EDITORIAL OPINION
A slow death for OD?
What do you do when your
educational dosage of speed turns
into a strangling dependency? Or a
party “high” backfires?
Call On Drugs? Well, if it’s be
tween 9 p.m. and 9 a.m. before
Oct. 31, then you’re in luck. But at
the end of the month, On Drugs,
Inc. may be closing up shop.
On Drugs, a 24-hour drug crisis
intervention, educational, coun
seling and referral service, must
cutback hotline hours beginning
Sunday: The future of On Drugs af
ter Halloween depends on the
political tricks or financial treats
bestowed by the Centre County
Commissioners.
There are many people working
to keep OD afloat. OD’s full-time
staffers work for a yearly salary of
about $2,000 each. r Associated
Student Activities has contributed
$2,695 and the University has’
provided $7,100 worth of con
sultant services. OD - Vice
President Guy Pilato is a University
psychologist. .. 1
But the bulk of OD’s revenue
comes in a $26,000 check which
the commissioners will not
The amount is part of total county
budget of $90,000 for social ser
vices from the Governor’s Council
of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
College Ave.
Calder Alley
State College
Municipal Building,
118 S. Fraser St.
Beaver Ave
Letters to the Editor of The Daily
Give and take
TO THE EDITOR: As one who has survived the perils of bicycle
riding for more than 30 years, 10 of them in State College and
on campus (long before it became fashionable), and as a car
driver for some 20 years, I am appalled by the number of
cyclists who ignore red lights and stop signs, ride without
lights at night and go against traffic flow on one-way streets.
I exhort the borough police and campus security force to use
the full weight of the vehicle code in prosecuting these
offenders, who are bringing discredit on law-abiding cyclists.
At the same time I plead for some directives about where I
may park-my bike while shopping (thank you, U.S. Post Office,
for your well-designed rack).
I also plead with campus authorities for permission to use,
with due observance of the prior rights of pedestrians, certain
Campus walk-ways which do not border a road. To get from the
bike stand in front of Pattee to the Corner Room by "legal
means” entails carrying the bike up and down a flight of steps,
then going via Burrowes, Beaver and Allen Street (three and a
half sides of a rectangle). It is not surprising that cyclists
prefer to go straight down the Mall, and the majority do it
without inconveniencing the foot-sloggers
Just leave,okay?
TO THE EDITOR: I am forced to write out of embarrassment.
My embarrassment comes from the lack of common courtesy
that my peers exhibit towards other students and especially
towards the professor.
This boarishness is most apparent in a class containing
many students (Forum, Schwab, Willard) in which towards the
end of class there, is a general restlessness that literally
drowns out the professor who is still lecturilng
Another point of contention is students talking to their
neighbors which not only is annoying to the professor but also
prohibits the surrounding students from hearing the lecture.
In closing, just let me say that if a student does not like the
course, as is evident by his eagerness to leave and his lack of
attention to the lecture, he should please not come to the
class. It saves the professor a lot of pain and makes it easier
(or the other students who are trying to listen. There is no
excuse for bad manners.
The letter of the law
TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in response to the Oct. 3 letter
submitted by H.L. Sosinski. His letter dealt with the ever
growing issue between bicyclists and car drivers. Since I do
not operate a motor vehicle on campus nor ride a bicycle, I
consider myself an objective observer.
Mr. Sosinski, I respect you for your devotion to Pennsylvania
traffic regulations; However, it seems to me that your strict
observance of the letter of the law is allyou feel is necessary to
be a safe driver. I find this most disheartening. Especially
since you are studying law enforcement and should know
better.
I would like to make a hypothetical case in point to your
statement: "I am not responsible for bicyclists that insist on
sneaking’ along my right side as I am making a right turn."
Imagine you have just stopped at an intersection and have
looked both ways on the intersecting street. You proceed to
make a right turn, after putting on your right turn signal of
course
Halfway into your turn you hear a sickening thud, and you
realize you have struck down a cylcist who was ‘sneaking’
along your right side. And you kill him.
