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Back Issues   [ Friday, June 17, 1988 ]


NEWS

Starting this fall, spare change can be used not only for loop fare at University Park, but for parking meters as well, when about 140 meters become operational for mostly visitor use on campus.

Clowns cavorted on University House lawn Wednesday morning as officials from the 22nd Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts announced some of the highlights of the upcoming festival.

A convicted murderer who escaped from a Rockview State Correctional Institution work detail in 1986 has been apprehended in Idaho along with the woman who aided his escape, Pennsylvania State Police announced yesterday.

Posters appeared on campus yesterday, notifying the public about the existence of lead in drinking water and the substance's potential health hazards.

The University will receive almost $7 million dollars from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct two research projects during the next five years for the development of 21st century air and space travel.

A Chicago Sun Times assistant editor won the distinguished Lowell Mellett Award for Improving Journalism through Critical Evaluation, Communications Professor John Rippey announced yesterday.

Evan Pugh emeritus English Professor Phillip Young went beyond literary value to explore similarities between a story and its author in his presentation Herman Melville's Last Goodbye" yesterday afternoon in 101 Kern.

Fall and football may seem a long way off, but students can get a head start on the traditional Homecoming festivities with the 1988 Homecoming Committee's logo contest.


SPORTS

For most athletes, competing in the Olympics is not simply a competition, but a dream come true. More than an athletic contest, the Games are an event of friendship and goodwill among nations and individuals.

My Opinion: Joseph Haas

OPINIONS

Collegian Editorial

My Opinion: Robert Newman-Walton

Letters to the editor

ARTS

Olympia, a mesmerizing montage of diving footage from the 1936 Berlin Games, will headline a showcase of vintage film shorts and documentaries to be shown tonight in the Olympic Film festival at the Palmer Museum of Art.

You take a relaxing stroll down College Avenue, absorbing all the familiar sights and sounds and enjoying the mid-day sun. As you nonchalantly window shop, you notice a large, red sculpture right on the sidewalk.

One day about three years ago, some people got together to discuss how they might preserve the Arts Festival memory throughout the year. They came up with a few creative ideas, such as permanently closing the block between College Avenue and Beaver Avenue on Allen Street to traffic and converting it into a mall or implementing an annual major concert or performance in honor of the festival.




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