this year’s IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon shattered last year’s final total and raised a whopping $13,343,517.33 For The Kids. With the flipping of those iconic white placards by the 2014 Executive Committee, another beautiful chapter was added to the story of THON.…

It’s going to be tough to see Larry Johnson on Ohio State’s sideline when the Buckeyes make the trip to Beaver Stadium on October 25. It will probably to tough for Johnson, too, who has spent the last 18 seasons in Happy Valley and had three children graduate from Penn State, including two football…

James Franklin is at Penn State now, but he’s not going to forget Vanderbilt — the school he used to propel himself into every national coaching search — any time soon.