SF conference discusses Wells
ROBERT PHILIFIUS answers a question at a panel on "Wells
and His Contemporaries" Saturday afternoon as part of
Secondary Universe. Also on the panel were (left to right)
Stanley Weintraub, a Penn State professor and director of the
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic St,udies, John R.
Science fiction conference ends
By BILL SPAISIGLER
Collegian Staff Writer
Science fiction writers and the factors
influencing them was the topic of the
fourth annual Science Fiction Research
Association Conference held at the
University last weekend.
Over 150 science ; fiction writers,
editors and scholars from across the
country attended the conference, co
chaired by Arthur 0. Lewis, associate
dean of resident instruction, and Philip
Klass, associate professor of English,
who writes science fiction under the pen
name William Tenn.
The panels held during the four days
were divided into two tracks: a
historical track, tracing science fiction
from H.G. Wells to contemporary
writers, and a miscellaneous track, foK
topics such as teaching science fictiott
and the interaction between science
fiction writers and the academic
community.
An innovation Klass and Lewis added
Chrysler,
ending 3-day production strike
DETROIT (AP) Chrysler Corp. and
the United Auto, Workers union
yesterday reached tentative agreement
on a new . contract covering 117,000
production and maintenance workers.
The settlement came 63 hours after the
union struck the nation's third largest
automaker.
"We want to tell our members about it
first," UAW President Leonard
Woodcock said when asked why details
of the agreement were withheld pending
an 8:30 a.m. news conference today,
Woodcock refused to predict whether
rank-and-file union members will ratify
the tentative agreement.
Neither company nor union would say
how long it will be until production
resumes. Union p-ocedures to ratify any
new contract oreinarily take at least a
week.
Kelly to testify before sub-committee
Landlord-tenant bill
By ROBIN MOORE
Collegian Staff Writer
Sometime this term, Bruce Kelly,
Organization of_ Town Independent
Students president,is expected to testify
before a Senate sub-committee in favor
of a new landlord-tenant bill which Kelly
says would eliminate many unfair
demands landlords place on tenants.
According to Kelly, "Senate Bill 1079
will not drastically change the landlord's
rights but will give the tenant more tools
to use against the landlord who does not
provide services which he promised he
would."
Under the bill's provisions landlords
would be limited to the types of clauses
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olleglan
the
daily
to this year's conference was placing
writers on panels to discuss their own
books.
At a banquet Saturday night, author
Jack Williamson was presented the
Pilgrim Award in honor of his studies of
H.G. Wells and his pioneer work in
establishing science fiction courses at
the university level.
In his acceptance speech, Williamson
said science fiction has a "practical
place" in modern society, because it
teaches students to look at problems
from an "esthetic distance" and to cope
with them.
Science fiction gives a "perspective to
change" and teaches that change is
normal, he added.
Williamson wrote "The Legion of
Space" and "The Humanoids," among
other novels.
Among the record number of authors
attending were John Brunner, Gordon
Dickson, Frederik Pohl, Jerry
Pournelle, Theordore Sturgeon and
Roger Zelazny.
UAW reach
The International Executive Board Production at other members of the
and the local presidents were scheduled Big Three, Ford and General Motors,
to meet yesterday afternoon in Detroit. continued while the union sought its
The contract would not cover the pattern contract at Chrysler.
approximately 10,500 white-collar
When asked what the union planned to
workers who also are represented by the
do about a settlement at those firms,
UAW. They had been instructed to cross
!
production workers' picket, lines during Woodcock said: "We will dispose of the
the strike. problems at Chrysler before I personally
"We're continuing to bargain" on the think of going anywhere else.'
contract for white-collar workers, News of the tentative agreement
Woodcock said. "If it becomes
followed nearly 23 hours of negotiations
..;
necessary, yes, there will be a strike En , rough the night.
dead-line" for a white-collar contract. 1 Chrysleti also withheld details of the
In 1958 a seven-day strike by salaried. pact, but called it "in the best interest of
workers shut Chrysler even though a Chrysler workers,lthe company and its
settlement covering production workers stockholders and dealers."
had been reached. The strike had ! cost Chrysler more
Chrysler is the only one of the Big
Three automakers where the UAW
represents salaried workers.
they can include in a lease.
