The Centre Area Transportation Authority board yesterday approved a timetable for the 1992-93 fiscal year budget and heard input from citizens regarding service improvements and additions. Students who can never decide whether to eat "Menu 1" or "Menu 2" won't have to make that choice next semester. Bicycles may soon replace white cruisers with sirens blaring in police chase scenes if University Police Services adopts a proposed bicycle patrol plan. If you are what you eat, then the average University dining hall patron is mostly chicken -- 31.8 pounds to be exact. Penn State students may be able to study at another Big Ten university if the schools' administrations accept a proposal by the Association of Big Ten Students. Students got the opportunity to pass Go and collect $200 in what started out as an ordinary sociology lesson on poverty, but turned out to be international news. After more than six years of debate, the Centre County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to consider an ordinance today that would make the county district attorney position full time. Two State College Borough Council members last night asked for pedestrian safety to be moved up higher on the state Department of Transportation's priority list. A unique dialysis unit at Penn State that allowed students to receive dialysis treatment without leaving their home will remain closed because of a stalled state grant.
There are two ways one could look at the women's track team's showing in last weekend's Big Ten championship meet. That crazy Big Ten. Virginia's a state that has its fair share of hills and valleys. The baseball team found that out this past weekend. With a tear running down his cheek, forward DeRon Hayes roared back to his normal scoring self last night as the Lions celebrated their "Senior Night" with -- what else -- a 79-73 nailbiter at Rec Hall. DeRon Hayes should have been out there with the other three seniors honored before last night's 79-73 win over American. It was a time of reflection and memories. While the men's basketball team was in Rec Hall's main gym saluting its most notable players last night, the men's volleyball team was in Rec Hall's south gym introducing some less notable players. Ravaging a coach's worst pre-game nightmares, the word "letdown" haunts even the best of teams.
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If Albert Camus and Bob Dylan got together at a campfire with a couple of acoustic guitars . . . well, that might describe The Zen Yankees. So Seattle's grunge scene may have all the hype and MTV buzz bins, but drive down to Olympia, Wash., by way of Route 6 and you'll hear something honestly fresh at K Records. Playing music fit for a post-punk "Gidget," Beat Happening provides beachball hardcore with actions behind the melodies. Have a seat, be quiet, buy some popcorn and by all means, enjoy the show. Pulling my Honda Accord into a parking spot, I turned off Jan and Dean's "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" and headed for the beach. Admit it. How many of you grew up with a crush on The Fonz, or Richie Cunningham's cute little sister, Joanie? Come on, admit it. Expressive, emotive movement sent silent messages to a captive audience in the Playhouse Theatre when the Contemporary Dance Company presented their spring performance Thursday night. If I got to name a band, there is one adjective I would not use --"bad."