Are USG
,platforms plywood or mapl
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, , By MIKE MENTREK
and JERRY NCHWARTZ
Collegian Staff Writers
By rights, campaign promises should
not be analyzed.
They should be placed under glass,
wondrous in their conception and
miraculous Ini culmination. Presidential
and vice presidential candidates spend
days and even months working to tell the
student body where they stand .on the
issues, and exactly what they plan to do
if elected. , ,
But today's promises are sometimes
tomorrow's. garbage. And just as with
garbage, the promises are recycleable;
they resurface from year to year in
slightly, disguised form, fodder , for
another campaign.
Regardless, the candidates and their
platofrms deserve a close look and some
criticism before this week's vote.
Rick Glazier and Al Leard are running
on the slogan, "Not just promises; a plan
for action." According to some, the
slogan ought to be, "Not just a plan for
action; a plan for miracles."
Willard poll doubtful
The Willard polling station will not
open at 9 this morning as scheduled
because the USG election committee
did not find people willing to staff the
poll.
Off-campus students can vote only
at the HUB and Willard polls.
USG election commissioner Randy
Oppenheimer said Diane Rapport,
the town election commissioner, had
trouble finding enough students , to
End of March
Coalition
walks for
low tuition
By MARC COHEN
Collegian Staff Writer
Despite the threat of rain, University
Coalition marched through campus
yesterday pleading for student support
in its fight against rising tuition:' The
planned rally on Old Main Lawn was
canceled and rescheduled for tomorrow.
' After the march, Coalition voted to
picket Old Main, at noon today. Another
march will begin at the HUB tomorrow,
followed by the rescheduled rally.
More than 100 persons took to the
streets in support of the Coalition in
yesterday's march. A police escort led
the chanting marchers, from the HUB
through each dorm area. Shouts of "Join
the fight, stop the hike" and "Fight to
learn, learn to fight" echoed from the
dorm walls.
Some shouting matches occured in the
dorm areas but no violence developed.
Reactions to the march, one of several
demonstrations planned this week, were
mixed. Sue Reich (3rd-biochemistry)
watched the march go by East Halls and
said the place to march was Harrisburg.
"This won' t,help here," she said.
Terri Beers (6th-community develop
ment) agreed: "They're talking to the
wrong people." Alice Pope (3rd-in
dividual and family studies) added,
"The only ,thing you can do is write
letters."
Elaine Deßlander (6th-art education)
didn't know if the students would support
the rally but said at least somebody was
trying to help. Glenn Rowland (grad
business , administration) said he
Weather
Wet weather returns to State College.
Cloudy through tomorrow with ' rain
developing during the morning hours,
heavy at times, and continuing into
Thursday. Temperature remaining near
50.
In fairness to Glazier and Leard, their
platform is more extensive than those of
the other candidates. But at the same
time, Glazier and Leard promise a great
many things that can only be ac
complished by act of God and-or the
administration. .
Consider:
—Their proposal to place voting
representatives of the student body on
the bodies which determine policy on the
budget, research, teaching, advising and
curriculum evaluation. The University
already has a policy to encourage
student participation in academic
decision making —it is up to the
departments to make it work.
As for placement of students on
budgetary committees, the proposal has
been met with disapproval from many
administrators. As one administrator
says, "Students are too transient, they
don't have enough time, and they don't
have enough prior knowledge of the
departmental workings. They would not
• be very effective."
If that is indeed the attitude of the
administration, there isn't much that •
staff both Willard and the HUB. The
HUB polls will be manned today and
tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Oppenheimer said the Willard poll
will be opened if several students,
acceptable •to all candidates, volun
teer to staff it.
The delay in the opening of the
Willard poll is expected to hurt the
campaign of USG presidential candi
date W.T. Williams.
University Students hiked to the foot of Old Main's steps where John Strand
encouraged them to avoid another hike the tuition one.'
wouldn't enter the march and was un
decided about the rally. "Inflation and
the state are creating the problems," he
said. "The decision has already been
made and I don't think this rally will
help anything."
Milton Brown (6th-human develop
ment) said students will have to come
out because they are affected by tuition
increases. He added, "As more students
are forced to leave school, more students
will support the fight aginst increases."
Gerald Moser, professor of Spanish
and Portuguese, said if he were a
student he would support the rally but
wondered where the money could come
from. He hedged on the suggestion that
taxpayers pay more taxes but said tax
money already collected should be
redistributed.
