Hearings on
set for early
By KATHYO’TOOLE ,
Collegian Staff Writer
Committee hearings on a bill to lower
the drinking age in Pennsylvania to 19
will begin early Spring Term, Helen
Wise, representative for the 77th state
legislative district, said last night.
“We think there’s a good chance it will
be passed,” she said. “Both houses did
work on the bill last year and it came
close to passage then.”
The Senate last year passed a bill that
would have lowered the drinking age to
19 for beer and wine, Wise said.
The House last year turned down the
Buying service lawsuit considered
By JUDY MESKO
Collegian Staff Writer
The Organization of Town Indepen-
I' dent Students will assist a lawyer in
Philadelphia who is preparing a lawsuit
against The Buying Service, which
promises t 6 save its members money
on products bought through the service.
Representatives of Keyton Inc. were
in State College last week soliciting
to The Buying Service.
to Cathy Poole, chairman of
the OTIS consumer committee, com-
panies with different names were in
State College in the past few years
' selling memberships to a buying service
with the same contract.
"Exec Council passes concert
By JERRY MICCO
Collegian Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student Government Executive
. Council yesterday unanimously passed a resolution
t allowing student.organizations to spend up to $5,000 for
concerts and other fprms of entertainment.
The resolution now goes to Raymond 0. Murphy, vice
president for student affairs, for final approval.
Currently, student organizations can spend up to
$2,000 for entertainment or concerts. The resolution
which was originally passed eight to one by the
University Concert Committee, was co-sponsored by
Tim Kavanagh, representative for the Association of
Residence Hall Students to the UCC and Andy Cohen,
USG representative to the UCC
USG President W.T. Williams, commenting on the
resolution said, “The student sentiment is definitely in
favor of raising the price to $5,000, but Dr. Murphy has
the final say because this will be a revision in the
Student Handbook.”
Energy official says gas shortage may last through October
WASHINGTON (AP) The nation’s
natural gas shortage may continue until
(October and could become even worse in
winters to come, a key federal energy
official said yesterday.
“We’re not going to get out of today’s
crisis possibly until next October’’
because of the need to refill depleted
storage supplies of natural gas in
preparation for next winter, said John.
F. O’Leary, new head of the Federal
Energy Administration.
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same bill that willbeintroduced in early
March, which would lower the drinking
age to 19 for everything, she said.
“Many of the people who voted for it
last year feel it has a really good chance “People have a psychological thing
this time,” Wise said. “But the final vote about lowering it to 18,” she said,
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chance of nassine ” Wise sa,d both the Undergraduate
cnance 01 passing. student Government and the Association
The unknown factor in predicting the of Residence Hall Students are
bill’s outcome, Wise said, is how the current i y doing research on the bill,
newcomers to the legislature will vote. ARHS is researching the effects of the
“There are still 42 people we’ll have to present law on residence hall students,
talk to and find out how they feel,” she she said, and USG is talking to other
said. ' colleges and universities to prepare to
Two of these companies are the
Interstate Consumers Service and the
Modern Guide to Buying Inc. Both
charged an 18 per cent interest rate,
Poole said.
The literature from Keyton Inc. stated
that The Buying Service is located in
Cranbury, N.J. The literature also
stated that membership contracts are
processed in Kansas City, Mo. The
contracts from the different companies
whose representatives were in State
College all had the same Kansas City
address and phone number on them,
Poole said.
OTIS is collecting information from
Consumer Federation of America, “next
winter, and the next winter, and the next
winter it’s going to be worse. ”
At the same time, government reports
indicated the current mild weather had
sent back to the job thousands of
workers laid off due to natural gas
shortages but that many more were still
out of work.
Meanwhile, President Carter an
nounced that Vice President Walter
Mondale and former President Gerald
R. Fotd will head a new energy con-.
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“It is quite obvious that the students want the ceiling
on concerts raised, not only the Executive Council. I
certainly hope Dr. Murphy will approve this
resolution,” Williams added.
Bill Ferris also reported to the Executive Council on
the status of Gentle Thursday. Ferris was representing
Dave Gubernick, this year’s president for the Free U
sponsored event.
In his report, Ferris said that Gentle Thursday could
be running into some money problems. He said this
year a total of $l,BOO will be needed to finance the event.
Most of the money will go for sound, staging and
lighting. Gentle Thursday will be April 28 at the HUB
lawn.
In other action, the Executive Council unanimously
agreed to set up a committee for the selection and
format of a University race relations board.
Appointed to the committee were, Butch Randolph,
Black Caucus president, Tom Conroy, former Inter
fraternity Council president, Dave Robbins, ARHS
Contests: Getting
that singing feeling
Have you ever thought that you
could do better when you heard
“Amazing Grace?” Does “Onward
Christian Soldiers” leave you cold?
Do you yearn for a hymn that in
cludes references to “Star Trek? ”
The Office of Religious Affairs may
have the answer. As part of a week
devoted to religion ar.d art, that office
is sponsoring a hymn-writing contest.
