While a six-legged race and an obstacle course may not be recognized as official University sports, students will have the chance to test their athletic ability in the games during tomorrow's 7th annual Phi Sig Superstars. Eco-Action members will be 13 days ahead of the rest of the nation when they commemorate national Earth Day this weekend with activities designed to promote environmental awareness. The Pennsylvania Coalition against Domestic Violence -- comprised of 57 programs statewide including the Centre County Women's Resource Center -- is seeking an additional $1.5 million in state funds for programs aiding victims of domestic violence. University officials said yesterday they seek a second hearing for an alleged hazing incident at Delta Theta Sigma fraternity, because the Interfraternity Council sanction was too lenient. LOCK HAVEN -- Members of Lock Haven University's Black Cultural Society, denying charges they are trying to "create another Penn State," petitioned the school's president at a midday rally yesterday to join their fight against racism. Registration for the Beta Sigma Beta Sy Barash Regatta begins Monday in the HUB basement and Findlay Commons in East Halls. Typed stickers encouraging students to "call James Whitehead and wish him a happy Gay Pride Week" were posted around campus yesterday by unknown individuals in apparent response to a computer message in which Whitehead threatened the gay and lesbian community. China's nuclear weapons development may prove detrimental to world peace efforts, a former congressional aide said Wednesday night in the HUB Assembly Room. In an attempt to show support for lesbians and gay men at the University, the University Student Advisory Board last night resolved to condemn the actions of James Whitehead, who last week sent a message entitled "Why should one kill homosexuals?" over an international computer network. Potential University students are getting a taste of the Penn State experience this weekend as part of a University effort to attract minorities. The state House of Representatives Wednesday passed a resolution that will empower the House Committee on Education to investigate racial incidents on college campuses statewide. When President George Bush makes the expected nomination of University official Thomas Larson as Federal Highway Administration chief next week, the decision will follow extensive checks into the former Pa. Department of Transportation head's personal and professional life. The main problem of student-athletes is learning to deal with time management, concluded a panel of student-athletes last night, in a discussion in honor of yesterday's nationwide observance of National Student-Athlete Day. The Sign Language Organization sponsored the second annual Deaf Awareness Day yesterday to show hearing-impaired students what University facilities are available to them and demonstrate to hearing students the difficulties the hearing impaired must cope from day to day. Fraternity pledge classes will discuss alcoholism and ways to deal with alcoholics at a Total Alcohol Awareness Program sponsored by the Interfraternity Council at 2 Sunday afternoon at 214 Boucke. As the State College Borough Council moves to re-evaluate the Tree Commission, Alan W. Sam will start working Monday morning as the borough's new arborist. The progress teachers have made in bargaining and deprivation of the public's right to an education were primary issues in a debate yesterday afternoon that asked the question, "Should Teachers Have the Right to Strike?" The State College Borough honored University senior Sherri Rutolo Wednesday night for outstanding community service through participation in local government. Health promotion communication will be the focus of the 41st World Health Day today, an international event recognizing global health issues. The University's College of Science will have a chance to show itself off tomorrow at Science Expo '89. Both Penn State and Centre County may have to wait up to a year for a decision from a state appeals court about the county's four-year struggle to tax a non-educational, commercial establishment on University land. Construction of a 41,704 square-foot, five story commercial and office building in the downtown area is not expected to begin until early June, borough officials said yesterday. Whispering to a friend in a classroom does not always ensure privacy, depending on which professor is lecturing. Vandals who spray painted graffiti on numerous campus buildings and sidewalks Wednesday night cost the University at least $900, a University administrator said yesterday.
And on the eighth day, Joe Paterno and Jack Ham created . . . The men's golf team will play at the Third Annual Vanderbilt-Durango Boot Music City Intercollegiate Invitational, starting today and running through Saturday. With the Atlantic 10 Championships only a week away, the women's tennis team needs to wipe its slate clean of last weekend's two losses when it faces Rutgers, West Virginia and Boston University this weekend. The match-a-day weekend starts at 2:30 p.m. today at Rutgers. Behind a shutout performance by Kim Corbin, the softball team rebounded from a 3-0 loss to Lock Haven in the opener and posted a 2-0 win in the nightcap yesterday at Lady Lion Field. While the field was quite cold for yesterday's softball game, Lady Lion pitcher Kim Corbin was quite hot. Traditionally, coaches don't like to say that they're looking past one opponent to prepare for another. Coach Glenn Thiel, however, has no qualms about saying he's not preparing the men's lacrosse team for its game with Kutztown at 7:30 tonight at Jeffrey Field. One of the first things Tami Worley did after yesterday's women's lacrosse game was put on her trademark Minnesota Vikings hat. By the time the junior varsity game started 10 minutes later, she and her teammates were wearing their windbreakers and a few were shivering under a light wool blanket. It was a little chilly out at Lady Lion Field. With the return of senior tailback Blair Thomas to the football team this spring, a backfield change was imminent. Penn State's Guillo Silva has an extra incentive to play well against Ohio State today in the Hall of Fame Classic at Holyoke, Mass. The forecast may be for cool weather, but members of the women's outdoor track team are hoping for hot performances as they compete in the Quaker Invitational Relays this weekend. The women's golf team hopes that five players will be more effective than four when it competes in the Seahawk/Azalea Invitational this weekend in Wilmington, N.C. Despite setbacks, the Northeastern Region Champion Penn State cheerleaders will compete in the National Cheerleading Championships in San Antonio, Texas, tomorrow.
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The casual, open persona of the New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra permeated Tuesday evening's concert in Eisenhower Auditorium. The relaxed ensemble performed a program of varied music under the guest direction of James DePriest and featured concertos by eminent harpsichordist, Igor Kipnis. Dance styles ranging from classic to contemporary will be featured when the North Carolina Dance Theater performs tonight in Eisenhower Auditorium. Just like tie-dye shirts, yo-yos and roller skates, good things always resurface. Sometimes, however, the road to return is long and frustrating. Barrence Whitfield and the Savages are probably "the only band in the country whose rhythm and blues can inspire slam dancing." The stage is almost bare. The movement is minimal. In the style of readers theatre, University Readers will perform selected works by winners of the 1989 Katey Lehman and Eddie Nichols Awards at 8 p.m. on April 7 and 8 in 112 Kern Building. Michele Guidry seems to be doing the impossible: getting cast in lead roles of University Resident Theatre Company productions as a freshman. After a year of stressful preparation, ceramic hand designer Charles Brooks peered sleepily at the scantily filled auditorium and began his opening remarks. "I can't feel too bad since this is my first show," he said. The University Resident Theatre Company will present the final production of its 1988-9 season tonight at 8 p.m. at the Playhouse Theatre. Randy Brecker's career has spanned a period of over 20 years. In those 20 years the trumpet player has collaborated with a veritable who's who of musical talent: Blood, Sweat and Tears, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, James Brown and Paul McCartney, among others. The Penn State Jazz Festival will not only allow audiences to hear diverse examples of the jazz medium, but it will also increase the University's cultural diversity by letting students experience the more musically diverse forms of jazz, said the president of the Penn State Jazz Club, which is sponsoring the festival. Ever wish you could swivel in the desk chair of an award-winning author, page through his manuscripts and letters, and peruse the myriad memorabilia scattered throughout his office? French music, French women.