Casey sues University
"The ... University regrets very much
that Auditor General Robert „P. 'Casey
has introduced a court suit against the .
University in connection with the 1971-72
audit," University President John W.
Oswald said.
The University has been charged with
owing $271.055 of the 1971=72 state
appropriations to the Commonwealth
and the State Auditor General has filed
suit to collect the funds.
Casey charged the funds were in
excess of the amount spent on the
University Continuing Education and
Extension Service.
A University. statement issued after
the August filing of the suit indicated
that appropriations specified for the
Continuing Education and the Extension
Service were applied to University
Instruction and Research programs.
Oswald's statement said. "The
Uniyersity has tried and will continue to
try to make clear its position. first of all,
that no state monies were used for other
than educational purposes: and
secondly. that based upon action taken
by the legislature in connection with
subsequent appropriations. it is clear
that the legislative intent is to provide
the University with reasonable
flexibility among the separate line item
appropriations in its overall budget."
The legislative intent in subsequent
Newspapers forced
to cut size, copies
By ED GOLOMB
Collegian Staff Writer
Feeling the newsprint shortage
affecting newspapers across the
nation, The Daily Collegian, as well
as other local newspapers, has had to
cut size and circulation.
This orientation issue has been cut
from 32 to 30 pages and reduced in
circulation from 16,000 to 10,000
copies.
A Fall Sports Preview scheduled
for Friday's registration issue has
been canceled and the Post Script, a
weekly magazine . set to appear in the
Collegian every -F,riday beginning
Sept. 14 probably will be delayed.
If the papermill strikes and
threatened strikes affecting the
newsprint supply are not settled soon,
the Collegian and other local papers
may have to suspend publicatibn.
Mike Sullivan. Collegian production
manager. yesterday said the
Collegian has on hand enough paper
to publish until the middle of next
week.
After that. Sullivan indicated there
would be several choices. "We could
stop production. or we could buy
American paper at a cost increase of
Holdout union orders
strikers back to work
TORONTO (AP) The lone
holdout union in Canada's national
rail strike announced last night it has
ordered its members back to their
posts in conformance with a
government back-to-work directive.
The Canadian Brotherhood of
Railway, Tran Sport and General The brotherhood includes ticket
Workers, which represents 18,000 of sellers, clerks, truck drivers, janitors
the 56,000 •nonoperating employes, and other workers, most of them
originally balked_at the government- employed by Canadian National
imposed settlement which ordered Railways.
strikers to end their nationwide ^ The seven other striking rail unions
walkout Sunday against Canada's 11 began returning to work Sunday after
railroads. an 11-day nationwide strike, and
Parliament passed legislation trains in eastern Canada got rolling.
Saturday ordering the workers back General Motors said its assembly
to their jobs. All the'unions complied plant just north of Montreal, shut
except for the brotherhood, which down since Aug. 27 because the strike
said it wanted more time to study the caused a shortage of parts, will
new law: resume operations today.
Coll at gian
the
daily
appropriations mentioned in the
statement refers to a ten per cent
leeway in how the money could be spent
allowed by the General Assembly in
legislation passed after the bill in
question. -
A University statement noted "The
$271,006 variance in 1971-72. amounted to
about 3.5 per cent, an amount well
within the ten per cent allowance
contained in subsequent bills,-
Casey's report admitted that if
Continuing Education and Extension
Service funds had come under variance
conditions, they would have been well
within the limit.
But, Casey said, "Tlfe r bniversity is
not entitled to any amount in excess of
its net costs for Continuing :Education
and Extension Service."
A statement issued Aug. 24 by
University Provost Russel> E. Larson
indicated University officials requested
a meeting with Casey to discuss the
charges but that Casey "replied that
any further conference on the subject
would not be productive and that he
intends to take the action- he deems
appropriate."
The University contends that:
the $271,000 was spent for
legitimate University operations:
no excess appropriations exist; and
all expenditures were made for
$3OO per ton," he said.
The Collegian uses about one ton of.
paper to produce 1&,000 copies of a 16-
page paper.
Himes Printing Company, which
prints the Collegian, the Lock Haven
Express = and the Pennsylvania
Mirror, has had a shipment of 176
rolls of paper stranded on railroad
cars in Canada due to a nationwide
rail strike.
With last night's strike settlement,
papers printed by Himes will be able
to publish until the end of the month.
But a threatened strike at the paper
mill supplying Himes could affect
October publication.
According to Sullivan, a "Welcome
Back" issue planned by the Mirror
for tomorrow may have to be
canceled or reduced in size.
