B/ues-ing it up
PETER KNIGHT and Tim Hart of
Steeleye Span perform Friday night
in Rec Hall as part of the weekend
folk festival. The performances
pleased the crowds in spite of the
late cancellation of folk singer Arlo
Guthrie. The concert featured
workshops Saturday and European
and American folk concerts Friday
and Saturday nights. See related
story page 4.
Chamber of Commerce retracts
letter on University bookstore
ByJUDI PAVLICHKO
Collegian Senior Reporter
The State College Area Chamber of
Commerce apologized Saturday for the
actions of some of its members that may
have damaged the University’s chances
of getting additional state funds for 1973.
In a letter to University President
John W. Oswald, the Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors
apologized for any embarrassment
caused to Oswald or the University by
the Chamber of Commerce Bookstore
Committee’s efforts to discredit the new
University bookstore before state
senators last week.
Chamber of Commerce Executive
Director Charles Mong said carbon
copies of the apology will be sent to all
members of the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
The Bookstore Committee delivered a
letter of protest to all members of the
Appropriations Committee two days
before the University was to go before
the Committee to request more money
for next year.
The letter stated that the University
was starting a “department store” on
campus and would compete directly
with State College businesses.
It further claimed pantyhose and
flower seeds are now being sold in the
interim University bookstore located in
McAllister and on the HUB ground floor.
The letter cautioned legislators
Students win seats
Undergraduate winners in the
University Faculty Senate elections:
College of Agriculture
College of Arts and
Architecture Patrice M. Soriero
College of Business
Administration Sally Ann Kealey
College of Earth and
Mineral Sciences Michael Talbett
College of Education Calvin Cizek
Energy crisis surprises nation
Editor’s note: The following is the first
in a three part series on the local and
national energy crisis.
By JACK MUNSCH
and MICHAELSOLLY
Collegian Staff Writers
The current energy crisis has caught
the nation with its energy demands up
and supplies down.
Actual fuel shortages thus far have
been restricted to small areas, but State
College, like the rest of the country, can
expect the squeeze to tighten.
Home heating is one of the greatest
energy users, and the past winter
displayed the extent of the problem.
Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania has
stopped servicing new customers. Even
some local oil distributors have felt the
bite.
During -winter fuel shortages the
University’s oil supplier could not meet
the demand. Officials were forced to
turn to another area oil distributor.
With winter over the heating problem
has eased, but during the summer
gasoline consumption is expected to be
greater than ever. State Commerce
Secretary Walter Arader said, “Without
any doubt in my mind, we are going to
have a serious gasoline shortage in
Pennsylvania this summer.”
Mobil Oil Corporation and Texaco,
Inc., have adopted quota systems to
limit their distributors to the same
amount of gasoline they purchased in
1972, although the overall demand has
the
daily
against giving »the University extra
funds next year because the state would
be backing a “business venture.” It said
the estimated $300,000 necessary for
completing the portion of the University
bookstore to be housed in the HUB ad
dition will be taken out of state funds for
1973.
Members of the Appropriations
Committee confronted Oswald during
the University hearing last Wednesday
with the views presented by the
Bookstore Committee.
Appropriations Committee Chairman
Henry J. Cianfrani, D-lst, grilled
Oswald about the bookstore’s operations
and said he would not support a
“department store.”
Oswald said the University bookstore
will not be a department store, but will
sell only books, notebooks, stationery
and memorabilia such as T-shirts and
mugs.
Vice President for Business Ralph
Zilly said the HUB store had one rack of
pantyhose but he has ordered them
removed. Also, the seeds sold in the HUB
store were requested by a University
professor for his students.
The Board said in its letter Saturday it
had no knowledge of the Bookstore
Committee’s actions before the first
letter was delivered.
The Board further said it has no desire
to endanger the fiscal welfare of the
University.
Chamber of Commerce President
College of Engineering
Douglass L. Mayers *
College of Health,
Physical Education and
Recreation Charles M. Getty
College of Human Development
Carol M. Jupena
College of Liberal Arts
Jay B. Tracy
College of Science
Nominations for the six graduate
student Senate seats are still open.
risen seven per cent,
Fred Sovyak, Services Engineer for
West Penn Power Company, told The
Daily Collegian that energy reserves are
high enough to forestall any serious
power problems in the area, although a
price increase for electricity is possible.
“We haven’t raised our base rate since
1952, since we’ve been able to increase
the efficiency of the equipment,” Sovyak
said. “But now we’re close to our
maximum efficiency, while emission
control requirements are adding more
costs.”
Ironically, the energy crisis may not
be an actual shortage. The
United States has fuel reserves of oil,
natural gas and uranium to last at least
ten years and coal reserves sufficient for
a projected 500 years. But each bit of fuel
is becoming more expensive.
“We can’t believe it,” Richard D.
Schein, head of the University’s Office of
Environmental Quality said. “The
United States has always had cheap
energy, and now that it’s gone, we can’t
accept it.”
