and mission to report on the university and student issues. In 1914 a subscriptions to the Penn State Collegian cost $1.50 per year. Printing of the publication was interrupted because of materials shortages caused by World War I during the fall semester of 1918. The publication began printing its paper semi-weekly, publishing Tuesday and Friday editions In the fall semester of 1920. Reporters covered all aspects of daily life as well as global events. In 1930 The Collegian moved its offices to "Journalism Alley," on the third floor of Old Main. The Daily Collegian After the publishers of the Penn State Collegian approved a move to begin printing the newspaper daily the masthead of the paper was changed to the Daily Collegian. The publication began publishing five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday. During this transition the publishing offices of the paper were moved to the basement of the Carnegie Library, now known as the Carnegie Building. The first issue of the newly daily paper was published on September 5, 1940. More than a year after making the switch to daily print, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered World War II. The Daily Collegian cut production days because of due to wartime rationing and shortages of materials printing weekly instead of daily from 1944 until the beginning of 1947. The Daily Collegian became a member of the Associated Press in 1956, submitting their stories to the wire service for publication at other member papers. In 1961 The Collegian moved to 20 Sackett Building. In 1972, The Collegian moved its office location to 126 Carnegie. In 1979 The Collegian earned the Associated Collegiate Press' Five Marks of Distinction for the second consecutive rating period. in the fall semester of 1979 The paper started production on The Weekly Collegian. Digital Era In a move to the digital era the Collegian launched its first website, The Digital Collegian, in the summer of 1996. This allowed the paper to deliver news articles online and improve access to digitized articles from its historical print issues. Beginning with the Fall 2006 semester, "The Digital Collegian" was renamed "The Daily Collegian Online" and debuted a new home page layout. A Web department was formed with the purpose of creating online updates for breaking news and posting stories on days when classes were not in session. Along with this launch came a project to digitize and