Nearing the end of her three-year term and after attempting resignation last spring, Student Trustee Christina Henke said she achieved her goal of gaining respect for her position on the University Board of Trustees. Ntsatsi Mantfho wishes she were home. Non-scholars on the fifth floor of Beaver Hall were given a reprieve last night as the University's Residence Hall Programs and the University Scholars Committee allowed them to remain on the floor. The State College Bureau of Police Services is trying to fight area drug use, and they have the attention of elementary school students. With a nod to bettering international relations, a U.S. team took the first International Volleyball Tournament in a final-round win over the Turkish team. Now in its fifth year, Healthy Loving Week starts today with its annual focus on maintaining healthy, loving relationships between members of all sexual orientations and a new emphasis this year on self-esteem. A noted entomologist will speak at 7:30 tonight in 112 Chambers on Lyme Disease, a rare but growing disorder caused by a bacterium transported by the deer tick. The University's disciplinary hearing boards include minority members and deal with ethnic intimidation effectively through the Act of Intolerance policy, said Donald Suit, the University's Office of Conduct Standards director. Following a mandatory meeting among four representatives from Residence Hall Programs and floor residents Thursday, many men in Holmes Hall agree the "straight" signs may not have been appropriate but say their reasons for hanging the signs have not changed. The Council of Commonwealth Student Governments created a vice-coordinator position this weekend to ease the workload of coordinator P.J. Sternberg. The University carries its theme, Gone But Not Forgotten, into the second week of activities for Black History Month with films, discussions and lectures honoring past black leaders and their accomplishments. Some State College Borough residents are tired of seeing red. State Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-Bellefonte, announced Friday his bid for re-election for the 34th district seat saying he would work to create more jobs, establish affordable automobile insurance rates, lower hospital costs and bring more funding to education. With a goal of 800 pints of blood, the American Red Cross and the Association of Residence Hall Students will sponsor the third annual "Have a Heart Blood Drive" during the next two weeks.
After Saturday night's game with West Virginia, a net opened and balloons drifted slowly to the floor. The women's basketball team started throwing pieces of confetti and the crowd gave Coach Rene Portland a standing ovation. This was a statement. There was an explosion in Rec Hall Saturday afternoon. All that remained was the faint odor of burning hawk feathers. Serving and passing errors haunted the No. 8 men's volleyball team in its Friday night loss to No. 6 Pepperdine before 2,466 people at Rec Hall. The wrestling team, after pounding its last four opponents, found what it is like on the its other side, losing to No. 3 Iowa, 33-3, on Saturday. Coach Joe Battista shook up his lineup this weekend in hopes of getting the ice hockey club out of its four-game slump. What he got instead were two less-than-stellar performances as the Icers beat Rochester, 8-2 and 3-2. The women's swimming and diving team is rolling toward the Eastern Championships and Eastern foe Harvard. When anchorman Ed Adelman went into the second turn of the 400-yard medley relay, the first event, and made his move on the LaSalle swimmer who had been going stroke-for-stroke with him, his endurance and patience won the race. Usually when a Penn State basketball player has a good game he is brought back to the media room to answer questions and give insights into the game. The job most of the time goes to Ed Fogell or Freddie Barnes. Shot putter Phil Caraher and distance runner Aidan O'Reilly performed their personal bests Saturday at the Millrose Games in New York City. Even before the plane left State College, the men's gymnastics team knew it was going to have problems against the University of Iowa. Amid controversy and many a heated moment on the strip, the men's and women's fencing teams found themselves on a roller coaster ride in a quad meet against Penn, Yale and Duke on Saturday.
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