United Federal Savings Bank yesterday completed the sale of $40.5 million of stock as the last step in their conversion to a publicly-owned stock institution, said Charles Pearson, president and chief executive officer of the bank.

A University graduate student depicted the harsh life of Palestinians in Israel's occupied territories through a slide presentation gathered from his three week visit to the areas.

One prison employee, injured in Tuesday's "disturbance" at the State Correctional Institute at Rockview, remained hospitalized yesterday, a prison official said.

The University suspended two student activists yesterday for their involvement in protesting CIA on-campus recruitment after a two-day hearing that included eight and one-half hours of testimony.

It's too bad everyone with AIDS doesn't have a buddy like Dwayne Marquardt.

A freshman seminar in the College of Agriculture takes students beyond the four-hour orientation to Penn State, said Barbara Wade, assistant professor of agricultural and extension education, and designer and teacher of the course.

A University professor who has studied cilia, the hairlike structures that line the lungs, is the 1989 winner of the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry of the American Chemical Society's Division of Biological Chemistry.

The University began its official search for a vice provost in charge of equal opportunity yesterday, when 20 University community members were named to a search committee.

A panel of four black women leaders in the University addressed questions concerning a variety of topics relative to black students, as part of a series of Black History Month programs last night in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center.

Improvement of fraternities' pledging procedures and elimination of hazing will be the topic of "The End of Pledge Education . . . At Least as We Know It," a program sponsored by the Interfraternity Council at 7:30 tonight in 310 HUB.

In the continuing battle against drug abuse, universities nationwide are intensifying drug information campaigns for National Collegiate Drug Awareness Week.

The Centre Region Council of Governments last night began assembling a task force to study the possibility of implementing a garbage can "tagging system" as an alternative to increasing refuse collection fees.

When 1989 began, the men's basketball team had little to celebrate. It was mired in a three-game losing streak and was looking ahead at a schedule that featured 11 consecutive games against Atlantic 10 rivals.

The second-ranked wrestling team posted five wins and a draw in the last six matches to erase a 12-8 deficit and defeat Clarion, 27-14, last night at Rec Hall.

Collegian Editorial

My Opinion: Monica Frasier