—The Daily Collegian Friday, May 7,1976
Frat hazing case
ruled on by IFC
By LEAH ROZEN
Collegian Staff Writer
The Inter-Fraternity
Council’s Board of Control
pulled the plug on social,
activities at Alpha Kappa
Lambda fraternity until Oct.
7, putting the fraternity on
IFC probation.
The ruling came at Wed
nesday night’s hearing on
charges of physical hazing
brought against the fraternity
by one of its members,
Michael Seibert (12th
biology).
EEC info planned
for workshop series
The Council for Exceptional
Children (CEC) will sponsor a
series of workshops tomorrow
to acquaint students from
Commonwealth Campuses
and all other interested
students with the education of
exceptional children major.
The program topics follow:
—lO to 11:15 a.m., physical
activities for exceptional
children in Rec Hall.
—11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.,
sex education for exceptional
children in 111 Chambers.
—1 to 2:15 p.m., film: “Like
Other Children,” with
discussion to follow in 107
Chambers.
—2:30 to 3:45 p.m., sen
sitivity workshop in 109
Chambers.
—4 to 4:15 p.m., exceptional
children and literature in 107
Chambers.
Residence Hall Week 76
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Friday, May 7
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4:30 -6:15 p.m. Country Chicken
Picnic Dinner served in the Quad for
Pollock-Nittany residents.
Celebrity Auction
7:30 p.m. Come and bid for the
items of your favorite stars, such as
Al Pacino and Jon Voight. Proceeds
to PARC.
Woodstock
9:30p.m. The most fantastic concert
movie ever made. Outside in the
Pollock Quad.
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IFC probation consists of a
strong reprimand, a weekly
check of the house and a
moratorium on sponsoring
social functions or having
more than half of the house
members attend another
fraternity’s social functions.
It also removes the privileges
of attending or participating
in Greek functions and in
tramural sports.
According to IFC
regulations, social privileges
will be reinstated for
tomorrow’s Mother’s Day and
According to Denise
Kraisman, a member of the
council, exceptional children
include those with learning
disabilities, those who are
mentally disturbed and those
who are mentally retarded.
Frequently, Kraisman said,
parents of an exceptional
child will forego a social life
because they are ap
prehensive about leaving
their child with someone who
is unfamiliar with the needs
of their child.
But CEC provides a baby
sitting service and coor
dinates numerous activities
for exceptional children in the
Centre County area.
Although the council is
composed primarily of
education majors, mem
bership is open to anyone.
Billings to Barber
Saturday, May 8 8:30 P.M.
Recital Hall, Music Bldg.
Alumni
celebrations.
Probation was the strongest
action the Board of Control
could take, with the exception
of expulsion, which IFC would
ask Raymond Murphy, vice
president for student affairs
to remove the fraternity’s
charter.
Besides putting Alpha
Kappa Lambda on probation,
the board ordered the
fraternity to reimburse
Seibert for any medical ex
penses incurred from the
incident.
Seibert charged that he
bruised his ribs and suffered
other injuries while taking
part in a fraternity ritual to
celebrate his giving his
fraternity pin to his
girlfriend. The celebration,
held April 19, included tying
Seibert and pelting him with
garbage, a trip to a creek
near Whipple’s Dam where he
was dunked in water and,
finally, a two-mile run down-
Tussey Mountain.
“It’s all done in good fun,”
Alpha Kappa Lambda
Rubber strike continues
CLEVELAND (UPI)
Negotiators for the striking
United Rubber Workers
Union and the nation’s
leading tiremakers reached
agreement yesterday on four
minor contract issues.
Neither side would call it a
significant breakthrough
toward ending the strike by
the 70,000-member union.
“I think some progress was
made,” said John H. Zim
merman, director of labor
relations for the Firestone
Tire and Rubber Co. “They
weren’t major items, but
everything has to be agreed to
before you have a final
agreement.”
Raymond Brown, director
from the people who gave you “Be Glad Then America”
and the “Festival of 18th Century Music”
American Music from 1700's to the present
Celebrate the Nation’s Bicentennial
Admission Free
President Joe Borrelli said
yesterday, expressing sur
prise at the severity of the
decision.
