With the first state budget hearing coming up Monday in the Senate, University lobbyists and officials as well as legislative supporters are in place. But students, parents and faculty need to be activated before the cry for higher funding can be heard, according to a legislative University supporter.

Hot pursuit police chases are one of the most widely-discussed issues in the state right now, and future legislation may change the way authorities deal with fleeing suspects.

Many University students said yesterday they are disturbed that the Dana Bailey murder remains unsolved, and others wonder why the State College Bureau of Police Services did not reveal more facts about the case.

Members of the black student community pledged yesterday evening that the protests to end racial intolerance will tentatively cease.

University students are taking their professors abroad with them in a new education abroad program offered for the first time this spring.

A prominent feminist scholar last night examined the varying influence of women in the rise of Nazi Germany, noting a possible link between gender roles and genocide.

A University treatment plant may become part of a regional sewage diversion plan to accommodate excess wastes in the State College area, one regional planner for the Centre Region said.

An increasing volume of commuter and truck traffic between Route 322 and Interstate 80 sparked concern at yesterday's Centre Region Metropolitan Planning Organization meeting.

Two years after a 21-year-old University senior was stabbed to death in her South Allen Street apartment, investigators say her killer stalked her from an abandoned apartment in a nearby building.

This season has been a bit too predictable for the women's basketball team. The Lady Lions have handily defeated teams like Massachusetts, Rhode Island and St. Bonaventure, teams they should and have beaten with ease.

Upon entering the mansion that Bruce Blake, Tom Hovasse and Christian Appleman call a dorm room, the first thing that greets a visitor are three chairs facing a television. Blake and Appleman are watching a taped Florida St.-Memphis St. game, which Blake keeps rewinding to replay missed dunks and poor calls by the officials.

A Penn State tradition will come to an end this weekend when the Eastern Women's Swimming League Championships are held for the last time at McCoy Natatorium.

Divers from all across the Eastern seaboard will converge on McCoy Natatorium today to compete in the 1989 Eastern Women's Swimming League Championships, held through Saturday. Two Lady Lion divers -- Beth Fahey and Amy Schimdt -- will compete in the diving competition.

Harvard University will once again be the team to beat as squads from Virginia to New Hampshire gather in McCoy Natatorium to compete in the 1989 Eastern Women's Swimming League Championships.

After finishing a dominating season, the ski team will compete in the Mid-Atlantic Regional Champoinships on Feb. 27-28 at Bryce Mountain in Bayse, Va.

Facing seven Top 20 teams in the first two weeks of the season may be a coach's nightmare, but that is the challenge the softball team begins today at the Arizona State Invitational in Tempe.

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