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[ Thursday, March 23, 1995 ]

Collegian picks business manager
The Board of Directors of Collegian Inc. selected Randy Abrams as business manager of The Daily Collegian for the 1995-96 school year at its meeting last night.

Search begins to fill student trustee seat
Although Student Trustee Don Lamuth will have a year left in his term once he graduates in May, the search for a replacement for the University Board of Trustees has begun.

Citizens angered by public forum
Some citizens looking for a forum to discuss both sides of borough consolidation were left disappointed last night while certain State College Borough officials left feeling that they didn't get a fair shake.

Two-person housing limit hits opposition
The students in the audience were quiet as the Planning Commission discussed reducing the baseline number of unrelated persons allowed to live together from three to two.

Campaign workers face long hours, hectic days
When students head out to vote in the Undergraduate Student Government presidential elections next Wednesday, many will leave the polls never knowing the names, faces and commitment of the often invisible people who work behind the scenes of the campaigns.

As spring arrives, so does tax time
Many people would not guess that Willie Nelson, Leona Helmsly and many University students have at least one thing in common -- at one time or another, they have forgotten the April deadline to file their federal income tax returns.

OTIS votes to become part of USG
After only a week of being the newest executive department in the Undergraduate Student Government, the Department of Town Affairs is making changes.

Student to face trial on charges of kidnapping
A 19-year-old University student was bound over for trial yesterday by District Justice Clifford Yorks on charges of kidnapping, terroristic threats and criminal mischief.

Recent criminal incidents concern students
Concern over the growing number of criminal incidents on campus has increased since a recent hostage situation brought violence to the forefront of some people's minds.

Candidates reflect on poor voter turnout
Voter participation is usually viewed as a problem that affects only state and national elections, but Undergraduate Student Government officials and candidates have found that even campus politics can suffer from lack of participation.

Acid rain may be cause of decrease in Pa. fish
Many streams in Pennsylvania have fewer fish species swimming in them than they did 20 years ago, and it may be due to acid rain.

Police Log

Good fore-cast
If the women's golf team's season-opening play at the Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational in Florida last week is any indication of how the Lady Lions will play this year, the team may be in for a long season -- literally.

Competition just part of fencer's life
At the NCAA fencing championships next weekend in South Bend, Ind., Cecilia Youngblood's last match will end her Penn State athletic career. For the captain of the women's epee squad, it was a career that almost wasn't.

Strzalkowski enjoys top spot at Pan-Am Games
Penn State's Thomas Strzalkowski, a coaching assistant for the fencing team, spent his collegiate fencing career in the realm of the best in the country.

Sluggers hope hits flow against Temple
Through the first 14 games of the season -- 13 of which were losses -- the Penn State baseball team could never put it all together.

No special treatment
When it comes to schedules, student-athletes are some of the busiest people on campus. But when it comes to scheduling classes, getting excused from classes and living arrangments, they are just like the rest of the student body.

Seniors bid adieu by Portland's call
Every year on the day after the loss, sometime before lunch, the phone rings. Women's Basketball Coach Rene Portland will be on the other end, checking on her seniors, making sure they are all right and that they understand life does indeed go on, even though their Penn State careers do not.

Lions blank RMC
The men's tennis team used its depth to control an overmatched Robert Morris team, 7-0, yesterday at the Penn State Tennis Club.

Hawkeyes next step for cagers
Improbable as it may seem, the men's basketball team is still playing.

In a pair of postseason games so far, the Nittany Lions trailed by at least a dozen points in the second half -- the last time on the road --and yet somehow managed to come back for victories.

Divers send 3 to NCAAs
A few schools did it in the 1970s. Southern Methodist has done it once. Alabama did it the last two years. Penn State has never done it -- until this year.

Circus time
Collegian Editorial: Come one, come all to the most political show on campus

Fighting the system that replaces our dreams with logic
My Opinion: Allison Bull

Letters to the editor

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Teacher Yams it up for class
Dave Kress walks into his English 100 class on the first day. He arrives early and sits nonchalantly among the kiddies. Being a friendly sort, he strikes up conversations with the other people.

Satellites improve TV picture, sound
Private homes may soon be able to get a clearer picture, better sound and more channels, by way of a pizza-sized satellite dish.