Addressing council
STATE COLLEGE POLICE CHIEF Herbert Strahley (right) defends police department's recent
enforcement of bicycle regulations at last night's borough council meeting. Lee Lowry, borough
engineer looks on.
Council debates bike parking
By CARL DiORIO
Collegian Staff Writer
The issue of downtown bicycle parking
was cause for controversy at last night's
State College Borough Council meeting.
Lou Moore, a local resident,
complained to Council that recent
crackdowns by police against bicyclists
who chain their bikes to lamposts,
parking meters and other sidewalk
fixtures virtually would prohibit their
riding to downtown areas.
Besides racks near Hammond on the
University side of College Avenue, the
only downtown bike parking facilities
are located behind the Tavern
restaurant.
Councilmen James McClure and
Richard Kummer expressed sympathy
towards Moore's complaint. Although
Police Chief Herbert Strahley said bikes
were being.kept off sidewalks to prevent
pedestrian congestion, McClure said the
move showed the borough. wished to
discourage bike usage downtown.
Kummer agreed with McClure that
Student tax rolls face decision
By JEFF DeRRAY
Collegian Senior Reporter
Centre County Commissioners expect
to decide next week how student tax rolls
will be drawn up, Commissioner George
C. Smith said yesterday.
Smith said several proposals now are
under consideration but "no firm
decision" has been reached on which
proposal will be adopted.
Smith refused to specify what the
proposals are.
But County Tax Assessor David Barr
said two plans are being considered.
"We could send every student a notice,
to be returned in five days, indicating
whether or not he is a resident of Centre
County," he said.
Residents then would be eligible for
taxation, he added.
"Otherwise we could tax them all and
Colleges sticking with advising
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Staff Writer
Although the University Faculty Senate's July ruling on
advising allows the colleges' advising programs more
student-control, many colleges are keeping their old methods.
The Senate ruling removed the requirement that an
adviser's signature appear on registration and course change
forms, but most colleges still will require an adviser's
signature.
Student advisers and self-advising are being considered by
several of the University's 10 colleges.
The College of the Liberal Arts advising program allows
students more participation in advising programs than the
gther colleges do.
Upperclassmen advise freshmen and, in some departments,
sophomores. After the student declares his major, he is
assigned a faculty adviser. At the same time, the student may
become his own adviser.
The College of Business Administration also uses student
advisers but there is no self-advising program. Incoming
freshnien are assigned a student adviser. When the student
declares his major, he is assigned an adviser from his
department.
But according to a spokesman from the college, "The
students just don't Seem to want to be their own advisers."
Students' lack of desire to become advisers also was
expressed by Helen I. Snyder, acting assistant dean for
undergraduate studies in the College of Education.
Snyder said the college uses faculty advisers and graduate
students, but added, "Our students are not very interested in
becoming advisers.
"The faculty has no feeling against student advisers, but I
have approached students several times and they are not
interested," she added.
Snyder said one possible reasl for this attitude was
students were worried about meeting the requirements for
Collegian
the
daily
bike riding as an alternative to
automobile traffic should be encouraged
by local officials.
Bicycle racks set flush
,to the ground
would provide trouble-free parking for
cyclists, Kummer, said. Borough
Manager Carl Fairbanks #rgued earlier
that widespread placement of
conventional above-ground bike racks
would inhibit street-cleaning operations.
Council promised to study the issue
further.
Thomas Horne (11th-community
development) was appointed by Council
to serve on the Borough Traffic
Commission. His .term will run to
January 1, 1974.
Tentative guidelines for use of 197374
State College revenue sharing funds
were adopted. The allocations are
"completely amendable," according to
Fairbanks and drawn up for the purpose
of filing a required Plan Use Report with
the Federal Government.
The expenditures are:
—532,920 in final payment of the new
fire station;
send along a note explaining the
procedures to declaring non-residency,"
he said.
Barr said a list of students' names,
could be taken from the student
directory.
As to which proposal would be
accepted, Barr said, "It could be either
or it could be neither," adding the
Commissioner's offif!e will make the
final decision.
Asked what constitutes residency,
Barr said there are many ithirigs,
including:
a statement ;by a person that he
desires to be a resident;
registration to vote in Centre
County; or
a local driver's license.
