Ribbon Cutting and Dedication ceremony for the new and beautiful WSRUTV studio.

On October 28th, the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new WSRUTV studio took place in Maltbly at 3:30pm. I arrived to Maltby about 15 minutes before the ceremony began. It was a small crowd, around 30 people, that gathered in the lobby awaiting for the ceremony to begin. President Smith was in attendance, as well as students, and faculty members, mainly from the communications department.

Dr.Flynn opened up the Ceremony with a brief speech about WSRUTV and its progress. He explains how the studio serves as a broadcasting outlet for WSRUTV and a academic lavatory, for students with media aspirations of Media production. The studio serves for a number of projects that take place at SRU and many upcoming students are amazed by the studio and what it has to offer.



President Smith gave a speech about how he wants students to get involved, and how important student involvement is. President smith feels that the involvement of us students is a great way to improve leadership at SRU.

President of WSRUTV Chelsey Rovesti and Vice President Zack Tanner, shared their thoughts about how they feel about the new studio. Chelsey is graduating this semester and Zack will be graduating in the spring. Both of them hope to pass down their works to other students who are involved with WSRUTV and to keep the organization successful.



The Ceremony ended around 4pm. It was brief, and right to the point. I very much enjoyed it. It was very welcoming and casual. The staff and members of WSRUTV are very nice and are doing a great job. Here is a clip of the Ribbon being cut by President Smith, Chelsey, and Zack.



Here are some photo's of the ceremony, which include the preparation of the cut, and some pictures of the studio itself. The studio is beautiful! Set up in a very professional style and really gives you the atmosphere of being in a television production studio.

When it comes to dining at Slippery Rock, were will you choose?

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Construction of the New University Union!

Currently at Slippery Rock University, there is construction being done for the new and upcoming University Union. The new union is being built were the old dorms "Bard" and "Harner" used to be. It is expected to be complete in 2012!

SRU'S Open Mic Night 2010

Guns in the US. To Ban or not to Ban?

Statics There is an issue that i feel is not really brought up a lot and that is the issue with US citizens owning handguns. Do they have the right to own for their own safety? What if a person is plotting to commit a terrible crime while using their owned handgun? Could this have been prevented? My argument is : Are guns simply for protection? Obviously, these were created to kill something or someone, opposed to them being created for protection. According to the Violence Policy Center (VPC), the United States leads the industrialized world in firearms violence of all types, mostly homicides, suicides, and unintentional deaths. Most of the violence involves the use of a handgun. Handguns are easily concealed, engineeres for maximum lethality, relatively inexpensive, and easy to acquire. On average, handguns are used in nearly 70 percent of firearm suicides, and 80 percent of firearm homicides. The United States has not so much a firearms problem as a handgun problem.

According to the Violence Policy Center, the mythology woven around the handgun by the gun lobby clouds the reality that a handgun is a consumer product that ought to be judged and regulated by the same standards applied to all other products.However, the firearms industry is exempt from basic federal consumer product health and safety regulation.This link further more explains some statics and reasons as to why guns ought to be banned. VPC

Each state in the US has a different policy that deals with ownership of handguns State Laws for hand guns .
State Laws

I found this link the most interesting because it has a bunch of different points of views and personal opinons on the issue with handguns Create Debate .Create Debate

This link talks about if anyone is really safe, and if banning guns will help prevent violence or cause more.
 Will you be safe .

This link involves the supreme court and the issue with banning handguns. Supreme court.