State College Borough residents and businesses will be separating their trash in the near future following the borough council's enactment of a mandatory recycling ordinance. In preparation for the upcoming Minority Career Awareness Day, Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the University's Career Development and Placement Center will sponsor workshops to inform students about the day's opportunities. The Association of Residence Hall Students closed its meeting last night after amending its bylaws to change the status of ARHS Cinemas in relation to the organization. With a many rapes going unreported at the University, an open-forum student discussion addressing instances of date and acquaintance rape will be held at 7:30 tonight in the HUB Ballroom. The Class of 1904 donated the clock atop Old Main's bell tower, the first gift presented to the University by graduating seniors. As 1989 slowly nears its end, the State College Borough Council is turning its attention to money matters. A student government member wants the University to create a second student newspaper as an alternative to The Daily Collegian, which he asserts changes news accounts to reflect the political convictions of its editors. In 1966, WPSX-TV General Manager Marlowe Froke and retired professor of education John McAuley created a non-commercial public education program that now reaches 15 million children across the country. The Lesbian and Gay Student Alliance continued to relate concerns about issues pertinent to their organization with Robert Dunham, vice president of Academic Services, last night during the group's political meeting. What began as a quiet candlelight vigil marking World Farm Animals Day quickly became a debate last night between the Pennsylvania Beef Council and the Humane Farming Association. Dropout prevention, handling emotionally-disturbed students and AIDS in the classroom will be focuses of the 23rd annual meeting of the state Association of School Psychologists held at the University Oct. 18-19. The University plans to establish a graduate school for public policy, providing a new academic home for about 83 students and 58 faculty members here, according to intra-departmental correspondence.
The women's cross country team won Saturday's Rutgers Invitational soundly despite the fact it was without two of its best runners. Penn State's No. 1 doubles team of Dave Schoenly and Dave Welch further established itself as one of the best teams in the East by finishing second last weekend at the highly competitive Princeton Quadrangular. After this past weekend, things can only get better for the soccer team. In the spring of 1988, soccer player Ted Gillen pursued the chance to play in the 1988 Olympics, but the opportunity slipped out of his hands when he was knocked out of the competition before the Games even started. Playing 36 holes of golf in one day was not a problem for the women's golf team this past weekend at the Michigan State Invitational as previously expected.
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On the surface it seemed like just another party: loud music, plenty of beer and a prevailing care-free attitude. They came in at night with flashlights, breaking the lock on a side door. They stole through the abandoned theatre, breaking into the projection room, smashing bulbs, and finally pulling out knives and slashing the movie screen that had been a part of the Rowland Theatre in Philipsburg since the start of movies themselves. Eisenhower Auditorium got back to the classics last Saturday as the pageantry, elegance and spectacle of Swan Lake swept State College audiences away to a realm of noble princes, evil magicians and blue- gray twilights. Magdy Taha began working for Free University, Penn State's alternative to "institutionalized academia," at the suggestion of the organization's coordinator. In a small corner of Pattee Library, a University student gazes upon a collection of art works. She looks slightly confused, but then there is a sudden expression of understanding as to the message the works are trying to convey. Tomorrow night at 8 p.m. Eisenhower Auditorium will rock, bop, swing and groove to the jazz groups Liz Story and Montreux. Black Francis, lead singer of the Boston-based Pixies, could be considered a bit macabre. Sea of Love is billed as an exciting murder mystery, accentuated by the return to form of veteran actor Al Pacino (The Godfather, Scarface). University Professor Lanny Sommese and several of his former students and their works were featured in an 18-page article in the September issue of Idea magazine, an international trade journal published in Tokyo, Japan. The University Readers, which have hosted holiday performances since 1947, will hold auditions at 7:30 p.m., today, in room 309 Sparks for this year's Halloween performances. Students will be asked to do a cold reading of The Readers scripts using vocal diversity and extensive facial gestures.