The Undergraduate Student Government Senate will elect its new leaders tonight at the first meeting of the 21st congress, marking the end of Ron Marlow's long but interrupted senate leadership career. Ziggy Marley will bring the sounds of reggae to the Beta Sigma Beta Sy Barash Regatta, replacing former Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh who canceled his engagement to perform in London. As the Women's Studies Program celebrates its 10th anniversary, the proposal for establishing a new major in addition to the newly approved cultural diversity requirement may expand the program. Second term State College Borough Council President Gary Wiser, "a man of compromise," resigned at last night's meeting because of a job transfer. An estimated 5,800 University students who rely on Stafford non-subsidized loans to help finance their educations may have to look for income elsewhere in the coming academic year. Since a state bill passed last year, several local fraternities have been running raffles without licenses, according to the office of the Centre County Treasurer. Informal discussion of issues facing women, a celebration of global feminism and presentation of scholarly research will be among events scheduled to celebrate the Women's Studies Program's 10th year of existence. Passover celebrations will begin tonight with a re-enactment of the exodus from Egypt and samples of a Sedar meal at 7:30 p.m. in the HUB Ballroom.
The women's tennis team dropped its first dual match of the season to William & Mary on Saturday, but rebounded on Sunday to upset James Madison. Kathleen Dick reached success in swimming quicker than most people. After only a year of competitive swimming, she qualified for the U.S. High School Nationals at age 14. At 16, she made the U.S. Olympic Trials. Basketball fans probably won't have to worry about Coach Bruce Parkhill leaving Penn State to go to Virginia -- at least this year. Golfer Kristin Clark walks up to the AstroTurf mat in Holuba Hall and eyes the field. She takes her stance, swings her club and hits the ball into centerfield, where Cathy Gitzendanner is waiting to make the catch. When the men's volleyball team plays at 7:30 tonight at East Stroudsburg it will be without a pair of regulars and will be playing its fourth match in five days. There was an odd twist in the outcome of the Arizona Heptathlon this past weekend. The people in charge of scheduling and those in charge of weather must have a grudge against the softball team.
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Because there are no spoken lines, only singing, in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, the musical complicates the job of actors, forcing them to rely upon bodily and facial expressions. SINEAD O'CONNOR I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Chrysalis) Step, two, three, four, and step, two, three, four. Everybody dance. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays to win -- to win the crowd, that is, and to win recognition as one of the top American symphony orchestras. From Paul Winter's opening sax solo to the audience's standing ovation, the Paul Winter Consort's mixture of folk, New Age and jazz Thursday night was enthralling. If British literature were written in French, would it contribute to British literature? African literature has neglected its own tongues since it moved from the oral to written tradition. Often, African books are written in English, Portuguese and French. Jane Austen, perhaps the greatest English novelist of her time, is a familiar sight on high school and summer reading lists with her tales of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.