Among the prohibited clauses would
be those which limit the landlord's
liability in cases where damages were
caused as a result of faulty fixtures.
"Catch-all" clauses would be
eliminated. These are clauses which do
not state specifically what is prohibited
and what is not, leaving this decision to
the landlord.
The new bill would eliminate waiver
clauses which often are included in form
leases. When a tenant signs these he is
agreeing to waive certain rights he
normally would have.
If the bill is passed, .tenants will be
allowed to withhold their rent if
apartment facilities such as hot water
Pfeiffer, a Central Michigan professor; Philmus, who
teaches at Loyola, Montreal; Jack Williamson, a science
fiction writer and professor at Eastern New Mexico; and
Thomas Clareson, a professor at Wooster College and
president of the Science Fiction Research Association.
Noted critics Leslie Fiedler and P
Schulyer Miller also attended.
Izzy Abrahami, an Israeli playwright
and novelist, read a paper at the
conference i calledl "Political Systems
and Science Fiction."
Julius Kagarlitski, a Russian
authority on Wells, l and the winner of the
1972 Pilgrim Awaxid, was scheduled to
attend but went Ito a conference in
Poland on request of the Soviet writers
union.
Asked by The Daily Collegian whether
this explanation could be taken at face
value, Lewis said he thought so. "I think
the best of .Soviet scholars," he- added.
Two local teachers also spoke at the
meeting. Alice Avey, a teacher at
Bellefonte High School, spoke on the
materials needed to teach science fiction
in secondaiy schools, and Stuart Stock
(graduate r English) spoke on the
interaction: between the science fiction
community and the academic
community.
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Photo by Steve Ivey
than $6O . million. by the time the
agreement was announced, the firm
said.
gets support
and electricity are not operating
properly. ;
"I'd like to ,see more definite
Tenants? ' also will be allowed to make
,statements as to which kind of clauses
repairs .in their apartments after
would be allowed in leases and which
obtaining I the landlord's permission.
Tenants Tay deduct the repair •costs would not."
from their rent. _ Kelly said he felt the Senate would
I pass the bill.
Under the bill, 1 • the tenant's security "The question is not whether it will
deposit will not go to the landlord as pass," he said, "it's whether it will pass
before, but will be placed in an escrow in its entirety."
account: This is a bank account to which If the bill is not passed, Kelly said
the laridlord will have no access and OTIS intends to take the matter before
which will:guarantee the tenant that his 1 the State College Borough Council. He
deposit will be returned. Theses accounts explained if the Home Rule Charter is
also can be arranged to allow tenants to passed in November Council will have
collect interest on their deposits while the authority to pass the bill even though
the money is in the bank. it was rejected by the State senate.
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Agnew impeachment possible
House
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal
grand jury investigating allegations of
political graft in Maryland may send its
findings on Vice President Spiro T.
Agnew to the House of Representatives,
it was learned yesterday.
Such action could be a prelude to
impeachment proceedings against
Agnew if the evidence warranted it.
The procedure would permit the
Justice Department to avoid facing the
controversial constitutional question of
whether a vice president can be indicted
before he is impeached. If Agnew were
impeached by the House and convicted
by the Senate, he then would be a private
Segretti to plead guilty
to election law violations
WASHINGTON (AP) Donald H.
Segretti, an underground political
operative for President Nixon's re
election campaign, yesterday agreed to
plead guilty to violating federal election
laws and to cooperate with federal
prosecutors.
One charge against Segretti alleges
involvement in a bogus letter accusing
two Democratic opponents of Sen.