As the protesters walked through
Pollock Union Building, bystander Mark
Huber (10th-history) claimed tuiton is
not th - e major problem right now. "The
problems are the' highway coming
through and the graft and corruption in
development companies in this place,"
he said. He added that students should
unify behind these major issues.
Coalition vice president Roger Davis
said, "I'm- sure students can become
involved. If I wasn't sure, I wouldn't be
here." He raised the possibility of a
tuition strike fall term. "The Com
monwealth Association of Students
(students attending state branch
campuses) threatened a tuition strike
last December and the legislature
gave them more money," Davis said.
In Waring Hall, Sharon Peck (9th
early childhood education) said she isn't
worried' about. the increases because
her father owns the whole place. "My
tuition will be paid by God," she said.
"He is my father and he owns the place.
An alumnus from the class of 1922
couldn't blame the students for protest
ing. She said that money going for reme
dial courses was wasted. ?High schools
have the responsibility for those courses,
not colleges," she said.
The Coalition urged students to take
their problem to the administration.
According to Coalition member John
Strand, the protest has to go 6n the entire
term. "The administration doesn't
consider us enough of a power," Strand
said. "They snicker at us now, but they
won't laugh at a few thousand students. "
Glazier and Leard can do about it.
Glazier could set up a student budget
committee, as he has proposed. Dion
Stewart, student trustee, said such a
committee would have as much access
to budget information as the trustees. *.
—Glazier's proposal to have the
University Student Advisory Board,
recognized as the student body "as
appropriately organized" has little or no
chalice.
USG ELECTIONS ANALYSIS
The Board of Trustees has allowed the
president of the University to decide
what groups he will consult, , and
University President John W. Oswald
has made it very clear that he intends to
consult two other boards representing
service groups and academic groups, in
addition to the USAB, which is made up
of student leaders of major campus
organizations: ,
And there is little that Glazier and
Leard can do about that.
—Glazier and Leard propose an "all-
daily co
the Cllegian
2nd faculty group to petition PLRB
Ag college against faculty
By KEITH BARNES
and JOHN MATTA
Collegian Staff Writers
A group from .the College of
Agriculture told the Pennsylvania Labor
Relations Board (PLRB) yesterday that
it wished to be excluded from any
collective bargaining organization that
might be formed to represent the Penn
State faculty.
Ernest Bergman, professor of plant
nutrition, presented to the PLRB a
petition signed by 212, 62,per cent, of the
340 faculty members from the "College
of Agriculture . Faculty Organization,"
an organization approved by the
University Faculty Senate.
"Existing collegian procedures," the
petition said, "will satisfy, our needs
more than any widely diverse group
which would represent the entire
University faculty."
PLRB hearing examiner Sidney
USG campaign ends with heated
By MIKE MENTREK
Collegian Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student Govern
ment presidential campaign drew to a
close last night with more than the issues
being questioned at a debate in East
Halls.
W.T. Williams and Rick Glazier ex
changed accusations • that ad
ministrators would be unwilling to work
with the other candidate because of
participation in past anti-administration
activities.
Williams said University President
John W. Oswald would oppose Glazier's
platform issue calling for two additional
meetings of the Student Advisory Board.
Williams said Oswald would be un
willing to accept Glazier's SAB proposal
because of a letter sent last year asking
for his resignation.• The letter was signed
by 32 student leaders, including Glazier
and his running mate Al Leard. Williams
encompassing written policy concerning
access" to University information. To a
degree, there already is a policy.
University information is divided into
five categories, some public, some not.
Glazier's charge that "Penn State is
clearly in -violation" of state and federal
laws that give the public access to in
formation is a bit murky. As a state
related institution, the University has
always maintained that these laws don't
apply at Penn State. And no court has
said that Penn State was wrong yet.
Clearly, it will be the courts and the
University, not Glazier and
battle
and
USG who will decide the battle over
records and information.
Other charges by Glazier and Leard,
that tuition will pay for expensive
graduate programs and for research at
Penn State, were attacked by ad
ministration and student officials.
Alex Holt, president of the Graduate
Student Association, said any suggestion
U.S. warned in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Rival
Palestinian leaders jointly warned
yesterday that should the American
Sixth Fleet intervene in Lebanon it
would be sunk. They also warned against
Syrian intervention.
However, Lebanese Socialists rejected
a final cease-fire appeal aimed at
averting a Syrian invasion.
Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, embraced
rival Palestinian leader George Habash
and rebel Moslem army leader Ahmed
Khatib and the three chanted, "unity,
•
unity, unity."
"America says its fleet can arrive on
these shores within 24 hoUrs," Arafat
told a surprise news conference. "But I
saw we are now within range of Sixth
Fleet artillery."
- In Washington, the Pentagon said as of
midday yesterday, the U.S: naval force
Ford gets
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate
Budget . Committee voted yesterday to
give President Ford nearly all he asked
for in defense spending next year.
The- panel approved 1977 defense
budget authority of $ll3 billion, only $3OO
million less than Ford's revised figure.
The President first asked for $114.9
billion but last week scaled his own
request down to $113.3 billion.
Budget authority represents a com
mitment to spend money, but not all of it
in one year. The committee approved
actual defenSe spending in 1977 of $100.9
billion, $2 billion less than Ford asked.
Photo by Tom Peters
Lawrence said, "this is not a petition for
a separate unit, but rather a position
paper." It is both a plea for non
unionization and a request to be ex
cluded from a unit, Lawrence said, and
later thegroup must offer proof of being
a separate unit if they are to be ex
cluded.
A faculty group from the College of
Earth and Mineral Sciences presented a
similar petition at the hearings last
month and received recognition as a
"limited intervener," giving them the
right to be heard on certain issues.
Ronald Watzman, attorney for the
Pennsylvania Sfate University
Professional Association (PSUPA) said
the College of Agriculture petition
"seems to be statement against
unionization rather than an in
tervention."
To officially intervene at the hearings,
a faculty group must collect "consent
said Oswald would never honor a request
submitted by a student who had signed
the letter calling for his resignation.
Glazier defended his SAB proposal by
saying the extra meetings he was
suggesting would not involve con
ferences with Oswald.
"As for the letter," Glazier said, "it was
a last resort by a group of people who
were frustrated by beating their heads
against a wall." The letter asked Oswald
to resign if certain changes were not
made in University policy. Glazier said,
"At the time we felt it was the only thing
left to do."
Glazier ended his rebuttal by saying
administrators would be reluctant to
deal with Williams as USG president
because he had taken an active part in
organizing the tuition rally at Old Main
last year. , "Oswald was not too turned on
by that," Glazier said.
that undergraduate tuition pays for
graduate instruction is "a twisting of the
facts." Graduate classes are often more
costly than undergraduate' classes
because they are smaller.
But 400-level courses are often small
classes, too, and therefore more ex
pensive. If graduate students were
asked to pay more, seniors and juniors
could also be asked to pay more.
Steve Garban, University comptroller,
said tuition Money will not be used to fill
any gap in research funds. Garban and
other University officials say that the
amount of tuition money that goes to
research is "extremely minor," and that
most comes from grants from the state
and federal governments and from the
Nat'onal Science Foundations.
For more money, Glazier and Leard
look to alumni contributions. William A.
Engel, Jr., associate director of gifts and
endowments, said that while alumni give
money for scholarships and specific
projects, they probably would , not be
interested in giving money to the
University's general fund.
"They'd say, 'That's a problem bet-
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patrolling the• eastern Mediterranean
about 24 hours sail off the coast of
Lebanon had not been put on any
unusual alert status.
If necessary, the naval force could be
called upon to rescue the more than 1,000
U.S. citizens still in Lebanon.
The seven-ship force consists of the
assault helicopter carrier Guadacanal,
with a Marine detachment aboard; a
conventional destroyer, a guided missile
destroyer, and four support ships.
The support ships include landing
craft and a supply vessel for the Marine
force.
Intelligence reports reaching
Washington said a Russian Sverdlov
class cruiser was in the vicinity of the
task force. It is customary for Soviet
ships to shadow American combat ships
in the Mediterranean even in quiet
times; -. • . -- - '.- -- • •-•- 1 - ---
defense funds
Ford said Monday he would veto any
defense spending bill which made major
reductions from his request, but did not
say exactly what figure he would accept.
A proposal by Sen. Joseph R. Biden, D-
Del., to knock about $3 billion from
Ford's request for weapons procure
ment and modernization of forces failed
4 to 9. His proposal would have delayed
the B 1 bomber program a year, put em
phasis on conventionally-powered rather
' than nuclear-powered ships and empha
sized less costly types of airplanes.
