Programs with tips for teaching assistants need to be sponsored by university administrations, said graduate students from nationwide institutions at a TA seminar Saturday.
The United States needs to place more emphasis on education to remain a strong world power, a University official told more than 60 graduate students from institutions nationwide this weekend.
The next presidential administration will be forced to deal with a major tax bill that, among other things, would restore non-taxable status to research assistants' paid tuition from outside sources, a University official told graduate student leaders at a conference this weekend.
The $10 tickets for the cafeteria-style dinner paid for one bread roll and one bowl of vegetable-barley soup, no seconds allowed.
Ten years ago, Penn State alumnus Steve Babinchak was told by investors that his dream of starting a plastics recycling company was a hopeless cause."
What started out as a small voluntary recycling project 17 years ago in Bloomsburg has grown into a mandatory program that saves the city over $50,000 a year in refuse collection and landfill use fees.
One campus organization has taken the recycling issue into its own hands and successfully promoted the solid waste issue for more than a decade.
The future of American blacks in the year 2000 is bleak, according to a black scholar who addressed an audience of about 50 colleagues and others in a symposium on education this weekend.
Options for recycling campus waste are now being considered by a recently- formed University committee.
Major League Baseball's National League is considering a woman for an assignment that would make her its first female umpire, but collegiate baseball officials said they have never seen a woman fill the position on the Division I level.
A State College man and woman were seriously injured in two unrelated car accidents yesterday morning, State College Bureau of Police Services said.
The significance of graduate education will be a factor in determining the future of the United States, University President Bryce Jordan told members of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students Friday night.
Amidst the stares of curious onlookers and some name-calling motorists, more than 400 students and community members took to the streets of the University and State College on Saturday to march against discrimination.
Learning to communicate with people on varied levels of majority or minority sensitivity is key to properly addressing minority concerns, the University's associate director of the division of Campus Life told a group of about 30 graduate students at the Cultural Diversity" seminar portion of a graduate convention Saturday.
The University's vice provost and dean for undergraduate programs will step down from her position this summer to take a job at the University of California.
Hours of hard work finally paid off as $10,000 in awards was presented to graduate students for their thesis research this weekend.
Posters stating that homosexuality has no place at Penn State were posted across campus last week. Sponsored by Young Americans for Freedom" was printed on the bottom of the each poster.
While the participants in the March for Human Equality sang back at Old Main, leaders of the coalition sponsoring the march left the demonstratio n to take care of unfinished business.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been trying to recruit librarians as spies, including one from Penn State, under its recently formed Library Awareness Program. But University officials said library staff here will not be involved unless they are forced to by a court order in a criminal proceeding.
The state Senate voted 42-5 last Tuesday to abolish the Catastrophic Loss Trust Fund, a program which pays the major medical costs of motor vehicle accident victims. According to the state's insurance department, this action could leave 610 claimants with nowhere to turn.
A female student clerk at the Warnock Union Building post office told University police Friday evening that she gave about $100 to a woman who entered the office and told the clerk there was a man holding a gun on both of them, University Police Services Officer Robert Bennett said.
The women's gymnastics team closed its regular-season schedule Saturday with a 184.25-183.60 victory over North Carolina.
AMES, Iowa--After winning his quarterfinal bout with Pete Gonzalez, 3-2, Jim Martin looked up from where he lay on the mat and said to Head Coach Rich Lorenzo, My whole body is killing me."
The women's basketball team's season, along with the Penn State careers of Suzie McConnell and Bethany Collins, ended yesterday after the No.3 Lady Tigers of Auburn trounced the Lady Lions, 94-66, in an NCAA tournament second-round mismatch.
Tracy Schnappinger had a hat trick and Joy Jones made 13 saves as the Dukes of James Madison defeated the women's lacrosse team, 6-5, Saturday in Harrisonburg, Va.
AMES, Iowa--For junior Jim Martin, it was perhaps the longest seven minutes of his life.
In its last home meet of the season, the men's gymnastics team decided to go out with a roar -- and what a roar it was.
The men's lacrosse team, playing in the heated confines of Holuba Hall, won the Penn State Indoor Invitational yesterday, defeating Lehigh, 13-7.
AMES, Iowa--Sometimes the athletes who seem to have nothing to lose are the ones who win the biggest.
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