Dry Campus

Pretty sure there is no other meme out there that could point out this irony in a better way. Penn State and alcohol have always been synonymous because Penn State has such a large drinking culture that is prevalent around campus. Most Penn Staters are known for “going hard” on the weekends and partying Thursday through Saturday. When one goes out to the bars when the weather is nice, there are a lot of people there too, even if it a weeknight.

This meme uses humor to portray the fact that Penn State is far from being a dry campus. Lately the weather in State College has been extremely off. There was much rain in the beginning of the year and in the beginning of the semester. This meme uses this type of text to make its point. By saying that it has been raining a lot lately the meme states that the campus hasn’t been both dry physically and alcohol wise. Further the picture of the green dinosaur thinking in the background makes the humor come out even more in the meme.

This meme indirectly states that it is kind of hilarious that one would even come close to thinking that Penn State has a dry campus. With even the freshmen getting caught with alcohol here and there, the campus is far from dry. Just the state of intoxication of the freshmen getting onto the white loop on Thursday, Fridays, and Saturday nights proves to one that they obviously “pre-gamed” pretty hard in their dorms to be in that state. With girls falling all over the place before they even hit downtown for the night proves that the dorms on campus, especially East, are far from dry.

          Penn State is one of those schools that always gets ranked as one of the top partying schools in the nation, thus showing that drinking has a lot to do with that stat. On top of that Penn State holidays such as State Patty’s day and Blue and White weekend show one that we Penn Staters really like our alcohol. For those that don’t know much about these weekends, they are weekends during which Penn Staters have daylongs and drink basically Friday through Sunday. Events like these and the overall statistics available about Penn State prove to one that Penn State is not a dry type of university. This meme further does a great job of proving its point by combing humor and skepticism on how dry the Penn State campus actually is. 

Women Are Targeted

     An eye opening video, this video goes onto state some of the ugly truths that are still omnipresent in our world right now. This video talks about how young women have more to worry about their image as a whole going into school. Women can't just focus on their career in work or school, instead they are pressured by society to always keep a certain type of image. There were some younger girls in the video who said that it was awful that along with their grades they also had to make sure they weren't over weight and that they put on a lot of make up. These types of society stressors put on these girls just brought them down and didn't let them fully concentrate on their work in school. 


     Besides these facts, this video also goes on to discuss how all of the best women out there are the ones that the media always hits hard. It is so sad to see that the media always focuses on a woman's body instead of their intellect thus creating consciousness.Women like Rice, Clinton, and yes even Sarah Pallin are women that have reached a very succesful level in life. Even though these women are this far high in life, they are still brought down in the eyes of regular citizens because of the media. Besides these women there are others that are shown in magazines and on tv shows and advertisements. These women are always put down in the way that they are portrayed to the regular public. It is sad to see that women have become so vulnerable even with all they do and contribute to the world in this day. 


     All the different women in this video talk about how thought they are considered equal to women, they are actually put down in a lot of different ways by society. Due to all of the different clips by different women I believe that this video arises pathos in the viewer. It is really strong in the way it comes out and relies its message. Most women and younger girls just have come to take some of these situations as stereotypical norms but others are attempting to finally change them. This video makes an emotional connection to the viewer, especially if it is a viewer of the female gender. After watching this video even I had something arise inside of me that said that I should rise up and attempt to change these stereotypical norms that still barricade our society today. 


To check out this video go to the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkIiV6konY

State Patty's Weekend

Once February hits, State Patty's weekend is all Penn State students are talking about. For those that don't know of what this is, this is the weekend that Penn State students celebrate St. Patricks day since this holiday usually falls during the Penn State students' spring break. This holiday is especially well known at Penn State for people to get extremely drunk starting friday night all the way through Sunday night. There are always many different guest students who come up for the weekend from various universities nearby. Last year most of these students ended up getting too drunk and there were many cases of alcohol poisoning. To avoid that this year the university imposed a one guest rule in dorms and said that fraternities weren't allowed to have any parties on the Saturday of State Patty's weekend. 

When asked about why many of the alcohol poisoning cases were usually non Penn Staters most Penn State students replied by saying that other school kids can't handle Penn State partying. This is exactly the type of stereotype that this meme is portraying. With the image that shows someone so drunk that they've fallen out of their chair and text that reads "an average state college weekend with no football" this meme basically sends the message that Penn State students are can handle State Patty's weekend type of drinking every weekend. This meme portrays the basic Penn State partying image and proves that Penn State students handle their liquor better than most other college students. 

Party at Meridian?

Badass. Thats the first word that comes to my head when I look at this facebook meme. For those of you who do not understand what this meme is talking about, it is indirectly talking about the new rules and regulations that have been set in the Meridian apartments at Penn State downtown. After much wreckage that occurred after the official Penn State holiday, State Patty's Day, rules were changed in the Meridian that they could not have any more parties.
This meme portrays a two to three year old girl on a pony saying that she will throw a party. This picture gives out a message of refusal and rebelling. It is extremely ironic how a little innocent girl was used to give out such a badass message. But I believe that this was all done on purpose. The use of the little girl arouses pathos because one comes to think that someone that naive will never be able to actually do something that hardcore and break the rules that one has signed in a contract. Overall though I find this meme hilarious and interesting. Obviously it's funny because of the two contradicting things put together...the picture and the text. It is also very complex and interesting because it has me wondering what will happen next in the Penn State Partying scene. Will the Meridian, one of the largest apartment complex's in downtown, be able to stop partying altogether or will the Meridian 3 always remain that one place that everybody is attempting to shuffly and find when they are at a high level of intoxication on a friday night?