Submerged in a time of uncertainty and pending war, the peaceful theme underlying the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service may be especially appreciated by students.

A change in the way Penn State handles cheating and plagiarism has resulted in a sharply higher number of reported cases, university officials said.

After the Centre County Board of Commissioners' Jan. 7 approval, local police departments are well on their way to having full installation of JNet, one of the state's latest and perhaps most powerful crime fighting tools.

The overall cost of living is constantly rising for many residents in State College, but a few families will be relieved to know about a new construction project that will help keep their housing costs low.

Following this weekend's war protest in Washington, D.C. many students are taking time to re-evaluate their opinions on the potential war with Iraq and President Bush's foreign policies.

More people are applying to the university than ever before, despite a 13.5 percent tuition increase this school year, Penn State President Graham Spanier told the Board of Trustees at its meeting Friday.

A student group filed suit against the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senate after it temporarily closed its meeting Tuesday to discuss a senator's expulsion.

Penn State alumna Robin Hoecker does not have a typical internship.

Ten Penn State graduate students received the 2003 Alumni Association Dissertation Award. The $5,000 scholarship is meant to provide support for doctoral candidates as they complete their dissertations.

Students living on-campus now have more options to their channel surfing. Penn State recently added two stations to its on-campus cable service. RAI, an Italian language network, is available on Channel 20. The ABC Family Channel can be viewed on Channel 59.

The Penn State Board of Trustees gave the final go-ahead for the new School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) Building at its meeting Friday, where university officials also reported on plans to expand the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. The $26.6 million SALA Building, to go up between the Palmer Museum of Art and North Halls, will be the university's first new building to be certified as sustainable by a national council of environmentally friendly designers. Its facade will feature brick, low-energy glass windows and recycled copper.

Gov.-elect Ed Rendell used the setting of the Pennsylvania Farm Show last week to nominate lifelong dairy farmer and Penn State trustee Dennis C. Wolff to be secretary of agriculture.

Alexander St. Andre, 23, was arrested Saturday afternoon at Nicholas Towers, 301 S. Pugh St., and charged with possesion of drug paraphernalia, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana and possession with intent to deliver cocaine, the State College Police said.