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Uh huh, honey: How Penn State's Beekeepers Club is taking care of over 100,000 honey bees
During this time of year, thousands of students and alumni gather around Beaver Stadium to tailgate the afternoon away before a home football game. Just a few feet away from the tailgating grounds, some smaller members of the Penn State community are working hard not to grill burgers, but to produce honey.
Why one Penn State student is starting a non-profit
organization for students with schizophrenia
Earlier this year, Cecilia McGough opened up about her mental illness for the first time.
In front of a full Foster Auditorium, McGough, a Schreyer Honors College senior studying astronomy and astrophysics, discussed schizophrenia, a mental illness she said is not discussed enough.
“On college campuses when people talk about mental health, it’s usually about anxiety, depression and stress,” she said. “While those are very important to talk about, other mental illnesses like schizophrenia get shied away from because they make people feel uncomfortable.”
Read the full story on The Daily Collegian online. This story was also picked up by national outlets USA Today College and MTV University.
Uh huh, honey: How Penn State's Beekeepers Club is taking care of over 100,000 honey bees
During this time of year, thousands of students and alumni gather around Beaver Stadium to tailgate the afternoon away before a home football game. Just a few feet away from the tailgating grounds, some smaller members of the Penn State community are working hard not to grill burgers, but to produce honey.
The Penn State Beekeepers Club oversees and cares for over 100,000 honey bees that reside at the MorningStar Solar Home, just a short walk away from the gates of Beaver Stadium.
Read the full story on The Daily Collegian online
Student puts a face to schizophrenia
“I thought maybe I was just afraid of the dark,” she said.
However, as she got older, she said she began experiencing audio hallucinations.
At first, she figured the negative voices in her head that would constantly tell her to “just die already” and “you’re stupid-stupid” were simply a result of her depression.
Read the full story on The Daily Collegian online.
Cecil Blutcher drops mixtape into grad school
Cecil Blutcher is just coming off of a win at Movin’ On’s Battle of the Bands , a competition to determine the opener of the annual end-of-the-year music festival.
Blutcher said he wanted to compete last year but applied too late. He’s had his sights set on it for quite some time now, and coming out on top was icing on the cake.
Read the full story on The Daily Collegian online.
'Body Monologues' aim to create healthy conversation about appearance, self-esteem
“We live in an environment where we are told as women, we need to be lesser,” one of “The Body Monologues” performers said. “Well, news flash, ladies, we deserve to take up space.”
Nine young women took the stage Tuesday night in the Freeman Auditorium in the HUB-Robeson Center to share challenges, triumphs and musings all related to body image for “The Body Monologues.”
Read the full story on The Daily Collegian online.
‘She’s Crazy’ encourages students to open discussion about mental illness
Audience members experienced an interactive cabaret performance entitled, “She’s Crazy: Mental Health and Other Myths” last Friday and Saturday at the State Theatre. Written and performed by Sherry McCamley and Cathy Springfield, the show aimed to educate viewers on the statistics of mental illness and reduce the stigmas surrounding them.
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Penn State and South African students reclaim their ‘p’ word
Penn State students worked together with students from the University of the Western Cape in South Africa to perform an original feminist drama, “Reclaiming the P…Word,” on Oct. 2 and 3 at the State Theatre and Heritage Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center.
After an invitation from TRIOTA, the Women’s Studies Honors Society, the play was able to be performed internationally for the first time. The cast, all young women of color, explained what it truly means to reclaim the “p” word: poes, the South African slang term for vagina.
Read the full story on The Daily Collegian online.