Philadelphia Student Press Association

"How Is It Going To End?" Quote mentioned by Rob Pezzeca at 8/25's event. Thirty years is enough time to become a different person. At SCI Phoenix, the men who sat on the panel were not asking for sympathy–they were offering clarity. They spoke about the harm they caused, the decades they have spent confronting it, and the slow, deliberate work of becoming better men in a place designed to remember their worst moment forever. For the five students in the room, it was not theo

Hello, my name is Rob Pezzeca. I am in a Pennsylvania state prison for taking a man’s life in August of 1998. I was sentenced to death by incarceration. I am a father; my daughter, Krista, is 28 years old. My grandbaby, Maddy, is almost 2. My girlfriend, Kat, is my age. We are 49. I have been in here for 28 years. I am the product of a broken childhood. We all know the saying: “Hurt people hurt people, and healed people help people.” I am no longer hurt. I can look in a mirro

For 39 days, Philadelphia became a shared home for people from around the world. The Great American Sleepover looks at what happened when the world came to experience the city as it really is.

If you scrape every headline from PSPA’s student newsrooms across the region – you will notice something funny. The stories are always honest – it’s a portrait of what students actually care about. Coding every headline from the past year, the dataset would reveal the truth every student journalist eventually learns: campus life is the real breaking news. Across campuses, logistical reporting reigns supreme. Dining hall updates, housing shortages, Wi-Fi outages: these stories