Shields: taking the oath
Shields takes office
as USG president
By ART TURFA
Collegian Staff Writer
Mike Shields was sworn in last night as
president of the Undergraduate Student
Government as Vice President Eric
Walker and new USG senators also took
office.
In his inaugural speech, Shields told
the USG Senate, "We have a great deal
of work to do this year," adding that
"Student government is now united."
The Senate also pledged to "actively
and outwardly support Dr. Wells Ked
die" in his tenure denial case and "will
work in conjunction with the Students for
Keddie."
The resolution alsb caned for the
senate to write a letter to John C. Pit
tenger, state secretary of education,
stating their viewpoint and announcing
their "complete support" for Keddie.
The senate voted to investigate the Art
Student Council strike against the
College of Arts and Architartture.
Art students have been protesting
about the firings of two untenured art
professors.
Senators also voted to support
Thursday's Vietnam War moratorium,
called by the National Student
Association, of which Penn State is a
member. The demonstration will also
commemorate the deaths of four Kent
State students, killed by the Ohio
National Guard in May, 1970.
The resolution calls for a student
strike and USG promised "to offer full
support to all activities planned at-the
University."
Activities being planned at the Peace
Center for the protest tenatively include
a rally on Old Main lawn, workshops in
the Hetzel Union Building and speakers
Thursday evening.
In other action, town Senator Mark
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Jinks was elected to the post of senate
president pro tempore. Five committee
chairman were also elected by the
senate: Rules Committee, Dan Olpere;
Appropriations Committee, Fern It
z kow itz ; Government Operations
Committee, John Szada; Student Affairs
Committee, Al de Levie; and Judiciary
Committee, Kevin Smith.
The story of Kathy:
Prostitution. a way to get money
Editor's note: the following is the second
in a three-part report on prostitution in
the State College area. Some of the
names have been changed.
Kathy turned to prostitution to support
her $5O a day heroin habit in high school.
Now a University student, Kathy was
in the life for five months last year
until she overdosed and her parents sent
her to a hospital and sold her body
because it was the easiest way she could
get money.
"It was against all my philosophy,"
she said, "but it was the only way I could
come up with the money."
At the time, despite her $1.55 hourly
rate in a part-time job and a random
shoplifting career, Kathy was not only
supporting herself and her habit, but a
friend and the friend's child.
According to Kathy, her name and
phone number "just got around" after
she enlisted the help of another friend
already in the business. She took from
$lO to $lOO "whatever people gave
me" and most of her cutomers were
middle-aged men, with only one student
in the group. She called it "almost a
tradition" with the older men: "Even if
you say they don't have to give you any
money, they do."
By KAREN CARNABUCCI
Collegian City Editor
350,000 attempt to escape
Refugees flee
SAIGON (AP) , More than 350,000
refugees are on the roads of South
Vietnam, seeking escape from the
thunderous fighting in the northern
provinces and central highlands,
American advisers in Saigon reported
nearly a quarter of a million refugees
are on the move trying to get to Hue and
then to Da Nang from Quang Tri, the
northernmost province capital aban
doned yesterday by South Vietnamese
troops.
About 5,000 have boarded boats at
Tam My, near Hue, to get to Da Nang by
sea.
In coastal Binh Dinh, the nation's most
populous province, welfare officials said
there "has been so much fighting the
people don't know which way to run."
They estimated the flow of refugees on
foot, by truck, on rickety buses and
motor bikes at 35,000, mostly from An
Nhn and Binh Khe.
Perhaps another 37,000 out of Hoai An,
now in enemy hands, had not made it so
far to Qui Nhon.
For the first time in more than two
weeks, a rice drop was made on An Loc,
the embattled provincial capital in the
rubber plantation country 60 miles north
of Saigon.
"But," said one social worker, "we
don't expect there'll be much of a
refugee problem to worry about by the
end of the week. The city has taken a
fearful artillery pounding."
War vicitms trying to flee the enemy
columns moving on the central
highlands capital of Kontum from three
directions were bottled up along High
way 14 by sporadic action in the Pleiku
Pass, leading to Pleiku City.
