Russell Frank
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The Grandkids Tour 2025: They’re Brilliant! They’re Bonkers!
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Children are lunatics. I say this after spending much of the summer with my grandkids, whom I adore. The oldest of the four is about to turn 7; the youngest […]
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Face It, Campers, Outhouses Are the Pits
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Another thing I’m aging out of: camping. My parents were not outdoorsy. My first intensive nature experience wasn’t with them but with my grammar school gym teacher. Every summer, Anthony […]
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Thinking of Moving to Canada? Not So Fast
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HORNBY ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Every small town has its kaffeeklatsch – a gathering of geezers who devote an hour of their morning to solving the world’s problems over a […]
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State College Man Leaves Bubble
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“America this is quite serious.” – Allen Ginsberg SAN FRANCISCO – O what a sheltered life I lead. I’ve been in San Francisco for two days and, bumpkin that I am, […]
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Frank: Forget Bucket Lists. Aging Is for Savoring
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As I entered the murky zone between middle and old age, I came up with a slogan: “If not now, when?” Meaning, I should go-be-do while I’m still hale and […]
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We’re Not Closing Campuses, We’re Optimizing Them
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When the university’s wordsmiths hide the possibility of layoffs behind words like “responding to challenges in agile ways,” or when they frame closing campuses as “optimizing” or “reshaping them,” they’ve got to be reminded that we’re all supposed to be in the truth-telling business here, not the spin business.
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Hang in There, Class of 2025!
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You’d never know from all the happy faces at commencement on Saturday how anxious the Class of 2025 is. I know because all 19 students in my Editorial, Opinion and […]
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Candy Is Dandy, but Keeping Your Student Visa Is Sweeter
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In my campus mailbox last week I found a sandwich bag filled with “fun size” packs of Skittles and Laffy Taffy. They weren’t for me, as an unsigned message, handwritten […]
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The ICE Man Cometh to Penn State
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Jack is an international student at Penn State. I’m not going to tell you his real name, where he’s from or what he’s studying because I don’t want to reveal […]
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Coach Franklin’s Staff Accidentally Texted Me Their Game Plans
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Penn State football coaches included me in a group chat about its next game against Ohio State. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started getting caught for touchdowns.