Student leaders would like to see a fair housing ordinance passed by the State College Borough Council, and they'll be working for it at tonight's council meeting. At "A Vision Redefined," the convocation in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., keynote speaker Chuck Stone remembered King as a drum major. Four teen-agers, arrested Sunday in State College, have been identified as the fugitives suspected of murdering a bar owner and his companion last week in Harris County, Texas. The menu included barbecue ribs, smothered chicken, red beans and rice, candied sweet potatoes, collard greens, whole kernel corn, biscuits, honey butter, corn bread, pound cake and fried fruit pies, and it was all in the name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Higher education officials and students across the country will be seeing a lot of change this year in the way of financial aid. Slick roadways in the past two days contributed to three accidents resulting in injuries, State College Bureau of Police Services said.
According to the Volleyball Monthly 1992 NCAA Men's Collegiate Preview, the Penn State men's volleyball team is the seventh-best in the nation. But, if you ask anyone on the Lion squad, polls are meaningless. Butler Men's Basketball Coach Barry Collier says there's a simple explanation for his team's current mini-slump. Niagara University has a rich tradition in men's basketball with such alumni as Frank Layden and Hubie Brown. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. With the top of the net eight feet above the playing floor, men's collegiate volleyball is a sport that demands height. With this in mind, the Penn State men's volleyball team went looking for some height during the summer.
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Friday night's Asylum show at the HUB Ballroom proved that State College is capable of supporting an underground rock scene. Early in Lili Fini Zanuck's new film Rush, Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) says the local police chief tends to see things in fundamentalist terms. Once again, Hollywood has succeeded in rehashing old ideas for people's cash rather than their enjoyment. In Theatre 100, students don't just read about classics -- they get to sit back and enjoy regular performances provided by a University theater company. This season's cult hit is frozen in '50s sensibility and abrasive wit. There is no definition for it in the dictionary. Students schedule classes around them. Some depend on them. The dedicated shed tears for them. And the embarrassed watch them behind locked doors.