Tight squeeze
A SECTION of Calder Alley between Fraser Street and flumes Alley might be the site of alterations pending borough council
action. Sidewalks are being considered to provide easier access to newly-erected shops in the area and as a safety measure for
pedestrians.
State budget sent to S'happ
HARRISBURG (AP) An $B7 million
budget package narrowly passed the
Senate yesterday, ending six months of
wrangling over how much the state
should spend this year.
The 26-23 Senate vote was the
minimum needed to pass the bill, which
was sent to Gov. Shapp.
Four Democrats and 19 of the Senate's
20 Republicans voted against the
measure. The other Republican was
absent.
Opponents complained about the
$2,500 increase in legislative expense
accounts and the large amount of aid for
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Legislators in both the House and
as U.S. budget clears , Senate
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate
gave final : approval- yesterday to a
temporary, federal budget for the
current 1976 fiscal year after a blast by
its budget chairman at.Pregident Ford
for his threat to veto "essential " tax
cuts.
Besides a $374.9 billion ,ceiling on
government spending through June 30,
the legislation also sets a revenue floor
of $300.8 l4llion built around the six
m9.llth extnsion of tax cuts Ford says he
cannot accept.
This would leave a budget deficit of
$74.1 billion some $25 billion less than
once feared.
Trie measure, in the form of a con
current resolution to continue federal
programs at roughly last year's level
until actual appropriations are com
pleted, now goes to the House. It does not
require presidential signature.
Peace, goodwill
By SHERRIE SPANGLER
Collegian Staff Writer
Christmas break begins ne4 week,
but Pat, with no family or friends, will
have only an empty apartment to look
forwattl to. While most students head for
home] the ski slopes and parties, Pat will
sit in her room; lonely and depressed.
Even those smiling students rushing
around town in search of the perfect
Christmas present for a friend have
problems. According to Albert L.
Ingrain, director of the Mental klealth
Cente'r in Boucke,, suicide rates go up
around the' holidays because people
realize how lonely they are. "It , really
scares you when you find out how
messed up some kids are, although they
appear to be well adjusted," one
resident assistant lamented.
In 'fact, recent studies at several
universities showed that about 90 per
cent of the students reported having felt
deeply discouraged arid unhappy at
limes, and more than half had though
about committing suicide.
The national average for suicide Ifs
three in every 10;000 college studetns,
according to,lngram. Suicide, is second
only to accidents as the cause of death
among college studetns.
'Mau i f
rice , L. Farber, , social
i t
psych logist • at the University of Con
neric t, calls suicide a disease of hope:
"Suic de is usually precipitated by a
blow ! that; threatens acceptable life
conditions. This blow interacts with a
low self-image to proQuce a low level of
hope.l' When hope is extinAuished,
suicide may occur. ,
i •
Ingram says suicide usually does not•
result from one isolated event, but oc- .
curs 1 after a long accumulation of
depressive incidents. For ez, ample, a
poor family' life followed by years of
loneliness at school may cguse mild
depression, but a sudden drop ,in grades
added to these problems, could
precipitate suicide. :
It's difficult to estimate b:l* many
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Senate now get $5,000 for expenses
Several lawmakers said their con
stituents would oppose a 'legislative pay
or expense increase, although all ad
mitted they could use the extra money.
Sen. Louis Coppersmith, D-Cambria,
said increasing expense accounts was
not the proper way to increase a
lawmaker's compensation.
"A more frank way ... a more direct
way to deal with inflationary pressures
is through a salary increase," he said.
The bill, which does' not affect a
lawmaker's $15,600 annual salary, allots
$2.3 million for the expense account
increases and additional staff.
State departments and agencies are in
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, 1)-Maine,
chairman of the -new Senate Budget
Committee, charged that Ford's "high
handed attitude" in insisting that any
tax cut be coupled with a $395 billion
spending celling„ for fiscal 1977
"represents nothing less than an effort
by the President to abort the
congressional budget process" man
dated by law.
"He may ignore it, but we dare not
unless the country is to sink once more
into the quagmire of unrelated budgets,
runaway spending, inflatidn and
recession," Muskie said. ,
He called the tax cdtsl"essential" to
responsible budget-writing but said
Congress cannot accede to Ford's
demands to set a 1977 budget ceiling now
because it will not even receive his
budget proposals and supporting figures
K til next spring.
suicide attempts are made. Some ex
perts say far every successful suicide
there are five attempts; others say ten.
