Calling the University's card access system unnecessary and inconvenient for their all-male dorm, residents of Watts Hall are circulating a petition protesting the system's installation in their building. Moslem students begin celebrating their holiest time of the year today, but this year's observance of Ramadan comes with a new twist -- a minaret erected in the Old Main rotunda. The University is instituting a new requirement for this summer's incoming students -- three credits of a writing intensive course -- to enhance the learning process and improve students' communication skills in the job market. BELLEFONTE -- A State College man accused of raping a former University student in her downtown apartment was ordered yesterday to stand trial by District Justice Ronald L. Horner. Students may have to wait until the end of summer before receiving notification of the state's troubled Stafford non-subsidized loan program. Women's health care activist Byllye Avery will lecture on "Healing Through Empowerment" at 8 tonight in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. Relating painful memories, they stared at the floor. Their voices shook and their eyes teared.
When the baseball team (22-13) takes on Indiana University of Pennsylvania in a doubleheader today at 1 p.m., some of the older Penn State football fans might recognize the man standing on IUP's sideline. The day before Christmas in Megan Smith's sophomore year of high school, she snapped. Playing for her father on the women's basketball team was just too much -- they were just too similar in some ways but too unlike in others. So she quit the team. With three goals, including a last-minute game winner, Ted Peddy led the men's lacrosse team (9-5) to a 9-8 victory over host Bucknell. The women's track team is wearing a path to Philadelphia. What has a carnival-type atmosphere with street merchants and food vendors, big crowds and most importantly, 13,000 top-notch track and field athletes competing under the same roof?
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