The State College Borough Planning Commission put in a "a motion of sadness" about the Gateway complex to the borough council at a meeting yesterday. Fifty years ago when nations waged war overseas, our own country underwent a subtle revolution. Women entered the work force. From Pulitzer Prize winners to Emmy Award winners, The Daily Collegian graduates have risen to the highest ranks of excellence in their professions. Owing much to their Collegian experience, these journalists and professionals say working for the newspaper assisted them on their roads to success. The Undergraduate Student Government Department of Women's Concerns last night elected two candidates as its co-directors, pending approval by the USG Senate Appointment Review Board. The State College Borough Planning Commission put in a "a motion of sadness" about the Gateway complex to the borough council at a meeting yesterday. Robert Lewis Wilson remembers an old, journalistic style, U-shaped desk in Room 301 Old Main. At the table his editor would sit and direct the staff. "For a better Penn State" boasted the first The Daily Collegian, hitting stands Thursday morning, Sept. 5, 1940. A successor to the semi-weekly paper, the daily brought students the news five days a week -- Tuesday through Saturday. Kenneth Plattner is a self-taught artist. With bits of colored glass he can create a masterpiece. Collegians Helping Aid Rescue Mission attempted yesterday to relieve an important problem by sponsoring Homeless Awareness Day. Kenneth Plattner is a self-taught artist. With bits of colored glass he can create a masterpiece. A move proposed by the governor to provide an additional $10 million to the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency's ailing Stafford non-subsidized loan program may not be enough to save it. Ritenour Health Center became less of a mystery for members of the International Student Council last night when a University physician explained the purpose and procedures for using the center. It's Saturday night and you're looking for something to eat. That means pizza or hamburgers. Taking an environmental issue into its own hands, Theta Xi fraternity has eliminated tuna from the house menu to protest what they say is "the deliberate killing of dolphins by tuna fishermen." This weekend visiting middle school students will get their first taste of college life. James Cone, considered by many to be the "father of black theology," will speak at 7:30 tonight in Paul Robeson Cultural Center. A student's day may seem never-ending. But a day in the life of a newspaper is longer. Fifty years ago The Daily Collegian ran on scissors, paste, pens, pencils, rulers, typewriters and persistence. Aspiring journalists and tycoons will join members of the community tomorrow inside The Daily Collegian's new facilities for an open house celebrating the student newspaper's golden anniversary as a daily. Adam Smyser remembers the late nights in 1940 and 1941, leaving Old Main to head downtown and watch The Daily Collegian being typeset on Linotype machines and printed at the old Centre Daily Times plant on Fraser Street. The University Park Airport will use $219,000 in federal funds to examine the environmental impact of several expansion projects including a proposed 2,000 foot runway extension. Students and administrators in the University's communications doctorate program attribute its recent national top-20 rank to the program's flexibility and the faculty's reputation. A new publication initiated by the College Republicans aims to give students an outlet for their views on current national, state and local issues. A University professor's research may save you money when buying flowers.
With only three games remaining in the season, the women's lacrosse team will be looking to continue its winning ways when it visits West Chester at 3 this afternoon. If the first game of the softball team's twinbill yesterday were playing in a theatre, it might have been called "The Guns of Kent State," dropping a 12-0 decision. The Lady Lions silenced those guns in the second game, though, earning a 4-3 win and a split with the Lady Golden Flashes. Officials from Indiana University joined Minnesota Athletic Director Rick Bay yesterday in voicing doubts about the decision to admit Penn State into the Big 10 Conference. The defending national champion equestrian team clinched first place in Region 14 last Saturday, thus earning the right to defend its national title at the championship horse show at St. Lawrence College in Canton, N.Y., May 5. After a banner year in which she was selected first-team Atlantic 10 Conference, the honors continue to roll in for Susan Robinson. From Las Vegas, Nev., Jim "Bogey" Laverty. . . Stacy Prey is not best known on the women's track team as an All-American. With about nine minutes left in yesterday's game, men's lacrosse coach Glenn Thiel found a lucky penny. Right then, with the game tied at 13, he said he knew the Lions would beat No. 3 Loyola.
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