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Team Pork Buttz enters the “field” of competition with confidence. Inspired by a list of required ingredients, students produce house-made ricotta cheese quenelle with citrus salad atop a cauliflower and cheese crust. Team Grateful Bread carefully scores its classmates’ culinary creations. The team’s entrée: spice-rubbed and smoke-fired rabbit with dumplings.

With Tuesday night's finding that a website wrongly included Penn College on a list of unsafe campuses, President Davie Jane Gilmour has updated the institution's response.

Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour has responded to a recent online article about campus crime, meeting the "disturbing" and "terribly misleading" headline with accurate statistics, an administrative commitment to student and employee safety, and confidence in the Penn College Police department's proactive enforcement efforts.

Students in hospitality majors at Pennsylvania College of Technology will display their wedding cake creations on March 3 in the college’s Thompson Professional Development Center. This year’s theme for the cakes is “Love Songs.” The students spend weeks decorating their fondant-covered cakes for a competition that will be judged by industry professionals.

In a face-to-face Q&A, students find much to talk about. Each participant wore a beaded necklace to denote his or her status. Students talk up a storm in this panoramic view. Wednesday's third annual Speed Dating event attracted more than 40 students to the Thompson Professional Development Center for friendship, fun and (of course) food, catered by Le Jeune Chef Restaurant.

'60s-themed Murder Mystery Dinner coming to PDC Student tickets ($16) are on sale at the Bush Campus Center Information Desk for "The Tragical Tripp," a far-out 1960s murder mystery dinner, to be held at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, in the Thompson Professional Development Center's Mountain Laurel Room. Tickets ($20) for Penn College faculty and staff will be available starting Feb. 17.

The Financial Aid Office at Pennsylvania College of Technology will offer two free sessions on the main campus in Williamsport in March and April to help students, prospective students and families complete the 2015-16 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

Moderator James E. Cunningham, retired vice president for information technology and business process improvement, notes that campus lectures will continue as the Dan Doyle Science, Technology and Society Colloquia Series. Doyle, faculty emeritus and the college's Master Teacher in 1984, was a driving force behind the college's just-ended Centennial celebration.

Four seniors enrolled in graphic design at Pennsylvania College of Technology and three graphic design alumni recently earned recognition in the American Graphic Design & Advertising awards, a national competition recognizing excellence in design by professionals and students. The "Lucky Break Lanes" logo earned Brenna C.

Gage M. Okonski, of Reading, enrolled in the residential construction technology and management: building construction technology concentration, is joined in The Race Experience by his girlfriend, Chelsea Lorah, of Reading. Construction management student Byron B. Reber, of Stevens, considers words that reflect the positivity of our differences ... ...