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[ Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2002 ]


GRAPHIC: Kahlil Smith
GRAPHIC: Kahlil Smith

NEWS

Joe Paterno isn't at all regretful for grabbing an official's shirt as he was coming off the field Saturday.

Sept. 22 was the first official day of fall, and the shrubbery in Pennsylvania isn't hesitating to display its autumn hues.

A 34-year-old State College woman was found dead at about 9 a.m. yesterday in Spring Creek Park.

A recent report released by on-campus security, safety and health service groups shows a stable leveling out of the amount of crime occurring on Penn State's campus, officials say.

Kim Merriman still remembers the nights when she and Thomas Brandan McCombie used to sit and talk with friends at Sports Café, 244 W. College Ave., back when it was still called Sportscenter Café.

A resolution to amend the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senate bylaws was tabled during last night's meeting until a parliamentarian is appointed to sit at Senate meetings.

Feature Photo

Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwiches, 434 E. College Ave., offers a new option for State College residents living or traveling on the eastside of downtown.

While the Africana Research Center has made progress since its inception in 2001, it is still a young organization seeking a full-time director for fall 2003.

The brewing possibility of war in Iraq bears striking resemblance to the horrors experienced in the Vietnam War, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam told a crowd of about 200 last night.

Jeramy Poulin (junior-media studies and philosophy) has a family to care for, a business to run and homework to do.

Vice President for Student Affairs Bill Asbury announced yesterday that he will be stepping down from his post, effective June 30.

A food and clothing drive will take place today through Friday for the National Gandhi Day of Service.

Because of the dates of this year's fall break, Penn State's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and its allies will celebrate events supporting National Coming Out Day a week early.

The Pennsylvania State Police filed criminal charges against the owner of the End Zone, a strip club on Skytop Mountain, after a two month long investigation. The area's only strip club is being charged with operating a 'bottle club' where prohibited, and of providing certain types of entertainment on the bottle club premises, according to state police.

Penn State students will soon have another resource available to them: the PA POWER Libraries. It is a statewide program that allows any citizen to access information databases through public library Web sites.


SPORTS

The Penn State men's soccer team will be without head coach Barry Gorman for the next month.

Turmoil. Blockbuster. Honor.

With team dissention rearing its ugly head after a 42-35 loss in overtime on Saturday, the Penn State football team met Monday to iron some things out.

Leading up to the Iowa debacle, most of Penn State's defensive linemen were looking forward to starting Big Ten play.

The Big Ten might be steeped in history, but this season, it's the young players that are making the difference.

Different coaches dance around different issues in different ways.

The Penn State women's tennis team proved this weekend why head coach Buffy Baker described the fall season as completely wide open, as the squad was split between the Cissy Leary Invitational in Philadelphia and the Maryland Invitational in College Park.

It all starts with a Dream.

When you are No. 3 on the depth chart, you are not supposed to see playing time, but this has not been your typical season.

After the first full weekend of Big Ten play, the Penn State women's soccer team has taken control of the conference.

My Opinion: Russ Shelly


OPINIONS

Uprooted: Tell students why the shrubs went

My Opinion: Aaron Gentzler

Letters to the editor
ARTS

Sounds of music filled the air as the Penn State School of Music prepared a packed schedule for the semester.


WEATHER

Partly sunny. High 80.


Online editor for this issue:
Kahlil Smith bio





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