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. $