The red flag "regional consolidation" worries many local officials trying to collectively solve their water problems. BELLEFONTE -- Environmental experts are balking at a State College resident's question of whether the AIDS virus could be living in sludge processed at the University Area Joint Authority's wastewater treatment plant. As the University begins to implement required cultural diversity courses, faculty members and administrators say they are more concerned about achieving up-to-date scholarship and sensitive teaching, rather than lack of funding. Initially proposed for women of child-bearing years, tenure review legislation has been broadened to give faculty members time off for illnesses or to care for the elderly. You may laugh or kick your tire wheels. But don't tear up that slip under your windshield wipers. Ignoring parking tickets from private lots may drive you to court. Media misinformation about changes in Eastern Europe distorts issues such as German reunification. The role of the press in reporting changes in these countries must continue to come under scrutiny, five panelists agreed earlier this week. When Missy Singley returns late from a party on a Saturday night, she pulls out her student identification card, slides it into a card access slot on the door and enters the building. The chamber looks like something out of a science fiction novel. All four walls, the ceiling and the floor are covered with fiberglass or foam wedges. Friends of Boris Weisfeiler remember him as an adventurer -- a loner who often preferred his own thoughts to human companionship and at times considered people bothersome. The Council of Commonwealth Student Governments will elect a new coordinator and other representatives at tomorrow's council meeting. Shopping for a new job, gathering information about local businesses, industries can be done this weekend at Nittany Mall. Organizers of Spring Week, which benefits the Big Brother/Big Sister Program of Centre County, are reorganizing the event's structure by adding a carnival and other events.
Dissatisfied with Penn State's tennis program and its coach, a senior tennis player quit the team this past weekend and another player's discontent led to his dismissal Wednesday. For 30 minutes of Tuesday's 10-8 loss at Temple, the women's lacrosse team played as well as it had all year. Against the Lady Owls, ranked No. 1 in preseason, Penn State actually held a lead of 8-5 five minutes into the second half. The last few years, the men's lacrosse team usually seems to bring out the best in Drexel. The fate of the baseball team (8-7) will rest in the hands of Mother Nature this weekend when it plays Atlantic 10 rival George Washington in a pair of doubleheaders in the nation's capital. Not only will she determine if the Lions and Colonials get an opportunity to play, but she will also have a say in who starts on the mound for Penn State. The No. 12 men's volleyball team will seek redemption tomorrow when it faces No. 11 Ball State in the Asics Volleyfest at Elizabethtown College. The fencing teams walked away with a national team championship, four All-America fencers, an Outstanding Male Fencer of the Year and a Coach of the Year at this year's NCAA Championships. Coach Sue Rankin is getting used to playing Connecticut in the worst types of weather. The men's track and field team will open its outdoor season this weekend in a tri-meet against Navy and Syracuse in Annapolis, Md. O.K., this weekend is really it. After withdrawing from the Penn Invitational last Saturday because of cold weather and illness, the women's track team will finally open its outdoor season this weekend, both at home and away.
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Clad in zoot suits and fedoras, a band jumps around the stage, brandishing trumpets and trombones, playing everything from "In The Mood" to "The Curly Shuffle." The pottery in the glass case in the HUB is not just pottery of the hands, but of the artist's mind and spirit as well. The muffled sound of brass musicians practicing permeates the room in which French pianist and associate professor Marylene Dosse works. From the opening moment Lord of the Flies is a savage and thoughtful tale of youth gone awry. Really awry. An eye-catching sculpture exhibit that expresses poignant commentary on endangered species is on display in Pattee Library. Upstairs in the Visual Arts Building art students intensely work while downstairs in Zoller Gallery, their finished art works compose the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition. When I was a kid, I remember rummaging through my older brother and sisters' record collections while they were at school. I really wasn't interested in the music I just thought the albums looked really cool. And they were. The Symphonic Blue Band and guest saxophonist Dale Underwood will perform Sunday at Eisenhower Auditorium, in memory of former band member John V. Scott. What happens when 12 landscape architects are each asked to create the ideal garden? From "Holy hole in a doughnut, Batman," of the 1960s, to the vindictive dark knight of today, the return of Batman to his original comic book character has continued to influence many aspects of American culture. The man some consider the unsung hero in the Batman phenomenon of the 1980s will speak today at the University about the caped crusader's recurrence in the mainstream and other superheroes.