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Kreisky refuses Meir request
VIENNA, Austria (AP)—Chancellor
Bruno Kreisky turned down a dramatic
personal appeal yesterday from Israeli
Premier Golda Meir that he reverse his
decision to close group transit facilities
for Soviet Jewish emigrants.
Kreisky told newsmen after a one and
a half hour meeting with Mrs. Meir that
he had proposed as an alternative that
the United Nations be asked to assume
responsibility for the nearby Schoenau
Castle transit camp for Soviet Jews en
route to Israel.
The Austrian government agreed last
Saturday to close the camp in return for
the release of four hostages held by two
Palestinian terrorists. The decision
prompted strong protests from Israel
and the sudden visit by Mrs. Meir.
The Israeli premier, looking tired and
grim last night at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport
after returning to Israel, said she was
"very sad" about the kidnap affair and
its aftermath, but added that the
Austrian decision to close the camp
would not affect relations between the
two countries.
Agnew probe resumes
BALTIMORE (AP) The special
federal grand jury investigating
allegations of bribery, extortion' and
conspiracy against Vice President Spiro
T. Agnew is quickening its pace in
search of kickback evidence, planning
two working sessions this week, starting
today.
First of the new testimony, a
courthouse source said, will come from a
reluctant witness, William J. Muth, a
former Democratic Baltimore City
Councilman who has been active in
raising funds for Agnew campaigns for
governor in 1966 and as vice president in
1968 and 1972.
Muth, apparently resorting to Fifth
Amendment protection, refused to
answer questions last Thursday when
the 22-member panel finally started the
case involving Agnew, two months after
the vice president was notified formally
Engineering welcomes women students
Editor's note: following is th• first in a three-part series on the
status of women in engineering. Today: the College of Engi
neering's position.
By DIANE NOTTLE
Collegian Ass't City Editor
In this age of women's liberation challenging traditional sex
roles, women are being welcomed into at least one male
dominated stronghold: the engineering profession.
Officials in the University's College of Engineering predict
that women who now represent only about one per cent of all
professional engineers soon will enter engineering in in
creasing numbers.
"With the increasing demand for engineers, we cannot af
ford to neglect this single largest under-utilized group as an ob
vious potential source of new recruits," said Nunzio J.
Palladino, dean of the College of Engineering.
"I have a feeling the field is going to break wide open one of '
these days," said Ernest R. Weidhaas, assistant dean for Com
monwealth Campuses.
Fall Term enrollment statistics compiled by the Office of Ad
missions support their predictions.
Forty-nine freshman women entered the College this term,
raising the number of women to about five per cent of the
'College's freshman class total of 931.
This figure is more than three times the number for Fall
Term 1972, when only 16 women entered the College's fresh
man class. A total of 59 women, including those enrolled in
engineering divisions of the College of Earth and Mineral
Sciences, were studying some area of engineering last fall.
Weidhaas said women ideally should represent about half of
-all engineers.
"In engineering we usually accept students in the top fifth of
their high school classes. They have a harder time if they're
not from the top," he said. "If you look at the top fifth of most
classes, more than 50 per cent of the top brains are girls.
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AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR Bruno Kreisky and Israeli Premier Golda Meir confer
in Kreisky's Vienna office. Kreisky yesterday refused Meir's request that he
reopen group transit facilities for Soviet Jewish emigrants.
"Israel does not believe in solving
problems by breaking relations. We will
find another way," she said.
Kreisky said he cabled Austrian
Foreign Minister Rudolf Kirchschlaeger
in New York yesterday, instructing him
to propose that the U.N. high
commissioner for refugee questions be
asked to assume responsibility for the
camp.
An official at the high,commissioner's
office said it was uncertain whether the
Jews, passing through Austria were
refugees since they legally had left the
Soviet Union and had an assured
destination.
Later, diplomats said .Kirchschlaeger
met with U.N. Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim, but what they discussed was
not disclosed.
Kreisky said there was "no special
reaction" from Mrs. Meir regarding his
suggestion that the United Nations take
over the camp.
Questioned closely on the matter,
Kreisky added that Mrs. / Meir was "not
very impressed by my proposal.
by a Justice Department letter that he
was under criminal investigation.
