The 326 students, faculty and administrators who received awards yesterday "are all the stuff greatness is made of," said Mimi Ungar Coppersmith, vice chairwoman of the University's Board of Trustees.

Nearly 100 members of the Pennsylvania State University Veterans Organization, the largest group of veteran alumni to gather since the organization was founded, gathered this weekend for their 20 year reunion, said Jim Lynch, member of the 20th Anniversary Committee.

Bob Orzechowski, program committee chairman of the Berks County Vietnam Memorial Commission, attended the Penn State veterans dinner Saturday night to drum up interest in a Vietnam memorial planned to be built in Reading.

Two people were arrested and 14 received citations yesterday during the 14th annual Beta Sigma Beta Sy Barash Regatta, which attracted a crowd of about 30,000 people.

The shivering cold and dreary weather did not stop true Penn Staters on their quest for springtime fun as the 14th annual Beta Sigma Beta Sy Barash Regatta recorded its most successful year.

LOCK HAVEN -- Rev. Jesse Jackson told about 2,000 people at the Lock Haven High School gymnasium yesterday afternoon that government needs to "reinvest in America -- reinvest in people" by supporting labor negotiations, funding prenatal care and day care and stopping drug imports.

The HUB Ballroom overflowed with spectators last night, some resorting to seats in bushes outside the room's glass wall, as presidential hopeful Michael Dukakis and his wife, former Penn Stater Kitty Dickson, campaigned to create a John F. Kennedy-like era in 1988.

Holsteins, Jerseys, Ayrshires and others paraded to center ring for judges and an audience Saturday. The coiffured cows, led by agriculture students, were part of the 63rd annual Dairy Exposition.

It is crucial that students voting in the upcoming presidential elections consider how the candidates stand on the Strategic Defense Initiative, a University professor of physics said.

Remember the solar energy craze of the '70s when Americans purchased solar homes, cars, watches and calculators?

People with gallstones may soon have a remedy other than the painful surgery or drugs which are now used to dissolve gallstones.

The Penn State Coal Sample Bank and Data Base, the largest of its kind, is a collection of about 1,100 samples of coal collected in the United States, said Alan Davis, director of the bank and the Energy and Fuels Research Center.

A record-breaking hammer throw highlighted the 17th annual Nittany Lion Relays Saturday.

Even though records of wins and losses are rarely kept in women's track, it's safe to say Penn State came away from the Lady Lion Relays Saturday with a well-earned victory.

After achieving its goal of winnning the NCAA Northeast regional title, the women's gymanstics team stumbled a bit at the National Championships Friday at the University of Utah.

The baseball team had the door slammed on its Atlantic 10 playoff hopes this weekend as it dropped three games to league-leading West Virginia.

Two-and-a-half weeks after being declared ineligible for further NCAA play, former Penn State wide receiver Ray Roundtree became the first Nittany Lion selected in the 1988 National Football League draft yesterday when the Detroit Lions chose him with their third-round pick. He was the 58th player taken in the draft.

Before Saturday's Blue-White intrasquad game, Head Coach Joe Paterno said he wanted to see his squad concentrate on fundamentals.

After a slow start the women's lacrosse team put its game in gear and defeated New Hampshire 9-5 Saturday at Lady Lion Field.

In order to beat Division III's second-ranked Hobart at the Statesmen's Boswell Field, the men's lacrosse team knew it would have to play aggressively for 60 minutes.

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