Twenty-one years ago today James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tenn. The decision to transfer Beaver Halls' housing supervisor will not be reversed despite meetings yesterday between Beaver residents and housing officials, the vice president of housing and food services said. Funding for mass transportation is one of the most important issues facing the Centre Region and Pennsylvania, state Sen. J. Doyle Corman told area residents at a local eatery yesterday. Lenora Fulani, 1988 New Alliance Party presidential candidate, said last night underrepresented groups have gained little from their ties with the Democratic Party and said leaders of those groups have traded their power for token jobs within the Democratic Party. The ambitious and "financially risky" efforts of University, borough and area transportation officials to implement a long envisioned park and ride program met the approval of State College Borough Council members last night after a swaying debate over the borough's role in financing the program. At the end of every month, many local residents claim to see more police on the road ticketing for speed limit violations - trying to fill what some students and citizens say may be a quota system. The Lesbian and Gay Student Alliance is using its direct line to the University president -- a seat on the University Student Advisory Board granted almost two months ago -- to discuss implementing a sexual orientation clause as part of the University Statement on Discrimination. A speech last night by the president of the Pennsylvania Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty attracted about 15 people, most of whom already were opposed to capital punishment. The Association of Residence Hall Students voted last night to establish a smoking policy hotline, which would operate out of the ARHS office. Graduate and international students are encouraged to inform the University's health insurance committee about their health insurance needs by completing surveys this week, said a committee member and graduate student leader.
The softball team had trouble getting big hits to fall during the first two games of last weekend's Ohio State Invitational, but the offense powered through in the tourney's final game. The Lady Lions finished the tournament with a 1-2 record. California has become synonymous with defeat for the volleyball team, as USC defeated the Lions in the finals of the Dutch Country Classic, held at Elizabethtown Sunday night. Even though the women's gymnastics team will not be going to the NCAA Championships at the University of Georgia, May 14-15, two members of the team will be there to represent Penn State. While trying to battle out of a 10-game winless streak, the baseball team is fighting another foe that doesn't appear on its schedule -- the weather. A knee injury forced Wendy MacTurk out of action and hampered the hopes of the women's golf team as it placed 18th out of 19 teams in last weekend's Duke Invitational.
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After two years out of circulation Kalliope, Penn State's literary magazine, is once again available to the public. Bringing together a concert of the New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra with guest conductor James DePreist and harpsichord soloist Igor Kipnis is like playing a rare harmonic chord, and tonight, they will join musical forces for the first time at 8 p.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium. Engineers, musicians and computers in the Zoller Art Gallery? You can't hide behind an acoustic show. If anything goes wrong --broken guitar strings, forgotten words -- you're stuck. Marylene Dosse, pianist and faculty member in the School of Music, will be joined for a recital of French Romantic Music by concert violinist Marianne Behrent, an old friend from her days at the Paris Conservatory, this Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. in Recital Hall.