St. Paul's United Methodist Church is seeking $2,250,000 in damages from three electrical product companies whose negligence church officials believe led to a fire that gutted the East College Avenue sanctuary last November, according to litigation filed Tuesday.

State House members survived a tough round of partisan politics Wednesday and brought the budget one step closer to its final form, which will include appropriations for the University and contribute to a decision on raising fall tuition.

Penn State was ranked first among American research universities for the highest percentage rise in funds spent on research and development for fiscal 1986.

Waterbed owners, wake up and rise from your luxurious sleeping contraptions. Studies have revealed that heating these comfortable alternatives to conventional mattress beds can cost up to $300 dollars a year.

The University has become a part of Gov. Robert P. Casey's three-year $30 million dollar program to aid small- and medium-sized businesses in the state, said Thomas D.Larson, special assistant to University President Bryce Jordan.

Closing the book on his two-year flight from the law, convicted murderer Jon E. Yount emerged from a small propeller plane at University Park Airport yesterday morning as a crowd of about 20 people watched silently from behind police lines.

The Inciters, a progressive rock band, will play tonight at the Asylum, in the HUB Ballroom from 9:30 to 1:00. This inaugural summer concert is free, and is co-sponsored by the Office of Summer Sessions.

Officers from the University's Department of Police Services apprehended a 15-year old male youth outside of the Hetzel Union Building yesterday afternoon after he was reportedly involved in a knife-related fight on East College Avenue.

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Collegian Editorial

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My Opinion: Carl Rupert

Almost three years after their debut in the HUB cellar, local country/folk/ro ck favorites Trinity are positioning themselves for a major career move.

Tonight is opening night for Pennsylvania Centre Stage's presentation of The Front Page, its second production of the summer season. This comedy is still entertaining audiences after 60 years since its opening.

Eight years after they first became commercially available, one-third of the adult population in the United States owns an autofocus camera. Marc Levey has now written the first book to examine how this phenomenon is changing the art of photography.

Human beings and cartoon characters have appeared together in movies before. Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke danced with animated penguins in Mary Poppins, and Angela Lansbury played soccer with jungle animals in Bedknobs and Broomsticks. But in both films, the live actors appeared flat and stagnant due to the fact that the camera had to remain absolutely still, and the actors had to stand the same distance from the lens in order for the animation to work. With Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Disney studios and Steven Spielberg have perfected a new process by which live and animated characters can appear together freely and realistically.