—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, September 7, 1976
Aims at occupancy limit
Council seeks bar safety
By JOANNE KOLLAR
Collegian Staff Writer
First there were months of
discussion. Then an or
dinance was passed. Then the
ordinance was sent back to
committee for more disscus
sion. And that is where the is
sue of bar occupancy limits
resides—in the Public Shfety
Committee of the State Col
lege Municipal Council await
ing further action.
These limits, which could
mean waiting .in line to get
into bars and cover charges to
compensate bar owners for
reduced patronage, have
been under consideration for
over nine months by Council.
According to Council member
Allen D. Patterson, Council
was acting in response to
citizen concern for safety in
the bars.
"We have been neglectful
all these years in not en-
Some feel dropped
The extra fees students pay
for materials in certain
courses have been eliminated
by the University, according
to University Controller Steve
Garben.
Garben said the elimination
is the result of a two-year
study of the fee system by the
Council, of Academic Deans,
the Controller's office, and
the University Provost.
,Some fees, such as those
'charged by the College of
J ngineering for course
materials, will be eliminated
only in name, Garben said,
because students will still
have to buy the materials.
The campus bookstore , will
take over selling course
material, he said.
Some fees, which Garben
described as "not fair to
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forcing occupancy limits,"
Patterson said.
Several council members
have expressed fears that
Council's failure to act on
enforcement of occupancy
limits and safety standards
could mean a tragedy in local
bars.
At its August 2 meeting,
council, in a 6-0 vote,
with Council member Dean
R. Phillips abstaining, ap
proved the enforcement of
maximum restaurant and bar
occupancy limits. The oc
cupancy standards approved
were those of the state
Department of Labor and
Industry 'which require three
square feet per person at the
bar and 15 square feet per
person at tables.
This state . standard is
stricter than the federal code
that allows an additional
sev ,, n square feet per person
at nixed seating areas. For
students," will also be
eliminated. For instance, fees
paid for use of chemicals
during chemistry labs will be
charged to the chemistry
department, he said.
Fees charged for the use of
physical education facilities
such as the ice rink or golf
course will continue, Garben
said.
The new policy on fees will
go into effect this term.
The decision to eliminate
some fees came about
because of its desirability
from a. cash control stand
point, Garben said. The
money used to pay for class
materials will come out of
departmental and college
budgets in the future, he
added.
example, under the state
standards, the Phyrst would
be allowed 118 occupants and
under federal standards, with
fixed seating, 195. The Tavern
under the state standards
would be allowed 182 oc
cupants while under the
federal standards this figure
rises to 385.
At a special hearing on
August 16, the Council sent
the occupancy limits back to
its Public Safety Committee
after several architects
stated that the Council had
misinterpreted the occupancy
standards. Thomas B. Brown,
assistant professor of ar
chitectural engineering at the
University and chairman of
the State College Municipal
Building Authority, said the
standards were intended for
use in designing exits, not for
limiting the number of per
sons allowed in an establish
ment.
Louis F. Geschwindner Jr.,
architectural engineer from
the State College Building and
Housing Codes Board, said
that his committee based
occupancy on the size of the
exit, not on square footage.
According to Geschwindner,
his committee never agreed
to specific occupancy limits
because the committee
disagreed on how to interpret
the state and federal stan
dards.
Architect Jbhn Haas,
unofficially representing the
State College Chamber of
Commerce, said that more
than the number of persons
per square foot was involved.
It is also important to con
sider, according to Haas,
whether a construction is
completely fireproofed and
whether the building has ,a
complete sprinkling system.
Haas said it would be better to
enforce existing safety
regulations which are suf
ficient to meet the problem
than to pass another or
dinance.
Council this summer also
went on record opposing the
designation of State College
as a resort area based on
Council solicitor Robert
Kistler's report that the
Council's ,concern would be
"admissible testimony" in
court. Council members
expressed fears that such a
designation would detract
from the academic character
of State College.
