The reported $32,000 the University spent in 1987 to entertain politicians at football games is creating better University-government relations, school officials said in response to The Philadelphia Inquirer's recent report on lobbyist disclosure forms.

HARRISBURG -- Fostering academic excellence at the University will be a central goal of the University's Board of Trustees in the coming years, the board's president told trustees Saturday during a speech detailing priorities for his three-year term.

State College Bureau of Police Services is investigating the death of a University student in a fatal car crash.

HARRISBURG -- For a presidential candidate to win the votes of the University's Board of Trustees he would have to put higher education high on his list of priorities.

The battle for the best Undergraduate Student Government presidential ticket will begin at 7 tonight in East Halls' Findley Rec Room.

The state treasury is taking a careful look at local banks and their community involvment, and rewarding them with additional deposits.

Aquaintance rape is not considered a criminal act by many men and women and this misconception needs to be addressed by both sexes, said two University psychologists at a recent workshop.

Joseph Dougherty, a 1972 University graduate, was recently named director of the University's National Center for Diaelectric Studies, said Tracy Edwards, publications coordinator with the Materials Research Laboratory.

The president of the Board of Trustees and his wife donated $2 million on Friday to aid the University's biotechnology program, fund a faculty chair at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and establish a library endowment.

HARRISBURG -- The University's endowment funds suffered a year-end 5 percent setback because of October's stock market crash, but investments made a quick recovery in the first two months of the year, a University official told the Board of Trustees Saturday.

HARRISBURG -- Strategic planning in the development of the University's physical plant has resulted in academic and administrative reorganization and has furthered support for student programs, a University official told the Board of Trustees Friday.

The death penalty is the only sentence in the United States penal system that condones the eye for an eye" philosophy, something the Undergraduate Amnesty International does not condone, an Amnesty representative said.

Penn State researchers have been selected to be one of six groups in the world to test the Intel iPSC/2, a new personal supercomputer.

HARRISBURG -- Students living on campus will pay about 4.1 percent more for room and board next year because of a rate hike approved unanimously Saturday by the University's Board of Trustees.

A Pennsylvania-based architectural and engineering firm with offices in State College, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, CDA International, Inc., is participating in the construction of an outdoor recreational facility for handicapped people in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Even before a recently published book concerning AIDS and the heterosexual community hits the market, world and local health officials are calling some of the research findings irresponsible."

A multitude of products bearing the Penn State name or logo are manufactured by 785 companies actively licensed to use Penn State's name and symbols on items sold in retail stores, said Vicki Fong, spokeswoman for the University's department of public information.

Knives, flashlights and bowling balls were hurled through the air as jugglers and spectators gathered at the second annual Juggling Festival Saturday.

The Daily Collegian news office, located in 126 Carnegie, received an anonymous bomb threat at 3:10 Saturday afternoon. The call was taken by a staff writer, Chino Wilson, who was alone in the office at the time. He immediately telephoned the campus police.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- The women's basketball team entered Friday night's Atlantic 10 semi-final match with Rutgers expecting an all out physical game.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Friday night's Atlantic 10 Conference tournament semi-final contest between Rutgers and Penn State will, in all likelihood, be forgotten.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- It took Sue Wicks, the United States Basketball Association 's Player of the Year, almost 7 minutes to score in her team's semi- final game against Penn State Saturday night.

In what Head Coach Shorty Stoner called a critical weekend for his baseball team, the Lions went 1-3 on the road in two double-header matchups.

Merely 11 seconds into the men's lacrosse game Saturday in Holuba Hall, Loyola's Andy Wilson rocketed the squad's first goal past Penn state netminder Chip Robertson, setting a blistering pace that ended in a 15-7 defeat for the Lions.

The men's volleyball team was looking for revenge, and yesterday afternoon it got it.

The 6-hour bus ride from Welland, Ontario, was well worth the trip for Niagara College and Head Coach Fred Bassi.

For Penn State, many positive things came out of the 1987 NCAA Wrestling Championships at Maryland's Cole Field House.

Collegian Editorial

Collegian Editorial

My Opinion: Bill Cahir

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