Pondering a swim
FATHER AND SON cool off in the University House pond
USG withdraws
for tuition mass
NANCY POSTREL
Collegian Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student Govern
ment Senate last night voted to withdraw
support for the continuation of the mass
meeting to discuss methods of fighting
the budget cuts and proposed tuition
hike.
The Senate also opposed the measures
passed at the meeting last week.
USG Vice President Frank Muraca
said USG support of the mass meeting
Skylab power malfunction
curtails earth
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP)
The Skylab space station lost another 6
per cent of its electrical supply
yesterday when a battery failed, forcing
a further curtailment of experiments
aboard the laboratory.
The battery went off the line, officials
said, when a regulator which linked it to
the rest of the space station power
system failed. It was the second power
shortage problem for Skylab.
Flight Director Neil B. Hutchinson
said the loss of the battery forced can
cellation of a plan to photograph earth
resources today. He also said that future
photo passes would have to be shortened.
The new problem developed shortly
after Charles Conrad Jr. and Paul J.
Weitz completed Skylab's first space
photo run, passing over a swatch of land
from Oregon to Brazil.
Hutchinson said during the pass four
solar panels which supply constant
electricity to the spacecraft by con
verting sunlight to power were pointed
away from the sun. This placed the craft
on the power of 17 batteries.
When Skylab returned to daylight in
its orbit, and the solar panels again
started producing electricity, Mission
Control discovered that five batteries
and their regulators had shut down.
Flight controllers were able to put four
of the batteries back on, but the fifth
battery and its regulator failed to
respond.
Skylab was launched with 18 batteries,
but one failed before the astronauts were
launched toward the orbiting craft.
Hutchinson said that each battery lost
cost 250 watts of power and noted, "if we
lose a couple of more we'll be pushing it
to by H.R. Begley It
mill weaken USG's stand on fighting the
budget cuts, since representatives at the
meeting singled out USG's methods for
censure.
USG withdrew support of the mass
meeting because the first meeting "was
in no way representative of the general
population of students" at Penn State,
according to senator.; sponsoring the
resolution.
No new proposals were presented at
the first meeting and sponsors said it
photography
to just maintain the vehicle." He said
power use will have to be carefully
managed with the existing supply.
Hutchinson said the spacecraft
operates fine when it is in sunlight and
the solar panels can both power the
station and recharge batteries. Its the
part of the orbit that passes into
darkness, he said, "that eats your
lunch."
Mission Control earlier told the Skylab
crew Conrad, Weitz and Dr. Joseph P.
Kerwin that because of the malfuric
tions "we're going to delete the 3430
earth resources experiment package
pass for today."
Skylab already was running on con
siderably less than its designed power
supply. Two solar power panels failed
soon after launch May 14 and one of the
18 batteries on board broke later. The
power supply is being supplemented by
borrowing electricity from the com
mand ship which ferried the astronauts
to Skylab but some experiments have
been curtailed.
The space station passes from
daylight to night and back again during
each of its 93-minute orbits. While it is in
daylight, the solar panels convert
sunlight to power and charge the bat
teries. When Skylab is in the dark, and
the solar panels cannot operate, the
spaceship runs on the batteries.
Officials said the batteries would be
allowed to charge through the night and
would be at full strength today. To
avoid a recurrence of the problem the
earth resources photography was
cancelled. It may be activiated later in
the 28-day mission, however.
the
daily
University calls plan
Proposed attorney rejected
By MITCH CHERNOFF
and NANCY POSTREL
of the Collegian Staff
The University has rejected a proposal
by the Undergraduate Student Govern
ment for the creation of a students'
attorney.
Vice President for Student Affairs
Raymond 0. Murphy told USG President
Mark Jinks the plan was illegal because
of the proposed funding methods.
The proposal would have required
undergraduate students to pay $1 tax
added to their tuition each year. This
would amount to about $26,000.
About $14,000 of this would go for the
lawyer's salary. A secretary would
receive $6,000. Office equipment and
expenses, library and miscellaneous
would receive the rest of the money.
