This morning, PSU President Graham Spanier delivered the State of the University Address via video. It’s a rather powerful piece of epideictic rhetoric, and I’m glad that Spanier is in touch with media production that allow for broader audiences than a traditional address would have had. I’ll set my cynicism aside (I do have some ethical qualms with some of the claims and logics behind those claims) and simply share the video:
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