Having trouble locating Penn State on a map

[itsrobert]

Looking in all the liberal areas. I see a Pittsburgh, CA near San Francisco, but no Penn St. I see a Penn Station in New York City, but no Penn State. I see Penn and Teller in Las Vegas, but no Penn State.

[justiceischeap]

1. State College, PA should get you there. nt

[yellowcanine]

9. It is State College PA but the PSU address is University Park PA. Go figure.

Confused the heck out of me at first.

[WinkyDink]

25. Go figure, yourself. The location is University Park, PA. 16802. NOT State College.

University Park has more residents than State College and is, indeed, a separate entity.

[TheWraith]

2. It's dead center in Pennsylvania.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_College,_Pennsylvania

[yellowcanine]

11. Correct. And that was by design. The powers that be at the time PSU was established

as a Land-Grant university thought that it should be in the geographic center of the state, even though there was virtually nothing there at the time except forest and farms. Interestingly, when they got around to setting up the medical school it was located in Hershey PA, which is a couple of hours drive south. Anyone care to guess where most of the initial funding for the medical school came from?

[Major Hogwash]

16. Selling pain killers?

"Anyone care to guess where most of the initial funding for the medical school came from?"

I have no idea.

[yellowcanine]

19. Hershey as in Hershey Chocolate......

[itsrobert]

28. You think Milton Hersey was in on it?

Fits the M.O. Business is attracted to children. Built and finance an all boys orphanage on Hersey property. Built an amusement park. Links to Penn State. At what lengths do you think Hersey would go to protect their brand name?

[yellowcanine]

29. Hershey not Hersey

[Bunny]

27. I believe the Governor at the time pronounced the location

"equally inconvenient to all". And that's so true to this day.

[Kolesar]

3. It's a beautiful area

I might retire to there. Who knows?

[a kennedy]

4. I had to laugh at Colin Cowherd (sports show guy) this morning....

he said that Penn State is right in the middle of corn fields.....and there are only two places in the USA that you can't get cell phone reception....East Texas, and Central Pennsylvania. Corn, corn, corn, corn Penn State, corn, corn, corn corn. He did say it was one of the most beautiful campuses but I did laugh at his statement about where it was.

[MadrasT]

20. That's pretty accurate...

...it's really in the middle of nowhere, and very isolated from the rest of "civilization".

It's either idyllic, or creepy.

Seems kinda creepy, today.

[melissaf]

30. I grew up in State College

and went to Iowa State University in Ames for graduate school. PSU may once have been surrounded by corn, but in my day Ames was FAR more isolated and corn-surrounded. When I lived in Ames, road would just sort of end at the corn fields. And there weren't many roads, either.

Plus, you can in fact get cell phone service in central PA. The only place where I've gone in the US where cell phone coverage didn't exist was in Vermont (which, terrifyingly enough, looks a lot like central PA. Maybe there's a connection...).

[WCGreen]

5. Happy Valley....

Ironic, don't ya think....

[jdlh8894]

7. Kinda- But "What the HELL's a Nittney"

:evilgrin: (Old West Virginia boy here)

[yellowcanine]

8. The Nittany mountain is a mountain in central Pennsylvania. The Nittany lion was supposedly a

large cat which lived near or on that mountain. The Nittany Lion is the Penn State mascot, either a guy dressed up in a lion suit or the concrete statue on campus.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQLEyA0IPZPBw6HhkL_NqCdXf8bW-Ub8GSZi7L668kuRVWAMimjyg

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR7wM4VSmxVZBxk0vjHv_o07aatitMx606mHTcgmEXt7NSaWLff

[jdlh8894]

13. Oh,Hell ! Guess SARCASIM is lost on PA people!

Us West Virginia boys can still mess w/what little brains "youens" have! LOL

[yellowcanine]

15. Well at least we have schools where we can learn how to spell "sarcasm"

And we don't refer to pretty girls as "visitors." :evilgrin:

[jdlh8894]

18. Pretty Girls?? 2nd from the left on the same bar stool?

[yellowcanine]

21. Voice of experience I am sure.

[WinkyDink]

26. And "Nittany."

[WinkyDink]

24. Stop while you are not ahead.

[Staph]

14. I haven't heard that cheer in years!

Somewhere in a box at home I have a "What the hell's a Nittany?" button, right next to the "Puck Fitt" shirt.

Ah, good times. Good times.

[October]

6. Pennsylvania State University

[Brickbat]

10. .

[Nuclear Unicorn]

12. It's half-way between Filth and Ruin n/t

[grasswire]

17. the best thing about Penn State is the dairy store from their ag program

Outstanding cheese and ice cream there!

[evrstrong]

22. If you are coming or going

in or out of State College in the direction of Pittsburg OR Philadelphia there is only one route you can take- Route 322 East. This means you have to go past my house....and if it's after a game, you have to crawl past my house (it's two lanes) so good luck, it usually takes 3 to 4 hours.

I am quite curious to see how long the bumper to bumper traffic will be this Saturday after the home game, and how to gauge it.

[WinkyDink]

23. Genius.