The committee then voted 9 to 5 to
grant Ford's request for $9.6 billion in
cards" from 30 per cent of the members
of what they deem to be an appropriate
faculty bargaining unit. A petition
presented to the labor board by PSUPA
resulted in these hearings to decide on
an appropriate unit to vote in a union
representation election.
In yesterday's testimony, the
University tried to show that the Milton
S. Hershey Medical Center has the same
relationship to the central ad
ministration of the University as the
other 10 colleges at Penn State. The
University wants Hershey faculty
members included in the voting unit
determined by the PLRB, while PSUPA
feels that the Medical School does not
have an identifiable "community of
interest" with the other colleges, and
should be excluded from the unit.
Dr. Harry Prystowsky, dean and
provost of Hershey, testified on the wide
range of administrative policies that
Glazier's financial aid platform also
came under question. During a question
and answer period, he was asked what
purpose would be served by his proposal
for financial aid peer counselors if
similar counseling could be obtained
from professionals in the Office of
Financial Aid.
Glazier said the Financial Aid
department was severely understaffed
with only 10 counselors being respon
sible for over fifty thousand state-wide
University students. He said the peer
counseling program could easily make
up the deficiency.
Williams platform proposal
establishing a State College food stamp
center was the subject of some con
troversy. A spectator at the debate
asked Williams if he was aware that a
representative from the Bellefonte food
stamp center came to State College once
a month to prbvide the same 'service
ween the University and the state
legislature,' " he said.
As for a charge by Glazier that too
much money from alumni contributions
goes to landscaping and other projects,
Engel said about 20 per cent of the
unrestricted moneys donated by alumni
in 1974-75 went to landscaping. Nearly all
the remaining $122,000 went to student
aid, along with the majority of an ad
ditional $700,000 the alumni donated..
Faculty unionization also turns up in
the Glazier-Leard platform, in the shape
of a proposal to amend Act 195, which
allows public employes (including
teachers) to unionize.
Any such amendment has not a ghost
of a chance, according to sources close
to the legislature and the unions. The
power of the public employes and faculty
unions is second to none in the Com
monwealth, and they could be counted
on to fight the proposal (which could also
allow parents to sit in on bargaining in
district schools) to the very end.
On USG itself, Glazier and Leard
propose a general streamlining.
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Wednesday. March 31.1976
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Arafat warned against intervention in
Lebanon by anyone.
"All conspiracies will be broken on the
rock of Palestinian-Lebanese unity," he
said.
As Arafat spoke,the Christian
Phalangist radio reported that Israel
was massing troops and armor along the
Lebanese border and had set up check
points inside Lebanese territory.
.No confirmation was available, but
witnesses in the area said that Israeli
reconnaissance planes were active
there.
Syrian peacemakers earlier made an
eleventh hour appeal to Socialist leader
Kamal Jumblatt to agree to a one-week
cease-fire to allow parliament to elect a
new president to replace President
Suleiman Franjieh, who has refused to
resign. ' .": -•— . •
"real growth" in the defense budget
over current levels, most_of it in new
weaponry.
The House Budget Committee also is
working on the 1977 budget this week. Its
chairman, Rep. Brock Adams, D-Wash.,
wants to cut $7 billion from Ford's
request for defense budget authority and
$1.5 billion from actual spending.
Earlier yesterday, the Senate budget
panel voted 11-1 to endorse a series of
controversial steps the President said
would lead to savings of $5.4 billion.
The action•includes limiting pay raises
to 4.7 per cent,
union
apply to the medical center. Health
insurance, liability insurance, budget
planning and computer tie-ins are
among the - areas in which Prystowsky
said Hershey has a direct relationship
with the University's central ad
ministration.
Hershey has 11 representatives to the
Faculty Senate, Prystowsky said,
making the college the fifth largest
representative in the Senate.
Prystowsky also testified that not all
of the students at the medical center
take "clinical" science courses. Nursing
and graduate students not in the medical
program study at Hershey, Prystowsky
said, with 83 of Hershey's 247 "on-ad
ministrative faculty members teaching
non-medical, "basic" science courses
such as biochemistry.
Prystowsky's testimony continues
today when the hearings resume at 10
a.m. in 311 Keller.
debate
Williams was proposing. Williams said
he had been assured no such service
existed and questioned the reliability of
the spectator's source. .
Later in the debate, Joe Augustine
said he had received the same in
formation and said he would give out the
source's name later.
What's inside
Will students vote today?
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