Fraternities and sororities are combining efforts for the first time to combat acquaintance rape and increase awareness of sexual assaults. The State College Parking Authority, in its latest attempt to relieve parking shortages, has authorized further study of developing the lot on McAllister Street into a multi-level structure. While Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar prepares to file his second request to change his job from a part-time to a full-time position, two county commissioners say it will not pass. Jan Shriver may lose or gain weight this month -- depending on how much money she can raise for the fifth annual Leukemia Society Weight-a-thon. The University Student Advisory Board last night entered the borough's embroiled fair housing debate, requesting a future ordinance that would prevent landlords from excluding tenants on the basis of age. Drivers will not be legally cruising any faster along Pennsylvania highways anytime soon, since legislation that would raise the speed limit has stalled in a Senate committee. Last January Gary Kelsey adopted 250 children. Feminist scientists yield more objective results than traditional researchers, a feminist scholar told a crowded room of about 200 people last night in the HUB Gallery. The University is planning a party, but only one invitation is out so far. President Bush has been asked to take part in the festivities to mark the completion of the six-year Campaign for Penn State. PANAMA CITY, Panama -- The Isthmus of Panama is the only place in the world where the sun rises over the Pacific Ocean and sets on the Atlantic. But since the U.S. invasion toppled the country's 20-year-old military regime, the sun rises over a very different Panama. PANAMA CITY, Panama -- While many Panamanians literally danced in the streets to celebrate the U.S. military intervention that unseated dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega last year, administrators at the University of Panama quietly drafted and released a statement criticizing the invasion. A retired University professor emeritus of physics, Eugen J. Skudrzyk, 76, died last Friday at Centre Community Hospital. While some may find a balloon-carrying baboon on their doorstep this Valentine's Day, those who are not careful may find black roses instead. If Undergraduate Student Government President Janyne Althaus does not select a complete Elections Commission by next Tuesday, USG elections may have to be postponed, said Senate President Ron Marlow yesterday.
The "l" was missing from Rhode Island guard Frenchy Tomlin's jersey during last night's game at Rec Hall, but that wasn't all that was missing on the Rams' side of the court. The house detectives were all on the lookout for Rhode Island's entire offense as Penn State dropped URI for a 74-67 victory. Getting runs at the start of both the first and second halves, the men's basketball team beat Rhode Island, 74-67, last night at Rec Hall to take a ½-game lead over the Rams (12-9, 8-4 in the A-10) for second place in the Atlantic 10. It was Beach Night at McGonigle Hall last night in Philadelphia when the 22nd-ranked women's basketball team took on unranked Temple. Only this time, the 98-pound weakling kicked sand in the face of the bully as Temple stunned the Lady Lions, 70-64. The women's track team will participate in its first team-scored meet of the season Sunday at the Barnett Bank Invitational at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Nineteen members of the men's track and field team flew to Gainesville, Fla, yesterday to compete at the Barnett Banker's Invitational Sunday. When the puck drops at center ice at 9 p.m. tonight, Penn State ice hockey fans will witness a rebirth of one of Penn State's most heated rivalries. Villanova and Penn State have not met on the ice since the early 1980s. However, Coach Joe Battista still considers the Wildcats to be Penn State's oldest rival. The opportunity for three boxers to avenge their losses in front of the home crowd last year has finally arrived. After taking its lumps the past two weekends, the men's volleyball team will try to end its slide at the Golden Dome Classic in Newark, N.J. Although the No. 23 women's gymnastics team has never lost to Indiana University of Pennsylvania (8-5) in six tries, the Lady Lions are not brushing off their meet against IUP tomorrow. The men's gymnastics team is in limbo. It's now or never for the members of the men's swimming and diving team who hope to qualify for the Eastern Seaboard Championships. Kathleen Dick, Jill Fretz, Marianne Quinn, Erin Dittmar and Denise Sonntag will bid farewell to the women's swimming team at 1 p.m. tomorrow in McCoy Natatorium. Five wrestlers bid farewell to Rec Hall after Penn State's (11-6) last home matches of the season on Sunday. Tomorrow the fencers will close their dual-meet season with the most dramatic performance of all. The "I" was missing from Rhode Island guard Frenchy Tomlin's jersey during last night's game at Rec Hall, but that wasn't all that was missing on the Rams' side of the court. The house detectives were all on the lookout for Rhode Island's entire offense as Penn State dropped URI for a 74-67 victory.
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Internal Affairs may mark Richard Gere's (An Officer and a Gentleman) return to the big screen, but the film belongs to Andy Garcia. The original meaning of rape conjured images of wartime plundering of villages, and seizing and carrying women away by force. Centuries later this legal definition has changed to sex against a victim's will. Remember R.E.M. and U2's first tour of the country? Probably not. Few people turned out for their performances. They played to half-empty crowds in dingy bars and no one really noticed. William Shakespeare wrote in his play As You Like It, "Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punisht and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary, that the whippers are in love too." Following close on the heels of Pilobolus Dance Company's University visit, another internationally known dance company, Jennifer Muller/THE WORKS, will perform at 8 tonight in Eisenhower Auditorium. When the Beatles hit America on Feb. 7, 1964, America was too stunned to hit back. Remember the Warner Brother's cartoon where Sylvester the Cat and a bulldog escape, chained together, from the dog catcher? They kept bickering and hitting each other with large chunks of wood. That cartoon was called "DeFightin' Ones" and was a take-off on the Stanley Kramer film The Defiant Ones.