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Back Issues [ Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 ]


GRAPHIC: Susan Kay Smith
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NEWS
[ Updated Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 ]

Posted at noon
All eyes were on the big screen at the HUB watching the news. Recent plane crashes in New York City, Washington D.C. and in the Pittsburgh area have startled the nation.

Posted at 12:30 p.m.
Feature Photo

Posted at 1:30 p.m.
On the day known as International Peace Day, terrorist attacks have crippled the nation and stunned the student body.

Posted at 3:35 p.m.
Penn State student John C. Raynar huddled over his laptop computer wearing a respiratory mask in the shadow of the devastated World Trade Center today.

Posted at 7:35 p.m.
All flights going into and out of University Park Airport were cancelled today in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks throughout the country. For the first time ever, all commercial airline flights were cancelled across the nation.

Posted at 7:40 p.m.
The Centre County Board of Commissioners declared a disaster emergency in Centre County at about 11 a.m. today in response to a statewide declaration of emergency.


[ Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 ]

Numbers aren't too important to Penn State administrators when looking at university rankings.

What looks like modern art, is composed of multimedia technology, and keeps turning heads in the HUB-Robeson Center?

The Student Book Store, 330 E. College Ave., hosted the Dove Rejuvenation Station yesterday, despite an early morning rainfall.

Vibes Music officially closed its doors last Monday.

If you watched the X Games at all this summer, chances are you saw an AT&T commercial featuring professional BMX bike rider Dave Mirra.

The Undergraduate Student Government Academic Assembly has revamped their Outreach Committee in a joint effort to connect with their fellow classmates and attempt to improve education at Penn State.


SPORTS

As kickoff of Thursday's Penn State-Virginia game approaches, there's a quarterback controversy in the works.

It's been more of a struggle than the Penn State women's volleyball team thought it would be.

The Bulldogs have quickly become college football's Cinderella story as they have beaten Colorado, Oregon State and Wisconsin in the first three weeks of the college football season.

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno said his Nittany Lions are looking forward and not dwelling on their opening season loss to No. 1 Miami.

Yes, it's only mid-September, meaning it's still way too early to even begin debating about who should win this year's Heisman Trophy.

OPINIONS

Cameras on balconies would eliminate rights

My Opinion: Amy Weinstein

Letters to the editor

Science and Health

Since Rosie O'Donnell, Mariah Carey and A.J. Mclean all went public about their depressions, the recent flood of information in the media about the illness is no surprise.

Diesel engines are more efficient than internal combustion engines, but they do serious damage to the environment.

Some of the quickest, easiest money at Penn State might be made as a research subject.


Huge fires that plagued the Western United States for the past few years have caused millions of dollars in damages and immeasurable pain to many families.

Researchers at Penn State might have developed a way to improve the Arrow LionHeart by refining the material that makes up its components.

Countless fad exercise programs failed in the past, but perhaps this is finally the one that will last.

Friends, family can help stop depression

WEATHER



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