Editorial opinion No more hikes Penn State students seem to have come to the end of a long, long succession of tuition in creases. Tuition has been rising at a steady rate usually $2O or $3O a term each year for as long as anyone here can remember. But at Friday's Board of Trustees meeting, University President John W. Oswald announced that the University budget proposed for next year contains no' provisions for a tuition increase. Students haye heard such promises before, only to have, them vanish just before the' May, trustees meeting, when tuition hikes are usually approved. This time the University must stick to its plans not to raise tuition. It is generally known that James J. Kilpatrick Weak men It rained paper torrents on Capitol Hill last weekend. When the downpour stopped, reporters were knee-deep in documents: We had 4,300 pages of stuff from House Judiciary and another 2,200 from the Senate Watergate Committee. It was too much. Let me pluck three sentences from the flood. Two of them come from President Nixon, one from Senator Sam Ervin. The two Nixonian sentences tell us something of The President's blindness; the comment from Senator Ervin speaks tellingly of the senator's insight. Sentence One On Sept. 15, 1972, the President met with Bob Haldeman and John Dean in the Oval Office. They talked =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. BEATS HP-35 & SR-50 pressure from Harrisburg is a major influence on whether tuition is raised. During the past few years the state hasp pushed especially hard for Penh State to raise its tuition to the Si ,000 a year recommended by tie state's Master Plan for the financing of higher education. Beginning Fall Terri, Penn State's tuition will be $990 a year, which Oswald has said is the University's final step toward the recommended figure. Thp Univer sity has complied with the state this far. No more sacrifices should be expected. I, The basic economics Of buying an education today should be providing an even greater in centive not to raise tuitio6again. CYNTHIA A. ASHEAR Business Manager A CALCULATOR THAT " V/ 11. 7 1 M1 1 7 L _ 17 ' 227 W. Beaver Ave.. Phone: 237-9134 ti 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily; Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 1, Even without more tuition, costs to students can 'be expected to keep rising. On-campus housing costs will continue to go up as long as food prices and service costs rise. The same is true forff campus students, especially this year, when the housing shortage will force many students to accept high rents downtOwn. Penn State students have ac cepted A number of tuition hikes in the past. Now, as the coSt of living keeps spiraling, they simply can not afford to have their tuition raised again resident Oswald and the Boar - d6f7rbstees must do everything within their power short of lowering the quality of education to aypid another tuition hike. in the woods among other things of ways to frustrate an investigation by a House committee. They talked of rallying Gerald Ford, then a congreSSman from Michigan. They spoke of putting pressure on Republican Congressman William B. Wldnall. The President felt that Republican members "really ought to blunderbuss in the public arena." From the Judiciary Com mittee t'rnscript: "Righ ," said Dean. "Good," said Haldeman. "That's what this is," said the President of the United States, "public i - elations." You will not find that passage in the original White House transcript. Sentence Two: On Feb. 28, 1973, the President met again with Dein. Nixon wanted to instruct Dean in how to deal with Senator 'Howard Baker, top Republican on the Senate Watergate Committee. His thought was to keep Baker from talking with too many people at the White House. Baker would be permitted to talk with Dean only, but with nobody else. "How does that sound to you?" the President asked. "I -think that sounds good," said Dean. "You tell Timmons that he sees him privately and says that's it," the President continued. "We are not pressing him. We don't care, we're not because Baker (sighs). The woods are full of weak men." That cryptic sentence should have appeared on page 86 of the White House transcript. It ,did not appear. Finally', Sentence Three, from Ervin'si summation of the • Scie i ntific Slide Rtile • Exponent Key (Scientific Notation) • 14-Character Display • Parentheses Keys • Radi,an/Degree Signal • Memory & Reciprocal • Pi, Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Arc • Natural &,Common Logs • Antilogs •e X , y x, x— y, keys • AC/IDC 'Recharger • Carry Case Retail $l7O SALE $139" Gay rights: 2 years later By JOSEPH ACANFORA 111 1972 Peen State graduate I returned to visit State College this past weekend, just two years after my graduation from the University. I found that a controversy in which I was deeply involved was still very 'Mich unresolved•and currently debated. That debated Issue Is the need for gay people to be protected in their employment. and housing from unjustified interference by anti-homoseival bigots. I was dismissed from my student teaching position within State College area schools when it was learned that I was a member of I Homophiles of Penn State. Despite the over whelming, support I received from my students, my professional colleagues and from students' parents, a group of administrators within the school district and Penn State, Collegian . forum unshaken in their personal poWer and hatred of homosexuals, blocked the completion Of my professional training. Only an injunction Issued by the Centre County Court ended their discriminatory position. Yet I now read that some on Borough Council question the very existence of anti-gay discrimination in the town and the need for job protection. Can their memories be so short? As a teacher, I find it disturbing that another question has not been asked by those considering the sexual preference protection provisions. What effect will the pending Council action have on high school students—gay high school students? Gay high school students do exist. Statistically and logically, they are a reality. Only an uninformed or unrealistic person can challenge the fact that a significant minority of high school students, boys and girls, have a homosexual orientation. So