A.set for sunset
New student voters to/ley 3,700
• By KATHY O'TOOLE registration all along are now trying to
Collegian Staff Writer • claim the lion's share of the credit for
More 'than 3,700 new student voters the mouse's share of the work," he said.
chose national political parties during Stevenson said people often have
last week's registration at the criticized students who do not exercise
Intramural Building, according to Paul their voting right when the fault actually
Stevenson, director for the lies with county officials.
Undergraduate Student Government "In the past, they've made it so hard
Department of Political Affairs. for the students to vote," he said. "And
Democrats became the new majority both parties would put up rinky-dink
party' in Centre County with 1,567 new candidates so there was little reason for
members registered. , Republicans students to find interest in the county
added 881. Others registered include 761 elections."
Independents, 11 Libertarians, two Saylor said he felt Stevenson's
Constitutionals, and one each Con- criticisms .were unjuStified. He said he
; servative, Socialist Worker and Crap was disappointed 'that Stevenson Ivan
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; Stevenson charged several' county "I •think we're cooperating 100 per .
officials, notably John Saylor, chairman cent," Saylor said. "We helped make
lof the board of county commissioners, arrangements for voter registration in
and Democratic County Chairman Guy the HUB." Saylor said the HUB
Rudy, with claiming undeserved credit' registration, which will be held Sep
for the success of voter registration. tember 15, 16 and , 17, formally was
"People who were fighting this voter adopted and partly - is sponsored by the
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) Jimmy
Carter , said yesterday if he were
president he would have fired FBI
Director Clarence M. Kelley, adding
that "when you see the head of the FBI
, break a little law and stay there it gives
everybody the sense that crime must be
i okay."
The Democratic candidate, cam
. paigning through the Northeast, said
• that Kelley "was caught having
government employes, with mine and
your tax money, decorate his home."
Carter used the FBI director's
acknowledgement that drapery
valances in his home were built by FBI
employes as the basis for an attack on
the morality of the Republican ad
ministration.
"President Ford ' had the attorney
general investigate, and the in
vestigations said he (Kelley) did it,"
Carter told residents of a North
Philadelphia community. "Then
President Ford said, 'Well, let's let him
stay where he is.'
"When people throughout the country,
particularly young people, see Richard
Nixon cheating, lying, leaving the
highest office in disgrace ... when you
( see the head of the FBI break a little law
and stay there, it gives everybody the
Flood hits
RAWALPINDI (UPI) Flood
spavined rains broke through a 442-foot
dam and inundated more than 5,000
square miles of- Baluchistan Province,
the largest in area, smallest in
poptilation and finahcially poorest of
Pakistan's four provinces, the govern
ment said yesterday.
Entire villages were washed away,
government officials said.
Casualties in the flooding in
Baluchistan Province were not known
but loss of life among the area's nomadic
population, cattle and livestock could
be high.
The offiCiels said army units were air
dropping rations and helping local relief
workers evacuate residents.
The officials said the rampaging flood
waters caused by Monday's collapse of
the Bolan Dam, an earth-filled struc
ture, swirled across a 5,000-square-mile
area in the province, which is three
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A student takes advantage of the cool air beneath the waning
sun to play some games of• tennis near the football practice
field.,
sense that 'if bigshots in Washington can
get away with it, why can't I?' " Carter
said.
He linked the country's escalating
crime rate with government lawlessness
and said that based on what he has
learned about the Kelley case, he would
have ousted the director.
Last weekend, Ford rejected
recommendations that Kelley be fired or
reprimanded for the $355 ,worth of work
done in his apartment. The director has
said he didn't know the: work was done
by federal employes and has reimbursed
the government.
Carter stopped short of demanding
Kelley's ouster , ‘ saying Ford might have
information he doesn't. But Carter said;
"Knowing what I know now, yes, I would
have fired him." •
The Democrat's campaign took him to
a subway stop in New York City, a
college audience in Brooklyn, a sub
marine works in Groton, Conn., and a
neighborhood in Philadelphia.
Along the way he discussed My Lai
Lieutenant William E. Calley Jr.,
abortion and defense spending. And
because he had refused to commit
himself in advance to discussing
abortion, his meeting with people from
the community was not held in a
province of Pakistan
times the size of Pennsylvania and has a
population of 2.4 million persons.
The spokesman said drain-fed flood
waters carved a breach in the middle of
the army-built dam's ,1,650-foot-long
embankment Monday night. The breach
kept widening until the dam finally
collapsed and more than 1,400 feet of the
embankment was carried away by the
deluge.
