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Vol. 72, No. 97
Chomsky for Keddie
NOAM CHOMSKY, noted linguist and New Left theoretician, speaking on behalf of
Wells Keddie last night in SchwabrKeddie. leftrwho earlier expressed his thanks
to the students and faculty who support him in his quest for a review of his tenure
denial, listens intently.
Chomsky
speaks of
political
purges
By BARB SNYDER
Collegian Senior Reporter
Noam Chomsky, radical theoretician
of bothdinguists and the New Left, spoke
last night on the “large scale political
purge” taking place largely among
junior, faculty members in the nation’s
universities. I
Speaking in Schwab before about 650
students who came to hear the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
professor speak on the Wells Keddie
tenure denial and related issues,
Chomsky gave example after example
of political firings.
The firings, he said ran the gamut of
universities from the lesser-known
University of Nebraska . to elite
Stanford University, which saw fit to
dissolve its Institute for Latin American
Studies, which reported the forthcoming
Bay of Pigs invasion, but saw 'as
necessary its Hoover Institute dedicated
to “demonstrating the evils of the
doctrine of Karl Marx.”
These political firings, Chomsky said,
form an “obvious and pervasive pat
tern” a phenomenon which has been
reenacted many times before in
American history.
Chomsky injected a note of optimism
when he said he believes “there is a
possibility-in; the United- States-and in-
American universities that there are
grounds to overcome this latest on
slaught of state power.”
He added however, the spirit of op
timism is countered-by the. “general
repressive tendencies of the last few
years which have wiped out or greatly
weakened what Chomsky considers
many of the important political elements
in our society, such as the Black Pan
thers.
’ Citing as an example both the con
tinual indictment and imprisonment'
New group to prod
abortion commission
Two local women have formed an make recommendations to help, in the
Abortion Action Committee to put changes.”
pressure on the Governor’s Abortion Kathy Domenig (graduaterEnglish-
Law Commission to,.repeal state State College), one of the organizers,
Abortion statute's!": . encouraged persons to testify by con-
„ . , ~, tacting Mary Stack, the chairman of the
The committee will . .. commission, at Room 505, Governor’s
minute film on abortion at 8 tornght in ~ office> Harrisburg, Pa,, 17120. “We’d
the Hetzel Union Building like to get people to write letters too,”
Room, at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the Wesley she F
Foundation, 245 E: College " The flyer also encourages people to
B:3oand 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday wr j te to Louis Heilman, deputy assistant
at the Jawbone, 415 E. r oster-Ave. secretary for population affairs',
A flyer distributed committee Department of Health Education and
calls the state’s present law “cruel,.. Welfare, Washington, D.C., to protest a'
irrational and discriminatory” and plan which would stop funding of family
encourages private citizens to testify planning clinics which do abortion
before the commission ' "to hear and referral or counseling.
Saily doUpgt
6 pages.
itograph by Noel Roche
without bail of Black Panther leaders
and the Chicago “gestapo style
assassinations” of Panthers Fred
Hampton and Mark Clark, Chomsky
asked, “what other country .has had an
incident like that in the last
generation?”
“And although it was unique,”
Chomsky added, “it was not all that
unique if you know the details of what is
going on every day in the inner-city.”
He said that in Roxbury, a black
ghetto m Boston, the police broke into
the home of a man they thought to be a
Black Panther. They beat and bloodied
him in bed, then arrested him for
murder. And although someone found
the bloodied sheets, the press covered up
the question of police brutality, he said.
- This case, and many others like it,
“are, the real cases of repression in
American society,” Chomsky stressed.
“Those who have the power will use it
to set the terms” by which certain
questions can be posed, Chomsky said.
For example, is )t valid to prosecute
seven people who allegedly plotted to
kidnap Henry Kissinger, , or rather
should we prosecute. Henry Kissinger
“one of the mass murderers of this
society.,!! who helped in the for
mulation of plans for the Laos invasion?
Chomsky asked.
Exploding the myth of the
“neutrality” of the American university
in politics, Chomsky pointed out that at
his university, faculty are involved in
the design of the .“electronic battlefield”
of the Vietnam War.
“At MIT these crimes obviously
_hav.en’.t .-been, looked into, but. the
students have been evicted from the
University .for occupying offices in
protest of this,” Chomsky said.
“Power sets the terms once again,” he
mused.
“Universities are in no sense the free
marketplace of ideas they claim to be,”
- Chomsky said. Consequently, if a faculty
-member tries to counter this, he is
considered a “dangerous-radical-or a '.
dreamer,” and gotten rid of.
