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The State College Board of Health met Wednesday for an emergency meeting to discuss making changes to the current masking and gathering ordinance 2152.
The board voted to follow the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionsâ and Pennsylvania Department of Healthâs indoor and outdoor masking guidelines, which allow fully vaccinated individuals to forgo masks.
They also voted to increase outdoor municipal and park gathering from 50 to 100 people and outdoor residential gathering from 25 to 100 people.
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Penn State to Stop Using Freshman, Sophomore Titles Due to Male-Centric Academic History
On 5/17/21 at 1:17 PM EDT
Penn State University will stop using the titles freshman, sophomore, junior and senior in efforts to move away from male-centric academic history and closer to a more inclusive educational environment.
Penn State s Faculty Senate approved a proposition seeking to remove gendered and binary terms from the school s course and program descriptions, according to the university s student-run paper
The Daily Collegian.
A spokesperson for the Senate office told
The Daily Collegian that proposition was approved on April 27. The recommendations will be implemented following comments from the office of the president, but it is unclear exactly when those changes will go into effect.
Black Penn State political science professor Errol A. Henderson filed a lawsuit against the university in U.S. Middle District Court on Wednesday for discrimination and a hostile work environment based