Wired for sound
Security Dept, gets
as lengthy reorganization begins
By STEVE IVEY
Collegian Staff Writer
. The University has abolished its
Department of Security.
In its place, the Board of Trustees
Friday approved renaming and
reorganizing Security into the Depart
ment ot University Safety. The depart
ment will handle all police, law en
forcement and safety functions on
campus.
The renaming “reflects the change in
emphasis from buildings to people and.
from security to safety,” according to
David E. Stormer, director of University
Safety.
Stormer, the former security director,
said the name change is the beginning of
an overhaul of the University’s security
apparatus that will take two to three
years to implement fully.
Stormer said the- reorganization was
prompted by'-“the changing social needs
of the whole country. More criminal
offenses are occuring on campuses and
18-year-olds are s adults civilly and
criminally.”
. “Additional responsibilities for many
of the members of the department”
accompany the name change, Stormer
said.
The Security - Department was
organized in.' three line organizations:
Security Division, Campus Patrol, and
State College faring well
Shortage controversial
Editor’s note: the following is the last
of a series examining the gasoline
shortage;
By PATRICIA STEWART
Collegian Editor
The controversy over the gasoline
shortage' in State College is not
unique—everyone has his own
opinion hut no one has the answer.
The greatest diversity of opinion
exists among the men at the bottom
of the oil industry hierarchy—the
service station owners. Although
News analysis
diverse, their opinions also are
narrow, based mainly on their own
role in the so-called shortage.
* Many State College owners have
had no problems with the shortage,
receiving all the gasoline they can
punfp. They contend there is no
shortage.
Others—mainly those dealing with
the major oil companies—have had
to live with a percentage allotment
based on last year’s volume. And
they are not as ready to dismiss the
issue. ‘
Those. State College owners who
felt a definite pinch earlier this
summer still are nursing their
wounds, relieved that the shortage
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The free concert was sponsored by the Free University.
the Student Division
Stormer’s planned reorganization will
cut the department to two line
organizations with two supporting
divisions.
The line organizations will be Police
Services and Safety Services. Auxiliary
Services and the Coordinator of Security
Personnel at the Commonwealth
Campuses will make up the supporting
divisions.
“While prevention and investigation of
occupational accidents, fire prevention
and the providing of a, safe, environment
are the primary responsibilities of! the
Safety Division, the Police, Division will
provide the wide variety of law ; en
forcement services necessary -in the
University setting,” Stormer said.
“We are still concerned about building
security and such non-law enforcement
functions as traffic control,” he added.
“The Department of Safety is a ser
vice organization,” Stormer told The
Daily Collegian.
One of the services the Department
will provide is traffic control and safety
during special events such as concerts
and football. games. Handled by the
Auxiliary Services, plans for special
events must be drawn up weeks arid
sometimes months before the events.
At present. Auxiliary Services is
working on plans to cope with the
has eased.
All things considered, State College
service stations owners have been
fortunate. Of 31 stations questioned,
27 indicated they had not been af
fected adversely by thei shortage,
including four stations open 24 hours
a day.
The State College .situation,
however, is not indicative of the
'nation’s problem. In many areas of
the country, stations have.had to cut
back jtheir hours evenings • and
Sundays. Other stations have limited
the number of gallons per customer,
and for some closing down com
pletely has been the answer.
State College is not completely
isolated from the national rproblems.
One State College manager who
earlier had to curtail hours said he
feels the sinking of smaller stations is
keeping the larger ones afloat.
It seems that for many in State
College, the best way to cope with the
gasoline shortage is to ignore it. !
Of those willing to offer an opinion
on the shortage, some believe the
controversy has been contrived by
the major oil companies. Their
motive supposedly is to push up the
prices and reduce the available
surplus, thus driving the independent
dealers out of business.
Many on the national level agree.
Photo by Diane Nottle
new
massive influx of people and cars for
the home football games.
