PSU budget still delayed
B\ KKN CHESTEK
Collegian Senior Reporter
The state House of Representatives
Tuesday \oted unanimously not to agree
to Senate amendments to appropriations
bills for the three state-related
universities
The vote forces the creation of a
conference committee of the two
chambers to iron out differences in the
bills The process may delay passage of
the University's budget request until
sometime next year
The bills for the Uni\ersitv of Pitts
burgh, Penn State and Temple
University have been held up on two
Senate amendments to each bill; the
first a $2 million budget increase, the
second a measure to find out if faculty
members at the institutions are carrying
a full teaching workload
The bills have been pending in the
legislature since early this summer. As
with all appropriations bills, they began
in the House Reported out of committee
in June, the bills sat on a long waiting list
and were not considered before the two
month summer recess
Shapp to study
Senate okays strict abortion bill
By NANCY LOWRY
Collegian Junior Reporter
The Pennsylvania Senate yesterday
passed an anti-abortion bill which rates
as one of the most restrictive in the
The bill outlaws any form of abortion
unless three doctors determine the
woman would die from a continued
pregnancy
The measure, passed by a 39-9 vote,
now will uc sent back to the House for
concurrence on an amendment added
while the bill was in Senate committee.
This amendment made it unnecessary
for the woman seeking an abortion to
obtain the consent of her husband or
father, if she is under 18.
Before passing the bill, the Senate
dropped a previously accepted amend
ment that would have permitted abor
tions in pregnancies resulting from rape
or incest by a 30-19 vote.
As the bill stands, a committee of
three physicians must find “reasonable
medical certainty" that the continued
pregnancy would result in the women’s
death All other abortions would be
illegal Current Pennsylvania law for
bids “unlawful" abortion but does not
define unlawful
According to Pennsylvania statutes
Schechter set to
By BOBYLSKAVAGE
Collegian Senior Reporter
Despite speculation Mark C.
Schechter < lOth-economics) might leave
State College following his graduation
next June, the successful write-in
candidate for the State College
Government Study Commission said he
plans to "maintain my residence and
attend all meetings."
Schechter was elected Nov. 7 to the
commission which will study the
borough's government and recommend
whether to accept home rule. He said he
will "not be so far away (after
graduation) as to be unable to par
ticipate in community affairs.”
Post graduation plans for the student
commissioner, who lives at 117 Ridge
A\e . include summer work in State
College if possible and entrance into law
the
daily
Penn State’s $81.7 million budget came
to the floor m late September, where
Rep Galen E. Dreibelbis, D-77th, suc
cessfully amended $2 million extra to the
bill The bill was passed and shipped to
the Senate
There, it had to face the Senate Ap
propriations Committee and its chair
man, longtime foe of the University Sen.
Benjamin R. Donolow His committee
stripped the Dreibelbis amendment
from the bill and reported it out.
However, Sen. Joseph C. Ammerman,
D-34th, matched Dreibelbis’ amendment
with a S 2 million addition of his own,
passed by the Senate over Donolow's
objections
The bill was now in identical form with
the House version. But Sen. Richard A.
Snyder, R-13th, successfully added a
second amendment
The Snyder amendment requires all
state-related universities to report
annually to the General Assembly which
faculty members are teaching less than
a full workload of 12 classroom hours a
week, and explain why not.
Failure to make such a report by
March would result m the state’s
commission report: may Veto
practitioners of illegal abortion are
subjected to a $3,000 fine or five years
imprisonment If the woman dies as a
result of the abortion, the penalties are
doubled
Sen Wayne Ewing (R-Allegheny) said
the amendment was unnecessary
because very few women became
pregnant from rape or incest. Removal
of the clause sparked no debate in the
bill’s final passage
Sen. Jeanette Reibrhan (D-Lehigh),
the only woman in the Senate, moved to
table the bill pending a U.S. Supreme
Court ruling on abortion law appeals
already before it by a vote of 38-10.
Reibman said she felt the courts would
rule abortion laws, as the one approved
by the Senate are unconstitutional
because they invade a woman’s privacy.
Gov. Shapp, who has said he could not
accept the bill without some liberalizing
changes, now says he will have to study
the bill before making his decision.
Shapp has said he personally opposes
abortion, but said he will be guided by
the all-female Abortion Law Com
mission that last spring recommended
abortions at will up to the 20th week of
pregnancy
Galen Dreibelbis, D-77th, predicted
the House will accept the bill as it was
school next fall
The government study commission
has a nme-month deadline in which to
recommend no change in the local
government, one of four optional plans,
or a home rule charter. If home rule is
recommended, the commission would
have an additional three months to draft
a charter.
While the commission could be
working as late as November of next
year, Schechter said he does not feel his
ability to work with the commission
would be damaged.
