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PENN STATE NEWS
courtesy of the Penn State News Wire for the week of Jan. 26, 2004
Dieters decrease heart risk
on moderate fat program
Although low-fat diets are recommended for heart health, a moderate-fat weight
loss diet reduced.dieters' cardiovascular risk betir-r than a low-fat diet in a study
conducted at Penn State. The, moderate-fat diet, in which half the fat was
monounsaturated fat from peantds.and peanut oil, produced a 14 percent reduc
tion in cardiovascular disease risk. The low-fat group experienced a 9 percent
improvement. Both the moderate- and low-fat diets were controlled so that all
participants lost about the same amount of weight -- approximately 2.4 to 2.7
pounds a week on average.
Concerts will celebrate
African American spirituals
The annual Celebration of African American Spirituals will be held on Penn
State's University Park campus Feb. 6 through Feb. 8. The celebration features
choral and solo performances of African American spirituals by choirs and solo
ists from the Penn State School of Music, seven high school choirs from Pennsyl
vania and Maryland. and guest artists. Concerts will be held at 2:30 p.m. and 8
p.m. Feb. 6 in Esher Recital Hall. Music Building 1; at 8 p.m. Feb. 7 in the
Pasquirella Spiritual Center (with the Festival Choir of High School and Colle
giate Singers): and at 2 p.m Feb. 8 in Esber Recital Hall (with Essence of Joy).
Tickets are $2 for students and $4 for general admission at the door.
Alumni cool career: Organizing
the unorganized
While sonic perpetually disorganized people can look at the clutter of their office or
home and say. It may look like chaos, but I've got a system," Deirdra Makowiecki
views such thinking as an enemy of productivity and profit. To help businesses and
individuals in need of some major time management and reorganizational skills devel
opment the 1992 graduate in psychology from the Penn State Beaver campus founded
MAKK Strategies, based in Martins Ferry, Ohio, in 1999. "What I do is really an up
and coming industry that more and more people are making their career," she says of
her workshops and one-on-one training programs to change the unfocused behaviors
that can sap people of time and energy.
POLICE AND SAFETY
2 . 18 p.m. Motorist reported a vehicle accident at
Col lege Drive the west end of College Drive.
1/2/2004
1/2/2004 10:05 p.m. Reported kids in the Reed lot with a
Reed Lot knife and video camera.
1/22/04 6 p.m. Complainant reported items missing from
S-Lot her car.
"To prefer evil to good is not in
human nature.
Janet Neff Sample Center
for Manners or Civility
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The IVCF band practices for another weekly worship session. Meetings are every Thursday at 7 p.m. in Reed
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Sophia Coruso, AG 02, t
Lilley Library.
Pat Ganje, EE BD 06, spends an evening in Zurn with a calculator, a book and liquid caffeine. Luckily, there's
only 13 weeks until the end of the semester.
Concerned students have made sure a stump in front of Science stays warm despite the frigid temperatures
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s a break from her real work to do a bit of Internet browsing on the computers in
Justin Curry & Angela Szesciorka,
news editors
behrcolls@aol.com