In case you haven’t heard, Phroth is turning 100 this year, and yet still we are overshadowed by things that are much less old on this campus. The Pattee Library? 72 years old. The Lion Shrine? Only 67 years old. The Agriculture Science building? Only three years old! Come on!

But because our goal is to deliver unbiased, exemplary and hard-hitting journalism, we will print the facts without the rage that festers inside of us over our hurt feelings of being looked over so often. Here’s what Penn State is doing to a 49 year old structure, the beloved Beaver Stadium.

Penn State to Demolish Beaver Stadium and Replace With a Full Size Scale Model
by Matt Powers, Phollegian Editor

In a joint athletic department and university zoning committee meeting, it was on decided on Wednesday that Beaver Stadium will be completely demolished. In its place, the university will build a 1:1 scale model of the former stadium. Reportedly, this identical model will be the home field for the Penn State Nittany Lion football team.

“Beaver Stadium has been around for so long,” said Greg Hopkins, director of the university zoning committee. “And that is why we have to knock it down to the ground. Out with the old, and in with the new. When we thought about what should be put in its place, the overwhelming consensus was to put an identical model of the beloved stadium. I think we’re all pretty happy with the turnout.”

Reportedly, the current Beaver Stadium, built in 1960, is in fine structural condition and meets all safety codes, but the joint committee felt that a real change needed to be made.

“I don’t know, I guess I kinda agree,” Ashley Gibbons (senior- bio engineering). “I mean, that stadium has been around for so long. It’s about time we got a new one. And to have the new one be just like the old one, well, I think that’s just the tops.”

Vice president Herman Lechner also commended the decision. “I think the knocking down of Beaver Stadium only to raise a full size scale model is just what this university needs right now. We’re always doing construction all over campus, often for unnecessarily long and inconvenient periods of time. We need all the practice in useless, inefficient construction we can get.”

The demolition and subsequent construction will begin in the summer of this year and is projected to be done in the spring of 2028. Until then, the football team will play all of their home games on the HUB lawn, unless people playing are already ultimate frisbee on it, in which case the team will wait until they are done.