“I expect to go either to Dickinson in
Carlisle or George Washington in
Washington D.C. law school,” Schechter
said, adding he would not be too far
away to drive back to State College for
commission meetings. The commission
will meet the first and third Tuesday of
Mark Schechter
Collegian
withholding payments on the univer
sity’s appropriations
With the amendment, the bill was
different from the House version, so was
sent back to that body in early October
for concurrence.
At the time, the House was debating
no-fault insurance, and did not get to the
returned bill until after it recessed for
five weeks to campaign for the fall
elections.
Last Tuesday, the second day of the
new session, the House voted 181-0 not to
concur with the Senate version.
ReprlMartin P. Mullen, chairman of
the House Appropriations Committee,
explained the main reason for non
concurrence was the additional funds for
Pitt and Temple.
“The Senate arbitrarily added $2
million to the Pitt and Temple budgets
for no good reason,” he charged. He said
there was not enough money in the state
treasury to pay the extra amount.
He also said he felt the conference
committee should remove Penn State's
extra $2 million, which had been agreed
to by the House and Senate. But he added
he was not a member of the conference
amended by the Senate.
“Personally, I feel the bill is too
restrictive,” Dreibelbis said adding it
was a far extreme from House Bill 536
and he just could not vote for it. He was
the co-sponsor of a House bill which
would have permitted elective abortions
through the 16th week.
Dreibelbis said the bill has a good
chance of a gubernatorial veto, but
added there is already enough support
from both the House and Senate to
override a Shapp veto.
According to Dreibelbis, the governor
has several alternatives including
allowing the bill to lie on his desk for nine
days before vetoing it. This maneuver
will give the House and Senate no time to
act on the measure, compelling the bill
to be reintroduced when the legislature
reconvenes in January.
Local Sen. Joseph Ammerman, D
-34th, abstained from voting on the
measure and was not available for
comment, but Dick Weston of the Clergy
Consultation Service said he is pleased
with the senator’s failure to back the
legislation.
“I think our lobbying on Tuesday paid
off," Weston said. “His (Ammerman)
failure to put his vote behind the bill, was
for all intents and purposes a vote
against it,” Weston said.
work
each month in the municipal building
About the possibility of missing work
sessions and public hearings scheduled
in addition to the regular meetings,
Schechter said he would work hard doing
outside work to inform himself on
government practices and study home
rule in other boroughs.
“In order to be able to better con
tribute responsible input,” he said, “I
must acquaint myself with the available
information and past history.”
Personal research, he said, will in
clude consulting legal works on local
government and home rule and reading
the minutes of the old home rule study
committee appointed by borough council
earlier this year to make preliminary
studies into home rule. Eight of the
commission’s 11 members served on
that informal committee.
Regarding home rule in the borough,
Schechter said, “I think it has a lot of
potential. It has tremendous possibilities
because it’s based on the premise of self
rule, which is important here because
borough government is the lowest level”
in which people may actively par
ticipate.
“I’m not sure what the limitations
are," Schechter said. “Home Rule gives
municipalities sole authority over
strictly municipal affairs. The problem
is defining what is strictly a municipal
affair. It’s a problem which will have to
be answered by the courts.”
The varied ideological make-up of
State College, Schechter explained, is
what offers the opportunity for home
rule to be a progressive force.
“People are forced to think in this
town,” he said, because there is no one
overriding class or interest of people. “A
diversified town is ideal for the blending
of ideas which conclude in an optimal
form of government.
“The whole purpose of government is
to optimize the chances of represen
tative government. Home rule has this
chance in State College, Schechter said.
Schechter, who easily won the final
spot on the commission with more than
1,000 write-in votes, is presently on the
board of directors of the Central Penn
sylvania and state chapters of The
American Civil Liberties Union. He is
former director of the Undergraduate
Student Government Department of
Legal Affairs, and said he will soon be
made assistant to University student
legal adviser Yates Mast.
committee and could not say what they
would do.
Mullen said the Snyder amendment,
attached to all three bills in the Senate
but not the House, was another major
problem Mullen didn’t agree with the
wording and some of the intentions of the
amendment
Before adjourning for the rest of the
week yesterday, the Senate appointed
Donolow. Sen. Robert J. Mellow, D-22nd
and Snyder. Unofficial sources in the
House say Rep. James J. A. Gallagher,
D-28th, Rep. Robert C. Wise, D-74th and
Rep. H. Jack Seltzer, R-13th will be on
the committee.
Senate leaders said they feel the
legislature will conclude its business by
the middle of next week and recess,
giving the conference committee vir
tually no time to reach an agreement
until the newly elected legislature
convenes in January
Mullen disagreed, saying they will
reach agreement quickly and get the
bills passed before recessing. He felt
recess would come late in the week or
early the week after
Weston pointed out that not supporting
the measure was a politically dangerous
move for Ammerman
Weston, who has been in close contact
with Ammerman for the past few days,
said Ammerman told him he opposed the
bill as it was, and would like to see more
liberal changes made before he could
vote for it, •
Hunt reviews sex bias
By GINNY BENTZ
Collegian Junior Reporter
The University still retains a sex bias
in hiring policies, according to statistics
given Tuesday at a Faculty Senate
meeting
Vilma Hunt, chairwoman of Com
mittee W of the American Association of
University Professors, said, "R has been
most disquieting to review the hiring
pattern of the immediate past year.”