At the coroners inquest you will be asked if you saw the
cyclist. If you answer no, you will be asked why you,didn’t see
him. Stating that you publicly disavowed responsibility toward
The money, however, goes back
in the state’s account; if The com
missioners refuse to ! appropriate
10 per cent in matched funds. OD
already has raised its own match
ed funds but cannot receive
their share of the sobial service
funds since the commissioners
have rejected the entire icounty
plan. -
In addition, the commissioners
have refused to loan • On Drugs,
Inc. any money to perpetuate the
program.
The commissioners claim the
fund refusal does not stem from
dissatisfaction with the program.
Commissioner J. Doyle Corman
admitted OD is “quite effective.”
The Centre County Council on
Drug and Alcohol Abuse the
group authorized to submit
proposals to the state for social
service funds also has en
dorsed OD.
The commissioners say., they
have not dug into the county’s
pockets for the $lO,OOO needed
*o get the state $90,000, because
the county cannot spare the
money. :
As OD President John Elliot
noted, “the commissioners felt it
necessary to refurnish the county
courthouse last year at a cost to
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Hammond Building '
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New College Diner
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Centre Daily Times
Pat Wilson
Penn State Class of 70
Richard Weiss
sth-finance
Corner Room
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careless cyclists won’t help. You will be slapped with a
manslaughter charge due to negligence quicker than you can
rattle off just one of Pa.’s traffic regulations.
I can make similar.hypothetical situations for every one of
your “I am not responsible" statements, although one suffices
to carry my point. I hope they teach you more than self
righteousness in Law Enforcement and Correction.!
C'mon AWS
TO THE EDITOR: Bobby deserved his loss to a betti
player, but the Association of Woman Students was|
forcing USG into the “precedent-setting” decision to t
Homecoming activities last week.
AWS helped capable musicians achieve proper re<
when they aided in opening.the band to women, bu!
they think they’re helping now?
Women and men should have equal freedoms and
opportunities,"but this most recent exhibition of ill-placed
power has simply -served to polarize the previously
uncommitted people: a few jumped on the misdirected
bandwagon, but the of the situation caused at
least as many others to decide that women’s lib has gone too
far. "
AWS, Focus Magazine and their pawn, Peter Key, should
have obtained their publicity elsewhere, but now they may
ort a dingy, spotted feather in their precious caps, at the
expense of the many men and women who enjoyed the
contest.
Focus and AWS if you want to tackle some real hard-core
discrimination, take a look at Pennsylvania’s divorce laws.
Protect pedestrians
TO THE EDITOR: Recently there have been numerous letters
to the editor about bicyclists and their activities on campus
and around State College. All of these letters were in defense
of bicyclists and not one bicyclist was concerned in| the least
about pedestrian safety.
fily point is this: most people that ride bikes have no respect
for the law and no consideration for pedestrians. All of them
are blatant violators of the law for they can not and will not
stop at a stop sign nor will they yield to a pedestrian in a
crosswalk or otherwise.
So long as a bicycle is considered as a vehicle, the rider
should pay the consequences of a traffic violation as do
motorists. ;
Suppose for one day all motorists take all of the liberties
that bicyclists do. end of that day, there.will have been
more blood spilled than in any event in history, it would please
the author and many pedestrians to see the Campus Patrol
enforce traffic regulations against the bicyclists, i
Dodging bikers
TO THE EDITOR: I was very amused by Gary Barton’s Oct. 1
letter demanding that bicyclists should have all the rights of a
motorist. So be it. As a member of the “Silent Majority” of
pedestrians here in State College, I feel that the time' has now
come to defend my own rights. |
For this reason I suggest that Mr. TJSrton and his cycling
comrades take one of two possible courses of action: either
start- obeying the traffic laws or buy some liability, life,
collision and medical insurance to cover their riding habits. I’m
tired of dodging bikers who ignore the stop signs onj campus,
the county of $90,000, while the
need for a much smaller in
vestment in social services for the
citizens of the county is
questioned.”
