Responsibility for environmental problems is shifting from governments and large companies to individual households as consumers become more selective of products they purchase. The University Student Advisory Board will send a letter to University Board of Trustees President J. Lloyd Huck requesting that each final candidate for University president meet with student representatives. The long-awaited report on mandatory diversity requirements will be debated by the Faculty Senate today, following a senate subcommittee's request for input from faculty and students. The cancer patients spoke to the crowd, the dancers finally relaxed, the morale committee members could rest their smiles and the grand total of $671,573 was announced. Four-hundred-forty-five University students will lose their Pell Grants in 1990-91 as a result of federal budget cuts. The Pell Grant program is the fourth financial-aid package to be cut in the past two weeks. Students returning to the dorms after Spring Break will need to dial an "8" instead of a "9" to reach off-campus phone numbers and will still be able to dial the familiar 911 in case of an emergency. Occasionally joking with his audience, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., met with about 190 area residents yesterday, during a question-and-answer session on topics ranging from higher education and social security to drugs and the Clean Air Act. A $7 million gift from a California construction executive who graduated from Penn State more than a half-century ago will help draw top engineering faculty here, school officials announced yesterday.
The football team will now be playing the likes of Michigan and Michigan State. Basketball fans can now look forward to the spectacle of the one and only Bobby Knight, with his mouth, arms and chairs a-flying. Personal record setting seemed to be the order of the day for the women's track team Sunday at George Mason's Last Chance Invitational. Every morning bright and early, Lynn Dougherty can be found shooting at Rec Hall. While her roommate, Susan Robinson, dreams of doing the same as she waits for her 8 o'clock class, Dougherty is busy working out. If you blinked you might have missed it. Craig Cirbus, former Penn State offensive line coach who was replaced by Dick Anderson, will become an administrative assistant in the University's department of intercollegiate athletics, Coach Joe Paterno announced yesterday. Eastern domination has become the rule for the men's volleyball team. The men's volleyball team gave considerable playing time to most of its bench last night as it defeated Navy, 15-2, 15-10, 15-5, in the South Gym at Rec Hall.
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Throughout history, metalsmithing has resulted in the creation of practical objects: eating and drinking utensils, horseshoes, and jewelry. The "Five in One" metals exhibit, in the Zoller Gallery through March 4, gives a new use to metal. When great musicians are combined with great music, an audience can usually expect a great performance. But when the Guarneri String Quartet was combined with Ludwig van Beethoven's music Saturday night, the performance was not great. The desire for vengeance is one of the most elementary human inclinations. Often even the most peaceful among us rejoices when someone gets what he or she deserved. The distinction between victim and malefactor can easily blur; the revenge is no longer sweet but becomes a bitter, tiresome contest to see who is the last one standing. School of Music Director Lyle Merriman has been re-elected to a three-year term on the Graduate Commission of the National Association of Schools of Music. "Shoot, if fellers really hit each other, there'd be eyeballs all over the place!" The University Resident Theater Company's Saturday night performance of Mark Medoff's comedy, The Majestic Kid, was a refreshing look at reality. By featuring non-stereotypical characters, the play reminded patrons that good guys do not always wear white, women are not mindless, and heroes can be black. Pennsylvania Dance Theatre's Friday night performance in Eisenhower Auditorium presented a decidedly light-hearted program to a woefully small audience. Rushing in and out of the HUB during the week, most of us have seen, or at least glanced at, the art displays outside of the Fishbowl. The current exhibit until March 4, the Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduating Seniors Show, features the work of University students. The Lesbian and Gay Film Series begins with the first of six films about lesbian themes The Mark of Lilith at 7 tonight in the Women's Studies Lounge, 12 Sparks.