We Are...Still the Same!

       Penn State has gone through a lot this year. It is suffering from horrific scandal, lost its former president and its most prominent football coaches ever, Joe Pa. All this because of the accusations toward Sandusky. The year of 2011-2012 is probably going to go down in history because of this as well. I am just a freshman here and this still had a slight impact on me. I have been a Penn State football fan as well as a lover of this school since my sophomore year. I cannot think about football here without thinking about Joe Pa's face. Now, he's gone? It's still pretty hard to believe. Loving this school so much and watching everyone in it go crazy over all that has happened was hard to take in. I am one of those students that think that the riots were a little overboard. While, I still think that Joe Pa getting fired was way too far, the students rioting made everything worse. They made everyone look down on us as both a university and as a community. Despite everything that has happened this year thus far, we do not and should not let that get in the way of staying on track. We should keep doing what we are doing. Everything that we have planned, let's stick to it. Let's stay strong while we deal. People have sat down and talked about what is going on and people have raised their voices in protest. There have been emails and letters to express disappointment and there also has been knocking over of light posts and media trucks to express the same feeling. I can honestly say that people are entitled to their opinion but sometimes people should remember self-control. "We Are...Penn State!" We have been and always will be Penn State. There will be obstacles in the way from time0to-time, including this major one, but "We Are....Still the Same!"

Kiss Me Kate

       Kiss Me Kate was great play. The fact that it was a musical made me like it even more. Musicals are my favorite type of theater performance. This is the second play I've been to since I've been here at Penn State, but it is the fifth overall play I've been to in my lifetime. Compared to all the other plays I've been to, Kiss Me Kate was my favorite one. It made number one because it was a musical.
       I enjoy musicals a lot more than anything else can. Most of my favorite movies are musicals so it was inevitable that I was going to fully enjoy this play. My favorite, all time musical, is Lion King by Disney. Also, Mary Poppins is another childhood favorite of mine. It should be a favorite of every normal person. Comparing Kiss Me Kate to every other musical is way too hard. I find something that I really like in every musical I watch that every other musical does not have.
       Me and Shakespeare do not really get along. Every time I try to read one of his plays, I never get too far. I do not really like the language that is used in his plays. His sonnets, on the other hand, I do like to read. Taming of the Shrew is very new to me. I have never heard of it until I watched this play. When it was finally explained to me, Kiss Me Kate, made a lot more sense than watching it knowing nothing.
       There were many great parts in this play, but my favorite part was towards the end. The part when the two gangsters were on stage by themselves and they sang a song telling us to read more Shakespeare. It made want to go to the library and read some of the plays I've never finished reading in high school and grade school. It was such a great part.