Trustees question open meeting methods
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Nianaging Editor
"Today history was made by the Board of Trustees of The
Pennsylvania State University. For the first time in over 100
years, we will have open meetings beginning in September."
Board President Michael Baker Jr. made this expected
announcement Friday at the press conference folloviing the
trustees meeting.
In addition to the "historic" open meetings announcement
University President John W. Oswald revealed that the
University's budget request for 1975-76 contains no provision
for a, tuition increase.
Baker said the trustees opened their meetings "on a
voluntary basis and without recognition of the legal ap
plicability of House Bill 124 to the University."
House Bill 124. commonly known as the "Sunshine" Bill,
was signed into law Friday by Gov. Shapp, and forces most
governmental agencies and departments on all levels to hold
open meetings.
Included in the hill is a provision forcing the governing
boards of all colleges and universities which receive state aid
to open their meetings also.
Baker said the resolution passed by the trustees did not
recognize the Sunshine bill's applicability to Penn State
becau4e it was necessary to cooperate in the public interest.
but ,without committing the University to follow some other
acts Of the legislature which might not be in the best interests
of the ,University."
Baker said University attorney Delbert McQuade told the
trustees that his interpretation of the_law would require all
committee meetings to be public.
The board has tour standing committees—physical plaid,
educational policy, finance and executive. These committees,
Baker said, discuss issues in-depth and then present their
recommendations to the Board.
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The spoils of war
THIS WARD at Athallassa Psychiatric Hospital in Nicosia. Cyprus. sustained
heat y damage during a bombing Saturday by Turkish air force jets. The attack
left 20 persons dead and 60 Kounded.
U.S. tries
to secure
cease-fire
on Cyprus
Nixon on cover-up:'dumb turkey'
WASHINGTON (AP) PreSident
Nixon fretted 13 months ago thht he
he might have been deaf to the overtones
of a cover-up plot in 1972 Watergate
conversations with his aides. according
to House Judiciary Committee tran
scripts.
"I mean. God. maybe we were talking
about a cover-up Watergate. I really
didn't. I didn't know what the hell I
honestly didn't know," Nixon told White
House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler
on June 4, 4 1..973, the transcripts showed.
The committee released its 'ran
scripts of the June 4 conversation
Saturday as part of 1,069 pages of
evidence considered in the impeachment
inquiry.
The transcript of Nixon's conversation
with Ziegler, attended briefly by Haig,
"It is considered in the interest of the public that we will
wish in some manner to change this format," Baker said. He
added that the board wishes to reorganize and stop having the
Board "act as a rubber stamp for committee recom
niendations which is what it's done in the past."
But the Board did not resolve just how "open" the trustees
Meetings will be. While the Sunshine Bill will allow anyone to
attend these meetings, speaking prifileges' and other public
participation has not been resolved.
The Board Friday appointed a committee of Board and
University officers to prepare regulations "goyerning the
conduct of such public meetings to be considered by the Board
including, but not necessarily limited to, the following:
-The conduct of the meetings of the standing committees
and the manner of presentation of matters to the full Board by
the standing committees and the president.
-- , The means of giving public notice of meetiglP.
;—The nature and extent of public participation in the public
Meetings.
--The nature and extent of the use of tape recorders,
cameras, television or other electronic devices.
L--The location of the meetings.
t
swald said that the committee will consist of himself,
B ker, McQuade, Board Vice President William Ulerich,
fli t hard Grubb, associate secretary of the Board, and
University Provost Russell Larson.
3aker said the committee will consider discussion
prsented at Friday's trustees meeting and will present a
iollmal recommendation "for the first action for the Board to
consider and adopt in September."
Because this is such a vital change from the past," he said,
"we are not taking it lightly. Th.e recommendation will be
adopted in public
Baker said there "was no mention or desire at anytime to
avoid public meetings" expressed by the trustees.
Baker said he felt there would have been open meetings
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WASHINGTON k AP) The United States concentrated its
diplomatic efforts yesterday on obtaining a cease-fire in the
conflict on Cypri l is of if that fails, to localize it to the island.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger met during the morn
ing at the White House with the Watergate Special Action
Group, which asymbles in crisis situations.
