[ Updated Thursday, April 12, 2007 ]
More than 20 students and professors gathered outside Old Main this afternoon asking Penn State to adopt anti-sweatshop policies.
The trial of the accused murderer Andrew Rogers adjourned at 4:21 this afternoon, leaving the jury charged with deciding whether he is guilty of the homicide charges leveled against him.
[ Thursday, April 12, 2007 ]
Penn State students will be some of the first to use the Web site that hopes to outdo Facebook and MySpace.
While some students and student government officials said they were distrustful of Jay Bundy's claims that he would take the University Park Undergraduate Association presidency more seriously this semester, others said they would give him another chance to prove himself.
Students for Tobacco Awareness introduced a survey to the State College Borough Council this week showing that three-fourths of Penn State students support a statewide smoking ban.
Penn State courses will become more interactive with less review of old material if recommendations from a state education report are put into effect, said university associate dean for undergraduate education Jeremy Cohen.
Campus officials debated yesterday whether to suggest a University Park smoking ban.
The plans for the West End, formerly known as Urban Village, have been discussed for more than a year, and now State College Borough Council members said they are tired of a lack of action.
Penn State's newly appointed dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences said yesterday that he wants to pay special attention to hot topics such as energy use and climate change in the coming years.
A recent survey shows that most college students are not concerned with the consequences of illegal downloading, even as 413 students at 22 universities received prelitigation settlement letters yesterday.
More than 10 days after an assault during a downtown apartment party that State College Police said involved Penn State football players, the department handed over their findings from the investigation to the Centre County District Attorney yesterday.
Three women laughed while looking at the new sex toy they had just made.
Danny Roukos wants to go to Mars. Or, at least, he wants to work on the technology that gets NASA astronauts there.
The prosecution's case against accused murderer Andrew Rogers closed yesterday with witnesses' accounts that the man Rogers claims instigated the deadly fight might exist and that the victim was a drug dealer.
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News in brief
Going into yesterday's doubleheader against the fiesty Golden Flash, the Penn State softball team had some expectations.
High bar hopes
No shortage of decathletes at Penn State
This year, Penn State boxers will have a shot to win national championships, a luxury not afforded last year.
The three balls that sailed over the outfield fence at Nittany Field provided all the offense the Penn State softball team needed for a sweep of Kent State (17-13, 4-0 MAC) last night.
As Temple's sixth pitcher entered last night's game, eight innings into a three-hour-and-38-minute game, bags of new dirt were being splattered randomly into the infield to keep it playable -- not that the display on the field was conventional beforehand.
With an 8-7 eighth inning lead in last night's game at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park, Temple head coach Rob Valli headed to the pitcher's mound multiple times, perhaps talking strategy, but more likely stalling.
During yesterday's press conference leading up to the 2007 National Collegiate Men's Gymnastics Championships, Penn State men's gymnastics coach Randy Jepson and his fellow NCAA coaches were joking and chatting.
My Opinion: Wayne Staats
Sports in Brief
Wikipedia: Wikipedia undermines research method
My Opinion: Don't be a poser when it comes to pictures
Letters to the editor
This Saturday evening, local act Epileptic Peat will be playing its final show in State College.
It's time for University Park to spruce up -- some divas are coming to town.
Continuing in its fast-evolving tradition of showing classic films, The State Theatre will present Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver on Sunday.
This weekend the Bryce Jordan Center will be full of bull -- the four-legged kind.
Get ready to mix it up with a little bit of jazz, rock and soul. As a part of the Innovators Series at The State Theatre, the John Scofield Trio is performing tonight.
Spoiler Alert: At the end of this play, the main characters die. But this particular play is about the journey, not the ending.
Fun, funky folk music and audience participation are on the bill for Saturday night at the next Acoustic Brew concert.
Multi-Grammy award winning folk singer Tom Chapin will be taking the stage for two shows on Saturday.
Local musicians to unite to raise money
This evening, the Esber Recital Hall will be transformed into a small English village where Victorian morality rules all.
Tomorrow night the 2007 Movin' On Battle of the Bands will take place in Alumni Hall of the HUB-Robeson Center. Penn State bands had to send in two or three original songs to the Battle of the Bands committee chairs who then selected ten to compete in the show. At the end of the event three bands will be awarded the spots reserved for Penn State bands to play during the annual Movin' On concert.
The bar scene