Busing
youths
BOSTON (UPI) = Police clashed with
several hundred youths in South Boston
last night when an anti-busing demon
stration turned violent on the eve of
Boston's third year of court-ordered
school desegregation.
Police said 11 persons, including seven
police officers, were injured, none
seriously. Police said nine persons were
arrested.
A police spokesman said the trouble
began shortly before 9 p.m. when a
motorcade of at least 100 cars entered
election code." He added that he
preferred to hold voter registration in
the HUB because it is open to the general
public and there is public parking
nearby.
Saylor said he cannot account for the
actions of past county commissioners
and that he is trying to be open and fair*
with students.
Rudy also denied Stevenson's charges.
He said the Democrats have a reg
istration committee with coor
dinators in every area of the county,
including student coordinators who
worked at class registration in the I.M.
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'Building. He said Stevenson never had
- , county•cbminisSioners';':-Hesaiti'he'had , ";r.aßtagted'hiriiiorpOst•cards; but at the
been against registration the request of Donna Lurie, one of the
building because it was not accesible to student coordinators, he had made about
the public at large. 2,100 post cards available.
"This was not arbitrarily decided to The next voter registration drive will
discriminate against students," he said. be Sept. 9 and 10 on the HUB lawn. USG
"Aplace must be accessible to will provide a ride service for anyone in
ail - the public and this 'was not our State College. Anyone who needs a ride
decision but what is
, specified in the 'can call 863-0295.
Catholic Church as planned. '
Carter was in a predominantly Italian-
Catholic neighborhood and drew cheers
when he said he will not retreat from his
opposition to a constitutional amend
ment outlawing abortion.
He said again that he personally
opposes abortions and feels the federal
government should not provide money
for them.
"That's the best I can do," Carter
said. "It's what I've been saying for the
last two or three years. I don't intend to
change it, even in an election year."
After a walking Jour of the Italian-
Catholic neighborhood, Carter was .to
have met with residents in a Catholic
church to discuss issues related to
housing. - . .
But the site was changed to a Lutheran
church because sponsors of the meeting
said the Catholic Archdiocese of
Philadelphia, which opposes abortion,
had informed the Catholic pastor that
the abortion' issue must be discussed if
the meeting were to be held in his
church.
After the site , was changed, Carter
talked about abortion anyway.
"The Catholic Archdiocese of
Philadelphia advised us that we could
The spokesmen said waters from the
dam were flowing into the bed of the
Bolan River and were fast spreading
toward neighboring Sind Province. They
said several villages along the way
vanished in the onrush.
Baluchistan province is made up of
vast arid, rugged and sun-baked
stretches of land interspersed with
dazzling mountain ranges.
riot rocks Boston;
clash with police
Andrews Squaie at the, end of an an
tibusing parade through South Boston. •
A black MBTA bus driver was injured
when his windshield was shattered by
rocks. Two officers were injured when
they came to the driver's aid, police
said.
More than 100 police reinforcements
were sent to the area.
Earlier yesterday officials predicted a
calm opening of schools today and said
police presence in the streets and
classrooms would be reduced.
Uperaft, students at odds
on dorm canvassing vote
By MIKE MENTREK
Collegian Staff Writer
Dorm canvassing will re-emerge as a
center of controversy this week as
residence hall dwellers vote on whether
to close their dorms to door-to-door
canvassers.
Under a University policy adopted
during Spring Term 1975, dorm residents
are required to vote to determine if their
residence halls should be closed to
canvassing.
The Undergraduate Student Gover
nment Department of Political Affairs
launched a campus-wide campaign last
week to persuade residence hall students
to vote for keeping dorms open to can
vassing. Thousands of leaflets urging
students to "keep an open mind and an
open door vote for canvassing" were
distributed through residence hall mall
services.
"You've been told that if canvassing is
approved, hoards of fanatics will swarm
your dorm floor, night and day,
haranguing you to become a Buddhist or
Support Joe Politico for office," the
flyers said. ' "That's just what the
University wants you to think. The
University would like to keep students
not hold any meeting with Carter on
church property, even though our
organization is headquartered there, if
the abortion issue was not on the
agenda," said a spokesman' for the
group sponoring the candidate's ap
pearance.
"The site was shifted in order not to
offend either Carter or the archdiocese,"
he said.
Carter's appearance was sponsored by
Community Organizatioris Acting
Together (COACT). The group said
Carter had agreed to speak only about
housing, crime and urban reinvestment.
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Push me - pull you Enjoying the end of summer on a skateboard built for two are,
John Knapp and Bruce Hermanowicz, both of State College, as
they roll down the sidewalks near East Pattee.
lon cents per copy
Wednesday, September 8, 1976
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`ublished by Students of the Pennsylvania State University
uninformed and apathetic. That way
students can't make trouble or have a
voice in decisions affecting them."