Auxiliary Services also ..will contain
the records sjection, the property section
and the Student Division. Stormer told
the Collegian that he hopes the Student
Division will Become a training ground
for future officers, “sort of a cadet
corps.” !
The safety director told the Collegian
he is striving for a professional quality
security system.
This professionalism calls for all four
investigative officers to be highly
trained police officers.
Stormer said that standards will rise
for entry into the Safety Department.
Potential members must either have a
bachelor’s degree or at least two years
of college experience and two years of
police expedience
In addition, new safety personnel will
be required to take an expanded basic
law enforcement training course given
by the department.
Community relations officers will be
introduced as part of the reorganization
in an effort to inform the campus of the
Safety Department’s role.
Stormer said that if campus conditions
remain the same when the
reorganization is complete, the Safety
Department will have shuffled many
security functions and assignments
Florida’s Attorney General Robert
Shevin' has filed a federal antitrust
suit against 15 major oil. companies
because he also believes the shortage
was contrived.
Yet one local distributor—an in
dependent—said he sympathizes with
the major oil companies for, their
lack of support from the public.
He places the blame elsewhere —
unrealistic government and en
vironmentalist restraints, the af
fluence of American society and the
instability of the dollar.' He is not
alone, in his analysis.
Others who have blamed the major
oil companies have attacked them
from a slightly different angle. The
most recent accusation is that
Americans now are facing a shortage
at home because the major oil
companies overexpanded abroad.
. Though differing in explanations,
most agree the gasoline shortage is
real ancLmay be followed by fuel oil
shortages 'this winter.
Some say the country has entered
an endless cycle and will continue to
experience such shortages. They
insist Americans must stop to catch
their breath and build up reserves.
Only one aspect of the controversy
appears definite—speculation will
continue over the gasoline shortage
and the energy crisis as a whole.
Total reaches $9OO per year
Trustees raise
By RICK NELSON
Collegian Managing Editor
The University Board of Trustees
authorized a $l5 per term tuition in
crease at a meeting Friday, bringing
Penn State tuition for in-state students at
University Park to $9OO per academic
year and at the Commonwealth Cam
puses to $BB5 per year..
Tuition for out-of-state residents was
raised $ll4 per academic year, bringing
the total to $2lOO per year at all cam
puses.
The tuition hike was matched by a $l5
per term increase in room qpd board
rates, bringing room and board costs to
$1,185 per academic year for students in
double rooms.
The tuition increase had been forseen
since September, when University
President John W. Oswald included it in
his budget request to Gov. Shapp.
Oswald indicated there is pressure for
Penn State to move to a $l,OOO per year
tuition as evidenced by the master plan
of the State Board of Education, which
recommends that rate.
But, he said, he felt an immediate
jump to $l,OOO per year would- work a
hardship on students now enrolled at the
University. He added he supports a
gradual tuition increase over the next
three years.
Questioned about the of a
tuition hike at a press briefing after the
trustees’ meeting, Oswald said that after
last year’s $75 per year increase, ap
plications for admission decreased by
eight per cent.
Oswald said this decrease is con-
name
around with no increase in manpower.
He added he anticipates no layoffs of
present personnel.
The officers interviewed by the
Collegian seemed pleased! with the
reorganization and Stormer, who -wSs
hired as security director Spring Term.
One officer said the Safety Depart
ment is trying to move out of its present
buildings, Birch, Spruce and Pine cot
tages behind Ritenour.
He said the reorganization almost
necessitates that the department be
housed under one roof instead of its
present three. f
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Partly cloudy and warm tomorrow; high
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siderably below national level but said
he is concerned that “as we move
toward higher tuition, 1 we are moving
toward a more affluent student body.”'
He said arej being made to
channel some of the funds resulting from
higher tuition into student aid programs
to help offset the higher tuition. -
At the briefing Oswald said the
questiop of attendance at trustee
meetings was not discussed. He said
Board President Michael Baker Jr.,
recuperating from surgery and unable to
attend /the j meeting, asked that the
question be left off the agenda.
