Increasing emphasis on public relations and improving relations among fraternities are the main goals of the newly elected Interfraternity Council President Scott Stephan. Gov. Robert P. Casey outlines his budget proposal at 11 this morning, and some area representatives say the Harrisburg grapevine is predicting tight spending for the next fiscal year. Beaver Stadium, which holds more than 83,000 people, looks like a quarter from 2,500 feet above the ground. A flight in a glider helped me see how small State College really is. State College Borough Council approved last night a $10,000 no-interest loan to the AIDS Project in Centre Region. At 6 every Friday night University administrators at Behrend College meet and listen to the concerns of minority students. The University's interim representative for underrepresented groups aims to improve the University's public image to increase the recruitment of minority students. The College of Science, in its second annual open house this weekend, gave prospective students and parents a chance to tour University classrooms, labs and dorms and enabled them to talk with professors about the different majors. Recruiting techniques for student organizations will highlight tonight's leadership workshop in a series presented by the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership. Two University students were killed in a car accident Sunday as they returned from a Billy Joel concert in Endicott, N.Y., Pennsylvania State Police at Towanda said.
For some reason the Lehigh men's basketball team has been a thorn in the Lions' side the last four years. The service game isn't concentrated on very much in practice, but it can have a big effect on the outcome of a volleyball match. Last Friday against Pepperdine, service errors hurt the Lions at a number of critical points. Perhaps the women's track team's dominating performance at the Syracuse Invitational on Sunday made up for its lukewarm showing at the Millrose Games in New York City Friday night. No adjectives needed here. Not backyard or barnyard or anything. Just call it the Brawl.
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Alfred Uhry's decision to adapt Driving Miss Daisy to the screen might have been the smartest of his career. Musicology conjures up images of someone rummaging through dusty volumes in musty basements looking for a long-dead composer's works. University theater majors are testing their talent by producing a trio of student written plays. In a time of chaos in Eastern Europe, one couple has found peace in their new life together. Whether one wears the hat of investor, collector, decorator or admirer, an afternoon stroll around area galleries is an awe inspiring spectacle. In 1846 a Belgian instrument maker, Adolphe Sax, patented his new invention, the saxophone. On Wednesday Feb. 7, almost 150 years later, the sound of the saxophone comes to Recital Hall in a presentation by Dan Yoder and the Penn State Saxophone Quartet. A mammoth eight foot tall statue of polychromed bronze and steel juts through the sidewalk of Fischer Plaza. The vermilion and turquoise bronze sculpture is William Bradley's latest work, the Chaldean Monad. A movie medley spanning the decades from the '30s to the '80s will highlight the Singing Lions performance Thursday. A painted canvas of an open field shimmering in the sunlight is Richard Mayhew's portrait of his grandmother. Mayhew is a landscape artist who paints abstractly rather than portraying the land itself.