The Daily Collegian's Board of Directors last night selected current sales manager Ty Strohl as business manager for the upcoming year. The effects of abortions on women will be examined during this week's Human Life Awareness events, Penn State Students for Life members said yesterday. A new marketing student with experience in approving Penn State's budget and sitting on the University Board of Trustees attended classes yesterday. In a climactic end to the final Undergraduate Student Government president/vice-presidential debate, hopefuls Tony Dutzik/Kelly Glazier withdrew from the race and gave their support to another ticket. While members of the Faculty Senate expect to pass legislation mandating diversity courses today, University community members say the effectiveness of the proposal hinges on implementation. Four additional candidates have filed intent to run forms for the Graduate Student Association elections at 7:15 tonight in 101 Kern. Soft lighting reflected muted tones off the large, polished desk in 201 Old Main, where the president of the University conducts business. Wearing a conservative navy blue suit and a monogrammed white shirt, Michelle Hearn looked up with a smile. Members of the Lesbian and Gay Student Alliance protested James Whitehead's candidacy for the Undergraduate Student Government President at last night's presidential/vice presidential debate. The State College Borough Council last night enacted an ordinance to make it easier to enforce regulations that prohibit parking on lawns. Jim Jenkinson tried to finish typing his paper all day yesterday but with little success. Instead, he spent most of his time answering the phone. For the first time in at least three years, the Interfraternity Council has endorsed a candidate for the Undergraduate Student Government presidency. IFC has endorsed J.P. Muir and Sue Williams. Joe Clark, whose controversial approach to education was the subject of the movie, Lean on Me, will speak at 8 tonight in Eisenhower Auditorium.
The men's tennis team begins its Atlantic 10 schedule when it hosts Temple at 2:30 p.m. today at the Indoor Tennis Club. Before Sunday's practice everything seemed to be going all right for the men's basketball team. They were playing at home in the second round of the National Invitation Tournament and everyone was healthy. When the season started two weeks ago, the women's lacrosse team was uncertain which way its season would go. Yet after two games, the same proven formula has been working -- stingy defense and a strong offensive punch. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- With the clock running down in Sunday's women's basketball game against Virginia, the ball stayed in the hands of guards Dawn Staley and Tammi Reiss. Continually they passed the ball between themselves, keeping the reaching Lady Lions away from it. In basketball games and horse racing, seconds and photos often make the difference in the winner.
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Imagine yourself starring in a play. All of a sudden, stage fright grabs your next line and puts you in the wrong stage position. Who is going to bail you out? From his State College home a man attempts to paint the beautiful landscape he sees in the distance. Trees, flowers and sunlight come to life as he quietly goes about his work. The Pennsylvania Centre Stage announced its 1990 summer season in a melodramatic fashion Thursday outside the Arts Building. Suspended from the ceiling of the Brooklyn Museum is a mammoth 24 foot long, 14 foot wide conglomeration of wire and black sand. Another enormous work, crafted from mud, twigs and other natural materials, created a formidable sight when it was displayed at Public School no. 1 in New York City. The HUB exhibit titled She Stared, He Cried is more than the collaboration of two art students' work; it's a representation of half the current undergraduate printmaking majors' work. Award winning author Chaim Potok will deliver a speech, "A Writer in Two Cultures," at 8 tonight at the Jewish Community Center, 620 E. Hamilton Ave. Once a month, local artists donate a Thursday morning to speak with students and faculty members about the challenges artists have faced and how they have succeeded in their craft as part of the Careers in Visual Arts lecture series. Joe Versus the Volcano is annoying. In a good way. The Center for the Performing Arts presentation of Big River at 8 p.m. Sunday in Eisenhower Auditorium was a delightful reminder of theater's ability to recreate reality on stage.