The group incl deg representatives of the National Security
Council, the State and Defense departments and the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Kissinger also talked at length by telephone with President
Nixon, who is in San Clemente, Calif., where presidential
Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said U.S. efforts still are
aimed at working to achieve a cease-fire and negotiations.
Undersecretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, trouble-shooting for
the administration; is commuting between Ankara and Athens
explaining in both capitals that war between them would mean
the end of NATO's southern defenses and that the United
States would retaliate by withholding all military aid to both
Greece and Turkey.
Sisco conferred with Turkish leaders in Ankara on Sunday
morning and then, flew to Athens.
A State Department spokesman said, "We continue to exert
portray the President as confused about Discussing that conversation and
the cover-up implications of his con- previous ones, the President told
versations in February and March, 1973, Ziegler:
with Dean and other confidantes. "What I was saying about this crap is
As he listened to the tapes, he told that it's reassuring up to a point, but in
Ziegler:„ fact, uh, at least, in this whole business,
"It's not comfortable for me because I we, we sat there and we conspired about
was sitting there like a dumb turkey.” a cover-up (unintelligible) or not. We did
Nixon also referred to his March 21, talk about it on the 21st. That's a totlgh
1973, conversation With Dean-in which conversation. Unless Haldeman ex-
Dean warned of a "cancer close to the plains it which he will. (Sighs) But
Presidency," disCuised clemency for think we Can survive that, too."
the Watergate burglars and E. Howard Discussing the March 17 session when
Hunt's demands for hush money, aim Dean told of the Nixon aides who might
assessed the chances of criminal be implicated in the scandal, Nixon
charges against various White, House asked Ziegler, "How would you that
aides. strike you; how does it strike you? He
"We do know we have one problem: was telling me that there was a cover
it's that damn conversation of March up?"
215 t..." Nixon said. Ziegler replied, "Not at all."
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Casualties rise in Cyprus
despite cease-fire attempt
By THE AP
Civilian and military casualties
mounted yesterday in the second day of
heavy fighting on Cyprus, and Turkish
jets repeatedly bombed and strafed the
island.
Turkey claimed it has inflicted heavy
casualties on a Greek flotilla trying to
land troops on Cyprus, but Greece said
there was no sea =battle.
On the diplomatic front, Greece
requested an urgent meeting of the
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United Nations Security Council to halt
what it called "genocide" on Cyprus by
the Turkish air force.
The council, which has already called
for a cease-fire, set a meeting for 10 a.m.
EDT today.
The Greek U.N., ambassador said his
country "accepts in toto" the U.N.
resolution calling for a cease-fire.
In Athens, the government-controlled
Greek radio quoted diplomatic sources
as saying Greece would declare war on
Turkey if Turkish forces were not with-
beginning at dawn.
Waves of Turkish helicopters were
every possible effort to get a cease-fire urgently." seen ferrying troops to a battle area near
Last night, he said, Kissinger talked on the telephone with the capital. •
British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan and with prime A joint United Nations-British
ministers Bulent Ecevit of Turkey and Adamantios An- operation on the second day of heavy
droutsopoulos of Greece. fighting evacuated 4,400 foreign civilians
Also President Nixon sent messages to both heads of govern- from Nicosia and other combat areas. A
ment urging restraint, a spokesman said. British military officer said the ex
pectation was that "as soon as the
Meanwhile, Sunday morning Washington time some 350 civilians pull out, the Turks will attack
Americans, mostly "non-essential dependents" of U.S. of- Nicosia in force,"
ficials and including an unidentified number of tourists, were The shaky cease-fire arranged by the
evacuated from Nicosia by a 1,000-vehicle British convoy United Nations to permit civilians to
which was reported to have met no trouble in reaching., leave the capital lasted most of the
Dehekelia, one of the British bases on Cyprus, southeast of 'ldaylight hours. Then Turkish fighters
Nicosia. renewed their attacks.
On the battlefields, the Turks ap
peared in general control of a corridor
from the northern coastal port of
Kyrenia to Nicosia, a distance of about
10 miles.
