Penn State’s Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils hosted the first “Fairwell” spring carnival Sunday at Central Parklet in State College.

Milton and Lois Morgan, who several years ago designated a leadership gift to support what is now the Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes, have added a million-dollar commitment to endow the Morgan Center’s director’s position.

Ready for Penn State's Blue/White weekend, anyone?

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State alumnus Don Abbey has increased his gift to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity by $1.1 million, bringing his total donation for restoration and renovation of the facility to $5.5 million.

Thon shattered all records in its 36th year.

Our monthly Blue Magazine will focus on Thon and be available starting Thursday free of charge at dozens of locations in State College, Bellefonte and Boalsburg.

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Editor’s note: Penn State Hoops Memories will appear each Saturday during Big Ten basketball season. Choosing the Cable Car Classic Tournament of December 1995 as a favorite Penn State basketball memory was pretty easy for us.

UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State trustees on Friday agreed to rename Rider I Building the James M. Elliott Building, a change meant to recognize a late director of human resources.

Being ranked in the Associated Press Top 10 in my junior year of 1995-96, and having everyone on campus and off campus wanting to talk to me and everyone else about our season was great.

David Ambruster, a Penn State graduate and employee now living in Richmond, VA, is the winner of CentreDaily.com's college bowl picking contest.

To fellow movie buffs and to scores of friends and colleagues, I am pleased to share my annual holiday list of recommended movies. These are on a scale from no stars to four stars, but all 25 of the movies listed are two star movies and above and worth the price of admission in my opinion. This list includes movies generally seen in theatres from Thanksgiving through the end of December, many at peculiar hours and some shown only in selected theaters. A few aren't in national circulation yet. Comments welcome. And Happy New Year to all!

Graham Spanier calls himself no harsh critic — not of the big screen, at least.

Jules Heller, who helped lead the first Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and was founding dean in the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, died Dec. 28. He was 88.

Before Justin King and Derrick Williams made the jump from high school stars to impact freshmen at a school that simply didn’t play freshmen, a linebacker from a Pennsylvania power paved the way for them, coming to Penn State a semester early, turning heads in spring practice and seeing significant time on the field the following autumn.

As Megan Hodge cocked back her powerful right arm, you knew it was time to begin the celebration.

A national television audience saw Penn State's dramatic 3-2 win over Stanford for the women's volleyball national championship, the second for the program under Coach Russ Rose.

You met them during the Penn State football season, in the pages of the Sunday Centre Daily Times or here online.

It's official and final.