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ACADEMIC ASSEMBLY: Robert Smith, Slippery Rock University president, shares a lighter moment in delivering the annual Academic Assembly address in Swope Music Hall Tuesday.


President welcomes new faculty,
sets agenda for 2010-11

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Slippery Rock University President Robert Smith welcomed new faculty and offered his view of the coming academic year and the future of higher education as part of the annual Academic Assembly.

The Tuesday address was delivered in Swope Music Hall. Read More

Exercise science majors research infomercial abdominal equipment

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - You've seen the ads. Get rid of that belly fat; give yourself a flat stomach; use our abdominal trainer and you too will have steel abs. Slippery Rock University exercise science majors researched the product claims of abdominal workout machines and found the vast majority of them to be bogus, like trying to achieve fitness by swallowing a pill.

Spot reduction of fat - targeting specific parts of your body for weight loss - is a myth and cannot be accomplished, said students, whose research has been presented internationally. The body loses weight evenly, their work shows. Read More

President's Commission on LGBTQI seeks to educate entire campus community

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. - Education. Education. Education - is the goal of the Slippery Rock University President's Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning and Intersex Issues.

The commission's first meeting of the year was Thursday. Read More

Calendar Events


Today
Family and Friends Weekend
Watson Hall/University Union
(Continues through Sunday)

Saturday
VillageFest downtown
(Main Street closed 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.)

Old Stone House
Civil War Weekend
8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
(10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday)

Volleyball vs. Shippensburg
3 p.m., Morrow Field House

Athletic Hall of Fame Induction
3:30pm, University Union

SRU football hosts West Chester
7 p.m., Thompson Stadium
Hall of Fame game and
WHITE OUT NIGHT

Monday
Financial Choices workshop
4 p.m., University Union
(Repeats 8:30 p.m.)

Sunday Douglas lectures
7:30 p.m., ATS

Thursday
How Math Made Music Irrational
David Kung lectures
12:30 p.m., Swope

University Forum
12:30 p.m., University Room,
North Hall

Friday Sept. 24
SRU women's soccer vs. California
2 p.m., Egli Field

SRU men's soccer vs. California
4 p.m., Egli Field

SRU volleyball vs. IUP
7 p.m., Morrow Field House



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