For years, chlorofluorocarbon use has been destroying the ozone layer at an alarming speed. Now the danger is moving even closer to home -- the threat of a possible ozone hole over the Northern Hemisphere has sparked concern. Many black women at Penn State agree that good men are hard to find and call their romantic futures bleak. North Halls residents are pumping iron again. The Holmes-Foster Neighborhood Association will hold a meeting Sunday to determine what action to take in response to the State College Borough Council's zoning of Community Field. A bill recently passed by the state General Assembly has caused many University employees to seek early retirement, adding to the problem of filling empty positions. Minority students might fear the status of their scholarship availability as University officials support U.S. Education Secretary Lamar Alexander's proposal to do away with financial aid based on ethnic or racial descent. Three parked cars were broken into between Wednesday night and yesterday morning, State College Bureau of Police Services said. Investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are still gathering data on the cause of the plane crash Monday night that killed 35-year-old Randy Lienert of Salix. Since the publication of sportswriter Chino Wilson's column in The Daily Collegian last month, many people have questioned the strides the University claims it has made in addressing African-American concerns in the last decade.
It's swim or sink time for the women's swimming and diving team. Like a student returning to school after winter break, the men's volleyball team returns to the court tonight after a two-week break from competition. The upcoming weekend for the baseball team probably can be best described as a very big U-turn. After starting the season by winning his first six matches, Tim Wittman has given new meaning to the word slump. Since that time he's 7-6 and, in a shocker, recently lost his 158-pound spot to redshirt freshman Josh Robbins. With Minnesota and Iowa coming to town this weekend, the women's tennis team is hoping to pick up its first-ever Big Ten victory. The men's swimming team faces the Villanova Wildcats tomorrow in the Nittany Lion Invitational. The main concern of the Lions, though, will not be the 'Cats. It will be the clock. Tobacco Road. The epitome of college basketball. There's a lot of pressure on the No. 1 seed in a national tournament. Especially when you're playing a host team on a roll. Anyone who expected an Icer blowout against Navy last night left the Ice Pavilion sorely disappointed. While the eyes of Penn State hockey fans are focused on Group A, the strange goings-on in Group B cannot go unnoticed. One word has been hanging in the air around the men's gymnastics team lately -- consistency. Rene Portland, meet Rick Swenson. It's Big Ten Championship time. Women's gymnastics is not all stylistic beauty and smiling for the judges. It takes an often brutal amount of hard work and determination.
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Those rainy days of spring are upon us, and that means lots of wet shoes and broken umbrellas. But it also means you'll need something to do during all those sloppy days. If you find yourself attracted to the images now displayed in the HUB Gallery, you're no different from the photographer. "The Greatest Show on Earth" is coming to Eisenhower Auditorium tomorrow. An unusual benefit will take place 9:30 tomorrow night at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post, 139 N. Barnard St. The United Soul Ensemble is going to prison.