Over-all casualty figures from the
fighting were impossible to obtain, but
newsmen who toured Nicosia's general
hospital yesterday found 60 corpses
there and 240 persons wounded. Doctors
said there were 300 patients at other
Officials said they believe the convoy picked up enroute to
Dhekelia an archeological group from Harvard University but
there was no immediate report about another similar group of
40 archeologists from Ken State University who were working
north of Nicosia.
This leaves an estimated 350 Americans on Cyprus, officials
said.
even without the Sunshine Bill
He said the trustees agreed in May that the subject would be
the last item on Friday's agenda and with "the understanding
we would take action in September no matter which way it
turned out."
Oswald's revelation of no tuition increase for 1975-76 came
in light of the budget presentation to the trustees.
Usually the budget for the following fiscal year presented to
the trustees in September, but Oswald said the state had
requested the University to present its 1975-76 budget request
by Aug. 5, and to meet that deadline the budget was presented
to the Board Friday.
"We are taking the position that the policies for the financ
ing of higher education in Pennsylvania as set forth by the
Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities, which
called for no further tuition increases, are sound policies,"
Oswald said.
In addition to the tuition guideline other guidelines included
in the budget presentation, Oswald said, were: growth of the
University by 600 to i,OOO students; consideration of "serious"
inflationary factors; making salaries and increased cants the
high priority items in the budget request; and to try to recover
funds for some research, continuing education and
agricultural programs which have had funds cut in the past.
Oswald also said that the University will attempt to have
legislation introduced in September for a special ap
propriation for $1.7 million for state retirement payments.
This item was not included in the regular University budget
request because the law requiring the increased benefits was
not passed until after the budget was in the legislature.
The trustees also approved creation of a new department in
the College of Engineering.
The newly created Department of Engineering Science and
Mechanics will combine the program administration
engineering science and the Department of Engineering
Mechanics.
drawn from Cyprus within 48 hours. In a
clarification broadcast later, the radio
identified the source of - the an
nouncement as a British news agency
report from Ankara.
The Greek broadcast did not say when
the 48-hour period had begun, however,
and there was no official confirmation of
any such ultimatum by the Greek
military regime.
In Ankara, Turkish President Fahri
Koruturk beseeched the U.N. and world
powers to help stop the fighting on
Cyprus. "My wish is that the U.N. and
the able powers in the Middle East will
succeed in taking the conflict in Cyprus
... to the negojiating table," he said.
Greece and Turkey are both mem
bers of the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization, and a war between them
would be the first between NATO
members.
Greece has • mobilized its forces of
about 150,000 men and strengthened
troop concentrations at the Turkish
border and on Greek islands in the
Aegean Sea.
Turkey, which has about 450,000
Referring to the March discussions of
whether to "let it all hang out," Nixon
said Dean "might well have drawn the
conclusion, Ron, that the President
wanted him to keep the lid on."
"Yeah," Ziegler said. "The political
lid in the Ervin Committee hearings, not
the legal lid in terms of the trial."
At another point, the President said,
"There's no cover-up in this...not one
talk of cover-up'i in the sessions before
March 21, the date Nixon has said that he
first learned of the cover-up.
The White House also .released
Saturday a 151-page legal brief sub
mitted to the Judiciary Committee by
Nixon attorney James D. St. Clair
seeking to refute a broad range of ac
cusations against Nixon.
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The department will offer programs leading to graduate
degrees in engineering mechanics and the bachelor of science
degree in engineering science. The bachelor of science degree
in engineering mechanics will continue to be awarded until the
termination of the undergraduate program.
The egtablishment of a Penn State Fund Council to replace
the Boatd of Directors of the Penn State Foundation was
approved by the trustees Friday.
The Board in May redesignated the Foundation as the Office
of Gifts and Endowments and established the Penn State Fund
to encompass all private fund raising.
The fund Council will advise the University President on
matterselating to private fund raising.
Twenty-three of the 26 members will be appointed by the
University President, authorized by the trustees, including
two trustees. The University President and the President and
Vice President of the trustees will be ex officio members.
