Liberal Arts students don't have to attend their professors' office hours to talk to them, because they can now take them to lunch -- for free. Without financial aid, Marian Lee Ungar could not have attended Penn State in the early 1950s -- when tuition plus room and board was about $400 per semester. Reporters call her daily for confirmation or denial about allegations that she bars lesbians from her team. Jaywalkers caused 10 of the 27 pedestrian accidents reported in State College last year -- most took place in the busy downtown area. The Caribbean countries include a diverse range of people united by a common heritage. Here, students will celebrate their common ties in an evening-long event tomorrow. Before 1934, doctors and nurses treated local coal miners in a small hospital in Schuylkill Haven. Plagued by a deficit resulting in fare increases and service cuts over the past year, the Centre Area Transportation Authority's 1991-92 preliminary budget indicates the agency may have to further cut services and raise fares. Leslie Osborn (senior-advertising) and Mike LaFlam (senior-human development and family studies) think the Undergraduate Student Government should give students more say in University policy making. Mark Stewart (junior-English) and Merryl Werber (junior-accounting) believe the Undergraduate Student Government should provide "tangible services and accomplishments for students." Downtown bookstores will now have more copies of schedule and degree requirement "blue" books to meet the needs of students living off-campus. Isabel Molina was selected last night to be The Daily Collegian's new editor in chief. She will begin her one-year term on May 3. University Athletic Director Jim Tarman released a statement Wednesday that some students and faculty interpreted as evidence that the University will not act on allegations that women's basketball coach Rene Portland bars lesbians from her team. Strawberry Zingers sweetened the end of the third and final Undergradaute Student Government debate last night. The Undergraduate Student Government elections court found USG presidential candidate Jim Van Horn and running mate Kim Thorsen guilty Wednesday night of one of the seven charges filed against them. Picture a cab driver. You know . . . loud, impatient, a little rough around the edges. He's got a heavy New York accent and his best friend is the yellow checkerboard cab he maneuvers recklessly through the streets. At the professor's request, four volunteers marched to the front of the class where Jamal was standing. A Bellefonte man pleaded guilty late Wednesday afternoon to charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault and possession of firearms without a license, Centre County Judge David E. Grine said. Courtney Malveaux (senior-sociology) and Saul Treiman (junior-accounting) will focus on eliminating what they call petty politics within the Undergraduate Student Government if elected, Malveaux said. Roger Czulewicz (junior-political science) and Janine Solomone (junior-psychology) intend to let students make some of their decisions. Aldo Barovero (junior-political science) said that as Undergraduate Student Government president he would eliminate the current USG format. The Undergraduate Student Government Senate voted to support four bills proposed by the state legislature to reform current state voter registration laws. If elected to the Undergraduate Student Government, Jim Van Horn (junior-history) and Kim Thorsen (senior-social work) want to "bring USG back to the students" by restructuring the USG legislative branch, Van Horn said.
The boxing club heads into regional competition with a positive and aggressive attitude despite the loss of two key members. The women's track team will begin its outdoor season with the Lady Lion Invitational tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the Nittany Lion Track. After the thick layer of snow covered the golf course last week, the men's golf team has been forced indoors to prepare for the 1991 Wofford Invitational Golf Tournament, to be held this weekend in South Carolina. When the men's lacrosse team plays its first home match of the season at 2 p.m. Sunday at Jeffrey Field against Drexel, the Lions (2-2) are looking for a win. Plain and simple. After two consecutive cancellations due to poor field conditions, the baseball team will try once again to play its home opener tomorrow at Beaver Field. As they grow, children develop the skills they need to one day live on their own. Many of the games they play help them develop those skills. Finally. They're coming home. If you want to find Jim Delaney between around 2:30 and 6:30 in the afternoon during the week, you can check the White Building. That's where the gymnastics team practices every day. Delaney won't be working on an apparatus or stretching, but he'll be sitting on bench wearing his white ball cap, anxiously watching. The women's tennis team will face No. 1 William & Mary tomorrow, followed by a competition with the University of Richmond on Sunday. Before the women's lacrosse season began, attack Lori Fitzgerald wasn't sure how she would fit into the lineup. Now, three games into the season, she knows. Women's lacrosse coach Julie Williams wants her defense to force the other team to pass. The women's gymnastics team, ranked No. 12 nationally, has won the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship eight times -- every year since its beginning in 1983. Two championship titles found their way to Penn State yesterday as the women's foil team defeated Notre Dame, 8-4, and as Vitali Nazlimov finished first in individual sabre competition.
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In the 1950s the government went on a witch hunt. Instead of looking for broom-toting women who drink from bubbling cauldrons, it sought Communist sympathizers. It seems that the only thing Spalding Gray does not do is sing. This weekend, five women will see their progressive choreography come alive to music ranging from Bach to Michelle Shocked. Exhibits ranging from bedrock fractures in New York's Appalachian plateau to Penn State's electrically driven, artificial heart assistant pump will be showcased at the Graduate Research Exhibition this weekend.