The Mirror also has planned a
reduction in the number of pages of a
high school sports tabloid in today's
issue. Members of The Centre Daily
Times staff were not available for
comment yesterday on how the
shortage has affected. them, but
Saturday the paper reported it would
have to reduce its size beginning
today.
The main change in the original bill
was a Conservative amendment
raising the minimum average hourly
wage to $4.19 by'July 1, 1974 from the
$4.15 , proposed by the Liberal
government. The current rate is
$3.54.
Orientation:
Getting to know Penn State
By DIANE NOTTLE
Collegian Ass't City Editor
Gone are the days when Penn State .
freshmen were required to wear black
bow ties and doff their green beanies at
passing upperclassmen. -
But 1 the 3,200 new freshmen who
arrived on campus yesterday still will •
face many adjustments to college life
during this week's Orientation pro
grams.
This year's Orientation is designed to
initiate freshmen, transfers Ifroin
Commonwealth Campuses and
advanced standing students into both
University procedures and 'social life,
according Marily i Shorr of the Office or
Residential Life Programs.
"In our schedule we've tried to build
purposes stated in the act.
Oswald's statement Wednesck
concluded, "The University will seek
clarification on this matter not only
from the courts but from the legislature
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Specifies council—manager government
Horne rule charter to face vote
By RICK NELSON
Collegian City Editor
The State College Home Rule
Commission has prepared a home rule
charter to present to State College
voters this November after 11 months of
study and two public hearings.
If approved by the voters, the charter
would allow the local government more
freedom in governing the community
and remove some of the control now
exercised by the state legislature.
The charter, approved at a meeting of
the State, . .. College Home Rule
Commission August 22, specifies a
council-manager type government for
State College.
According to the charter, Council,
consisting of seven members elected at
large, - should have "all legislative power
of the municipality."
. The charter allows citizens to force
Council action by submitting a petition
signed by two per cent of the registered
voters. It states that a smaller group
may petition Council but that Council
action need not be taken.
The charter'specifies that Council hire
a manager who would take on the
administrative responsibilities of the
borough. •
The chart& states the'mayor, elected
by the people, would be . the presiding
officer of *Council and have power to
veto any ordinance passed by Council
within 14 days of its passage. Council
could override the veto with the consent
of five councilmen.
• The mayor—now has veto power but
does not preside over Council. An earlier,
charter proposal would have removed
the mayor's veto power and allowed him
to vote when his vote would create or
break a tie. But after hearing opposition
to this proposal at a public hearing
August 21, the commission changed the
proposal at the meeting the next night.
Other questions were raised at the
August 21 public, hearing regarding a
taxation clause in the charter.
Commission members explained the
clause would allow Council to levy any
taxes permitted by the General
Assembly and not have the taxes be
subject to maximum tax levels set by
up a balance.beiween social life and an
approach to . . participation in the
University through group discussion,"
Shorr said.
A barrage of official tests and
meetings will occupy new students' time
today and tomorrow.
Today's schedule includes deferred
preregistration tests: advanced
placement tests in math, chemistry and
foreign languages: meetings with the
deans of individual colleges and pre
registration advising.
Required speech and hearing tests for
education majors, medical
examinations, swimming tests, and
physical education proficiency tests for
women are planned for tomorrow.
All tests and meetings will follow the
schedule in the Fall Orientation Booklet.
Freshmen will register tomorrow
through Friday 'according to the
alphabetical schedule in the Orientation
booklet. Registration takes precedence
over all other activities.
In addition, the Orientation
Committee has planned workshops,
speakers and social activities for each
evening and the weekend. These
include: -
—a discussion of the rights and
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the General Assembly
If the voters approve the charter in
November. it will take effect the first
Monday of January 1976.
Commission Chairman • Elizabeth
Smedley expressed hope on the
charter's passageand said the benefit of
the charter lies not in "unimportant
details" but rather in that it leth Council
act as it sees fit.
She said people should be as willing to changes recommended at the public
place the power to govern their hearing passed easily the next night,
municipality in their local government' indicating that a small group of vocal
as in their state government, and that citizens may be having too much effect
the charter gives them the chance to do on the charter.
this. Another public hearing will be held
California
on office
LOS ANGELES (AP) A
county grand jury reconvenes
today to decide whether to
return indictments in
connection with the break-in
at the office of Daniel
Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
Sources close • to the
investigation say those under
consideration for possible
indictment are former White
House aides Egil Krogh and
David Young, former
presidential adviser John D.
Ehrlichman and convicted
Watergate conspirator G.
Gordon Liddy.
Dist. Atty. Joseph R.
