As Iraq fired missiles on Israel last night, a standing room only crowd at the HUB fired questions at a panel that tried to dispel misconceptions about a draft. Flag-bearing counter-protesters interrupted an anti-war demonstration on the steps of Pattee yesterday afternoon, prompting verbal exchanges between the opposing groups. At 10 last night, Amit Mor was trying to get in touch with his family in Jerusalem and his wife's relatives in Tel Aviv. Although TV has been the medium of choice for many people following the Persian Gulf conflict, copies of yesterday's newspapers will remain in scrapbooks and attics for a long time. State College and University police do not expect a problem with anti-war protests or riots. State College Borough Manager Peter Marshall and Mayor Arnold Addison developed a new proposal that will increase parking fines, but not as much as an ordinance Addison vetoed last week. As the bombs rained on Baghdad early yesterday, one State College Borough Council member thought of his son stationed at Desert Storm Command in Saudi Arabia.
The Massachusetts women's basketball team knew it would be in for a long night. They say that fans at Penn State athletic events have blue and white coarsing through their veins. But at last night's men's basketball game, thoughts were of red, white and blue. University presidents at the 85th annual NCAA convention in Nashville last week overwhelmingly passed a reform package that includes cost-cutting proposals that will affect Penn State athletic teams. The war in the Middle East has occupied its minds as it has all Americans over the last two days. But the men's basketball team did not let the Iraq conflict affect its play as it rolled to a 83-65 win over Rhode Island last night at Rec Hall. The biggest challenge this season for the men's swimming and diving team lies straight ahead. It will be deja vu when the women's swimming and diving team goes on the road against No. 11 Virginia at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Last season, at McCoy Natatorium, the Lady Cavaliers ended the Lady Lions nine-meet winning streak with a 165.5-132.5 victory. When the men's gymnastics team opens its season tomorrow at Syracuse, it will be without the services of two key performers, specialist Rich Briggs and all-arounder Jim Delaney. There's no rest for the weary. While most of the student body was suffering from post-holiday exhaustion, the women's track team hosted the Lady Lion Invitational and road-tripped to the Yale Invitational. Last Saturday's Nittany Lion Invatational proved to be a blockbuster of a meet for the men's track team. Not only did six athletes qualify for IC4A competition, but several more turned in impressive early season performances. Fifteen years ago, Penn State won its first United States Volleyball Association national championship, led by the likes of Frank Guadagino, Tom Hahn and John Phillips. War in the Persian Gulf will not cancel any of the wrestling team's matches this weekend, not even against Navy. The ice hockey club will return home this weekend for two games against Worchester Polytechnic Institute at 9 tonight and at 3:30 tomorrow afternoon at the Ice Pavillion. Penn State will play Georgia Tech, voted national champion in the UPI coaches bowl, in the 1991 Kickoff Classic. After two wins last year against Ohio State in regular-season meets, Penn State fell to the Lady Buckeyes 185.925 to 188.175 in the NCAA Northeast Regionals. At 8 tomorrow night in Rec Hall, Penn State (3-0) will try to avenge the loss.
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Living Colour's sound is loud, its performance sometimes erratic, and its words always socially conscious. The New York City Opera National Company, appearing at the University for the fourth successive year, will present a full-scale production of Mozart's most popular opera, The Marriage of Figaro, at 8 p.m. tomorrow in Eisenhower Auditorium. Most of the films released over Christmas had a serious case of the winter blahs. Those with potential failed to deliver, and a few small gems thrown in to the lineup ran away with Santa's sack.