what message will Council be sending to this minority group of your children? , "Why" of Watergate: "Unlike the men who were responsible for Teapot Dome, the presidential aides who perpetrated Watergate were not seduced by the love of money, which is sometimes thought to be the root of all evil. On the contrary, they were instigated by a lust for political power, which is at least as corrupting as political power itself." One of Nixon's most costly failings from the beginning of Watergate was his failure to see the whole wretched affair In terms of elementary right and wrong. He was obsessed Mr months with notions of "public relations." Not until late in the game, when the magnitude of the corruption finally sank home, did he shift his focus from how things looked, to how things really were. "The woods are full of weak men." There is a terrible irony concealed within. that observation. Within the Nixon White House the "we . * men" were those who lacked total loyalty, who would not 'tOlay the game awfully rough," who might slip unguarded information to a curious senator. Those weren't the weak men. The fatal weakness of the Nixon White House rested in the men of Senator Ervin's summation in the men who lusted for political power. Superficially they were tough, and Nixon himself the toughest of all. Behind the facade, these thousands of pages reveal a pitiful insecurity, a kind of stockade mentality in which the "we" were always barricaded against the "them." In this dark torrent of documentary evidence, whatever might have remained of the Nixon administration slowly but steadily drowns. THE SOFT EMosiold Sta.rt At l ost 1 Everything You Will Ever Want To Know About Apartment Living But Wouldn't Think to Ask There's a lot more to deciaing on where to live than meets the eye. A lot of things you don't even think about when you're being shown through a prospective place. You sign the lease, move in and then discover the flaws and nuisances. We want to 'tuck a few things in your mind that you should look for to help you make up your mind 1. You'll want to know that you can get BACK AND FORTH. from town and the University easily. LAUREL GLEN has a free bus to all classes during the day. 2. You'll want to koow that you are in a SAFE ENVIRONMENT. LAUREL GLEN has built all its apartment units with well-lit separate entrances to each apartment. The units are placed so that the entrances are seen by the surrounding tenants. 3. You'll waist to know if the TEM PERATURE hi comfortable for you. • LAUREL GLEN has individually controlled thermostats in each apartment, allowing you to set youeown heat and air conditioning. 4. You'll want to know you're among people who share your LOVE OF NATURE, LAUREL GLEN sweeps down into the acres of woodland that will not be disturbed from their natural state. In other words, we do not plan to develop this woods with more apartments after we get you in. 5. You'll want to know about the PET SITUATION, a ticklbh oae Indeed. LAUREL GLEN has a number of buildings set aside for pet lavers. The other buildings will observe a strict No-Pets-Allowed code for those who object to or are allergic to them Laurel Glen Community A defeat of the "gay rights" section of the bill will tell them loud and clear that their town and parents regard them as less than human. That they will be fired from their jobs. That they will lose their apartments. That they will be generally abused and ridiculed. That they will be forced to hide in their closets. Hide from their friends. Hide from their teachers. Hide from their parents. This Is a sick and destructive message. I cannot believe that the citizens and parents of State College will allow this to happen. The American Psychiatric Association has recently abandoned its own prejudiced policy of listing homosexuality as an illness. In fact, it has completely revised its thinking and has called for the end of an era of discrimination against homosexuals. I have faith that the passage of the State College "gay rights" provision similar in nature to many already passed in com munities across the country will bring this new and refreshing spirit of acceptance and honesty to local gay students. Without fear of job or housing loss, more gay citizens in town will be willing to openly admit and discuss the problems and joys of their sexual preference. Gay students will have a more realistic view of their futures.. They will be able to look ahead and see the productive and joyful Res their heterosexual brothers and sisters have. Certainly voices will rise up, as they have in the past, drawing from the most negative of human emotions hate, fear, intolerance and ignorance to condemn homosexuality. Letters from the like of Professor Fagan have already come in. Biblical verses will be thrown as daggers in the backs of gay boys, girls, men and women. Yet I have hope that understanding, compassion and reason will win over the negative rages from the community. I have faith that most of State College residents will rally to the support of the "gay rights" bill presently before the Municipal Council and not allow the jobs of gay merr and women and the futuies of gay students to be lost at the hands of bigots. THE WATERGATE A.ROI-11P61-AGrO lit 6. You'll want to know about PARKINti. LAUREL GLEN has nearly two parking spaces for each apartment. 7. You'll want to know about MAINTE NANCE. • LAUREL GLEN has a maintenance man and a manager living on the premises to hail ; dle emergencies through the night and a crew of men specializing in maintaining apartment buildings through the working day. b. You'll want to know about TELEVISION RECEPTION. LAUREL GLEN provides cable TV. Ex cellent reception. 9. You'll want to know you have enough living space for comfort. LAUREL GLEN has efficiencies, one, two, and three bedroom apartments imaginatively designed to give you generous-sized bright rooms with maximum livability. There is plen ty of closet space, including at least one walk in closet 10. Yon:II want to lasow, above all,` that THE PRICE IS RIGHT. LAUREL GLEN's apartments can be shared with friends so that living in comfort and style costs no more than living in the dorm. 237-5709 Free bus from campus 4 1 A AI. 7A . m. 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