SPEED MIS * •1,1!1,4 . ;o .Whoopsl The driver of this Karman Ghia found out too late-that the was slipperier than usual following the recent cold wave section of Vairo Boulevard leading to Laurel Glen Apartments Groups begin drives for votes By DAVE SKIDMORE Collegian Staff Writer An anti-union _group and two unions vying to represent a potential 2,100 faculty members are gearing up election campaigns designed to win the faculty to their viewpoints. The Penn State University Professional Association (PSUPA) - and the' American Association of UniVersity Professors (AAUP) both hope to win elections set for March 30 and 31. The anti-union group, Penn State Independent Faculty, hopes to defeat the unions. If none of the groups gets a majority, a run-off election will be held sometime in April. .The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) will supervise 14 polling places at branch campuses and three at University Park. The votes will be counted April 1 in AAUP protests Board act The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) said it will protest a decision made by the ilennsylvania Labor Relations Board ' ( PLRB) that says only faculty members away on University assignment may vote by absentee ballots in the upcoming faculty union elections. The PLRB's decision, made last Friday at a pre-election conference, excludes faculty who may be away from the University for personal reasons, AAUP Penn State Chapter President G. Edward Philips said. Elections will be held March 30 and 31. "The Board wants to keep absentee ballots to a minimum," he said. "But, it all depends on how University assign ment is defined." Philips said the PLRB has allowed AAUP to present a list of the faculty it Future of child behavior By JAMES DePIETRO Collegian Staff Writer Editor's note: The following is the second of a two-part story on behavior modification for children. What exactly is a pre-school that uses behavior 'Modification? What does it do? And how does it operate? l e} ,Sara Fosberg is the teacher at the University's behavior modification , pre-school. It is her job to teach the children as well as to train future teachers in behavior technology. . "The things that concern us,." Fosberg said, "are arranging stimulus situation's to maximize the behaviors we want from the children. Different occasions set the stage for different behaviors. We do that with the children here," she said, "and we make it clear to them what behavior is desired in each different situation. "We have four curriculum areas," she said. "We teach them communication skills, problem-solving skills, social self help skills and motor skills. There is an area of our classroom set aside to learn each of those things. . . . "We have 15 teachers for 26 children and to us it is important that all teachers know specifically what each child is learning and has learned. "When we plan art and music activities, for example, we don't just arbitrarily pick things out. But each week, teachers who are responsible for teaching small groups of children write down what the children have learned for the week. So when the music teacher plans a lesson, he or she tries to in corporate what has been learned into the new lesson. "We also write notes to parents to tell them what we've taught the children. What we are doing, basically, is en couraging behaviors by manipulating the stimulus situation in the classroom." One of the objectives the pre-school has set for the children is creativity. How can creativity be taught? , "For our purposes," Fosberg said, "we have defined creativity in terms of fluency, flexibility arid variety of responses. So there are ways to structure the environment to teach these things. • 4, ' .F; • , AAUP distributed a leaflet yesterday that, should reach the faculty today. AAUP Penn State chapter President G. Edward Philips said AAUP plans an extensive literature campaign. PSUPA Co-chairman Robert Olsen said his organization will put out literature in addition to their monthly newsletter. Olsen said PSUPA'ig in, the process of forming councils in each of the University's colleges to increase faculty input to their organization. , Olsen said PSUPA • would write separate , leaflets for each college because each college has different issues. "There is a lot of misinformation and rumors concerning what collective bargaining means," he said. Dwight Younkin, an Independent Faculty steering committee member, thinks should receive' absentee ballots. The list probably will be examined on a case-by-case basis at the next PLRB conference Feb. 18. Penn State University Professional Association (PSUPA) co-chairman Robert Olsen said too many absentee ballots would be awkward. "With 14 polling places around the state, we feel people can work their schedules around if they're interested in voting,' Olsen said. Philips also objected because faculty members must go through the ad ministration to obtain an ''absentee ballot. "It ought to be that a person could request a ballot on his own," he said. Philips said