, •
The best proof of non-residency, Barr
said, would be a copy of a paid tax
—5170,000 for renovations to the State
College Municipal Building;
—530,000 to continue police salaries
into 1974;
—520,000 toward social service
agencies; s,
-$ll,OOO for bus subsidy; and
—510,430 for purchase of fire
equipment as needed.
Public hearings on two rezoning
requests were scheduled for the October
1 Council meeting. The petitions to be
considered include changing land at the
northwest corner of Branch Road to S.
Atherton Street from R-X to CP-2 and
switching property between Penfield
and Branch roads from R-2 to R-1.
An open hearing also will be held at the
next Council meeting on the'questions of
rescinding the Planned Residence
Development Ordinance and adopting
the =Building Officials and
Administrators Code in lieu of the
presently used National Plumbing Code.
The Building and Housing Code Board
of Appeals , has told Council that the
present code is outdated.
receipt from another community,.
Barr said in July and repeated last
week "to the best of my knowledge" no
census takers would be sent on campus
to compile the tax rolls.
The taxes to be levied are per capita
taxes, not income-based, and will be
leyied by the county, the school district
and the borough. The school district
receives the largest share of this.
State- College Tax Collector Paul
Bender said he is "not aware" of how the
tax rolls are going to be drawn up.
The delay in deciding how to compile
the tax rolls has prompted charges of
"political trickery" from Democratic
tax collector candidate Marie Garner.
I think this is a political move to
prevent students from registering to
vote, a right that is legally theirs,"
Garner said.
their teaching certificates and were afraid to use student
advisers.
Snyder said the College of Education presently is
investigating the College of Business Administration's
advising program.
"This method interests us and we have talked about
changing to it," Synder said. For the present time, the college
is sticking with its current system, she added. l .
Snyder said she would like to see advising become more
than just "signing those darn pre-registration forms and
number 2 cards."
"Advisers must help students in obtaining jobs and other
opportunities. The next big step the advising program must
take is opening doors, make advising more than advice on
academic matters.
I've talked to several members of the Faculty Senate and
they have agreed with me. But so far nothing has been done,"
Snyder added. •
The College of Human Development currently is using
student and faculty advisers. The main purpose of the student
advisers is to adVise freshmen who are undecided about their
major, said James L. Perine, assistant to dean of the College
of Human Development.
The College of Science is in the midst of an experiinent with
student advisers. According to Eugene S. Lindstrom,
associate dean for resident instruction in the College of
Science, the college normally uses all faculty advisers.
But this year the Department of Computer Science is using
senior undergraduates as advisers; Lindstrom said. "Instead
of using new faculty members who were not familiar with our
program, I decided to use student advisers thiS year," he
noted.
Asked about the possibility of using student advisers as a
regUlar practice, Lindstrom said, "Probably not. I'm less
dogmatic about it than I was before registrationiMost of the
people in the college feel faculty Members are better suited
for advising.
Photo by Randy J. Woodbury
Urges action
Nixon
WASHINGTON (AP) President
Nixon, in an ambitious bid to move out of
Watergate's shadow, urged yesterday
Congress to join him in a "constructive
partnership" to speedily enact major
legislation.
Submitting an unusual ' 15,000-word
State of the Union message, Nixon held
out olive branches to the Democratic
controlled Senate and Houseas he called
for "swift and decisive action" on
administration bills ranging from
revenue sharing . to trade, pension and
tax reforms.
Repeatedly pledging his cooperation,
Nixon told the legislators, "If we
proceed in -a spirit of constructive
partnership, our, varying perspectives
can be a source of greater creativity
rather than a cause of deadlock."
Welcoming what he' termed a
"congressional renaissance," Nixon
said he believes in a strong Congress as
well as a strong presidency and
asserted: .
"There can be no monopoly of wisdom
on either end of Pennsylvania Avenue
Nixon lawyers file brief
WASHINGTON (AP) President
Nixon's lawyers told the U.S. Couit of
Appeals yesterday that an order
requiring the President to release his
tape recordings of Watergate-related
conversations will be a long step
"toward government by judiciary."
