Smashing expectations of a close race, Ian Rosenberger and Takkeem Morgan were elected president and vice president of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) last night with the highest voter turnout ever.

While American soldiers risk their lives in the Middle East, civilians back home are simulating virtual battles in a number of vastly popular video games.

He was overlooked eight years ago, but now he is back to coach his alma mater.

When asked how he hit .432 in 1897, Wee Willie Keeler had perhaps the most concise definition of a hitter's job at the plate.

Every time he hits the ball it feels like he's sticking his hand in a pot of boiling water. Excruciating pain when he wakes up, excruciating pain when he's in class, excruciating pain all day long.

It's a wintry Saturday night, and the clock reads 9:47. The Penn State women's gymnastics team has just completed another meet at Rec Hall and uneven bar specialist Kelly Streicher is wearing a bulky ice bag around her right wrist. The omnipresent smile is gone from the gymnast's face, and in its place is an expression of exhaustion, fatigue and discomfort.

Indoor voices: Keeping classroom discipline flexible a good decision

My Opinion: Brian Morrison

• Grade inflation devalues a Penn State education
• Column unfairly blames Catholic church, priests
• Only violence at protests is from police officers
• Iraqi fighting different because it has to be
• U.S. protecting itself and all other countries

Masculinity is the subject of photographers Eva Lipman and Ken Graves' exhibit, In the Company of Men.

Tight pants and big hair will be making a comeback for one weekend this year, as the Penn State Thespians travel back to the '80s for their presentation of Fame.

It's not every day that a State College music fan can find a local band that lists "Inspector Gadget and beef jerky" as its two main influences. But Alchemy is not an everyday local band.

Penn State alumnae and published poet Deirdre O'Connor has always loved writing, but it was during her time at Penn State that she realized she wanted to become a writer.

It's a Wednesday night at Theta Delta Chi fraternity, 305 E. Prospect Ave., and Mo Green Special rips through Gin Blossoms' "Hey Jealousy." Sound bounces back and forth between the wooden walls and concrete floors with an intense reverberation. All of the members shout along to the catchy hit.

Posters hang on the wall and give a home to images of The Beatles, The Doors and KISS. Around the table was a circle of chairs, and in these chairs sat four friends who's vision of having a band together recently materialized. These friends are the Lawn Wranglers.

To Thomas Crown, life is a game -- a game that gets pretty boring when you have no one left to play with.

You know it. I know it. I know you know it. Let's not lie to ourselves. Country music sucks.

When the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey comes to town tonight, don't expect anyone named Jacob or Fred to be on stage, but do expect lots and lots of improvisational jazz.

One of New York City's most praised cabaret singers, Mary Cleere Haran, will make her second appearance on Penn State's campus April 8 as part of the Center for the Performing Art's Festival of Human Voices season.

Problem Child, Penn State's alternative literary magazine, is seeking submissions.

The Central Pennsylvania Country Dance Association Announces a Contra Dance at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at the State College Friends School, 1900 University Drive. Baltimore caller Greg Frock will be joined by local musical act Crooked Stovepipe. Beginners are welcome to attend, and no partner is needed. Admission is $5 for members, $7 for non-members, and $4 for students with ID. For more information, call 357-8585, or go to http://cpcdu.org.

Penn State's Concert Choir will present its final concert of the year at 4 p.m. Sunday in the Esber Recital Hall. The 44-voice choir, conducted by Lynn E. Drafall, is composed of student musicians from the School of Music and other areas of the university. Sunday's programTickets, which can be purchased at the door, are $4; $2 for students with ID.

Shannon Blakely and Jodi Brown, both graduate students in the School of Visual Arts, will hold simultaneous exhibitions at the Zoller Gallery. The featured works will use humor and levity to examine various aspects of what makes us who we are. Blakely's Slippage displays an array of ceramic "inventions" that comment on post-industrial culture, while Brown's laydownNow displays colorful realist paintings of a woman in search of herself. The exhibits run from April 11 to 17. There will be an opening reception at 7 p.m. on April 11.

The Art Alliance of Central Pennsylvania and Nittany Bank announce the annual Recycled Art Show, to be held April 25 to 27 at the Art Alliance Center, 818 Pike St. The public is encouraged to submit entries, which will be received on April 21. The theme for this year's show is "Recipes for Peace."