Collegian Arch parts assembled Architecture students Tom Snyder (left) and Steve Sekeres assemble part of the 48-foot arch on the mall. The project is one several on campus completed for Archi tecture 361. Two tents purloined iV.’ No one is sure if the thieves silently folded them, but two tents were stolen in the night within the last week. The tents were part of a project being engineered by an Architecture 361 class. A maroon, nylon tent was taken ■ around 11 p.m. last Thursday, only eight hours after it was erected on Old Main li lawn. Another, a 20-square-foot, blue and yellow “hyperparabolic paraboloid,” 4was stolen between 3 and 8 a.m. Monday. slt was set up Sunday near the obelisk on o the mall. 1 Other projects include a 48-foot arch, a rope structure, an inflatable bubble, a Apartment safety law discussed By MIKE SCHWARTZ Collegian Staff Writer Security measures aimed at safeguarding State College apartment door-locks from matric-card openings may soon become law. The amendments to the housing and building codes, expected to come before State College Municipal Council at their June 7 meeting, call for dead-bolt locks or dead-locking latches on all rental housing apartments in the borough. Richard Rummer, council member and professor of architecture at the said the only problem he i sees on passage of the ordinance is the question of retroactivity to existing structures. “This issue will be discussed at the next meeting,” Rummer said. “I don’t know if its legal to change things built ten years ago.” USG anti-tuition By EVE MARKOWITZ Collegian Staff Writer Most speakers at the first Undergraduate Student Govern ment-sponsored rally against tuition increases agreed that more student input is needed to bring about “any kind of reform.” “You can’t do anything with rallies anymore,” said former Graduate Student Assoication President Alex Holt. “Let’s face it, the 60’s are over and you’re not going to bring them back that easily.” Holt suggested that students should pay close attention to who they vote into the state legislature if they want to see their demands met. [.i “Telling the administration to open up the books is a little Simplistic and you can’t do it with a rally of 200 people,” he Said. I Others estimated the crowd size at less than 100 people. Invitations were sent to several representatives of the administration, including University President John W. JOswald and Fred Ciletti, special assistant to the president for {government affairs. Both declined the offer. University Coalition president Ned Measel objected to Oswald’s boycott of the meeting solely because Oswald ex plained his position in a public letter published in the Daily Collegian in March. i “If we have to take a cut in our programs, why isn’t the administration taking a cut in their wages?” he asked. “If [you go to a political science class they teach you about democracy. You don’t see democracy here.” USG President W. T. Williams said that “the dream of a higher education system has become a nightmare.” L Williams said the USG is fighting the tuition hike by setting lip a research group to investigate the problem, by sending 'four students to Harrisburg each month as a lobby and by [establishing the USG Department of Budget and Financial Aid to ask Penn State alumni to donate money to the University. ‘ Only three of the 26 University Board of Trustee members jinvited to speak at the rally showed up. Helen Wise, the first trustee to vote against tuition increases, said that students can gain influence through voting for candidates to the state brick arch and a geodesic dome which was used as a first-aid station Gentle Thursday. The students were allotted $35 for each projects’ building costs, but many of the materials were donated. “People are very nice,” Luis Summers, course in structor, said. “They do con tribute.’’Total cost including labor for the two stolen tents was about $4OO, Summers said. About 100 hours of work went into both projects. According to Summers, the purpose of the projects is “To formulate some theory. So much of our work is theoretical,” Practical projects are good for students, Summers said. The students were outraged at the thefts, Summers said. “I never did get to see the projects. And, of course, the students wanted the rest of the. campus to enjoy them,” he said. “We don’t know who to blame.” Dean Phillips, municpal council member, said the retroactivity issue is a major one. “With new construction slowed, we would not be dealing with a large part of the problem,” he said. As the ordinance now stands, locks would be changed between tenants. James Smith, landlord of H.O.' Smith and Sons, and member of the municipal Building Code, Housing Code and Appeals Board, said the borough would not have active participation in en forcement and act only upon complaint from tenants. Dean Moore, president of the Organization for Town Independent Students (OTIS), said locks should be changed after each tenant. “With the vacancy rate in summer, maintenance crews would be free to put in the locks. I >to by Julie Clpolla legislature next fall who will be responsive to Penn State’s problems. Another trustee, Kenneth Holderman, said that after lengthy studies on the tuition situation, he really can’t visualize this fall coming without a tuition increase. Holderman said that when he entered the University as a freshman 50 years ago it was common to get a college education for $7OO. “This fall will bring some sort of in crease,” he said, “bbt I pledge to use all my best judgement to keep that increase to a minimum.” Trustee Dion Stewart, a graduate student appointed to the Board by