The brief, filed in advance of oral
arguments today asked the appeals
court to nullify the Aug. 29 order by Chief
U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica
that the tapes be turned over to him for
screening what portions the Watergate
grand jury can hear.
Sirica filed his own answer with the
court and responded also to a cross
petition by special Watergate prosecutor
Archibald Cox. The prosecutor, asked
that the judge's order be changed to
produce the tapes in their entirety to the
grand jury.
Nixon's lawyers argued that Silica's
decision, if allowed to stand, would do
great damage to the constitutional
principle of separation of powers.
"Today it would be the presidency that
would be lessened and crippled in its
ability to function," said the brief by the
President's attorneys. "Tomorrow it
would be Congress, for if presidential
"They can't deny registration now so
the next best thing is for them to try and
frighten students away from the ifoolls,
and let them be uncertain about
taxation," She said.
Garner said the commissioners are
using the same tactics now as last year
When they tried to prevent students from
registering to vote.
She said only students who have
earned more than $l,BOO a year are
eligible for taxation. Anyone making
less than this who is taxed can apply for
exoneration by petitioning the State
College Area School District.
About two per cent of all University
students earn more than $l,BOO a year.
Those eligible will pay a total of $21.96 in
local taxes $5 to the county, $lO to the
school - district, $5 to the borough and
$1.96 occupational tax.
"I'm not sure what will happen next year. Right now the
plan is to stay with faculty advisers. The results of using
student advisers in the computer science department will be
examined by the department and they will either recommend
continuing with student advisers or they won't. I hope the
student adviser plan will not continue."
Lindstrom said the self-advising proposal is not new in the
College of Science. "A couple years ago, I had the idea seniors
could advise themselves," he added.
One reason the college is against self-advising is because
students need letters of recommendation from their advisers,
he said. The advisers need to know, the student over a long
period of time for this, Lindstrom said.
While the College of Health, Physical Education, and
Recreation uses only faculty members for advising, Allan R.
Gray, professor of physical education, is considering
implementing the self-advising program.
He said the college has no need for student advisers because
of their large fadulty.
"I've always had, the opinion the students should advise
themselves, at least the ones who are capable of doing so,"
Gray said. He added the students should have . faculty advisers
also.
The other colleges have no plans for student advisers or self
advising at the present time.
E. Willard Miller, associate dean for resident instruction in
the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, said the college is
not planning to use student advisers because the college is
small and the faculty advisers are not overloaded.
The College of Agriculture also has no plans for using
student advisers, according to Jerome K. Pastro, associate
dean for resident instruction in the College of Agriculture.
"We will continue to use faculty advisers," he said.
The College of Arts and Architecture now uses only faculty
advisers. But George H. Rimbach, assistant to the dean of the
Tuesday, September 11,1973
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on bills
calls for unity
and there should be no monopoly of
power."
Responding to the speech, House
Speaker Carl Albert, D-Okla., said "I
feel pretty good about it." He added he
found "nothing very startling" in the
message.
House Republican Leader Gerald R.
Ford of Michigan said he would be
willing to work for the President's
proposals, citing Nixon's "willingness to
work with Congress for the good of the
nation in an absence of partisanship."
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield said he would call Senate
committee chairmen together to map
strategy on what Nixon
recommendations could be handled this
year,
GOP Senate Leader Hugh Scott said
Congress could make reasonable
progress on proposed legislation if it
would buckle down to work.
Besides focusing attention on the
legislations he wants, Nixon also
spotlighted actions he opposes: red ink
spending, any tax increase, major
privacy must yield to a judicial
determination, it is difficult to think of
any ground on which congressional
privacy could continue to stand.
"Surely this is far too high a price to
pay for the atonement of Watergate."
In a related development, the appeals
court yesterday denied the Senate
Watergate committee's request to argue
the case as a friend of the court. Both
Cox and the White House opposed the
committee request.
The committee's own suit seeking
access to the presidential tapes is
pending in Sirica's court.
The White House argued in its 95-page
brief that "it is the President alone who
has discretion to determine whether the
Liddy charged with
contempt of Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) The House
yesterday overwhelmingly voted a
contempt of Congress charge against
tight-lipped Watergate conspirator G.
Gordon Liddy.