The source said Muth, now office
manager for an engineering firm, would
be granted immunity and forced to
testify under threat of being sent to jail
for contempt. It was not disclosed what
Muth is expected to tell the jury about
his connections with Agnew. ,
Muth told newsmen last week, after
leaving the grand jury room, that the
Agnew investigation "is a lot of bull
The jury previously hai been meeting
regularly only once a week, on
Thursdays. 4
Since Aug. 23, when it handed up a 39-
count indictment against N. Dale
Anderson, the Democrat who succeeded
Agnew as chief executive, of Baltimore
County in 1966, the jury' has been in
session only three times including last
Perhaps she did not think it was very
realistic." ,
Kreisky said the decision to close the
camp would not bar the ; travel of
individuals through Austria. "Only
special facilities we have been able to
grant so far will no longer be'available."
The Austrian leader haS said he
decided to close the Schoenau camp
because the goVernment fears it cannot
provide adequate protection for the
Jewish emigrants against Arab terrorist
attacks.
Mrs. Meir had criticized the
agreement to close the camp as "the
greatest encouragement to terror
throughout the, world." Kreisky replied
to this by criticizing actions of other
governments tinder terrorist pressure.
"Murderers have been released under
pressure before their sentencing," he
said in reference to West Germany's
release of Arab' terrorists involved in the
1972 Munich Olympics slaying of 11
Israeli sportsnien. "The difference here
is that people were released before they
could commit bloody deeds."
Thursday when it opened its criminal
probe of the vice president on direct
orders of -Atty. Gen. tlliot L.
Richardson.
A day later, Agnew's lawyers moved
to halt the grand jury investigation, and
also to silence all public discuSsion about
alleged evidence already befOre the jury
or scheduled to be presented, if it ever is.
U.S. District Court Judge! Walter E.
Hoffman Jr. of Norfolk,l assigned
specially to handle the Agnew phase
after all nine federal judges in Maryland
disqualified themselves because of
friendship with the vice pr4ident, has
fixed Oct. 12 for a hearing here.
Until Hoffman acts, though, the
federal prosecutors headed by U.S. Atty.
George Bean of Maryland are free to
pursue their probe.
"Of course, if this is concentrated in language ability, rather
than' math and science, it may not mean as much. But you've
got to figure the field's going to break wide open," he said. '
Asked if he believes women actually will ever reach the 50
per cent mark, Weidhaas said, "I don't know. You mean in 20
years or so? Maybe "
Both Weidhaas
am [in() said many women neglect to
consider engineering as a career because they are conditioned
to lack necessary motivation.
"It goes back as far as grade school," Weidhaas said. "Even
in kindergarten, a little girle is given pots and pans!and told to
playhouse, but a little boy is given a shovel and told to go out
and dig a ditch."
Palladino told of a day when his daughter said 'a group of
engineering professors had given a recruiting talk at her high
school. Asked if she had attended, he said, she" replied, "Me?
No!"
"I said, 'Why not? You've always been interested in math
and science.' But even with me being her father, she had never
thought of herself as a candidate for engineeridg school,"
Palladino said. "That just shows how inbred these icleas are."
Weidhaas added that women also hold a false, unattractive
image of engineering.
"Women think it's a hard-hat job where you're down in the
street pushing a jackhammer," he said. "But it's pot a dirty
job. Engineering means working in an air-conditioned office
with a pen and pencil. It's not construction work."
To correct such impressions, the College has taken steps
toward recruiting more women. These include:
mailing brochures on opportunities in engineermg to more
than 60,000 Pennsylvania high school juniors andeniors last
year ; Women- who expressed interest. were mailed special in
formation;
producing a series of five 60-second radio annoi
on women in engineering. The spots consisted of a
dergraduate student in nuclear engineering talking
Senate approves bill
PSU funds. passed
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Staff Writer
The State Senate yesterday passed by
a 45-1 vote an appropriation bill granting
Penn State $87.754 minion in state funds.
The Senate also passed with little
opposition appropriation bills for the
University of Pittsburgh, the University
of Pennsylvania, Temple University,
Drexel University and Lincoln
University.
The bills, which will be sent to the,
House for concurrence, give thej
universities a six per cent increase in !
funds over last year's appropriations.
In July the House voted to allow the
universities a five per cent increase over
last year's funding. Earlier this year •
Gov. Shapp had asked the legislature not
to give the universitieeari increase in
appropriations.
An amendment to, appropriation bills
for Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln
calls for monthly payment of funds to
these schools instead of the current
qdarterly payments.
