The Greek letters adorning Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house have been torn down, perhaps symbolizing the broken fraternity residing within. Former University students and Old Main representatives will tip their teacups next month to toast a symbol of the struggle for women's rights. White Building, once a "women's only" facility, turns 50 Feb. 3. A former state senator and supporter of the University, W. Louis Coppersmith, died from a heart attack Tuesday night while he was preparing to work out at the Johnstown YMCA, said Cambria County Coroner John Barron. A candle may have caused the fire in a Hastings Hall dorm room last week and action against the two students who lived there remains uncertain, a University Police Services staff member said. Students think the current 10-credit late drop limit is inadequate, are unsatisfied with the plus/minus grading system and agree with the Undergraduate Student Government's pursuit of an open budget, according to a survey conducted by the USG Academic Asembly. Nancy Cline, dean of the University libraries, said there will be an increased dependency on library technology in the future. A proposed medical office building currently under a feasibility study could house a University-run sports medicine center, said Lance Rose, Centre Community Hospital's executive director. In a short speech on the steps of Old Main yesterday, Jane Mease, a secretary in the agricultural economics department, expressed her unhappiness about the emergency shut-down of the University daycare center. Michael Smutko had his eyes on the stars, and now he has his hands on $250 for winning Phi Beta Kappa's award for outstanding University Scholars thesis project. Women students who occasionally like to hang around may have a chance to do just that. On someone's wall, that is. A tax dispute between the University and Centre County escalated earlier this week when the county filed a brief in its appeal in Commonwealth Court, the county director of administrative services said yesterday.
At the end of the first half of the Lady Lions' game against St. Joseph's last night, Hawks center Dale Hodges walked off the court with a rare feeling seldom encountered in her three years of college basketball. Sophomore sabre fencer David Cox came closer to qualifying for a competitive United States fencing team this past weekend at the North American Circuit Epee and Sabre Tournament in Portland, Ore. A late comeback fell three seconds short for the women's basketball team last night when forward Susan Robinson lost the ball between three St. Joseph's defenders, sealing a 66-62 heartbreaker at Rec Hall. No, Temple basketball Coach John Chaney has not walked off the court (like Georgetown's John Thompson) in protest of newly adopted and highly criticized Proposal 42. Neither has Penn State's Bruce Parkhill, though he jokes his team may be better off if he did. Three-and-a-half weeks ago, thousands of Penn State fans sat huddled in front of their television sets watching ESPN as the men's basketball team took on the Temple Owls in Philadelphia. Frozen with less than five ticks left on the clock, they saw Lion star Tom Hovasse miss a three-pointer from the left corner. Final score: Temple 50, Penn State 48.
Collegian Editorial My Opinion: Austin Haberle
The portrait of the Soviet Union a University art historian paints is radically different from the "evil empire" President Reagan chastised a few years ago and Senator Joe McCarthy feared in the 1950s.