SHARON -- Under the budget passed by the University Board of Trustees Saturday, non-residents will pay a greater percentage of the cost to run the University next year with a 9 percent increase in their tuition, while undergraduates from Pennsylvania face a 4 percent raise. A University alumna who recently won a small claims grade dispute lawsuit against her former instructor faces a difficult legal challenge during an upcoming appellate arbitration hearing, experts say. Between 80 and 100 members of an animal-rights group gathered outside the Hershey Medical Center on Saturday to protest surgical training operations on animals by medical students and veterinarians. Women students interested in learning about sorority life can do so this week during Panhellenic Council's Rush Recruitment Week, said Caroline Durrell, rush coordinator. SHARON - Problems in the Commonwealth campus system's budgeting process have led its vice provost and dean - who was approved Saturday by the University's Board of Trustees - to develop a new financial structure. SHARON - The University's one-year retention rates for black students increased 5 percent between 1982 and 1986, the chairman of the President's Council on Recruitment and Retention told the University's Board of Trustees Friday. SHARON -- The University will not decide whether to require the ethnic diversity courses recommended in the final social scientists' report on University Park's racial climate until fall, administrators and faculty said Friday. SHARON -- The University will pay $2.8 million more to run the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in 1989-90, and students there will pay an additional $1,036 to attend the college under the budget passed by the University Board of Trustees Saturday. SHARON -- A four-member directorate and two support staff members will assume the responsibilities of the former special assistant to the University president - including the development of a $62.5 million research park. Not even gray and rainy skies could damper the closing of the 23rd Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts yesterday, as artists and festival-goers alike wrapped up a week of art, music and fun. Further action by State College Borough Council on Mayor Arnold Addison's veto of the controversial Fair Housing Ordinance has been postponed until July 31. SHARON -- A new vice provost and dean for undergraduate education, C. Gregory Knight, begins his duties today after being approved for the position by the University's Board of Trustees Saturday. SHARON -- The University's nursing program will be more nationally visible after the Board of Trustees upgraded the Department of Nursing to a School of Nursing on Saturday, said Janet Williamson, the school's director. SHARON -- Although tuition increases and the University's 1989-90 operating budget were the foremost items on the agenda, the University's Board of Trustees faced other issues when they met Friday and Saturday at the Shenango Campus in Sharon.
Most Arts Festival visitors slowly amble through the exhibits, taking their time to appreciate the displays scattered around the campus and State College. But that sedate pace was far too slow for the 700 participants in another Arts Festival tradition - the 14th annual Nittany Valley-Arts Festival 10K Road Race held yesterday morning. Things are definitely turning up roses for Coach Russ Rose and the women's volleyball team nowadays. Never ones for complacency and resting on their laurels, Rose and assistant coach Cindy Harris went out and brought in some more top prospects for the upcoming season. Plans to expand Beaver Stadium will not be completed before the 1990 football season as previously hoped, Penn State announced Friday through the University's Sports Information Office.
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