The Graduate Student Association is once again offering an outlet for students who think they have green thumbs. Students need not resign themselves to pitching a tent in Beaver Stadium or camping out on a bench in the Mall next fall if their search for off-campus housing has not yet been successful. Centre County Commissioners named a new public defender yesterday for county court, replacing the departing Allen Powanda and prompting one assistant public defender to term the appointment "a slap in the face" to the office. Community members are awaiting results of a study on the University's racial climate by a team of social scientists that met with students and administrators last weekend. HARRISBURG -- Accompanied by four assistants and armed with stacks of reference materials, University President Bryce Jordan yesterday defended Penn State's request for a 14.1 percent increase in state funding before the state House Appropriations Committee. The administration will review the severity of sanctions taken against one student involved in last semester's CIA protest but at least one of the other two students' appeals has been denied. The Undergraduate Student Government Senate elected its new officers last night, and Mike McKee and Leslie Osborn said they will make the senate a more cooperative, proactive body from their new positions. Although Eastern airlines declared itself bankrupt earlier this month, local travel agencies say their businesses have not crashed. Though money access card systems are not a profit center, area banks are adding new services to their MAC operations to attract busy customers. A pack of cigarettes and one can of soda -- that's all a convenience store customer might purchase during the typical shopping spree, a local cashier says. Though April 17 strikes fear into many hearts, U.S. Postal Service and Internal Revenue Service employees are not concerned by the influx of mail traveling toward Washington. Centre County has become one of the 10 counties to receive the National Organization on Disabilities/Westinghouse Electric Awards, said an official from the county's human service planning office. Four student groups were commended last night for their work on behalf of The Campaign for Penn State, a University effort to raise $300 million dollars in private support to continue academic excellence at Penn State. Although 10 years have passed since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, radiation and its effects still puzzle many people. About 115 local businesspeople descended upon Elby's State College Inn last Thursday night to meet informally over hors d'oeuvres and discuss their establishments. Former presidential hopeful Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., will speak extemporaneously on a variety of foreign policy issues to University audiences at 8 tonight in Eisenhower Auditorium. Child-care preferences provided by about 12,000 University faculty, students and staff in the last two weeks will be used to develop recommendations for the implementation of child care services at the University by June 1. What makes a successful leader? Several University experts will discuss the sociological impact of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident during a colloquium at 8 tonight in the HUB Auditorium.
From Coach Sue Scheetz down to the 33rd player on the roster, no one on the women's lacrosse team talks about revenge. But when the players raised their sticks after defeating Temple yesterday, 13-5, everyone else who saw the game had that forbidden word in mind. Although the men's lacrosse team has not had much time to prepare for its 3 p.m. game at Towson State today, the Lions are confident they are ready for the challenge. The men's golf team learned a lot about itself this past weekend at the Southeastern Intercollegiate Invitational, even though it finished last among 18 national championship-caliber teams.
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