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[ Thursday, Sept. 28, 2006 ]


PHOTO: Carolina Villenueva
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NEWS

After a bag of raw spinach infected with E. coli was found in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, local businesses are pulling the leafy green vegetable from their shelves and menus.

As a recent partnership between a Philadelphia-based college and local churches forms, Penn State students will be given the opportunity to take religious classes outside of the university.

Though the inevitable "walk of shame" that follows a foggy sleepover on Fraternity Row may plague some girls, waking up at a frat house is just a normal morning for Rachel Rollo.

To those who have spent countless hours trying to add a class by repeatedly clicking the "Adjust registration" button: Your answer has arrived.

The owners of a State College bar that received a citation last summer for three separate liquor license violations are now looking to have an additional liquor license transferred to the establishment.

Most Pennsylvania students remember field trips to historic Philadelphia -- after looking at some old cracked bell for a few minutes, the chaperone would take everyone for cheesesteaks and a gift shop trip.

Former Penn State football player Scott Paxson agreed to a plea bargain two hours into his trial yesterday, swapping former charges of aggravated indecent assault and aggravated assault for a lesser disorderly conduct citation.

By the time the judge read the amended charges to allow former Penn State football player Scott Paxson to plea no contest to disorderly conduct, the woman who had accused him of sexual assault had already left the courtroom.

Change is underway at Beaver Stadium, and Penn State fans attending Saturday's game will notice moderate improvements. More alterations, including the location of the Blue Band within the student section, are still being discussed.

Official campaigning for the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) elections started yesterday at 5 p.m.

The colors blue and red were evident last night to the 800-strong crowd at the Eisenhower Auditorium, not just in the words of prominent political figures Nadine Strossen and Pat Buchanan, but also in their coordinating outfits.

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SPORTS

When last night's match between Penn State and Trinity College Dublin was originally scheduled, many from the rugby community questioned why Penn State head coach Don Ferrell would put his team up against the far superior squad.

Syracuse's Coyne Field was never a friend to the Penn State field hockey team (9-2, 1-0 Big Ten). Players and coaches alike are well aware that the Nittany Lions never bring their best play to upstate New York.

Like he had done many times before in his soccer coaching career, Marlon LeBlanc wandered the sidelines of Jeffrey Field Wednesday night, yelling at officials and trying to help his team along to a victory.

Justin King said he was integral to the defense. Joe Paterno said he was one of the best in the conference. And Kevin Darling also praised him -- the two have been best friends since sixth grade.

Tight end has not been the most productive position for Penn State over the past decade.

A crossbar and a couple freak injuries made the difference.

The group of four moves down the gravel driveway as a single unit. A mother, father, grandfather and soccer player huddle close together after another game at Penn State's Jeffrey Field.

Sports in brief


OPINIONS

School of International Affairs: World affairs program to hit Penn State

Election year tactics: Drama replaces policy in campaigns

My Opinion: Ethan Fallon

Letters to the editor
ARTS

Blame it on a slow weeknight. Blame it on the fact that a church coffeehouse isn't ideal for swaying hips to funk. Blame it on the local crowd's general apathy. Whatever the case, there was a huge disconnect between Arctic Summer's lively set and the lethargic crowd filling Abba Java on a typical Wednesday night.

When incoming freshmen first set foot on campus, the university helps them out with all their questions. Freshmen need to know where buildings are, which classes to take and when to declare a major.

Call me a sap, call me sentimental -- I have an immense, bordering on obsessive, love for the movie When Harry Met Sally.

So your summer earnings turned out to be less than your spendings. Your bar tab passed the three-digit mark and purchasing your textbooks left your bank account dry.

Move over, Johnny Bananas. Another Nittany Lion might take your place in MTV history.

In a place well known for its nightlife, it seems a little bizarre to have someone struggling in his or her search to find something to do.

It may be fitting that Tom DeLonge, a man whose musical career has been helped time and time again by sophomoric jokes about male genitalia, is now the leader of a band that has been nominated for mtvU's Woodie of the Year award.

My Opinion: Austin Arrington

The bar scene


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