To better understand how much food waste is an issue in the Plymouth State University community, the Office of Environmental Sustainability and Sodexo partnered during Earth Week to measure food waste at PSU. Many people may have noticed a change in the way the cafeteria worked this past Wednesday. There […]
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What’s a Floodplain? Come find out!
What’s a floodplain? Come find out! Students from the Environmental Science and Policy Seminar class are hosting a public information session about floodplains on the Plymouth Town Commons, Saturday May 11th. Stop by between 12:00 – 3:00 PM. This event is free and open to the public where people can […]
Plymouth’s Alternate Energy Program
Next fall, Plymouth State University will use compressed natural gas (CNG) as the primary source of fuel on campus. Compressed natural gas is a cleaner, “naturally occurring fossil fuel, it’s [CNG] under less pressure and not liquefied,” said the Director of the Office of Environmental Sustainability, Brian Eisenhauer. PSU […]
No More Water Bottles On Campus
Throughout the United States, billions of dollars are spent each year on plastic water bottles. Plymouth State University has been adding to that statistic, consuming roughly 100,000 plastic water bottles annually. Some PSU students took a stand, and on April 14th, Plymouth State University banned the sale of plastic […]
Clubs, Funds and the Senate
There are around 100 different student clubs and organizations here at Plymouth State. Consequently, in order to run these clubs, there is a need for funding. Funding has become a grave problem this year and will be in the fall of 2013. Money for these up-and-coming clubs comes from […]
Sales Program Creates Outstanding Opportunities at NCSC
For the past four years the College of Business Administration (COBA) at PSU has been competing in the National Collegiate Sales Competition (NCSC). This year Dr. Robert Nadeau, professor in COBA, took Casey Marchaland and Caitlin Swanson down to Atlanta, Georgia March 1-4th to compete against hundreds of other […]
State of the University Address
On March 7th,President Sara Jayne Steen held her State of the University address at the Silver Center. President Steen’s address celebrates “some of the year’s success, and to delineate challenges and issues on which we must focus,” said President Steen. The main focus of the President’s speech was “building for […]
Sound the Alarm
On February 20th siren alarms sounded throughout the Plymouth State campus, as they always do every third week of the semester, but this time it was different. The sirens were part of an emergency drill that effectively kept the campus on a practice lockdown from 12 p.m. to 12:05 […]
Adhering to a Higher Standard
Most college students start their day around 10 in the morning. But, for the Plymouth State University students enrolled in the Army’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), their morning begins at 5:30. They go through a series of physical readiness trainings that include a variation of push-ups, sit-ups, cardio, and […]
Hassan Promises to Reinstate Higher Education Funding
On Feb 14th, Governor Maggie Hassan gave the budget address to the citizen of New Hampshire. In this address, Hassan has made it very clear that she feels New Hampshire can take a lead in the country’s economic growth. Hassan’s plan is to create a balanced budget with no income […]