Even though summer is time for road trips, students might have to rearrange their plans due to skyrocketing gas prices.
The Penn State Paintball Association's varsity team is saying, "Goodbye, Happy Valley" and "Hello, Mickey Mouse" as it prepares for the National Collegiate Paintball Championship this weekend at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando.
Students whose funds are being drained through parking tickets might be saved thanks to a state law that has recently come under scrutiny.
Joseph Emerson said he wanted to join a church that did not practice what he calls the "11th commandment."
There was a power-grab on CBS' Survivor: Palau last night and, when the dust settled, Ian Rosenberger, the former president of the Undergraduate Student Government, came out on the winning side.
As the band ran through two spirited sets of ramshackle post-punk mostly penned by Van Fossan himself, the night became a bittersweet affair of sorts. The gig was the fourth anniversary of Roustabout!, the regular live-music showcase that Van Fossan organizes.
Procrastinators who need to file their tax returns today need to go no further than their computer desks to send their taxes by the midnight deadline.
Holding signs that read, "Circus animals never have a nice day," and "Enjoy the clowns -- they CHOOSE to be here," students and community members gathered outside the Bryce Jordan Center last night to protest the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Flat taxes, lower tax rates and inflation were the topics of choice for Steve Forbes last night, who spoke in a sarcastic tone to a crowd of economics enthusiasts at Eisenhower Auditorium as the last speaker in the Distinguished Speaker Series.
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Total annihilation -- not describing the movie but the motto of the Penn State equestrian team, which cruised to an easy win at Zones, crushing Delaware Valley College by six points, Bucknell by 10 and Yale by 12. The Penn State club baseball team (9-4, 4-0 New Penn West conference) begins a stretch of away games this weekend, as it travels to Robert Morris University (1-5, 1-5) this weekend for a three-game series. If you happen to be walking somewhere around McCoy Natatorium and Pollock Halls this afternoon, or maybe on Sunday, and you should see tennis balls flying and hear cheers erupting from behind the fenced-in Sarni Tennis Center, don't be scared -- that's what it's for. For most teams that win an end-of-season tournament, the year concludes with a celebration and a feeling of accomplishment. Rarely does a team play against three No.1-ranked teams in one season. It's even less likely that a team beats all three of those top-ranked opponents. Small Mt. San Antonio College in California, one of the state's many community colleges, will for one day transform into the track Mecca of the world. After starting off with two disappointing splits on the road, the Penn State softball team looks to get back on track when it opens up its home Big Ten Schedule this weekend against Illinois, which kicks off the weekend at 6 tonight at Nittany Lion Field, and Iowa. Expectations are rising, the fan base is growing and the Penn State baseball team is off to its best start in five years. Earlier this season Penn State men's lacrosse coach Glenn Thiel said his team was capable of beating anybody in the country on any given day. Then he added, "We could lose to anyone, too." "On the road again. Oh, I can't wait to get on the road again." The Penn State women's golf team travels this weekend to the Lady Buckeye Invitational at Ohio State and will be competing in its last invitational before heading to the Big Ten Championships in two weeks. The Penn State crew team is defending one Knecht Cup title and looking to grab a few more this weekend as it heads to the Cooper River in Camden, N.J., tomorrow. It's got the momentum, now its just a matter of the Penn State women's tennis team keeping the ball rolling through the remainder of the season. After playing in non-intimidating EIVA venues like Rutgers-Newark's Golden Dome and NYU's subterranean multi-sport facility, the Penn State men's volleyball team is paying a visit to George Mason's Finn Gymnasium tomorrow, where it hopes to get a taste of playing in front of a hostile crowd before the stakes rise significantly. Last weekend, at the Big Ten/SEC Challenge, the Penn State men's outdoor track and field team got a sample of some of the toughest teams in the Southeastern Conference. With the No. 1 seed under its belt already, the Penn State women's rugby team is feeling pretty sweet about its chances to repeat as national champion as it travels to the University of Florida this weekend for the Sweet 16. Sports in brief Sports in brief Sports in brief Individual statistics 
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Anger is one of the strongest emotions that human beings can experience. So strong, in fact, that it sometimes can cause us to do and say things that are unexplainable: things we'd never suspect we were capable of doing or saying, and most always we end up regretting what we've done under its influence. Every once in a while, a pop songstress comes along that changes the game from there on after. Swedish punk rock veteran Millencolin is never going to sell a million records or win a Grammy. In fact, you probably won't hear the band's music in any sort of regular rotation on the radio, either. Neko Case has sorta dominated that "coolest redhead in rock" position for the past few years, but Ms. Case, it's time to take your seat, because Shirley Manson is back in the saddle again with Garbage's Bleed Like Me -- the electro-pop, post-grunge group's first album since 2001's clunker, Beautiful Garbage. American Hi-Fi had a big hit in 2001 with "Flavor of the Weak," and fittingly became, well, just that, by falling off of the pop/rock radar just as fast as it had arrived. Comedian Lewis Black's Nothing's Sacred owes more to that genre of pseudo-books where comedians transfer their stand-up acts to print a la Jerry Seinfeld's Sein Language and Dennis Miller's Rants than it does to, well, literature. Volé, Penn State's ballet club will showcase its talent tonight and tomorrow night in a performance titled "There's No Business Like Show Business," at the State College Area High School. Schwab Auditorium will come alive tomorrow night as the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Step Show takes the stage with beats and rhythms that could raise George Atherton from his grave. If you've jammed out to "Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley and aren't ashamed to say that you've recently downloaded some Ashlee Simpson onto your iPod, you're in luck. The All American Rathskeller, 108 S. Pugh St., will feature Brian Lubrecht at 8 p.m. and Katsu at 10:30 p.m. Specials include $2 Captain and colas and happy hour from 8 to 10 p.m. (237-3858). 
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