The University Board of Trustees this weekend will consider a replacement for Thomas Larson -- former special assistant to the University president, who left the post to become President Bush's prime candidate to head the Federal Highway Administration. A Centre County jury recessed late last night without making a decision in the two-day trial of a Huston Township gift store in which police maintain pornographic materials were sold. University officials removed "United Against Racism and Bigotry" banners from Old Main and the Mall at College Avenue this week, saying new steps would be taken to attain cultural diversity goals. Out-of-state students will bear more of the burden for undergraduate education at the University next year with a planned tuition increase of $652, while Pennsylvanians are scheduled to pay $144 more than they did in 1988-89. University administrators broke at least a decade of precedent yesterday when they revealed embargoed budget information after learning The Daily Collegian obtained the figures. State College Borough Council members will decide Monday whether to override Mayor Arnold Addison's veto of the borough's Fair Housing Ordinance. While art of all kinds fills the streets, balloons will dot the skies over State College as balloonists from across the state participate in the 23rd Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. The State College Bureau of Police Services made a second arrest Tuesday in connection with alleged patient abuse at the State College Manor Nursing Home on 450 Waupelani Drive. The University Board of Trustees will vote on a tuition increase when they meet tomorrow and Saturday at the University's Shenango Valley Campus in Sharon, and for the first time the percentage increase for in-state and out-of-state students will differ. The gray sky of Happy Valley could not dampen the bright look on the faces of children enjoying their own day of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts yesterday. The threat of Lyme and tick-borne diseases may prompt formation of a special state commission to coordinate research, treatment and education programs, local citizens told the state House Agriculture Committee Tuesday at the College Township Municipal Building. Schlow Memorial Library's annexation of four townships into its service area will undergo further examination by the Centre Region Council of Governments' Finance Committee. Moslems who cannot make the annual trip to Mecca today for Aladha -- the Islamic holiday commemorating the first pilgrimage of the prophet Mohammed, can attend ceremonies sponsored by the Islamic Center of Central Pennsylvania and the Moslem Student Association.
Following eleven years as a right-hand man, former women's gymnastics assistant coach Breck Greenwood will finally get his time in the limelight after he was named head coach of the Stanford women's gymnastics team yesterday.
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Many visiting artists will display their colorful creations this weekend during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, but one University student shows his colors all year round.