If you are reading this article, then you are not among the many Americans who will benefit from a $100,000 grant donated from the Gannett Foundation to help combat adult illiteracy nationwide.

The White Building gym will be transformed into a huge dance hall this weekend when 544 ambitious dancers put their bodies to a grueling test of endurance to help find a cure for cancer at the 16th Annual Dance Marathon.

Have you ever wondered where the dining halls got the idea to serve chicken cosmos? Or who decided to serve wiener wings? Most of the menu choices served to University students started in Linda Ebert's test kitchen.

Storytellers have entranced children and adults over the ages with their tales of magical animals, mystical folk and enchanted kingdoms. One local man has taken it upon himself to continue the craft.

If a recycling bill currently being considered by the state legislature is passed, taking out the trash" may take on a whole new meaning.

An 8-year-old murder case involving a former University student, a 14-pound synthetic ruby and the questionable identification of the victim's body will return to Centre County Court next week.

Abstaining from one meal today provides another dollar to stop starvation around the world.

Pictures of smiling faces and wide open spaces were everywhere amid cries of Hey, do you want a job this summer?"

Participants in this weekend's Dance Marathon will see more than the fabled hallucinations and visions. Dancers and spectators alike will be treated to entertaining sights and sounds of radio disc jockeys, local and out-of-town bands and University athletic teams and clubs, thanks to the efforts of the Dance Marathon Entertainment Committee.

A resolution passed during Wednesday's Graduate Council meeting expresses graduate faculty support for the undue tax burden placed on graduate students, a council representative said.

The University's College of Engineering will be holding an Open House for prospective students, current students and the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow.

Higher education received a boost yesterday when President Reagan revealed his budget proposal which would increase funding by 8 percent in the next year.

An effort between students and the administration to improve communication on facility-related issues resulted in the release of a progress report on the future of Pollock fields at the University's Student Executive Council meeting last night.

Two students stood at the top step of Old Main holding a sign that read "Stopping the Nuclear Arms Race Begins at Penn State," as 30 people lay motionless on the ground below them.

A University student was cited early yesterday morning for public drunkenness and harassment after striking a police officer, University Police Officer Jack Quick said.

A change in the 1988 fiscal year has created an excess of funds in the State College Community Development Block Grant.

Whether or not the current Senate bill for statewide mandatory recycling is passed, State College borough and surrounding townships will probably kick off a recycling program within the next year, according to a local spokeswoman.

Imagine putting yourself through 48 hours of grueling endurance on the floors of White Building for the Interfraternity Council Dance Marathon. Then imagine doing it four years in a row.

Studies on the ecological history of today's forest trees can be useful evidence of man's harmful impacts on the environment, said a University researcher.

Studies on the ecological history of today's forest trees can be useful evidence of man's harmful impacts on the environment, said a University researcher.

The University's housing for students with severe kidney disease can now expand its services from 12 students to providing in-house dialysis for 30 to 35 students thanks to a recently approved state grant, said state Rep. Ruth C. Rudy, D-Centre.
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Their tools are squirt guns, superballs, yo-yo's and a lot of enthusiasm.

The men's track team will travel to Morgantown, W.Va., this weekend to compete in the Atlantic 10 Invitational at the University of West Virginia.

If the wrestling team's surprise 19-18 upset win over No. 2 Iowa in Carver-Hawkeye Arena was the appetizer, then this weekend's activities with No. 1 ranked Oklahoma State (7:30 tonight in Rec hall) and No. 7 Lock Haven University (tomorrow at Lock Haven) are the main courses.

The men's volleyball team will be looking to recover from last Saturday's loss to Rutgers-Newark when it plays No. 14 Ohio State tomorrow night at North Allegheny High School.

The women's gymnastics team will find out this week how it measures up against the best in the country when it hosts No. 8 Florida at 8 p.m. Saturday and defending national champion and No. 2 Georgia on Wednesday at Rec Hall.

Right about now, most Penn State basketball fans would probably cheer if someone took a wrecking ball to McGonigle Hall.

The men's and women's fencing teams will have their hands full this weekend when they travel to New York City to meet national powerhouse Columbia.

The men's basketball team dropped a 65-61 decision to Rutgers last night, giving the Scarlet Knights their first Atlantic 10 Conference victory of the season in front of 1,623 fans at the Louis Brown Athletic Center in New Brunswick, N.J.

Calling the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus The Greatest Show on Earth" may have been a little premature, considering what could transpire in Rec Hall tomorrow night.

The men's swimming and diving team will try to rebound from its first loss of the season when it visits Boston University at noon tomorrow.

When the ice hockey team steps foot on the rink tonight (at 9) and tommorow (at 3:30) at the Ice Pavilion against International Collegiate Hockey League foe Niagara-Welland, a lot more than might be expected will be on the line.

The women's track team's two-mile relay squad is hoping to qualify for the NCAA Championships when it participates in the George Mason Quadrangular meet Sunday in Fairfax, Va.

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University Professor of Music Steven Smith will present a solo piano recital at 8p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, in the Recital Hall of the Music Building.

Marvin Blickenstaff, known nationally as a pianist and teacher, will be conducting a four hour program of lectures and a master class starting at 9a.m. Saturday in 110 Music Building. His appearance is funded by the Central Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association.

Balance, grace, agility and strength -- qualities not often found all together. Balance, grace, agility and strength on ice -- the qualites of a figure skater.

In the Celebration of Love" concert at 8p.m. tommorrow in the main hall of Od Main, the Penn State University Chamber Singers will honor a professor who served on the University staff for 35 years.

Only one-eighth of an inch is keeping your warm body from the cold, wet ice when you are balancing on ice skates.

The 1973 documentary film Black at Yale is showing at 7 p.m., Monday, at the Paul Robeson Cultural Center as part of Black History Month.

Is fun cohesive? It must be. It is, after all, the reason the Screaming Ducks claim they are still sticking together after four years since this past Valentine's Day.

Last Friday's performance of classical music by the Brandenburg Ensemble was flawless, according to conductor and violinist Alexander Schneider.

Three popular Pittsburgh bands will be featured at this weekend's Dance Marathon on Saturday night.