A dearth of candidates for the elections deciding the executive positions in the Graduate Student Association is not an unusual problem, but it is one that occurred at last night's assembly meeting in 101 Kern.

State College Bureau of Police Services and University Police Services arrested 18 people yesterday, culminating a five-month cooperative drug investigation during which drugs with a street value of about $46,000 were purchased by undercover officers.

In the final meeting of the 18th Congress of the Undergraduate Student Government Senate, senators voted to eliminate fraternity seats, increase executive candidates' spending limit and allow USG write-in candidates to participate in election debates.

The state Consumer Advocate Office and Attorney General have filed complaints to the Public Utility Commission and Commonwealth Court about telephone services being oversold by Bell of Pennsylvania, said John Frazier, PUC spokesman.

Controversy arose about the University's right to engage in entrepreneurial activities for supplemental income after a University official spoke on the topic at yesterday's Faculty Senate meeting.

Who was responsible for the chemical plant disaster in Bhopal, India -- the worst industrial accident in history -- two and a half years ago?

We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present." -- Stuart Udall, from The Quiet Crisis"

Poet Langston Hughes wondered about a dream deferred: Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun ... or does it explode?" Calling nuclear power a failed God," former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall last night raised similar questions about America's atomic age, and the broken promises to which it gave birth.

As thousands of people around the world celebrate Easter and Passover, special services will be held on campus to honor these religious holidays.

In an effort to promote early detection of breast cancer, state Rep.Ruth Rudy, D-Centre, has introduced legislation in the state House of Representatives that requires insurance companies to pay for mammography screening for women aged 35 and over.

Alison Jones, outgoing Graduate Student Association president, discussed the possibility of forming a new division within the GSA structure that would address issues concerning human or community diversity at last night's meeting.

Last year Towson State pounced on Penn State in Baltimore, Md. to seal an 18-7 victory. This year the Lions are hoping to surprise their nemesis.

The baseball team relied on timely hitting and the pitching of Keith Bevenour in the first game to grab its first doubleheader sweep of the season yesterday against Youngstown State at Beaver Field.

The women's lacrosse team gave No.1 Temple a run yesterday, but dropped a 14-11 decision -- the Lady Lions' first-ever loss to Temple in Philadelphia -- in a rematch of last year's NCAA championship game, which Penn State won, 7-6.

The men's volleyball team, ranked second in the nation, defeated No.7 Rutgers-Newark in three games, 15-10, 15-12 and 15-3 last night at Rec Hall.

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In Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holliday, Lady Day once had to smear black greasepaint on her light-skinned face so audiences would know she was not a white woman on the same stage as a black band.