Editorial opinion Keep Within the next few days, student agencies will decide whether or not to continue the escort service begun last term. In the interest of the safety of women students, they have only one choice: to continue the service. Set up after a rape and an at tempted rape occurred on campus last month, the service may have prevented more rapes and assaults. It certainly relieved the fears of women who chose to call for escorts rather than take the risk of walking long distances alone at night. Now the student groups that set up the service—the Un dergraduate Student Government, the Association for Women Students, the Association of Residence Hall Students and the Student Assistance Center —may discontinue the service. At its beginning at the height of Collegian DIANE M. NOTTLE Editor Successor to the Free Lance, est 1887 Member of the Associated Press Charter member of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Media Association Editorial policy is determined by the Editor. Opinions expressed by the editors and staff of The Daily Co/legian are not necessarily those of the University administration, faculty or students. Mail subscription price: $17.50 a year. Mailing Address: Box 467, State College, Pa. 16801 Editorial Staff: 865-1828 Sports Staff: 865-1820 Business Staff- 865-2531 BOARD OF EDITORS: MANAGING EDITOR, Steve Ostrosky; NEWS EDITOR, Steve Ivey; ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR, Glenda Gephart; LAYOUT EDITORS, Jan Chaplick. Cathy Cipolla. COPY EDITORS, Steve Auerweck, Nancy Postrel, Terry Walker; SPORTS EDITOR, Rick Starr; ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS, Tim Panaccio. Jeff Young; PHOTO EDITOR, Randy Woodbury; ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR, Ed Golomb; CARTOONIST, Tom Gibb; WEATHER REPORTER, Brian Thomas BOARD OF MANAGERS: LOCAL ADVERTISING MANAGER, Janis Franklin; ASSISTANT LOCAL ADVERTISING MANAGERS, David Lang. Janet Fuhrman. NATIONAL ADVERTISING MANAGER Fteve Wetherbee GROK Vi*&* Pi Office: 126 Carnegie the escorts the rape crisis, more than 35 women requested the service each night. Near the end of the term, however, the number of requests dropped off to about 10 each night. The sponsors of the service believe that the crisis is now over and that the number of nightly requests for escorts will not justify the amount of effort needed to keep the service going. But the rape crisis is never over. A woman can be raped or robbed or murdered anywhere at any time. Even if the person or persons who committed last month’s assaults is arrested soon, it will not automatically end all assaults. No matter how strong or how liberated a woman is, she is still a potential target for attack. And every woman who must walk alone at night is entitled to protection if she wants it. CYNTHIA A. ASHEAR Business Manager Business Office Hours: Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m.to4p.m Even if there is little demand for escorts, the service would not require much effort beyond that already provided by existing ser vices. Last term, for example, women requesting escorts called the Student Assistance Center's Help Line, which kept a list of volunteer escorts. Volunteers then were contacted and dispatched through a few short phone calls. There is no need to keep a full staff of escorts at the service’s of fice throughout the night. The ser vice could be staffed through the Help Line as it was last term, and any requests could be filled quickly by telephone. If the student groups involved are concerned with the safety of women students, they must keep operating the service. Even if the service is not used widely, escorts must at least be made available to women who want them. Nixon's vn«cuiMrmM Th» i n There are abou 150 senators right now who wou d vote WASHINGTON —The dominant question here in the . . . ... , , .. ... . . .7,. . , to impeach Nixon and the tota will keeD ooina ud, the nation s capital is not Is President Nixon going to leave D ,. . ~... ,Tf u ... K » ... 0.. u . ....Ik „ l,„ ... a . „ Times editor said. But he doesn t think they w ever get office?" but “When and how is Nixon going to leave th chance to VQ{ 1 u offic©?** * While Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott and Since the impeachment vote probably would take GOP National Chairman George Bush do nothing but P ac f. sometime during the summer in the middle of tell you Nixon will not leave office until the end of his election campaigns, the editor said, the Republican term, leading Washington journalists and an increasing leade^ sh 'P 'probably will ask Nixon to step down number of legislators predict that Mrs. Gerald Ford will f 0r A the par,y in * h e ele otions. be First Lady next year at this time. And the ® dltor suggested Nixon might leave office in Washington's two major newspapers, The unprecedented way - suicide. While that may sound Washington Post and The Washington Star-News, are fetched Nixon ,s a proud man who could quite lookmg ahead to the day when Nixon will leave officer conce,vably resort to suicide if everything is going The Star-News is preparing a resignation page- wrong. because, as one of its editors said, they like to keep ahead of the news. The Post has gone one step} further: it is preparing a special resignation issue. These papers would not be wasting time, money and reporters, especially the "Star-News," which is short handed and in financial trouble, to cover a future event thoroughly unless they thought there is a good chance the special issues will be used. There is no doubt that Nixon will be out of office this year in the mind of one member of The New York Times editorial board who works out of Washington. He predicts the House will approve impeachment id jofcSTCßsnm' ACROSS SfbpEtfr 30 By STEVE OSTROSKY of the Collegian Staff id 'II I ■ ’ Z~ZZZ\ ( / future: the talk of D.C. proceedings and sees the Senate impeaching Nixon if he hasn’t already left office. And if you don’t buy the suicide Idea, the editor said, Nixon could become seriously ill for a long period of time and just turn the Oval Office over to Ford. Not only are the newspapers ready for Nixon to leave; members of Congress are getting in their two cents’ worth about Nixon and what to do with-him. About a week ago, Rep. Wlbur Mills, D-Ark., said although he would "hate to see” Nixon impeached and there has been no proof so far of an impeachable of fense, he thought the President should resign. 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They know that the longer Nixon is president, the more mistakes he’ll make and get caught at, making the GOP look worse and worse and the Democrats look better and better. Some Republicans would like to see Nixon out for the same reason. The name of the game is politics. The Democrats want to make hay while Nixon’s in office, but come an impeachment vote they’ll vote him out in a minute. And the game has become the talk of the town. At the dinner table, on the bus or in a bar, the most common topic of conversation is Nixon and his future. But stop and think for a minute: you could be seeing history in the making, a presidential impeachment or resignation or suicide doesn’t happen every day of the week. Well, I always wanted to see history happen. Some people say Nixon’s departure will damage the country permanently and the next day we’ll be in World War 111 or a depression or the end of the world. 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