Editorial opinion
Veto the bureaus
George Cernusca must veto the bill the Un
dergraduate Student Government Senate passed
Monday to form USG bureaus of Town Affairs and
Residential Life.
The bill to form the bureaus is ambiguous. It
could be interpreted as a USG attempt to
dominate ARHS and OTIS.
Or, as Cernusca says he will interpret it, the bill
could be a step to increase communication and
cooperation among the three organizations. But
Cernusca cannot let a bill pass that can be in
terpreted the first way or some other way by
future USG presidents.
By passing the bill without consulting ARHS and
OTIS, USG has set a precedent. Following that
precedent, the new bureaus could act without
communication and cooperation with ARHS and
OTIS. Cernusca has said that if ARHS or OTIS
refuse to work on an issue, the bureaus will not be
afraid to step on any toes.
If such action by the USG bureaus violates the
stands ARHS and OTIS have taken in the past, it
could seriously damage ARHS’s and OTIS’s
credibility because the two organizations are sup
posedly working in conjunction with the USG
bureaus.
USG’s methods of dealing with people are dif
ferent from ARHS’s and OTIS’s. USG is a political
The Citizens’ Advisory
Committee for the Centre
Region Area Transportation
Study will meet noon
tomorrow in Borough Council
chambers in the State College
Municipal Building.
Time, date and place. Just one
more in a series of hundreds of
“Collegian Notes” each term.
But a few additions should be
made to this particular note.
With this meeting, the Citizens’
Advisory Committee is opening its
membership to obtain more citizen
response on Centre Region trans
portation problems.
Those who join the committee
will have the chance to review
future proposals made by CRATS
consultants before the plans are
released to such policy-making
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Collegian note
bodies as State College Borough
Council.
Transportation is of vital concern
to everyone connected with the
University. Most of the University’s
blue-collar workers live outside the
immediate State College area and
should have access to their work
through public transportation.
Not every student can afford his
own car, but many are forced by
high rents near campus to find
apartments on the outskirts of
town. Must they continue to
depend on buses that are often off.
schedule when they arrive at
all?
Do you want to pay $7 more
tuition every term to help finance a
campus bus system? Do you want
the borough to provide bike lanes
to make downtown streets safer
organization that fights for what it wants. ARHS
and OTIS are service organizations willing to make
compromises so that things can get done. USG’s
methods must not be forced on ARHS and OTIS
when these organizations serve students well
with their methods.
There is no real need for the USG bureaus. Un
der the present system good communication
exists between USG and ARHS. Two senators at
tend every ARHS meeting and report on recent
USG meetings, later reporting back to USG about
ARHS meetings. USG should set up a similar
system with OTIS. Nothing more is needed.
Whenever a crisis arises which requires
cooperation, the three groups have worked
together. They did so to establish the escort ser
vice and to convince the University that students
need and want bus service.
If OTIS or ARHS needs USG’s help, it is usually
for a very serious and immediate problem. Such
problems deserve the attention of the USG
president. OTIS and ARHS must be able to go
directly to him, not have to work through a bureau
to get him.
The USG bill can do no more than cause trouble
for OTIS and ARHS, which have high credibility
and function well by themselves. The bill must be
vetoed.
for cyclists? Would you like the
borough to dispatch transportation
to your door on a “dial-a:bus"
system?
These are the questions the
CRATS officials need answered
now. And only you the people
who will use mass transit can
answer them.
Go to tomorrow’s meeting and
the monthly meetings planned for
the two-year CRATS study. If you
cannot make the meeting but are
seriously interested in the future of
Centre Region mass transit, con
tact CRATS consultant James
Miller at the University's Trans
portation and Traffic Safety Cen
ter.
Let the committee know now
what you will need in mass transit
for the future.
Attention All Native American (American Indian) Students
There will be a meeting Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m.
We would like to meet other Native American Students and discuss the possibility of
forming an organization at Penn State. Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by
Native American Graduate Students and Community Awareness. Refreshments will
be served.
Strange combination
TO THE EDITOR: I admire integrity in his
stand against capital punishment. I applaud Mullen's courage
in his anti-abortion platform.
There is, however, a paradox in both these men’s stands.
Shapp does not condemn abortion. Mullen condones capital
punishment.
TO THE EDITOR: Having been quashed many times under the
wheels of the indomitable bureaucracy which seems to govern
all large organizations such as Penn State, we would like to
retaliate in the one small, parasitic method that is permitted
victims of bureaucracies we would like to make public a
complaint.
Attending an extremely crowded event in Rec Hall two weeks
ago, we were greeted by a request from the emcee that the
audience please refrain from smoking during the event. As
there were "No Smoking" signs posted at strategic points
about the building, we reluctantly extinguished our freshiy-lit
cigarettes and, observing that other Rec Hall patrons were also
complying with the directive, cheerfully resigned ourselves to
our smokeless fate for the remainder of the evening.
One cannot imagine our irritation and utter disbelief when,
during the course of the event, we noticed a uniformed
member of the highly-respected and widely-acclaimed Campus
Patrol, present for security purposes, puffing on a cigarette.
Strengthening the bitter irony of the unfortunate incident was
in the HUB Main Lounge.
Letters to the Editor
Is a convict more human than a baby? A baby more human
than a man?
What a choice?
No smoking
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Diana Clancy
graduate-psychology
the fact that the culprit was leisurely lounging under one of the
strategically posted “No Smoking” signs.
We do not expect, nor do we particularly desire, any punitive
or investigative action to be taken against the hapless of
fender, for we only cite his action to gratify our own injured
feelings and to illustrate that, regardless of the effectiveness
of a bureaucracy, "Hypocrisy in Bureaucracy” will always
exist, and may we offer that phrase as a small consolation to
anyone who finds himself inescapably trapped in the maze of
bureaucratic procedure.
Correction
Yesterday’s editorial “A lost cause” should have stated that
the Association of Residence Hall Students must hold open
elections, not that ARHS must not open its elections.
DIANE M.NOTTLE
Editor Business Manager
BOARD OF EDITORS: MANAGING EDITOR, Steve Ostrosky.
EDITORIAL EDITOR, Barb White; NEWS EDITOR, Glenda Gephart.
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR, Ben Weller, LAYOUT EDITORS,
Jan Chaplick, Cathy Cipolla; COPY EDITORS, Steve Aurweck, Nancy
Postrel, Terry Walker; SPORTS EDITOR, Rick Starr, ASSISTANT
SPORTS EDITORS, Tim Panaccio, Jeff Young; PHOTO EDITOR,
Randy Woodbury; ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR, Ed Gotomb,
CARTOONIST, Tom Gibb, WEATHER REPORTER, Bnan Thomas
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