Edmund S. Muskie of Maine with sexual
misconduct. The letter on Muskie
stationery was distributed during the
Florida Democratic . presidential
primary campaign.
Segretti's dicision was disclosed at a
brief appearance before a federal
magistrate at which he agreed to have a
case filed against him in Tampa, Fla.,
transferred to Washington.
No date was scheduled for Segretti to
enter his guilty plea. The magistrate set
Oct. 1 for his next appearance.
A federal grand jury in Tampa
returned a four-count indictment Aug.
2 Chilean newspapers report
Allende plotted assassinations
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Two daily
newspapers, quoting "a high military
source," yesterday said the government
of the late President Salvador Allende
had planned to assassinate top military
officers and opposition political leaders.
The newspapers, El Mercurio and La
Tercera de La Hora, said a "high
military source" brought the documents
describing the plot to the newspapers
after they were found in a safe at the
bomb-damaged presidential palace.
The documents allegedly were taken
from the safe of Daniel Vergara, a
Communist party leader and Allende's
minister of interior. The newspaper
stories said the assassinations were to
have taken place yesterday during a
military parade. They said the killings
were scheduled well before the coup
which toppled Allende's three-year-old
government last Tuesday.
El Mercurio and La Tercera de La
Discipline poll conducted
By BARB WHITE
Collegian Staff Writer
"All things considered, I would
estimate my overall satisfaction
(academic and non-academic) with my
experience at Penn State to be: A
quite'satisfactory, B more
satisfactory than unsatisfactory, C
equally satisfactory and unsatisfactory,
D more unsatisfactory than
satisfactory, E quite unsatisfactory."
This question and 35 others concerning
Kelly said OTIS is enthusiastic about
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report
citizen subject to indictment without
constitutional questions.
Sources close to the investigation said
if Agnew evidence eventually is sent to
the House, it probably would be done in
the form of a presentment, a document
outlining the L t - jury's finilings and
any action ' t otherwise have
taken.
The Justice e.. ment said it had no
comment on the r4port.
The vice president is under
investigation by the federal grand jury
in Baltimore for possible violation of tax,
extortion, bribery and conspiracy laws.
The panel is probing allegations that
24, charging Segretti with conspiracy to
violate federal election laws and
illegally publishing unauthorized
political statements during the Florida
primary. It remained sealed until
yesterday.
Segretti received money from Nixon's
former personal attorney and campaigp
fund raiser for an alleged campaign of
political sabotage in Florida and
elsewhere.
Special Watergate prosecutor
Archibald Cox has assigned a team of
lawyers; to investigate the reported
political espionage activities.
Segretti, 32, pleaded innocent in
Tampa May 17 to a two-count indictment
charging him with election law
violations. A Tampa accountant, George
A. Hearing, pleaded guilty to one count
of the same indictment and is serving a
maximum one-year prison term.
' A spokesman for the special
prosecutor's office said the expanded
indictment disclosed yesterday
Hora opposed the Allende government.
They have been the only newspapers
permitted to publish by the new military
junta, headed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet
Ugarte, army commander-in-chief. The
two papers said the military learned of
the assassination plan and toppled
Allende "as the only alternative in the
face of the dangerous blow prepared by
Marxism."
The documents, whose authenticity
could not be verified by newsmen, did
not explain why Allende's government
decided -upon the alleged assassination
plot.
Allende, 65, committed suicide, the
military authorities announced, as
troops closed in on the downtown
presidential palace last Tuesday after a
20-minute bombardment by tanks and
planes. His widow, who arrived in
Mexico City Sunday with 66 others
granted asylum by the Mexican
the University's hotising, social life,
courses, rules and regulations were sent
. about 400 University students this
summer. .
Donald Suit, director of the Office on
Conduct Standards, said he sent the
questionnaire to students who had been
through the discipline system last year
and to random students picked by a
computer to compare their attitudes
about the University and the discipline
system.' He said the questionnaire is a
repetition of a study conducted by the
University six years ago.