The 344-to-11 vote turned the charge
over to the U.S. attorney's office for
prosecution. Liddy refused July 20 to
testify before a House subcommittee
probing alleged CIA ties to the
Watergate affair.
Conviction would carry up to another
year in jail and a $l,OOO fine for Liddy,
who is already in jail for contempt of
court in his refusal to testify before the
Watergate grand Judy.
Liddy allegedly helped direct the
burglary of the office of Daniel
Ellsberg's psychiatrist and was
convicted of involvement in the bugging
of the Democrats' Watergate. national
headquarters.
The House action stemmed from
Liddy's refusal to take a swearing-in
oath before the House intelligence
subcommittee.
Liddy's lawyer argued that the
Constitution's Fifth Amendment
protected Liddy not only from self-
defense cutbacks and busing of public
school children to achieve racial
balance.
Nixon said if Congress votes more
money than he wants, he will not
hesitate to veto spending measures or
impound appropriations.
He also said he would "continue to
oppose all efforts to strip the presidency
of the powers it must have to be
effective" an obvious threat to veto
any legislation that would restrict his
warmaking powers.
Mixing compliments with criticism,
the President said Congress has made
"commendable progress" in some areas
this year but that action on his own
initiatives "has been far less than I had
expected."
Nixon said "the battle against
inflation must be our first priority for the
remainder of this year" and called on
Congress to hold appropriations to his
spending ceiling of $368.7 billion for the
fiscal year that began July 1."
public interest permits the tapes'
production and that this discretion
cannot•be reviewed or overridden by a
court or by Congress."
Cox, in a brief half the length, quoted a
1952 decision by the appeals court that
"some authority must determine
whether a specific act is within the
official capacity of the executive and so
immune from interference; that
authority is the judiciary."
Sirica, named as respondent in both
petitions, said he relied on court
decisions as far back as 1803 that courts
may decide what evidence must be
produced.
incrimination but also from taking the
oath to potentially testify against
himself.
Liddy now is serving an eight-month
sentence in the District of Columbia jail
for his refusal to use court-imposed
immunity from prosecution to testify
before the grand jury.
Still facing him is an 80-month to 20-
year prison sentence on his conviction in
the Watergate bugging and possible jail
terms if convicted of contempt of
Congress and involvement in the
Ellsberg break-in.
Liddy was indicted by a Los Angeles
grand jury last week of conspiracy in
connection with the Break-in at the
psychiatrist's office.
The Sept. 3, 1971, burglary allegedly
was part of an effort by the White House
to find out why Ellsberg had leaked the
Pentagon Papers to the press and
selected congressmen.
Contempt of Congress action is rare. A
high-ranking U.S. Communist from 1941
to 1946, Gerhart Eisler, was convicted of
it and sentenced to a year in jail for
refusing to take the oath before the
House-XnAmerican Activities
Committee. He fled the country.
programs
College of Agriculture, said, "Student advising is a possibility,
but I know of no major discussions in the college about it."
According to Walter G. Braun, assistant dean for resident
instruction in the College of Engineering, the college uses only
faculty advisers and will continue, to do so.
Braun said, "There is no consideration of using student
advisers and I don't think there will be." He said engineering
students must follow a tight schedule and it is better to have
faculty members advising them.
A Senate ruling also requires the advisers to be trained in
advising by the college, but several colleges have no formal
method of training advisers.
The colleges of Agriculture, the Liberal Arts, Human
Development, Business Administration, Health, Physical
Education and Recreation, and Education, all use formal
training method for advisers.
The College of Education pairs new advisers with old
advisers for one year and each department spends several
days instructing new advisers.
The College of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
holds four meetings a year with its advisers.
Advisers in the College of Business Administration are
trained by department advisers, as are the new advisers in the
College of Agriculture.
The College of the Liberal Arts holds a workshop each fall on
advising.
Each of these colleges also publishes a handbook for
advisers.
The caeges of Arts and Architecture, Science and
Engineering do not have formal training methods for
advisers, but do publish handbooks for advisers.
However, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences has no
formal training method and does not publish an adviser's
handbook.
"Because of the size of the college, the faculty feels a
training program and a handbook are a waste of time," Miller
said.