Governor Milton J. Shapp, said that demands for no rise in tuition or a cut in programs were unrealistic. “The student who gives you the two-minute statement to ‘open the books’ won’t want to sit down for 45 minutes to listen,” Stewart said. Establishing a student union to fight tuition increases was suggested by State College Municipal Council member Dean Phillips. “If you’re going to compete against power,” Phillips said, “you can’t go it with an amateur effort. You can get it done by organizing students into some sort of union. Now you’re i probably going to think of teamsters, but unions are one way a powerless group can find some way of power.” “You can start a revolution,” he added, “but that’s pretty silly, of course you can’t win. Or you can push and try and fight around. You don’t have to kow-tow to the administration but you do have to fight on their own turf.” USG Senator Tom Heitzenrater said it was getting harder to work with the system. He said he’s mad “because we’ve got 30,000 students and we’re told to work in the system and there’s no system. “The administration will listen to you when you riot or throw rocks. They will not listen to you when you give them a bill. “I’m not against a little property destruction here. Like it never hurt anybody, right? ’ ’ Change, Heitzenrater said, would come only when more students became enthusiastic about reform. Ford still expects nomination Reagan confident after big wins By United Press International President Ford, beset north and south by a surging Ronald Reagan, said yesterday he still is going to win the Republican presidential nomination. But not on the first ballot, said Reagan. Democrat Jimmy Carter, with three more victories after the year’s first four primary Tuseday, said his plan is more of the same. But the Carter “steamroller is on,” said Morris Udall. Reagan basked in the aftermath of a primary sweep that began with a Ford wipeout in Texas Saturday and climaxed in Indiana with his first, albeit narrow, victory in a northern industrial state. The former California governor, who also overwhelmed the President in Georgia and Alabama Tuesday, ex pressed surprise at his own performance in Indiana, where he said Ford had led by 20 points at one time. Ford told reporters he was “disap pointed” about Indiana but still “very strongly”expects to win the nomination in Kansas City in August and the election in November. Ron Nessen, Ford’s press secretary, said the President’s cam- Moore free of extortion charges CHARLESTON, W. Va. (UPI) A federal jury yesterday believed the word of Republican Gov. Arch Moore of West Virginia and found him innocent of charges he conspired to extort $25,000 during his reelection campaign four years ago from a now bankrupt loan campany. Moore’s former top aide, indicted with the governor, was also acquitted by the seven-woman, five-man jury following seven hours of deliberations and a 10-day trial. Had Moore been convicted, he would have had to resign and face a possible 20-year prison term and $lO,OOO fine. He was the fourth governor in the nation’s history to be indicted while in office. “It’s a crime that this ever should have occurred,” said Moore, his voice shaking, minutes after the verdict was read. “A great apology is due to the citizens of this state.” Moore, 53, and William Loy, 44, the former aide, were charged in a one-count indictment with accepting $25,000 from Diversified Mountaineer Corp., the loan company. The government charged they used their don’t think changing locks around should raise rents,” he said. Harold Zipser, manager of Schlow Enterprises, said the expenses would be passed on to the-tenants. “If the or dinance is retroactive and 100 doors have to be changed, this will reflect itself in expenses,” he said. The ordinance also calls for doors to be 16 or 18 gauge steel or 1 % inch solid wood core, at least one elevator in the building to be large enough for a stretcher, non-removable hinge pins on doors and steel door jambs. Smith said the lock changes between tenants would cost about $5 in main tenance costs. “This is less than 50 cents a month on a 12-month lease.” The locks would have retractable pins that would not allow opening by a steel blade or a credit card. According to increase rally draws small crowd paign strategy was going under scrutiny to see what had gone wrong: In an interview with CBS Capitol Cloakroom, Republican Sen. Howard ' Baker of Tennessee said the GOP would suffer “the awfullest bloodletting” at its national convention if neither Reagan nor Ford can win nomination quickly. And, he said, he would get into com petition for the Republican nomination himself if a Ford-Reagan deadlock opened the convention to other can didates. Reagan’s victories put him ahead of Ford, 359 to 318, in the contest for 1,130 delegates needed for the nomination. Since Saturday, Reagan has picked up 220 delegates to Ford’s 9. But Ford still had more than 250 uncommitted delegates in reserve in New York and Pennsylvania, and told reporters in an impromptu news conference his con fidence was not “harmed one bit.” Carter won the Indiana, Georgia and District of Columbia primaries Tuesday, losing only to Gov. George Wallace in Alabama. The results gave the former Georgia governor more than 100 new delegates and a total of 555. That was influence to try to convince the state banking board to grant the charter to a subsidiary of DMC. The charter was not granted. The government had based its case on the testimony of Theodore Price, former president of DMC, who has been sentenced to three years in prison in connection with the collapse of his loan