Nittany attracts students
By DAVE KASZYCKI
Collegian Staff Writer
The Nittany dorm area is one of the most requested areas on
campus.
Why?
“Nittany is'intimate. Where else can you pervert a room to
your own desires?” said Andy Smookler (6th-agronomy), a
resident assistant in Nittanv.
The University allows Nittany residents to paint their
rooms, but they must use. University-approved colors.
Nittany residents commented on their home.
Craig Mellott (4th-physics) painted his room last year and
said it has a more homey feeling. “There’s a special feeling I
get knowing that this room has been painted to suit my
tastes,” Mellott said.
“I like the fact that you can put (almost) anything you want
in your room,” John Saarivirta (loth-electrical engineering)
said.
A resident of one of the four Nittany buildings housing
women, Janet Flowers (6th-education of exceptional children)
said “I like having two of everything, desks, dressers, etc.”
Since Nittany furniture is movable, two rooms are seldom
alike.
“I dig having a single room and paying less for it,” Joe
Simoneau (7th-English writing option) said.
Tom Diana (lOth-English) said, “Here you have no hassles
with roommates. There is no conflict in life styles. ”
Residents claim studying is easier in Nittany than in a high
rise.
“When I want to study, I just close the door and I am
assured privacy,” Hildi Harms (4th-business administration)
said.
Flowers said she likes knowing everyone in her dorm, since
there are only 23 residents in one building.
Diana said he thinks there is more group solidarity in
Nittany than in other dorms.
Nittany has its disadvantages, too. Simoneau explained his
first reaction to Nittany, “I thought it was'a dump. It was like a
third-rate motel.”
But JSmookler said, “The advantages of living in Nittany are
so great, the disadvantages are overlooked.”
Woman hijacker shot
MARSEILLE, France (AP)
The wife of a prominent
public relations executive
was fatally shot Thursday
inside the Air France Boeing
727 she hijacked for the
avowed purpose of going to
Cairo.
Three police officers
disguised as service
personnel boarded the plane,
which had stopped at
Marseille’s Marignane Air
port to refuel, and shot the
woman in the head and chest
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when she aimed her long
barreled pistol at them,
Marseille Police Chief Rene
Heckenroth told newsmen.
She died later in a hospital.
Police said she hijacked the
plane on a domestic flight
from Paris to Nice and
demanded to be taken to
Cairo.
Police identified the
hijacker as Mrs. Daniele
Cravenne’, 35, wife of Georges
Cravenne, owner of a big
Paris public relations firm.
Otto Mueller, director of Housing and Food Services, said
Nittany costs less because it does not offer facilities other
dorms offer. The facilities are older, too, Mueller said.
Residents must take their laundry to the (Theatre Arts
Production Studio, where three of the six dryers are out of
order. The only television is in Nittany 20, the recreation
building. |
Simoneau complained that “the heating system is all screw
ed up. You have to hut the corridor doors and open the doors to
the lobby to get the heat started.” j
Vem Ogradnek (4th-liberal arts) said, “The heat is never
there when you want it.”
According to Harms, “There is zero security in our hall. One
of our corridor doors will not even latch shut.” I
There are only two bike racks provided for the 24 Nittany
buildings. Edward Nazdom, Nittany housing supervisor, said
he expects to get more installed* *■ |.
The view from Nittany is not always the best. “I always
have the chickens to look:at,” Ogradnek said. I
Nittany used to be the Aast’place a student wanted to be
assigned, according to Mueller. He said that even today
Housing tries to avoid assigning Nittany to freshmen.
Nittany was built in 1947 to accommodate Navy veterans.
Until 1960 each room was a double. Nittany residents
originally ate in what is now the TAPS building, but moved to
Pollock when it was completed in 1960. There are about 560
residents in Nittany this fall.
Mueller said improvements have been made o'
“All new roofs were put on and the bath
upgraded,” he said.
The dorms of Nittany originally were named
who had died serving in World War 11.
Tentative plans of the University master pi,
renovation of Nittany.
Planet showincjs to
An open house featuring a open house tour at half-hour double stars, star clusters and
showing of several planets and intervals, Wagn'er said. galaxies,
star formations will be held He said, “There will be Wagner said the ob
-7:30 to 10 p.m. Saturday at ' three telescopes set up and serrations at each half-hour
the new Davey Laboratory. probably a pairj of binoculars, will be basically the same.
According to Ronald each focused on something in Saturday’s open house will
Wagner,- president of the particular.” He said that be the first and only time
Astronomy Club, the open Saturday evening it may be during Fall Term that the
house will be set up as a tour possible to see the planets public may use the Davey ob
preceded by a brief lecture. Jupiter and Mars and later in serration facilities. According
Groups will be admitted to the the evening Saturn, as well as to Wagner, during Winter
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Friday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20-UniversityTheatre, “Amorous Flea,” B p.m., Pavilion.
