Police are investigating possible ties between two armed robberies of convenience stores over the weekend, authorities said yesterday. The Undergraduate Student Government Senate's efforts to fill its ranks have fallen short as the USG Elections Commission received a decade-low 17 official senatorial applicants for 34 positions this year. Sixth graders said they want to be nurses, athletes and lawyers -- when they grow up -- during interviews shown via a taped news segment to the University's Board of Trustees this weekend. HERSHEY -- While the percentage of black high school students applying to the University has increased by 3 points since last month, the figures are lower than last year's application numbers, the University's Board of Trustees learned this weekend. The United States needs to recognize its stakes in the Middle East and protect these interests by helping to mediate conflicts there, Minister Mohamed Wahby from the Embassy of Egypt in Washington, D.C., said Thursday night during an informal talk. Officials from the University and Apple Computers have denied allegations made last Thursday that the University released a list of student social security numbers to Apple, breaking a federal law. The number of abortions performed in Centre County has fluctuated over the last decade but has declined overall, Pennsylvania Health Department officials say. By the year 2000, women and their children will most likely shoulder all poverty in the United States, a professor of sociology from Drew University at Madison, N.J. said Thursday night, addressing about 60 people in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. Graduate Student Association President Ken Martin will run unopposed for a second term in office during GSA elections tomorrow night. Dog wardens throughout the state will begin an extensive dog license check today in an effort to get people to comply with the state dog law. Stepping through a lavender-colored Roman arch and into a spotlight Saturday night, Tamara Baron's black evening gown swirled about her as she moved toward center stage. She began her song in a soft vibrato, but before long her voice boomed to fill all corners of Schwab Auditorium. HERSHEY -- The Penn State administration conveyed its anti-racist stance by distributing buttons condemning racism to the University's Board of Trustees, which in turn unanimously approved a resolution to oppose racism and bigotry University-wide at this weekend's meeting. HERSHEY -- The search committee for a vice provost for underrepresented groups has begun its work, and a Commission on Racial/Ethnic Diversity has been formed, the University's executive vice president and provost announced at this weekend's University's Board of Trustees meeting. HERSHEY -- The University's Board of Trustees approved long-term plans to expand University Park Airport this weekend, including a $3.5 million proposal to expand the main runway for larger planes. HERSHEY -- The University's Board of Trustees voted to increase Penn State's long-term debt to $319.3 million, almost double its current level, to fund construction at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and a variety of University projects. The State College Planning Commission may soon recommend to the borough council a new ordinance that could help reduce the scale of development within the borough's three residential-office districts. A group of concerned citizens working to preserve Black Moshannon State Park is considering legal action to ensure the park's protection from the prospective relocation of a National Guard Aviation Battalion to Philipsburg's Mid-State Airport. HERSHEY -- The University's Board of Trustees passed a proposal this weekend to add 9,200 seats to Beaver Stadium, a move University officials said will ease the increased demand for tickets experienced since the Lions' 1986 national championship season. HERSHEY -- Students will have to draw an additional $160 from their wallets next year to reside in a typical dormitory room, due to a resolution passed by the University Board of Trustees at this weekend's meeting. A united front against racism must be built to fortify civil rights in the United States, Loretta Ross and Nkenge Toure stressed during the final Ebony and Ivory event Saturday afternoon. When dormitory students elect their area government leaders Wednesday, in many cases they will have just one, or no candidates to choose from. State College will bloom this spring when the Public Works Department plants an array of colorful flowers in designated areas downtown. Most people would not expect to see an oasis in the middle of Parking Lot 80 or a large snake with mushroom seats on the HUB lawn. Christina Novak (sophomore-music) recently won the title Miss State Capitol and a $650 scholarship, completing the first step toward the Miss America Pageant.
Intense practice, hard work and confidence are what helped the women's gymnastics team score a 186.85 and win its seventh consecutive Atlantic 10 title Saturday at George Washington University. Mary Ann Foley took the ball from Tami Worley at the side of the net halfway through the first half of yesterday's women's lacrosse game against Colgate. Less than a second later, the ball was past frozen goalie Gail Petteruti for Foley's third score of the game. Since the beginning of the season, the women's lacrosse team has emphasized that balance would be an integral part of a successful year. The Lady Lions (3-0) displayed that balanced attack yesterday by handily defeating Colgate 22-3, following an 18-8 victory over James Madison on Saturday. Both games were played at Holuba Field. Penn State's Matt Osborne advanced to the National Boxing Championships by winning the Northeast Regional Championship in the 180-pound weight class Saturday night. Fate struck yet another cruel blow to the women's swimming and diving team at the NCAA Championships in a season plagued with sickness and bad luck. Coach Tom Peterson said the men's volleyball team did something yesterday in its loss to the Puerto Rican national team it has not done in quite awhile: they "played good." Hopes are running high on the women's golf team as it prepares for the Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational, which will be played today and tomorrow in Altamonte Springs, Fla. After proving their claim as the No. 1 doubles team in the East three weeks ago against Temple's Cindy Barber and Muffin Lupien at the Princeton Invitational, Kelly Erven and Claudia Karabedian were put to the test again, this time by a pair from Boston College. A perfect 10 was scored in Saturday night's men's gymnastics meet. Unfortunately for the Lions, (10-4), who downed the University of Pittsburgh 270.25-258.05, it didn't count. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - Ken Chertow threw everything he had into a last desperate takedown attempt, but failed. Eventual national champion Jack Cuvo avenged a loss to Chertow in last year's Olympic Trials with a 6-6, 2-1 overtime victory at the NCAA Tournament. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- After the second day of the NCAA Wrestling Championships, Coach Rich Lorenzo sat silent and motionless at matside, perhaps thinking about what easily could have been. The men's lacrosse team is young, but that doesn't stop it from scoring goals. Christian Appleman and Doug West first met on the basketball court in a sixth-grade tournament. Tonight, they'll meet again, but the stakes will be much higher.
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