The Spectator: Vol. 118, No. 8

Student Government Assoication meeting coverage for this week.

On Oct. 18, Edinboro University’s Center for Diversity & Inclusion, along with The Learning Commons, hosted a Hispanic Heritage Luncheon in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

Flash drives for Freedom is a project run by the Human Rights Foundation and sponsored by USB Memory Direct and Forum Direct whose mission is to distribute flash drives filled with music, movies and other forms of non-North Korean sponsored media over the North Korean border. 

After several years of dormancy, the event “My Professor’s Closet” made its return to Edinboro on Oct. 22 at Butterfield Hall.

Professor Xin Chen took her lecture to a global level and examined one of China’s latest economic policies in her presentation titled, “China’s One-Belt-One-Road Policy: Mutual Aid or Hegemony?” 

Jeff Selingo, speaker at Edinboro University on Oct. 16, author of “There is Life After College,” and Must-Know Influencer of 2016, named by LinkedIn, believes that the role of higher education is quickly changing.

PASSHE chancellor, Dr. Daniel Greenstein, visited Edinboro University as part of his 14-university tour across state.

There are two new names to scribble in at the top of Edinboro’s record books. James Clark and Walter Fletcher.

Edinboro’s women’s soccer team had their three-game win streak broken by Seton Hill when the Griffins handed them a 2-0 loss on Oct. 17.

In Edinboro, fair weather with occasional light rain turned to pounding hail minutes before Saturday’s football game kicked off, greeting both teams with a layer of ice on the field.

The Edinboro women’s soccer team took East Stroudsburg to double overtime before falling 2-1 during their last home game of the season.

Nine swimmers posted PSAC qualifying times between the men and women in their first meet of the season at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on Friday.

On Friday night the stands in McComb Fieldhouse filled up for the women’s volleyball match against Lock Haven University. In the end, the Fighting Scots would take the victory 3-1.

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The melodies and riffs on “Anthem of the Peaceful Army” may lack authenticity, but luckily, the skilled young artists have plenty of time to refine their sound and draw inspiration from their own hearts and souls.

Built on the foundations of hedonism and identity crises, nothing unusual in a post-1960s world, “A Place in the Sun” holds a place in my mind, body and heart and is one that I could never deviate from.

Comedian Jeffrey Jay performed on Oct. 18 at Edinboro’s Cyber Cafe. Jay is both a comedian and a transgender advocate and informer.

Hudak’s gallery, tentatively titled “Compass,” is set to debut on Nov. 18 at Bates Gallery, located in Loveland Hall and will run until Nov. 25.

Modes will satisfy fans old and new alike for, likely, a long time. It’s not the type of game that is going to make too many waves, but it doesn’t have to.

In perhaps one of the most important midterm races of the upcoming Pennsylvania elections, incumbent congressman Mike Kelly faces off against democrat Ron DiNicola for the House District 16 seat.

The existence of this loud, obnoxious and sometimes hurtful holiday, actually, in a very weird way, means something to me.