The east side of Holmes Avenue would look pretty bare if the 22 trees that now line the 600-700 blocks were cut down and replaced with smaller trees. But through the efforts of borough residents and some members of the Borough of State College Tree Commission, those trees along with 48 others will be spared.
Colorful balloons and flowers filled Rec Hall for the opening ceremonies of the XIX summer games of the Pennsylvania Special Olympics, but the spirit of the evening came from the cheers and smiles of the Special Olympians.
Beginning in July, University students and State College residents will be able to have their cake and read it, too.
A 12-year-old tradition of letting off steam before spring finals week resulted in University disciplinary action for about 50 participating students and the arrest of two male students apprehended while running naked into a women's dorm during the last week of the spring semester.
A snake and a dog engaged in a skirmish with each other Wednesday, State College Bureau of Police Services reported.
A youth temporarily residing in State College was reported missing yesterday by the State College Bureau of Police Services.
The men's volleyball team headed into the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship at George Mason University April 29-30 anticipating a win and their sixth trip to the NCAA Final Four.
The road to the IC4A and NCAA championships was a rocky one for the men's track and field team.
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Twenty-three pieces of ceramic sculpture lie still in their glass cases in Chambers Gallery, but there could be no more appropriate title for this exhibit than Life Forms.
Many people have accused State College of being a place separate from reality. The late science fiction writer H. Beam Piper actually wrote about a Central Pennsylvania that existed in a parallel time. In his novel Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, Centre County became a feudal society called Hostigos.
Touchstone Pictures' Big Business, an uproarious farce featuring the campy hijinx of Bette Midler and the sublime characterizations of Lily Tomlin, cashes in on the inherent comedy of opposites. Kind of a hybrid of television's Green Acres and Laverne and Shirley, it combines the fish-out-of-water premise, country vs. city, whimsical vs. practical and clown' vs. straight' with the gimmicky twin plot for a non-stop parody of screen comedy.
You may be out of luck by missing Pennsylvania Centre Stage's last two performances of Guys and Dolls, A Musical Fable of Broadway, directed by Alert Pertalion, at 8 tonight and tomorrow in the Playhouse Theater on campus.
Anyone who has taken Speech Com 100 knows that speeches have a formula. To pass the course, you need only find a formula that works and stick with it.
