Special Pennsylvania state flags may soon wave over the graves of three governors buried in Bellefonte's Union Cemetery. Despite concern last week that Undergraduate Student Government elections may be postponed, USG has appointed its Election Commission and elections will take place as planned March 21. A fifth lane for left turns may be added to both West College Avenue and South Atherton Street if the Centre Region Metropolitan Planning Organization approves the project at its meeting later this month. Two local youth programs received funds from the Centre County United Way, enabling the groups to continue helping children who have lost a parent. Day-care facilities also will be supported. University administrators have not taken workers' input seriously in a recent study of Penn State's system for assigning salaries and evaluating employees, say members of the Penn State Office Workers Organizing Committee. Fourteen thousand students nationwide will lose their Pell Grants and another 1.3 million will have their grants reduced in 1990-91 as a result of federal budget cuts. MILESBURG -- Friends and colleagues gathered yesterday in a small Methodist church here to honor a "giant of a man," the late state Rep. Russell P. Letterman, D-Clinton. In the waiting room, magazines and informational pamphlets line the tables. Patients eye each other with a nervous twitch as the receptionist answers another phone call. It was in the Marines that University student David Kidd first came up with the idea for "Tan Hand." Rhesus monkeys are used to test new vaccines designed to attack the AIDS virus; other primates are essential for in-depth studies of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Reducing guilt, learning to cope and strengthening self-esteem are all part of the Sexual Assault Recovery Group offered every semester by the University's Center for Counseling and Psychological Services, say its facilitators. Richard Coccimiglio is quick to defend American tradition. Americans should increase the amount of selenium in their diets to help prevent cancer, a noted professor of nutrition said yesterday. All work and no play. Many historians see society this way. Charles I. Nero, assistant professor of speech communication at Ithaca College, will speak at 8 tonight in 301 HUB as a part of the Contemporary Scholarship on Lesbian and Gay Lives speaker series.
Members of the women's swimming and diving team will compete today at the Pittsburgh Open. For some of the Lady Lions, it will be the last meet of the season. The Big 10's name will still reflect the number of teams in the conference for women's track and cross country even after Penn State joins because Northwestern dropped its program last year. Freshman swimmer Dave Poorbaugh first shaved at age 12 while competing on an age group team in Europe. He told the chaperone he had shaved before, but he hadn't. After last week's losses at Temple and St. Joseph's, the women's basketball team has found the remedy it needs -- a trip to New England for two Atlantic 10 contests. After losing four of the last five matches, an emphasis on the play of the middle blockers in practice proved fruitful as the men's volleyball team swept George Mason last night. The men's volleyball team had its best passing match of the season last night in Rec Hall and swept past George Mason, 15-4, 15-5, 15-12, to open its Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association schedule. It would be understandable if the men's basketball team were down-in-the-mouth after its loss to Temple on Tuesday. But all it has to do is harken back to Jan. 21 to get up for tonight.
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