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The Bucknell University-based Bison Battalion remindssophomores that it's not too late to start the process of becoming an officer in the U.S. Army. The first step into the two-year ROTC program is the Summer Leadership Training Course, a fully paid, four-week training coursenormally attended between the sophomore and junior years of college.

As part of the efforts to promote recycling and Penn College's participation in the national Recyclemania competition, residents of each of the on-campus apartment complexes painted a recycling promotional billboard to be displayed over the coming weeks. The purpose of the billboards is to remind residents to recycle.

A second-year landscape/nursery technology student at Pennsylvania College of Technology was one of seven students to receive scholarships at the 2008 Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Conference held Feb. 13 in State College. Melissa D. Berrier, of Mifflin scheduled to graduate in May was awarded a PLNA Foundation Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Landscape & Nursery Association.

"In Perfect Harmony: The Concert Series in The Gallery at Penn College" kicked off Sunday with a classicial-guitar performance by Alphonse Ciaccio, a 1993 alumnus of Penn College, who presented the series' inaugural concert in the gallery on the third floor of the college's Madigan Library.

Twenty Penn College students and 15 students from area secondary schools competed at a Feb. 22 welding contest in the college's Avco-Lycoming Metal Trades Center. The contest, conducted by the Central Pennsylvania Section of the American Welding Society, was judged by Adam Steppe, of High Steel Industries, and Niles Oehrli, from Moody International.

When "Heartbreak House" opens this weekend at the Community Theatre League in downtown Williamsport, talent from Pennsylvania College of Technology on stage and off will help bring to light George Bernard Shaw's comedy of manners on the eve of World War I. "I got involved with CTL by volunteering as an usher.

Tom Little of Beacon Falls, Conn., a graduate of Woodland Regional High School, has been named Penn College's "Student-Athlete of the Week" for Feb. 9-16. A 6-foot-2 junior forward civil engineering student on the men's basketball team, Little scored 14 points and had 10 rebounds in the Wildcats' game against Penn State Abington Feb. 9.

The Facilities Committee of Governance reminds all employees and students who use campus smoking areas to be responsible for keeping their smoke away from building entrances and ventilation ducts. This polite reminder of smoking policy is offered in the best interest of everyone's health and safety. Thank you for your cooperation and concern for others.

Douglas M. Sherry, a part-time instructor of sociology at Pennsylvania College of Technology, recently published reviews in a variety of scholarly journals. Sherry's book review of David Farber's "Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter With Radical Islam" was published in the December 2007 issue of the Journal of American Culture.

Le Jeune Chef Restaurant will host a sale of fresh, student-produced baked goods Tuesdays and Fridays from 2-4 p.m. (or while supplies last). Prices for the products, which are made by baking and pastry arts students during introductory skills labs, range from $1 to $5. The variety of breads and desserts will change weekly during the semester, based on skills being taught in class.