With only 6 per cent of the world’s
population, the United States consumes
a staggering 33 per cent of the world’s
energy.
The Department of the Interior
estimates there has been a 3.1 per cent
increase in U.S. energy demands every
year since 1947. From 1965 to 1970 the
increase was 4.8 per cent per year.
The illusion of cheap and limitless
natural resources was spawned in the
1930’5, when America bounded out of the
Collegian
Joseph Kaplan
Janet Plaut
David Schuckers said the Board has for
sometime agreed with the concept of a
University bookstore.
He said Oswald has proven the
University is not intending to start a
department store at this time but added
the Chamber of Commerce will protest if
the University starts one in the future.
“We all agree the tactics used by the
members were folly. The Board is very
sorry these members overreacted,”
Schuckers said.
Homosexuality not harmful to adolescents
Psychologist to testify
By JEFF DeBRAY
Collegian Ass’t City Editor
A psychologist is expected to testify in
Baltimore Federal District Court today
that allowing acknowledged homosexual
Joe Acanfora to return to his teaching
position would not harm his students
because sexuality is determined before
junior high school.
Acanfora said John Money of Johns
Hopkins University is the plaintiff’s key
witness and the “most expert of all
experts” in his suit against the Mont
gomery County, Md. School District,
seeking his reinstatement as an earth
and space science teacher.
According to Acanfora, Money will
testify that a person’s sexuality is
determined between the ages of 4 and 6
and that “how you see yourself after that
can’t be changed.”
Acanfora said Money is highly
respected within the medical world and
he was alluded to repeatedly by defense
witness psychiatrists as an expert.
Today is expected to be the final day of
testimony in a hearing that began last
Thursday and has seen charges and
countercharges from the school board
and Acanfora’s attorneys Friday and
Saturday.
The thrust of the school board’s case
has been that a large number of boys go
Depression into advanced war
technology. The result of this intense
energy usage was a tremendously af
fluent nation with a painful energy
crisis.
Eventually fossil fuel reserves will
begin to run out. Until new reserves can
be found or new sources developed one of
the only ways to survive the transition
will be for the consumer to cut down on
usage and waste.
“We must reject the myth of easy
abundance and adopt an ethic of con
servation and stewardship,” Senator
Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis., said. “To try to
solve an energy crisis while blinding
ourselves to environmental issues, or
vice versa, as some have been ad
vocating, would be a fool’s course.”
Americans waste fully 50 per cent of
all the energy they consume.
Automobiles, perhaps the most
villainous wasters, throw 87 per cent of
their energy intake out the exhaust pipe.
The Office of Emergency
Preparedness suggests increased
gasoline taxes or restrictions on engine
size to reduce the problem. The En
vironmental Protection Agency ad
vocates a reduction in car weight, the
single most important factor affecting
fuel economy. A 2,500-pound vehicle,
EPA says, has twice the fuel economy of
a 5,000-pound car.
Planes could be forced to carry full
passenger loads, instead of flying almost
empty as many now do. Trains could
take up more of the short-haul burden.
Better housing insulation, fluorescent
Oswald was not available for com
ment.
Undergraduate Student Government
President Mark Jinks said, “It would
seem this apology is after the fact. The
damage, if any has been done, is done
with now.”
“Students should continue to support
the University Bookstore. The money
they spend there will be an investment
toward the future of a campus
bookstore,” Jinks said.
through a crucial period in their
development at the eighth grade level
and that having a homosexual teacher
could cause them to remain at that stage
of their sexual development.
Testifying last Friday for the school
board were two psychiatrists who said
that if Acanfora were returned to the
classroom he could influence some of his
students to become homosexual.
Dr. Reginald Lourie, professor of child
health at the George Washington
University School of Medicine, said
Acanfora would provide an attractive
role model and some of the adolescent
students at the “sensitive” age might
pattern themselvs after him.
Lourie and Dr. Felix Heald, director of
the division of adolescent psychology at
the University of Maryland, testified
they would not object to Acanfora
teaching 13-year-old boys if he were not"
a known homosexual.
Neither Lourie or Heald had any
statistics to back up their contentions.
To counter charges made by the school
board, Acanfora’s attorneys had two
experts in the field of teen-age sexuality
testify Saturday that having Acanfora as
a teacher could benefit and not harm his
adolescent male students.
William Slayton, an ordained Baptist
minister who teaches courses on sex
education at the University of Penn
sylvania, testified a teacher like
rather than incandescent lighting and
improved air conditioner and
refrigerator efficiency are steps that
could be taken to reduce home con
sumption.
The individual consumer’s part is also
important. Homeowners always should
turn off lights not in use, operate ap
pliances as little as possible and turn
down the heat several degrees at night.
A promising effort began last week in
Burlington, Wisconsin, where twelve
families were asked to reduce their
power consumption to pre-1950 levels. A
variety of tricks, including bundling up
with sweaters playing cards instead of
watching television and walking to work
were used.
Not all of the families succeeded in
the experiment, but one family, asked to
reduce its consumption to the world
daily rate, one-sixth of the U.S. level,
pulled through with power to spare.