According to Kevin Smith, director of
the USG legal affairs department,
Murphy said it would be illegal to set up
a lawyer's office with this money
because as soon as the funds were
collected they would become state funds.
State money cannot be used to sue the
state or any part of the state, such as the
University.
Students have threatened to sue the
University at various times. An idea for
a student lawyer last year was rejected
for similar reasons. Associated Student
Activities had approved a budget of
$19,000 last spring for the lawyer and
related activities.
In June the University reversed its
position, ruling no University funds
could be used to hire legal services.
Former Director of the Legal Affairs
Department Steve Speece, who wrote
the current proposal, said he thought he
had resolved the problem. He said the $1
tax would make the lawyer's office
strictly funded by students.
Despite the University's ruling, USfr
does not plan to give up the idea, Smith
said. "We will get other legal opinions
about the University ruling," he said.
"We're far from done," USG Vice
President Frank Muraca added.
Smith said the University objects to
support
meeting
was "unlikely that any new proposals
would be brought up at a continuation of
this meeting."
A portion of the resolution stating
USG's opposition to measures passed at
the first meeting said the Senate will
censure "any individual member of the
Senate who supports the measures in the
capacity of a USG senator specifying his
actions reflect the opinion of the
Senate."
USG Senator John Harris, sponsor of
the resolution calling for USG support of
the mass meeting, said this portion of
the resolution "set a precedent for
censureship" in USG.
"The decision of censureship was not
open to appeal, there was no court
ruling," Harris said after the meeting.
"I label that as oppression. Now, the
Senate can oppress the minority," he
added.
USG Senator Don Gingrich explained
to Harris the portion states specific
situations in which senators are not
allowed to speak.
In other business, Muraca said the
Harrisburg lobbyist proposal now is
before Associated Student Activities and
must be approved by eight student
members.
Muraca said there was indication that
University President John W. Oswald
would not approve the proposal because
it might cause problems with faculty and
staff members.
According to Muraca, Oswald feels if
students get a lobbyist, the faculty and
staff will want one too. Muraca said the
faculty and staff have an advantage over
students because they are unionized.
"Students can't be unionized,"
Muraca said, "so a lobbyist is the only
way."
Preregistration
due today
Ail continuing students planning ti
to enroll at University Park for Fall
Term 1973 and - not attending
Summer Term are required to meet
with their advisers today to comli
plete a Fall Term preregistration
ie form. These must turned in at 112
Shields today.
Revised preregistration forms
may be filed until July 16.
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the proposal because it involves their
legal staff and ties them up in litigation,
costing them money.
According to Smith, Assistant Vice
President for Student Services Daniel R.
Leasure submitted a report of student
legal needs as he saw them, and
proposed ways to meet them. "The
report was solely for the purposes of
individual legal service," Smith said. "It
was' no substitute for the USG proposal.
We have no objection to it it was just
incomplete."
Smith said the USG proposal involves
a lawyer whose main interest affects
students as a whole and who will
represent them in class actions.
"We need someone to give in-depth
legal advice," he said. "That way, when
a rule passes that infringes on our rights,
we have some recourse."
The USG proposal states present
campus legal resources for students are
"scarce and ineffective." Student Legal
Adviser Yates Mast can advise students
Appropriate data unavailable
Citizens
By LINDA THONIPSON
Collegian Staff Writer
Centre Citizens Council voted last
night to oppose the approval of any. State
College By-pass design until appropriate
data are available.
The proposal was based on a council
member's proposal that the road should
not be built until data from Centre
Regional Area Transit Study is com
pleted. The member said the by-pass
should reflect area needs and not be
based, as the present proposals are, on
information 12 to 19 years old.
According to council member Joseph
Carroll of the University's trans
portation center CRATS should be
completed within the next two years.
Centre citizens also agreed to accept
proposal four as a viable scheme if the
Pennsylvania Department of Trans
portation insists on building the highway
before the study is complete.
