In high school, Xiaoying “Eva” Zhou spent a week living with an American family in Pittsburgh and attending classes at Shadyside Academy. Upon returning to her home in Shanghai, Zhou immediately began hatching a plan to attend an American university. She chose Penn State.
As part of New Student Orientation, Beaver’s Class of 2020 will join community members and artists in Aliquippa to paint wooden pallets, which will then be affixed to broken windows and doors, turning a few blighted city blocks along Franklin Avenue into a sea of form and color.
There are a lot of little ways to measure athletic success: wins and losses, individual accolades, the number of fans in the stands. But nothing – nothing – trumps championships.
Behind the gymnasium, about a quarter mile into the woods, you'll find a waterfall. A handful of Beaver students want everyone on campus to enjoy it, so they've proposed a walking trail that would wind around campus. Now they need the money and manpower to make it happen.
