Warm. and breezy today .with. partly sunny skies morning becoming overcast with rain showers developing mid af ternoon, .possibly as thundershowers, high of 64. • Rain showers changing possibly to freezing rain or sleet then snow flurries this evening with rapidly falling temperatures and cold gusty winds tonight, low of 28. V01.72,N0. 98 Art prof brushed out of the picture By JIM WIGGINS and MARLENE BUNGARD Collegian Staff Writers An assistant art professor in his second year of teaching at the Univer sity was notified a few weeks ago his teaching contract will not be renewed, and the department has given him no reasons for the action. The professor, William T. Litvin, 'said he knows of no reason for his dismissal, with the possible exception of an. incident which occurred at a December art department meeting. “I did nothing more than use a few four letter words, which happens all the Caused by carelessness Students surveyed on dorm problems By KEj\ CHESTER Collegian Junior Reporter The problem -of security in the residence halls is caused' by student carelessness and an inadequate number of security personnel, according to a survey of student opinion to be officially released later this week. In addition, the survey reveals general student support for the present system of Resident Assistants, and even sentiment for increasing the number-bf-'TR.A.’s.- .According to Charles C. Spence, director of Residence Hall Programs, the survey “was conducted to obtain studentattitudes about the security and theft problem, the roles of the R.A.’s, and residence hall staffing patterns.” The survey was prepared mainly for use by his staff, but has been released to the students as a point of interest. ■ The survey consisted of a 19-item questionnaire given to a randomly selected group of residence hall students. 123 replies were received of the 176 copies originally distributed. In the majority-of responses, general carelessness by the students was cited, as the major reason for the increase in thefts. Fifteen per cent felt inadequate security personnel was the major problem.; There were many ideas concerning how to reduce the theft problem. The most frequent answer was to place student receptionists in the residence halls to check visitors as they enter the building. Many students felt keeping all outside doors locked and providing residents with a key would serve to reduce the 300 beds to serve State College area Hospital unit to open By DENNIS DUGAS Collegian Staff Writer - The Centre Community Hospital 1 will have more than 300 beds nearly twice the current number when its Moun tainview Unit open this spring-. Although 10 miles separates the new unit, located about a mile from Beaver Stadium, from the Willowbank Unit in Bellefonte, they are facilities of the same hospital sharing the same staff, administration- and board of trustees. According to Jack E. Brannigan, director of_development at the hospital, there has been pressure to build a hospital closer to State College for more than 10 years. State College is con sidered the population center of the county, Brannigan said, noting from the start, the idea has been to expand the existing hospital rather than to establish a new one. ' '' Brannigan explained the total cost of the building and furnishing the Moun tainview- Unit has been about " $8.9 million, with funds coming -from four ' , 1 .. - The hospital obtained $3:l million in federal funds through the Hill Harris and Appalachia programs. Hill Harris is a special fund set up in 1947 for the support of hospitals. ■ The hospital had accumulated $1.4 million in cash reserves. Local contributors donated, .$1.7 million in a fund raising campaign. The hospital has borrowed $2.6 million. The 30 acres of land on which the facility was built were donated to the hospital by the University for the token fee of $1 in 1966, Brannigan added. The initiation of new services and the expansion of existing services at the Centre Community Hospital will be carried out in two phases. During the first phase both units will provide physical and respiratory therapy, x-ray and laboratory services. Initially, all Satlg <Mlwit 8 pages time at department meetings,” he said:- Litvin said he does not plan to pursue the matter. “I feel I have taken it as far as I intend to,” he said. Litvin’s dismissal comes at a time when the campus is sen sitive, to faculty firings.-Tenure denials here and at other campuses some with political overtones have caused student and faculty groups to question faculty review procedures. Art department students and some faculty met last Thursday to discuss Litvin’s dismissal. The meeting was held “to demand that as a professional courtesy, the instructor problem. An increase in the number of Campus Patrolmen would have that effect as well, according to another group of students. A large number of people felt that the R.A.’s main job was to ..refer students with problems to the appropriate place. Other roles of the R.A.’s as seen by the students were to interpret University policies and regulations, and to keep order in the residence halls. However, maintaining order was not seen as the job solely of the R.A.' Eighty per cent felt that it was the responsibility of the students to maintain an at mosphere conducive to studying. But, 66 per cent also felt the R.A. should be the actual enforcers of regulations. The vast majority of students felt the development of community spirit was important to residence hall living, and 66 per cent of the responders felt the R.A. helped in developing this spirit.-. Seventy-seven per cent ot the students expressed support for the R.A. system.' 