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The Eagle
State College residents at the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts voted this sculpture the
contest winner. The sculpture is to be built within the next year on the lawn in front of Schlow
Memorial Library.
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EXPLOSION!
Dance. The most rapidly growing theatrical art
in the United States today.
in 1975 more professional companies
employed more dancers, increased more
budgets, and entertained many more kinds of
people than ever before in this country.
This year, through the expanded tours of the
world’s professional companies, more than 8
times as many persons watched ballet and
modern dance than in 1965.
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The growth in popularity has been
overwhelming.
Experience the trend this weekend in the
University Auditorium as the world famous
Pennsylvania Ballet performs its second
program of Nittany Mountain Summer 1976.
See the reasons behind “The Dance
Explosion.”
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Soaring eagle sets mood
Bible prompts winning sculpture
By MARILYN SALTZBERG
Collegian Staff Writer
“But they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength; they
shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint.”
Isaiah 40:31
This passage from Isaiah was the source of in
spiration for the sculpture "The Eagle” by Edward
A. Adams, winner of the State College Bicentennial
sculpture competition.
"The convenant promise by the prophet is ap
propriate, I believe, as a theme and as, a Bicen
tennial vision for the future of our nation,” Adams
said.
To Adams, the soaring eagle, one of America’s
most traditional symbols, represents the recent
mood of the country.
“During the celebration of our Bicentennial
many Americans have become, aware of a strong
surge of patriotism and faith in our way of life,”
Adams said. “Some of this strengthening of our
belief in America has been the direct result of our
re-examining the heritage which our founding
fathers have given us.” ,
Adams, an art professor at the University and
creator of the sculpture in the Human Development
building, said the idea for “The Eagle” came to him
gradually.
Aspin denies leaking report
WASHINGTON (UPI)
—Rep. Less Aspin said
yesterday he gave a copy of a
critical congressional report
on intelligence community
activities to the CIA and
supplied a few pages to a
news agency reporter, i
Aspin’s testimony,
however, brought the House
Ethics Committee no closer to
learning who gave the con
troversial report by a non
defunct congressional in
telligence panel to CBS
correspondent Daniel Schorr.
The Wisconsin Democrat, a
member of the House in
telligence panel while it
existed, told the ethics com
mittee he supplied his entire
copy of the final report to the
CIA and gave “a few” pages
to a Reuter news agency
reporter.
But Aspin denied he had
supplied a copy to Schorr,
who passed-on a text of the
report to New York’s Village
Voice.
John M. Atkisson, a former
counsel to the intelligence
committee, testified the
staff’s offices “were
crawling” with people from
the CIA the day the Village
Voice published the report.
Atkisson said he was not
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“An artist’s work. consists of piecing together
fragments of ideas to create a statement,” Adams
said. “I didn’t labor over the idea too much, it
developed slowly.”
The sculpture, which will stand about 14 feet high
and 8 feet wide, will be constructed of stainless
steel. The rectangular pedestal will have a satin
lustre finish and the wing-shaped eagle figure will
be mirror polished.
“I placed the abstract eagle form on the pedestal
to accentuate the theme of flight and so it would not
be dangerous to children who might try to play on
it,” Adams said.
The stainless steel material will be weather
resistant and require little or no maintenance,
Adams said.
“The Eagle” was chosen from among three semi
finalist entries by a vote of State College residents
as the work to be commissioned by the State College
Bicentennial Commission as a gift to the borough.
The sculpture will be placed on the lawn of the
Schlow Memorial Library.
More than 100 local and non-local artists were
invited to participate in the competition. Twenty
seven entries were submitted and three semi
finalist designs were chosen by New York sculptor
Ray Gussow. The designs were displayed at Schlow
during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the
Arts where local residents had the chance to view
and vote for their favorite.
responsible for distributing
the draft or other copies of the
final report and did not know
who, if anyone, on the staff or
the committee gave the
document to Schorr.
He said it was possible the
document had been leaked by
the executive branch, which
would include the CIA.
Aspin said a story appeared
in The New York Times in
January, saying the House
intelligence committee report
included testimony that the
CIA was using' newspaper
reporters as cover for the
agency.
“After that,” he said,
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Gussow, who admits his preference for the ab
stract, judged each sculpture on its three
dimensional quality, its handling of the material
and its uniqueness.
“The works'submitted ranged from excellent to
not-so-good,” Harlan Hoffa, co-chairman of the
competition, said. “Many of the designs were well
done but didn’t reflect the area where it would be
erected. Certain designs aren’t appropriate for a
site one block from Fraternity Row.”
In addition, the sculpture had to be durable, easily
maintained and not dangerous to children and
passers-by, Hoffa said.
Among the semi-finalists, who will each receive
$l,OOO, was another State College resident, Steve
Porter and an out-of-towner, Tom McClure of Ann
Arbor, Mich. Adams will also receive $2,000 for
winning and another $2,000 upon completion of the
sculpture.
The idea for the contest originated last fall with
the Festival of the Arts Board of Directors.
Responsibility for it was passed on to local
residents, faculty and the State College Bicen
tennial Commission, who set up the rules for the
contest and began soliciting donations.
So far $12,975 has been raised from businessmen
and other residents. That is about 60 per cent of the
projected $23,000 needed for construction, erection
and maintenance of the sculpture, Hoffa said.
to Schorr
“some people for Reuter
asked if we knew what the
report actually said and a
'member of my staff did give
the reporter a few pages. ’ ’
Aspin said the pages
duplicated material in The
New York Times report
which apparently had come
from another source.
The report, still officially
classified, said the CIA had
used Reuter in connection
with a “front” news agency in
South America. Reuter
management has denied any
connection with the CIA.
Aspin also testified that on
Jan. 23 he took home the just-
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completed final report.
The next morning, he said,
he got a telephone call from
Mitchell Rogovin, chief
counsel to the CIA director,
who said he had asked the
committee for a copy of the
report but was refused “and
he wondered if he could
borrow mine.”
“He sent down a dr>er
about 10 a.m. and returned
the copy about 4 p.m.,” Aspin
said.
Later, Rogovin told him two
pages were missing from
Aspin’s copy but the missing
portion had been published in
the Voice. - v