Web Biography Proposal

For our web biography assignment we have to find someone who has done or who has been through something interesting or unique. For my web biography I would like to do it on Kyle Frank. Kyle is a good friend of mine and is a senior Business major here at Slippery Rock. He has come up with several ideas for inventions and even won an invention competition last spring. He has a current invention that once he graduates he will seek a patent on it and begin trying to market it. I believe this would fit for the web biography assignment because not everyone can come up with a successful invention and most actually fail, but after winning a competition and already having plans to seek a patent I think it would be an interesting piece to look at.

SRU Earth Day Festival

Slippery Rock University continues to host several Earth Day events with an Earth Day Festival on Tuesday which took place in the Quad from 12:30 pm to 2 pm. The festival was sponsored by SRU Public Health majors and was aimed at raising students awareness about the Earth. It featured several information tables educating students about ways they can help save the Earth and also had a number of games that students could play.

Mihalik-Thompson Stadium

My proposal for the meograph timeline assignment is to do a history of Mihalik-Thompson Stadium. I am planning on talking about when it was first built, the two coaches it is named after, and the types of events that take place on the field. Along with the history of the stadium I also plan on touching a little bit on the history of The Rock football team seeing as to how football is the primary use of the field. I would assemble pictures and videos of the stadium. I would try to get an interview with Coach Mihalik and ask him about what it means to him to have the stadium named after him.

Evolve with Evive

Evive station in the Smith Student Center

On Monday April 8th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Smith Student Center, members from Evive were selling Evive water bottles to students. The bottles are to be used with the new Evive water filling stations that are
located upstairs in the student center by the SGA office and in the ARC. The two stations were installed shortly after spring break and provide students with quick, fresh, filtered, and chilled water.

Ashlynn Seeman, a senior Early Childhood Education major checks out her new Evive water bottle

The water bottles were being sold for $7 plus tax, which came to a total of $7.42 per bottle. The bottles themselves are double layered for better insulation and are capable of keeping your water chilled for up to as long as 4 to 5 hours. After you purchased your Evive bottle, you have to go online to the Evive webpage to register your bottle and to set up your pin and preferences before use.

Evive station in the ARC

The Evive water filling stations were first installed at West Virginia University last April and have since been increasing in their popularity. With the two just recently installed on the SRU campus, students can now get to use these innovative machines. Now what makes these Evive stations so much different than any other water filling station is that the machine will clean your bottle before filling it with filtered water. While your bottle gets cleaned and re-filled, the screen on the machine will play you a short commercial based on the preferences that you had entered when you registered your bottle. The short ads are from Ad agencies that sponsor Evive and this is what allows you to use the Evive stations for free.

Evive Station intern and senior Secondary Education and History major Lenny Caric sells the Evive water bottles and explains their use in this video.


Emily Herring, 20, a sophomore Early Childhood and Special Education major tries out her new Evive water bottle for the first time at the Evive station in the Smith Student Center.