Starting next fall, fraternities will check for proof of legal drinking age at their bars during social functions due to a resolution passed at last night's Interfraternity Council meeting. The National University Continuing Education Association has created a mentor program, which includes several Penn State administrators, to help universities develop new programs for returning adults. The local chapter of the NAACP elected Joe Mincer and Vanessa Wright as its next president and vice president at an awards banquet Sunday. In an effort to settle the age protection debate, the State College Borough Council removed that category from a fair housing ordinance proposal at a work session last night. BELLEFONTE -- A nine-man, three-woman jury was selected yesterday to decide if Al J. Romanelli, 21, is guilty of raping a female University student at a fraternity party last December. The Penn State chapter of Educational Office Personnel is accepting nominations for the fifth annual Outstanding Office Personnel Award. Jeff McCarty stood on a railing in front of Willard Building yesterday afternoon and shouted, "I'm gay. I'm a faggot. I'm a goddamn queer." Mark Hourvitz was named last weekend as the next overall chairman of the Interfraternity/Panhellenic Council Dance Marathon. Gay comic Danny Williams will teach an "uncommon skill" tonight -- how to be a gay man. The state next week will honor the Centre Region Council of Governments for outstanding service to area governments. Six other inter-municipal organizations across Pennsylvania also will be honored.
Tennis is one of those sports best suited to the maxim, "Never say die." The regular season championship of the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association goes on the line tonight when the men's volleyball team plays at Rutgers-Newark. Before the season even began, the women's lacrosse team had to face the loss of two of last season's standout players, Mary Ann Foley and Ann Kolongowski, both of whom suffered knee injuries. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- At the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships on Saturday, the first sign of a problem for the women's gymnastics team came in an event that is usually not one of its weak points -- the uneven bars. The softball team thrust itself into the thick of the Atlantic 10 battle this weekend as it split a doubleheader with Rhode Island and swept a twinbill from Massachusetts to begin its conference season. The men's golf team shot two rounds of competitive golf this weekend at the Jerry Pate Intercollegiate tournament in Pensacola, Fla. Unfortunately, the competition was a three-round event. As it did in every other competition this season, the women's golf team improved each round of the Bloomington, Ind., tournament. Penn State moved from a sixth place tie after the second round of play to finish fifth overall in a field of 14 teams. The women's track team had a successful Sunday at Penn's Quaker Relays, qualifying many for ECACs as well as setting several personal and season records.
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If vinyl records are the dinosaurs of music merchandising, it seems the mystery they hold is their defying extinction rather than succumbing to it. In an effort to summon his past and to inspire an awareness of personal history in the viewer, artist Allen Topolski has created in his exhibit Objects works that reflect the post-industrial decline of his hometown, Shamokin. John Waters is a strange one. The Pennsylvania Quintet's spring concert Wednesday evening will draw its program from the two great fonts of quintet works: contemporary and romantic composers.