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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Panel of journalists to discuss upcoming election

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

University Park, Pa. -- Journalists from newspapers participating in Penn State's Newspaper Readership Program will hold a panel discussion titled "The Student Vote," from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in the HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium. The event is free to the public. No tickets are required.

The focus of the evening will be the upcoming presidential election and the importance of the student vote. Journalists are: Ethan Bronner, assistant editorial page editor for The New York Times and 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winner for explanatory journalism; Kathy Kiely, a USA Today congressional correspondent who has covered every presidential campaign since 1980; and Adam Smeltz, writer for Centre Daily Times BLUE and a Penn State senior working as an intern with the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau covering the presidential campaign for young readers.

The event is sponsored by the Penn State Student Newspaper Readership Program and the Penn State Political Science Association.

For more information on Penn State's Newspaper Readership Program, visit http://www.psu.edu/ur/newspaper/

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