Slippery Rock Borough intends to amend false alarm ordinance
The Slippery Rock Borough Council has proposed an amendment to the Borough of Slippery Rock False Alarm Ordinance that will benefit fire stations who...
3/2/23 Blotter
February 23 – Police received an alarm at Spotts World Culture building. An officer responded and found all was okay. A message was left...
More at fault than fault lines: Deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria call infrastructure...
On Feb. 6 and 20, earthquakes struck southern Turkey near the Syrian border. The initial 7.8-magnitude earthquake was followed by 7.5-magnitude aftershocks with effects...
Slippery Rock involved in lawsuit against Norfolk Southern
Photo courtesy of Gene J. Puskar / Associated Press
Slippery Rock is listed as part of a class-action lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway Company after...
Looking back at SRU’s first Black professor
Following the first Black student and first Black athlete in 1951, SRU’s first Black professor arrived much later in 1967 when the Rockets needed...
John Fetterman’s hospitalization opens discussion of mental and physical health
Pennsylvania’s newly elected Sen. John Fetterman has been receiving inpatient treatment for clinical depression since checking into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center earlier...
2/23/23 Blotter
CONTENT WARNING: This edition of the police blotter contains mentions of suicidal ideation. Please use caution before reading.
February 16 – Police were requested to...
SRSGA passes funding requests, appoints student trustee search representative
Slippery Rock Student Government Association (SRSGA) held a formal meeting Monday where they passed four motions and appointed a student trustee search representative.
The Association...
Spy balloons or UFOs?
In the last 12 days, four objects have been shot down in North American airspace. Only one of them was a spy balloon.
The shootdowns...
The stigma behind body hair
Many people have acknowledged a gender wage gap of about 18 cents, according to the Government Accountability Office, but fewer have discussed the “pink...