Busch, who - ordered the
probe, said he expects
indictments to be returned. A
spokesman said he expects
the grand jury to announce its
action today or tomorrow.
Members of the so-called
White House "plumbers unit"
broke into the Beverly Hills
office of Dr. Lewis Fielding
during Labor Day weekend
1971 to get Ellsberg's
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'responsibilities of 18-year-olds by
University legal adviser Yates Mast
2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Thompson
lounge;
—a film recap of Penn State's 1972
fottball season 8:30 p.m. tomorrow in
Waring Lounge:
—a "University Night" featuring the
University Readers, Penn State Glee
Club and University Choir 9 p.m.
tomorrow in McElwain Piano Lounge:
—a Student Leaders Forum featuring
the piesiilents of the Association of
Residence Hall Students, the
Association of Women Students, the
Interfraternity Councial, the
Organization of Town Independent
Students, the Panhellenic Council and
the Undergraduate Student Government
3 p.m. Thursday in the HUB lounge:
--a Aeterans' orientation meeting 7:30
p.m. 'Thursday in the HUB Assembly
Room:
—a Student Activities Fair. sponsored
by the University Union Board Friday
afternoon in the HUB Ballroom: and
--a program by Allard Lowenstein,
head of Americans for Democratic
Action, 8 p.m. Saturday at Schwab.
Schedules for residence hall unit
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But others believe the charter was
completed too hastily. Neil Krum of the
Undergraduate Student Government
Department of Political Affairs said the
Commission should "wait until spring
and put out a much better document."
Krum said that since the public
hearing was held over term break,
students did. not have a chance to
comment on , the charter. He said
grand
break-in
psychiatric files. Ellsberg, as the , break-in and said claimed the intruders were
a Rand Corp. researcher, Ehrlfchman approved the use unable to get any data on
copied the sensitive Pentagon of "covert operations." ' Ellsberg and left empty
papers and-turned them over All involved in the,burglary handed.
to the press.
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Ellsberg were dismissed by
Judge Matt Byrne in May
after a four-month trial. g
Byrne cited gross government g
misconduct and said Ells- :K
berg's, right to a fair trial
had been prejudiced.
the burglary, the grand jury ti
heard 29 witnesses in June
and July. The panel recessed
during August.
Ehrlichman, who testified
in. the secret hearings,
publicly admitted he knew of
the plumbers investigative
team and approved its
formation, but said he did not
know about the break-in until ig
after it occurred.
Krogh, who with Young
took the Fifth Amendment
before fhe grand jury,' earlier
had taken regponsibility for r
10 foftbrlM
jury to decide
indictments
What's Inside?
PSU tourist attractions
Advising changes
President Oswald's
convocation
AP New Scope
1973 Artists Series .
Office of Student Affairs
Recreation facilities
Nittany legends
Listening-Learning
Services
Discipline system
Student employment
Fall Term housing
situation
meetingsi also will be posted throughout
the week!
Shorr said this year's Orientation
combines new programs with successful
ones from the past.
"We always offer a mini-registration.
which is very popular because students
are concerned about registration," she
said. "The older activities are things
like campus tours, information serv'ces.
socials and casino nights. The new
programs come mainly under the
evening workshops."
One major innovation. Shorr said. is
more programming for transfer
students.
"Transfers make up about 4.000 out of
the 7,000 new people on campus, and
this year we've really tried to provide
something for them," she said. "We've
tried to point out that transfers should
not have the same programs as
freshmen. If they have a question about
a major or want to change, there's not
much time they'd better start
talking."
Orientation programs were planned
by a committee -of undergraduates
representing each residence hall area
and downtown. The ,Orientation staff
will consist •of about 300 Orientation
Leaders to welcome new students and
help them become settled on campus.
Orientation Leaders also will lead
informational sessions in the residence
halls and in the HUB for downtown
students. Planned,,topics include life on
campus and downtown. University
procedures, Orientation programs and
shopping facilities.
YOU haul!
JANET PREGAL ( Ist-socia I
welfare) was just one of many
freshmen hauling belongings from
cars to dorms' yesterday. 3,200
freshmen and 3,800 transfer
students arrived on campus
yesterday to participate in a week
of Orientation activities before
classes begin Monday.
Sept. 25, when residents may ask
questions about the final charter.
Smedley said copies of the final
charter should be available today to any
interested citizen at the Municipal
Building on S. Fraser Street.
The Home Rule Charter was made
possible by General Assembly action in
April 1972. which permitted
municipalities to set up commissions to
study their local governments.
State College voters indicated support
for a home rule study last November
and elected 11 members to the Home
Rule Commission. The charter is the
result of the Commission's work.
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