Friday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20 - The fifth annual Penn State Basketball Coaches Clinic;
Friday, beginning at 4 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. -4:30 p.m., Kec Hall.
Friday, Oct. 19 - Sports: Women’s field hockey, vs. SUNY-Cortland, 3 p.m., two
games. Soccer, vs. Maryland, 7 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 19-Folk and Square Dance Roundup, 7:30-9 p.m., North Gym, White.
Friday, Oct. 19 - Commonsplace Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., Room 102 Kern.
Friday, Oct. 19 - William Thomas, cellist,* MFA student recital, 8:30 p.m., Music
Bldg, recital hall.
Friday, Oct. 19 -Free-U jammy, 7:30-11:30p.m., HUB ballroom.
Saturday, Oct. 20 - Sports: Cross Country, vs. Georgetown and William and Mary;
Rugby, vs. Philadelphia, 2 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 20-21 - Artists Series, Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape,”
and “Not I,” with Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, 8:30 p.m., Schwab.
Saturday, Oct. 20 - Casino Night, sponsored by OTIS to benefit Centre County United
Way, 7-12 p.m., HUB card room. ( :
Saturday, Oct. 20 - Astronomy Department “Open House,” roof of Davey
Laboratory, 7:30-10 p.m., (tickets required).
Sunday, Oct. 21 - Chapel Service, 11 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel, Reverend Donald
Davis, United Campus Ministry.
Sunday, Oct. 21 - Black Christian Fellowship worship service, 11 a.m., Black
Cultural Center. ;
Sunday, Oct. 21 -Sports: Rugby, vs. Pittsburgh Law, 2p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 21 - Sports Car Club Autocross, 1 p.m., Parking Area 80.
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Friday, Oct. 19 - Physical Chemistry, 4 p.m., Room 310 Whitmore. Dr. John
Reissner, on “Collision-Manifest Transport Coefficients.”
Friday, Oct. 19 - Earth and Mineral Sciences, 3:45 p.m., Room 26 M.S. Dr. K. Vedam,
Materials Research Lab and physics, on “Characterization of Real Surfaces - A
Survey of the State of the Art.”
Firday-Saturday, Oct. 19-20 Student SF films, 7 and 9 p.m., HUB assembly room.
“The Caine Mutiny.”
Saturday, Oct. 20 —Free-U children’s film, 12:30 and 2:30 p.m., HUB assembly room,
“Three Caballeros,” free popcorn and balloons.
Friday, Oct. 19 - New Democratic Coalition, 8 and 10 p.m., Film, “Milhouse,”
Sunday, Oct. 20 - Interlandia Folk Dancers, 7:30 p.m., HUB ballroom.
Friday, Oct. 19-Badminton Club, 6:15 p.m., Rec Hall South Gym
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ERA to receive
groups' support
The Association for Women
Students will join the local
League of Women Voters’
campaign to support
awareness on the Equal
Rights Amendment during
the next three weeks, AWS
president Dorene Robotti
announced Wednesday.
The awareness campaign is
part of a national effort to
focus attention on the
amendment to eliminate sex
discrimination.
The proposed amendment
has been passed in the Senate
and the House. A? vote of
three-fourths, or 38 of the
states is needed to ratify it.
Thirty states, including
Pennsylvania, have ratified
the amendment.
AWS will sell ERA
awareness bracelets in the
HUB to support the
campaign.
AWS publicity chairperson
Beth Sieffert said AWS is
developing a rape' crisis
hotline in the State College
area. ”
AWS has contacted the Rev.
Robert Burgie, director of the
Oasis Help Center on East
Beaver Avenue, about
plugging into its hotline.
Sieffert said AWS has neither
Special price to the first 65 calls.
the finances nor' the trained
staff to start its own program.
AWS members would be
trained 'and work on a
volunteer basis, she said.
_ Burgie said Oasis’ main
purpose is counseling but the
center would suggest
referrals in rape cases.
AWS hopes to develop the
program with the center and
publicize it in the community,
Sieffert said.
AWS also voted to send a
resolution stating its position
on sexism in the media to all
campus organizations and
media.
The resolution states AWS
“Recognizes the' need for
greater awareness of sexism
in the media" and
“recommends that all student
organizations direct
consideration toward the
nature of their future
programming an>
advertising.”
Robotti announced that
University Affirmative
Action Officer Patricia
Farrell has accepted the
position of AWS adviser.
Farrell succeeds Marian B.
Davison, who resigned from
her post as associate dean of
student affairs last spring.