The largest cancer-causing factors are ones we can control, explained a prominent cancer researcher yesterday to a near capacity audience in Kern auditorium.

The $50.3 million in private donations given to the Campaign for Penn State during fiscal 1987-88 sets an all-time high for contributions to the University for the eighth consecutive year.

Federal officials were reluctant to comment publicly yesterday on reports that former Pa.Governor Dick Thornburgh has agreed to replace Edwin Meese III as the nation's next attorney general.

The University's Shaver's Creek Environmental Center is offering five programs this summer to help people develop a better understanding of their environment, a program official said.

Collegian Editorial

My Opinion: Michael E. Matthews

My Opinion: David R. Pasquarelli

Baba Olatunji made a hot Sunday afternoon at the 22nd Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival for the Arts even hotter as he and his eight- piece band played extended, percussion-heavy songs that sent the crwod into a dancing frenzy.

Susannah McCorkle's Friday night jazz concert proved to be worth the wait. The band gave a top-quality performance after the crowd stayed through a rain delay that took over an hour.

Their hair may be gray and their bellies may stick out a little, but when the Sun Rhythm Section hit the Festival Shell last Saturday night, they became as ageless as the rock'n'roll they helped to create aver 30 years ago.

Growing old can be fun for everyone if we wear a smile, you and I. -- from the opening song in Friday's performance of the Fred Waring Elderhostel Chorus