The University's booth -- one of 74 exposed to Nittany Mall shoppers this weekend -- highlighted continuing education material, employment opportunities and sports. Local fraternity members yesterday listened to Mark Usry, a law instructor at James Madison University, in Virginia, speak on fraternity liability and what party policies can be installed to decrease risk for fraternities. Communicating with the new University administration and uniting with other student government bodies are two goals Brian Donaldson, newly elected coordinator for the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments, hopes to accomplish this year. Some police officers have decided to serve State College with more than a gun and a badge. They are arming themselves with higher education degrees. Pedestrians may gain exclusive right of way to a portion of Pollock Road if a study indicates closing part of it will not cause significant traffic problems elsewhere on campus. Poor weather conditions and a non-alcoholic format contributed to this weekend's low attendance and a $2,500 drop in fund-raising efforts at the 22nd annual Phi Psi 500, organizers said. Lance Benjamin did not think census forms would arrive in his dorm mailbox. Like many University students, Benjamin questioned the process and believed as a transient resident in State College he would not be counted here. For most people, the census may be nothing more than a survey in the mail or an interviewer knocking at the door. Thomas Jefferson directed this country's first census in 1790 when slavery was legal and women were not considered citizens. It was a question Alex Trebek would have loved: "Is smokeless tobacco safer than cigarettes?" A federal plan to deduct Social Security taxes from College Work-Study student paychecks will not affect Penn State students since the University opted to pay the tax in 1956, a University official said Friday.
Despite lack of competition and rainy, cool weather, the women's track team turned in several ECAC qualifying times, as well as many personal records and season bests at the Lady Lion Invitational on Saturday afternoon. It came down to the last event of the day and the men's track and field team rose to the occasion and beat Navy and Syracuse on March 31 in Annapolis, Md. Coach Tom Peterson gave extensive playing time to his bench as the men's volleyball team defeated No. 19 Ohio State last night in the final game of the ASICS Volleyfest. Penn State won the match, which was played at Elizabethtown College, in four games, 15-9, 17-15, 10-15, 16-14. Throughout last season, Kay Young was goalkeeper for the junior varsity squad of the women's lacrosse team. While Cheri McMonagle and Sue Sommers split the starting time, Young slowly improved. Then she got hurt midway through the year. When Virginia battled from a four-goal deficit to tie the women's lacrosse team, 9-9, with 7:35 left on March 31, the Lady Lions must have felt a bizarre sense of deja vu. Just five days earlier, the Lady Lions had leads of 6-2 and 8-5 against Temple which evaporated in a 10-8 loss. Through the mud and muck of Drexel's rain-drenched field, the men's lacrosse team found it difficult to get its footing. But the Lions did find the goal and a 16-9 win over the Dragons.
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