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[ Friday, July 2, 1999 ]

GRAPHIC: Chris McNelis

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Inmates escape during job hunt
Two inmates from Centre County Prison failed to return yesterday after being released on an employment search.

Celebration ignites weekend The Great American Fourth of July Fireworks Festival will begin Sunday at 4 p.m. in the fields and parking lots adjacent to The Bryce Jordan Center.

State College hotel options to increase
A group of new hotels will open in State College in the near future, but established businesses aren't worried they will lose their customers.

Apartment residents robbed at gunpoint
Two males reportedly entered an apartment by force at about 4:40 a.m. yesterday on the 700 block of Bellaire Avenue and held the occupants of the apartment at gunpoint.

Men charged with burglarizing apartment
The State College Police Department charged Donald Ray Holland Jr., 21, of Wichita, Kansas, with arson, burglary, causing or risking a catastrophe, criminal mischief and theft.

Traffic patterns to change for fireworks show
The State College Police Department announced several traffic pattern changes for the area following the fireworks festival this Sunday near Beaver Stadium.

Students launch own rockets
SPIRIT, the Student Projects Involving Rocket Investigation Techniques, is participating in the NYPOWER '99 rocket launch. This event involves a total of 1,200 rockets to be launched during a three-day period tomorrow through Monday, weather permitting, at Geneseo Airport in Geneseo, N.Y.

Bookstores change to meet new needs
The Encore Books in State College is closing down and liquidating its books during the next eight to nine weeks. Some of Encore's employees said they want to start a new, but different, bookstore.

Ad campaign to curb drunk driving
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is planning to launch a multi-medium ad campaign in August to help prevent drinking and driving.

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Sandusky to call it quits After 31 years with the Penn State football team, defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky decided yesterday to retire from his position at the end of the 1999 season.

Recruit could fit in well at Linebacker U
The Penn State football team is looking to build on its tradition of "Linebacker U" with its recent verbal commitment to the recruiting Class of 2000.

Trackwomen fall short of Pan-Am Games
Two athletes from the Penn State women's track team tried to increase the squad's success at the national level when they competed individually last weekend at the USA Track and Field Senior National Championships.

Penn State rugby teams succeed despite club status The Penn State men and women's rugby teams have only club status. Many schools have strong men or women's rugby clubs, but few have both. Together, Penn State has two of the more dominant clubs in the country.

New parks don't have old flavor
My Opinion: Don Stewart

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Keeping it clean?
Collegian Editorial: Monitoring explicit programs simply a finer form of censorship

Questionable use of death penalty weakens justice system
My Opinion: Greg Bock

Four's Company Fans of classic-rockers Bad Company won't be disappointed by the 1999 version of the band, even if it isn't quite the same as the 1979 version of the band.

In the trenches with war movies
The new release for this week's review is "The Thin Red Line," an unusual movie about World War II. Staying in the vein of offbeat war movies, I picked "MASH" as my personal recommendation for the week.