Hunt said the September 1972 lists of
new faculty joining the College of the
Liberal Arts showed 43 men employed
and five women. Of the women, two are
assistant librarians, two are instructors
and one is an assistant professor, ac
cording to Hunt.
Hunt quoted the department break
down: psychology acquired nine new
faculty members, all men; economics
six new faculty members, all men;
journalism four new faculty members,
all men, political science, anthropology,
English and history each acquired three
new faculty members, all men.
On the Commonwealth Campuses
there were 25 new faculty members,
according to Hunt, which included 19
men and six women.
"In the College of Human Develop
ment the situation looks better,” Hunt
said, “with 35 men to 28 women, until it
is found that of the 28 women 18 are on
the nursing faculty, many of them
clinical staff at Hershev."
University to conduct wildlife studies
Game lands spraying approved
The Pennsylvania Game Commission because the Centre County Federation of
approved University use of the game Sportsmens Clubs decided in 1970 they
lands near Toftrees for its effluent wanted the University to promise to
spraying project in 1971 after getting conduct studies on the effects of the
assurances from the University it would project on wildlife in the spray areas
conduct wildlife studies in the area.
This information came yesterday
from two sources high in the commission
after Mike Ondick, a University
research assistant, raised questions
concerning the legality of University use
of the land.
Glenn L. Bowers, executive director of
the Game Commission, told The Daily
Collegian the commission had not
agreed to the use of the land right away
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"In the Division of Community
Development which now has a faculty of
34 only three of them are women, all
instructors," Hunt said. She added 12 of
those faculty members are new this
vear, 11 of them men.
"If other colleges have better records
I trust you will advertise them widely,”
Hunt said. "So far the progress towards
affirmative action seems painfully
slow ”
In February 1971 the Women’s Equity
Action League filed a complaint against
the University charging sex
discrimination under Executive Order
11246 which forbids all Federal con
tractors from discriminating on the
basis of sex, race, color, religion or
national origin
At that time, some of WEAL's charges
were based on lists of women faculty at
each rank of academic departments
which showed women occupied lower
ranks than men, few women had tenure
or were full professors, and few women
held high ranking positions in the ad
ministration
WEAL asked HEW to make a full
investigation of admissions policies,
financial aid to women students,
placement of graduates, hiring and
promotion policies for both staff and
faculty, and salary inequities.
The findings and recommendations
from that investigation were delivered
to the administration 29 days ago with
When the University agreed to include
wildlife studies in the research project
and made funds available for that
purpose, the Centre County Federation
gave its approval to the plan, Bowers
said.
The Game Commission then forged an
agreement with the University to allow
them to use the land for the project. The
agreement was reached June 3,1971 and
Pbofo by Phi'
the expectation the University would
respond to HEW within 30 days Ac
cording to University President John W
Oswald, the full 67-page report will be
made public then
Affirmative action to comply with
HEW's general guidelines released in
October requires a written statement
which reflects the institution's com
mitment to equal employment op
portunity and to eliminate
discrimination
Hunt said both faculty and ad
ministration must contribute to the
University's Affirmative Action
Program if it is to succeed, since faculty
also will participate in the program's
implementation
"It is paradoxical, then, that the ad
ministration has seen fit to pursue the
development of such a program for the
past two years with minimal input from
faculty," Hunt said
Hunt deplored the fact that a federal
agency had to step in and exert the force
of law before the University realized it
had to change its policies She stressed
that these changes must come about
through open communication between
faculty and administration
“For the good of this University,
academically and financially, I request
of the administration and the faculty an
open dialogue, a community of spirit, an
academic climate that would bring
about a return of confidence." Hunt said
put into effect Sept. 20. 1971
Ondick said Harvey A Roberts, head
of the Division of Land Management of
the Game Commission, approached him
yesterday with the same information
and a copy of the easement permitting
University use of the land
Ondick had complained for several
weeks he had never seen a copy of the
easement.
He told The Collegian later he is now
satisfied the easement is legally binding
and there is nothing else to be done He
said he will go along with the deal.
But, he still wondered why it took so
long to come out. Almost three weeks
ago he said he began to ask questions
about who authorized use of the lands,
was it legal, and why was it done, but
only yesterday were his questions an
swered.
He also did not understand why the
Centre County Federation of Sportsmens
Clubs did not explain their requests for
wildlife studies from the start The
group had repeatedly refused to say
anything beyond an official release
which stated only they had agreed to
University use of the land in 1970 —KC
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