Students for Keddie is calling for
student support in the form of a rally,'
12:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 8, at Old"’” 4
Main; when they present the 9500 student
signatures' in support of Keddie to
University President Oswald. •
Keddie . took • the stage for a few
moments to thank the people who sup
port him. “I do- want to thank you,”
Keddie said. “I may not have another
chance.” ...
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania Wednesday, March 1,1972
Legislature agrees on $2 million
Hershey funding passes
By GARY MAYK
Collegian Senior Reporter
Appropriations for the state’s medical
schools finally have passed the state
legislature,after months of debate over
enrollment and restrictions on medical
graduates.
Penn State’s Hershey Medical Center
pulled in $2,217,000 after the Senate’s
Monday vote and the House of
Representatives’ vote yesterday on a
compromise version of Senate Bill 1127.
awarded $5,233,000 to Temple; $3,994,000
to the University of Pittsburgh and
$2,613,000 to the University of Penn-
Student legal advisor resigns;
Gov. Shapp ciitdhe figure to $2.3 million «'«'
in his recommendation to the legislature _.. ' ?
last summer. When appropriations bills • ~W ■ ~m ~m • I*} ~M~M ‘ 9
were introduced, the Senate included' jTw /yW /)TI I C Of V) /t/Y Q## /mm
nothing for Hershey, but the House 9m (hss9 9 O/M J. UI>C ’ • v
passed $2 ; 3 million. Later, the Senate
came up with a $l.B million figure
When the bills hit an impasse, Sen.
Benjamin R. Donolow, chairman of the
Senate Appropriations Committee,
garnered approval of a plan to consider
medical bills separately from other state
related appropriations. Other University
allocations passed in August. '
In December, a House-Senate con
ference committee was named to con
sider medical appropriations. The
compromise bill arrived at a figure
$141,000 less than the House version and
$403,000 more than the Senate version.
Would have stripped federal court power
Senate reverses
WASHINGTON (API The Senate, version of the Griffin rider or other
with most of its absentees back in town, stringent antibusing amendments still
reversed itself yesterday and rejected could be offered.
the Griffin amendment to strip- the After rejecting the Griffin amend
federal courts of power to issue busing ment, the Senate voted 63 to 34 to adopt
orders in school desegregation cases. again the plan offered by the Senate
The vote against it was 50 to 47, which leaders, Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., and
compared with the 43-40 tally last Friday Hugh Scott, R-Pa., as a compromise,
to adopt the proposal of Sen. Robert P. Later it sealed this into the bill 66-29.
tariffin’ R-Mich. It contains some mild restrictions on
Three of the five Democratic busing but does not challenge the power
presidential contenders who had been of the federal courts to continue to.issue
absent Friday returned for the test and busing orders where the judge decides
furnished the margin of victory for civil these are required to end state-imposed
rights advocates to reject Griffin. school segregation.
The victory was not final, however. The three Democratic,.-hopefuls who,
The Senate will continue to debate the voted were Sens. Edmund S.'Muskie of
higher education-school desegregation Maine, Hubert H. Humphrey of Min
bill up' to 2 p.m. today and another nesota and George S. McGovern of South
Apartment gets
By RICK MISEJKA
• Collegian Staff Writer ~ College Borough Manager, Woskob
A new apartment complex to be the received a special exemption from the
tallest structure in State College, has Zoning Hearing Board since the
been welcomed with mixed emotions structure will exceed the 65-foot limit set
throughout the community. up by the board by almost 40 feet.
The 12-story building, to be located on Fa j rbanks defended the action savine
East Beaver Avenue' between McAllister ’ f a^J
Street and Locust Lane will be con- such a structure makes better use of
Street ana Dane, win De con , d since jt wjll be cons tructed near
Se developer ’ ' campus and should hel P alleviate man *
building 3 will be a steel frame, of the parking problems presently facing
structure with dark brick walls and tfte ® '
exposed white panels. It will contain a He added “the building perfectly
dark steel frame parking area with a implements a model of the area
patio over more than one half of the previously set up for the downtown
second level of the parking deck district."
Up, up and away
Although Hershey’s request has met
■severe, opposition each, year since its
introduction, all, medical appropriations
faced stiff legislative consideration this
year. Senate Educatiort'Committee
.member Patrick J. Stapleton, D-
Indiana, tacked an amendment onto all
medical bills forcing medical graduates
to repay the Commonwealth if they left
the state to practice. Because of the
controversial nature of the bill, however,
it has been introduced separately in the
Senate. It is being considered- by the
' Benjamin Novak, who has been
counseling University students ,with
legal problems since FallGTerm, '1970,
has announced 1 his- resignation as
Student Legal Advisor, effective March
31.
Novak has declined to comment on his
resignation.
The new postition was created in Fall,
1970 to serve students needing legal aid.