he guessed that about 100 faculty members will use absentee ballots. the daily 0 14,) • al,•:•!, <l,kti;: 441 "The lessons we choose is one way. Also instead of having the teacher assign the names for things, we let the children," Fosberg said. "We try interesting and novel things into the classroom. For example, teachers keep' their materials in boxes and I encourage them to put different things in the boxes. We encourage our teachers to wear different and funny things such as socks, maybe, of all different patterns." , To encourage new behaviors, the pre-school uses more kinds of reinforcers, Fosberg said. "One is social reinforcement. I keep in my mind, for in stance, that so and so has a lot of trouble playing with kids, so when I see any attempt at playing with kids, I'll hug him because it will reinforce him for that behavior. , "The reinforcement is normal, but there is a lot of precision as to when it's delivered. "Another kind of reinforcer we use is task embedded reinforcement," she said. "Basically task embedded rein forcement is creating a learning situation as favorable as possible for the child. "The final reinforcement we use or strive for is self rein forcement. If I am with a child who has trouble completing things and I see that child is working on something, the first thing I might do is go over and be with that child. My presence is reinforcing for the child. When he finishes, instead of saying "I'm so proud of you," I would say, Aren't you proud of yourself?" "You know," she said, "we can never be sure what the children are thinking in their heads but the literature on reinforcement suggests that this is what happens." "You know," Fosberg said, reflecting on her last statement, "If behavior technology has caused a problem because now teachers can achieve certain objectives where before they floundered; what is the purpose for all the time and money spent for traditional education?" "The real contribution behavior modification has brought to the classroom," Larry D. Spence, assistant professor of political science, said, "is that they are better organized teachers and they' have better organized classrooms. By oHe.ian 1 " =SE . , ~ said his group should be putting out literature next week. Olsen said he doesn't expect any one group to get a majority on the first ballot. He said he expects PSUPA to win a run-off election with AAUP. In the event of ' a run-off between no representative and' AAUP, Olsen said the executive board of PSUPA probably would endorse'AAUP. Philips said that in a run-Off between PSUPA and no representation, most AAUP members probably would back PSUPA. But AAUP as an -organization would not take a stand, he said. Philips said no matter who wins, there probably will be some resentment in the faculty. "We're trying not to Make it a battle," he said. Younkin said, "I don't think there'll be much general resentment. A few in dividual relationships may suffer." Olsen said there is little to choose between PSUPA and - AAUP. But he said PSUPA would have more effect in ob taining state funds for the University because PSUPA has a greater state membership than AAUP. AAUP favors student participation in negotiations between the faculty and administration, Philips said. He added that students should not have veto power over agreements. Olsen said the bargaining process between the faculty and administration is strictly an employer-employee relationship. The students should form their own consumer type organization, he said. Philips said AAUP wants to strengthen the Faculty Senate to give the faculty a greater voice in academic policy. But Olsen said the Faculty Senate is more or less , a company union. University President John W. Oswald can overrule the Senate at anytime, he said. SY ~ .~. ~f • , • • • •••". / • ,` • - 4-4 `~.,~. ,• <;1 Photo by Barry Wyshlnskl Nominee runs Fulmer Centre County Republican Chairman Eugene Fulmer captured the GOP nomination for the 34th District State Senate seat by one vote last night over Walter De Verter, 82nd District state representative from Mifflin County. Meeting in Philipsburg to choose a candidate for the special election that` will be held on the May 17 primary, the party conferees voted 22 to 21 in Fulmer's favor, with a clear split existing between Clearfield and Mifflin County delegates, and Centre County delegates. The Centre County delegation, headed by Jerome McCrea of State College, cast its entire 21 votes for Fulmer, while all the 19 conferees from Clearfield and Mifflin Counties voted for De Verter. The two Cambria conferees, who passed voting on the roll call, voted for De Verter the second time they were called. Fulmer secured the required 22 votes, though, when Cameron County delegate Harvey Wagner cast his vote in Fulmer's favor. The split between the delegations first appeared when McCrea called for block voting, in which each delegation would cast its votes as a whole. The Clearfield delegation then requested time for a caucus, and state GOP Chairman Richard Framer, presiding