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Back Issues   [ Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1989 ]


NEWS

State College is "a year overdue" in coming up with a solution to overcrowded parking conditions that plague more than half the borough, a former parking official said at the State College Borough Council meeting last night.

The Penn State Office Workers Organizing Committee's bid to unionize University clerical workers hinges on the group's ability to rouse support in the next few months, a PSOWOC member said.

The chief executives of two local savings and loan banks remain confident in their own operations, but believe extended debate over means to bail out financially troubled institutions could hurt the entire industry.

University professor Roy Austin, one of many members of Penn State's international community, remembers an incident in Seattle shortly after he came to this country nearly 25 years ago.

Three University students are suing Penn State to force the release of top administrators' salaries.

When members of the U.S. House of Representatives vote on a congressional pay raise today, Rep. William Clinger, R-Warren, plans to join Pennsylvania's two senators and most of their colleagues in voting "nay."

College students, a group not usually diagnosed with AIDS, may not realize they are at risk of becoming infected with the HIV virus, local experts say.

Students today have a lot on their minds, but experts say many students do not worry too much about AIDS, although they may know the facts connected with the disease.

Although incumbent Republican Ray Gricar is currently the only announced district attorney candidate, county Democratic Party Chairman Merle McCalips sees a strong possibility for a Democrat to take the office this year.

In order to help cover an estimated $9 million cost of upgrading State College's sewer facilities, borough officials may charge developers and single family home builders for providing sewer service.

SPORTS

Rumblings were heard in a Massachusetts cemetery last night as Dr. James Naismith rolled over in his grave. The way Penn State played against Lehigh, who could blame the father of basketball?

Only a Tom Hovasse alley-oop off an inbounds pass from Monroe Brown with two seconds to play saved the Lions from their most embarrassing loss of the season last night at Rec Hall.

All-Americans Ken Chertow, Jim Martin and Andy Voit will display their talents at 7 tonight when they compete in the 23rd annual National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Star Classic at the Palestra in Philadelphia.

It took a last second 3-point shot and two overtimes, but James Madison was finally able to outlast the women's basketball team, 86-78, snapping the Lady Lions' three-game win streak.

The women's basketball team walked off the court last night without a freshman on its roster.

In their busiest weekend of the season, the women's track team proved that it is among the nation's elite.

OPINIONS

Collegian Editorial

My Opinion: Steve Ciabattoni

My Opinion: Janet Stafford

Letters to the editor

ARTS

THE REPLACEMENTS - Don't Tell a Soul (Sire)

The soil is rich and fertile in England's Fen country, but the lives of its people are impoverished and barren.

Violist Paul Neubauer gave further legitimation to Shakespeare's adage "All's well that ends well" Sunday afternoon in Schwab Auditorium when the young musician performed a rousing finish to his well-polished concert of enjoyable but less than exciting pieces.






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