TAU KAPPA EPSILON BROTHER JOHN "HESS" SOKALSKY seeks shelter from a
The Human Mudp i e dunking in the mud- lour-water pool at the fraternity's Spring Week festivities.
Internationals encounter problems
Editor's note: Following is the first of a
three-part series examining the in
ternational student program at Penn
State.
By RICHARD CROINIONIC
Collegian Staff Writer
Almost 900 students on this campus
must put up with complications over and
above those the remaining thousands
must endure. They must stand in more
lines and fill out more forms l i than most
students. with the added hardship of
deciphering the English language.
They cannot work oft-campus without
special permisiion. They have to- sub
merge themselves in the bizarre
American culture and still keep their
own identities.
They are international students, here
from countries like Afghanistan and
Zaire: name that, to most of us, are just
meaningless splotches of color on maps.
They call those places home.
More than 90 per cent of international
students are graduates. According to
Dante V. Scalzi, former director of the
International Student Affairs Center,
home countries keep undergraduate
students to build their own educational
systems and to keep them in their native
cultures during influential years.
Universities like Penn State :provide
more specialized educations, especially
in technical and scientific fields.
"No campus needs foreign students
more than does University Park, located
as it' is here in Happy Valley, so in
sulated from the rest of the world,"
Scalzi once said.
Students who finance themselVes
generally said they consider themselves
upper-class at home Others are spon
sored by, their governments or private
Indochina:
peace
for embattled people
SAIGON (AP) Fifteen months after
an agreement was signed to end the war
in Vietnam, there is no peace in Viet
nam or in neighboring Cambodia.
The battlefields of Vietnam and Cam
bodia are as turbulent and bloody as ever
and troubles economic, political and
military continue to mount.
There is a prevailing desperation
among the people. The young say there is
no future: they are put into a meat grin
der that hasn't stopped since the cease
fire agreement was signed Jan. 27, 1973.
Official 'Saigon command statistics
show nearly 100,000 South Vietnamese
killed, wounded and missing since the
cease-fire began, nearly 60,000 North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong claimed
killed.
In Cambodia, 40,000 people hartif
them children are surrounded anitic`A
off by insurgents, more than a score
dying or being wounded each day as the
Khmer Rouge tighten their ring around
Longvek, 25aniles north of Phnom Penh.
TheNesperation is evident as they try
to scramble onto the few hovering Cam
bodian helicopters that dare to land,
hurling themselves inside, a last minute
grasp to hang onto the skids, dangling
from the air as the aircraft takes off.
What's more, there is little hope for
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Collegian
the
daily
institutions and corporations.
Bahram Zand-Biglari (14th-electrical
engineering) is here on an Iranian Navy
scholarship. Hei said that upon
graduation he mustl serve three years in
the Iranian Navy for every year he at
tends school here. The naval attaches in
Washington are colsidered his sponsors
and guardians.
Jose Bashbush '(graduate-petroleum
engineering), from Mexico, is sponsored
by an oil corporation and will return to
the company on I completion 9f his
training.
Virtually every international i student
spoken to said he intends to return to his
native country.
Ardeth L. Fris y, administrative
assistant to the I ternational Student
Affairs Office, said the office is the legal
liaison with the U.S. Immigration
Department. It keeps track of necessary
deadlines and forms to be completed for
address changes, job applications and
visa renewals. I
Bashbush said he once got immersed
in his studies and his visa expired, but
the center contacted him before he got in
trouble. "You have to take care of these
little things," he said.
Frisby said that / a student could be
deported for not complying with the
rules, but she added, "Nothing like that
ever happens. There are no problems.
That's our job.'•
The university also provides a hand
boqk specifically designed for in
ternational students. It explains credit
loads and grades but also describes their
English language proficiency
requirements, compulsory medical
insurance, visas, arrival-departure
records and alien file numbers.
peaceful negotiations to strengthen the
cease-fire in Vietnam. In Cambodia,
there is no truce, and even less hope for
negotiations.
Runoff to decide French vote
PARIS (AP )—French voters yesterday sent Socialist leader
Francois Mitterrand and Finance Minister Valery Giscard
d'Estaing into a runoff election May 19 that will make one of
them president of France.
With official tallies covering all but a handful of the returns,
Mitterrand had 10,935,763, or 43.6 per cent of the balloting;
Giscard d'Estaing, candidate of the Independent Republican
party, had 8,286,382 votes, or 32.85 per cent, and Gaullist
candidate Jacques Chaban-Delmas won 3,693,168 votes, or
14.64 per cent.
The rest of the votes were divided among nine candidates in ,
a heavy turnout of France's more than 30.5 million voters who
cast ballots under cloudy skies and scattered showers.
To win in the first balloting, one of the presidential hopefuls
would have needed more than 50 per cent of the vote.
Mitterrand and Uiscard 'd'Estaing said they were confident
of victory. The finance minister was promised support by
Premier Messmer and other Gaullist chieftains, although
Chaban-Delmas refused to say whether he would support
Giscard d'Estaing.
Communist boss- Georges Marchais, whose party is of
ficially backing Mitterrand, 'Urged more support for the
Socialist leader. The marshalling of forces behind both can
didates is likely to make the final outcome very close, analysts
said.