Any hope for revenue sharing
funds from the borough for On
Drugs? Most of the . $220,000 is
slated for curbs, sewers, street
signs and other new, shiny and
noticeable improvements.
On Drugs. faces a slow death.
Overdue bills are piling up. Staffers
now working without pay
are beginning tq look for other
jobs.
What can you do to help? Finan
cial contributions are welcome and
should be mailed to On Drugs, Inc.,
Box 1003, State College.
Realistically, howeVer, it will be
difficult for On Drugs to sustain the
24-hour service on contributions
alone.
Write to Corman at the court
house in Bellefonte and let him
know what you think of the coun
ty’s attitude toward social
services.
On Drugs now has its head on
the financial block and the com
missioners’ control the axe. A
swift, clean funding cut is all that's
needed to kill the service.
Help get OD an acquittal.
Last chance
You are part of State College. So
are the 973 people who have
registered to vote this week and
gained a voice in State College
government. Why haven’t you?
Voter registration will be con
ducted, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
today at the State College
Municipal Building, 118 S. Fraser
St.
If you have changed your ad
dress you also must notify the
election. commissioners by going
to the Municipal Building today.
This is your last chance to
register in State College.
Roger J. Mislaszek
10th-mechanical engineering
Changing sex roles have crippled females
PSU coeds: try love
Ask atypical Penn State coed what she
is looking for in her relationships with
Penn State men and you might expect an
answer like “love,” if she’s being
serious, right? Then ask the men what
they want from women and the answer is
"sex," right? That’s hardly the case
anymore. Some of you may be laughing
already. Or crying, depending upon your
personal experiences.
All my experiences with the opposite
sex have left me crying—not just for
myself, but for the girls that wouldn't or
couldn't love me or anyone else.
Something has deprived all the girls I’ve
met, or heard about, of the ability to be
truly in love with a man. I myself have
never suffered from the inability to love,
but it's supposed to be hell, at least
according to Dostoevsky... I wondered
how such a deplorable condition could
have arisen on campus, and I think I’ve
come up with .the answer.
I would say tnat 50 years ago sex roles
were much more clearly defined than
they are today. Women knew their place,
so to say. Whether the position of the
woman before the suffrage movement
was politically or morally right is not my
concern here. At least she had the
security of knowing her place. She
nurtured the ideal of love. The love of a
good woman was like a rock, enduring
the irresponsible, short-lived thrusts of
the male sex game. Woman held in her
hands the responsibility of preserving
life itself.
Things have changed since then.
Woman have been struggling for the
right to do all the things men do. College
women in particular are wonderfully
liberated. The'old saying that women go
to college to get a man just isn’t true
anymore. The women on this campus are
pursuing careers, just like men.
There’s nothing wrong with that, of
course. Woman should be able to have
careers and raise a family, too.
Logically, nothing should be preventing
the formation 1 of long-lasting
relationships on campus.
There is an irrational fear which is
fouling up the situation, however. I’m
afraid that women’s liberation has driven
its philosophy home to the point of over
kill. The girls look back on the "plight" of
their mothers and are scared to death of
becoming enslaved. They may say
and someday I may not jump quite quickly enough.
Pay up your insurance, Mr. Barton Pennsylvania law
requires financial responsibility. (So that l ean sue you to
recover.) Fair is fair!
Share the road
lamllton
-English
Robert J. IH
4th •
TO THE EDITOR: By the tone of recent letters in The Daily
Collegian one can see that the various factions of the bike-auto
issue are choosing-up sides and preparing to do battle. This
sort of antagonism can only lead to confrontations, and let’s
face it folks.— in a bike-auto run in, the bicyclist is bound to
get the short end of the stick.
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terminate
I have been a bicyclist, motorist and pedestrian in State
College for two years now, and I have to admit that whatever
form of transportation I am using, the other two become a pain
in the butt. There is no question that bikes get in the way of
cars, cars get in the way of bikes, and pedestrians, who really
have the right of way, get in the way of everybody.