Yes, you too can pen an immortal
tune for church-goers. The contest is
open to all undergraduates; par
ticipants can write both words and
music, or can write words to an old
tune.
And if you have a mercenary spirit
to go along with your spiritual im
pulses, you’ll be glad to hear that the
first place hymn will earn a $l5 prize,
the second place hymn garnering $lO.
Robert Boyer, a staff member of
the Office of Religious Affairs, said
entries should be turned in to
Eisenhower Chapel by noon, March
21. The contest is just part of a week
of activities, March 20-27, which will
include a performance by the folk
singer Odetta, a dance worship
service and other events.
How about “Play that Saintly
Music White Boy?”
Proceding from the sublime to the
ridiculous, another contest is in the
works. The Penn State Organization
for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(PSORML) has planned a joint
rolling contest.
Collegian
drinking age
Spring Term
It isn’t likely that the drinking age will
be lowered to 18, Wise said, because of
its possible effect on high school
students.
students about the companies, Poole
said.
Anyone who has ordered products
through The Buying Service recently or
a few years ago can file a complaint, she
said. OTIS is making affidavits of all the
complaints and sending them to the
lawyer who may use them in court. The
students who make these affidavits
won’t have to appear in court them
selves, Poole said.
The Buying Service claims to be a
member of The Better Business Bureau
and the Chamber of Commerce. “This is
ironic since both these organizations
have complaints filed against The
Buying Service, ’ ’ Poole said.
servation group to minimize the waste of
fuel resources in the United States.
And Carter’s chief energy advisor,
James R. Schlesinger, said energy
conservation will be the cornerstone of
the administration’s comprehensive
policy to be unveiled by April 20. He
hinted that much of the conservation
may be imposed by the government and
may involve some kind of price
regulation as well.
“The free market is not necessarily
the ideal mechanism to make large
The contest is planned as part of a
dance Feb. 19 to benefit PSORML’s
lobbying efforts. PSORML president
Bill Cluck announced the contest at
Monday’s USG meeting. •
In case you were wondering,
they’re not planning to use anything
illegal to roll in the joints. Cluck said
the stuffing will include tobacco or
pencil shavings gathered- at
University Safety, Old Main and The
Daily Collegian Office.
And don’t forget
fluourinated water
The University Faculty Senate’s
Commission to Study Remedial
Education issued its report last week.
Their conclusion is simple: a lot of
prospective students are illiterate.
The Commission, in its august
wisdom, refused to point the finger at
the cause of this problem.
Nonetheless, they did provide a list of
“candidates”: “television, per
missiveness, the telephone, drugs,
‘creative writing,’ mass education,
Vietnam, poor teaching in the
schools, popular music, popular
writers or computers.”
Not to mention Earl Butz, venereal
diseases and Big Macs.
The Pennsylvania Republican
Party Chairman was incorrectly
identified in yesterday’s Daily
Collegian. His name is Richard
Frame. The Daily Collegian
apologizes for any inconvenience the
error may have caused.
resolution
president, Eva Whitely, former Association of Women
Students president and Dave Hickton, USG vice
president.
Williams summed up the feeling of the Executive
Council when he said, “If the board is structured
properly it can benefit all students, especially those in
the dormitories.”
Williams also reported that the Executive Council
expressed favorable sentiment towards opening its
meetings to the press. Currently, the meetings are
closed and a press conference is held afterward.
“The present procedure that is followed we feel is not
the correct one,” Williams said. Williams added that
the matter would be brought up for more discussion at
the next meeting
The council tabled the motion to admit the
Homophiles of Penn State as a council, member.
Williams said this action was taken when HOPS
Presiderit Drew Larson failed to attend the meeting.
Correction
testify before the Liquor Control
Committee. ,
Good testimony at the hearings is the
most important factor, Wise said.
A student lobby can also be effective,
she said, provided students are well
informed and able to answer any
questions.
Wise, one of six or seven sponsors of
the bill, said that she herself is unable to
testify at the hearings.
“I’ll be working with other com
mittees and trying to get people to vote
for it,’’she said.
The Kansas City Better Business
Bureau and the State College Chamber
of Commerce have complaints against
the Buying Service, she said. Although
these organizations don’t open their files
to the public, they will tell a consumer if
complaints are filed against a business,
she added.
The Chicago Regional Office of the
Federal Trade Commission is also in
vestigating what they believe to be
misleading sales presentations of
representatives who sell memberships
to buying clubs.
Anyone with information should
contact OTIS in the ground floor of the
HUB.
adjustments over a short period of
time,” Schlesinger told the consumer
federation. He added it may be
necessary to take “mandated”,
measures which might involve price
levels and employment in addition to
conservation.
He declined to comment further.
In another development, government
reports indicated the current mild
weather has temporarily eased the
natural gas shortage and allowed an
estimated 330,000 workers to go back to
Move over
Smith Brothers
Artists Series concerts are nothing
to cough at, and the people at the
Artists Series are trying to do
something about it.
The answer: Cough drops.
Earlier this year, there were a
number of complaints after the play
“Equus” was presented. Coughs and
sneezes had drowned out parts of the
dialogue, reducing the famed
psychological drama to a confusing
play about horsies.