Chaban-Delmas conceded defeat after media computer
projections predicted shortly after_the polls closed that his
major opponents would win the first two spots.
The projections said Mitterrand would receive between 43
and 45 per cent of the vote, Giscard d'Estaing 32 to 34 per cent,
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The center can provide a small
emergency loans for deaths, illnesses
and other emergencies. It also provides
advisers for international students who
help not-only with academic matters but
with adjustments to American life.
David Holmes, Frisby's assistant, said
Although speed limits generally ignored
Survey
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Americans generally are ignoring the
nationwide 55 mile-an-hour speed limit
imposed to save gasoline, but they are
driving more slowly than they did before
the energy crisis, an Associated Press
survey shows.
The AP sent reporters in the 48 con
tiguous states to drive on the highways
on May 1, keeping at a steady 55 m.p.h.
pace. In all but a handful of states,
drivers whizzed by cars traveling at the
legal limit.
Authorities say the number of speeding
tickets is up. Troopers in Oregon and
Texas say they've made more than twice
as many arrests for speeding this spring
than they did last year.
Accidents and traffic deaths are down.
The National Safety Council says traffic
deaths this, March were 25 per cent
lower. Some states reported that the
fatality rate had been cut in half.
The average speed of cars in most
areas covered by the AP survey was bet
ween 65 and 70 m.p.h., above the legal
limit, but below the rate motorists used
to travel when the legal limit was 70
m.p.h.
Under legislation passed by Congress
late last year, the states were given until
March 4 to lower the speed limit to 55
mph. All 50 states complied.
An AP road check in January showed
that motorists in states which lowered
their speed limit before the deadline
were obeying the law, driving at about 55
mph.
The latest survey indicates, however,
that the growing availability of fuel has
Both Giscard d'Estaing and Mitterrand —among the most
brilliant men in active French politics—have been
presidential hopefuls for years. Mitterrand'spower base is his
rebuilt Socialist party. Giscard d'Estaing turned the Finance
Ministry into one of the most pdwerful departments in the
executive.
Lawyer:
hinges
WASHINGTON (AP) President
Nixon's chief lawyer indicated
yesterday he believes the House im
peachment inquiry hinges on whether
the President approved hush money
payments to Watergate defendants.
And the presidential tape transcripts
released last week, said attorney James
St. Clair, prove that Nixon "neither
authorized...nor knew" about such a
payment.
Both St. Clair and White House Chief
of Staff Alexander M. Haig Jr., ap
pearing separately on televised in
terview programs, predicted that Nixon
would be vindicated in the "House.
Haig said the edited transcripts were
published by the President "to convince
the American people for the first time
that he bad nothing to hide."
St. Clair insisted the tapes make it
clear Nixon rejected, in a March 21, 1973,
conversation with John W. Dean HI, the
demands for money from Watergate
conspirator E. Howard Hunt.
Yet, there are several apparent
contradictions on that issue in a reaamg
of that transcript.
When Dean tells Nixon that such
demands may eventually reach $1
million, Nixon replies: "We could get
that. On the money, if you need the
money you could get that."
Moments later, the President says:
Photo by Ed Golornb
"But in the end, we are going to be bled
international students arrive at campus
a week in advance of regular orientation
to get their own. "Orientation is a soup
to-nuts thing," he said. In addition, every
foreign student, after he's been here two
weeks, talks with Holmes to discuss any
problems.
indicates
made motorists careless about con
servation.
"As the gas shortage goes down,
people apparently feel the speed limit
should be brought back up...and I think
they feel justified in speeding up," said
trooper Stephen Blydensburgh who
patrols the New York State Thruway.
The average speed on the toll road
which used to have a 65 limit was bet
ween 60 and 70 during the, AP check.
Police report speeding arrests this April
were about 30 per cent higher than in the
same month last year.
The legal speed limit on major high
ways in Virginia used to be 70 and many
motorists whizzed along at 80.
Now, a car going 55 along Interstate 95
was passed by as many as 15 vehicles in
five minutes. Most were going 65 to 70.
"Everybody who came along passed
me," said the driver who kept to the 55
limit.
Motorists had mixed reactions about
the lower limit. Some said it was more
enjoyable and gave them more time to
gaze at the scenery. But most reported it
was difficult to keep the speedometer
from creeping up to match the flow of
traffic and they said the slower speeds
were monotonous.
State police say they are vigorously en
forcing the new limit and cite increased
arrest statistics to back up their claim.
But only one AP staff member in In
diana actually saw a patrol car stop
anyone, while several reporters said they
saw police ignore vehicles going well
over 55.
Authorities in most areas do allow dri
vers a little leeway, handing out warning
citations or ignoring motorists who are
and Chaban-Delmas between 12.4 and 14.5 per cent.
Giscard d'Estaing needs the support of the Gaullists to
carry him ahead of Mitterrand in the runoff. This in turn would
assure a continued, though diminished Gaullists role in
government.
Both candidates have said they would pursue essentially the
same foreign policy as the late President Georges Pom
pidou—national independence, friendship for the United
States and a more positive role in European affairs.
