A noted Wall Street broker encouraged members of Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity last night to pursue other interests before plunging into a business career. Across the nation, people celebrated what would have been the sixtieth birthday of civil rights activist Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The State College Borough Council will choose a seventh member to work with them for the remaining year of John Dombroski's term in a meeting closed to the public tonight. These are the eight applicants for the State College Borough Council seat: Just one candidate has reached for a higher post in the Interfraternity Council, though three positions are up for grabs to interested fraternity members. Students' grades may be better protected from potential invasions of academic privacy as University officials are taking steps to avoid posting scores by complete social security numbers. Quick thinking by Hastings Hall residents and resident assistants on Thursday night helped alert the fire department and quickly usher residents to safety from the fire that gutted room 423. To some East Halls students, it seemed to take hours before the fire department arrived to put out Thursday night's blaze in Hastings Hall. Yesterday, Andrew Good toured the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) here at the University yesterday as part of a three--week tour of scientific institutions in the United States. University researchers working at the Poultry Research Farm and in Althouse Laboratory have established a prototype stud farm for chickens.
Freshmen gymnasts Jada Hiltabrand, Janice Rogers and Kim Thrasher performed in front of the largest crowd of their careers Friday night at Rec Hall against West Virginia. But they did not find it scary. Penn State voted in favor of the NCAA's Proposal 42 last Wednesday, helping ratify the legislation -- which will take effect during the 1990-91 school year -- in a close 163-154 vote. This past weekend reassured Women's Track Coach Teri Jordan. Because its first two meets were canceled, the team competed for only the second time this season at the 40-team Yale Invitational. Although team scores were not kept, Penn State came through with individual honors. Propelled by 46 points from the starting front court, the men's basketball team won its fourth straight Atlantic 10 game last night, defeating Duquesne, 82-73, in Pittsburgh. The ice hockey team committed suicide by power play when it lost to Mercyhurst College in the Nittany Lion Invitational Tournament championship game, 9-2. But without the power play, the Icers would never even have contended for the championship. My Opinion: Mike Machi
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