News yesterday of the death of Sen. John Heinz III, just one day after speaking at State College Area Junior High School, stunned students and community members here. University President Joab Thomas unveiled several teaching incentives to help integrate teaching and research and improve undergraduate education in his speech yesterday in Eisenhower Auditorium. This weekend some University members will reap the benefits of their academic and administrative work. Mieko DeAngelo looked up from the men's suit coat she was altering and beamed as she spoke of a Grecian-style women's dress she made that is on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. President Bush has proclaimed this weekend the national days of Thanksgiving. But several local church officials said part of Bush's proclamation violates people's privacy of worship. The largest Army ROTC program in the United States is gearing up this weekend for its biggest event of the year. Like every Penn State student, Minerva Matos had to take Speech Communications 100. The remodeling of Pollock Dining Commons may slightly inconvenience students now, but the result next fall will be dining halls with modern, high-tech designs. Feminists from across the world will meet on campus this weekend to participate in a feminist conference titled "The Politics of Sexuality: Multicultural Feminist Voices." The Council of Commonwealth Student Governments will decide this weekend who will be the voice of the Commonwealth campuses next year. Many non-traditional students think that because they graduated from high school long ago, they are not eligible for financial aid. But students at DuBois campus are trying to change that. This weekend, 150 engineering students will learn how to deal with the challenges of the corporate world when they participate in the sixth annual Leaders of the Future National Engineering Conference. Wearing umbrella-shaped name tags and sporting wide juice-mustache smiles, 21 children between the ages of 3 and 5 spent a special day with the Easter Bunny. Additional parking spaces may be available on Sowers Street if a plan to build a 92-space garage is approved. A television monitor at one end of the HUB Formal Gallery blares German musicians' videos. The videotape and surrounding German rock posters on exhibit until April 28 reveal rock music's impact on German culture. The Centre Regional Planning Commission last night approved a recommendation to the State College Borough Council that calls for an adjustment in the in-lieu parking fee to correspond to the rate of inflation.
After scoring a combined four points in its last two matches, the rugby club hopes to improve its 3-2 record this weekend with a needed offensive thrust from its backs. The University will host the Penn State Handball Open this weekend at the Intramural Building. The softball team continues to win in spite of itself. Coach Judi Avener wants to avenge the worst loss of her entire career. The quest for an NCAA Championship begins this weekend for the men's gymnastics team at the Eastern Regionals at Ohio State. Now, all the talk and speculation get thrown out the window and it's down to business. The women's golf team will travel to Bloomington, Ind., this weekend to tee off in the Indiana Invitational -- its first competition in nearly a month. Like the Towson State game was earlier in the year, the No. 19 men's lacrosse team game against the University Maryland-Baltimore County, Saturday at 2 p.m. in Baltimore, is another "must win." However, the Lions (4-3) don't want to duplicate their 16-8 loss to Towson. They want and need a victory. Finally, the people from Penn State can view the men's track team in action. Assistant coach Jeri Daniels-Elder said she wants to see sweat and sunburn on the Penn State athletes' faces this Sunday during the Quaker Invitational at the University of Pennsylvania. The women's tennis team will finish its regular season this weekend with competitions against Rutgers, West Virginia and Southern Illinois. Tomorrow college athletes across the country may stand and take a bow. The men's volleyball team takes its current seven-match winning streak into Springfield, Mass., for this weekend's Hall of Fame Classic. Until yesterday, the baseball team (8-12) probably wished it could start a game in the second inning. The men's tennis team hammered Atlantic-10 opponent St. Bonaventure yesterday, 9-0, denying the Bonnies even a single set. Goalie Kay Young said she -- and the rest of the women's lacrosse team -- had trouble getting into yesterday's game against Delaware. After eight years of playing varsity lacrosse in high school and college, Karen Hoysted finally got to play in a game with her younger sister, Sara. Nobody said it was going to be pretty -- and even though it wasn't, the softball team still managed to patch its holes up enough to win two more games. Preseason football practice starts today and despite returning 13 starters (eight on defense) from an overachieving 1990 squad -- which finished No. 11 in the country -- Coach Joe Paterno is pessimistic about the Lions' chances.
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The Graduate Student Association's efforts to bring "Dances With Wolves" to campus were quashed yesterday after a distributor of the Oscar-winning film allegedly broke its contract with the student organization. For about two years, rock 'n' roll was rejuvenated and reminded of its true purpose by an angry, (sort of) musical explosion called punk rock. The crowd that had been sitting sedately in the HUB Ballroom munching on stale potato chips was soon pushing chairs to the middle of the floor and gathering near the stage. Until 1989, Andrei Codrescu was blacklisted in Romania, the land of his birth. His name could not even be mentioned in crossword puzzles. Finally, someone is smart enough to do something to combat drugs other than create meaningless catch phrases such as "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs." Fairy tale characters in search of happiness will go into the woods this weekend at Eisenhower Auditorium.