Gloria Newton, Artists Series
publicist, says that at most per
formances since then, cough drops
have been available for patrons who
can’t repress their hacking. A high
class operation, the series offers two
varieties: Hall’s Mentholyptus and
Luden’s.
The cough drops will probably be
the extent of the anti-cough crusade.
“We can’t walk around and say,
‘please sir, could you cover your
mouth’,” Newton said.
Now, new proof that
Penn State is rank
They say that rank hath its
privileges, but we’re hard pressed to
think of any privileges resulting from
some rankings the University
released yesterday.
First, the Engineering Manpower
Commission of the Engineers’ Joint
Council says that Penn State is first
among U.S. schools in the number of
Candy may still be dandy, but you have to be quicker to get liquor as a result
of the energy crisis. Pennsylvania State Liquor Stores, like this one in Uni
versity Park Plaza, have been closing their doors a few hours earlier during
the past week's.
Liquor stores close
to save energy
If you are planning a party this
weekend, you will have to buy your
liquor before 6 p.m.
In an effort to conserve energy,
state stores throughout Pennsylvania
have been locking their doors early
for almost two weeks.
Prior to the conservation program,
local stores were open for eight hours
on Monday and Tuesday and 12 hours
Wednesday through Saturday. Since
the beginning of the month, stores
have been open daily from 10:30 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Arthur Houck, manager of the
University Park Plaza store, said a
recent inventory showed his sales
were down by more than 700 bottles
their jobs.
The Commerce Department, which
had reported some 1.2 million people out
of work a week ago because of the gas
shortages, reduced the number
yesterday to 870,000. The department
said improved employment in New
York, New Jersey and Ohio accounted
for much of the reduction.
The unemployment figures are ad
mittedly inexact, coming from a variety
of sources which differ in both their
methods and in their timing.
students enrolled in associate degree
and pre-engineering programs, with
2,139. That was almost 550 ahead of
our nearest competitor, Wentworth
Institute and College of Boston.
Second, a study by two professors
at Auburn University placed Penn
State’s Department of Speech
Communications third among U.S.
schools graduate departments
overall, behind the Universities of
lowa and Wisconsin-Madison.
In specific areas, the Department
of Speech Communication was rated
fifth in study of group discussion;
fourth in general speech com
munication; fourth in historical
critical studies of public address; and
17th in mass communication
(probably just a bad recruiting year).
Interviews really
do a job on you
Job interviewing story number
1,287, or, “so that’s what they mean
by a personal interview.”
Collegian business manager
Nadine Kinsey signed up recently for
an interview at the Career Placement
and Development Center. The in
terviewer was Gimbel Bros., the
department store, and the position
was assistant buyer.
Two days before the interview,
Kinsey decided she really didn’t want
to be an assistant buyer. She went to
the center and cancelled her in
terview.
A week and a half late, Kinsey got a
letter from Gimbel’s. They had en
joyed talking to her, the letter said,
Ten cents per copy
Friday, February 11,1977
Vol. 77, No. 121 20 pages University Park, Pennsylvania
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
compared to sales for the same
period last year.
However, Houck said, there is a
noticeable rush of people making"'
purchases during the time the store is
open.
“Most people who plan to buy a
bottle on a certain day,” he said,
regulate their time schedules to get to
the store before it closes.
Joseph Delahaut, manager of the
N. Atherton Street store, said his
sales also were down slightly as a
result of the program.
Stores probably will resume
regular hours after the end of the
month as the weather starts warming
up, Delahaut said.
For the first time in weeks, the
weather forecast, through .Feb. 13,
predicts temperatures above normal for
this time of year throughout the entire
nation.
The best news, perhaps, was for the
Northern Plains and Great Lakes areas,
where temperatures of 10 degrees and
nine degrees above normal, on the
average, were forecast.
New England and the mid-Atlantic
area temperatures were expected to be
five and six degrees above normal.
but unfortunately, alter studying her
qualifications, they had found that
there was no place for her in their
organization at the present time.
Just imagine what would have
happened if they had acutally in
terviewed her.
Goodbye, or 30
ways to graduate
Tuesday’s the last issue of The
Daily Collegian this term. It’s also the
last issue in Sheila McCauley’s reign.
It’s also the last issue forever
for a group of hard-working staffers
who are graduating. The ad staff is
losing Bob Grasty, Cindy Morgan,
Nancy Todd, Nancy Extein, and Bob
Edelstein. Pam Reasner, Jim
Lockhart, Barb Shelly, Chris Simeoni
and Jan Seaman desert the news staff
for real life. We’ll miss them all.
Quote of the week:
And nuts to you
Centre County Republican
Chairman Eugene Fulmer, to those
who accused him of stacking the deck
in his own favor for the GOP
nomination for state senate after
Fulmer chose all 21 voters from
Ce.ntre County:
“Nuts.”
Weather
Mostly sunny and continued un
seasonably mild today, with the
temperature reaching a springlike 50.
Tonight will be clear and cool. Low 35.