The University Creamery makes many dairy products, but one of its specialties is cheese. Ritenour Health Center may apply for national accreditation within the next three to four years, forcing it to meet national standards, a University administrator said. But a director at the center said the University will have to make some sacrifices to be accredited. The December 1989 external review of the University Health Services reported openly racist and sexist attitudes on the part of some employees, but Ritenour staff members question the report's findings. An expansion of one registered nurse's duties in the Women's Health Department has trimmed the waiting time for routine visits by one month. While most people picture FBI agents as G-men who chase criminals and engage in shoot-outs every day, they do not see the men and women sitting behind desks filling out paper work. A safety program may help reduce injuries and deaths by stressing the importance of wearing seatbelts. An external review committee that in 1989 analyzed Ritenour Health Center's operations found problems in its staffing, facilities and morale. You may think you have an ulcer during finals, but you probably don't. Neighborhood preservation and improved town and gown relations are among the issues candidates for the State College Borough Council hope to address if elected. More people may take advantage of the Park and Ride program when the borough begins charging commuters to park in residential areas. Four panelists said Saturday that the Tunisian government must lure companies to its country to create jobs for Tunisian students educated abroad in technological fields. Larry Kuhns is thinking about Christmas trees in spring. University President Joab Thomas told the University Student Advisory Board in a letter that discrimination cases are bound to be handled inconsistently until the University non-discrimination clause is clarified. It's a sunny day and Robert L. Goerder, a freshman, is late to class. He runs across the green campus, holding his dink on his head so it doesn't fall off. He sees a group of upperclassmen standing on the corner in front of him. We are what we wear. Or so some people think. But what do we wear? A 21-year-old University student said she remembers being 4 or 5 years old and asking her mother what was happening on TV. Her mother's reply: "They are saying the president did something really bad." When you think of the twentysomething generation, you probably think of things like, well, gee, um . . . nothing. Penn State ranks 12th in the nation among large engineering graduate schools, according to a survey published in a recent issue of U.S. News and World Report. Penn State researchers are pioneering methods of growing and harvesting mushrooms that benefit producers around the world. Phone calls late at night are unwelcome to most people, but for the 10 peer counselors at the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Student Alliance, it's part of their work. University students and State College residents will have a new and improved place to work out next fall. Activities will abound next week as students fight finals stress. Adopting a child is rarely quick or easy. Members of an Undergraduate Student Government Senate committee are pleading with students to make some last-minute lobbying efforts before the state legislature reviews the University budget in July. After eight years, Frank Arlinghaus still won't give up. Three people hope to improve communication among students, the borough and the University as they attempt to put a student voice on the State College Borough Council for the first time since 1977. The Organization of American Historians dumps former President Ronald Reagan into the "below average" category in presidential performance along with John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Pierce. Head football coach Joe Paterno and 17 University students were inducted last night into the University's Zeta Theta chapter of the national classics honor society, Eta Sigma Phi.
The baseball team has Boyertown on its minds. It's lucky these three are friends. Can they make it four in a row? The men's volleyball team will don its grass skirts and head for the big dance tonight. For the members of the equestrian club, finals begin tomorrow. At last check, the outdoor track agenda highlighted the three remaining meets slated for tomorrow, May 11 and May 18. The softball team completes its 1991 season with two doubleheaders this weekend against Adelphi and the Atlantic 10 tournament next weekend. If only the men's lacrosse team could have started the season as it has ended it.
Collegian Editorial: Trustees must vote to add the words sexual orientation to University policy My Opinion: Ted M. Sickler
The Stupid Brothers goofed. Twice. Fifty years ago, Orson Welles brought to the silver screen a megalomaniac whose life story would change the history of filmmaking forever. In the film world, "Citizen Kane" is as much an American institution as baseball and apple pie. The landscape architecture department's awards ceremony has been an annual event for so long that no one seems to know when it really started. Some audience members left Monday night's Can Film Festival disappointed that their submissions were cut from the show's program. Everyone knows about Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. But these are names of the past.