over the meeting, granted a 15- minute recess. When the conferees reconvened, Clearfield County Chair man Jean Brodas immediately asked that the votes be taken by roll call. Framer, citing the state Republican By-laws, agreed to the request. When conferee Wagner, the third delegate called in the roll call, whose single Cameron County vote was considered the most crucial, voted for Fulmer, it became apparent that the Centre County GOP chairman was the winner. The rest of the Student enters mayoral race By SAMUEL D. COX Collegian Staff Writer ' A 13th term political science student said yesterday he will run for mayor of State College with a goal to have students interested in local government. Greg Stewart, 23, seeking the Democratic nomination, said tension exists between students and the borough. He said students often do not approve of ordinances passed by the councilmen for their neighborhoods, adding he would listen to students' grievances. . . •"I see the mayor's job mainly as being accessible, listening, and assisting members of the community in bringing their problems before Municipal CoUncil," Stewart said. Stewart admitted that Arnold Addison, a Republican mayoral candidate, has the advantage of Carter calls for Soviet arms accord WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter, calling U.S. nuclear power superior to the Soviet's, invited Moscow yesterday to conclude "a quick agreement" on strategic ' arms limitation by setting aside differences over particular weapons. In his first news conference as President, Carter also said he will continue to speak out "strongly .and forcefully" in defense of, human rights, and considers that topic completely separate from • other U.S.-Soviet negotiating issues. As if to hammer that point home, he depolored on the spot the recent Soviet arrest, of dissident Alexander Ginzburg and Moscow's expulsion of an Associated Press reporter. "But I can't go in with armed forces and try to change the internal mechanism of the Soviet government," Carter said, and cautioned that the imporvement of human rights in repression regimes will be a "long, redious!' process. modification undecided .. . ~ I C' s / Oa,tif i cdton making the teacher ask what it is they want to teach and• then arranging a classroom situation around it, they have shown it is possible to get better results," he said. Behavior technologists say behavior technology is unquestionably an effective teaching tool and one without a bias or orientation. They say if you can teach a child to read before he is five or remove the trauma of toilet training, the pragmatic value of their method outweighs any possible dangers. "I don't want to talk about what they can do and what they can accomplish using this technology," Joseph C. Flay, asssociate professor of philosophy said. "I say, even if great discoveries come out of their research, it's not worth it. "Behavior technology takes the findings of science and uses them, so they say, to save humanity from itself. It is no longer a science to see the way things are but rather a way to create a reality, and that's what I object to," he said. John T. Neisworth, associate professor of child develop ment, shook his head. for Senate wins GOP bid By PETE BARNES Collegian Staff Writer experience in government and that he is more familiar with local officials because of his 17 years as a coun cilman. But Stewart said he has met people from all sectors of the borough and added that he also has a per spective of their needs and desires.' He was president of the University committee in the Morris K. Udall , presidential campaign last year and helped coordinate the campaign in Pennsylvania,•Ohio and New Jersey. Stewart said the chief importance of the mayor's job is his veto power as presiding officer of Council. He said he is hesitant of the power, however, and said the Council must have the power to make decisions. He praised retiring Mayor Jo. Hays, saying that Hays has a good relationship with Council. "Mayor Hays could be more active, The President repeated his support for the long-range objective of complete nuclear disarmament and expressed willingness to compromise, now, with the Soviets in order to achieve a second stage Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. "I would be willing to go ahead with the Soviet Union and conclude a quick agreement, if they think it advisable, and omit the cruise missile and the Backfire bomber from the negotiations at this stage," he said. Completion of a SALT II treaty limiting nuclear delivery systems has been blocked for more than two years because the United States has refused to include its cruise missiles and the Soviets their bomber within the treaty limits. Carter said those items could be taken up again "in the SALT 111 talks, if necessary." During a 30-minute news conference that ranged over may topics, Carter also defended his choice of Paul Warnke to be chief U.S. disarmament negotiator A bell rings. Someone yells clean-up and the toys are quickly shoved into