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FORMER ACADEMIC ASSEMBLY President Bob Mazur listens to proposed
changes in the Assembly's links with various USG bodies.
Kaplan Academic Assembly head
By JACK JACKSON
Collegian Staff Writer
Joseph Kaplan (Bth-prelaw), was
elected Academic Assembly presideßt
last night to succeed former president
Bob Mazur, who has officially resigned.
Richard Vance (sth-business
administration) was elected Assembly
vice president.
The assembly is a legislative branch of
the Undergraduate Student Government
consisting of the president, vice
president, faculty senator and one
member at large from each of the 10
colleges in the Universtty.
Kaplan proposed changes in the
Assembly, including:
a decrease in the number of times
the Assembly meets so that each
meeting will be more productive.
establishment of a standing rules
committee internal to the Assembly to
investigate changes in the Assembly's
Panel discusses nuclear energy
By ROBIN MOORE
Collegian Staff Writer
The key issue in the development of
nuclear power is protecting the public
from nuclear radiation, a panelist on a
debtte of the pros and cons of nuclear
energy said last night.
Judith Johnsrud of the Central
Pennsylvania Committee on Nuclear
Power said there are several problems
'hat have not been dealt with by the
luclear industry.
"The major one is the lack of testing
•n an emergency core cooling system in
full scale nuclear reactor," she said.
Johnsrud equated operating the plants
vithout thorough testing of the safety
system to "driving a car• with a brake
system that has never been tested."
The danger of leakage goes far
COG votes to purchase
Fullington bus franchise,:
After two years of organizational
planning, the Centre Regional
Council of Governments has
decided to buy the operational
franchise rights of the Fullington
Auto Bus Co., and to take over
Fullington operations July 1, when
its present contract expires.
At yesterday's meeting COG
administrator Carl Fairbanks was
authorized to negotiate with
Fullington for an acceptable selling
price.
COG also decided to create an
authority to run the system.
Fairbanks said he estimates an
18-month transitional period before
new buses and equipment can be
added to the system. Plans call for a
c collegian
constitution, laws and goals
establishment of office hours for
student consultation to increase
communication •between the student
body and the Assembly.
publication of a course selection
guide.
The course guide is intended to be an
information booklet distributed free to
students. It will contain information on
courses not in University guides,
including course books, their cost and
the number of papers and exams
students would be graded on for each
course.
Kaplan listed his other plans for
changes in the Assembly to make sure
"the Assembly rises to meet the needs of
the students." He said he wants to see a
student senator represented in the
Assembly. Kaplan added he wants to
arrange a similar position for a member
of the college student council presidents
to create a large Assembly executive
beyond the energy uses we require,"
Johnsrud said.
Edward Klevans, associate professor
of nuclear engineering, speaking on the
safety aspects of nuclear reactors, said
there is no possibility of developing a
system where there is no danger of
accidental leakage.
"Nuclear power is as safe, if not safer,
than other alternative means of
producing power," he said.
Klevans said the nuclear safety
systems are• highly engineered and
include back-up systems which would
shut the reactor down if the initial safety
system fails.
The question of the need for
developrfient of nuclear power was
outlined by Warren Witzig, professor of
nuclear engineering, who contended that
"society needs nuclear power energy."
refurbishing of present equipment
to see the authority through.
Fairbanks also said he foresees
no problem in incorporating the
University into the new system once
it gets going.
"The University has stated they
will cooperate," he said. "I have no
doubts We can work together and
organize an integrated system."
Fairbanks added that he doubts if
the University's move to buy buses
and. organize their own trans
portation
system will have any
detrimental effects on anticipated
government funds.
"I think the University has saved
us a couple of bucks by buying their
buses," he said.
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Kaplan
ELECTED LAST EVENING. Academic Assembly President Joe Kaplan lists his
proposals to increase communication with the student body.
board to work with himself and Vance in
the Assembly.
To insure a continuing line of
communication between the Assembly
and ~the Undergraduate Student
Government Senate, Kaplan also said he
would like to appoint an Assembly
member to the senate to represent the
Assembly at senate meetings. Kaplan
said USG President Mark Jinks
probably will appoint a senator to attend
Assembly meetings.
