"We won't take four more years" will be the rallying cry of some Penn State students and Centre County residents April 29 as they join people from across the country in a march on Washington, D.C. The sincerity of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to reform the political and social atmosphere of the Soviet Union will be debated by student leaders at 8 tonight in the HUB Assembly Room. An AIDS-infected Rockview prison inmate charged with attempted homicide for allegedly trying to infect a prison guard will probably stand trial in May or June, county officials say. State College Borough Council members Monday night proposed a new funding formula for the Centre Region Council of Governments, and moved to eliminate all but two COG committees. The University Area Joint Authority sewage facility's ability to expand business within the Centre Region has been limited by state environmental officials because of a missed deadline on an unrelated proposal, a borough official says. In 1983, University President Bryce Jordan arrived at Penn State promising to propel the University to a spot among the top-10 research institutions in the nation. The Undergraduate Student Government will try to make Happy Valley a little happier and safer this month when it officially creates a USG Department of Safety later this month. Timothy Leary, a leader of the 1960s counterculture revolution, spoke last night before a more than capacity crowd at Schwab Auditorium as a leader of the 1990s computer software revolution. Rape victims sometimes blame themselves for the crime, but they must often cope with the "blaming the victim" mentality within the criminal justice system and society, a local witness advocate said yesterday. Blue Mountain had been stripped of life by 90 years of devastating pollution, but sludge and fly ash are being used to raise this "biological desert" from the dead. Students and residents can kick off their summer by volunteering for the 1989 Pennsylvania Special Olympics Summer Games. Boredom and curiosity provoked James Whitehead (junior-division of undergraduate studies) to send a computer message asking "Why should one kill homosexuals?" on a computer system paid for by the University, he said. About 30 students rallied on the steps of Old Main yesterday to protest a threatening computer message directed toward the gay and lesbian community and to urge the University to take a stronger stance against its author. A regional planner said that after two delays, the Centre Region's Sewage Facility Plan should be implemented by early June.
The integrity of college athletics is under siege, with reports of violations and penalties piling up as the NCAA tries to clean its house. But according to Richard D. Schultz, executive director of the NCAA, college sports are not in the dire straits most would believe. Methodist College took the last two rounds, but bad weather took the first in last weekend's Seahawk/Azalea Invitational at Wilmington, N.C. Even though it faced three tough teams this past weekend, the women's tennis team captured three wins to boost its spring record to 6-4. Kathy Klein never picked up a lacrosse stick until the fall of her sophomore year of college. And then it was only in a gym class. Now, after two years full of ups and downs, she finds herself starting point on the women's lacrosse team. If Coach Tom Peterson is worried about the men's volleyball team overlooking East Stroudsburg tonight, he does not have to. A certain northeastern city famous for tea parties, Celtics and the Green Monster soon may have something else to brag about. Cathy Kaminski and Kim Corbin fired shutouts and Penn State pounded out 24 hits in two games to sweep Rhode Island, 6-0 and 9-0, yesterday in Kingston, R.I. Somewhere along the line in a season that Coach Joe Battista described as a roller-coaster ride, something special happened to the Penn State hockey team. My Opinion: Mike Machi
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A University assistant professor and three dancers will represent the Penn State Internationale Dancers at a Slovak dance seminar for choreographers this summer. Ambiguity in big chunky colorforms and media-laden three dimensional images will be brought to Zoller Gallery in an exhibit of clay and steel works by Phillip Weaver and prints by Anne Karsten (master of fine arts candidates in ceramics and printmaking), April 12 to April 19. Touted as the "Madman from Boston," Barrence Whitfield displayed how he earned the moniker Sunday night. Three for the price of one. Their voices are in tune and their choreography is in sync. The Penn State Singing Lions are ready to perform their annual Spring Concert on April 16, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwab Auditorium. Struggling through the creative process, Orchesis members diligently trained this semester to develop and polish original ideas for their Spring concert at 8 p.m. this Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the White Hall Dance Theatre. The Palmer Museum is now presenting Robert Yarber Paintings: 1980-88, an exhibit compiled by Sanford Sivitz Shaman, former director of the museum and Randy Ploog, the museum's assistant curator. The sparse audience that attended the fourth annual Penn State Jazz Festival on Saturday in Eisenhower auditorium was treated to three different kinds of jazz: the mellow straight-ahead jazz of the Chris Santiago Quartet, the daring avant-garde jazz of Into the Out, and the contemporary electric jazz sound of the Randy Brecker quartet. In The Crucible, playwright Arthur Miller asserts that looking for scapegoats to blame for our own problems only ruins the lives of innocent people.