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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
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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
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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. ~
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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.
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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.,
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