To keep a careful watch over present
by-pass plans, the citzens moved the
Executive Board appoint a technical
committee to report on their progress.
During a discussion of the proposed
schemes, Carroll said PennDOT has
made no detailed design of scheme four
Nixon, Pompidou meet for talks
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The
presidents of the United States and
France flew here yesterday to talk over
the state of their transatlantic part
nership. As the first order of business,
they sidestepped involvement in
Iceland's bitter fishing dispute with
Britain.
Richard Nixon and Georges Pompidou
emerged from a postarrival meeting
with Icelandic officials yesterday night
clearly determined not to take sides on
whether British trawlers have a right to
fish within Iceland's controversial 50-
mile offshore sea limit.
Nixon told newsmen flying in with him
that it was a matter between Britain and
Iceland and "we cannot get into that."
White House sources reaffirmed after
the night meeting that Washington
means to stay neutral.
Pompidou's aides said the French
president expressed sympathy for a
small nation's efforts to safeguard its
natural resources, but went no farther.
Soon after the meeting, police
reported a small explosion outside the
U.S. Information Services building
about two miles away. Authorities said a
gasoline bomb had been hurled at the
building, shattering its plate glass
windows.
There were no casualties and police
wrote the matter off as a minor incident
intended as a demonstration against
Nixon's policies. Left-wing groups have
announced their intention of combining
in a mass rally and march to mark the
opening of the Nixon-Pompidou, summit
Thursday. •
Pompidou arrived first at the airport
in nearby Keflavik, stepping from his
plane to the strains of the French
national anthem, the Marseillaise,
played by a red-coated brass band from
Reykjavik.
The summit in Iceland is the last of a
series of top-level meetings preparing
for a presidential visit to Europe toward
the end of the year. Nixon has already
met in Washington with the leaders of
West Germany, Britain and Italy.
While Nixon was expected to em
phasize the broad principles of the
Atlantic community and its goals,
Pompidou will be pressing for quick
illegal
of their legal rights. However, he is not
empowered to litigate on students'
behalf.
Murphy also had submitted a report to
University President John W. Oswald on
Mast's job. Murphy said his letter did
not call necessarily for an expansion of
the legal adviser's role but was
primarily a report of impressions Mast
had gained on the job.
In his proposal Speece said legal aid
beyond advice is needed. He quoted the
Pennsylvania Human Relations
Commission as stating "the right to
counsel" should be permitted. "Such
counsel could represent and advise
students in college or civil matters."
The proposal specified, "The attorney.
possessing litiga tory powers, would act
as legal counsel to the USG. More im
portantly, the students' attorney would
represent all students as a class."
The proposal would not have done
away with the students' legal adviser.
This University-run position would have
oppose
and he said he - feels it has no immediate
intention of doing so.
Proposal four involves narrowing the
diamond interchange and redesigning
the trumpet interchange, which con
nects the by-pass to the Benner Pike.
Carroll said PennDOT's main
argument against plan four's concept of
narrowing the median from 60 feet to 30
feet is one of aesthetics. Carroll ex
plained even if the by-pass is a 70 mile
per-hour class one highway, the safety
benefits of a median strip beyond 30 feet
are marginal.
A plan to eliminate further by-pass
construction was rejected by the citizens
group. Carroll said PennDOT would
argue plans already have gone too far to
he dropped.
Jim McClure, member of the Centre
Regional Council of Governments By
pass Committee, said he questioned
PennDOT's changing the radius of the
by-pass connection, adding the by-pass
definitely does need some radius
changes at the hospital interchange.
Questioned about PennDOT's
evaluation that plan four will be more
expensive than plan three, Carroll said
he had no way of knowing the definite
costs. He said, however, while the
action on one of its immediate flaws and
problems monetary instability. The
problem was underscored by another
drop in dollar prices and rise in gold
prices in yesterday's European trading.
Before they even get to their own
problems, the two presidents will find
themselves in the middle of their host
country's conflict with Great Britain
over fishing rights.
