Yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI was chosen as the 265th pope and, according to one student Catholic leader who met the new pope, there was no better candidate for the papacy.
At its meeting yesterday, the Commission on Racial/Ethnic Diversity (CORED) announced the creation of a task force to draft formal recommendations for ways to honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a visual object on campus.
A new motion to fund signs that would direct travelers to various downtown parking garages prevented the State College Borough Council from making a decision regarding an automated parking system Monday night.
The Bellefonte Police Department continued to search for Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar yesterday as officers canvassed the Lewisburg area on foot.
Among proposals to cut down on underage drinking, lawmakers will soon be considering a bill that would require universities to expel students for alcohol-related offenses.
National Lampoon's Reality Bar Crawl is clambering though State College tonight in its extensive tour of Pennsylvania hosted by Real World pseudo-celebrities CT (Real World: Paris) and David (Real World: Seattle).
The Interfraternity Council (IFC) executive committee and members of the State College Borough Council met last night at Delta Tau Delta fraternity, 429 E. Hamilton Ave., to discuss community issues.
About 30 students gathered in the HUB Auditorium last night to hear suggestions on how to extend the spirit of Thon to other activities.
Legislation was introduced last night at the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Senate that would allow Academic Assembly to issue executive orders on academic matters.
Among proposals to cut down on underage drinking, lawmakers will soon be considering a bill that would require universities to expel students for alcohol-related offenses.
As the number of homeschooling families in the nation continues to rise, more homeschooled students are being admitted to Penn State than ever before, university admissions officials said.
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As the halfway point of the regular season has just passed, it would be easy to say the Penn State baseball team hit that midseason wall last weekend. There's no place like home. That seems to have been the motto for the Penn State men's lacrosse team this year, at least before last night anyway. Take a cue from the music selection in this apartment on this particular night, and it's easy to set the scene. 50 Cent's new album, The Massacre, is blasting from an upstairs sound system, and the lyrics say it all. Imagine concluding your fifth year of college. You're already a super senior. Now you find out you have to come back in the fall to do it all again. The end of semester crunch is here. Surrounded by stars of their sport, the Penn State women's track and field team didn't lose focus at the Mt. San Antonio College Relays. Instead, with Marion Jones in the background, the Nittany Lions used the three-day weekend to prepare for the future. Ask any casual tennis fan, and he or she will probably tell you that, of course, tennis is an individual sport. Carrying its momentum as surely as the hungry man carries his loaf of bread, the Penn State club baseball team (12-4, 7-0 New Penn West conference) swept another weekend against a conference foe, taking three games from Robert Morris University this weekend. The scene is all too familiar: the play seems perfectly executed until the only player left on the field is not moving. Though this is an extreme scenario of a concussion, it occurs often in the world of sports and is seen most notably in football and rugby. Sports in brief Team statistics 
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The All American Rathskeller, 108 S. Pugh St., will feature Todd Kristen at 10:30 p.m. Specials include $2 Jack and colas and happy hour from 10 p.m. to midnight (237-3858). 
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