cabinets. Dumped into boxes. - A little girl shouts something about dinosaurs. A little boy asks if someone wants to play monster. Little do they realize the historical significance of what is taking place. Ten cents per copy Wednesday, February 9, 1977 Vol. 77, No. 119 16 pages University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University conferees called out their choices, the votes were totaled, and . ~ • Framer declared Fulmer the GOP candidate. A person in the audience shouted, "We've got another loser," after hearing that Fulmer was elected. A member of the Centre County , delegation stood up a few moments later and, asking Framer for the floor, began yelling "We've got a winner." Many protests came from both the conferees and the audience, and the delegate was forced back into his chair. Before the voting, each candidate was given the opportunity to address the conferees. Fulmer, after citing his experience in the party and in the state House of Representatives, said the GOP candidate for the state Senate seat should be a "cham pion for truth, and the people; not the rich people like you and me." De Verter told the conferees he was there to serve the party, but more importantly, the people of the Commonwealth. "I can give you the best elect me, and you won't regret it for a moment," he said. After Fulmer was nathed the party candidate, De Verter told the conferees that regardless of personal feelings, "if we truly want this seat, we're all going to have to work; it's not going to be easy." As he walked to the back of the room, he stopped to congratulate Fulmer on his victory. In his acceptance speech, Fulmer called for cooperation among the party chairmen of the five counties in the district. "We don't have much time to pull together," he said. Describing his campaign, Fulmer siad he expected to learn of the problems in the district and added that "we will address ourselves to the issues." When asked if he thought the party could pull itself together to initiate an effective campaign, Framer said, "I think sq, yes; there's a lot of spirit here." He also indicated that he would be actively campaigning in Fulmer's behalf. "We can help kids who would otherwise bang their heads against the floor until they died and here on campus you have some guys worrying about the child's freedom or whether or not our premises are true or not." "But there is no such thing as a neutral tool," Flay said. "Physics, when it is applied to engineering, brings about great changes for society. Fantastic changes. Anything that can bring about great changes in a society is not neutral." Behavior technologists have heard such arguments before. They smile, shake their heads and explain the benefits and the power behavior can contribute to society. "I say, if we have the technology that is effective, why shouldn't we use it to make ourselves better?" Fosberg asks. From the observation booths, the scene of the Hi-Comp pre school, where 26 children romp and play, looks no different than any other pre-school. A little more organized, perhaps. But the children seem to love it. Exercises are as short in length as the average Child's at tention span. In the observation booth, instructions hang from sheds of cardboard for the student teachers to read while they observe pre-schoolei.s. "Catch your child doing something right. Saying a new word, pointing to a sound symbol, writing his name, or swinging by himself. "Then reward him immediately with your social praise. Say good swinging, or good eating. "And then give him something he likes. Something good to taste." but my role would be pretty close to his role," Stewart said. Stewart, who will graduate in May, said he expects student support, but detected negative feelings from the older residents. "There are some people who would never vote for a student because he's not from the community," he said. Stewart said he would rather run for mayor than for a Municipal Council seat because he thought the role of mayor could be more valuable. Stewart said the mayor makes about $3,000 a year. He said council members are unpaid, but, deserve to be pa id when the community ex pands. Stewart is married and lives at 127 E. Hamilton Ave. He applied to the Institute for Public Administration at the University, and plans part-time work for a master's degree. and predicted the ,Senate would confirm Warnke "overwhelmingly" despite critics' claims he favors some unilateral disarmament. "I believe his views are well considered by me and I have ac cepted them," Carter said. Weather A moderating trend will continue through Saturday. Sunshine and light, winds will allow the mercury to crack the freezing mark today, reaching 34 degrees. The low tonight will be 22. Sunny skies will continue tomorrow, with a balmy high of 40. What's inside Centre Crest ... Chocolate prices Wings review .. Wire digest .... Gymnastics Sports lottery .. Flood problems. . page 3 . page 5 . page 6 . page 8 . page 9 page II page 16
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers