Category: Featured
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Renaissance Jamboree: Townsfolk, BU Students Ready for Annual Celebration
Read more: Renaissance Jamboree: Townsfolk, BU Students Ready for Annual CelebrationThe Renaissance Jamboree, Bloomsburg’s annual one-day street fair celebrates its 34th year this month. On Saturday April 28th the festival will stretch for 8 blocks along Main Street, hosting over 100 art, craft and food vendors, artists, musicians, local businesses and non-profit groups – plus games, children’s entertainment, folk dancing from around the world, a martial arts demonstration, and even a high flying trampoline performance by Flippenout. In past years, the Jamboree sometimes fell on the same weekend as Bloomsburg University’s Block Party. As a result, the Jamboree never became part of the lexicon handed down from class to class.…
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A Bridge Over Troubled Streets
Read more: A Bridge Over Troubled StreetsFast cars, limited crosswalks, and no crossing guards. To many these seem like the situations that occur on busy urban streets, but for many students living in The Honeysuckle and 500 Club apartments this is just a part of their daily commute in crossing Lightstreet Road on their way to campus. The Bloomsburg University’s student Community Government Association (CGA) and the University noticed this daily struggle and are discussing the possibility of constructing a pedestrian bridge to better accommodate students. This second pedestrian bridge would extend from the Honeysuckle and 500 Club apartments to campus in between the Haas Center…
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More than Football: BU Camps Develop Character
Read more: More than Football: BU Camps Develop CharacterPlaying football at Bloomsburg University goes much farther than being just an athlete
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Daylight Saving Time Leads to Cyberloafing
Read more: Daylight Saving Time Leads to CyberloafingThe annual shift to daylight saving time and its accompanying loss of sleep cause employees to spend more time than normal surfing the Web for content unrelated to their work, resulting in potentially massive productivity losses, according to researchers. Web searches related to entertainment rise sharply the Monday after the shift to daylight saving time when compared to the preceding and subsequent Mondays, according to D. Lance Ferris, assistant professor of management and organization in Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, and his colleagues David T. Wagner, Singapore Management University; Christopher M. Barnes, Virginia Tech University; and Vivien K. G.…
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Dodgeball Raises Money for Students in Need
Read more: Dodgeball Raises Money for Students in Need“What’s better than Dodgeball? It’s the All-Star Sport of Gym Class!” Ben Eshelman laughs happily as he describes the go-to rainy-day sport of Phys-Ed teachers everywhere. For those that know Ben, a Personal Trainer at Bloom Health & Fitness on Old Berwick Road, his excitement is infectious but unsurprising. “It’s something that’s fun, gets kids and families involved!” You can’t help but notice the energy. Ben’s words bounce, impossible to avoid. “It’s a ball. You dodge it.” He smiles at you as he lets his Zen-like oversimplification of a simple game sink in. “Yes,” you think. “I get it. I…
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Opinion: Are the Budget Cuts Affecting You?
Read more: Opinion: Are the Budget Cuts Affecting You?In the wake of this week’s budget proposal from Governor Corbett, where it was proposed that the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) should take a 20% ($82.5 million) cut in funding; I found myself reading the Op/Ed entitled “Shuttle Bus Stressers: Long Lines Leave Students Stranded” in the Voice. Some of you may remember that last year Governor Corbett proposed a 54% cut to PASSHE and that several dedicated APSCUF faculty, including myself, were out on campus attempting to make students aware of the impact such a cut could have on their education. APSCUF asked students to write…
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Penn State Well-Represented in Super Bowl XLVI
Read more: Penn State Well-Represented in Super Bowl XLVIPenn State again will be well-represented on the field and the sidelines at the Super Bowl.
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Bloom Psychological Center Helping Those Affected by Flood
Read more: Bloom Psychological Center Helping Those Affected by FloodWe recently had a chance to talk with Sue Ei, who is a psychologist with the Bloomsburg Psychological Center (BPC). We talked about their Flood Support Group and how she feels the community is doing after the Flood of 2011. 1. Tell us a little bit about the Flood Support Group. Obviously the devastation was tremendous with a multitude of people affected, but were there other factors that made your group decide to start it? Well, I’ll start by giving credit to CMSU (Columbia, Montour, Snyder and Union Counties of Central Pennsylvania, which is a cooperative arrangement between the four counties to…
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Render Unto Man
Read more: Render Unto ManThe PA House of Representatives passed H.R. 535, a resolution declaring 2012 the “Year of the Bible”. Derek Gittler argues this misuse of Civil Government is an Affront to, and a Violation of, the Conscience of every Christian, Non-Christian, and Non-Theist alike.
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Mayor Knorr Declares PA State Rep Candidacy; Criticizes Rep Millard as “Complacent”
Read more: Mayor Knorr Declares PA State Rep Candidacy; Criticizes Rep Millard as “Complacent”Last night, among a group of forty-five to fifty family members, friends, and supporters, Bloomsburg Mayor Dan Knorr announced his intent to stand for election and represent Columbia County and the 109th Legislative District in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Speaking at Balzano’s Corner Gathering in Bloomsburg, Mayor Knorr spoke of his experience as a Bloomsburg Town Council Member, as Mayor, and the events and reflections that led him to declare his candidacy for State Representative. “In 2005 the people of this community … took a chance on a young man who thought he had the slightest idea of what he…