A preliminary hearing for a 15-year-old boy charged with the Dec. 24 shotgun death of David Lynn Smith of Philipsburg is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Clearfield County Prison before District Justice Michael Rudella.

More local visual artists can display their work at this summer's Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, thanks to the creation of a central/regional division in the 1988 Sidewalk Sale.

Financial aid information is now available over the phone to high school seniors, college students and parents, thanks to a hot line established by the Pennsylvania Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.

The University must incorporate aggressive searching into its hiring process to obtain more minority women faculty and staff members, said a member of the University's Strategic Study Group on the Status of Women.

The sale of two State College radio stations, WMAJ-AM and WXLR-FM, to a new University interest firm and the agreement to allow TCI to continue to service the State College area are two changes that may soon have an impact on local communications.

The District Office Commander of the State Police Liquor Control Board said last night at the Interfraterity Council meeting that fraternities serving alcohol to minors could face a $2,500 fine or up to a year in jail.

The parent company of Centre County's largest industrial emoployer, HRB-Singer, is in the midst of negotiating a takeover by Florida investor Paul Bilzerian, said Wesley Brown, HRB-Singer president.

Students with questions or comments about the University's compliance with a five-year state desegregation mandate can meet with representatives from the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights from 3 to 5 this afternoon in the HUB Gallery Lounge.

State College residents are instructed to boil their water until further notice after contaminants were found in a surface water source, a local water company official said last night.

Tailback Blair Thomas underwent successful arthroscopic reconstructive surgery of the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee yesterday at the Hershey Medical Center, where he is expected to remain for the next two to four days.

The men's volleyball team -- ranked No. 1 by Volleyball Monthly has made a lot of progress, even though its NCAA season doesn't begin until later this month at Rec Hall.

The men's swimming and diving team won the 400-yard freestyle relay, the final race of a 13-event meet, to down Pittsburgh 115-102 in a dual meet at Pitt on Saturday.

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Collegian Editorial

Imagine dance as an exploration of space. It's not a group of beautiful girls twirling around on pointed shoes, but instead a mass of bodies discovering their relationship with their environment. This is the Nikolais Dance Theatre.

1987 was the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, and nothing multiplied faster than the number of musical surprises in the airwaves this year.

Accelerated Learning sports the following claims on its front cover: double your reading speed within hours,"develop a photographic memory,"learn a new language in just 12 days,"increase your creativity and boost your I.Q."

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