A welfare worker just back from
Kontum reported a trickle of families,
carrying everything they had on their
backs, were braving the pass, almost
oblivious of the sniper fire and whoosh of
mortar rounds.
With all of the northern part of Binh
Dinh Province and its recently har
vested rice crop in enemy hands,
welfare workers were beginning to
"Most of the guys wanted oral sex
their wives wouldn't do it," she added.
"They always ask all sorts of questions
about yourself, too. Sometimes I felt like
I was running a counseling service."
Only 17 at the time, Kathy told most of
her johns that she was 23 and often
changed her personality to fit tne mood
of the evening. She recalls that one client
really got upset because she didn't wear
a bra. "So I wore one," she said.
She described herself as "an ordinary
run-of-the-mill hippie chick" during the
daytime, maintaining the proverbial
double life. "You almost have to play
really stupid," she said. "Any in
dividuality for some reason discourages
people. You have to act dumb, as though
you can't go to college and get another
job."
Kathy said most of her johns kept up
the tradition of the date and took her out
to dinner as well, trying to get into a
discussion which almost invariably
began, "You don't like it, do you?" In
defense, Kathy never told the same story
twice, many times because she was
afraid her clients might be narcotics
agents. According to Kathy, she was
followed six months by one such agent:
"They thought I was selling it (heroin). I
was selling, but not heroin."
For Kathy, heroin totally destroyed
her sex drive and her job was more of a
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worry about the availability of food
supplies in the coastal areas to the south.
The roads were still open in govern
ment-held areas for trucking in food and
the Vietnamese Air Force has flown
some rice in to temporary refugee
settlements and stopoff points along the
route to Qui Nhon.
The renewed fighting in the Mekong
Delta in Chuong Thien Province brought
the first big wave of refugees to the
Saigon area. About 5,000 were housed in
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VIETNAM (AP) The North Viet
namese are sounding and acting as if
they had already achieved a major
objective of their offensive: to kill
Vietnamization in the South. They seem
to be urging the Communist world, and
News analysis
particularly the Soviet Union, not to do
anything that might get in their way.
As the Southern defenders were
abondoning Quang Tri, Hanoi came
within an ace of finally admitting that its
regular troops were in the South and
intended to continue operating there.
Hanoi has never admitted that outright.
The North Vietnamese say that the
demilitarized zone established in 1954
upon the division of Vietnam is not a
border and there is no border. Official
Hanoi statements refer to North and
South as "two zones of our country."
Hue is a logical target for the nor
therners. Capture of the old imperial
capital would be of great psychological
importance and could strengthen the
Viet Cong's claims to legitimacy and its
chore than anything else. "I'd lie there
and count the cracks in the ceiling," she
said. She estimates that she became
pregnant some three times during her
short career but miscarried because of
the drug's "wrecking" effect on her
body.
Another occupational danger was
venereal disease, which Kathy con
tracted. "There's a high rate of venereal
disease in town, especially with
prostitutes. Most of them are on the
pill," she explained. "The pill is no
protection against venereal disease."
At the time she was working last year,
Kathy knew of about 10 other women
who sold their bodies, ranging in age
from 16 to 22. "All the girls I knew were
doing it for dope," she said. "The older
ones usually use it as a profession."
According to Kathy, prostitution is
more prevalent in nearby Bellefonte and
there "the women walk the streets like a
regular beat."
"The thing you do on Friday and
Saturday nights was to drive around and
pick them up," she said.
However, the kind of prostitution
Kathy knew personally in State College
was mainly independent. Because of
what she calls "the relaxed sexual at
mosphere on campus," Kathy sees no
need for organized houses.
TOIVIORROW.. What the police say.
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Tuesday, May 2, 1972
University Park, Pennsylvania Vol. 72, No. 121 8 pages
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
Viet fighting
a military base at Phu Cuong, 15 miles
north of the city.
Hue, a city already so clogged with
refugees that its university had to
suspend classes to make room for
families, suddenly became a huge
revolving door, with people moving into
the city from the fighting in Quang Tri,
and large segments of its own population
moving out toward Da Nang to escape
the enemy advance.
Elsewhere, heavy fighting occurred
position in any peace negotiations
The U.S. Vietnamization program
made South Vietnam's self-reliance the
name of the game. If it was to work, the
Southerners had to show that they could
hold on to what they had.
