A man in a late 1980s red car pulled up alongside of a woman as she was walking on the 200 block of East Fairmont Avenue and tried to convince her to get into the car, the State College Police Department said yesterday. The incident occurred as the woman was walking home from work at about 3 p.m. on Tuesday. Police described the man as white and 40 to 45 years old with short hair. He was wearing a brown hat with earflaps and a dark coat.