24 per cent of all responders felt there should be more R.A.’s, while none wanted fewer R.A.’s. Three per cent felt there should be no R.A. Spence pointed out several interesting statistics. One was that 75 per cent of the students were living in the residence halls because they had to (for example, parental pressure, cost, and University regulations). Another interesting result was that only 46 per cent of the students felt area student governments were effective. Spence commented, “apparently the governments will need to improve their effectiveness.” surgery will be performed at, the Mountainview Unit. There wiir be expanded out-patient and diagnostic services at the Moun tainview Unit, and the possibility of providing mental health care Services at the Bellefonte unit will be explored. During the second phasethere will be an expansion of patient facilities at the Bellefonte unit, including intensive care ' facilities and addictive medical care services. Addictive "medical care is the'' part of the mental health care services v treating persons addicted to alcohol, drugs or smoking. - ' Brannigan said no exact lengths have been setfor the two phases because it is impossible to take into account now all of the changes> that might occur in Centre County or. medicine in the future. Expanded out-patient services are needed because hospitals are now in a position where they must provide primary health care, Brannigan said. Primary health care the type of diagnosis and treatment done by a family doctor in his office is not [readily'available'to everyone because of a shortage of doctors, he explained. “In State College, the service could be used by the_ .family of a graduate assistant or a new,.professor who hasn’t yet been able to get hooked up with a family physician,” he said. ■ The out-patient facility will be staffed by doctors employed by the hospital, Brannigan'explained. Presently, doctors ,wjio have* private practices in Centre _ County.' rotate shifts in manning out patient out-services, he said. Currently, the Center Community Hospital employes only four physicians." The rest of the 41-doctor staff are private . practitioners who care for patients in the hospital. This is the usual way in which community hospitals are staffed/ Brannigan explained. Another new service at the Moun tainview Unit will be nuclear medicine Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania Thursday, March 2,1972 (Litvin) be told the reasons behind the contract not being renewed,” according to an art graduate student who. declined to be identified. At the meeting, Litvin read a statement, the substance of which “was to make students aware . that the teachers they might like to study under might be gone,” Litvin said. . Friday, the day after the meeting, 17 students met with Walter H. Walters, dean of the College of Arts and Ar chitecture, to request a meeting of the art faculty and students to air the reasons for Litvin’s dismissal, and to clarify faculty review procedures within the department. Contacted this week, Walters said there were no plans for such a meeting . Art students are still in the dark about the reason for Litvin’s dismissal. The decision to dismiss Litvin came from a department steering committee consisting of three tenured faculty members now in the process of reviewing all non-tenured art faculty. The committee was created by Walters to handle art department ad ministration in the absence of a department head. It has been func tioning since August. Members of the steering committee have declined* comment on the reasons for Litvin’s^dismissal. Stuart H. Frost, associate professor of art, said, “There’s no need for a person in his first three years to be given a reason for his dismissal.” - Art professor Harold Altman, another committee member, was equally non committal. “In any case where -an employe is discontinued by_ his em ployer, no one can give out information except the' employer.” Whether or not students were con sulted in the decision to dismiss Litvin is unclear. Asked who was responsible for the decision, Walters said the .matter was left entirely in the hands of the steering committee. Members of the steering committee have refused to comment on the matter of student input in the Litvin case, although Altman noted the steering committee is receptive to student opinion about the competence of faculty ' There appears, however, to be no formal procedure in the department through which students participate in the review of faculty members. As a result, students in the department are initiating a procedure for students to rate faculty members, i Andrea Russell, (lOth-art-Pittsburgh), said the art student council plans to draw-up a survey form that will be distributed to students in the department for evaluation of faculty members. Ms. Russell said she plans to present the evaluation form to the department steering committee.today. She is hopeful ' the committee will accept the survey for formal usage within the department. an improved diagnostic technique The technique involves the radio isotopic scanning of body organs to provide the doctor with information at a minimal risk to the patient. The technique can be used tq _diagnose__ Brannigan-said the* job of recruiting " e j i ,Y er ’ spleen ’ P ancreas - Kidneys we j] as to rep ] ace retiring doctors is a and Skelton. endine iob Brannigan said the hospital expects to K J • . have the'service available within two But Penn State students are a good years. '. potential source for staff members, he Within two years, the hospital also will have mental'health care facilities at the' Bellefonte unit, he said. Presently the New Centre'Community Hospital addition Trash in bloom Commonwealth voters to elect Pa. delegations By LINDA MARTELLI Collegian Senior Reporter Pennsylvania Democratic and Republican delegates this summer will arrive at Miami Beach and San Diego respectively, to “relay the presidential preferences of Commonwealth voters at the national nominating conventions. When the floor is given to the state’s delegations and the television cameras are focused, which local faces might be pinpointed amid the banner-bearing," button-wearing mobs? In the 34th Senatorial District, three convention-bound Democrats will be elected'in the April 25 primary and will arrive at the July convention.as part-of the state’s 182-member delegation. _ Christine Grim, a Penn State political science major, is a convention hopeful backing Sen. George McGovern. “I think he’s a man I can trust,” she said adding m spring hospital only can. care for mental patients on an overnight basis and must transfer them to the -state hospital in Holidaysburg for treatment, he ex plained. said, citing that the last two physicians to come to the area did their un dergraduate work here. ~ - #. y Wr^C'.