Before stepping down as president,
Mazur told the Assembly about meetings
with University President John W.
Oswald and their discussion of the
University's current economic squeeze.
Mazur said the delay on funds in
Harrisburg for the University is due to a
problem between the State Senate and
House of Representatives, not
differences between the University and
the state government.
He said projections show Americans
cannot meet their electrical needs in the
future. Current estimation of fuel levels
show they will only have 60 per cent of
the fuel we will need to satisfy our needs
in 1985, he said.
Responding to Witzig's proposal that
the country will need more energy in the
future, Chauncey Kepford of the York
Commission for Safe Environment said
that while the U.S. contains only six per
cent of the_ world's population, it
consumes 35 per cent of the world's
energy.
"We're told nuclear power is
economical and reliable and I don't
believe either of those," Kepford said.
According to Kepford, nuclear power,
which some experts predicted would be
"too cheap to meter," will cost $lOOO per
kilowatt to build a new power plant,
which is at least comparable to other
energy costs.
Nuclear controvers JUDY JOHNSRUD, member of a panel on the pros and cons
y: of nuclear energy, argues against the development of nuclear
power.
Photos by Randy J. Woodbury
Mazur also said he still plans "to be
very active in Assembly activities."
Kaplan, who served as interim
Assembly vice president under Mazur, is
currently a student senator from the
College of the Liberal Arts, the vice
president from. the college of the Liberal
Arts and vice president to Oswald's
Student Advisory Board.
Kaplan said he plans to resign
immediately from his SAB officer
position to give himself more time as the
Assembly's president.
Regarding the student trustee
controversy, Kaplan said Jinks would
"probably pass up the chance to appoint
people to the new trustee selection
committee" State Secretary of
Education John Pittinger requested and
that the selection committee eventually
might be the Student Advisory Board.
"We're going to do our damnedest to be
represented on a selection committee for
student trustee," Kaplan said.
Kepford maintained that past
experience has not shown nuclear
reactors to be a reliable source of
energy.
He said that out of 38 reactors built in
the country, 24 have been shut down.
Douglas Baker of the Environmental
Coalition for Nuclear Power outlined
alternative sources of power which he
said were preferable to the development
of nuclear fission.
Baker said solar energy is the most
promising alternative power system and
could be operating on a commercial
basis within 10 years.
"Solar energy has potential if we only
decide to spend the money to develop it.
What's more, it would take less to
develop solar systems than it has taken
for nuclear research," he said.
Baker said there are now 24 solar
houses operating experimentally in the
country.
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Thursday, January 10, 1974
Vol. 74, No. 81 8 paged University Park, Pennsylvania ~...,
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State, University/
Statements on
milk fund, ITT
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WASHINGTON (AP) President
Nixon's latest statements on the milk
fund and ITT affairs defend his own
position, but leave questions about some
of his former aides.
The White House yesterday again
denied that promises of political
contributions were behind Nixon's
decision to raise dairy price supports, or
administration settlement of an
antitrust case against International
Telephone and Telegraph Corp.
In the milk-fund matter, the White
House said for the first time that it was
former special counsel Charles W.
Colson who told Nixon that the nation's
largest dairy co-operative had promised
$2 million to Nixon's campaign.
And the ITT statement left standing
some apparent conflicts between what
Nixon. now says and what former
attorneys general John N. Mitchell and
Richard G. Kleindienst once said under
oath about their own roles.
Describing Colson's role in the diary
matter, the White House said he wrote a
memo to brief Nixon for a meeting on
Sept. 9, 1970, with Harold Nelson and
David Parr, two leaders of the Texas
based Associated Milk Producers, Inc.
Colson said "that AMPI had pledged
$2 million to the 1972 campaign," the
White House said.
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"It was suggested in the
memorandum that the President
acknowledge AMPI's support. No
suggestion was made that any
commitment whatsoever be made to do
any substantive act."
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The White House said Nixon did not
take Colson's advice, and kept silent
about the $2-million promise in his nine
minute meeting with Nelson and Parr.
Colson's memo, and others dealing
with the milk producers, are in the hands
of the Watergate special prosecution
force. The Senate Watergate committee
is seeking the same documents,
apparently with no success.
