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Back Issues   [ Tuesday, March 15, 1988 ]


NEWS

The final deadline for voter registration for the state's April 26 general primary election is 5 p.m. on March 28, and between then and now, many groups will be working to encourage not-so-motivated people to register.

Students searching for educational funding may find new computer matching services helpful, but the University's Director of Student Aid has little faith in the idea.

The 22nd annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is scheduled for July, but the volunteers for the festival already are working hard to make this year's event a success.

You are what you eat.

Women of Penn State no longer have to stand in the shadows of the PIKA/Penn State Calendar," which features women students and is sponsored by Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, 417 E.Prospect Ave.

It is your first time away from home, and college seems like a large and remote place. Your friends and loved ones seem so far away. You have no money, but the urge to talk to those you miss is overpowering.

Ideas on a number of student issues including campus security, student leader relations, minority recruitment and retention, and tuition hikes make up the Undergraduate Student Government presidential debate last night as candidates publically discussed perceptions of the USG and the role the president should play in its operation.

Eighty-six handbills were found glued to the four sets of doors on the south side of Old Main early yesterday morning by University Police Services.

At 8 p.m. tonight in Schwab Auditorium, in what promises to be diverse show, The Wright Bros. will be performing a series of comedy acts described as highly entertaining vaudeville.


SPORTS

The future looks very bright for the men's swimming and diving team since it will lose just two athletes from the squad that went 8-1 in dual meets and finished third at the Easterns Championships this season.

When Joe Battista was named head coach of the hockey team back in September, he had less than a month to prepare for the start of dry land training. At the time, he said that realistically, the 1987-88 season would be a rebuilding year for the Icers.

With her team trailing Richmond 9-5 at halftime yesterday, Women's Lacrosse Head Coach Sue Scheetz made a few lineup adjustments.

The baseball team is off to a slow start, but Head Coach Shorty Stoner said he's not worried.

Senior Liz O'Keeffe placed fourth on the one-meter and second on the three-meter board at the NCAA Pre-qualifying Diving Meet held over the weekend at Brown University.

OPINIONS

Collegian Editorial

Collegian Editorial

My Opinion: Chino Wilson

My Opinion: Mike Machi

My Opinion: Gigi Marino

ARTS

Low notes emanating from tuba and trombones will fill the Recital Hall in the Music Building on Thursday evening. The Tuba Ensemble and Trombone Choir, created from the low brass studio of Mark Lusk, assistant professor of low brass, will be performing at 8p.m.

Alley Theatre's production of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker will make Eisenhower Auditorium the next stop on its current national tour.

While New York is buzzing about the Broadway debut of Phantom of the Opera, Happy Valley is purring over the presentation of CATS, another of Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking musicals. Last night in Eisenhower Auditorium, technical illusion combined with performance energy to create a magical and memorable theatrical experience.

Teams of Penn State faculty members and students are researching ancient culture on the island of Sardinia with hopes of understanding cultural evolution.

History was made in 1908 when a three-year-old boy was abducted from his Manchurian home in the middle of the night and taken to Peking's Forbidden City where he became China's last emperor. History was made again in 1986 when Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, his international film crew and a cast of thousands spent eight weeks filming The Last Emperor inside the walls of the Forbidden City, China's greatest palace. This is the first Western production ever to be filmed almost entirely on location in modern China.

The phrase pseudo-erotica" leaves the mind with a lot to imagine. Local musician David E. Williams, impressed by the phrase, jotted it down on a poem-filled notebook in 10th grade hoping to use it someday.

Soprano Sherrie Garioan will present Humanity: A Vocal Perspective, a collection of arias relating to humankind's struggle with nature and itself, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Palmer Museum of Art. Garioan will be accompanied by Koya Ohmoto.




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