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Back Issues   [ Monday, April 6, 1992 ]


NEWS
 
Education within the group and an increase in on-campus visibility has fueled the expansion of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Student Alliance in the last year.
 
Last Wednesday's Undergraduate Student Government elections drew the largest turnout ever -- and caused some long lines and much disorganization.
 
In an effort to raise revenue and promote the event, the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is selling festival T-shirts earlier this year.
 
A prominent New York professor accused of being anti-Semitic appeared during this weekend's African Heritage Studies Association conference, and association members said they support him.
 
Several Democratic candidates in the state primary might be counting on an angry and frustrated electorate to bring them victory.
 
This weekend and last, there were numerous UFL sightings in the fraternity area.
 
The experimental Fraternity Loop was warmly greeted with last weekend's cold weather.
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Waving signs that read "They're my eggs so beat it," and "Keep your laws off my body," more than 500,000 pro-choice advocates rallied and marched in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
 
"My tuition pays for hate."
 
The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity member who was tied to a flagpole wearing underwear while pledges allegedly threw various juices at him voluntarily participated last Wednesday night, fraternity members said.
 
The ballot for the Undergraduate Student Government election last Wednesday included four referendum questions.
 
Gay, lesbian and bisexual students and their supporters can show their pride and support by wearing different clothing each day this week.
 
 
SPORTS
 
In their last few games, goals for the Lady Lions have not been hard to come by.
 
Making its second stop on its initial Big Ten tour, the softball team picked up a big victory in the series opener.
 
Injuries. They hurt more than just the athletes who are forced to suffer their debilitating effects. A team, dependent on its members to consistently perform at their optimum level, can go from top-of-the-heap to run-of-the-mill without its key performers.
 
There comes a time in a person's life where one has to put aside love for a sport in favor of something else, no matter what that something else may happen to be.
 
Well, that's it then.
 
It was very hard to pick a winner in this division, because all of the teams are so strong. But, after reading every page of Bill Mazeroski's Baseball '92 magazine -- we have a winner. And it is . . .
 
With the dismantling of two-time defending champion Pittsburgh, the National League East has become a wide-open race in 1992. Everybody, except Montreal, has a realistic shot of winning.
 
There are a lot of words that can be used to describe the 1992 American League West.
 
The American League East once again proves to be, from top to bottom, the weakest division in baseball this year.
 
With co-point leader Pete Makover absent from Saturday's game to attend his sister's wedding, one would have thought No. 11 Penn State would struggle against an always-tough University of Maryland-Baltimore County squad.
 
Rebounding from defeat is never easy. Rebounding against the seventh-ranked team in the nation is even harder.
 
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
 
Not all student athletes are stereotypical "dumb jocks," and they don't all major in basket weaving. At least not at Penn State.
 
The women's tennis team's hot streak came to a crashing halt with frusting weekend losses to both Ohio State and James Madison.
 
OPINIONS
 
Collegian Editorial: Kampia, Schneck should refine platform goals and get busy
 
My Opinion: Vernon Sanders
 
My Opinion: James Panichi
 
Letters to the editor
 

 



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