BELLEFONTE -- A dusty painting hangs on the wall of a popular Bellefonte watering hole roughly 10 miles away from Beaver Stadium. Although one local businesswoman predicts an eventual downturn in economic activity in the area, the country's recession has only slightly hurt downtown businesses. Women must learn to accept themselves, from their bodies to their abilities, a speaker said Wednesday night as a part of a Healthy Loving Week program. The Interfraternity Council is electing new officers -- for the 76th time. For four hours yesterday, representatives from more than 20 campus groups pleaded with the University to do what they think is right. University students, faculty and staff are concerned about the reduced hours and lowered book and periodical budgets at University libraries. Father John Szada, a Roman Catholic priest and University alumnus, presented to about 40 people in Willard Building Wednesday night a spiritual view on healthy loving topics such as contraception. If women want to succeed in the military, they need to have self-confidence, a member of the Army National Guard said last night. Some University students who attended the first Education Abroad Day at the HUB Fishbowl yesterday gave several reasons why international terrorism does not affect their decisions to study abroad. One of the main goals of new International Student Council adviser Stan Latta is to educate international students about American society and American students about different cultures. Clad in jeans and a sweater, with shorn hair and dangling silver-heart earrings soaking up the stagelights, Lauren Burk looked pretty normal. After making a second request for membership last night, Latino Caucus will have to wait at least a week before knowing if it will have a seat on the University Student Advisory Board. The Centre Region Planning Commission last night decided to challenge the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Seating Arabs and Israelis at the same table is apparently as difficult at Penn State as it is in the Middle East.
Randy Pogue, with all of seven collegiate bouts under his belt, represents the boxing club's most experienced fighter as the club prepares for the PSU Invitational. The women's tennis team enters its 1991 spring opener against Maryland at 2:30 today with a "definite lineup change" from the fall. But that doesn't worry Coach Sue Whiteside. Perhaps the men's volleyball team held a luau before last night's game. Dec. 8 was the day after the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, but it was also a disaster for the ice hockey club. It's mid-term exam time for the No. 1 men's gymnastics team as it prepares for its tri-meet with Temple and Navy this weekend at McGonigle Hall in Philadelphia. As the NCAAs approach, it's time for the Lions to get busy. When the women's gymnastics team competes in New Hampshire at 7 p.m. tomorrow, the Lady Lions will try to think of the meet as just another practice. The men's tennis team opens its 1991 season indoors against Eastern Michigan and Mercyhurst today and tomorrow in Erie, Pa. The Lions will take on both opponents in doubles play today. All singles matches will be held tomorrow. With the Eastern Championships three weeks away, the men's swimming and diving team still has some unfinished business to take care of. While Wendy Nelson, Jenny Weaver and Coach Teri Jordan fly off to Nebraska to compete in the Cornhusker Invitational, the remainder of the women's track team will go up against the Moutaineers at West Virginia tomorrow. The men's track team picks up its spikes and hits the road again this weekend. But this time, the Lions are high jumping their act to a foreign country. Maybe a lesser team would have let this game slip away. After all, the No. 2 women's basketball team just played a physically and emotionally-draining game against Rutgers on Tuesday. The Lady Lions had every right for a lapse against sneaky George Washington last night at Rec Hall. Well, it might have had a little more suspense than usual, but the women's basketball team's performance last night at Rec Hall will, once again, go straight to syndication. Vitali Nazlimov had never set foot in this country before August. Men's basketball coach Bruce Parkhill believes that at this juncture in the season, it's the attitude of the players that proves the main determinant of how his team will perform on the court. Coach Rich Lorenzo believes the wrestling team can beat Pitt and West Virginia this weekend, even though the Lions will be missing four starters. The 1991 college football season will bring a new challenge to kickers who in the past have enjoyed wider goalposts than their counterparts in the NFL.
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Valentine's Day comes early to the University when capricious creatures scatter love through a mystical midsummer's forest. Guess which British band just released its first album in over two years? In the Center for Women Students Resource Room, a student-initiated petition with about 30 signatures lies on the table. Along with the petition, a memo reading "Put the Red Light on Green Card" asks people to boycott the film. She wants a greenhouse, he needs a green card. If Bronte and George can put up with each other for one weekend, they just might get what they want.