Ingram said most attempts are actual
calls for help or attention.,
Penn State averages only one or two
uicides a.year, although depression is
d
a serious, widespread problem, he
4aid.
I The major depressive factors among
Students are interpersonal relationships,
4rades, jobs and money.
Freshmen often have problems adjust
ing to school and being away from home
Ingram said. Tom, an! RA who has
worked in East Halls, which houses
cnainly freshmen: Nittany Halls, which
lieouses mainly upperclassmen; and
ntre Halls, said, I"X:repression is
verywhere. Some freshmen can't make
the adjustment easily. 'Many seniors
nan't get an interview, let alone a job.
And the opposite sex is a pervasive prob
lem."
Occasional depressian is normal, but
when the feeling lasts several days and
becomes a nagging obsession, Ingram
said the student shoul seek help. Dorm
residents can turn to heir RA. Anyone
can call the OASIS h 10 center at 234-.
0323 or stop in at the nice, on BeaVer
Avenue and 'Garner tieet, to discuss
their problems with til understanding
volunteer. And the Mental Health Center
in Boucke offers tha services of six
psychologists, two psy c hiatrists and five
graduate assistants. -.
RAs take Counselor io".1 198, a three
credit course that tea es dealing with
people and how to *ck up clues to
prollems that an' trained listener
might miss. They leive special
training .in handling sui 'dal students.
For example, they learn tif a student
r
tssessi
gives away a prized 'on he may
be contemplating; sui de. RAs also are
alert-to withdrawal by students. U there
is an immediate dang of suicide, they
seek professional help.
Torn said, "Student
male RAs as much as
up things mainly by liv
line for $32 million; the counties, $2B
million; lodal Bicentennial programs,
$lO million, and housing and
redevelopmlnt, $5 million..
Allegheny; County gets $9.6 million;
Philadelphia, $8.9 million, and all other
counties $9.3 million:` The money is for
child welfare, food stamps, county
cowls and environmental programs.
rlt's just loaded too much for Pitts
burgh and I Philadelphia," said Sen.
Rol3ert , Jubelirer, a Republican from
Blair County:
(!ordinarily, the budget bill must be
passed in June before the start of the
fiscal year July 1.
A4' There is do exception in the. Budget
for eleptiori-year • politics , Muskie
said.
The budget resolution, binding on
Congress under the new budget law,
forbids consideration of any legislation
that would lOwer revenues beyond the
authorized floor or hike spending beyond
the ceiling.
• Besides the levels set through June, it
also sets a spending ceiling of $101.7
billion and a revenue floor of $B6 billion
for the June -September "transition
period" to the new fiscal year system
beginning Oct. 1. The three-month
deficit would be $15.7 billion.
For the entire 15-month period from
July 1, 19751 through • Sept. 30, 1976,
therefore the resolution calls for a
spending ceiling of $476.6 billion with a
revenue floor of .$386.8 billion for a
relulting deficit of $89.8 billion. •
. . and suicide
not by them coming to discuss their
problems with me."
Pam, another RA, said girls come to
her with a wide variety of questions.
There is a constant flow of girls in and
out of her room.
OASIS haS about 55-volunteers
about -50 are itudents who are eager to
soothe a Worried or depressed person.
OASISICo-chairperson Ed Crumb said,
"Most people are reluctant to open up at
flist be 'u se` they don't know us, they
don't thi
. k we can really help them, or
they thi their problem is insignificant.
But we lee. every call as a serious cry
for help:
I ,
"To get people •to talk, we use em
pathy. Nye try to reflect their feelings so
they know we are listening to them," he
said.
Calls to OASIS are moreTrequent after
mid-terms, Olen Crumb said, "Students
have just gotten over a really stressful
time, and they r feel kind of empty." •
Crumb estimated Plat OASIS receives
an average Of two ,ealls a day and han
dles about one serious• suicide threat a
month.
OASIS volunteers receive 24 hours of
training over an eight-week period. They
learn methods of crisis intervention and
how to' deal with a suicidal person, - who
'Crumb described as "helpless, hopeless,
rejected, withdrawn."
