As county officials work to change voting systems to comply with state and federal regulations, U.S. Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) announced on Wednesday his intention to file a bill that would extend the deadline for compliance from May to November.

Last week, the Student Book Store distributed 25,000 bags containing complementary Vivarin caffeine pills, leaving some people wondering why.

Students who have neglected to renew an apartment lease or envision themselves without a place to live for fall semester can put aside their worries.

As the site thefacebook.com grows in popularity, more Penn State students are looking for a way to express themselves, but lately, some feel that this expression is going too far.

With recent talk that standardized testing could be looming on the horizon for college students, some fear the next step will be a No Child Left Behind (NCLB) at the post-secondary education level.

Hershey Medical Center has contracted a developer to construct a new 156,000 square-foot outpatient facility.

Penn State literature professor Michael Berubé discussed the importance of academic freedom yesterday -- calling it "the cornerstone of a free society."

The Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (Thon) will be held for the first time in the Bryce Jordan Center next year, Overall Special Events Chair David Brownstein announced last night.

Attorneys representing Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland, Athletic Director Tim Curley and Penn State University filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit by former Lady Lion Jen Harris yesterday.

Completion dates for four of the university's ongoing construction projects are in sight, an Office of Physical Plant (OPP) official said.

Pa. Sen. Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin, said yesterday that Penn State Board of Trustees chairwoman Cynthia Baldwin should resign from the board because of her pending nomination to the state supreme court.

The University Park Allocations Committee (UPAC) exhausted its funds for travel requests for student organizations on Tuesday and is currently low on money to allocate to various student organizations.

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The Penn State Lady Icers are going to be shorthanded this weekend, well before the puck drops. For the first time all season, the usually healthy squad has experienced the nasty bite of the injury bug as goaltender Genna Goldbaum and forward Lauren Johnston are not expected to play.

The regular season meets are winding down. The time to prepare for the Big Ten Championships is becoming precious.

The season might be months old for the Penn State fencing team, but this weekend's competition is only the second team event that the Nittany Lions have had and the first since early December. The event takes place on Jan. 28 and is being hosted by the team in the White Building.

If last weekend's Northwestern Duals gave the Penn State women's tennis team some confidence, it's shutout win against Army yesterday was necessary to eliminate of the early season nerves.

Although this weekend's event may be called the Penn State National, it will have quite an international feel. At least seven different countries will be represented, which will add to the quality of the field.

There is a saying in sports that true athletes rise to the level of their competition.

Apparently Penn State does have some fight left in it. Penn Stake used its superior strength to knock off the Hawkeyes 72-61 on '80s night in the Bryce Jordan Center, resurrecting postseason hopes after consecutive easy wins within the Big Ten.

After taking two steps forward, Geary Claxton said his team took one step back on Wednesday when it suffered a 29-point setback to Wisconsin.

At this time last year, nobody would have guessed that junior forward Amanda Brown and sophomore guard Kamela Gissendanner would be the Lady Lions' captains this year.

The Penn State wrestling team's recent trek of five straight dual victories has not helped soothe the burn of losing the first two Big Ten home duals. This weekend, the Nittany Lions will get a chance to heal their wounds with a crack at the best team in the nation.

With the No. 1 Penn State ACHA Division I Icers celebrating their alumni weekend, it makes three straight weeks of ceremony surrounding the team.

My Opinion: Mark Viera

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My Opinion: Allison Busacca

My Opinion: MP3 players cause students to miss out on life

• Collegian staff columns lack insight, meaning
• Column on Bahamas an accurate depiction
• Domestic wiretapping typical for government
• Not all PSU fraternities engage in bad behavior
• High taxes important issue to many people paying them
• Perceptions of what's 'right' change throughout history
• Focus of 'Abroad' columns appropriate for readership
• Greeks make independents reluctant to help with Thon
• Paterno apology necessary for sexual assault comments

Hair Force One is a band that may interest Penn State students who obsessively watch VH1's I Love The '80s and couldn't part with the brightly colored clothing, huge accessories and hairspray that were popular 20 years ago.

For underage Penn State students looking to jam out to live music on a Friday night, there's hope with one of State College's newest music venues, Dragon Chasers' Emporium, 209 W. Calder Way.

The beautifully filmed, disturbingly intense Munich is a film you have to prepare yourself to see. Steven Spielberg's Munich is a dark look at the ugliness of terrorism, hate and violence.

It's a saying that was being said long before any of us were here: opposites attract.

Maybe you remember Teddy Geiger from MTV's high school hit Miss Seventeen.

If you loved the first Underworld, then sink your teeth into this:

There are just some things -- that movie The Notebook, Sex and the City, sweatpants in public -- that I, as a dude, am never gonna get. It's not that any of it's bad. It's just that it's all girl stuff.