Terms will be for three years, except the first appointees
will serve either one, two or three year terms to establish a
rotating pattern of succession.
In other action, the Board:
- —approved final plans for a cardio-vascular research
laboratory to be built at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Cen
ter.
—approved final plans, for an addition to Helen Eakin
Eisenhower Chapel, and authorized the asking of bids and
awarding of contracts for the project.
—approved preliminary plans for alterations and
renovarns to the Nittany Lion Inn, including conversion of
the cof ee shop to two function rooms, improvements to the
assembly room, a new north entrance, additional office space,
improvements to and conversion of a part of the peacock alley
area into private dining rooms.
—approved the construction of six lighted platform tennis
courts to be built to the north of the Tennis Building.
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military meh, considers itself the
protector of the Turkish Cypriots on
Cyprus, who are outnumbered 4-1 by
Greek Cypriots on the island of 650,000
inhabitants.
The Greek Cypriot National Guard led
by Greek army officers overthrew the
government of Archbishop Makarios
last Monday, and Turkey believes the
new regime will try to merge Cyprus
with Greece.
Turkey's military command said its
air and naval fOrces intercepted a Greek
Flotilla Sunday trying to land troops
near Paphos in southwest Cyprus, and it
claimed casualties aboard the Greek
ships were high.
But a Greek minister denied there had
been a sea battle and said no Greek
warships had entered Cypriot waters
since last Monday.
Turkey's claim of a naval clash was
the first report of a direct military en
counter between the two.
Turkish jet fighters ruled the skies
over Cyprus yesterday bombing and
rocketing Greek Army and Greek
Cypriot positions in and around Nicosia
Shapp signs
PSU appropriations
Gov. Shapp rriday signed into law
the 1974-75 appropriation bills for
three state-related universities, in
cluding Penn State.
Under the legislation which was
passed last month, Penn State will
receive $94.1 million, an increase of
about $7 million,
Still unresolved is the University's
request for an additional $1.7 million
increase for state retirement
payments made necessary by
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clinics in the city.
Cyprus Rpctio, controlled by the Greek
leaders of 'last Monday's coup that
toppled the government of President
Makarios and escalated into war,
claimed in the late afternoon that four
Turkish jets were shot down on Sunday,
bringing the claimed total to 13 in two
days.
The radio maintained in broadcasts
from Nicosia that the forces of the
Greeks and Greek Cypriots were
fighting successfully on all fronts.
A convoy of about 500 units U.N. and
British trucks, armored cars, private
automobiles and other vehicles began
leaving Nicosia just before the start of
the cease-fire for the British base of
Dekhefia near Larnaca on the southern
coast of the island.
A U.N. officer said those being
evacuated were from a variety of
nations and included members of a
Rozal Air Force detachment normally
bas r ed at Nicosia Airport.
Dozens of foreign newsmen and others
who had been staying at the Lydra
Palace Hotel were among those evac
uated. At the hotel, they were held
hostage for several hours by frightened
Greek Cypriot soldiers until they were
persuaded by the. American Embassy to
let the guests leave.
A lone Turkish jet returned to Nicosia
late in the afternoon to strafe and rocket
the city soccer stadium, which Greek
Cypriot reserves were using as an
assembly point.
Turkish mortars hit the Lydra Palace
Hotel. Machinegun fire and mortar
shells pounded around the Turkish
hospital in Nicosia's old walled city.
A pooled news report quoted
diplomatic sources as saying a large
number of Turkish Cypriots were
slaughtered as Greek Cypriot national
guardsthen moved into Turkish villages
and Turkish sectors of Lanarca and
Limassol on the south coast.
According to the pool report, the
Greek Cypriot radio said the new
military regime in Cyprus feels no
obligation to avoid hitting Turkish
civilians.
legislation earlier this year.
The other appropriations bills
signed were for the University of
Pittsburgh and Lincoln University.
Pitt will receive $51.7 million, about
a 04 million increase, and Lincoln will
get $2.1 million, a hike of about
$300,000.
Shapp is expected to sign this week
an appropriation bill for Temple
University.
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