:ognition
whq. do
The solution to this problem lies in cooperation, not in
drawing up sides. There are more cars, bikes and people in
State College every year, and the streets are not getting any
wider. Consequently some changes will have to be made which
call for careful planning and money. Bike lanes are one
answer, but this means less on-street! parking, more
garages and higher taxes. A downtown mall is probably the
final s.olution, but the merchants don’t want that.
Until the township supervisors can plan a workable solution
and make some positive improvements, we will have to rely
enforcement of existing laws and some common sense.
Enforcement means not only ticketing misparked bikes and
bikes running lights, but also nabbing autos doing 55 mph on
Beaver and pedestrians crossing College Avenue against the
light.
Phil Amthor
Bth-advert!sing
Common sense means driving slowly in town, crossing the
streets only at the corners and keeping bikes off College
Avenue and the Benner Pike after 5 p.m.
This simple use of enforcement and common sense might
not solve the State College traffic problem, but we’ll all
probably live longer.
NAME WITHHELD
PSU Student
Collegian forum
Put the pressure on
TO THE EDITOR: Hail. Auto the Great, lord and master of the
road. For over 50 years the auto’s iron fist has ruled the
highway and the cyclist is still forced intojthe gutter.'Why
should bicycles have a fair share of the streets? They do not
exist, only “motor vehicles." Bikers can stand around and give
the finger whenever they are hassled by a car or they can take
action. !
If‘the law is a rip-off, giving the patrolman ia headache does
not help. The ticket to justice is changing the law. The Motor
Vehicle Code is being rewritten this winter and a public hearing
is being held Oct. 17 in Keller Building. They want to know
what the gripes’are.
Cyclists can pedal their ideas locally too.! Election time is
drawing near and the USG is sponsoring a jneeting with the
candidates later this month. The only way to get the downtown
situation shifted into the right gear is for the 7,000 locally
registered bikers to declare, “no bike racks no vote.”
One cyclist on the rim of the crowd can run out of air pretty
fast, but together a bunch of bikers can put the pressure on.
Locally, the Center Region Hike Bike Association, Inc.
and on campus the Cycling Club are trying to turn the
handlebars in their direction. They will have their spokesmen
in 121 Sparks on Oct. 11 at 7:30 and they'need input from
everybody.
thiey’ve been in love, but it generally;
dpesn’t last for more than six
a jyear. J \
jThe tendency for girls today is toj
experiment, to become involved in as
many intense, yet very short-lived;
relationships as posible, at least
according to the clinical psychologist;
who has been treating me for my mosti
recent heartbreak. (He insists that there;
are many exceptions to this rule, but I'
haven’t yet met met a girl capable of;
love, in spite of all my efforts to do so.)
I'm sure there are many people who
after reading this far, still say, "What’s
the big deal?” You tell me there’s nothing
wrong with having many short
involvements without love while we’re
still undergraduates. After all, we don’t
intend to get married until after we
graduate. I agree that this system is fine
for the frigid, impotent, for those people
capable of having sex outside of love.
For the rest of us, sex can be a big
problem.
; For the qirls, sex usually doesn’t
impose any real problems. They were
hardly interested in it in the days of the
long-lasting relationship, and now they
can ignore it completely if they choose
to do so in all their shallow little affairs.
No love, no sex; just the freedom to pick
men’s minds for intellectual stimulation.
Oh, I realize that you do get horny, girls,
but once every two weeks or so doesn’t
impress me.
• Of course the male feeling toward sex
has not changed and probably never will.
Guys are always horny. It's a fact of life.
PATRICIA J. STEWART
Editor
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Joe Kavinski
1 3th-computer science
Robert Brown
Graduate-animal nutrition
Ken Shanks
Penn State Cycling Club President
What has changed for many -of us,
though, is the necessity of combining
sex with love. Maybe it’s because we
have to nurture the life-protecting force
of love, now that our female companions
have fropped ttys ideal. Whatever the
reason, men like myself who refuse to
have sex without love are suffering
emotionally and physically. In the
meantime, the women-are happy in their
new-found freedom. Or are they?
