The Penn Stater Magazine

An Enjoyable Three Minutes

December 30, 2008 at 9:53 am Tina Hay 1 comment

A couple of weeks ago, Penn State President Graham Spanier e-mailed to students, faculty, staff, and others a copy of a Penn State-themed holiday video. I must have been feeling swamped at the time, because I never got around to looking at it—until they showed it on the overhead video monitor at the Lady Lion basketball game the other day. I thought it was great fun, and I dug up the link so you can check it out for yourself. It lasts about 2:49 and it’s worth watching. Basically a bunch of people from the Penn State community—everyone from Faculty Laureate and cellist Kim Cook to volleyball All-American Alisha Glass to Mike the Mailman—offer their New Year’s resolutions. The resolutions run the gamut from “call my parents more” to “demonstrate a crystalline wire solar cell that has an efficiency comparable to current crystalline silicon solar cells.”

It makes me realize I need to give some thought to my own New Year’s resolutions. I suspect that whatever I come up with will be pretty lame compared to the solar-cells thing….

Tina Hay, editor

Entry filed under: Campus issues, Graham Spanier. Tags: Alisha Glass, Kim Cook, Mike the Mailman, New Year's resolutions, solar cells, YouTube.