At 8 p.m. yesterday in Heritage Hall, the Puerto Rican Student Association hosted their annual Cultural Night, featuring spoken poetry presentations from students and headlined by award winning poet Carlos Andrés Gómez.

Led by a combined 43 points from its starting backcourt of Ricky Lucas and Mitchell Beauford, Stony Brook defeated the Penn State men's basketball team, 59-51, Friday night at the Bryce Jordan Center.

A Penn State student commonly known on campus as the Chicken Man was cited this morning for disorderly conduct after professors complained he was disrupting classes in the Forum Building.

Two on campus fraternities have decided to appeal the borough's decision to revoke their rental permits.

The average cost to live on campus next year will rise $330, according to a policy approved unanimously by the Penn State Board of Trustees on Friday.

David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Time Magazine 1996 Man of the Year, spoke to an audience of about 100 people in the Life Sciences building on Friday.

The Penn State yearbook, La Vie, plans to submit a proposal to administrators that would use student activity fee dollars to pay for free yearbooks for the graduating class every spring.

The fast pace and increasing stress that comes with the American lifestyle might be pushing people to overuse prescription drugs, according to a CBS article.

Underage drinking and substance abuse are found on many college campuses, Susan Foster said, but most students are unaware of the differing and harmful effects for men and women.

During grade school, when her classmates began to call her derogatory names, Gwen Smith knew what was bound to happen next.

One more time.

After 15 days of rolling up their sleeves for a cause, Penn Staters came out on top of rival Michigan State in the last moments of yesterday's blood drive.

Yesterday, Christmas arrived before Thanksgiving on Allen Street.

Penn State students seeking on-campus housing for the 2007-2008 school year will find out today how much cash they'll need.

If there were a secret exit out of Beaver Stadium, Paul Posluszny might very well take it on Saturdays after games.

Police say man head butted officer; Student out on bail arrested for drugs

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When this season started, the biggest questions regarding the Penn State women's volleyball team were if and how it would replace Sam Tortorello and Kaleena Walters, both four-year starters and leaders during the Nittany Lions past three conference championship seasons.

After the display of competition at last week's Wrestle-Offs, the expectations for the Penn State wrestling team's season-opener are extremely high.

Winners of four of their last five games, the Penn State Lady Icers (6-6, 3-3 ECWHL) look to continue their winning ways this weekend.

Sixty minutes.

Penn State's 23 seniors will take the field tomorrow against Michigan State without Joe Paterno.

For 11 games, Penn State quarterback Anthony Morelli has downplayed the importance of his statistics. To the junior quarterback, just two games shy of completing his first season as a starter, wins are all-important.

The Penn State women's soccer team has always been used to winning in Happy Valley. As of late, playing at home has been quite routine.

Not many athletes can come in as freshmen and dominate their sport in their first season.

After starting out slowly the past two games, the Penn State women's basketball team was looking to infuse its offense with some emotion right from the opening buzzer.

Protect the Jordan Center.

A pair of ACHA heavyweights will clash this weekend in Kingston, R.I., as the No. 3 Penn State ACHA Division I Icers (12-2-0, 12-1-0 ACHA) travel north to take on the No. 2 Rhode Island Rams (13-2-0, 13-1-0) in a rematch of last year's national championship game.

After a win or a loss, the next game is always the most important.

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Music sometimes has a way of being prophetic, and sometimes it's to an eerie degree. For example, Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York becomes haunting now that we know Kurt Cobain's eventual fate.

While not a disappointment on the level of, say, Weezer, the Foo Fighters have suffered a similar lack of charm and personality since the decade began. One by One was generic guitar rock, and In Your Honor was the same with a bonus acoustic disc. So the announcement of the new live acoustic album, Skin and Bones, is hard to get excited about. The Fighters seem to be in a rut, and a live album is often just a quick toss-off or holding pattern.

Going into a movie theatre, audience members usually has certain expectations they expect be met on some level during the film. Some movies fail at this, while others exceed their potential and garner unexpected praise. Then there are movies where the viewer might not know what to expect at all.

I always thought it would be cool to have a soundtrack to my life, some nice pop during the happy moments and a little old-school rock when I'm mad. But having someone narrate it would not be as fun, especially if they said I was going to die but wouldn't say when or where. This is the basic premise of Stranger Than Fiction, directed by Marc Forster. Stranger Than Fiction is, well, strange. It stars Will Ferrell (Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby) as IRS agent Harold Crick. Crick lives a mundane life ruled by numbers; he counts his strokes while brushing his teeth, he counts the seconds it takes to tie his tie, he counts his steps... you get the picture. That is until he hears the voice. The voice is of a woman narrating his life "accurately and with a better vocabulary." At first it freaks him out, which leads to some extremely amusing scenes, but then his life is changed forever.

Sex, violence and wrestling abound in the Coen brothers' movie Barton Fink, which No Refund Theatre (NRT) will bring to the stage this weekend.

Everyone's good at something, and Nathan Lucrezio thinks his something is theatre in all its different forms. Tomorrow, Lucrezio will wear many hats in his Penn State debut, Defining Broadway.

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