CENTRE HALL -- Floating through America's only full-water limestone cavern, the tour guide points out the naturally-shaped St. Bernard's head, windchimes made of minerals, and a configuration of Princess Nita-nee water-sculpted into the wall. The Kaleidoscope of Cultures celebration filled the HUB Fishbowl yesterday afternoon with an international panorama of food, music and art exhibitions from 10 countries. State legislators' reaction to University President Bryce Jordan's tentative 1989-90 budget compromise varies from outright rejection to wholehearted support, reflecting the highly politicized nature of the appropriations process. Despite objections that students should take responsibility for their education, the Faculty Senate yesterday passed legislation requiring instructors to provide mid-semester evaluations for freshmen. In a show of support, about 25 students marched to Old Main yesterday afternoon and presented demands identical to those put to administrators Monday by the black student community. The Undergraduate Student Government Senate passed a resolution last night not to support the Penn State Office Workers Organizing Committee's unionization efforts, although USG president, Janyne Althaus, had endorsed the PSOWOC in USG's name a few weeks ago. The Graduate Student Association said last night actions taken by the Faculty Senate to improve instruction for graduate teaching assistants are inadequate. State College Area Chambre of Commerce officials last night expressed interest in sponsoring a forum to gauge public opinion on the proposed consolidation of the region's governments. BELLEFONTE -- Rising steeply from the street is a tombstone-studded hill. At crazy angles and irregular rows, the markers dating close to two-centuries-old document history and weather the years. Students for a Democratic Penn State was denied a University charter yesterday by the Undergraduate Student Government Supreme Court.
Neither rain nor sleet nor dark of night can keep the women's golf team from its game - at least, not its short game. "I tell ya, I get no respect." Whenever a team plays the No. 1 team in the nation, especially at home, an upset is a possibility. For the women's lacrosse team, that upset has finally become a reality. Fourth-ranked Princeton stunned the top-ranked Lady Lions yesterday, 12-10, in a wildly contested match. In the final seconds of a tie game between the men's lacrosse team and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, tri-captain Tim Conway made the three-hour trip worthwhile.
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