Consumers must be knowledgeable and supportive of local and state programs to effectively recycle their waste, an Earth Day speaker said yesterday. "All we are saying is give Earth a chance." When Lawrence Glasco was in China just weeks prior to the Tiananmen Square tragedy, the Chinese people asked him to return to the United States and tell the truth about the June 4 massacre. Seven-year-old Roy Kauffman echoed the thoughts of the more than 8,000 people who danced and watched their favorite musicians at Saturday's Movin' On concert on the HUB lawn. Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers sang to a crowd of 10,000 people yesterday, many of whom were dancing to the beat of his reggae music at the 16th annual Beta Sigma Beta Sy Barash Regatta. The first Chinese official to address last summer's Tiananmen Square bloodshed to an audience in the United States said while negative relations between the two countries have persisted, preserving world peace and reducing arms remain a common bond. Student complaints, especially those initiated by last year's CIA recruitment protesters, have prompted the University to now allow the use of tape recorders in student hearings. A Turkish holiday provided the format for the University's first International Children's Festival as people of all ages celebrated the importance of children Saturday in Eisenhower Chapel. Implementation of the recently mandated insurance for University graduate assistants and newly enrolled international students has begun and some graduate students are dissatisfied with the policy. Behavioral genetics is a field of study that has long been misunderstood and has only recently gained a measure of acceptance, researchers in the College of Health and Human Development say. Middle-aged twins from Sweden may not sound like the typical subject of a scientific study, but researchers in the College of Health and Human Development are studying just that to discover the effects of genetics on personality. Hand in hand, the group of about 120 formed a human chain. Their leader, Starhawk, beat out the tune on her bongo drums as the line of people circled one another, round and round, until they formed one compact spiral. Our one and only environment needs to be valued each day, not just on Earth Day. It was this message that began the 20th anniversary Earth Day festival yesterday on campus. Kittie E. Jordan, mother of University President Bryce Jordan, died Friday at the Fairways at Brookline Village Nursing Home in State College.
When Paige Christie first arrived in Durham, N.H., she had no idea what women's lacrosse was because Plano, Texas, is not exactly known as a hotbed of the sport. Shot putter C.J. Hunter set a new meet record Saturday at the Nittany Lion Relays. Bottom of the third inning, two outs, and second baseman Russ Mushinsky was up to bat. The baseball team split four Atlantic 10 conference games with the West Virginia (26-15) this weekend. They dropped both ends of Saturday's doubleheader, 7-6, 6-3, but pulled together yesterday to sweep the twinbill from the Mountaineers, 6-3, 10-6. After sweeping a doubleheader with Princeton on Saturday, the softball team crashed back to earth with an extra-inning loss and a shutout to Atlantic 10 leader Rutgers yesterday in Allentown's Patriot Park. After Diane Whipple scored with 57 seconds left in the women's lacrosse game on Saturday, the Lady Lions cut the New Hampshire lead to just one goal at 7-6. The football program's tradition of turning out top-notch running backs and linebackers for the National Football League continued yesterday as Blair Thomas and Andre Collins were drafted by the New York Jets and Washington Redskins, respectively. MINNEAPOLIS -- Luckily, Mark Sohn is used to sharing the spotlight at the NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships. Capping off a season of dominance in the Atlantic 10 conference, the men's golf team swept the top four places en route to a convincing 23-stroke victory at the conference championships this weekend. Coach Joe Paterno got a glimpse of how the 1990 football squad is shaping up, while football-starved fans got a quick cure from fall fever as the Blue defeated the White, 20-17, in the annual Blue-White game Saturday afternoon. Besides uniforms and spandex, the next most common item of clothing worn at the Lady Lion and Nittany Lion Relays on Saturday was probably a yellow hat with the green letters TEK on it. The men's lacrosse team fell to host Hobart in Saturday's matchup, 16-5. The loss to the Division III power dropped the Lions to 8-5, slimming their chances of an NCAA bid. MINNEAPOLIS -- Just one week ago, Wayne Cowden's NCAA still rings title wouldn't just have been surprising, it would have been a miracle. It's surprising that athletes on the women's track team ever got involved in the hammer throw. The Blue-White game is often a showcase of Penn State running backs. Sure the quarterbacks throw a couple of passes, but they are usually for variety rather than by design. The entire season came down to one point for the men's volleyball team Saturday night in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association championship game against Rutgers-Newark. By not putting the Raiders away earlier, the Lions had put themselves in a position where luck -- not necessarily skill -- would decide which team won a spot in the Final Four.
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