Citizens gave input on amendments to the current sign ordinance to control backlit awnings and distinguish between awnings and canopies at a public meeting held last night at the State College Borough Council meeting.

The future of the gay and lesbian struggle for freedom is here on campus, said the head of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Anti-Violence Project last night.

Elizabeth Walker chose Penn State because it offered her the major she desired. Renelle Noone came to the University to get away" from home. And Michael New liked Penn State's solid wrestling program.

Penn State's Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy received a renewal grant of $50,000 from Gannett Foundation's Literacy Challenge program last month.

About 12 anti-homosexual posters stating Homo-cide has a definite place at Penn State" were found posted on trees and garbage cans along the Mall from Carnegie to Hammond Building early Friday morning, University Police Services said.

The new Interfraternity Executive Council conducted its first complete meeting under new officers last night at Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity, 339 Fraternity Row.

Four years ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates were on the verge of leaving town for greener pastures. The team had the worst record in baseball, the worst attendance in baseball, a number of overpaid and lethargic veterans who were past their prime, and a drug scandal centered in Pittsburgh that seemed to sound the death knell for the team.

The challenge will begin anew for the Philadelphia Phillies tonight when Barry Bonds of the Pirates steps in against Shane Rawley at 7:35 to open the 1988 season for Pennsylvania's two major league teams.

The women's golf team placed 10th in the Duke Spring Invitational held in Durham, N.C.

The men's golf team is in first place after one round of the William&Mary Invitational. The Lions lead with a score of 300, with Old Dominion a close second with a 302. Virginia Commonwealth is third with a 305 and St. John's is fourth with a score of 308.

My Opinion: Mike Machi

My Opinion: Dr. Arthur Goldschmidt

The people who attend Barry Kroeker's faculty oboe recital tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Music Building will be part of a special evening. All the pieces on the program are newly commissioned works that have never been performed before, and all of the composers will be attending the concert.

Louis Armstrong, Lester Young, Duke Ellington and Billie Holliday are among the jazz greats who will come alive at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center.

If escaping reality for a little while sound like the perfect way to make it through the rest of the semester, attending this weekend's Thespian production of Once Upon A Mattress might be the prefect thing to do.

The undergraduate photography exhibition in Chambers Building displays a wide range of subject matter and techniques created by undergraduate art students in several different class levels.

The first quarter of 1988 is gone, but the record barrel is teaming with accomplishments from today's college music bands.