Young Americans for Freedom protest Occupy Penn State

PENNSYLVANIA STATE – A handful of Young Americans for Freedom members held signs with messages such as “If you are here, you are the 1 percent” directed at the Occupy Penn State protesters whom have camped out at the HUB-Robeson Center for the past three weeks, starting conversation between the two groups Thursday.

Junior YAF member Zach Einsig said he does not see eye to eye with Occupy Penn State members’ solution to changing America into a country with less corporate greed and more democracy.

“I see a movement that has a lot of nice concerns, but I disagree with the way they want to resolve their concerns,” Einsig said.

Einsig said the Occupy Penn State members’ goals are to have a bigger government and larger taxes, while YAF members focus on more individualist ideals such as smaller government and less taxes.

Occupy Penn State protester Chris Grant said he feels Occupy Penn State is the perfect tool to end corporate America and he hopes to get YAF on board with the Occupy Penn State movement.

-The Daily Collegian
By Liz Dennerlein

Euro crisis global in nature

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS – As the debt crisis in Europe threatens to undermine the Eurozone, the rest of the world weighs the impact on the global market.

Leszek Balcerowicz, former finance minister of Poland and former president of the National Bank of Poland, addressed the issue during a lecture at University of Nevada, Las Vegas Oct. 31.

“International Business Issues: The European Debt Crisis” was presented by the College of Business to discuss factors that led to the current debt crisis in Europe, as well as ways to end it.

“I remember times when people worried about surplus,” Balcerowicz said. “They say what is going to happen (and) we won’t have any public debt… That was 15 years ago.”

Balcerowicz added that while credit is normally necessary for an economy, it should not grow too fast. He compared it to driving a car and saying that if people drive too fast they are more likely to get into an accident.

“Some say that America is to be blamed for (the) crisis … but it was not true,” Balcerowicz said. “The crisis in the United States only accelerated the reflection of the domestic booms (of other countries).”

-The Rebell Yell
By David Serabian

Facebook usage not necessarily disastrous for grades

UNIVERSITY OF OHIO – Tagging pictures, “creeping” and sharing links are common uses of social media for nearly every college student, but a recent study shows some of these actions might not be hurting students’ grades.

Reynol Junco from Lock Haven University recently conducted a study that found habitual Facebook use among college students does not necessarily lead to a low grade point average.

Junco found that activities such as sharing links and information with friends through Facebook had a positive relationship with GPA, while time spent chatting and updating statuses was associated with students with lower GPAs.

“Using Facebook in and of itself is not detrimental to an academic outcome such as GPA,” the paper said.

It goes on to state that large amounts of time spent on Facebook tends to take away from time students spend on academic work. The average amount of time spent on Facebook among the students participating in the study was 106 minutes a day. As time increased, a student’s GPA steadily decreased.

-The Post
By Amy Worrell