Council's opposition was
entered into the court record
on Aug. 26 by Kistler when
Centre County Judge R. Paul
Campbell received the
transcript of the Penn
sylvania Liquor Control
Board's (PLCB) hearing
denying the Penn State
Faculty Club's appeal for a
liquor license. The club's
application had been turned
down earlier in the summer
by the PLCB because the
municipality has not been
designated as a resort area by
the courts.
Campbell directed club
attorney John Gilliland to file
a brief by Sept. 20 explaining
why the PLCB ruling should
be reversed.. The PLCB's
response to that brief is to be
filed by PLCB attorney
Walter Crist by Oct. 11 when
the appeal hearing will
resume.
Council also amended two
local codes. The building code
was changed to require that
new locks be installed on
apartments when tenants
change. Dead-bolt locks are
now required on all new
apartments.
The code of ordinances was
changed to prohibit the tying
or fastening of dogs on any
public areas .in the
municipality if unattended by
the owner. Such a dog will be
considered running at large,
according to the amendment,
and can be held by the
municipality until claimed by
the owner after paying a fine.
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Eros magazines now valuable
Ginzburg gives skin to ACLU
NEW YORK (UPI) Publisher Ralph Ginzburg's loss will
be the American Civil Liberty's gain and maybe Ginzburg's
too.
In 1962, Ginzburg printed 125,000 copies of "Eros" which
Ginzburg calls "an elegant, expensive, hardcover magazine
on the subject of love and sex."
Federal authorities deemed the material criminally ob
scene.
After a 10-year legal fight that went to the Supreme twice,
Ginzburg went to jail for eight months.
In 1976, Ginzburg still has 3,216 copies of Eros gathering
dust in a Pennsylvania warehouse. He announced yesterday
that the copies will be donated to the ACLU for fundraising
purposes. Ginzburg put the value of his gift at $300,000.
Though obscenity standards have undergone drastic
changes in the last 14 years and Eros seems outdated by the
fare now prominently displayed at most• newsstands, Ginz
burg, the ACLU and a New York rare book dealer, Arnold
Levy, agree Eros has become a collector's item.
In the open market today, in mint condition, they fetch be
tween $B5 and $125 each," Levy wrote. The origional price was
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Pageant welcomes minorities
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.
(AP) There are two black
women in the Miss America
Pageant this year, and of
ficials' say they'd welcome
another ' minority contestant
representing Puerto
Ricans.
"I'm offering it if I can find
the right organization to run it
in Puerto Rico," said Albert
A. Marks Jr., chief execitive
of the Miss America Pageant
here.
Because of his conviction, Ginzburg said yesterday, "I'm
the only man in America who can't sell them" because "the.
burden of proof would be on me" to show Eros is not obscene.
But if someone else like the ACLU sells Eros, Ginzburg
said, "the burden of proof would be on the prosecutors."
"I couldn't bring myself to destroy them, and so I've
donated them to the most likely recipient the American-
Civil Liberties Union, which, of course, 'champions freedom of;
speech and press like no other organization extant."
In accpeting the donation, Melvin L. Wulf, legal director of.
the ACLU, wrote Ginzburg, "You are quite right in describing:
them as collector's items of substantial historic interest, and
we appreciate the opportunity to use thesd copies to raise•
money for the ACLU ..."
Ginzburg, who now publishes "Moneysworth" magazine,,,
was asked if the gift may also be a healthy $300,000 tax write-s
off for him.
"It may or may not be. I haven't checked with my ac
countant," he answered.
But Ginzburg added the purpose of the gift"most assuredly
is not any kind of tax write-off gimmick."
"There's'a lot of reasons tOr
having Puerto Rico," he said.
"It's the only commonwealth
we have and hey, look, the
flispanos are an important
part of America."
When the pageant first testants represent the 50
began here in 1;321 as a states. Most state pageants
business gimmick to extend are sponsored by independent
the summer season to the , pageant organizations and
weekend after Labor Day, civic groups like the Jaycees
contestants represented their under guidelines set by the
home states or cities. ) national organization.
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