[ Updated Tuesday, Feb. 06, 2007 ]
Below is a joint statement from all parties, announcing a confidential settlement agreement resolving all of the legal issues in a discrimination lawsuit that former Lady Lion basketball player Jennifer Harris filed last year:
Three men demanded money from an individual at a downtown apartment complex at about 8:20 p.m. yesterday, and proceeded to beat him with metal rods when he resisted, State College police said.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell recommended today that Penn State receive $347.4 million in state funds for the 2007-2008 school year - a 1.6 percent increase from last year's appropriation of $341.9 million.
[ Tuesday, Feb. 06, 2007 ]
An "amicable settlement" was reached yesterday in the discrimination lawsuit filed by former Penn State women's basketball player Jen Harris against Penn State, women's basketball coach Rene Portland and athletic director Tim Curley, according to a joint press release.
• Full Text: Joint Public Statement • Past coverage of the Jen Harris lawsuit
• Full Text: Joint Public Statement • Past coverage of the Jen Harris lawsuit
While some Penn State diversity advocates reacted favorably to news of a settlement between women's basketball coach Rene Portland and former player Jen Harris, others hesitated to applaud the decision to keep the settlement's terms confidential.
Local businesses in the projected path of a proposed luxury hotel on College Avenue are looking for relocation options.
Students will have the opportunity tomorrow to receive free, anonymous HIV oral testing.
While end-of-life care is not a pressing issue for most Penn State students, a new Pennsylvania law on living wills will affect anyone who is suddenly unable to make life decisions.
A Boalsburg man charged with vehicular homicide and manslaughter for his alleged role in the death of a Penn State professor tentatively accepted a plea bargain yesterday, the district attorney said.
The blood-alcohol content of a Penn State senior fatally stabbed last February at a downtown State College nightclub is one piece of evidence the defendant's attorney was holding out for.
Though fewer young drivers are drinking and driving, they face many other dangerous distractions behind the wheel, according to a study released last week.
The attorneys in the case of a Virginia man accused of raping an unconscious female Penn State student in September chose a jury of seven men and seven women yesterday.
With the wind chill dropping temperatures below zero degrees Fahrenheit yesterday, both students and the campus itself are trying to cope with the cold.
Attorney Joseph Amendola filed pretrial motions yesterday to suppress alleged statements made by client Anthony Torsell in the early morning of Oct. 28, the day police said he drove drunk and hit two pedestrians, killing one and critically injuring another.
At last night's Borough Council meeting, an interdepartmental staff team proposed the adoption of a graffiti removal ordinance.
As Mike Mamolen looped around College Avenue late Friday night, his eyes scanned the road and sidewalks for swerving vehicles and drunken pedestrians.
• 'Alcohol Proof' Photo Gallery
• 'Alcohol Proof' Photo Gallery
Criminal charges filed against a Penn State graduate student accused of damaging several university buildings with chalked anti-sweatshop messages were dropped yesterday afternoon.
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News in Brief
The Penn State men's tennis teams 2007 recruiting class was announced yesterday as the 14th best in the nation by tennisrecruiting. net.
It's been seven losses in a row now, but head coach Ed DeChellis doesn't think the Penn State men's basketball team has reached the point of no return.
It's beyond the midway point in the Big Ten basketball season, and some questions have been answered. Two teams have jumped out to the front of the pack and are controlling the league. After that, it's anyone's opportunity to make a run and qualify for the NCAA tournament. With so much parity in the conference, it might be difficult to separate the contenders from the pretenders.
After a few weeks of non-conference play, the No. 7 Penn State men's volleyball team will finally compete in a match that truly matters in its conference.
Three and a half minutes into the second half of Saturday's men's lacrosse exhibition game against Lehigh, Penn State goalie Drew Adams trotted off the field for the last time that day.
Last weekend's slate of games created a different atmosphere for the No. 2 Penn State ACHA Division I Icers.
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On-campus housing: PSU housing crisis in remission
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Penn State students who want to quit smoking can turn to a University Health Services (UHS) program for support.
Standing before a projected image of a giant fly in a liquor store, Kyung-An Han, associate professor in biology, concluded her lecture, "Addiction: A Bad Case of Good Memory."
The human brain is 80% water.With spring break almost a month away, many students are turning to the gym to get in shape -- but an exercise that is often overlooked may actually be more beneficial to students than running on the treadmill.
For Robert Bohannon, spitting out baked goods is just part of research.
Q: What affects the way snow forms and falls?
A nose that is too big, an arm that is too long, uneven eyebrows or hair that "just isn't right" are some of the many issues that individuals with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) focus on, clinical social worker Kimberly Morrow said. Dr. Katherine Phillips, a BDD specialist, wrote in her book The Broken Mirror that many people suffer from the disease in silence.
Talk about diversity.
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