USG Department of Political Affairs
Director Paul Stevenson said a lot of
students had been misguided, by the
University into thinking that all can
vassers were bothersome. He said the
structure of the University's policy was
anti-canvassing, thus giving students the
impression they would be constantly
harassed by canvassers.
He contended that under the can
vassing voting regulations, a student
who did not vote would be recorded as
voting against open canvassing. He
described that rule as "stacking the
cards against canvassing," and said that
the issue of opening or closing the dorm
should be left to a vote of a quorum of
dorm house residents.
M. Lee Uperaft, Director of
Residential Life, later said that a non
voting student counted as a vote for
canvassing, not against it. He said that
policy was set when the University
decided to open all dorms to canvassing
except when a majority of dorm
residents voted against it. No-show
voters were considered to be in support
of the status quo open canvassing.
Uperaft also said there was no sub
stance to the • accusation that the
University was against canvassing..
After being informed of Uperaft's
statement, Stevenson said "If Uperaft
really believes that not.voting counts as
an open (vote), he'd better get back to
his staff because a lot of people are
under the impression it's the other way
around." Stevenson said his previous
statement had been based on in
formation given to him by dorm
residents and members of the residence
hall governments.
He said that despite the confusion
about the non-voter policy, he continued
to look at the University's regulation of
Nixon aide to
5-year prison
WASHINGTON (UPI) John D.
Ehrlichman, once a top White House
aide to Richard M. Nixon, yesterday was
ordered to surrender to federal officials
Sept. 17 and begin serving up to five
years for a break-in at the office of
Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
Judge Gerhard A. Gesell revoked
Ehrlichman's bond and ordered him to
serve his sentence of 20 months to five
years.
Once one of the nation's most powerful
men, Erlichman must report to the
U.S. marshal here or to the warden of
the Federal Prison Camp at Safford,
Ariz., where the Bureau of Prison has
ordered him confined.
The bearded Ehrlichman has, been
living in New Mexico, writing novels and
providing legal advice to Indians. He
previously was a land-use attorney in
Seattle.
Ehrlichman, spotted by a UPI
reporter in Santa Fe as he was entering
a bookstore and asked about Gesell's
order, said, "I have no comment."
Gesell said he was revoking the bond
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voting on canvassing as
"demagoguery." "You cannot put to the
vote of the majority the right of a student
to restrict another student from hearing
or speaking to a third student,"
Stevenson said. "That is not in the true
spirit of a university. The rights of the
minority those who want to hear
must also be upheld."
Stevenson also claimed that resident
assistants were prodding students to
vote against open canvassing and that
the University was exercising its in
fluence through them as employes to
close the residence halls.
Uperaft said Stevenson called the
RAs' expression of opinion on the can
vassing issue unethical. Uperaft said
many RAs air their opinions concerning
open canvassing, both pro and con, at
house meetings.
However, he pointed out that for every
RA who spoke against open canvassing,
there was usually a representative of the
dorm area governments who, by his
description, were traditionally
proponents of opening canvassing, to
argue the other side.
Uperaft said Residential Life did not
tell RAs to influence dorm voters. "It
doesn't matter to us what the vote is. We
leave it to the students to decide. That's
the whole basis for the policy," Uperaft
said.
Stevenson cited University policies
closing Board of Trustees committee
meetings to the public, rules requiring
students organizations to be registered
with USG before they can use University
property for meetings and the
prohibiting of public inspection of cer
tain University financial records as
further examples of administrators'
attempts to restrict students' freedom of
movement, speech and hearing.
begin
term
because Ehrlichman's conviction has
"been unanimously approved on appeal
and rehearing ... denied ..."
The head of the so-called "Plumbers
Unit" in the White House, Ehrlichman
was convicted July 12, 1974, of con
spiring to violate the civil rights of Dr.
Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg's psychiatrist.
Ellsberg had been standing trial for
violating the top secret embargo on the
Pentagon Papers and releasing them to
the news media. When word of the White
House-sanctioned break-in came . to
light, the case against Ellsberg was ,
dismissed.
Ehrlichman, the No. 2 man on Nixon's
staff until forced to resign, also was
convicted on Jan. 1, 1975 of one count of
conspiracy, one count of obstruction of
justice, and two counts of making false
declarations to a grand jury. He had
denied being able to remember various
facts in the Watergate break-in and
cover-up.
Ehrlichman, who has been appealing
both decisions, has served no time in
jail.
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