When temperatures were reaching into the 50s in January, it caused celebration for all but two groups: skiers and flowering plants. A non-binding questionnaire on next week's Undergraduate Student Government elections ballot will ask students to express their views on a number of issues including opening the budget, a student activities fee and the timing of spring break. In anticipation of the National March for Women's Equality and Women's Lives, almost 100 people in Centre County have reserved seats on buses bound April 9 for the nation's capital. The siren sounded, signaling the end of the first period of the hockey game. A few moments later, clad in a black tuxedo accented with a blue tie and cummerbund, Brian Hassinger, known to University hockey fans as "Brian the Zamboni Man," drives the zamboni onto the ice rink. An in-house hockey league sponsored by the local branch of a Pittsburgh-area financial institution has brought University athletic officials together to instruct area youths on the finer principles of ice hockey. Four different sets of eyes stare straight ahead. One set belongs to a black man, one to a white man, one to a black woman and one to a white woman. The Centre County Commissioners declared the week of March 12 through the 18th as "Mental Retardation Awareness Week" for the county yesterday morning, an official from the Centre County Association for Retarded Citizens said. Students looking for a ride home no longer have to shuffle through papers crowded with names, addresses, phone numbers, destinations and sometimes even pleas of desperation. Aurora borealis made an impressive second appearance Monday night for those State College and University Park residents who may have been watching the sky. All University students who applied for dorm space by the February deadline for next year will receive it, but about 400 students will be placed in temporary housing, a campus housing official said. Candles were lit and the lights were turned off. The Undergraduate Student Government Senate last night passed two resolutions aimed at ensuring the lesbian and gay community's rights to equal treatment. Local stores reacted quickly Monday and yesterday to Food and Drug Administration announcements about the possibility of cyanide contamination in Chilean fruit products. Candidates on a fifth ticket for Undergraduate Student Government president and vice president officially registered yesterday afternoon, saying they intend to represent the "underrepresented conservative majority" at the University. The Centre County Commissioners agreed yesterday to petition the Court of Common Pleas for permission to combine four University voting precincts into one for the municipal primary election on May 16. Two professors at the University's Hershey Medical Center hope to revolutionize how the medical profession currently diagnoses disease. The Sears Roebuck store at the Nittany Mall reports record business following the department store chain's shift in pricing policy. Two visiting Muslim authorities will join State College authors tonight for a panel discussion on Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses." Preliminary plans for a townhouse building at 121 W. Fairmount Ave. met with mixed feelings yesterday at the weekly meeting of the State College Design Review Board.
Prior to taking on West Virginia on March 1, the men's basketball team honored its seniors. Tribute was paid to the foursome which Coach Bruce Parkhill calls the "cornerstone" of the team's success. Last season, the Murray State Racers could have been the Cinderella team of the NCAA tournament. They began the tourney with a stunning upset of N.C. State that raised more than a few eyebrows. Their dreams abruptly ended, though, when they were eliminated by eventual champion Kansas . . . by three points. The men's golf team continued its fall success with two fine performances at its first invitationals of the spring season. My Opinion: Mike Machi
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