With only four days left to submit a housing contract request, some students are feeling apprehensive about their chances in the lottery that will decide their housing status for next year.

Penn State continues to plan for installation of sprinkler systems in all of its on-campus living facilities.

The Center for the Performing Arts, the School of Theatre and other community performing arts groups are now providing an audio description service called View Via Headphones for select performances.

While unemployment rates in State College are at an all-time low, students might find getting their "dream job" or working their way up the corporate ladder more challenging in other places around the nation.

Both local and national Web sites are giving local bookstores competition in the used book business.

A small kitchen fire in an apartment drew police and firefighters to the 600 block of West College Avenue yesterday afternoon.

Centre Area Transportation Authority has made changes to the Town and Campus Loops, the Link, and the Centre Line bus schedules for 2001.

Mona Counts was named Fellow of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Counts is a professor of nursing at Penn State and the Eberly Chair of Nursing at Penn State Fayette.

Instead of rockin' around the Christmas tree and ringing in the new year in Times Square, the Penn State women's basketball team spent its holiday taking care of a little business.

Glenn Zuck doesn't have anything against Canadians. It's the Canadians that have it against him.

My Opinion: Josh Daeche

UPAC's allocation system should maintain fairness

My Opinion: Cheryl Frankenfield

• Liberals make inaccurate charges against Ashcroft
  
• To be viewpoint neutral, UPAC had to fund festival
  
• Ashcroft not supremacist, GOP's right-wing extremist
  

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