Just five minutes into the 17th annual Mr. Black Penn State pageant, the audience was on its feet as the contestants danced to "Jump On It."
Five members of the State College Borough Council will travel to Washington, D.C., March 15 to meet with three U.S. lawmakers to lobby for funding for borough projects, including housing programs for low-income families and the Fraser Street realignment.
At the State College Borough Council's work session Friday, Borough Manager Tom Fountaine made clear that the issue of eminent domain is not something the council anticipates using in the Urban Village revitalization project.
Students sometimes go home to visit their families or catch up with their high school friends, but some are forced to go back to their hometowns just to get haircuts.
Engineering students went balls to the wall in a giant 21-team dodgeball tournament Friday night in the Intramural Building.
A human chain of about 40 students, faculty, staff and community members chanted, "Two, four, six, eight -- no more Rene, no more hate" as they marched to the Bryce Jordan Center yesterday to protest at the Lady Lions' final home game.
A majority of nearly 4,000 students who voted in a survey Thursday on the effectiveness of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) said they were not satisfied with it.
While the Winter Olympics wrapped up in Turin, Italy, this weekend, the Penn State Snowboarding Club gave students and State College residents a chance to compete in the PSU Open -- a weekend-long competition at Tussey Mountain.
A woman unsuccessfully attempts to balance a candleholder on her head while practicing a traditional Filipino dance, so she pops a Mentos and gets the idea to tie the candleholder onto her head.
As the 2006 Winter Olympics drew to a close last night, the big-screen TV in the HUB-Robeson Center wasn't tuned in to the closing ceremonies -- possible evidence of an uninterested Penn State student population.
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The Penn State men's swimming and diving team was hoping for a much stronger statement than it made this past weekend at the Big Ten Championships in Indiana.
Backpedaling past midcourt with eight minutes to play in the second half, Mike Walker and Ben Luber looked at each other and smiled as a whistle blew for a Northwestern timeout.
It has certainly not been a typical Penn State Lady Lions season.
As the Penn State women's basketball team exited the arena after pregame warm-ups, each member passed by Ohio State center Jessica Davenport, and none of them gave a passing glance to the 6-foot-5 giant.
Hoping that the record-breaking indoor season would foreshadow a strong championship performance this weekend, the Penn State women's track and field team arrived in Wisconsin with confidence. However, confidence alone was not enough to pull out a Big Ten victory.
The weekend was one of firsts for the Penn State men's track and field team.
Twenty-six times they marched to the foul line, more than they had all year in conference play. It was almost an unintended challenge: We put you there, now make them.
For Mark Pavlik, the weekend was flawless. Well, almost anyway.
Penn State men's gymnastics coach Randy Jepson knew his team had to come out right away and blow Ohio State out of its home gym.
It may only be the second week of the season, but the Penn State softball team has already achieved one of its main goals: win a tournament.
The 2006 season wasn't supposed to start this way for the Penn State men's lacrosse team.
In one-run games, good teams find ways to lose them and great teams find ways to win them.
Playing in the first collegiate game of her career, freshman Kerry Shea proved to everyone that though she is young, she is not timid on the lacrosse field.
There should be no surprise that in losing its first doubles point of the season, the No. 60 Penn State men's tennis team would coincide with its first loss of the spring.
Promising and encouraging are the two words junior Sasha Abraham used to describe this weekend's tennis matches, as she led the Penn State women's tennis team to two wins. The Nittany Lions dominated George Washington Saturday, winning 7-0, but had a close call with Princeton yesterday, pulling away with a 4-3 victory.
What is a buckeye anyway? Many people pose this question, but when Penn State dominates its rival Ohio State, all answers are irrelevant. What matters is that the Buckeyes were handed a gift-wrapped loss this weekend as the Penn State women's gymnastics team swept them away with a season-high score, winning 196.625-193.675.
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Crowbar may seem like a small venue for the band Kairos to play, considering the fact that the group performed for 17,000 people at a recent concert.
Bar Bleu, 114 S. Garner St., will feature half-priced happy hour from 9 to 11 p.m. and $5 Ciroc drinks until midnight (237-0374).
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