Committee lawyers would like to
question Colson, but he has declined on
previous occasions to testify before the
Senate panel unless he is granted
immunity from prosecution.
Colson could not be reached yesterday
for comment on the White House
description of his role.
In the ITT matter, the White House
expanded on what Nixon said in a news
conference last November before The
Van Dommelen vs.
Dreibelbis in May
Marianne "Mike" Van Dommelen last
night announced she will oppose
incumbent 77th district Representative
Galen E. Dreibelbis for the nomination
for state legislature in the Democratic
primary elections in May.
Van Dommelen said no one else
wanted to run against Dreibelbis
because of lack of time and money. She
ran against him in the 1972 primary and
lost.
Referring to the split in the Centre
County Democratic Party she said, "I'm
not running to disrupt the party. It's just
that I'm a symbol for one side."
She made some preliminary campaign
arrangements with the College Young
Democrats at their meeting last night.
She said she would like to see more
contact between the representative in
Harrisburg and the people in the district.
Van Dommelen said she would
represent housewives, students and the
people not represented by Dreibelbis,
who she said favors the "Chamber of
Commerce type."
The primary is May 22, the last day of
Spring Term classes. Some members
mentioned that the Young Democrats
will need to run an absentee ballot drive
for students who will not be here to vote
then.
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By TERESA VILLA
Collegian Senior Reporter
Associated Press Managing Editors
Association.
It said Nixon ordered a temporary halt
in antitrust proceedings against the huge
conglomerate prior to ITT's offer to help
finance the Republican National
Convention.
And it said Nixon N% as motivated to
stop the case. uhich was headed for the
Supreme' - Court. because he disagreed
with antitrust chief Richard W NlcLaren
about how the government should treat
conglomerate corporations
It said domestic aide John D.
Ehrlichman told Nixon the M" lawsuit
was an "attack on a conglomerate" and
was contrary to the President's antitrust
policy.
However, the White House did not
explain why previous administration
denials had been left standing for
months before Nixon ' A personal
intervention was revealed TN the news
media.
Before that time, Mitchell had sworn
that he disqualified himself from the ITT
case. But Nixon said it was Mitchell who
convinced him to rescind his order not to
appeal the suit to the Supreme Court.
The White House statement Tuesday
said Mitchell had advised Nixon that
Erwin N. Griswold, who was solicitor
general, might resign in protest if the
President blocked the antitrust appeal.
Kleindienst testified at his Senate
confirmation hearings nearly two years
ago that the White House never
interfered with his handling of the ITT
case. But it was Kleindienst who
received and carried out the presidential
order to stop the ITT appeal. the White
House said.
In the diary matter. the White House
acknowledged that Nixon had been told
about the $2-million campaign pledge
when he overruled Agriculture
Department economists by raising the
level of federal milk price supports in .
March 1971.
Weather
Overcast today with occasional rain.
possibly beginning as snow or sleet this
morning, high 37. Tonight mostly cloudy,
steady temperatures and chance of a
few showers. Friday cloudy with rain
developing again by noon, high 40.
Sunrise 8:30, sunset 5:59.
Undergraduate Student Government
Supreme Court Chief Justice Sam
Trosow spoke about students getting
involved in races for Democratic
committeemen. He said in some
precincts students are in the majority
and should run for committee seats.
University Lawyer Yates Mast spoke
on taxes and exoneration policies - If
you want to vote, in ttuth you probably
should not use the non-residency
exoneration," he said
Trosow said he called State Elections
Commissioner James A. Green. who told
him it is legal to use two re4dencies It is
possible to claim non-residency in a
district for tax purposes but be
registered to vote there, tie said
Trosow also said that Marie Garner,
unsuccessful Democratic candidate this
fall in the tax collector race, is
circulationg a petition to lower the
drinking age to 18 in Pennsylvania.
He said Penn State is the State's only
major university or college that has not
submitted such a petition to the
legislature.
Borough Councilman Dean Phillips,
who is also a member of the committee
for appointments to boards and
commissions, said he will try to have
some students appointed to some
borough commissions.
Photo by Joe audick