The campaign centered mainly on domestic issues such as
inflation, inequalities between rich and poor and the role of
government in society.
Speaking to cheering supporters in the town of
Chamallieres, Giscard d'Estaing declared last night, "I am
now in a position to become president."
The computer projections, carried out in conjunction with
public opinion organizations, were based on returns from
voting in the country's major metropolitan areas. They were
broadcast by the government-owned radio' station and two
privately owned stations.
At Mitterrand's headquarters, supporters expressed sharp
disappointment that their candidate had apparently not
received a majority of the vote, thereby necessitating a runoff
election.
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Nixon case
on payments
to death...and in effect look like a
'coverup. So that we can't do."
Later yet, the topic turns to a specific
demand from Hunt for $120,000. Nixon:
"Would you agree that that's the prime
thing that you damn well better get that
done?"
A month later, on April 17, Nixon and
H. R. Bob Haldeman are trying to recall
the March 21 discussion. Nixon says: "I
Kissinger, Gromyko
combine peace effort
AMMAN, Jordan (AP I—Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger flew here
yesterday and his Soviet counterpart An
drei Gromyko arrived in Syria in an ap
parently coordinated effort to end the
fighting in the Golan Heights.
Artillery duels on the Israeli-Syrian
cease-fire line continued Sunday but
Israeli Information Minister Shimon
Peres expressed guarded optimism the
fighting might subside "in another day."
American officials had said Kissinger
won an an agreement from Syria on
Saturday to slow down the 55-day-old
Golan fighting.
Kissinger arrived in Jordan yesterday
afternoon following extended talks with
Israeli leaders. He conferred for, three
hours with Jordan's King Hussein and his
top aides about their hopes for an Israeli
pull-back on the vest bank of the Jordan
River, and for increased U.S. economic
aid.
Hussein and Kissinger were also
thought to have discussed the Geneva
peace talks and the Palestinian issue in
general.
Peres said Israel had made a re
evaluation "of our current position" af
ter the latest round of talks with
Kissinger, and observers understood this
slower driving
exceeding the limit by iess than five
miles per hour. Most officials say they
are in favor of the 55 limit.
"We are very definitely enforcing this
speeding law enthusiastically," said Cpl.
Larry Miller of the Georgia Highway
Patrol, adding that arrests were up by 20
per cent. "We have seen highway deaths
decrease because of the lower speed
limits and that is our aim to keep them
down."
Oregon state police issued 23,737 traffic
tickets during March and April of this
year, more than double the 11,055
citations issued during the same period
last year.
At the same time, they said, there were
only 35 traffic deaths in April, compared
to an average of 49 deaths in the same
First tour
ALAN ROSS, lead singer of the British rock group ROSS, performs in the lICB
Ballroom. The University Concert Committee brought the group to Penn State as
part of its first American promotion tour. The five-man group consists of Alan
Ross, lead guitar; Bob Jackson on keyboards; Tony Fernandez on drums: Steve
Emery on bass guitar, and Rueben White on percussion. Ross says he enjoys
playing for American audiences because they are
_more appreciative and
responsive to the m.psic than British audiences, and help the group soften up and
really get into their music.
didn't tell him to go get the money, did
I?" Haldeman responds: "No."
St. Clair, who appeared on NBC's
"Meet the Press," said that in releasing
the transcripts, Nixon felt he had given
the House Judiciary Committee
everything he thinks they need.
St. Clair will represent the President
in proceedings expected to begin this
week in the panel's impeachment
inquiry.
as a hint Israel might modify its refusal
to surrender any territory taken from
Syria in 1947.
The Israeli government met yesterday
to discuss compromise proposals but a
spokesman said no decision had been
reached.
Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko
arrived yesterday in Damascus for talks
with Syrian President Hafez Assad and
reportedly with Palestinian Liberation
Organization chieftain Yasir Arafat.
The American secretary began his
fifth Middle East peace mission last week
with meetings in Geneva with Gromyko
who said on his arrival in Damascus
yesterday, "I'm confident these con
sultations will prove fruitful for both
sides."
The Communist- party daily. Pravda.
reminded its readers yesterday that
Kissinger and Gromyko agreed in
Geneva that their two nations should
"strive to coordinate their efforts for a
peaceful settlement" in the Middle East.
However, U.S. officials traveling with
Kissinger made no reference Sunday to
Gromyko's Damascus trip and main
tained Kissinger has no plans to meet
with the Soviet minister when Kissinger
returns to Damascus tomorrow.
month over the past five years.
The higher speeds are taking a toll in
lives. Lt. Col. Lee Simmons of the
Florida Highway Patrol said there were
731 fatalities for the first four months of
1974, down 21 per cent from 1973.
"But the April figure was down only 17
per cent." he said. "We know that the
lower limit saved lives, but there are in
dications that drivers are starting to inch
the speed up now that the national fuel
emergency seems to be easing."
There are indications that drivers are
giving lip service only to the law.
"Everyone I talk with says they like the
55 mph speed, — reported California High
way Commissioner Walter Pudinski
"But our radar checks show that almost
everyone is violating it."
Photos by S F Williams