Penn State, State College Noon News & Features: Thursday, July 21

State College, Penn State and Centre County are in the news — locally, nationally, internationally and in cyberspace. We post the latest sampling of stories of note, with links, from our site and across the Web every weekday in Noon News & Features.

Here is Thursday’s offering:

News

• As Heat Builds, Penn State May Cut Power Use; Mercury to Near 100 Degrees (StateCollege.com)

• As State College Resumes Normalcy, Arts Festival Counts Successe (StateCollege.com)

• Summer Jazz Celebration to Spotlight Recognized Musicians in Bellefonte (StateCollege.com)

• Verizon Service at Issue in Lemont (Centre Daily Times)

• Penn State Creamery Is as Good as It Gets (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

• Homeland Security and Defense Minor Approved for World Campus Students (Daily Collegian)

• Weisman Serves on Federal Panel Examining Health Services for Women (Penn State Live)

• Penn State Hershey Announces Awards and Recognition (WHP TV)

• Everything I Needed to Know in Life I Learned from ‘Boy Meets World’ (USAToday College via Onward State)

• Penn State Ranks as Magazine’s Second Top ‘Douchiest’ College (Philly.com)

• StateCollege.com Newsletter Gives You Info to Plan the Next Seven Days (StateCollege.com)

Columns/Opinion

• Patty Kleban: In Defense of the Tuition-Discount Benefit (StateCollege.com)

Video

• Mike Poorman’s Q&A with PSU Men’s Basketball Coach Pat Chambers (StateCollege.com)

Sports

• Mesa’s Blast in Tenth Powers Spikes to Victory (State College Spikes)

• Catching Up With Corey Hertzog (Onward State)

• Penn State Basketball: Q&A With New Hoops Coach Patrick Chambers, Part I (StateCollege.com)

• Big Ten Network To Celebrate Penn State Day on July 26 (GoPSUsports)

• Women’s Volleyball To Be Featured on Big Ten Network, ESPN2 (GoPSUsports)

• Field Hockey: Purvis, Gebhart and Chrismer Named to U.S. Under 21 Women’s National Squad (GoPSUsports)

• Paterno Knows How to Get Great QBs, but Not How to Keep Them Happy (Philadelphia Inquirer)

• Former Tennessee Titan and PSU QB Kerry Collins Has Put NFL Behind Him (The Tennessean)