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Back Issues   [ Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1991 ]


NEWS
 
The Centre Area Transportation Authority has set a schedule for its new budget, but there are serious questions about how the authority will meet its current deficit, CATA officials said.
 
Robert W. Evans, who resigned as the University's student financial aid department's assistant vice president in August, took up his new post with the U.S. Department of Education this month.
 
A microcomputer lab with about 25 Apple Macintosh computers will open in Pollock Library within the next two weeks, adding to the roughly 800 computers now available in on-campus labs.
 
Enhancement funding dominated discussion during Saturday's Council of Commonwealth Student Governments meeting.
 
A prominent psychologist last night explained to about 300 people that the ability for African-Americans to achieve and survive in an actively and institutionally racist society is directly related to their heritage.
 
The Centre Region Council of Governments last night unanimously passed a recommendation that the municipalities provide the Centre Area Transportation Authority with $51,508 to balance CATA's 1991-92 operating budget.
 
Parivartan, a student organization concerned with the social, political and economic conditions of India, has been recognized by the University.
 
When hundreds of thousands of dollars go to one charity in one single event, some nickels and dimes go uncollected.
 
The rent is sometimes free, but commuting students living with parents have a stifled social life and feel isolated from college friends.
 
Wal-Mart is coming to town.
 
When Frederick Matson seamed a newspaper the morning after U.S. warplanes first bombed Iraq, a name on a map of U.S. bomb targets caught his eye: Salman Pak.
 
 
SPORTS
 
When many of the nation's best track athletes gather at one place for a weekend, the sparks are sure to fly before the dust has a chance to settle on the track.
 
Destroy the building.
 
Behind the dazzling 40-point performance of senior forward Keith Hughes, Rutgers snapped Penn State's 24-game home winning streak with an emotional 79-78 win last night at Rec Hall.
 
Sparring against boxers other than their own teammates, 18 members of the boxing club participated in a scrimmage Saturday afternoon at Navy.
 
On a night when the men's basketball team got such positive pregame news about its future, it was only fitting that someone made history. It was too bad for the Lions that player was Rutgers forward Keith Hughes.
 
Nine Lady Lions flew to Johnson City, Tenn. last Friday to compete in the USAir Indoor Invitationals.
 
Eighteen Penn State teams will begin Big Ten competition in the 1991-92 season, Penn State athletic director Jim Tarman announced yesterday.
 
OPINIONS
 
Collegian Editorial: USAB can expand its student voice by voting to give Latino Caucus a seat
 
My Opinion: Laura Wexler
 
Letters to the editor
ARTS
 
For nearly two weeks, Americans have consumed a steady diet of war coverage. And despite the depressing nature of war, Americans have not been seeking refuge in entertainment, industry executives said.
 
Had Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart been in Schwab Auditorium Saturday night, he would have been proud to hear The Mozartean Players Chamber Orchestra's performance of his music.
 
Susan Koff first heard of The Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Co. more than 10 years ago when she was a dancer in New York City.
 

 



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