Iceland's dispute with Great Britain
was intensified only hours before arrival
of the presidents by Icelandic expulsion
of a British diplomat.
Iceland, which is about the size of
Kentucky, is determined to extend its
fishing waters from 12 to 50 miles in
efforts to protect its diminishing Atlantic
fishing stocks. That would bar British
trawlermen from grounds they have
been working for more than two cen
turies.
The ramifications of the dispute go
deeper than fishing. The ruggedly in
dependent Icelanders are talking about
quitting the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization if Britain does not with-
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Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
Budget hike proposed
Democrats in the Pennsylvania
Senate, yesterday proposed an $87.7
mi]]ion budget for Penn State in
1973-74.
This came just one day after a
Republican bill appropriating
$86,948,000 for the University ap
peared on the floor of the House.
Both bills are higher than Gov.
Shapp's recommended $82,694,000
for the University and lower than
the $89.9 million Penn State had
requested.
The Senate bill, introduced by
Sen Henry Cianfrani, D-
Philadelphia, would appropriate six
per cent more funds than Shapp
suggested for Temple University,
the University of Pittsburgh and
Penn State.
Cianfrani, chairman of the Senate
continued, working closely with the
students' attorney.
The students' attorney though, would
have been directly responsible to USG.
Certain limitations specifically were
placed upon the lawyer in the report. He
could not "defend any individual student
charged with a criminal offense, except
as the case involves the interests of
students as a group."
The lawyer could not take action on
behalf of a student against the interests
of another student, nor take any
domestic relations action, such as
divorce or adoption.
Four specific areas the students' at
torney would be primarily concerned
with are spelled out. They are "(I) Any
problems in which USG is a party; (2)
Landlord-tenant problems; (3) Con
sumer protection; and (4)
Discrimination on the basis of race,
nationality or sex in obtaining em
ployment and housing."
by-pass
Benner Pike would be undergoing
elevation, an estimated 53,000 access
road would have to be built.
During talk of endorsing scheme four,
one citizen questioned the possibility of a
law suit if PennDOT refused the plan.
Carroll suggested a COG endorsement of
the plan might prevent such a suit.
McClure said he had no way of
predicting what COG will decide. He
said he has been involved with several
work sessions which proved un
satisfactory beca use maps were
unavailable. Because Centre Citizens
displayed maps of the plans. McClure
said the group was looking at the
proposals much more conscientiously.
Centre Citizens Chairman Sue Smith
urged members to let their feelings be
known to their COG representative.
Weather
Partly cloudy and mild today, high 68.
Fair tonight, low 50. Friday mostly
sunny and pleasant, high 78. Chance of
showers Friday night.
draw three warships from the disputed
zone.
Icelandic leaders are expected to
confront the American president with a
demand to prevail on London to with
draw its warships.
Iceland has not specified what it will
do if the demand is not met, but there
has been persistent talk of an ultimatum
to NATO, a bid to condemn Britain in the
United Nations Security Council or a
gunfight with one of the British frigates.
Iceland's leftist government also has
declared it wants the Americans to give
up the Keflavik air-sea surveillance
base, which tracks the movements of
Soviet surface and submarine vessels
into the North Atlantic.
Beyond the problem of Iceland is a
whole list of transatlantic issues for
Nixon and Pompidou to discuss
money, trade, gold, defense and East-
West relations. None of the topics is
likely to be quickly solved.
With Soviet party chief Leonid I.
Brezhnev scheduled to visit Washington
next month, East-West relations are a
particularly important issue.
Appropriations Committee, last
week promised constituents he
would introduce the legislation in an
attempt to defray possible tuition
hikes. Temple had announced it
would raise its current $970 yearly
tuition $4O a semester.
University President John W.
Oswald last winter said tuition here
may have to be raised $l5 a term, if
Shapp's budget request is adopted.
Shapp requested exactly the same
amount of funds the three • state
related universities received for
1972-73. Because of inflation, the
universities argued more money
would be needed.
The Senate Appropria tions
Committee is expected to meet
Monday to consider the school
appropriations. --MC