The offensive appears to have given
the North a great deal of momentum
upon which it seeks to capitalize as
quickly as possible, but it wants all the
job
to enlist campaigners
Aid official
By DOUG STRUCK
Collegian Senior Editor
A University financial aid officer has
used his position to recruit student
campaigners for a local political can
didate.
Donald Zell, assistant director of
student financial aid, has asked students
who come to him seeking scholarships
and loans to help campaign for state
representative candidate Charles "Bud"
Yorks.
Zell was the campaign manager for
Yorks during the primary campaign,
and is a Republican. precinct chairman.
His University job entails assisting
students to obtain needed grants or
loans.
A Delaware Campus transfer student
told The Daily Collegian she was in
timidated to work for Yorks by Zell's
position as a financial aid officer.
Susan Burns (6th-rehabilitation
education) said she agreed to distribute
campaign literature and later to stand a
poll-watcher's shift at Zell's request
because she feared a refusal might
jeopardize her chances to receive a loan.
Burns said she met Zell when she
applied for a summer loan. Zell assured
the student she would receive the loan,
she said, but as she was leaving brought
up the subject of politics.
She quoted the official as asking "how
would you like to find something out
about politics?" and encouraged her to
volunteer to campaign for Yorks.
Although this is her first term at
University Park, she is not a registered
voter here, and she does not know "the
first thing about politics." Burns said
she cooperated in order to make sure she
received the loan. "I would have stood
on my head in front of Old Main," she
said.
"He didn't make it seem like I
wouldn't get the aid," she said, "but just
the idea that he is the one I have to get
the aid from made me do it."
Zell adamantly denied any
wrongdoing. He declared "my
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again on Highway 13 north of Saigon,
where South Vietnamese troops are
trying - to break the 3 1 / 2 -week siege of An
Loc and reopen the highway.
Field reports said an estimated 140
enemy were killed in the new fighting.
South Vietnamese losses were put at 14
killed and 58 wounded.
A general quiet prevailed in the
central highlands, where another major
battle for a provincial capital, Kontum,
is expected to erupt at any time.
help, material and morale, that it can
get. Quite possibly, Hanoi fears what
could happen if and when President
Nixon completes his talks in Moscow.
"The U.S. imperialists have resorted
to vile maneuvers in the hope of
separating the Vietnamese people from
other socialist peoples, but the U.S.
imperialists have failed bitterly," said
Hanoi's official newspaper .
uses
discussion with students about politics
has no bearing on whether the student
gets aid."
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He further claimed he did not feel his
University position influenced students
to campaign for Yorks.
He said he had asked other students to
campaign, but only if "we get on to the
subject of politics and they seem in
terested." Zell would not say if he
initiates such discussion.
Yorks disclaimed any knowledge of
his campaign manager's recruiting
methods. "I was under the impression
that any_students working , for me were
members of the Young Republicans," he
said.
Yorks had the support of that group
during his primary campaign. The
candidate won the Republican
nomination and now will face incumbent
Galen Dreibelbis for the General
Assembly seat.
Burns "expressed an interest to
work," Zell asserted. "I thought Susan
did it because she was interested in
working in politics."
He said he was not aware the coed was
intimidated by his position. "I'm very
sorry to hear that," he said. "I certainly
didn't mean it."
Zell said he did not feel he was
misusing his influence as financial aid
officer. "I didn't intend to use the office
this way," he said.
Zell's boss, Director of Financial Aid
Gary J. Scott said, "As far as this office
is concerned, there are no such
(political) considerations made in
granting financial assistance."
"I was aware Mr. Zell was quite active
in politics, but I was not aware he was
using his office," Scott said. He pledged
to investigate the matter.
A 1961 University Policy Statement
outlining restraints on political activities
of University officials states "the in
dividual's relationship to the University
is not to be exploited in such partisan
campaign activity, directly or by in
direction."
Black
Arts
Festival
THE HETZEL UNION
BUILDING Ballroom was
packed to the windows last
night when students exhibited
their talents at the show
starting the fourth annual
Black Arts Festival which
runs through this week.
—photograph by Noel Roche