BALLROOM DANCE CLUB For information and a schedule of events, visit http://www.clubs.psu.edu/ballroomdance/
LION SUPPORT is concerned with helping students with family emergencies and other problems. Students operate a 24-hour family emergency line at 863-2020 for students and their families.
Every Friday through Sunday night during the semester, the HUB-Robeson Center offers a variety of free entertainment, including dancing, films and concerts. For more information, visit
A committee of local officials and faculty, students and staff from Penn State has formed to develop plans for a Sept. 11 anniversary event on campus. Sharon Mortensen, interim director of the Center for Ethics and Religious Affairs, is chairing the group, which has begun plans for an event in Eisenhower Auditorium at noon on Sept. 11. "The impact of the devastation of Sept. 11 continues to echo around the world and our lives have all been changed forever," said Mortensen.
Editor's note: The last thing we need in higher education is yet another college ranking book, but hey, that's what we just received in the mail this week so we'll report some of the findings to Newswire readers.
Kaplan Publishing, part of Simon & Schuster, has just released a book titled "The Unofficial Biased Insider's Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges." Of course, Penn State is mentioned throughout.
As part of a national guidance counselor survey, Kaplan lists Penn State third on the list of recommended schools for "Best Value." "Weighing the quality of education vs.
In Kosovo, U.S. peacekeeping forces faced stone-throwing mobs. In Somalia, as portrayed in the recent hit movie "Black Hawk Down," U.S. soldiers were forced to defend themselves on a city street filled with civilians. And closer to home, hostages are held at gunpoint behind barricaded doors while police weigh unreasonable demands and struggle to save innocent lives. Since the early 1990s, police and the military have explored non-lethal technologies to limit the use of deadly force yet successfully deal with major conflicts involving thousands of people.
Penn State will hold 2002 summer commencement ceremonies at University Park on Saturday, Aug. 3. An estimated 14 associate, 1284 baccalaureate and 637 graduate degree students will graduate. The undergraduate ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the Bryce Jordan Center and the Graduate School ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium. Throughout the Penn State system, an estimated 180 students will graduate with associate degrees, 1558 with baccalaureate degrees, and 854 with graduate degrees, for a systemwide total of 2592 summer graduates.
BALLROOM DANCE CLUB
For information and a schedule of events, visit http://www.clubs.psu.edu/ballroomdance/.
LION SUPPORT is concerned with helping students with family emergencies and other problems. Students operate a 24-hour family emergency line at 814-863-2020 for students and their families.
Every Friday through Sunday night during the semester, the HUB-Robeson Center offers a variety of free entertainment, including dancing, films and concerts. For more information, visit
Here is the third in a series of dispatches about Penn State students who are at work in Montana helping build a literacy center for the Northern Cheyenne tribe using straw-bale architecture. This dispatch is written by Christa Scott, a senior in Integrative Arts.
We are coming to the end of our first week and much progress has been made. The walls were completed by Wednesday evening and the trusses were placed Thursday. It is amazing to see how all these hands can contribute and make such fast progress.
From composting organic waste to purchasing wind power to selecting environmentally-friendly construction materials, Penn State is conserving natural resources and saving money through a wider variety of strategies than most people realize, the Board of Trustees learned today (July 12). For the full story by Gary Cramer, visit
Sketch/preliminary plans for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) Building at the University Park campus, the first new Penn State building being designed to meet the national criteria for certification as environmentally-friendly "sustainable architecture," were approved by the Board of Trustees today (July 12). For the full story by Gary Cramer, visit
The regional band Axum and national recording artists the Violent Femmes and Trik Turner will give a free concert starting at 11 p.m. Saturday, July 13, on the HUB lawn on Penn State's University Park campus, during AfterFest 2002. AfterFest is an alcohol-free event held in conjunction with the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and coordinated by the Blue & White Society, made up of student members of the Penn State Alumni Association. Additional activities that will be available inside the HUB-Robeson Center include a mechanical bull, inflatable novelties and laser tag.
The sidewalk sales portion of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts opened Thursday with mild weather ushering bustling crowds of viewers and buyers into downtown State College and onto Penn State's University Park campus. More than 350 fine artists and craftspeople from throughout the United States and Canada are on hand through Sunday, July 14, for the festival's largest edition in more than a decade.
Penn State has launched a new five-year, $100 million matching
scholarship initiative aimed at keeping a high quality college
education accessible to financially needy undergraduates. University President Graham Spanier announced the new initiative, the Trustee Scholarship Program, in a report to the Board of Trustees Thursday. For the full story by Michael Bezilla, visit the Board of Trustees archive site and click on July 2002 at
BALLROOM DANCE CLUB
For information and a schedule of events, visit http://www.clubs.psu.edu/ballroomdance/.
LION SUPPORT is concerned with helping students with family emergencies and other problems. Students operate a 24-hour family emergency line at 814-863-2020 for students and their families. For more information on Lion Support, visit http://www.sa.psu.edu/ATT/lsupport.htm.
PALMER MUSEUM OF ART, CALENDAR OF EVENTS
For a complete listing, visit http://www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum/.