-'-r CAMPUS SCENES on a warm, almost-spring day: Budding March flowers don’t stand a chance outside of Beam Hall. Residents who apparently find an open window a convenient waste can have planted a garden of trash arqund the building. At right, the "wall community” reappeared to celebrate the warm weather. They generated their own brand of industrial trash Jn the form of soda cans, cups and empty beer bottles. It wasn't too long ago that environmental quality was a big issue among college students: Does anyone remember Earth Day? . ' she favors his support for reallocating military-spending. This year, both parties are seeking broader representation in their delegations, and Miss Grim, as a woman and “a youth”, answers this call on two counts. She is the president of the'University’s chapter of Young Democrats who have endorsed McGovern for the Presidential nomination. Another McGovern backer is Ben jamin Root of Barnesboro, who said he backs McGovern’s position on the war. Root operates a furniture store and is a past member of his area’s school board and borough council. - -He-said he sees himself as a “maveric” at the convention who “won’t get involved in the political manipulation that goes on there.” Alan Patterson of State College is running as an alternate delegate for McGovern. A retired professor emeritus from Lock Haven State College, Pat terson was elected last November to the State College Borough Council. A similar slate of delegate candidates is-backing Sen. Edmund Muskie. Muskie’s-. environmental stands, in particular his stand against, the supersonic transport, have" brought Terri Novak over to his camp. “He’s the only one- who can beat Nixon,” Mrs. „Novak_said.- Mrs.' Novak is a 1971 graduate ofPenn State where she is a' community development instructor. G.M. McCrossin, a Bellefonte con tractor, is also backing Muskie. He. has Letter tells of plan to blast D.C. HARRISBURG TAP) The Rev. Philip Berrigan’s initial priority as a ■militant, antiwar .chieftain was the blowing .up of heating tunnels in Washington, according to an FBl intercepted letter read yesterday at his trial. “The District is still the elusive golden federal prison, fleece,” the Catholic Sister .: Berrigan, 48, entered Lewisburg in the Elizabeth McAlister June spring-of 1970 to begin, a six-year term The letter was turned over to the FBI for destroying draft Board records: _ by Informer Boyd Douglas;-star ’ - Douglas testified that he was recruited.!! government, witness at the federal by Berrigan to smuggle letters in and-oUt conspiracy trial of Berrigan and six for the priest? Douglas, a 31-year-old codefendants, including ,the nun. convict, was able to cleave, and re-enter, “Since resourc.es appear available for the prison daily as a study-release the subterranean project in the District student at nearby Bucknell this should have priority for the winter of" He was paroled Dec. 16,1972 from a term 1970-71, ’’.-Berrigan is quoted in one of for transportation of fraudulent checks more than a dozen letters.read intotthe and assault on an T FBI agent, trial report by Asst. A tty. Gen. William - He turned FBI informer while serving Lynch. ’ ' as Berrigan’s courier, Douglas testified. However, less than two months later, and provided copies of the letters to the the government claims,-a purported federal agency. plan to kidnap presidential aide Henry » The defense is seeking to subpoena , A. Kissinger threatened to push'the' FBI Director J.; Edgar Hoover to, tunnel bombing ' scheme into the produce voluminous records relating to •' background. " Douglas’ criminal record and his work “Why'not coordinate it with the one as an FBF informant. A government against Capitol utilities?” Berrigan was motion to throw out the Hoover quoted as writing in an Aug. 22, 1970 was taken under consideration during letter that is part of the indictment ' the day. BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE I '! j f<ftrl£S paid L, T i,P.‘.P'l ' ; State College, Pa, 16801 *' - J ~ Permit No. 10 12 COPIES 1 ' * -photograph by John Pharr served as Democratic state . com mitteeman from Centre County for the past six years. Asked how a presidential candidate selects his delegates, McCrossin said the contender picks persons who he feels I could best garner support for him jir theircdistrict and who could finance a delegate campaign in behalf. The Muskie candidate for alternate delgate is Richard Mattem, a Clearfield County attorney, who commented on Gov. Shapp’s early endorsement of Muskie. “It’s not the case that (the governor) is shoving Muskie down our throats. He just beat us to the punch.” Mattern is the dispaly advertising manager of a Clearfield County newspaper and serves as the County’s finance chairman. Two convention hopefuls have lined up behind Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Dr.. William Henning of State College, retired professor of .animal industries and former Pennsylvania secretary of agriculture, supported the former vice president at the 1968 convention. “He’s far better now than he was then,” Henning told The Daily Collegian. . _ Walter" Haverstack of Clearfield County is also a. committed Humphrey ' candidate. He points' out that "Richard"" Nixon defeated Humphrey by the smallest majority in the history of presidential elections. “Humphrey’s the only-candidate who can give Nixon a run,”,he said. Haverstack is the road master for t oiitiimi'd on page 5 pipes against him and the others- Lynch’s reading of the letter was timed to reach its climax with the Aug. 22 missive, one of many exchanged bet ween Berrigan and Sister McAlister 1 : She was allegedly his chief lieutenant out side the walls of the Lewisburg, Pa., wen cents
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