The Dutzik/Glazier ticket plans a new USG department to organize lobbying trips to Harrisburg and aims to address student financial concerns by eliminating transcript and drop-add fees and forming a "job bank" of possible employment for students. Blaring stereo music, loud parties and drunken collegiates. Are these good-natured college students just letting off a little steam or are those darn kids ruining the neighborhood? The Epp/Donohue ticket promises to take the "politics" out of the Undergraduate Student Government and make it more of a service organization, sponsoring philanthropies to generate money for scholarships. Although Graduate Student Association elections are less than a week away, only five students have announced their intent to run for 13 available positions. University Park might seem to offer freedom for many students, but Finland natives Petteri and Pia Alinikula recently told a State College audience that young people in their country are more independent. University researchers will get an enhanced view of a 10,000-year-old supernova remnant with the help of an X-ray camera that will be launched today from White Sands, N.M. Changes in room and board charges and an update on state appropriations will be among the topics addressed at the University Board of Trustees meeting being held today and Saturday at Hershey Medical Center. The McCarty/Maerz ticket plans to use past contacts and experience with student leaders and administrators to examine parking facilities and diversity and safety issues, and to network with other student groups. Members of the Centre Region Senior Citizens' Center have gathered to enjoy their noon meal. Center Director Barbara Lindenbaum, a petite bundle of driven energy, charges into the dining room to make a few announcements. College students from Lion Share have volunteered to clean the senior citizens' homes, she said. The Whitehead/Winner ticket plans to concentrate on racial issues. James Whitehead, who last spring sent the message, "Why should one kill homosexuals?" across nationwide computer phonelines, officially registered yesterday as the eighth candidate to run for Undergraduate Student Government president. After three months of newspaper advertisements, radio commercials and newsletters, the Centre Area Transportation Authority is hoping State College's proposed Neighborhood Action Plan will increase interest in the sluggish Park-and-Ride program, a CATA official said. The Rae/Bindseil ticket promises to gain representation on the University Tenure Review Board to decide who receives permanent teaching status and to organize lobbying efforts for increased education funding. Most major American cities have visible "unwanted residents" -- men and women sleeping on sidewalk sewer grates, clutching their life's possessions in plastic trash bags. Enforcing impartiality in the levels of refuse service and the monitoring of citizen participation in recycling programs in Centre County will now be addressed by an ad hoc committee. The Haartz/DeLong ticket promises better student representation on key policy-making committees and a focus on minority concerns. Organizers of the Phi Mu Delta/Sigma Sigma Sigma Celebrity Kidnapping hope to raise more than 10 tons of food this year for the Food Bank of State College Area Christian Mission -- four tons more than last year. The Van Horn/Wilmer ticket will try to stop 23 consecutive years of tuition increases by creating an organization to lobby state legislators in Harrisburg. HERSHEY -- During meetings here yesterday, the Trustee Presidential Selection Committee decided how it will proceed in choosing a replacement for retiring University President Bryce Jordan, said committee chair J. Lloyd Huck. More than 160 University students are working for the Easter Seal Society's 1990 "Buck-A-Cup" Coffee Day fundraiser, hoping to raise at least $10,000 for area disabled children. Lettie still lives with the guilt of causing one person's death and leaving another paralyzed from the waist down. The Muir/Williams ticket aims to form a coalition with student groups at other Big 10 schools and create a new department in the Undergraduate Student Government to address academic concerns. Police are still investigating a downtown fight that allegedly took place early Feb. 4 and is claimed by one University student to be racially motivated. Before the faculty senate votes on mandatory cultural diversity courses Tuesday, students and faculty may voice their opinions if they request permission by 5 p.m. today. This year's Women's History Month theme, "Courageous Voices," reflects how women have been prevented from having a voice in the past and focuses on those women who have demanded to be heard, the director of women studies said. About 38 churches and synagogues in Centre County will participate in Sabboth/Sunday Mental Retardation Awareness Weekend this weekend. A proposed special election that would fill the state House seat vacated by the February death of Rep. Russell P. Letterman, D-Milesburg, probably will not take place in the May 15 primaries.
As the women's tennis team hosts the Nittany Lion Invitational at 9 a.m. tomorrow and Sunday, it will entertain a Division III team, a Division II team, and a Division I team. Or at least part of a Division I team. Coming off last week's 11-3 pasting of Richmond, the women's lacrosse team will try to improve its record to 2-0 when it plays at 2 tomorrow against James Madison. It's March Madness and the road to the championship cuts through White Building. If the men's gymnastics team wants to play "Can you top that?" with itself when it travels to Michigan State this weekend, its work is cut out for it. Fire up the buses and throw on something blue and white because the Lady Cagers' Booster Club is on its way to Charlottesville. After defeating Florida State on Wednesday, the women's basketball team will play No. 12 Virginia Sunday afternoon. The last time the women's basketball team played Virginia, it had less than two days to prepare because of a Thursday night game with Duquesne. All that happened was the team strolled to a 90-77 victory against the then-No. 10 Lady Cavaliers. Last year, Georgia plowed over the women's gymnastics team on the road to a national championship, but at 8 tomorrow night, the No. 16 Lady Lions will get a chance to defend their hometurf in a tri-meet against the No. 3 Lady Bulldogs and Kent State in Rec Hall. Tomorrow the men's lacrosse team will open its home season against rival Villanova. The matchup will be the first-ever regular season game between the two teams, but a rivalry has developed in three years of preseason play. A fit and refocused women's track team will open its outdoor season at 1:30 today in the Spiked Shoe Invitational at the Nittany Lion Track. The only event will be the 10,000 meters and though the Lady Lions will be the sole competitors, the distance runners will be eligible to qualify for ECACs and NCAAs in this event.
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It is not often that State College gets a pure, unadulterated shot of rhythm and blues. Tuesday night was an exception -- blues guitarist Bobby Radcliff and his band brought the house down at Mr. C's. Thirty-eight sculptured soldiers trudge toward an American flag in what will become the memorial for veterans of the Korean War in Washington, D.C. THE CRAMPS Stay Sick (Enigma Records) One might think that engineering and art are as opposite as day and night, men and women, dogs and cats or the Beatles and Milli Vanilli. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, please direct your attention to center stage. Performing tonight for your viewing pleasure in an incredible display of bravery and talents, entertainers will astound and amaze you with song, dance and comedy. Drawings are not usually on display in a museum because generally they are sketches or studies or precursors to other, more 'finished' works of art. But the 77 drawings on display in "Figurative Drawings of the 17th and 18th century from the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca" on the third floor in the Palmer Museum of Art are finished works themselves. A century ago Mark Twain's novel Huckleberry Finn was criticized for its unfair depiction of whites. American schools banned the issue-loaded work, saying that it was one sided.