Palms were sweaty all over State College, but the Nittany Lions can breathe a sigh of relief. After trailing by as many as 14 points, No. 4 Penn State won in a walk-off against unranked USC on the road, 33-30. Tied at 30, USC had 2:53 left and all three timeouts, but it didn’t use…
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News No. 4 Penn State pulls off ‘flag football’ trick play, leading to epic touchdown against USC
The first half against unranked USC did not go so well for No. 4 Penn State, but the Nittany Lions got the second half started with a bang. The Nittany Lions went deep into their playbook to score a wild touchdown. At USC’s 32-yard line, Penn State had backup quarterback Beau Pribula take a snap…
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News Penn Station Must Expand to Improve Service, Railroads Say. But How?
After studying other ways to double capacity at the busy transit hub, the railroads that use it say they have concluded that it needs to be expanded. Related Posts London police seek to ID those in ‘racially aggravated altercation’ at metro station amid anti-Israel protests British transportation police released images on Sunday while seeking to…
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News Sean Penn says he wouldn’t be cast for famed gay role today because Hollywood is ‘timid and artless’
Actor Sean Penn, who famously portrayed gay activist Harvey Milk in a 2008 film, lamented that he would not be chosen for the role today due to Hollywood’s “timid and artless” policy that does not cast straight actors to play gay characters. In a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, Penn reflected on his…
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News Opinion | Sean Penn, Rebel With Many Causes
We did the interview in his man cave, where he likes to serve vodka and talk about the world with his friends. There’s a cozy circle of blue chairs and a sofa and a plywood coffee table Penn made. The walls are chockablock with pictures and letters, including one from his friend Marlon Brando. There’s…
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News Penn Bans Encampments After Wave of Campus Protests Over War in Gaza
The University of Pennsylvania issued temporary rules on Thursday that significantly rein in protests on campus and, for the first time, explicitly ban encampments. The action came less than a month after the police cleared away a pro-Palestinian encampment at the university and arrested 33 people. Scores of encampments protesting Israel’s war in Gaza have…
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News Amtrak and NJ Transit Trains Suspended Because of Fallen Wires at Penn Station
All trains between New York and Philadelphia were suspended on Wednesday evening because of fallen electrical wires in Kearny, N.J., that power the trains at Pennsylvania Station, according to Amtrak. The power outage stopped Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains, an Amtrak spokesman, Jason Abrams, said in an email. Long Island Rail Road and subway…
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News At Penn, Tensions May Only Be Growing After Magill’s Resignation
Campus protests are not usually aimed at a single person. But last week at the University of Pennsylvania, professors staged a rally targeting Marc Rowan, the New York private-equity billionaire. A Penn alumnus and a major benefactor of the university, Mr. Rowan deployed his formidable resources in a relentless campaign against Penn’s president, M. Elizabeth…
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News What to Know About Elizabeth Magill, the Penn President Who Resigned
The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Magill, resigned on Saturday, four days after she came under fire for her responses at a congressional hearing on Tuesday in which she was pressed, along with the presidents of Harvard and M.I.T., on whether students calling for the genocide of Jews should be disciplined. Ms. Magill…
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News One Law Firm Prepared Both Penn and Harvard for Hearing on Antisemitism
At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, the leaders of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gave carefully worded — and seemingly evasive — answers to the question of whether they would discipline students who called for the genocide of Jews. The intense criticism that followed led many to wonder: Who…
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