Still Life

With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Statement from Penn State president regarding Penn State's participation in new program

Penn State is pleased to announce its enthusiastic participation in the recently created program initiated by Knights Apparel and announced in concert with the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC).

Knights is one of the leading collegiate apparel manufacturers in the country and a significant supplier of Penn State apparel. This program is a unique and special opportunity that combines good business practices with humanitarian outreach. The program, preliminarily labeled “Above & Beyond” by Knights Apparel, will serve to improve the lives of workers who manufacture collegiate apparel through offering higher standards in working conditions under which collegiate products are produced. The new approach features enhanced wages and benefits.  

Penn State is committed to working with management of the Penn State Bookstore and other retailers to promote the availability of these products to consumers. We also are encouraging Barnes & Noble’s corporate-level support throughout its collegiate retail landscape. We hope to see these products in the marketplace as early as fall 2009 to meet the back-to-school demand.

We have great confidence that Knights Apparel is an ideal partner to launch this program, and we are particularly pleased by the support the program has received from the WRC.  Knights is a longstanding manufacturer of Penn State apparel. Joseph Bozich, CEO of Knights Apparel, was a participant in last year’s Corporate Social Responsibility Forum hosted by Penn State and has repeatedly proven his commitment to improving labor rights industry-wide.  He has been in regular discussions with us as his efforts have evolved, and we are grateful to have had an opportunity to encourage this development.  

I want to commend those in the University community who have promoted the evolution of such efforts and encourage support of this program from all Penn State stakeholders, since I believe it is an excellent model for how collectively we can enhance the lives of apparel workers around the world who produce goods that carry the Penn State name.  We also will advocate for other colleges and universities to endorse and participate in this initiative, and we look forward to continuing a dialog toward the purposes served by such efforts.  

Graham Spanier
January 21, 2009

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