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Back Issues   [ Thursday, Jan. 28, 1988 ]


NEWS

Two counselors from the University Drug Education Program for Total Health answered some commonly asked questions about cocaine and crack last night at a meeting open to all students.

Coping with stress and difficult people is easier when a person can identify stressors and change them, a University psychologist said.

The University's Board of Trustees will not decide upon next year's tuition until mid-July, but two University professors of economics and a University public information spokesman disagree whether the Oct. 19 stock market crash will have an effect.

The Undergraduate Student Government's Academic Assembly is supporting USG's plan to reorganize the student government and have one legislative body, after discussing the pros and cons of the plan at an informal meeting last night.

Your shower hasn't worked for over a week. Plugging anything into an electrical outlet causes flying sparks. Turning on the basement lights sends the cockroaches scurrying in all directions. And of course, your landlord is nowhere to be found.

Plans to improve the University Park Airport in Benner Township have been approved and given the go-ahead by the Federal Aviation Administration.

What began as a slide presentation about Nicaragua hosted by the Friends of Latin America ended last night in heated debate between members of the College Republicans and supporters of the Central American country's Sandinista regime.

Since its conception in September 1986, the Diamond and Related Materials Consortium has come a long way.

Three blocks from campus, within an unassuming apartment building, sits one of the most unique dormitories in the country.

Two years ago today, the space shuttle Challenger exploded just after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing the seven astronauts aboard and sending the space program of the United States into a tailspin.

The University's Equal Opportunity Planning Committee recently formed a task force as part of a centralized effort to recruit and retain women and minority faculty and staff.


SPORTS

After fencing all but one of their meets on the road since the season began, the men's and women's fencing teams finally have a chance to compete on their home turf.

Penn State didn't provide football player Darin Roberts with enough motivation to overcome academic difficulties and stay enrolled, he said in a telephone interview from his Somerset, N.J. home last night.

Although the first half of the season has been characterized by more peaks and valleys than the stock market, Head Women's Basketball Coach Rene Portland is willing to make some risky investments in her team.

At the beginning of the season the men's basketball team faced Oklahoma in a very important game at Rec Hall. Tonight at 7:30 the Lions may be playing a game of equal if not greater significance against A-10 rival Duquesne at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh.

OPINIONS

Collegian Editorial

My Opinion: Glenn Rougier

My Opinion: The STOP members who submitted this letter are Robert B. Bowen, president, Daniel F. Hassler, vice-president, Melissa D. Altman, secretary, and Richard D. Hollinger, treasurer.

Letters to the editor




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