The amendment was designed to save
the universities money on interest
payments. The universities must borrow
money to meet payments. They submit a
receipt for their spending to the state
which reimburses them as much as their
appropriatign allows.
By receiving payments every month
instead of quarterly, the universities will
be able to save an estimated one per cent
Addison hints conflict
between chief, manager
A borough official hinted yesterday
that the reasons behind Police Chief
Herbert Straley's recent resignation
may center around a conflict with
Borough Manager Carl Fairbanks.
"Where you have two professionally
oriented people, differences can occur
and - unless there's compromise, the
differences will continue," Borough
Council Public Safety Committee
chairman Arnold Addison said.
The borough manager in State College
oversees the day to day functions of the
police department, a duty delegated to
him by the mayor. According to Addison
Council must provide the manager a free
hand in this role if he is to be effective.
"Either you put your faith in him or
you get rid of him," Addison said.
Fairbanks, when contacted yesterday,
said he had yet to discuss Straley's
resignation with the chief and his
decision to quit had come as a surprise.
According to Fairbanks, no recent
controversies have arisen in the
administration of police affairs which
could have prompted the move.
Straley is an "ambitious and
aggressive person who has set goals for
himself and he probably feels that he has
done all he can here and wants to move
on to other passes," Fairbanks said.
Weather
Mostly cloudy early this morning,
becoming partly sunny by afternoon,
high 69. Mostly clear tonight, low 52.
Thursday mostly sunny but with some
cloudiness in the afternoon, high 71.
pressures, dating, how her parents feel about her career
choice, being a woman in a predominantly male field, and the
idea that engineering is too tough for women;
preparing a press release entitled "Engineering Offers
Careers for Women"; and
producing a 60-second television spot, to be released this
fall, about a women engineering student.
But despite the College's efforts to attract more women ap
plicants, Palladino stressed the College would not accept an
unqualified woman simply on the basis of sex.
"We're trying to encourage women, but once they apply
they're treated the same," Palladino said. Contrasting the ad
missions system with a now-defunct University quota system,
he said, "We now accept students on a basis of minimum
qualifications."
Palladino emphasized that women must prove themselves
professionally to be successful in engineering.)
"If a girl goes in and works with a women's lib idea that
every job she gets is demeaning, I don't think she'll make it,"
he said. "She'll have to do it on her own qualifications, like any
woman doctor. She'll have to stand on her own feet and be com
petent."
Although some employers now must fill minimum quotas for
women employes, Palladino said he believes women engineers
do not always have an unfair advantage oyer•men in finding a
job.
"They sometimes have a temporary advantage, but they
have the same problems in being selected for a job as a man,"
he said. "Some companies would give women preference
because of quotas, but the better ones don't do it."
Even where quotas exist, they do not always mean the end of
job problems for women engineers. According to the College's
only woman professor, obtaining equal pay for equal work can
be a major problem..
"Even if women start out at the same pay as men, they may
not be advanced at the same rate," said Mary Kummer,
rncements
female un-
About class
By CARL DiORIO
Collegian Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 3, 1973
Vol. 74, No. 40 10 pages University Park, Pennsylvania
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
interest.
A Penn State spokesman said this plan
could save the University about $7
million this year.
James Logan, financial vice president
for Temple, said the amendment, which
Temple originally proposed, would save
the university about $500,000 a year in
interest payments. Logan termed the
amendment "a real step forward."
An amendment to all the university
appropriation bills was added from the
floor yesterday by Sen. 'Richard A.
Snyder, R-13. The "Snyder
Amendment" requires the six
universities to submit a study on the
number of hours a week each faculty
member works.
This amendment was included in last
year's appropriations bills but not in the
House version of the bill.
According to Sen. Joseph S.
Ammerman, D-Clearfield, the House
could act on the bill today or tomorrow.
He said if the House passed the Senate
versions, the bills cauld go to Shapp for
his signature. -
But passage of the Senate bills may
not be so easy, according to House
members. For several weeks, House
members have been complaining about
the Senate's six per cent increase in
funds.
House Appropriations Committee
Chairman H. Jack Seltzer, R-101, said
He added. that Straley has "done a
remarkable job of installing a well
, disciplined force" while in his post.
Fairbanks said he believes Straley
thinks he has accomplished all he can in
State College "given the limitations of
the budget and Pennsylvania law."
