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Friday, July 12, 1996

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QVC films at Penn State
Home shopping channel fans gathered last night near the University House. They were not searching for a good bargain, they were watching the QVC -- Quality, Value and Convenience -- home shopping cable channel broadcast live as part of Pennsylvania week.

Trustees to vote on tuition increase
MONT ALTO -- Students may find themselves more in debt after graduation if a 4.75 percent tuition increase for 1996-97 is approved by the University Board of Trustees today.

Students hurt by tuition hike
The tuition increase for the 1996-97 school year caused a variety of reactions from University students.

Festival activities draw smiles, heavy crowds cause frowns
The 30th Annual Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts offers people a chance to visit with friends, see a wide variety of art and eat a great amount of food.

Trustees vote to remove CES
MONT ALTO -- The University Board of Trustees yesterday approved the plan that will eliminate the Commonwealth Educational System.

Police log


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Round of Blues
Pennsylvania Center Stage kicks off its 1996 summer season closer with the United States debut of Drew Hayden Taylor's The Baby Blues, which opens tonight at 8 p.m. in the Pavilion Theatre and runs until July 27.

Dragon sculpture decorates festival
A half-completed dragon rises ten feet in the air. Constructed solely of sand, dedication and imagination, the creature will not be completed until Saturday. For now, the whole scene exists only in the head of sand sculptor Brad Goll.

De La Soul raps about the genre's demise
Stakes is High does not open with the music of De La Soul.

The Art of Censorship
A photograph of a cow's head hangs upstairs in the Palmer Museum of Art. Arranged atop a small pedestal, its eyes rolled grotesquely, the cow head is one of four works by controversial-photographer Andres Serrano now on display at Palmer.

Collegian Arts Columnist
Sylvie Golden-Shapiro:
The Road Trip: Have sensible shoes and theme song, will travel

----------------------------OPINION----------------------------

Collegian Editorial
Moral dilemma: Republican presidential candidate looking for way to White house

Reader Opinion

Collegian Columnist
Collegian columnist Scott Paterno says it's a brand new day in America. Welcome to the next day of the rest of your life.


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