Provost Avoid s Conflict
By Kimberly Anastas
The Statement on Intolerance
recently addressed to the campus
community by Dr. Ruth Leventhal,
provost and dean, was being planned as
early as February.
Leventhal said that she had been
rewriting the statement to be sure that
the wording was correct and decided not
to delay it because of the sit-in at
University Park.
The Statement on Intolerance is
part of a university-wide model to
promote diversity at Penn State.
Leventhal said the plans came out in
February when University President
Bryce Jordan updated his November
statement on diversity.
The Capital Times printed
Jordan's address in the February 3 issue.
He said: "I. . . am pleased to note that a
working model has been developed to
prevent, anticipate, respond to, and
manage acts of intolerance."
Leventhal referred to these
actions as a "four-tiered model to deal
with diversity."
"The model uses existing
university offices and programs which
allowed us to implement it quickly,"
Jordan said in his address.
Leventhal implemented the plan
here by appointing two committees to
deal with the issues. "The Campus
Environment Assessment Team will
look at gathered data and help identify
key areas we might anticipate problems
Lobbyists Work to Sell Univ.
by Michele Hart
If politics is a game then Dave
Shuckers and Frank Forni are prime
players.
As the Penn State University
State Capitol lobbyists, Shuckers and
Forni know how to get what they, as
representitives of the university, want.
Forni, special assistant to the
president for governmental relations, and
Shuckers, director of government
affairs, have been working as team "on
the hill" since 1986.
The main effort of their
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and recommend acts of prevention," said
Leventhal.
"The Campus Response Team
will set up a proposal for a response
institution if someone has been
descriminated against. The team will
present the process based on specific
charges and the staff will take action by
implementing the process," Leventhal
said.
Don Holtzman, associate
director of student affairs, who is a
member of the Campus Response Team,
said the teams are meeting together to
decide who should be responsible for
what. The teams have agreed that the
director of student of affairs (O'Hara)
should be the focal point right now to
handle the issues, said Holtzman.
Holtzman said the teams also
decided that "response needs to be
immediate and decisive."
The teams, said Holtzman, are
not interested in penalizing offenders
because they will go through the
university disciplinary system. The
teams are "concerned with mediation to
resolve issues and bring the climate to
one that facilitates education."
Leventhal said the model is a
"long-term strategy to try to improve
climate for all people at Penn State.
People of all values and cultures have
something different to offer the
community."
"We're becoming a global
economy and that brings more diversity
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lobbying, Forni said, is to get the state
legislature to pass the universtiy
appropriations bill in its entirity. From
that bill comes the $196 million in
operating funds for the university.
"Everything we do is aimed at
that objective. We believe that Penn
State, as well as all higher education, is
underfunded," Forni said.
The pair also examines every
bill that comes before the legislature to
see what impact, if any, it could
possibly have on the university.
"There are literally thousands of
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Black Activist Speaks
at U. Park Festival
By Bernie Mixon
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing,
author of .l. on r. , ion , a
Racism , was the keynote speaker at this
year's Black Arts Festival held at
University Park. The Black Arts
Festival is a cooperative effort of many ,
clubs on campus. The lecture was held
in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center,
April 16.
Welsing, a 1957 graduate of
Antioch College, majored in Pre-Med
and was the only black in her class. She
then went on to Howard University' s
SchoOl of Medicine where she changed
her major to psychiatric medicine.
In her speech, Welsing cited
Neely Fuller, author of np_i Tex
Victims of Wh:
Iremacy , to clearly
define racism as " the global system of
behavior allowing classified whites to
dominate classified non-whites. This
behavior system operates in economics,
education, law, religion, sex and war."
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One of the ways that whites,
according to Welsing, were able to
justify lynching and castration of blacks
throughout history was to say that: "He
looked at a white woman." Welsing said
that white genetic survival is the source
of genetic prepetuation of the man of
color.
White supremacy exists in all
facets of present day american culture,
Welsing said.
Pool, according to Dr. Welsing
is the worst example of white supremacy
existing in sports because the theory of
the game employs the system where all
the colored balls are knocked into the
holes until all that is left is the white
ball and the black ball. The winner is
proclaimed when the black ball is
knocked in the hole leaving the white
ball on the table. According to Welsing,
this is similar to the theory of white
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