"One of.thtrnosi striking warnings of
impending s :aide is a depressed person
Suddenly sa ~ ng, 'Nell, I think Ilm okay
now.' This ... ,• • bids probably just
• decided ,4,!" - "*% - . - , will solve his
problems," 4. ~!, , : : icti .
Among •' seeking help atIOASIS;"
depression ~ anifests itself in loneliness, .
i
o
frustration, nfusion, withdrawal and a
low desire t ednununicate, Cnimbsaid_ .
"They're jus down."
- While OA S IS will try to help anyone,
the Mental Ilealthtenter deals only with
students. Director Ingram said in
lerpersonalyinships— roommates ;
lovers, . etc - and acaderniq and
financial. probleur are probably the
comecan t to
43! females. p ic k
, 0 wi th the guys,
Calder Alley under study
By PHIL STOREY
Collegian Staff Writer
Trucks bottle-neck traffic while
unloading, cars creep along, bicycles
wobble cautiously on a zig-zag course
and pedestrians stay as close to the walls
as possible. The scene on Calder Alley is
a congested one.
Borough and regional officials are now
studying a proposal which will make the
going easier at least for the pedestrians.
If the proposal . gains the approval of
State College Borough Council, raised
sidewalks will be installed along the
north side of Calder Alley from Humes
Alley to Fraser Street.
Ron Short, director of the Centre
Regional Planning Commission, ad
mitted that no serious accidents in the
alley have been reported.
But besides giving walkers a safer
feeling, the six-foot-wide sidewalks
would encourage business development
along the alley, Short said.
More pedestrians have been using
Calder Alley as a pathway as several
mall shops have sprung up along the
alley in recent years.
"Borough council is actively en
couraging businesses on Calder Alley,"
Short said. .
Short sees Calder Alley "developing
Leaders argue spending eiling
Ford, Congress in for tax fight
WASHINUTON (UPI) President
Ford and Cfmgressional leaders failed to
reach a compromise yesterday in their
battle over ; I Nhether to attach a spending
Felling to an extension of this year's tax
cuts, and both sides prepared for a veto
battle.
"We were unable to agree on
anything," !said Senate Finance Com-
Mittee chairman Russell Long, 11-La.,
one of fowl senators who met for two
pours with Ford in an attempt to strike a
icompromis.
Long said. F'urd i At tick, position
that any tax cut must be accompanied
by a dollar-for-dollar cut in projected
fiscal 1977 federal spending, while
Democrats stuck to their position that
they cannot put a ceiling on a budget
they have not yet seen.
Budget Director James T. Lynn, who
sat• in on the meeting, agreed there was
no progress and quoted Ford as telling
the senators, "We'll just have to let the
system work."
Asked if this meant Ford was resigned
to a veto, Limn said, "The most that can
be said is i that ... there was no com
promise ai7ived at" and no further
meetings were scheduled.
Lynn said there now was "no doubt"
that Ford would veto the bill that
most common causes of depression
among students seeking the center's
help.
"Getting depressed is not a weakness
to be ashamed, of," ,Ingram said. "If
students would only come to us we would
help them cope with the depression and
look for the factors that caused it."
For example, if a student is depressed
because ofipoor grades, Ingram said he
would try to discover why the student
_ was doing badly and would refer him to
an academic counselor. If, the student
were severely depressed, Ingram said
he would set up a series of interviews
with him.
-"At what !point does a student need
help? According to Ingram, "When you
'feel- you need help, then you need it. But
remember that occasional brief periods
of depression a are normal."
Countless{ studies have been done to
determine, the characteristics of
suicidal-prcine personalities, but the
results are conflicting and inconclusive.
Many experts reportthat student suicide
and depression rates' are higher among
students with no religious beliefs, with
high gradeS and who live in apartments
rather than in dorms. Other experts
disagree.
Flowever,i there is general concenstip
that poor interpersonal relationship
and an in , competitive atmospheee
oftentargo hand-in-hand with
suicid s a e l er lestures among college
students, said ProfasOr J. Eugene Knott
of Rhode Island College.
Infgam said a long-range solution
might be making the education ex
perience as personal as possible
making students feel as if they belonged.
"But," he said, "I don't know bow to do
it. Smallerasseri cost more money."