The ritual has “housewide
acceptance,” Borrelli said.
“It's a risk that everybody
takes. Care is taken that
nobody gets hurt.”
Homecoming
Borrelli compared the
ceremony to a friar’s roast,
saying it was simply “a bunch
of rowdy guys getting
together to have a good
time.”
“I respect every member
on that Board of Control,”
Borrelli said, “but I think that
decision stinks. We (Alpha
Kappa Lambda) are the
perfect scapegoat, since we
have both a high academic
average and a no-hazing
policy.”
Borrelli said his fraternity
planned to appeal the ruling.
To do that, 25 or more of the 49
Penn State fraternity
presidents must sign a
petition asking the Board of
Control to reconsider its
decision.
some agreement you take
t another step toward ending
the strike which began April
21. There’s a lot of hard
bargaining that has to be done
yet. There’s no change in the
basic issues on either side,
I’m sorry to report. However,
these were necessary items
that had to be resolved and
they were resolved.”
Agreement was reached on
contract language for sup
plemental workmen’s
compensation and sup
plemental unemployment
benefits, according to URW
President Pete Bommarito.
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UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
Friday-Sunday, May 7-9, 1976
Friday, May 7
“Travel Fair,” 9a.m.-5 p.m., Kern.
Sports: Men’s lacrosse, vs. Pennsylvania, 8 p.m.
University Theatre, “Unruly Children: A Pennsylvania Bicentennial Vaudeville,” 8
p.m., Pavilion Theatre.
Penn State Thespians, “South Pacific,” 8:30 p.m., Schwab.
Claremont Woodwind Quintet, 8:30 p.m., Music Bldg, recital hall. .-
ARHS program, Pollock Nittany Halls, An Evening in the Quad, 6:15 p.m., Celebrity
Auction,7:3op.m. Film, “Woodstock,” 10p.m.
Saturday, May. 8 , ; ~
College of Agriculture Open Housed celebrating the developmentof agricultural
technology,during the past 200 years, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m., headquarters, lobby of Ag.
Adm. Bldg.
Sports: Women’s tennis, vs. Ohio State, 9:30 a.m. Golf, Lady Lion Spring Invitational.
Women’s lacrosse, vs. Cortland, 1 p.m.
Howard Cosell, 8 p.m., Recreational Bldg. Sponsored by Colloquy.
University Theatre, “Unruly Children: A Pennsylvania Bicentennial Vaudeville,” 8
p.m., Pavilion Theatre.
Operation Skywatch, 8:30-10:30 p.m., Davey Lab. Observatory.
Penn State Thespians, “South Pacific,” 8:30 p.m., Schwab.
Penn State Singers Concert, American music from the 18th Century to the 20th, 8:30
p.m., Music Bldg, recital hall
Sunday, May 9
Chapel Service, 11 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel. Rev. Charles L. Coleman, program
director religious affairs.
Black Christian Fellowship worship service, 11:15 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel. “Today
Is Women’s Day,” Mrs. Carrie Lucious, Pittsburgh; special women’s day choir.
Shavers Creek Nature Center, Early Morning Bird Walk,' 7 a.m.; Spring Wildflower
and Ecology Walk, 3 p.m., Mineral Industries Bldg., Stone Valley.
Penn State Glee Club Mother’s Day Concert, 3 p.m., Schwab.
“Ball-Yamen,” produced by Circumstance Theatre, 8 p.m., Room 101 Kern.
MEETINGS
Saturday, May 8
Press Association, 12 noon, Room 323 HUB.
Baha’i Association, 7 p.m., Room 316 HUB.
Alpha Kappa Alpha, 10 p.m., Room 301 HUB.
Friday, May 7
Student Film Organization, films produced by film majors, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., HUB
assembly room.
Saturday-Sunday, May 8-9
Student films, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., HUB assembly room
Hillel Foundation film,'“l Love You Rosa,” Saturday, 9 p.m., Sunday, 7 p.m., HUB
assembly room.
Legalization in 10 years
New pot law predicted
By LAURA SHEMICK
Collegian Staff Writer
Pennsylvania will probably
adopt a legalization of
marijuana law within the
next 10 years, according to
Alan Ellis, counsel for the
National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML).
