Responding to last week's protests regarding Penn State's anti-sweatshop policies, Penn State President Graham Spanier issued a statement Wednesday intended to reaffirm the university's commitment to fair labor practices.

The key to the reason why Thon was cut by three hours may depend on just one word.

Christian fraternity and sorority Alpha Nu Omega hosted a discussion last night on "The Down Low," a phrase given to black men in heterosexual relationships who cheat on their partners with other men.

The approaching summer months and international issues are factoring into the higher gas prices that drivers will have to pay when filling up their tanks this weekend.

Officials have completed an on-scene investigation and will begin interviewing witnesses of the house fire that occurred at 700 W. College Ave.

Those part-time jobs this summer could start contributing a little more to fall's tuition if a bill passed Wednesday finds its way to the governor's desk.

Penn State University Police have increased patrols in East Halls around Pinchot Hall in response to the arson that occurred last weekend, but Pinchot residents say they have not noticed a large difference in police presence.

With the box-office release of The Da Vinci Code movie about one month away, even those in the academic field are getting excited.

As Andrew A. Rogers sat quietly in his prison-issued jumpsuit yesterday, a judge told him that he will be tried for murder in connection with the February death of a Penn State student.

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Only having to play one match this weekend won't mean any less work for the No. 47 Penn State men's tennis team.

Those people who list "traveling" as one of their life's passions would have loved to be a member of the Penn State baseball team this season.

If last weekend was a valley for the Penn State softball team, then this weekend is the Nittany Lions' opportunity to return to the top.

One last time, the senior members of the Penn State men's volleyball team will take to the court of Rec Hall -- during the regular season, that is.

The lights were off, the doors were locked.

The season's end may be closer than expected for the No. 16 Penn State women's gymnastics team. The Nittany Lions will have one last chance to prove that they are one of the best gymnastics squads in the region.

The Penn State men's track and field team will leave town for the first time this spring, as it heads to historic Franklin Field in cold and rainy Philadelphia to take part in the Penn Invitational, starting at 10 a.m. tomorrow.

There's an obvious monkey on the back of the Penn State women's tennis team -- it has yet to win its first away match this season.

After almost a three-week layoff, the Penn State men's golf team will resume competition today in Tempe, Ariz., at the Arizona State Thunderbird Invitational.

It's not often a college track and field team gets to travel to where a legend was born. But for the Penn State women's track and field team, that time has come.

Down at the base of the steep hill in front of the Multi-Sport Facility was Penn State men's lacrosse coach Glenn Thiel, ripping the tape off of a broken longstick in his usual khakis and baseball cap.

Transfer Credits: Opposition to bill shows disregard for students

My Opinion: 'Real World' sacrifices reality for drama, higher ratings

My Opinion: Leila Rodriguez

• Most current residents are natives of America
• Immigration debates confuse legal statuses
• Pride Week no excuse to limit speech rights
• 'Real World' updates waste Collegian space
• Students should make concerns known to PSU
• Recent sweatshop protest highlights important issue
• Citation column ignores key points of drinking laws
• Money won't help improve relations with Middle East
• Greek groups give chance to personalize time at PSU

When it's time to pick an instrument to play, many kids gravitate to the guitar or piano -- not the banjo.

Not all musicals are flashy and lighthearted.

Greek life has been an important part of Penn State's history, but students may not consider this as they head to fraternity parties on the weekends.

Sharon Stone likes to get naked.

In the summer of 2002, The Flaming Lips, those psych-rocking Oklahomaniacs turned symphony-taming rabbit-suited sonic boomers, released Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Immaculate, incandescent and inspiring, it was the most consistently engaging, compulsively listenable album yet from America's most ambitious, most versatile and arguably greatest rock 'n' roll band.

This spring break, I traveled south to the exotic locale of Shiloh, a small suburb just a hop, skip and a jump away from the now-infamous town of Dover, which made national news thanks to its recent argument regarding intelligent design's place, or lack thereof, in the classroom.

The Sounds would sound great on one of those Ultimate '80s albums advertised on television. That's not a knock on the Swedish band -- it's a compliment. They've crafted a group of songs on par with many '80s pop classics.

Arguments against Morrissey's new album, Ringleader of the Tormentors: