Four University students who attended a statewide collegiate pro-life convention said it taught them unifying concepts to help their cause. Students, faculty, staff and town residents will look at the University from the top today. The Centre County Commissioners increased funding for the Senior Citizens Community Service Employment Program yesterday, the director of the Centre County Office of Aging said. One year ago today, at a public hearing held by the State College Borough Tree Commission, about 20 local residents appeared to implore borough officials not to approve the removal of up to 85 shade trees on 15 local roads -- mainly those on E. Hamilton Avenue and Holmes Street. A new organization designed to complement the Undergraduate Student Government's fight for a completely open University budget is in the works. An ad hoc refuse sticker task force created by the Centre Region Council of Governments Public Service Committee will recommend billing residential refuse collection on a pay-by-bag basis rather than a flat rate. PITTSBURGH -- Thousands of people milled about the parking lots looking for a deal, while hundreds of vendors stood at their booths, trying to get rid of their merchandise and earn enough money to get them to the next show. The Harris Township Water Authority and another yet unnamed water utility have asked the State College Borough Water Authority to consider purchasing their facilities, borough officials say. The United Steelworkers of America International vice president joined the Penn State Office Workers Organizing Committee yesterday as it officially launched its unionization and card-signing campaign. One day after a district justice fined Delta Theta Sigma fraternity for disorderly conduct in connection with a "poling" incident Feb. 10, the Interfraternity Council yesterday sanctioned the fraternity for the same incident. Self-examination is a key in fighting a resurgence of racism across the nation and at Penn State, a lecturer commemorating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated 21 years ago yesterday, told students and faculty last night at the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. A former University student was charged yesterday with harassing a black female student last February in a campus dining hall, authorities said. Bell of Pennsylvania may have dialed a wrong number when it filed for the right to offer its new Caller ID service in Pennsylvania, several organizations maintain. Representatives from three major religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism, all agreed last night that the issue of the death penalty is not a cut and dry issue and biases must be controlled. Smokers and non-smokers hashed out the University's new smoking policy last night bringing up issues such as health, litter and even vegetarians' grievances on WPSU's "Newstalk" hosted by Steve Aaron and Ken Mueller. A former University professor, charged last September with spending nearly $42,000 of University funds without permission, yesterday was sentenced in Centre County court to two years probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. "Rush 1989, Find Yourself In It" is the theme of Panhellenic Council's rush recruitment week -- University women's opportunity to register for the council's formal fall rush. Students with children will have the opportunity to voice their needs directly to members of the University's Child Care Task Force tonight at the Student Forum on Child Care. The Centre Region Coalition to Abolish Capital Punishment and Amnesty International are sponsoring a series of programs this week to explore different issues surrounding capital punishment. The Graduate Student Association passed a resolution last night calling for tougher penalties against University-related acts of sexual harassment.
Penn State's baseball season thus far can be summed up in one word -- frustrating. A team suffering through a mid-season losing streak may want to switch a few things around to try to change its luck. The men's tennis team did just that, as team members and their respective seeds were changed during several matches this past weekend. But the team's luck didn't change. Can you name the only NL West team not to win a division crown in the 1980s? If you guessed the woeful Atlanta Braves, sorry, it's not that easy. Even the Houston Astros have done it. So have the Padres. San Francisco was tops in 1987. The Dodgers have captured four division crowns. Can the Mets be beaten? That's the question the teams in the NL East will ask themselves throughout the season. The answer, of course, is yes. Despite dominating the division a year ago, the Mets could still be overtaken this year. Anabolic steroids are dangerous only when misused or used for an extended period of time, Lee Haney, five-time winner of the Mr. Olympia body building contest, said last night. Cathy Kaminski fired a one-hit shutout, and Kim Corbin threw a two-hitter at Bucknell yesterday as Penn State split a twinbill with the Lady Bison, winning the opener, 1-0, but dropping the nightcap, 2-0. A bobsled can reach speeds more than 70 miles-per-hour, and to get one started on a winning run an athlete needs speed, strength and size. The powerlifting team, a division of the Penn State barbell club, finished fourth overall at the national championships in Chicago this past weekend as three of the five lifters representing the club earned All-America status.
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