Centre County residents will have an opportunity to respond July 11 to proposed legislation that would establish a commission to investigate common tick-borne diseases and educate citizens in Pennsylvania. BELLEFONTE -- A 23-year-old woman testified yesterday that a relative charged with 22 counts of rape had repeatedly raped and threatened her since she was 12, during the opening testimony of a Philadelphia man's trial. A request by the University's student dialysis unit for a federal grant received enthusiastic support from U.S. Senator John Heinz, R-Pa., during his Tuesday tour of the O'Brian Building facility. Seven of 11 fraternities charged with serving alcohol to minors will file a petition for allowance of appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, said the attorney who represented the chapters in the case's two previous trials. Two employees at the State College Manor Nursing Home, 450 Waupelani Drive, have been suspended following investigations into alleged patient abuse conducted by the home and the State College Bureau of Police Services, a nursing home administrator said. The University could receive about $10 million less than administrators say is necessary to maintain 1989-90 programs and keep tuition down if the state Senate passes a pending appropriations bill. Since the early 1980s, Japan has dominated the market in semiconductor technology. Boeing Helicopters, a division of The Boeing Company, has donated $750,000 for the expansion of semiconductor research laboratories in the University's College of Engineering. America is probably declining in relative power but is still a major economic and political force in the world, agreed a panel of international journalists Tuesday. University alumnus and noted journalist Rod Nordland saw first hand the sights of Beijing after the Chinese government's massacre of demonstrators and heard the tales from its survivors. Americans' apparent lack of geographical knowledge has inspired the National Geographic Society to create programs designed to tackle the problem in the nation's school systems, said society president Gilbert Grosvenor yesterday. Students looking for a cool spot to study, sleep or socialize this summer will have one less place to go while the Fishbowl undergoes renovations until August. The quest for better, more efficient semiconductors is the focus of studies conducted at the University's Center for Electronic Materials and Processing. Jerry Posts, associate dean emeritus of agriculture, will give a speech and slideshow on the University's first president, the late Evan Pugh, at 4 this afternoon in 101 Kern.
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A "Women's Film Festival" will be held today from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in 112 Kern Building.