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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WPSU-FM to sell entire record collection at public sale

Friday, September 10, 2004

University Park, Pa. -- As the final event in its 50th anniversary celebration, local National Public Radio affiliate station WPSU-FM will hold a public sale of the station’s entire catalog of more than 10,000 LP records. The “Final Vinyl Sale” will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, in the Penn State Armory behind Wagner Building on the University Park campus. WPSU-FM members will be granted early entry to the sale at 8 a.m.

Records will be priced at $2 ($1.89 plus Pennsylvania sales tax) for each LP. Albums will be arranged in the categories of folk, jazz, rock, blues and classical music. A selection of CDs also will be available for $5 each ($4.72 plus Pennsylvania sales tax) during the sale. There will be a special bag sale at 5 p.m., during which shoppers can purchase a bag for $10 ($9.43 plus Pennsylvania sales tax) to fill with LPs.

WPSU-FM is holding the “Final Vinyl Sale” to condense the station’s music collection before moving into the new Outreach Innovation Building at Penn State’s Innovation Park in 2005. Proceeds of the sale, which consists of approximately 10,000 records, will support WPSU-FM programming and operations.

Broadcasting 24-hours a day, WPSU-FM can be heard at 91.5 in State College; at 106.7 in Altoona; 100.9 in Bradford; 104.7 in Clearfield; 92.1 in Dubois; 92.3 in Huntington; 90.1 in Northern Pennsylvania: and at 95.1 in Treasure Lake. WPSU-FM, which is a part of Penn State Public Broadcasting, also can be streamed via the Internet at http://www.wpsu.org/ and can be accessed via a link on Penn State Live at http://live.psu.edu/

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