campany. Price, facing a possible life sentence, plea-bargained for the reduced term in return for testimony against the governor and Loy. The defense attempted to portray Price as a playboy who stole from DMC and used the money to lavish gifts on his girlfriend and travel around the world. The jury took three ballots before deciding on the verdict. Eddie Ballard, a juror from Cottageville, W. Va., said the jury took more than seven hours because “we were thorough. We were focusing mainly on the governor’s schedule and Price’s schedule.” Price testified he made three trips to Moore’s Capitol office prior to the 1972 general election, delivering a Smith, “There is no such thing as a pick proof lock.” Zipser said he is ambivalent about the ordinance. “You can’t regulate people’s behavior continually. We get so many laws which people think are good, but they are only as good as the people that enforce and use them,” he said. Weather Remember every cloud has a silver lining because skies will clear as slightly cooler weather arrives for the weekend. Enjoy the morning sunshine because clouds and showers arrive by evening. High 75. Mostly cloudy tonight, continued breezy with showers and possibly a thundershower. Low 49. A few showers tomorrow, but skies should clear by late afternoon and cooler. High 61. Rally draws trustee University Trustee Kenneth Holderman is pictured at the microphone during yes terday’s rally against tuition increases on Old Main lawn. more than a third of the 1,505 needed to nominate a candidate in July at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Car ter’s own delegate count showed 656 in the bag. Udall, who was ruled off the Indiana ballot, picked up 5 delegates in the District and reached a total of 180 as he and Carter out-muscled two warring factions of local Democrats who had fielded uncommitted slates. Wallace had 144 delegates and Sen. Henry Jackson, now an inactive candidate, had 204. The key “uncommitted” pool was 232. Looking at the situation yesterday morning, Udall said "I know an un derdog when I see one. The bandwagon is rolling; the steamroller is on.” The faintest signs of a Democratic unity movement also were in the air. Wallace, who salvaged his Alabama delegation in an otherwise disastrous showing Tuesday, said he could support Carter as the Democratic nominee. Udall predicted the Democrats would not leave “blood on the floor” in their nomination process this year. “We’re not going to screw it up the way we did in 1 Ford day care veto 1 upheld by Senate | WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate failed by three votes ig yesterday to follow the lead of the House and override President Ford’s IS-: veto of a child day care center bill. The legislation would have authorized $125 million to help day care centers around the country meet the cost of new federal staffing S' standards, as well as state-imposed health and safety regulations. 8 Ford had denounced the House override vote on Tuesday and he» •i;: urged the Senate to sustain his veto. $ The President said the bill would “make permanent highly con- S troversial and costly day care staff- ’6B and ’72. We’re going to win one for a change.” Carter’s campaign manager also said there had been communication between the Georgian and Sen. Hubert Hum phrey. But a spokesman for Humphrey called UPI and said the Minnesota Democrat did not call Carter and that “Humphrey has no intention of en dorsing Jimmy Carter or anyone else at all.” Hamilton Jordan, the Carter cam paign chief, made two predictions in the wake of the Tuesday primaries: that Carter will get 1,000 delegates by June 9 and that “I think you’ll see, in the next few weeks, some leaders of the party and elected officials making public statements of support for us.” The-Republican atmosphere was far different. Reagan was campaigning in Nebraska, which, with West Virginia, votes next Tuesday, in hopes of picking up another victory in Ford’s supposed Midwestern power base to demonstrate again he is not the mere southern and southwestern regional candidate Ford’s camp has claimed. He said the Indiana victory ought to help in Nebraska. total $25,000. However, Moore said he only met the former DMC official once, in April 1971. Another juror, Clara Mae Kinder, a St. Albans housewife, said her duty was such a nerve-racking experience she “broke down Monday and bawled and cried.” “I put myself in their place,” she said. “If I was on trial, I’d want all the evidence weighed,” she said, adding the jury felt the government “didn’t have enough evidence about the money. ” Another juror, Gene Pettry, also of St. Albans, in dicated he had lost faith in government. “There’s just too much that goes on,” he said. “They pass laws then they just go around them. It’s getting into too much money.” He said he voted for Moore in 1972. In 1972, DMC, which operated a chain of loan com panies in several states, was in deep financial trouble, and the bank charter would have saved the company from going under. However, the state banking board denied the application on a 3-3 vote. to-children ratios” and deny states flexibility in setting and enforcing gj : their own standards. $: Advocates of the bill said centers jij now serving thousands of poverty level children would be forced to close without the federal money. $: Although the House had 33 more g: votes than necessary Tuesday, the 60- §§ 34 Senate vote yesterday fell three short of the required two-thirds of those present. Since taking office, Ford has vetoed 48 bills, and Congress has been able to override only eight of them. $
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