Back Issues -- Monday, Jan. 24, 2000

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[ Monday, Jan. 24, 2000 ]

GRAPHIC: Jason Foulke

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Employee finds niche at PSU
Big helpings, friendly service, entertaining antics, concerned questions about your day and your classes. So what if it's not exactly fast food?

Board addresses TA language tests
Responding to recommendations made by a panel of Penn State administrators, faculty and students, officials discussed higher standards for international teaching assistants Friday.

Hershey in need of financing
To generate income for the Hershey Medical Center, which is struggling financially, an aggressive campaign must be put into action, the Penn State Board of Trustees acknowledged at its meeting Friday.

Policy affects links to PSU Web sites
A new policy that manages profit-making links to or from Penn State Web sites will not affect most students who maintain personal or club pages on university servers.

Incidents of date rape drug increase
Though the use of the "date rape drug" Rohypnol is on the rise, claims circulating in a mass e-mail about the veterinary drug Progesterex being used as a new date rape drug are not true.

Bicentennial celebration ready for Centre County
Centre County turns 200 next month and officials are working to ensure that the bicentennial celebration leaves residents with fond memories of the historic event.

Police find man, woman unconscious in hotel room
While serving a warrant for suspicion of illegal drugs and firearms Saturday, the State College Police Department found a man and woman lying unconscious on a bed in one of the rooms of the Days Inn Penn State, 240 S. Pugh St.

ACLU president, conservative columnist to debate
The Pennsylvania presidential primaries may be months away, but anyone hungry for a debate over liberal and conservative ideologies can still have his political appetite whetted tonight.

Board approves chapel addition
Penn State's Board of Trustees unanimously approved the name of an addition to Eisenhower Chapel Friday.

Board OKs construction
Penn State's Board of Trustees discussed several Commonwealth Campus projects during Friday's meeting.

Board approves appointments
Effective July 1, Raymond Coward will be the new dean of the College of Health and Human Development.

Board re-elects chair, vice-chair
Edward P. Junker III and Edward R. Hintz were re-elected chair and vice-chair of Penn State's Board of Trustees Friday.

Police Log

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Penn State loses its first Big Ten game of the season
The mighty have fallen.

Lions' streak ends at Illinois
Both teams were riding a three-game streak — Penn State's was a winning streak while Illinois' was a losing streak. At the end of the game, both streaks had been snapped, but the Fighting Illini were the only ones happy about it.

Cyclones blow through National Dual
All eyes focused on one small circle at The Bryce Jordan Center yesterday. The championship match of the Cliff Keen/NWCA National Dual Championships came down to the final bout between the heavyweights from Iowa State and Minnesota, Mark Knauer and Brock Lesnar.

PSU fails to place
Penn State has only failed to place twice in 10 of the 12 annual National Duals tournaments. Not too shabby, except for the fact that the Nittany Lions two failings have been this year and last.

Penn State edges No. 8 Temple
For the second weekend in a row, the Penn State men's gymnastics team dominated an opponent in Rec Hall. This weekend's result: A 228.375-215.450 victory against No. 8 Temple and a Penn State win in all six events.

Penn State improves with weekend victory
After coming off a disappointing loss to New Hampshire, the Penn State women's gymnastics team turned things around Saturday night with a 194.325-190.575 victory in Rec Hall against Big Ten-foe Illinois.

Gut feeling equals Penn State win at NLIT
Penn State men's ice hockey coach Joe Battista had a gut feeling about Joe McArdle. "He's been injured all year," Battista said, "but he had a great week of practice so I played a hunch and put him back in there."

Western Michigan limps into third place
The records will show Western Michigan fought back to take third at the Nittany Lion Invitational Tournament by beating No. 20 Rutgers 5-2 following a first-round 8-2 loss to No. 10 Towson.

Empty blue

Lady Icers beat Pittsburgh and Chatham; Syracuse game next
It was a rough weekend physically for the Penn State women's ice hockey team, but it still managed to come out on top. The Lady Icers beat both Chatham and Pittsburgh with scores of 9-1 and 7-1, respectively.

Ice Lions split during weekend
Even though it split a pair of games during the weekend, the Penn State Div. II men's ice hockey team might have played its best hockey of the season.

Guerra, Koljesar lead Lions comeback
The No. 10 Penn State men's volleyball team (1-2, 1-0 EIVA) opened its conference schedule with a convincing win in four games (8-15, 15-4, 15-1, 15-10) against rival Rutgers-Newark (2-1, 0-1 EIVA) Friday night at Rec Hall.

Former Penn State players return for annual alumni game
Alumni weekends always bring back memories of good times and even better players. The Penn State men's volleyball team couldn't have planned for a greater alumni weekend this year.

Lady Lions secure 11 of 13 events
While Saturday's meet might have lacked events, the Lady Lions lacked nothing as they captured first-place finishes in 11 of 13 events in a shortened dual meet, defeating Oakland 157-81 at McCoy Natatorium.

Hoosiers dealt loss from PSU
The Penn State men's swimming and diving teams were able to add one more win to its record Saturday as it defeated Indiana, 150-93.

Groves' boys collect winning trio in Houston
There was a whole lot of celebrarting at the Houston Jamboree for the Penn State Nittany Lions men's track team on Saturday.

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Collegian Editorial
Russian nuclear policy oversteps safe ground

True romance found in relationship
My Opinion: Chris Mortensen

Letters to the editor