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The Cal Times student news is a publication of the Student Association Inc. at California University of Pennsylvania

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The Cal Times student news is a publication of the Student Association Inc. at California University of Pennsylvania

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Cal U Summer Event Series:  Mindful Meditation

Cal U Summer Event Series: Mindful Meditation

Student Affairs July 13, 2020

This week we have an all new activity for the Summer Event Series!  Click the link below to find a guided on how to relax using mindful meditation! https://youtu.be/RlTyZPWCdzc Don’t forget to...

Applying Psychology to Everyday Life Summer Series event hosted by Cal Us HRSA Program

“Applying Psychology to Everyday Life” Summer Series event hosted by Cal U’s HRSA Program

Student Affairs July 1, 2020

Register today: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/applying-psychology-to-everyday-life-registration-110995125408  

Living through the pandemic: Taking quarantine one day at a time

Living through the pandemic: Taking quarantine one day at a time

Veonna King, Staff Writer June 3, 2020

(May 29, 2020) My name is Veonna King. I am now a junior at Cal U. I live in Clairton, Pennsylvania which is about 30 minutes from Cal U. All of March I decided to stay in my apartment at Vulcan Village,...

Michelle (Meesh) Polando and Jeromy Mackey sample 15 breakfast cereals in one sitting!

Got Milk? 15 breakfast cereals ranked from best to worst

In these days of quarantine, while many of us practice social distancing and are staying at home due to concerns about the potential spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, we find ourselves looking for creative,...

Jonny’s Country Kitchen: Hot Wings

Jonathan Sakaguchi, Staff Writer May 20, 2020

Hot Wings Ingredients Bag of chicken wings Any type of cooking oil   Instructions Preheat oil in a small pot Place wing in oven on a cooking sheet...

Rodney Taylor, Frederick Douglass Institute Scholar at California University of Pennsylvania

Scholar, educator, survivor: Cal U alumnus Rodney Taylor’s journey from student to professor

Meghan Shaffer, Contributor May 13, 2020

In the spring semester of 2010 at California University of Pennsylvania, professor Mark Aune was teaching his esoteric course on Shakespeare, and little did he know that, soon enough, he would be working...

Chris Lisle, 21, majoring in political science

My civic engagement campaign experience: Rising to the challenge in a time of COVID-19.

Chris Lisle, Contributor May 7, 2020

During the spring 2020 semester at California University of Pennsylvania, I served as an Institutional Fellow with the Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP), a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit project...

A gathering of military veterans (from left) Robert Prah, Jr., Bill Callaway, Jim Gardner, and Prahs grandfather, Nunzio Santo Colombo, at a Veterans appreciation picnic at Community Bank Park in North Belle Vernon, June 2019.

Focused on home: Maj. Robert Prah, Jr.’s bid to represent Pennsylvania’s 58th Legislative District

Jeromy S. Mackey, Contributor May 4, 2020

In a small town, everyone knows each other. It also gives an opportunity for certain individuals to serve their communities in a multitude of ways. A young man, with an eager-eyed smile that will stick...

Cal U Counseling Center

“Summer Send-off: Doing Summer Well”

Cal U Counseling Center May 4, 2020

The Counseling Center invites you to a new series called, "Cal Table Talk!" It is a place for students to learn, grow, share, and gain skills to be well.  During our first episode, “Summer Send-off:...

Jeromy Mackey performing in The Basement at California University of Pennsylvania

How “The Basement” heals: A student’s journey from heartbreak to art

Jeromy S. Mackey, Contributor April 30, 2020

It’s a Friday night in my college town, and while so many of my fellow “Vulcans” are scouring the dilapidated Mon Valley area of California, Pennsylvania for fraternity parties or anywhere to find...

Head director and advisor of CUTV Gary Smith with his 2019 George Heaslip Media Award.

Hard work pays off: The many hats Gary Smith wears to successfully run CUTV

Tom Caton, Editor-in-Chief April 27, 2020

It was the fall of 1994, when a young, eager-to-learn student named Gary Smith first walked into the media suite at California University of Pennsylvania. At the time, Smith thought he would be at Cal...

A student walks down the hall of Cal Us Wellness Center located in Carter Hall.

My first STD

Meghan Shaffer, Contributor April 23, 2020

I’ve never had an STD before. I never thought of myself as the kind of person who would ever receive this grotesque gift that everyone pretends to be so ashamed of, like those lumps of coal in our stocking...

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