CrUmb o ffered some general advice to
students Whii. 'feel the weight of
depression: t"lkiift ' Withdraw. Talk to
someone, shone a roommate, an RA,
the cleaning-lady. -Oet involved. Know
someone cares." '
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like an underground Atlanta" the
shopping and entertainment center of
the Georgia capital.
The whole proposal seems almost too
good to be true. But there are some kinks
in the play.
Adding a sidewalk will significantly
narrow Calder Alley, in some places
from 15 to nine feet. Large trucks parked
in the alley unloading supplies to the
back doors of businesses fronting on
College Avenue would render parts of
the alley impassable to anything larger
than a Volkswagon.
Short does not view this as a probleni
but as a virtue of the proposal.
He said that many people are using th
alley as a shortcut across town, instead
of using College or Beaver Avenue. The
trucks, he said, would tend to force catt
drivers to choose an avenue instead of
Calder Alley, giving more room in the
alley'to bicyclists.
One . section in the alley, from Alle
Street to Humes Alley, would be t
narrow for emergency vehicles to
through if a truck was parked there.
Short said tbis problem could be solved it
unloading were prohibited arthis sect
tion.
But State,college Police Chief Elwood
Williams cautioned that trucks
'ress will send him next week. It is
I ted , to contain a six-month ex
n of 1975's recession-fighting tax
thai preventing withholding tax
froM rising in January. •
Con=
ex . •
tens",
cuts,
rat • •
1 . .
"I bade just one small request, that it
he v p ttoes it he do it in a hurry so some
people don't have to miss y their Christi.
mas
I holidays," Long said.
Ford was noncommittal ;on Long's
request according to Sen. Edmund
D-Maine, chairman of the
Senate Budget Committee.
• Milskie.! said - the only compromis
For was willjtig td make Oaring the
mee ing was to. say he was willing to
acc t a higher budget ceiling than the
$395 billion he has proposed,' but only if
Congress trimmed the tax cut to cover
the ldss in revenue.
Long's Senate Finance Committee
apprived a bill Wednesday that Would
Lowe- Treasury revenues by $6.4 billion
compared to what would be xeceived if
no bill was passed. Ford'A proposal calls
fora $2B billion tax cut matched by an
equa? trimming of the federal budget, or
no net Treasury loss.
Tvo Republicans also attended the
meeting, Sen. Carl Curtis, R-Neb.,
ranking GOP member of the Finance
Comtnittee, and Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-
lent night
k, Pennsylvania
nia State University
delivering to businesses along the Allen-
Humes stretch of the alley would start
unloading on College Avenue to cut down
the distance from trucks to stores. This
would add to the congestion on the
avenue, he said.
Williams added that the rest of the
trucks might start- unloading on College
Avenue "by natural instinct" because
the truck divers would not want their
trucks boxed-in by other trucks
unloading on the newly narrowed alley.
"A lot of dialogue has to take place
before anything is decided," Williams
said.
That dialogue is taking place. The
Centre Regional Planning Commission
referred a study of the proposal to
Borough Manager Carl Fairbanks who
in turn referred it to the borough staff
and the State College Planning and
Traffic Commissions.
Meanwhile, Ron Short and his staff
are working on getting the bugs out of
the proposal.
Fairbanks said the proposal probably
would npt be voted on by council until
after January.
"We're in the first stage iden
tification of the problems," Fairbanks
said. "The second stage is figuring out
ways.to overcome the problems."
Okla. Curtis is a staunch supporter of
Ford's position, but Bellmon apparently
sided with the Democrats.
"The time for this will be next May,"
Bellmon said. "He's asking us in my
opinion to violate the budget act we
passed last year and in this way kill the
whole process. And I don't believe it's in
the long-range best interest of this
country to move in that direction."
A large number of Republicans have
•
deserted Ford, particularly in the
Senate, and it appears now that there
are more than enough votes Ns override a
veto in *the Senate and probably a suf
ficient amount in.the House.
Long said following the meeting, "We
understand one another better than we
did, but we're not in agreement. The
differ nce between the Senate and the
President remains about where it was."
Weather
Did you know that State College is one
of the cloudiest spots in the nation? Skies
will remaip overcast and damp at least
through tomorrow, with a period of snow
or sleet possible early today. High 34
Cloudy tonight and tomorrow with rain
arriving by Saturday morning Low
tonight 30. High Saturday near 40.