But the question still remains whether
the nation can follow Burlington’s
example or whether energy con
sumption will continue to double every
20 years.
Cooperation from government and oil
manufacturers also will-be needed to
complete the solution.
While the oil industry is spending $3
million in advertising to tell people a
crisis exists, federal funding of new
energy research is lacking.
“In the anarchy of the nation’s energy
policy today,” Nelson said, “what goes
for the decision making is actually a
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Monday, April (6, 1973
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S.Viets enter
Cambodia
SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese
troops have pushed across the Cam
bodian border for the first time since a
Vietnam cease-fire went into effect two
and a half months ago, field reports said
yesterday.
Fighting was reported at two points
along the border and hundreds of
refugees were said to have fled from
Cambodia into South Vietnam.
Lt. Col. Le Trung Hien, chief
spokesman for the Saigon command,
denied the border crossing today but the
Saigon command has denied such in
cursions in the past until weeks after
they took place. The troop movements
were confirmed by South Vietnamese
border guards and by Cambodian of
ficers on the scene.
Hien said Communist troops attacked
South Vietnamese infantry positions
of the border town of Hong
-Ngu on the Mekong River. He gave
enemy losses as 22 killed and govern
ment casualties as three dead and 38
wounded.
Field reports indicated the South
Vietnamese plunge a half-mile into
Cambodia was a defensive operation
aimed at driving North Vietnamese and
Cambodian Communist troops back
from the frontier.
At least 25 armored vehicles manned
by rangers reportedly moved across the
Cambodian side of the border in an
operation that began Friday.
The crossing was made from the
Vietnamese town of Tinh Bien, 125 miles
southwest of Saigon.
Twenty miles to the northeast.
Communists reportedly were attacking
the Vietnamese district town of Tan
Acanfora would be acceptable. Stayton
said Acanfora would benefit
heterosexually inclined boys by
breaking down homosexual stereotypes
and would “affirm the homosexual
student in what he is.”
Dr. Stanford Friedman, pediatrician
and professor of psychiatry at the
University of Rochester, testified
students would not be influenced
negatively by Acanfora’s presence in the
classroom because they have other role
models and that one teacher would not
be that influential.
Both also testified that a youngster’s
basic sexual orientation is determined at
an earlier age and that later develop
ments affirm or reject this.
Stayton and Friedman also had no
studies to support their contentions,
although Acanfora said they had
“presented the facts as far as sex
behavior is concerned.”
He said it basically comes down to
“expert against expert, although I think
our experts are more knowledgeable.”
Acanfora said he did not know when
Judge Joseph H. Young would issue his
decision, although he said Young has
several options open.
He could issue a complete decision
today although Frank Kameny,
president of Washington’s Mattachine
Society, a homosexual group, said this
was unlikely because the judge might
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12 COPIES
Chau on the Mekong River, six miles
from the Cambodian border.
Tinh Bien is in the center of the Seven
Mountains Region, a staging area of the
North Vietnamese Ist Division.
Field reports said heavy fire was
being exchanged there.
The South Vietnamese were pounding
suspected communist positions with
artillery and .50-caliber machine guns
mounted on armored personnel carriers.
Cambodian government troops also
were reported to be engaged in the
battle, allied with the South Vietnamese
against the Communist insurgents.
The fighting broke out Friday when
Communist troops wiped out a village on
the Cambodian side of the border, field
reports said.
About 500 refugees streamed into
South Vietnam on both sides of Highway
2 which leads northward from Tinh
Bien 65 miles to the Cambodian capital
of Phnom Penh.
Highway 2 to Phnom Penh and all
other major arteries leading to the
Cambodian capital have been cut with
the exception of Route 4 from the south
west.
Cambodian troops also are engaged in
the fighting near Tinh Bien and occupy
the eastern side of one of the Seven
Mountains about l'i> miles from the
Vietnam border. Cambodian officers
said North Vietnamese and Cambodian
Khmer Rouge forces occupy the western
side. The Communist forces were
reported using mortar and small arms
fire.
Reports from Phnom Penh said
Cambodian government forces battled
Communist troops on Highway 1.
case
want to take more time reaching his
decision because of “the far reaching
implications” of the case.
Young could ask both sides to give
closing arguments, or he could have
each submit legal briefs and then take
the case under advisement for a period
of days, weeks or months.
Young also could issue a decison from
the bench on Acanfora’s injunction
request on whether to return him to the
classroom, “while writing up with care a
substantive decision on the Con
stitutional issues,” Kameny said.
Kameny said it was hard to say which
way the case would go, although he said
he was “pleased at the outset.” Acan
fora yesterday continued to express
confidence regarding his chances of
winning.
Weather
Increasing cloudiness, breezy and
warm today, high 69. Cloudy with
showers and possibly a thunderstorm
developing tonight, low 52. Showers
ending tomorrow morning followed by
partial clearing and mild in the af
ternoon, high 61.