By HUGH CONRAD On a Friday evening [56] years ago, one day after Thanksgiving, I left a class at Penn State’s Willard Building to return to my dining hall for supper. I heard a large number of sirens near the Pattee Library, which was just about a block away from Willard. I thought that was odd because most students had left campus Wednesday and stayed home, cutting classes the day after Thanksgiving. Only four students out of 66 remainded in the fourth floor of Beaver Hall -

Ken Starr was probably the most powerful force behind Jeffrey Epstein’s secret plea deal. Julie K. Brown The guy acted like an obnoxious preacher screaming about the evils of Bill Clinton’s affair with a young intern more than two decades ago. He spent more than 60 million dollars investigating a consensual affair between a president and a young 20-something. Today, Clinton looks like a choir boy when compared to the sleaze of Jeffrey Epstein as the worst sexual abuser of you

Remembering JFK — 62 Years Later Those of us Baby Boomers who can remember exactly where we were on Nov. 22, 1963, when we learned about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are becoming fewer and fewer. However, that event was the start of a horribly violent period of American politics and public life. While some say that the 2020s are terribly violent, pointing to the killing of a young conservative a few months ago, that event had none of the national emotional i

Photo from Alamy During my four decades of teaching, I — fortunately — did not have to deal with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or ChatGBT. Certainly, in my later years, we had to confront the use of Wikipedia, but I tried my best to explain to college students how that should never be used in an academic essay or paper -- as a citation. Today, however, teachers and professors and instructors must deal with the reality that students use these tools to actually write