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Back Issues [ Tuesday, March 19, 2002 ]



GRAPHIC: Lindsay Bosslett

NEWS

People earn and lose millions of dollars in the stock market every day, but Penn State students can experience Wall Street without risking any cash.

Despite harsh opposition from members of the community, the State College Borough Council voted to move forward with the ordinance to establish a historic district "as is" in its meeting last night.

With Undergraduate Student Government election season beginning today, the USG Academic Assembly got an early start by electing officers for the upcoming academic year.

About a dozen people work to maintain and preserve the more than 4.6 million volumes in Penn State's library system on the fourth floor of the tower in Pattee Library.

Students in the mood for a cigarette and a cheap game of pool have a new hangout in State College -- ButtHeads, 231 E. Beaver Ave.

The crises at Enron, Kmart and numerous high tech companies will be the next topic of "To the Best of My Knowledge," Penn State President Graham Spanier's monthly call-in show.

Patton Township Police Department arrested Shane P. Monahan of Altoona on felony retail theft charges Sunday after he attempted to remove $3,064.63 worth of merchandise from the K-Mart on Valley Vista Drive.


sports

It seemed that after the first half of the season the Penn State men's volleyball team had grown accustomed to not only beating their EIVA conference opponents, but sweeping them.

The Penn State women's basketball team picked the perfect time to play its best basketball of the season.

After 31 wins and a third-place finish at the Big Ten tournament, Doc Vecchio is finally starting to garner respect.

It was March Madness of a different kind this weekend for the Penn State boxing team. The National Collegiate Boxing Association held its Northeast Regional Tournament at the White Building to decide who would go on to fight at the National Championships in three weeks.

The NCAA wrestling tournament is set to start Thursday in Albany, NY. Penn State will send seven wrestlers to the 2002 championships, one more than the past two seasons, looking to improve on last year's performance of no All-Americans and a 25th place team finish.

Despite a valiant effort, the Penn State (6-7, 0-2) men's tennis team was swept by No. 15 Ohio State, losing 7-0 and again finding themselves below the .500 mark.

My Opinion: Jared Ralsky


OPINIONS

Housing improvements are not always needed

My Opinion: Sean Misko

Letters to the editor

SCI-HEALTH

In the life of one Penn State professor, ice cream has found a way to provide direction for his career, and bring happiness to his life.

President Bush is requesting that Congress cut funds for environmental research by graduate students in the Environmental Protection Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship program for the fiscal year 2003.

Students who work out at any on- or off-campus gym are facing larger crowds and longer lines than usual.

In September 1941, prominent nuclear physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg met in Copenhagen, Denmark to discuss the possibility of building an atomic bomb.

Some women who exercise excessively experience a cessation of their menstrual cycle for several months, known as amenorrhea, which could result from a negative energy balance, according to new research conducted at Penn State.

My Opinion: Victoria Stout

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