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College West's "Track Your Trash" recycling program held a final weigh-in this past Tuesday. The program, run by Resident Assistants Patrick Butler and Erin Scott, collected 1,367 pounds of recycled materials from 12 separate apartments throughout the complex from February to April.

The Student Government Association recentlyannounced the results of its 2004-05 SGA Cup competition, in which student organizations receive points for attending campus activities and SGA meetings. The SGA Cup competition promotes participation in the Penn College co-curricular experience. Any recognized Penn College group, club or organization was eligible to compete.

Academic Support Services announces the newest addition toits repertoire of services:online tutoring. If you often have wished for a way to receive tutoring without leaving your room, would rather communicate online than in person, or just have had a late-night, last-minute question when tutoring is not available, then you are in luck!

Members of Pennsylvania College of Technology's Phi Beta Lambda chapter will attend this summer's national conference in Orlando, Fla., on the basis of theirApril 15-17success at the state level.

Members of Penn College's Students in Free Enterprise team attended a regional competition in Philadelphia on April 12, orally presenting their annual report to a panel of corporate executives.

After winning at district competition, a team of Pennsylvania College of Technology students earned a spot in the ISA International Student Games to be held in Chicago in October. The students, enrolled in electronics technology and electronics engineering technology majors, are members of the student chapter of the Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society at Penn College.

Two students from Pennsylvania College of Technology presented a lecture at the annual conference of the Pennsylvania Association of Two Year Colleges, held April 7-8 in Pittsburgh. Todd P. Kennedy, Abbottstown, and Brad A.

The applied-technology focus at Pennsylvania College of Technology has paid off for many of its graduates who are now working in the field they studied. Among those are alumni of the graphic-design and advertising-art majors, who returned to the campus on April 14 to show current students the kind of work their education has helped them to pursue.

Tiffany L. Joyner of Stewartstown, who will graduate next month with an associate's degree in nursing, has been chosen as April's "Student of the Month" by the Student Government Association. Active with the Student Nurses' Association, she also is a member and past secretary of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society for two-year students.

A new scholarship at Pennsylvania College of Technology aims to assist students in the college's heavy construction equipment technology-technician major. The Groff Tractor and Equipment Inc./CASE Corporation Scholarship announced this week will provide a $1,500 award to a Penn College student each year, beginning in the Fall 2005 semester. "Groff Tractor and Equipment Inc.