As an example of legal frustrations
Straley has faced, Fairbanks pointed to
the fact that in this state a chief of police
cannot suspend patrolmen for
unsatisfactory service.
In reference to budgetary restrictions,
he said Straley has not been allowed •to
hire as many patrolmen as he has
wanted in recent years.
Two years ago Straley requested 19
new patrolmen for the force. According
To Fairbanks, the chief has been allowed
Atlantic pact likely
WASHINGTON (AP) A casual
remark by President Nixon to Italian
tourists has revived prospects that a new
Atlantic declaration will be in shape for
him to sign on a trip to Europe before the
end of the year.
This would fulfill Nixon's
proclamation that 1973 will be "the year
of Europe" and would represent an
additional accomplishment for a foreign
policy already embellished by major
turns in U.S. relations with Moscow and
Peking.
But the President's chief foreign
policy strategist, Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger, has said the trip will
not be hurried to meet any "artificial
deadlines."
And Gerald L. Warren, the deputy
after the vote he would oppose the
Senate bill. Seltzer earlier had told The
Daily Collegian if the Senate passes a six
per cent increase "their bill will just sit
in our committee."
Seltzer and other members of the
House said they favor,making monthly
payments to the universities, but would
not express a view on the "Snyder
Amendment."
If the House does not agree to the
Senate bills, they will be sent to a
conference committee of House and
Senate members to seek a compromise.
Ammerman indicated he would be
willing to compromise if necessary.
Undero the Senate bills, Pitt would
receive .$48.2 million, Temple $52.9
million, Penn $14.1 million, Lincoln $l.B
million and Drexel $2.9 million.
Shapp has not indicated whether he
will approve university appropriations if
the bills would give the colleges an
increase in funds, which he opposes.
Until Shapp does sign appropriation
bills, Pitt, Temple_ and Penn State will
have to borrow money to meet costs. The
first quarter payment for these
universities was due Sunday, and since
the funds were approved the colleges did
not have state payments to help meet
costs.
Last year, Penn State spent more than
$474,000 on interest payments and in
1971-72 spent more than $1 million.
to increase department manpower by
only about 10 since then.
Straley, who has attributed his
resignation to "ethical and professional
considerations," refused to comment on
speculation about a feud between
himself and Fairbanks.
Addison said an interviewing
committee will be set up in conjunction
with Centre Regional Council of
Governments officials to screen
prospective replacemcnts for Straley.
The last time the office was vacated 55
people applied for the job from across
the nation, he continued.
The job opening probably will be
advertised through Chief of Police
magazine, Addison said.
White House press secretary, suggested
yesterday that the President essentially
was expressing a hope to visit Europe
rather than predicting a date in his chat
with an Italian couple outside a
Washington restaurant.
Nixon was quoted as telling Mr. and
Mrs. Giuseppe DiMarco he plans to go to
Europe about two or three months."
But Warren told newsmen: "The
President thinks he said, 'in a few
months'. "
In any event, both Kissinger and the
White House have stressed the
importance of the secretary's visit to
London with two weeks for talks with
several European foreign ministers. He
also may go to Paris and Bonn.
assistant professor of engineering graphics. "Women have to
do a super job just to compete with a man's regular job."
Kummer said discrimination also can be a problem in the
classroom.
"There are probably some cases where the instructor- has
some prejudices, maybe unconscious ones," she said. "I've
heard of a couple who say outright that a woman has no place
in engineering."
Palladino agreed. "Sonie of the old-timers think women have
no place, even though some of the girls come in very well
qualified," he said.
Kummer noted that women engineering students are
enrolled most . heavily ,in architectural and chemical
engineering. "Architectural is always big for women, probably
because it's related to art " she said. "If they go into chemical
engineering, it may be because they liked chemistry in high
school and want to put their science and math to a practical ap
plication."
Women engineers can contribute more in certain areas than
men, Palladino said.
"They have an advantage in certain activities, such ,as
working with consumer and household goods," he said.
"Women's perceptions are different. They can make a
valuable contribution if they're creative with math and scien
ce."
Palladino said some women engineers have shortcomings in
that their ability to judge massive structures may not be well
developed.
But Kamer said no aspect of engineering is inherently a
"masculine" job.
"In other countries Russia, for example there are as
many women engineers as men, just as there are more women
doctors and dentists," she said. "In America there's more
social pressure against it."
Tomorrow: what engineering students women and men
think of women engineers.