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Vol. 2, Issue 1
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Administrators involved feel that
the Great Valley Initiative is a
way for both Brandywine and the
Great Valley campus to grow and
develop in their own right.
by Kenny Lankford
Lions Eye Staff Writer
kgl5040@psu.edu
Did you notice anything strange
while registering for classes this semes-
ter? Some observant students may have
noticed courses being offered at the
Penn State Great Valley campus. This is
because of a new alliance recently formed
with the Great Valley campus that also in-
volves Penn State Abington. The new ini-
tiative is a strategic plan that will benefit
all three campuses, and offers Brandywine
a great opportunity to broaden its horizons
and better itself as a campus of Penn State
University.
The Great Valley campus, located
at the crossroads of routes 29 and 202, has
historically been used for graduate pro-
grams, meaning that the campus is mostly
used for night classes and lies unoccu-
pied for the majority of the day. Seeing
this as a prime expansion opportunity,
Brandywine has begun to offer classes at
the Great Valley campus during the times
when the rooms are vacant. This also
poses as a way to shorten the commute for
students who live in the Chester County
area. Why drive to Brandywine if you can
get the classes you need right in your own
backyard?
Penn State Brandywine
These, however, are not the only reasons
why Brandywine has chosen to offer
select courses at Great Valley. The most
important reason is to offer more pro-
grams to both campuses. This can open
the doors for the Great Valley campus to
build an undergraduate population, as well
as allow Brandywine to offer more four
year degrees.
“What’s good for us is good for
them”, said Dr. Paul DeGategno, Director
of Academic Affairs here at Penn State
Brandywine. With both sides working
together, the two campuses can build on
each-others’ strengths and weaknesses.
DeGategno also explained how this strate-
Media, Pennsylvania
gic plan will be greatly beneficial to both
campuses in the long run. He says that
Brandywine hopes that this new initiative
can open the doors for growth within the
University in a few main ways.
Although only in the discussion
phases, such growth may include Brandy-
wine’s ability to offer a four year Bach-
elor of Science in General Engineering.
Currently, the first two years are offered
at Brandywine, but with the help of Great
Valley facilities for year three and four,
it could potentially grow into a four year
program. This major includes a number
of required general education credits
which undergraduate students from the
Great Valley campus could take alongside
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Brandywine students in our Engineering
program - utilizing Great Valley’s campus
space most efficiently.
Other ideas for collaborative
programs between the two campuses that
have been mentioned are for business and
education programs where students could
receive an undergraduate and master’s
degree in an accelerated period of time. In
programs like these, students would spend
the first three years at the Brandywine
campus and years four and five at Great
Valley.
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THON Kicks Off Spirit Week
Special to The Lion's Eye
As winter closes in, many of
us spend a lot of time griping about
the cold, getting sick, the inconve-
niences that we must endure, and
the terminal gloom that sits on top
of us. But those very things that we
complain about are the reality of
life for a lot of kids suffering from
cancer. It is for those reasons, and
a lot more, than we Penn Staters
THON.
In a little over two weeks,
Penn State students across the
Commonwealth will be dancing
for 46 hours straight at the Bryce
Jordan Center (BJC) at University
Park for the fight against pediatric
cancer. The Penn State IFC/Panhel-
lenic Dance Marathon, affection-
ately referred to as “THON,” will
begin on Friday, February 18th
and end on Sunday, February 20th.
This 46 hour, no sitting, no sleep-
ing, dance marathon benefits the
Four Diamonds Fund at the Penn
State Hershey Medical Center and
has raised over $69 million towards
finding a cure for pediatric cancer.
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students Alexis Cicala, freshman,
and Amanda Rasley, freshman (who
will be amongst approximately 700
dancers that weekend) have been
chosen to represent our campus
during THON weekend. And in
order to celebrate all things THON
and send our dancers off in style,
Penn State Brandywine’s THON
chapter will be kicking off THON
spirit week beginning Monday Feb-
ruary 14th.
THON Spirit Week prom-
ises to be full of fun and awareness
for the entire campus community.
This week long celebration will
start off with “Kisses and Kandy
For The Kids.” Members of Penn
State Brandywine THON will be
selling bags of candy for Valen-
tine’s Day all day long and at a
table outside the Lions Den in the
Commons Building.
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