The Penn Stater Daily — Feb. 14, 2014
February 14, 2014 at 1:07 pm Ryan Jones Leave a comment
Snow what?! Is it snowing where you are? It’s snowing where we are. Man, it will not stop snowing. State College got somewhere between 7 and 11 inches of snow on Thursday, and based on how much time I spent shoveling in front of my house Thursday morning, Thursday evening, and again this morning, I’m going with the high number. It was enough for the university to cancel afternoon and evening classes on Thursday, but we’re back running at full steam today.
Yeezy does it: About the only thing that did happen as scheduled Thursday night: The traveling hip-hop art project known as Kanye West performed at the Bryce Jordan Center. By all accounts, Kanye gave the crowd what it came for: lots of possibly unhinged rants interspersed with some often compelling music. The Collegian was in the building.
Setting up a return: Penn State volleyball legend Salima Davidson Rockwell ’94 is coming back to her alma mater. A three-time All-America setter for Russ Rose and former captain of the U.S. national team, Salima was a Penn State assistant when I moved back to town in 2007, and her son and mine became best buddies in preschool. She left in 2009 to become associate head coach at Texas, one of the Lions’ chief rivals; now, she’s back in Happy Valley with the same title. Salima, if you read this: Welcome back! Let’s get those kids together soon.
Too much of a good thing: As every music hipster knows, it’s good to be a little bit popular, but not too popular. Seems that logic applies to technology, too. So says S. Shyam Sundar, distinguished professor and co-director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory in the College of Comm. Sundar led a study that found new technologies benefit from being deemed “cool” by tech-savvy subcultures, but once they get popular in the mainstream, they lose that initial coolness, which ultimately hurts their appeal with the mainstream.
Ryan Jones, senior editor
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