A local businessman specializing in international trade gave the Central Pennsylvania World Trade Association new ideas for improving overseas trade practices last night. Dorm commons all over campus swarmed with candidates and their supporters as students voted in area elections yesterday. If faced with another pay freeze, Centre County Prothonatary David L. Immel, for one, may not run for re-election in 1991. Climbing in the family car, Karen Piwonski collapsed on the front seat with a contented smile on her face. A senior in high school, she had just experienced a tour of the University, her first view of life at Penn State. Collegian Inc.'s Board of Directors will select The Daily Collegian's new editor-in-chief tonight from a pool of five applicants vying for the news division's top position. J.P. Muir and Sue Williams snared nearly 50 percent of the vote to win the top two posts in the Undergraduate Student Government, defeating by more than a thousand votes runners-up Brad Haartz and Doug DeLong. Most citizens know nothing more about police badges except if one is flashed in their faces they are probably in some sort of trouble. BELLEFONTE -- A University student who allegedly beat his former girlfriend was bound over for trial yesterday on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment, terroristic threats, unlawful restraint and harassment. Although recycling was implemented to save the environment from mountains of trash, some local county officials think it may contribute to a new garbage problem. Dolphin advocates Rick O' Barry and Sam LaBudde called for an individual and University boycott of all tuna and H. J. Heinz products when speaking to more than 225 people in Chambers building last night. The national media turned the spotlight on more than 3,000 Boston University students two years ago as they took to the streets to protest a stringent campus housing proposal. The Graduate Council approved yesterday the creation of a new degree program under the wildlife and fisheries science major -- the master of forest resources. Feminist scholar and author Gloria Steinem's speech tonight at Behrend College will be broadcast live to University Park students as part of Ebony and Ivory Week.
The women's swimming and diving team overcame opening jitters to finish strong at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas, last week. Katie Kowalski has a spiffy new pair of sneakers and the women's fencing team is ready to fight for the national championships. Today the Lady Lions board a plane for South Bend, Ind., for five days of competition at the NCAA Championships to be held March 24-28 at Notre Dame. PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- On Tuesday, Coach Bruce Parkhill mused about how long a team could rally around the absence of a star player. The men's fencing team is on the road this weekend but not to just any old match. The Lions (16-1) are going to South Bend, Ind., to compete in the NCAA Championships, March 24-28 at Notre Dame. PISCATAWAY, N.J -- For the first time in the history of Penn State basketball, the Lions will be making a trip to the Final Four of the National Invitation Tournament. The team earned the trip by beating Rutgers, 58-55, last night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Penn State has a reputation of having strong lighter weights in its wrestling program, and this year is no exception. After a draining, triple-overtime loss to Loyola (Md.) on Tuesday, the women's lacrosse team will seek to bounce back with a vengeance at 2 this afternoon at Lady Lion Field against Shippensburg, a Division II team. For the middleweights to be successful at the NCAA Tournament, upsets will have to become the norm. Penn State and Oklahoma State are the only two teams which will be represented by its full squad at the NCAA Wrestling Tournament, which runs today through Saturday at Maryland. Although heavyweight Greg Haladay is Penn State's only returning All-American, he has struggled against many of the wrestlers he will have to beat to be a national champion.
Collegian Editorial: Lady Lions did well last week, deserved University's support My Opinion: Jill Imgrund