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The Penn College Construction Association and The College Store took home top honors among student organizations and campus offices, respectively, as the winners of the college's holiday card-decorating contest were announced in the traditional lighting ceremony Wednesday night.

The Student Athlete Advisory Committee sponsored a canned-food drive during the past week, culminating in Monday's men's and women's basketball games in Bardo Gymnasium. Fans who donated a nonperishable food item received a free basketball mini-throwball at the evening's games against Alfred (N.Y.) University. Photo by Michael S. Fischer, student photographer

The student-built Victorian House on Penn College's main campus was featured along the Victorian Christmas Tour, held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday as part of Williamsport's 12th Annual Victorian Christmas weekend. A short synopsis of the Victorian House, including recipes from the School of Hospitality's Chef Paul Mach, was distributed to all ticketholders.

Students at Pennsylvania College of Technology will auction their works to benefit Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity during the School of Hospitality's annual Food Show and Chocolate House Auction on Dec. 3.

The General Services warehouse on Reach Road was abuzz with seasonal cheer, artistic fervor and the occasional hum of power tools Wednesday as Penn College offices and student organizations constructed larger-than-life holiday cards to be installed Monday on main campus.

Stef Davis, WBRE's Williamsport bureau chief, was on Penn College's main campus Wednesday afternoon to visit the Ten Thousand Villages fair-trade sale under way through Friday in the Bush Campus Center lobby. The sale, annually organized by students pursuing their bachelor's degrees in applied human services, benefits the working poor in other nations.

A lunchtime artist's talk and an evening reception Thursday officially opened " Objects of Mourning ," an exhibit by artist Renee Zettle-Sterling that will be featured in The Gallery at Penn College through Dec. 14. The gallery, on the third floor of Madigan Library, is open 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 2-8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday; and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday.

Just inside windows that fittingly looked out on foothills hugging a springlike fall day, a Penn College forestry professor urged his audience to examine the connections between their lives and theriches that surround them. "Nature can be a favorite shade tree in your back yard or that little plaza outside this building.

Brian M. McKeon, department head for natural sciences in Penn College's School of Integrated Studies, performs the role of "Phil/Gator Man" in "Duck Hunter Shoots Angel," which begins a two-week run Friday at the Community Theatre League, 100 W. Third St. In the comedy, written by Mitch Albom of "Tuesdays With Morrie" fame, two bumbling Alabama duck hunters think they've shot down an angel.

To help raise money for the Tracy A. Garis Scholarship Fund, Sigma Pi Fraternity held a 24-hour Rock-a-Thon on Friday. Sixteen brothers of the Theta Phi Chapter sat on rocking chairs in the CC TV Lounge, rocking back and forth to collect an astonishing $1,500 in pledges.