Oswald said the question will be
discussed at next month’s meeting.
The trustees authorized planning of a
Penn'State Faculty Club as an addition
to the Nittany Lion Inn.
Although some faculty members had
requested asjearly as 1967 that some sort
of faculty club be built, Oswald said
action was delayed “until there was a
Penn State Faculty Club with which we
could deal.”JA Penn State Faculty Club
was incorporated in March.
Earlier plans included renovating the
vacant Sigma Chi fraternity house and
building' of a faculty club near
Eisenhower 'Chapel.
Oswald said the Sigma Chi house was
France begins tests
despite wide protest
ByTheAP
An international jprotest • erupted
yesterday in the wake of France’s start
of another series of nuclear tests over
the South Pacific.
The first device was detonated
Saturday. It was suspended from a
balloon 2,000 feet over Mururoa Atoll,
had the force of an estimated 5,500 tons
of TNT and! was believed big enough to
be a trigger for a hydrogen bomb.
The French government did not give
details of the tests or respond to the
protests. Biit if the French follow past
practice in;the tests, conducted since
1966, there could be two more explosions
shortly, and then three more nuclear,
blasts in late August.
Japan, Australia, New Zealand,
Canada and; Sweden all expressed their
opposition to the tests.
the Japanese Foreign Ministry called
on France; “to stop the tests im
mediately.”;
New Zealand will keep one of its
warships in; the Mururoa area as a
“silent witness” in protest of the tests,
Prime Minister Norman E. Kirk said.
He said the New Zealand frigate
Canterbury iwould relieve the frigate
Otago and s'tay in the area, 850 miles
south of .Tahiti, until the tgsts are
completed, j
Prime Mil
Australia cl
betrayed its
nister Gough Whitlam of
iarged that France had
(traditional respect for the
tuition
rejected because the entire house would
have to be renovated at too great an
expense. The planned building near
Eisenhower Chapel was rejected when
students and faculty objected to
removing trees from the area.
The Trustees heard a report on the
physical plant master plan for
University Park and expect a final plan
to be presented for approval before the
end of the year.
The plan, expected to guide University
development through the 1970’5, takes
into consideration enrollment, desired
growth patterns and planned academic
programs.
The master plan guiding campus
development through the 1960’s was
approved in 1958 and revised in 1963.
Oswald said the plan includes
renovating to older buildings and
“development of. the exterior en
vironment.”
He also said, “There is great interest
among the Board for closing off the
center of campus to all but emergency
vehicles.” But, he added, a careful studv
of the impact of such a step would have
to be made.
The trustees also renamed the
Department of Security the Department
of University Safety.
law by .ignoring requests by the In
ternational Court of Justice to halt the
tests.
“Exploding the bomb demonstrates
the disregard of the French government
for the well-being of the peoples of the
Pacific region,” Whitlam said.
The Australian Council of Trade
Unions will continue to boycott French
goods as long as the tests continue, said
the secretary of the labor group, Harold
Souter.
Foreign Secretary Mitchell Sharp of
Canada said in reply to a newsman’s
question that his government hopes this
will be the last of atmospheric nuclear
tests.
“Canada is opposed to all of them, and
we hope that both China and France will
wake up to the fact that we are living in a
different world, a world in which we are
concerned about our survival.”
France and China did not sign the 1963
treaty banning atmospheric nuclear
tests. The' world’s other nuclear
powers—the United Stales, the Soviet
Union and Britain—signed the treaty.
In Stockholm the Foreign Ministry
said, “Sweden has consistently repu
diated all nuclear tests, both in the at
mosphere and below ground."
Australian-and New Zealand scientists
have contended, .and the French have
denied, that the tests result in
radioactive fallout in sufficient amounts
to be a health hazard. 1 <•
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