WEST BERLIN -- Looking out at crumpled facades from the window of his small West Berlin hotel room, Wilfried Sablowski thanked God he found work after only one week as a refugee. After Tiemo Kracht studied the political ramifications of East and West German reunification, he came to Penn State from West Germany to examine the Strategic Defense Initiative. WEST BERLIN -- City police Lt. Kappel Reinhardt once stood helplessly as a fatally wounded East German man, gunned down only a foot from the Berlin Wall, climbed to escape to the West. Speaking before concerned citizens at Schlow Memorial Library last night, a director for the area's recycling program outlined Centre County's attempt to deal with the refuse problem. State College residents this week will take part in the National Issues Forum topic, "The Environment at Risk -- Responding to Growing Dangers." The state Department of Environmental Resources this week announced it has fined Sera-Tec Biologicals $25,000 for illegal disposal of medical waste at the Clinton County Landfill in 1988. The Senate yesterday upheld President Bush's veto of a bill that would prevent Chinese students from deportation, but the vote has become more an issue of foreign policy than student safety as Bush confronts a largely Democratic Congress. While Chinese students at the University realize that President Bush's executive order may provide them with more benefits then the Pelosi Bill, they are upset with the message sent by the failed attempt to override Bush's veto. WEST BERLIN -- Outside the heavily guarded Brandenberg prison, East Berlin's Spree River flows silently past bullet-riddled walls -- a reminder of World War II's bloody end. "The Satanic Verses," perhaps the most controversial book of 1989, was used last semester in a graduate-level English course, outraging many members of the University's 1,000-strong Moslem community. While Gov. Robert P. Casey predicted a relatively rosy future for Pennsylvania in his State of the Commonwealth address Wednesday, some area representatives are looking at the speech through budget-colored glasses. Phi Kappa Phi, a national honor society, is offering fellowships for outstanding students who intend to continue their academic careers. This Saturday the Penn State College Republicans will host the "Pennsylvania State College Republican Winter Weekend" for the second time in three years. Marking its one-year anniversary this month, C-Net, Centre County's government and education channel, is planning to extend sports programming and better management of production this year. Real estate agents, bus companies and government representatives will crowd into the HUB this weekend at the fifth annual Housing Fair to help students find a place to call home next semester. Members and friends of the University's Chinese community will gather this weekend to celebrate the start of a new year. A representative of Catholics for Choice spoke to more than 350 people at last night's "Celebration for Choice" at the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. Student parking fees will increase $20 next year, upping to $75 the price for off-campus students, the assistant vice president for safety and environmental services said at a University Student Advisory Board meeting last night. Penn State's move to the Big 10 athletic conference will bring not only athletic prestige to the University, but many academic opportunities as well, say officials at several Big 10 schools. WEST BERLIN -- Caught off guard by the swift pace of reform at the close of 1989, many East and West Germans say they are unsure of how their countries should best approach reunification. Chuck Mong, chairman of the Centre County Republican Committee, announced yesterday he will not seek re-election to his party's post. The State College Borough Planning Commission last night postponed deciding on the borough's Capital Improvement Budget until the results of two studies are released. On May 25, Richardson will depart from the University to become the next president at Johns Hopkins University. Richardson's career decision leaves the University with one less greatly qualified candidate for its next president.
Brown women's swimming coach Mark Johnston is angry. The men's basketball team will try to build up a win streak this weekend as it faces a team on the comeback trail from a 1-27 record last year. When the Crimson Tide rolls into town tomorrow night at 8, the women's gymnastics team may be facing a tidal wave at Rec Hall. The men's volleyball team will attempt to rebound from its first loss of the season when it travels to Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne for the Fort Wayne National Bank Pepsi Invitational this weekend. When the ice hockey club faces off against the third-place Erie at 9 tonight and 3:30 tomorrow afternoon, it will do more than just trying to get back on the winning track. The Icers will also find out if they can play pressure hockey. The Lady Lions will run on the fastest indoor college track in the country when they compete today and tomorrow in the Terrier Classic at Boston University. Following last weekend's United States Fencing Association two-day bonanza, the men's and women's fencing teams gear up again for a full day of fencing at tomorrow's eight-team dual meet in White Building. The 49ers do not have a monopoly on predicted blowouts for Sunday. Twenty-three members of the men's track team will compete in the Bud Lite Invitational today and tomorrow at East Tennessee State University. A credo many mothers often recite to their children says: Coming off its worst lost of the season, the No. 18 women's basketball team will try to "rebound" when it battles traditional rival West Virginia in a tough Atlantic 10 matchup at 1:45 tomorrow afternoon in Morgantown.
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Reconstruction is scheduled to double the size of the Palmer Museum of Art. The city of Pittsburgh, considered by many to be an up and coming cultural center, is losing the curator of one of its major museums. Suddenly, you sound like your parents. One might not take seriously a dance company named after a hardy form of dung fungi. Like the power of music itself, Music Box is a divulging requiem that tortures as it entertains.