The election of the first woman vice president to the Board of Trustees holds some significance, members of the University community agreed yesterday, but the talents of Mimi Coppersmith are what truly earned her the post.
These are major Supreme Court cases that have dealt with First Amendment rights and secondary education. This list was compiled from interviews with University journalism professors and published reports on the recent Hazelwood case.
When report cards were issued this January, students and faculty gave both pluses and minuses to the University's new grading system.
An attorney for a state free-speech coalition and several University professors differed yesterday on the effects a recent Supreme Court decision supporting administrative editorship of high school newspapers will have on scholastic media.
Fundraising for a new shelter house for victims of domestic violence and their children starts this month, said Louise Sandmeyer, head of the Capital Campaign Committee of the Centre County's Women's Resource Center.
A retired State College resident was one of eight alumni selected to receive the University's highest individual honor, the Distinguished Alumni Award.
Students considering or interested in attending graduate school can have their questions answered by a counselor from the Office of Career Development and Placement Services at 7 tonight in the HUB Fishbowl.
Several students said yesterday the University needs to take action to back up Bryce Jordan's statements on intensified recruitment and retention of minorities.
According to FBI statistics, one in three women will be raped in her lifetime, and acquaintance rapes comprise the majority of those rapes reported, a representative from the campus' Men Stopping Rape group said this weekend.
The Missouri high school principal, whom the Supreme Court sided with in a precedent-setting student newspaper censorship case, said Friday that he views his newly-awarded authority over the publication as a way to oversee school curriculum.
As the audience joined the United Soul Ensemble in singing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and "We Shall Overcome," the third national celebration of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday came to a close, yet as Congresswomen Yvonne Burke said, this is not the end of a ceremonial day, but the beginning of a dream.
Fundraising for a new shelter house for victims of domestic violence and their children starts this month, said Louise Sandmeyer, head of the Capital Campaign Committee of the Centre County's Women's Resource Center.
It rained outside Rec Hall yesterday afternoon, but last night there was a drought of epic proportion inside the 59-year-old building.
The beat goes on for the Temple basketball team, which now holds a perfect 13-0 overall record and a 7-0 mark in the Atlantic 10.
Penn State Head Coach Bruce Parkhill summed up last night's 59-44 loss to Temple best.
They played the type of game that you anticipate from seasoned veterans -- a bring-it-to-me, fight-to-the-finish struggle.
The men's track team got its season off to a good start with wins over Pittsburgh and Georgetown Saturday at the Greenburg Indoor Sports Complex.
The men's swimming and diving team swept nine of 13 events Saturday in trouncing Division II foe Shippensburg, 126-85, at McCoy Natatorium. The win allowed the Lions to stretch their dual meet record to a perfect 3-0 mark.
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Barrence Whitfield and The Savages took a well warmed-up crowd at the HUB Ballroom Saturday night and set them jumping and twisting to some jamming soul-rock influenced by artists such as Little Richard, Otis Redding and James Brown.
Sunday evening in Recital Hall of the Music Building, Nan Gullo-Mann, lecturer on the University staff, invovled a small audience in an entrancing evening of harp music.
Let's face it, Stephen King knows how to tell a first-rate story. The man has talent. Whether or not he chooses to use it is another thing.
A French pianist who has won two international competitions and recently saw the release of her latest recording on compact disc will perform at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in the Recital Hall of the School of Music.
Aretha Franklin has taken a risk.
Quilting: A Touch of the Old and New juxtaposes old traditions and new thoughts, classic patterns and modern-day materials, contemporary methods and conservative ideals.