Upon the week of breaking off an
unusually deep and rich relationship
with my last girlfriend (at her request, of
course), all I heard from her over and
over again was, “I can't see any meaning
in my life.”
It’s not surprising. At times she had let
her true feelings slip out and exclaimed
aloud how much she wanted a,family
and children. Yet I never dared to
mention the possibility of marriage to
her, for the word was on her taboo list.
She would cry out in pain at the
transitory nature of her existence, yet
she refused the security of the kind of
life I offered her.
I encouraged her in every way to think
for herself and to build whatever kind of
life she wanted, but she continuously
accused me of trying to trap her into my
ways of thinking. She is the typical,
sensitive, intelligent coed unhappy
and mixed up as hell. Not that love is the
universal panacea for our problems.
Love simply makes our transient lives a
bit more meaningful, and I wish the girls
on this campus would stop being so
afraid to give love a try when they find
someone as sincere as I hope I am.
Collegian
Famous beards
TO THE EDITOR: Your account of local dentist’s refusal to
'attend to the dental needs of various patients causes some
concern to myself both as a bearded person and as a member
of the Penn State faculty.
It is known that Dr. Marshall is an avid follower of many
activities including the Penn State football team, and it will no
doubt come as a surprise to him to learn that distinguished;
notables at Penn State including its first seven presidents of
Penn State had full beards, namely: (1) President Evan Pugh,
(2) President William H. Allen, (3) President John Fraser, (4)
President Thomas Burrowes, President James Calder, (6)
President Joseph Shortlidge, ”and (7) President George
Atherton.
Had they been subject to his proscription they would in fact
have been' denied the benefits of his professional training.
Limited inquiries made of dental associations failed to verify •
the statements “that the new high speed drills in fact can be,
hazardous to bearded patients.” >
It is perhaps without some degree of macabre humor to note l
that citizens of the order of Charles Darwin, King George V of .
Great Britain as well as lesser mortals would have to suffer the
agonies of dental ache were there to be a boycott imposed by ‘
dentists with respect to bearded patients. ’
Bicycle form letter
TO THE EDITOR: I suggest the following form letter for all
future bicycle letters: _ •
“I am writing an arrogant letter about (A) car drivers, (B)
bicycle riders, (C)' pedestrians.
“They are stupid because they don’t go to class my way.
Everybody knows that the smartest people go to class by (A)
car, (B) bicycle, (C)food, (D) horseback like I do.
“All (A) bicycles, (B) cars, (C) people should be banned from
the campus.
“(A) car drivers are fools, (B) bicycle riders are fools, (C)
pedestrians are fools.”
Rules are rules?
TO THE EDITOR: Ecology is excellent, bicycling is beautiful,
but rules .are rules. Or are they? What are the rules for
bicycles?
I appreciate the arguments made in favor of difference if
you stop you lose your momentum, etc. but most of these
smack of special pleading. I agree that bikes are not just the
same as cars, but we all need some clearly stated rules so that
all—car drivers, cyclists, pedestrians—know where we ai;e.
Can cyclists ready ride both with the traffic and against it,
pass cars on both right and left, ignore stop signs and weave
around traffic (as I saw this morning, traffic moving in both
directions and on two streets at an intersection) without
expecting some irate reactions?
This is particularly a problem at four-way or three-way stops
where the efficiency of the system depends on keeping to the
rules.
What about getting together on it?
Associate Director of libraries
EDITOR’S NOTE: Next Friday’s P.S. magazine is scheduled to
carry a cover story analyzing bicycle regulations on and off
campus.
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JOHN J. TODD
Business Manager
Harry S. Cublentz
Associate professor of urban planning
Murray S. Martin
Tom Bubeck
9th-joumalism