The Daily Collegian's Board of Directors last night selected Diane A. Davis as the paper's new editor-in-chief. In a modest, strikingly neat office in the Centre County Courthouse sits a man who thinks balance in life is important. The office appears to reflect the harmony he says he tries to keep not only in his job, but throughout his family life as well. The State College Borough Planning Commission decided at a work session last night to recommend larger construction setbacks to the Borough Council. With her crown glittering brightly in the spotlight, Nilda Cid sat upon her red leather throne in Schwab Auditorium before 414 students. She had just been proclaimed Miss Black Penn State. Most students who voted in Wednesday's Undergraduate Student Government elections favor an open budget and holding Spring Break in the spring, and rely mostly on information about candidates from newspaper articles and debates. Sources from the Republican National Committee and in the office of U.S. Rep. William Clinger, R-Warren, confirmed yesterday that University official Thomas Larson is being considered for a top post in President George Bush's administration. State College area residents are allowed to water shrubs and wash cars every day of the week for four hours a day under the new restrictions adopted Wednesday by the State College Borough Water Authority, a Water Authority official said. March 31st will mark a new beginning for the Student Escort Service. April showers, May flowers and spring formals are just on the horizon, but downtown florists say sales and preparation for the spring season are not that much different than any other season. The majority of seats from the planned expansion to Beaver Stadium will be allocated to Nittany Lion Club members, said Kay Kustanbauter, executive director of the Nittany Lion Club. With Easter just a few days away, many people are trying to decide how they can stock their baskets with sinfully sweet goodies without filling their mouths with cavities. The Interfraternity Council's newly appointed executive board is already looking outside its membership for ways to increase interaction with fraternity presidents. University professors of food science said research on a new mushroom processing method will help preserve Pennsylvania's $205 million mushroom business against foreign competition. Bradley R. Smith's answering machine says, "I'd like to send you some information on the Holocaust that your professors have not discussed with you -- information that they're probably not even aware of." Three social scientists -- called in late last semester to investigate the University's minority environment -- returned to campus yesterday for a three-day visit to examine the climate for black students. Constitutional lawyer, author and columnist Karen De Crow will be the guest speaker at a dinner sponsored by the Penn State Commission for Women at 7 Monday night in the HUB ballroom.
The men's golf team will compete against some of the nation's most competitive teams this weekend at the prestigious Southeastern Collegiate Invitational. After a successful indoor season, the women's track team moves outdoors this weekend as the outdoor track season begins. With hopes of continuing a Penn State tradition, the men's lacrosse team will face Lafayette for the 19th time. In a series that began in 1927, the Lions have beaten the Leopards in all 18 previous outings. For the last seven years, women's basketball Coach Rene Portland has taken her team to the NCAA Tournament. Penn State was one of the few teams to appear in the tournament every year since its inception in 1982. Like an animal pushed into a corner, the men's volleyball team roared out of that corner and thwarted Graceland's upset bid last night at Rec Hall. Penn State won in four games, 12-15, 16-14, 15-11, 15-3. After dropping its last two games to C.W. Post, 4-3, 4-0, on a frozen Beaver Field, the baseball team's 1-9-1 record looks suspiciously like that of the Toronto Maple Leafs. But it will be New York Tech (not the New York Rangers) on tap for two games starting at noon tomorrow at Tech's home field. The entire year has been a learning experience for the men's gymnastics team. When a team has only one junior and one senior, it's hard to imagine things could be otherwise. With a strong performance in the Washington Irish Rugby Club tournament behind it, the rugby team will open its home schedule at 1 tomorrow afternoon against South Pittsburgh.
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A True Story: Under a new visiting writers program, the University will host two prominent authors next month. Josephine Humphreys and Stuart Dybek will read from their upcoming works of fiction and conduct a writers-student workshop. A small room is filled with attentive people listening to a speaker as he conveys his inner thoughts. Colorful metaphors, striking similes and stunning images flow from his mouth as he describes his view of the world. This is the scene during a meeting of the Central Pennsylvania Poetry Circle. Celebrate Success: The Black Woman, an exhibit in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center's gallery, commemorates women's history month with books, graphics and documents on black women's roles through history. The 1989 Black Arts Festival tries to present educational messages in a fun atmosphere, said Lawerence Young, director of the Paul Robeson Cultural Center and coordinator for the festival. As the jazz program at the University continues to improve, its audience appears to grow larger with every performance. In A View from the Bridge, presented by the Alley Theatre of Houston Wednsday, playwright Arthur Miller addresses two major themes: the inadequacy of the law in providing solutions to all human problems and the consequences of suffocating paternalism. Thirty-five years ago, in the height of the Red Scare, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were tried and convicted for treason. Madonna. Virgin or vixen?