In a quest to equalize teaching and research in the University's promotion and tenure process, the Executive Student Action Council held an open forum for students last night.

A 21-year-old State College man was injured yesterday morning after being hit by a car at the State College Area High School South Building, the State College Police Department said.

A push for diversity in the English department's curriculum and a professor's fondness for poetry have spurred the development of the University's first literature course focused solely on African-American poets.

As students are choosing their classes for the Spring Semester, State College clothing and shoe buyers are deciding which fashions to display in stores for the spring collection.

Three Centre County police departments have received Pennsylvania Department of Transportation grants to increase the enforcement of speeding, driving under the influence and seat-belt violations.

Whether the moose head is missing or the Greek letters on the side of the house are gone, fraternity thefts have always been prevalent, but now, with the State College Police Department's help, they might not be as common.

Last month, President Clinton promised to lead an entitlements conference at Bryn Mawr College in exchange for U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky's vote on his budget plan.

It's 3 a.m. you're tired, you're cold -- and you don't want to walk home. The Weekend Loop is for you.

Illinois quarterback Johnny Johnson should probably consider himself lucky that he doesn't have to face his own defense in practice. Instead he faces the scout team defense, the one modeled after the current week's opponent.

After much debate, the control tower finally gave the pilot the go-ahead.

First he heard the voices. Father and brother -- the murmurs, so familiar, echoed into his semi-conscious head.

Just a day after the recruiting windfall which marked the next generation for the women's basketball team, the old guard got a boost of its own.

Kirt Benedict remembers the last three years all too well. The senior forward was part of the Lady Lion field hockey team that made three trips to the NCAA playoffs -- three trips that ended in heartache.

There's an old saying in college athletics that goes something like, the best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.

Even before the men's soccer team began the 1993 campaign, a tag had already been slapped on the impending season. A dreaded label, one that doomed the Lions to a mediocre record, a constant struggle for identity.

Dan Earl had just sunk his fifth three-pointer of the night on his fifth attempt, from close to NBA-range, in the waning seconds of last night's Blue-White game. But he didn't want to be the first one to face the media.

It has disappeared so quickly, the time, the Saturday afternoons, wandering onto to the 100-yard pasture of Beaver Stadium, wading in the sea of atmosphere portrayed by 96,000 faithful waiting to be entertained.

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Loud, fast-paced music vibrates while dancers whirl, swivel, spring and even gyrate. Blackness. A serene melody now fills the room as the performers gracefully glide across the stage in a string of intricate movements executed with exact precision.

For Christina Billotte, the reason all-female bands are the coolest is simple.

"I've only been in a band with a guy once, and all I know is he never came to practice," said the guitarist and vocalist for Washington, D.C.'s Slant 6.

Out in the steep Wasatch Mountains of northeastern Utah, Vincent Carducci, landscape painter, searched for a good spot to do his next painting. He strapped on some skis and zoomed around with a large canvas and some painting supplies on his back.

There is a prevailing loneliness and despair that peeks through nearly every film situated in the desolate Southwest.