Suit said he hopes to have the results of
the questionnaire by the end of October.
They will used as an internal evaluation
and to ; get general feedback, he said.
The =change the Board of Trustees
ordered in the discipline system after
the Spring 1970 riots at the University
came into effect last Fall Term. Suit said
he believes the system is operating well.
Under the old discipline system
student misconduct cases were reviewed
by student tribunals who made
punishment recommendations for the
case either to the dean of men or the
dean of women. Cases not reviewed by
the student tribunal were reviewed by a
committee composed of two staff
members, a tribunal representative and
the dean of the student's college.
Now, a case can be reviewed by the
University Hearing Board, the Student
Standards Board or, if the charges are
uncontested, by Suit.
Three students who received the
questionnaire told The Daily Collegian
they were surprised to get it. Richard
Craft (4th-geology) said he was glad to
see it but doubted it would do any good.
seen
contractors and architects paid
kickbacks . to Maryland politicians in
return for contracts.
Agnew has denied the allegations
To date, sources said, the evidence
against Agnew consists of allegations
made by potential grand jury witnesses
to federal prosecutors. There have been
reports that some of the witnesses have
passed lie detector tests, but none has
testified under oath.
In Baltimore, it was learned that the
grand jury will meet again this week,
probably Thursday, but it was not known
immediately whether it would take up
the Agnew phase of its investigation.
supercedes the earlier one.
He said as a result of Segretti's
agreement to cooperate, no further
charges would be brought against him.
A resident of Los Angeles, Segretti
faces a maximum penalty of one year in
jail and a $l,OOO fine on each of the four
counts.
Herbert W. Kalmbach, former
personal attorney for the President, told
the Senate Watergate committee in July
that he passed money to Segretti at the
request of then-White House aide Dwight
L. - Chapin. Kalmbach said he did not
know what the money was used for.
The foUr-count indictment charged
Segretti with conspiring with Hearing
and Robert Melton Benz to disrupt the
primary campaigns of Democratic
senators Henry M. Jackson of
Washington and Muskie.
Benz and Hearing were named CQ
conspirators but were not indicted.
government, said in an interview that
her husband killed himself with a
submachine gun given him by Cuban
Premier Fidel Castro rather than
submit to capture.
Allende was a physician who
dedicated his life to politics and won
election in 1970 as the presidential
candidate of the six-party Popular
Unity coalition, dominated by the
Communist and Socialist parties.
There was no fighting yesterday, but
troops and military vehicles filled the
streets.
Weather
Periods of light rain today becoming
less likely during the afternoon, Hi 65.
Mostly cloudy, breezy and cooler
tonight, Lo 50. Mostly sunny Wednesday,
Hi 66.
Craig Brightup (sth-political science)
said he did not fill out the questionnaire.
"I don't think it will change the way he
(Suit) operates one way or the other. If
he likes it he will tack it up on his wall,
and if he doesn't he will just throw it
away," Brightup - said.
Suit said the questionnaire was sent to
students who had not been through thr.
discipline system to see how much the
knew about it. Brightup said the sadde.t
way to find out about the system is to go
through it. Both Suit and Brightup said
they thought very few students who had
not been- through the system knew
anything about it.
The 1967 study showed that studew. , ;
who had not been through the discip:..
system were more negative about it tt•
those who had. Suit said he thought
study would show the same thing.
Betty Youndt (sth-science) said before
she went through the system she was not
negative toward it. Brightup said he
thought students who went through the
system would be more negative toward
it because students "are unaware of it
until they come in contact with it."
Suit said the present discipline system
is complex, but insures students their
rights. He said many students fear and
misunderstand the system because it is
complex.
Suit said he will give the results of the
questionnaire to the policy committee
and they will suggest changes in the
system if they feel they are necessary.
Suit said the present discipline system
is on the presidential approval level
which makes changes in the system
easier than if they required approval of
the Board of Trustees.