University President Bryce Jordan is not ready to name an interim provost, but said the delay should not affect the transition between the temporary person and William C. Richardson, outgoing executive vice president and provost. BELLEFONTE -- Debbie is tired of waiting for the courts to give her custody of her 13-year-old sister rather than allowing the child to live with their father -- a man convicted on two counts of indecent assault last year. Area residents and students are at odds over converting State College's family homes into rental properties. Hoping to raise $5,000 for a local community center, Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity, 328 E. Foster Avenue, and Sigma Alpha sorority will hold their second Sports Trivia Bowl this weekend. State Rep. Lynn B. Herman, R-Philipsburg, urged people at his town meeting last night to elicit support for a bill that would increase financial aid for eligible college students. University administrators have compiled a draft of a five-year plan outlining space expansion for academic and support functions at University Park, but no net increase in classrooms. The University is moving downtown but is keeping its bags packed. It may not be staying long. Students advocated creating one required course focusing on the concerns of underrepresented groups at last night's forum on mandatory diversity courses. Adding a sexual orientation clause to the University's non-discrimination policy would fuel lawsuits against the school, administrators contend. But Penn State may be required by the governor to include the policy because it has contracts with the Commonwealth. At the most, 20 people have applied for the student representative position on the University Board of Trustees, compared to last year's hundred or more applicants, said Brian Donaldson, Board of Trustees representative for the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments. County employees may soon be separating aluminum cans from newspapers and glass when they throw things away on the job. When Nichol Barlett first submitted her portfolio for the Miss Pennsylvania U.S.A. Pageant in July, she hoped only for acceptance in the pageant. As part of its fight against adult illiteracy, a University institute plans to release a program aimed at helping truck and bus drivers pass a federally mandated commercial driver's license test. For the 162 injured in Wednesday's subway disaster in Philadelphia, months and possibly years of post-traumatic stress disorder may follow, local experts say. While Penn State is not the only Pennsylvania university without a sexual orientation clause in its affirmative action policy, the University of Pennsylvania says its inclusion of the term works in curbing discrimination. Imagine being emotionally unable to leave your home. The Undergraduate Student Government's Department of Safety will kick off the Campaign for a Safer Penn State tomorrow with a safety fair for children in the Big Brother and Big Sister program and Youth Service Bureau.
During last year's outdoor track and field season junior Tom Kleban was competing in the decathlon and his ankles were bleeding and swollen after hitting them on the hurdles. This Sunday, you can run to benefit more than just your body. Tomorrow's game against Hofstra will give the lacrosse team an important idea of where it is now and what it can accomplish. "On the bubble" is a common term used in auto racing to describe the last driver to make the field for a race. It can also be used to describe where the men's basketball team is and its chances to make the 64-team NCAA basketball tournament. Indianapolis is the site of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and four members of the men's team left yesterday morning to compete in the meet this weekend. At 2 Sunday, the men's gymnastics team will find out just how good its chances are at making the NCAA Championships. For Penn State and seven other teams, the battle for coveted All-American selections begins at the Eastern Wrestling League tournament, held today and tomorrow at Bloomsburg. When it plays East Stroudsburg at 7:30 tonight in the South Gym at Rec Hall, the men's volleyball team will attempt to establish itself as a great team. Do not arrive late when the women's gymnastics team hosts the University of New Hampshire at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Rec Hall because one New Hampshire gymnast may provide the Lady Lions with their biggest home challenge in the meet's first event, the vault. After winning its second national championship in three years last May, the women's lacrosse team will take its first step toward another this weekend. St. Joe's is favored with its Hodges machine, but Rutgers is happy with its postseason spot; Penn State is the host at 13-0 and West Virginia could possibly shock. One week the hunter, the next the hunted. That's one way the ice hockey club could describe its position as it enters the ICHL playoffs at 5 tonight in Kitchener, Ontario. After a spring break rampage through Dixie, the women's tennis team has its first home matches of the season at the Penn State Tennis Club. The Lady Lions host Cornell at 11 tomorrow morning and St. Bonaventure at noon Sunday. Seniors Carmen Mann and Stacy Prey will have to turn in their best performances of the season this weekend in Indianapolis at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships to gain All-American status.
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The hunt is on. When Lydia Madrid was a young girl, for ten months each year she spent nights with her brothers sleeping under the star-lit veil of the West Texan sky. During her waking hours she passed the time telling stories and hearing them from friends and relatives. Indiana University's I.U. Soul Review will offer a taste of African culture in an evening of song and dance tomorrow at Schwab Auditorium. Although only an hour's traveling distance apart, Bucknell University and Penn State have loose ties. However, this weekend will bring the two universities together through song. Intrepid groupies of the University music scene need not worry that the downtown bar shuffling will greatly affect its entertainment. Feeling like squatters who settle virgin territory by making a trip to the unknown, a troupe of oppressed Hungarian actors ventured to the states 13 years ago. Squat Theatre set up shop in New York City, creating avant-garde plays in a storefront atmosphere. One measure of a musician's stature is the ability to absorb the musical language of another culture and through that language, express a universal emotion -- an emotion that is authentic rather than strained or condescending.