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[ Friday, Sept. 27, 2002 ]


GRAPHIC: Kahlil Smith
GRAPHIC: Kahlil Smith

NEWS

A crackdown on student behavior at football games will be in effect this weekend in response to injuries suffered from thrown water bottles and complaints from fans.

As the Penn State football team becomes a force within the Big Ten, the Penn State Blue Band is also ready to compete.

The Nebraska hat is back. And now it has a legacy all its own.

The weeping cherry trees and waist-high shrubs peppered throughout West Halls' quad have been removed -- and the vast change is causing some controversy among West Halls residents.

Penn State students discussed motivation for entering race dialogues after watching a video featuring Sam Richards, senior lecturer in sociology.

Feature Photo

With the fall semester in full swing and students deep into their schoolwork, one thing ties all students together -- they need a way to carry their books.

It's been a month since classes started, and Joe Curigliano is still adjusting to the change. He spent his first two years of college at Penn State Beaver Campus before moving to University Park this fall.

If words such as two-stroke or four-stroke engine, Rotax-powered road racer or Husaberg-powered 600cc flat-track special are part of your everyday vocabulary, you might be interested to know that Penn State now has a motorcycle club.

The investigation into a 20-year-old Penn State student's fall from her eighth-floor window is nearly complete, the State College Police Department said.

Students living off campus will have an easier time making it to tomorrow's football game against the University of Iowa.


SPORTS

They won the dangerous opener, dominated in the big game and survived the possible letdown.

The Penn State woman's rugby team does not start its official season until the spring semester.

The Penn State men's rugby team (2-1) wants everyone to understand something: Its season begins tomorrow in College Park, Md., against the University of Maryland Terrapins.

Traditionalists, rest your hearts.

Bob Sanders is short. And slow.

It is yet another one of those visuals of the first four games of last season that still gives the Penn State football team nightmares.

The season is at the midway point, but this is the game it's been waiting for.

The Penn State field hockey team is beginning to refocus its goals -- away from its non-conference winning streak and toward winning a conference title.

They haven't been there in a long time.

How the entire outlook of a weekend can change within 24 hours.

The Penn State women's tennis team will look to build on its performance at last weekend's OSU/Prince Cup when it splits up and travels to Philadelphia for the Cissy Leary Invite and College Park, Md., for the Maryland Invitational this weekend.

As a Hallmark magnet once read: "Confidence is what you feel just before you fully understand the situation."

The runners of Penn State's men's cross-country team are going to split up tomorrow while hoping to run in packs.

It's two months of brutality.

My Opinion: Chris Korman

My Opinion: Jeff Rice


OPINIONS

Bottle it up: Practice your throwing arm elsewhere

Lost and found: Thank you for returning the 'N' hat

My Opinion: Mike Still

Letters to the editor
ARTS

Robin Williams is mentally unbalanced. Or at least that is what he would have us believe after three successive, disturbing roles this year alone. In his most recent, One Hour Photo, William plays his most poignant and sympathetic role since his portrayal of professor John Keating in the modern classic, Dead Poet's Society.

I think author Chuck Palahniuk should see a psychologist, if he doesn't already.

It's short. It's catchy. It's sparse. It's Spoon's new album, Kill the Moonlight.

Life with Bonnie

Possession

Lifehouse is dead.

Imagine walking down College Avenue, turning a corner and seeing a plump, brownish creature with hooves and a large protruding snout glaring up at you.

Penn State alumnus Edward Rosenstein will be on campus Sunday for a free public screening of A Tickle in the Heart, a film he co-produced.


WEATHER





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