Patty Kleban
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How Are We Going to Bring Our Country Back from This Divide?
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What has happened to dialogue and conversation about our different viewpoints? How did we get to this point of factions and lines in the sand and that we can’t even be friends with people whose views don’t match ours?
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For Everyone’s Sake, Do the Zipper Merge
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To some people, the zipper mergers are arrogant jerks who jump to the front of the line instead of waiting their turn. To zipper mergers like me, I am just following directions and not wasting time waiting in line.
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Some Female Faculty Face Sexism from Students and Their Parents
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Gender biases for the ratings of instructors have been accepted for years. The research consistently suggests that female instructors, as well as other instructors from underrepresented groups, are not rated the same as their white, male counterparts.
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Will the NCAA Do Anything About MSU and the Nassar Case?
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Sorry, Michigan State. I’m going to have to disagree. We learned this week that in a letter to the NCAA, legal representatives for Michigan State University acknowledged that at least 25 of the school’s athletes may have been victims sexual abuse by Larry Nassar, but concluded they did not belie
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A Changing Neighborhood Brings Memories and Thoughts About the Future
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The signs have been popping up like dandelions. In the past several weeks, several neighbors have made the decision to sell their homes and move. Last week, our next-door neighbors of 28 years packed their stuff and moved closer to family in the Harrisburg area. Another couple pulled out of the driv
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A Matter of Perspective
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Our perspective comes from our families, our experience, our biology, our education, the environment in which we live and the good and bad things that have happened to us. The amazing thing about perspective is that we can change it. We can change how we see the world.
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After Nearly 50 Years on Air, a Local Radio Voice Signs Off
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Today begins a new era. Kevin Nelson, local talk radio host, local celebrity and all around good guy, retired last week. The mornings won’t be the same.
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An Unintentional Experiment in Binge-Watching
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As many of my friends, colleagues and students headed to warmer climates and fun vacations for Penn State’s spring break last week, I stayed at home with the intention of getting caught up. Little did I know that I would end up in my own experiment in how television impacts the human brain.
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After Crashing His Plane, Al Pringle Applied the Lessons Learned to Managing a Business
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In May of 2001, local businessman and community volunteer, Al Pringle, crashed the plane he was flying into a soybean field, near Brush Valley Road. Pringle has taken the lessons learned from his crash and applied them to business. He has turned those lessons into a management strategy and a newly p
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We Need to Start Asking the Big Questions
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The solution to how we as a society – as a community – address that which creates a scenario in which a teenager takes a gun to school or church or a movie theatre to shoot and kill random people goes beyond the gun debate. We need to start asking the big questions.