An animal-rights activist said he spoke for those who cannot speak for themselves Tuesday night in the HUB ballroom. University students who stroll through Pattee's Lending Services Gallery can view pen and ink drawings by fellow student Tara Johnson until Feb. 24. The State College Planning Commission may recommend that the borough begin its own rental housing inspection program. While many University students toasted New Year's Day last month, others celebrated it last weekend. Like the general public, University journalism students have expressed a wide array of opinions on the news media's coverage of the Persian Gulf war. Signs of the gulf war are appearing all over town -- even in the commercial district. Caroline Gramas spent her summer donating plasma at Sera Tec Biologicals Inc. Why did Gramas (senior-hotel, restaurant and institutional management) donate? "For the money." Borough officials say the University's move into State College benefits downtown business, and they worry that a move back to campus could hurt the borough. Bruce Parkhill, the men's basketball coach, finally made it big. Or at least he's joined the ranks of New Kids on the Block, Flavor Flav, Aerosmith, Elvis Presley and Jessica Hahn. African-Americans should explore Malcolm X's black nationalist legacies to become a more self-sufficient and powerful community, several University community members said last night. After a close vote, The Penn State Israeli Association was accepted into the International Student Council at their meeting last night. -- Jason Bender, 23, of 283 Easterly Parkway, was bound over to trial yesterday on a charge of recklessly endangering another person, a spokeswoman for the Centre County court administrator's office said. Jean Kilbourne, an internationally recognized expert on alcohol and cigarette advertising and advertising's images of women, will speak at 8 tonight in Schwab Auditorium. A University student from Pakistan said another student assaulted him because he is an Arab. But police say the attack was not racially motivated.
My, how the mighty have fallen. Forward James Barnes is lacing up his shoes a little tighter these days. Guard Monroe Brown is taking a few extra jump shots before practice. The men's volleyball team upped its record to 12-1 last night against No. 17 Navy in an Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association matchup in Annapolis, Md. Eight hundred fencers met this past weekend in Little Rock, Ark., to secure places on the Junior World Championship team. The wait is over for the East's No. 1 women's swimming and diving team. As fans file into Rec Hall to watch the wrestling team, they may be unaware the team might not be where it is today were it not for the hard work and enormous help from a very special group of people, the wrestling booster club. The teams are many that will be going after the Eastern Women's Swimming League Championship at Princeton's DiNunzio Natatorium -- 26 to be exact.
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