News in Brief
Penn State Intercom......October 19, 2000

Guard the lion

lion3The Penn State Lion Ambassadors, the student corps of the Alumni Association, will hold a party to coincide with the traditional event of guarding the Lion shrine from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday, Oct. 20, following the Candlelight Vigil on Old Main lawn, University Park. Students, alumni and all Penn State fans may attend the festivities surrounding the guard watch. Musical entertainment, magicians, speakers, and free pizza and hot drinks will be offered.

Cancer is topic of
Spanier radio/TV call-in

Environmental links to cancer will be the topic of the next edition of "To the Best of My Knowledge," President Graham B. Spanier's monthly call-in show airing at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 24, on WPSU-FM (91.5, 106.7, 95.1, 90.1, 100.9 and 104.7) and on WPSX-TV. This show is the first of many that will be broadcast on both radio and television.

Spanier's guests will be Sandra Steingraber, cancer survivor and author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, and Witold Rybka, chief of medical oncology at The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Listeners with questions or comments are encouraged to join the discussion by calling (800) 543-8242 during the one-hour broadcast. Internet users worldwide can link to sound and pictures from the program at http://www.psu.edu/ur/tech/tech.html; and they will be able to contact the president during the program via e-mail to response@psu.edu.

"To the Best of My Knowledge" is a series designed to explore topics of national and local interest and to allow listeners a chance to communicate directly with Penn State's president.

October blood drive

The American Red Cross, Centre Communities Chapter, will conduct a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 in Hammond Building on the University Park campus.

Appointments are recommended for the drive, which is sponsored by the College of Engineering. To schedule, call Donna Schroyer at (814) 865-1831 or e-mail djsdo@engr.psu.edu.

To confirm donor eligibility, call American Red Cross Regional Blood Services at (800) 54-BLOOD, extension 2797.

WISE conference

The Women in the Sciences and Engineering (WISE) Institute will hold the 11th annual Expanding Your Horizons Conference in Science, Mathematics and Engineering for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, along with their teachers and parents, on Saturday, Oct. 28.

The primary goal of the conference is to interest young women in scientific or technical careers by providing them with knowledge and experiences related to these types of careers. It is designed to present this information at a time when students are making important academic decisions about taking mathematics and science courses in school.

The program fee is $5 per participant and includes lunch.

For more information or to obtain a registration form, call the WISE
Institute at (814) 865-3342, fax (814) 863-0085, e-mail cxg1@psu.edu or visit the WISE Web site at http://www.psu.edu/dept/wise/.

Volunteers needed

The Department of Biobehavioral Health is conducting a study on whether an amino acid (arginine) alters blood pressure or cholesterol in men.

Participants must be male, aged 30-60, and may not be taking medications for blood pressure or cholesterol. Participants will receive information on their blood pressure and cholesterol and financial compensation for participating.

For more information or to participate, call (814) 863-3168 and leave a message about the arginine study, which is being run by Sheila West.

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