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NEWS
[ Updated Saturday, March 31, 2007 ]

Members of the selection committee that will choose a replacement for former Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland were announced yesterday.

More than 150 partipants ignored the clouds this morning to run in the Second Annual Rescue Childhood's 5K run.


[ Friday, March 30, 2007 ]

The future of student government will become a little clearer this Sunday when the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) will make a decision regarding the potential student government merger with the now-defunct Undergraduate Student Government (USG).

Penn State students got to hear the words of a Nobel Prize winner yesterday when Richard R. Schrock appeared on campus.

The number of academic integrity violations university-wide, including plagiarism, is on the rise, according to a report released at last week's Faculty Senate meeting.

Showing concern for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community and their allies (LGBTA) during Pride Week, the Office of Health Promotion and Education in Ritenour Building raised awareness for free HIV testing yesterday.

Exactly two years after a plane crash claimed the lives of a Penn State lacrosse player's family, the National Transportation Safety Board released a report stating that pilot error was the probable cause of the crash.

A Penn State professor testified before Congress yesterday about the increasing severity of an enormous honeybee die-off that could lead to less fresh fruit for local consumers.

In a party-split vote yesterday, the U.S. Senate voted to provide billions of dollars and a withdrawal date for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan -- a decision President Bush plans to veto.

One allocation group met another last night in Johnston Commons, when University Park Allocation Committee (UPAC), former distributor of the student activity fee, petitioned the Funding Allocation Board (FAB) for funds for its 2007-08 budget.

Having one less leg hasn't broken the morale of 26-year-old Kortney Clemons, a Penn State athlete and Iraq War veteran.

Man accidentally shot by girlfriend

Student Julie Kovar, an aspiring first-grade teacher living out her dream by attending Penn State, died with her parents by her side Wednesday night. Kovar was studying abroad in Australia.

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SPORTS

The Penn State women's track and field team will begin the outdoor portion of its schedule by splitting its team between two competitions.

The Penn State men's track and field team will not be using its first week of competition in the outdoor season as a tune-up for the rest of the spring. The qualifying process for the new season demands a fast start out of the blocks.

The most important weekend of the season is upon the Penn State men's rugby team.

When the No. 6 Penn State men's volleyball team takes to the court for its two matches this weekend, it will do so with the EIVA regular season crown on it's mind, as Penn State's magic number now stands at two.

Penn State men's tennis head coach Todd Doebler said he was looking forward to a dogfight.

This weekend the Tartans are coming to Governor's Park in Bellefonte to face the Penn State baseball club.

If there were a time for the Penn State Lady Ruggers to play their most inspired game of rugby, it would be this weekend.

The No. 10 Penn State women's lacrosse team travel to Loyola College this weekend to take on a non-conference opponent.

For the first time in conference history, six out of the seven competing teams are ranked in the GymInfo Top 25 coming into the Big Ten Championship. Penn State and Michigan fight for the team crown.

It's not too often that a team 17 games deep into a schedule can look forward to a fresh start.

Susie McConnell Serio is a popular pick to replace Rene Portland as Penn State women's basketball coach. Many believe that the former Lady Lion is a natural fit.

Offense, pitching, and defense. Everything seems to be clicking for the Penn State softball team at the perfect time.

When the Penn State men's lacrosse team travels to Amherst, Mass., this weekend, it will meet an opponent that may appear eerily similar to itself.

The Penn State men's gymnastics team hopes to dethrone defending champ Ohio State when it competes at the 2007 Big Ten Championships tonight and tomorrow at the University of Minnesota's Sports Pavilion. In addition, the conference individual finals will be held this weekend.

Since entering the Big Ten in 1992, Penn State women's gymnastics competed in more than 200 meets, boasted 10 conference individual champions and garnered 10 individual All-American nominations.


OPINIONS

Trans fat: Change in frying oil a smart decision

My Opinion: Stephanie Raposo

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Letters to the editor
ARTS

Called "If you come, we will build it," tonight's five-band benefit will help to renovate SoZo's, 256 E. Beaver Ave.

Jazz professionals are invading from across the state.

The 1980s gave the movie-going public an abundance of "shoot-em-up" action flicks ranging from benchmark action like Die Hard to the absurd violence of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commando.

There was once a time when music was an agent for social change. Maybe that time hasn't ended.

You go to a party at your friend's apartment.

Arts in brief

The bar scene


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