The Centre Region Planning Commission will take another step toward water system regionalization this month when the commission meets with townships to determine each area's water needs. The University Student Advisory Board decided last night to send a letter to administrators requesting more time off from classes on Martin Luther King Day. Dodging bullets and spitting nails, he runs at the speed of light, hot on the trail of a murderous, drug-dealing, gun-toting gangster. At last he nabs the dirty criminal, throwing him up against the wall and disarming him. Students using the long-distance service for residence halls may be being charged if they let the telephone ring more than five times when dialing long distance. When it comes to being technically adept, Centre County workers will need more opportunities to expand knowledge and abilities in the workplace, area technical educators said. The Council of Commonwealth Student Governments will decide whether or not to add the executive position of vice coordinator to its group at tomorrow's council meeting. Parking in residential areas and the conversion of family houses into student homes are the two biggest problems a neighborhood interest group considers crucial to retaining State College's historic residential character. The Arctic ozone layer experiences conditions similar to those that created the Antarctic ozone hole, but an Arctic ozone hole is unlikely to form, a University professor said. A born-again Christian speaking to more than 2,000 University students for the second straight night urged his audience to abstain from sex until marriage to avoid sexually transmitted diseases. Why are Americans willing to forsake the science of meteorology for a musky-smelling fur ball poking his head out of the ground today? Some Holmes Hall residents have posted signs boasting "straight" on their doors in response to a gay man possibly moving onto their floor. Community members say the North Halls posting follows a high number of dorm incidents widely considered homophobic.
Iowa's men's gymnastics team is trying to turn its home floor into something it has never been when it has faced Penn State -- an advantage. As the season draws closer and closer to the end, the fencers climb higher and higher in their quest for excellence. The men's and women's teams travel to Philadelphia today to test their strengths against Yale, Duke and Penn in a quad meet tomorrow. The women's track team usually runs in front of just parents, friends, coaches and other athletes -- maybe a hundred people. Eleven members of the men's track and field team will compete today at the prestigious Millrose Games in New York City. Warning: You are approaching a dangerous and tiring time of the year. Enter at your risk. The wrestling team is prepared for a war as it travels to Iowa, the heartland of collegiate wrestling, to challenge two top-10 teams this weekend. The No. 6 Pepperdine Waves, with their Malibu tans and redwood-sized players, roll into Rec Hall at 7:30 tonight to take on the No. 8 Lions (6-2) in the first of two weekend matches. After Massachusetts scored the first six points of the game and led, 11-6, at the 4:57 mark last night, co-captain Tanya Garner decided to take over. It took a little while for the engine to get revved up, but when it did all the cylinders were clicking. The women's swimming team has begun its taper, a period of decreased workout time to increase overall speed in races. Although its morning workout will still be one hour, the afternoon workout has been decreased from two hours to 90 minutes. In hopes of qualifying more swimmers for the Eastern Seaboard Championships next month, the men's swimming and diving team will meet LaSalle (7-3) and St. Bonaventure (5-2) at 1 tomorrow afternoon in McCoy Natatorium. As the ice hockey club prepares to entertain the University of Rochester at the Ice Pavilion this weekend, it will deal with something it hasn't had since November 1988 -- a four-game losing streak.
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Ah, Cannes, where the sun beats down on beach goers and once a year the French Riviera is decked out in Tinseltown splendor and adorned with movie stars, significant others and big-time moviemakers for the film festival. State College residents will get the blues this weekend whether they like it or not. Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, a nationally-known blues outfit, is playing at 8 p.m. Sunday at Mr. C's. Step right up! Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and witness the greatest show on campus. The University dance program will make history this weekend by presenting "Diversity in Dance," the largest cooperation of University dance groups since the program's birth. University theater majors are creating performance opportunities for themselves through an exclusively undergraduate organization. WHITESNAKE Slip of the Tongue (Geffen) Forget the old dispute between the Wagnerians and the Brahmins -- Wagnerians are still arguing among themselves over interpretations of Tristan und Isolde.