Nathan Seward knows "absolutely nothing" about student government and doesn't particularly care either. As student leaders take on the task of reorganizing and trying to improve student government, students like Seward may be the rule rather than the exception.

Garlic -- along with a cross and a wooden stake -- is the classic cure for the curse of the vampire. But without the stake and the cross, garlic may be able to fend off real-life threats as well.

The Interfraternity Council's Board of Control has chosen someone to independently investigate a fight that allegedly occurred early Sunday morning outside of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.

Emerging from the rubble of a devastating earthquake, Californians are looking to the rest of the country for help.

Although students may not realize they are contributing to the tax bases of State College and four other municipalities, they are -- in the form of taxes on certain University items.

It's a penny-pinching bookworm's wildest fantasy come true -- at least for the time being.

The Centre County United Way is receiving an award this week for successfully motivating its donors and volunteers during the 1993 fund drive.

A state prison inmate apparently found a friend in Pennsylvania.

Many high school students spend their spare time running away from the law, but Jenny Weaver was a little different. She spent her years in high school running for it.

If basketball games are tests, Rene Portland has a lot of studying to do.

The anticipation is starting to mount. The final preparations are being made. All eyes are focused on Atlanta.

The glasses, perhaps, are a sign of maturity. They rest demurely on Bruce Parkhill's otherwise pristine face, giving him the look of a professor that all the women lust after.

The dining commons may never be the same after Floyd Wedderburn steps on campus next fall --and there's nothing the Office of Housing and Food Service Operations can do about it.

They planned it that way -- at least that's what Dan Earl said. But he was only kidding.

On paper it was a downright mismatch. Top-ranked Penn State (15-0) faced a tall order in No. 9 Vanderbilt's (14-4) front line, which features the center duo of 6-foot-10 All-American Heidi Gillingham and 6-foot-7 Angela Gorsica.

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Any economics professor could tell you it is simply the law of supply and demand, but the crowding of State College's only beacon for vegetarians goes a bit deeper than that simple rule.

Dell Trade Paperbacks has severely lowered its standards.

When a movie isn't playing locally, Cinema World Inc., the owner of all the theaters in State College, becomes an easy target.

Now that "alternative" has become the most ambiguous word in the English language, the folks at Greenpeace have thrown the world a curveball.

The Center for the Performing Arts is bringing "the world's most popular musical," Les Miserables, to State College in October.

As the Academy Awards loom on the not-too-distant-horizon, the theaters are flooded with plenty of quality films. Every studio pumps out its contenders in hopes of catching the critics' eyes.

It had to happen. Tom Cruise was the first to be sucked into the 'pool, and in a not-so-freak chain reaction, John Grisham has joined him in our murky depths. He gets megastars for his movies and zillions of dollars for each rehashed plot. Now he has a place in the Hall of Shame, Collegian style. Check out some ideas for his next original (we use the term loosely) screenplay: Japanese cartoon characters may not be as well-known as Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny, but the animation is making a comeback and quickly becoming somewhat of a cult attraction in the United States -- and at Penn State.