Ellis spoke last night at a
“Development of Drug Usage
and Legality” program in the
HUB Assembly Room,
sponsored by the Penn State
chapter of NORML and On
Drugs, Inc. Ellis was a
member of a four-man panel
that discussed the history of
marijuana laws and their
possible future in Penn
sylvania.
Ellis said Pennsylvania will
adopt new laws within 10
years because of the in
creasing liberalization of the
marijuana laws in other
states and because of lack of
proof that marijuana has any
harmful effects.
According to the panelists,
anti-marijuana legislation
began in this country with the
Bicen rallies discussed
Two visiting groups at
last night’s University
Coalition meeting dis
cussed Fourth of July
rallies being held in Wash
ington and Philadelphia.
The People’s Bicenten
nial Commission (PBC)
discussed their Fourth of
July rally for a democratic
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Marijuana Tax Act, enacted
in the 30’s. It was brought to
Congress and pushed into law
by an out-of-work Prohibition
agent named Harry Anslinger
of Hollidaysburg.
Anslinger faced unem
ployment with the repeal of
Prohibition and decided that
he could find work in the field
of marijuana law en
forcement, Ellis said.
Ellis said Anslinger was
responsible for early anti
marijuana propaganda such
as “Reefer Madness” and the
term "killer weed.”
Marijuana use stayed out of
sight until the 60’s, when it
became the trademark of the
anti-war activists and hip
pies, Ellis said. Then the 70’s
brought the health con
troversy concerning
marijuana use into the pic
ture.
According to Ellis, the U.S.
Department of Health,
Education and Welfare said
the use of marijuana is “less
dangerous than alcohol.
“Smoking marijuana has
the same effects that any
economy, which will be
held in Washington, D.C.
Phil Cushway, speaker
for the group, said the
organization’s goal is to
have “an economic system
that is run like a demo
cracy,” and to push for
“employe ownership and
control.”
smoking has on a person,”
Ellis said. “And the Jamaica
study (a recent study of
heavy marijuana users in
Jamaica) shows that
marijuana has no bad effects
on users.”
Another panel member,
Dick Hamilton, of the
Governor’s Council on Drug
and Alcohol abuse, gave the
council’s views on the
proposed i new marijuana law
at the discussion. The council
actively supported the
original bill, which would
have reduced the possession
of marijuana to a summary
offense and a fine, he said,
and now supports the
amended bill. The new bill
specifies that possession of
less than 30 grams of
marijuana or less than 8
grams of hashish be con
sidered a summary offense,
punishable by a maximum
$lOO fine.
Steve Rudman, founder of
PSORML, told the audience
they must go out and tell
elected officials where they
stood on this issue. “There
The PBC group is meet
ing at 6:30 tonight in 318
and 319 HUB. The public
is invited.
The other group was
The Fourth of July Coali
tion. The theme of their
rally is a “Bicentennial
Without Colonies,” which
is being held in Philadel
phia.
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smokers in the United
States,” he said. “This
ridiculous law must be
changed.”
Sam Hargrave, a member
of On Drugs, Inc., said the
staff philosophy on drugs is
“to let people know what
they’re putting into their
lungs but we let them
make the decisions them
selves.”
Ellis said he endorsed the
legalization of marijuana,
because “it’s going to happen
eventually” and because he is
“for quality control.”,
PSORML, he said, sees itself
as a consumer advocate for
marijuana control after it is
legalized.
The panel discussed
various parts of the Penn
sylvania pot laws and spoke
at length about the new drug
education programs being
initiated in the state.
Police Log
State College police
Tuesday issued four theft
citations.
One person was cited for
stealing a pair of white
painter’s pants, valued at
$7.99 from Jim’s Army-Navy
Store, 230 S. Allen St.
Two persons were ap
prehended for stealing two
yo-yos, valued at $2.81, from
Hills Department Store, Hills
Plaza.
Police also cited an
unidentified person for
stealing a Mother’s Day card,
worth 80 • cents, from
McLanahan’s 414 E. College
Ave.
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