Despite the University's request for a 12.7 percent increase in state appropriations in 1990-91, Gov. Robert P. Casey's budget proposal would increase the University's overall funding only 2.8 percent. J. David James has resigned as Undergraduate Student Government Senate Vice President, USG Senate President Ron Marlow announced at last night's meeting. The next time you hit the slopes, look out for some rad goofy-foots shredding a gnarly hill. Pennsylvanians need to take precautions against Lyme disease as 90 percent of all cases last year were reported by people living in the Northeastern United States. Applying for a number you will remember for life will be easier under a change in application procedures by the Social Security Administration. If the two organizations agree, the Undergraduate Student Government and the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments have the go-ahead from a University official to combine their HUB offices. Plans to build Rider Building III on the corner of West Beaver Avenue and South Burrowes Street were submitted to the State College borough's Design Review Board at a worksession yesterday. The Graduate Student Association will ask the University to consider building additional family housing to accommodate the increasing number of families at the University. As part of a unique workshop on homophobia, Healthy Loving Week's keynote speaker urged Monday night's audience to recall their unprejudiced youth with the modified song "If You're Healthy and You Know It." Faculty Senate this month will circulate a proposal among University groups suggesting students take a mandatory diversity requirement of one in-depth study course or several "diversity enhanced" courses. A senior staff scientist at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center's Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar physics will speak about science communication at 8 tonight in 108 Wartik Laboratory. Moving one step closer to lifting state development bans, the Centre Regional Planning Commission yesterday sent a revised sewage facilities plan to the state Department of Environmental Resources for approval.
The ice hockey club has received an invitation to compete in the National Collegiate Club Championships to be held in Athens, Ohio from Feb. 28-March 4 on the campus of Ohio University. The women's basketball team wants to join the Big 10 and join it quick. With the Atlantic 10 still undecided about when it will oust Penn State and the Big 10 unsure about what it will do, Rene Portland doesn't want to be a coach without a conference. Women need to support each other and act as role models for women's athletics to survive, let alone prosper, Dr. Dorothy Harris said last night in a speech in honor of National Girls and Women in Sport Day.
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