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[ Thursday, March 2, 2006 ]


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NEWS

While summer nears, some students are beginning to make vacation plans, but Bill Griffin is preparing for his break by reading The Wall Street Journal.

Despite three Penn State student deaths in the past month, Penn State students say they do not feel unsafe in State College.

The media sell beauty, and some Penn State students said they aren't buying it.

With no reopening in site for the White Building sauna, students will have to find other venues for their steamy evening activities.

After ousting 55 members last year, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 524 Locust Lane, has reorganized and is now in the process of rebuilding. As part of this rebuilding process, the fraternity has established several new scholarships.

The Penn State chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops handed out fliers outside the Allen Street Gates yesterday, informing passers-by of sweatshop conditions and how Penn State can stop human rights abuses.

Decisions are made every day by way of rock, paper, scissors, but usually, it does not win a trip to Las Vegas.

Former Penn State football player and current student Scott Paxson was arrested yesterday and charged in the rape of a woman in December 2004 in Nittany Apartments.

The proposed University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) received about 60 percent of student votes in Tuesday's online referendum and is now being looked at by Penn State administration for official approval.

The attorney representing a State College man charged with the first- and third-degree murder of a Penn State student said yesterday that his client was acting in self-defense and should not be charged with first-degree murder.

As forensic technicians piece together what police said is a "messy scene," friends of Penn State student Youngcheol Park are beginning to pick up the pieces of his complicated and unclear death.

When the leaders of Pennsylvania's four state-related universities testified before the state Senate Ap-propriations Committee on Tuesday, they all had a common goal: to convince the state Legislature that their schools need more state funding.

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SPORTS

Men's and women's basketball head for the Big Ten championships. Drawsheets and commentary. (PDF format).

Seven elite Penn State crew team members competed last Saturday at Boston University for the World Indoor Rowing Championships.

The 2006 spring campaign for the Penn State men's golf team may have the appearance of a rebuilding season to outside observers.

Walk into the Penn State Hockey offices in East Area locker room, and you will see the history on the wall.

According to a Penn State Athletic Department official, a coach hired by Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland last Friday, in the role of temporary assistant coach, was hired without a background check and possibly no reference check.

Remember that bully in grade school that took everyone's lunch money, but no one could do anything about it?

Going against Bucknell should be an easier task for the Penn State women's lacrosse team after opening with American Lacrosse Conference (ALC) opponent Vanderbilt.

The Penn State men's basketball team ended the Big Ten regular season last night the same way it started -- on the losing end of a blowout.

Since 1995, only three teams -- Penn State, Ohio and Illinois -- have won the ACHA title. Rhode Island, this year's No. 1-ranked team, has made appearances in the final four in recent seasons but has yet to capture a crown. With these thoughts in mind, we take a look at the four perennial championship contenders with some help from their coaches.

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OPINIONS

Centre County Crimestoppers: Alerts will help officials arrest criminals

California Executions: State should explore lethal injection alternative

My Opinion: Lana Ulrich

Letters to the editor
ARTS

The highlight of my 2003 summer happened when I was sitting in the bleachers of some high school in Dallas.

It is not uncommon for young adults to want to travel and to experience "the real world" without the restraints of academic advisers and parents.

Best Motion Picture of the Year nominees:

The lack of sun in State College during the winter season has forced some Penn State students to catch some rays from tanning beds in preparation for spring break.

Jacqueline Noel (senior-photography) will get a chance to share her work with the community.

Local store showcases carved wooden creations

There are just some things I don't do. I don't drink Miller Lite. I don't wear flip-flops. And I don't, as much as I may try, tan.

There is something magical about doughnuts.

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