According to a spokesman from the
Organization of Town Independent
Students, as many as 10 to 20 people have
been referred to Noyak each day.
Novak counsels students until a
According to Carl Fairbanks, State
—photograph by Bob Kochman
STATE COLLEGE’S biggest apartment developer, Alex . view of anotheyiearly completed Vyascob project on East
Wascob, has begun excavation on East Beaver Avenue Beaver, Cedarbrook Apartmeijfs, -directly ‘adjacent to r~
_ for what will become the borough’s tallest apartment Beaver Hill. When Wascob’s newest project is completed,
building. —Wascob, who developed Parkway Plaza, walking on Beaver Avenue will become,.in the words of
Fairmount Hill and Beaver Hill; received special per- one borough official,'"like walking between two huge
mission Jo exceed the building tieight limit. At right is a walls of brick.”
Senate Appropriations Committee.
During Monday’s Senate session,
debate arose over the accessibility of the
Hershey Medical Center to Penn
sylvania residents. Hostility developed
when several senators complained their
constituents were qualified to attend
Pennsylvania medical schools, but were
turned away in favor of non-residents.
Sen. Joseph D. Ammerman, D-
Clearfield, told the Senate President
Oswald had pledged Hershey would
accept no more than 15 per cent out-of
situation becomes serious enough that
civil action is necessary. At that time, he
must recommend that the student retain
a lawyer, because he cannot represent
or “counsel” students in court
Many of the cases'Novak handles deal
with apartments. According- to N.ovak,
these cases usually arisejrom “am
biguities in the law.”
M. Lee Upcraft, Dean for Student
Affairs, under whom Novak works, said
he has done no thinking yet about hiring
another legal advisor. “First I want to
decide how to provide for students’ legal
problems Spring Term. Then we’ll have
busing rider
Dakota. Each voted against Griffin and describe the Mansfieft-Scott com
for_the Mansfield-Scott compromise. promise as meaningless. Some said it
Henry Jackson of Washington, actually would produce more busing,
campaigning in Florida,, said the The compromise, would leave it up to
Griffin amendment is unconstitutional local school boards to decide whether to
and the Mansfield-Scott ineffectual. agk federal funds for busing to carry out
Opponents of the Griffin rider had desegregation orders and would bar use
described-it as-an-unconstitutional at- of federal money for this purpose, when
tempt to deprive the courts of the right to the busing r would risk the health of the
use an important remedy for school children or impinge-on the educational
segregation. process. , (
The rider had a second provision It.also-would prohibit federal officials
which would have killed a key section of from inducing local officials to use
the 1964 Civil Rights Act. busing where students would be moved
This provision would have forbidden from good schools to poor schools, and it
federal officials to withhold or threaten would sthy until all appeals had been
to withhold federal funds to induce use of' exhausted the implementation of any
busing in a desegregation effort. court order for busing across school
Southern -senators continued to district lines.-
mixed reviews
Borough Councilman Allen Df Pat
terson said he was extremely reluctant
to see-this building approved. “If per
mission is given for a 12-story structure
then what is. to stop construction of 16
and 18-story buildings in the future?”
Patterson said he felt a : 65-foot-limit
should be adequate for" any building in
State College, and anything over this
would “stick out like a skyscraper.”
He pointed out the highest ladder
possessed by the fire department merely
reaches 85 feet while, the building will
exceed. 100 feet.
Franklin Cook, head of the zoning
board which approved the high-rise, said
Woskob received approval on the basis
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state students. Because of assurances by
Stapleton and Donolow that the situation
would improve, the medical.bills passed
the Senate with only light opposition.
Oswald’s position had an apparent
influence on the Senate, as .the Hershey
bill received the only unanimous Senate
vote. Sen. Edward Zemprelli, D-
Allegheny, who voted against all but the
Hershey bill, congratulated Oswald for
his stand.
The medical school package passed
the House without debate. .
to recruit along those lines” Upcraft
said.
Raymond 0. Murphy, vice president
for student affairs, said “It is my un
derstanding that Novak will be teaching
a course in business law in the college of
Business Administration Spring Term.”
Many administrators were unaware of
the resignation.
Novak received his bachelor’s degree
from Penn State in 1965 and his law
degree from Georgetown University in
1968. In 1964, he served as President of
the Undergraduate Student Govern
ment.
that the building fulfilled the “proper
setback" specifications. “All we are
interested in is the moral and general
welfare, health and safety of the com
munity.” " -
Cook later pointed out the board was
not unanimously in favor of the buildings
construction. He said “one member felt
that if present building trends continue,
walking on Beaver Avenue will be like
walking between two huge walls of
brick.”
Cook said he believed if buildings are
made more attractive through design
and landscaping, high rise structures
could be made more acceptable in, the
State College area.
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