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r >Teamster Local 8 member Sandra Arrison checks the identification of a fellow employe Ivan Owens before the union voted last
night on the University's latest contract offer.
Firm cleared
_ RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A federal
ljudge yesterday acquitted Allied
Chemical Corp. of contributing to
pollution of the James River by dumping
the toxic insecticide ingredient Kepone
into a sewer system.
Kepone, in.much smaller amounts,
was also found this summer in Spring
Creek, northeast of State College.
Pennsylvania is currently investigating
the company that produced it (Nease
Chemical Co. ).on Route 26.
“There simply isn’t' sufficient
evidence to sustain a guilty verdict” on
the 10 charges remaining against the
Study lounge living to end soon
By DOROTHY HINCHCLIFF
Collegian Staff Writer
To the delight of some and the dismay
of others, temporary housing is swiftly
becoming a thing of the past for
/ University students this term.
According to Otto Mueller, director of
Housing and Food Services, only seven
women and 123 men still need per
manent rooms. He expects that all the
women will be moved out within ten days
and that the men will be moved by the
end of the term.
“Students are being moved out
quicker than they have been in recent
years,” Mueller said. “With 12,000 un
dergraduates.'in the dorm areas, there
•a have been enough students dropping out
so that we can offer permanent spaces to
the people in temporary housing.”
Mueller added that students are of
fered rooms in the order, they filed their
contracts. If a student turns down a
space, we go to the next one on the list,”
i Mueller said.
When asked if there was anything a
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Dean, Dean, Dean!
John Dean, noted lecturer and
convicted felon, will speak 8 p.m.
Tuesday at University Auditorium.
The speech will be sponsored by
Colloquy.
According to reliable sources,
Dean’s wife, the ever-popular and
beautiful Mo, will probably attend the
speech and may even be cajoled into
answering a few questions from the
audience.
Dean’s former boss, a well-known
resident of San Clemente,.Calif., does
not plan to attend. And he will not
answer any questions. Ever.
Monday, is the last day to register to
vote in the upcoming Jerry Ford-
Jimmy Carter free for all.
Star-gazing shot voyeurism will be
the order of the day tonight, as the
Astronomy Club opens Davey Lab for
those interest in heavenly bodies.
Members of the club will help focus
the lab’s telescopes on Jupiter and its
moons, the Ring and Andromeda
nebulae and the moon. The public is
invited.
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company after 144 charges were
dismissed Wednesday, U.S. District
Court Judge Robert R. Merhige Jr. said.
“I’m simply not satisfied beyond a
reasonable doubt that Allied entered into
a criminal partnership with Life Science
Products Co.”
Allied was acquitted of nine counts of
aiding and abetting Life Science
Products, which manufactured Kepone
v for Allied, in dumping the chemical from
its plant into the Hopewell sewer system
and one count of conspiring with Life
Science Products to perpetuate the
student could do if he was dissatisfied .
with his new room, Mueller said no
student can get out of his dorm contract
until the end of the year unless he fi’es
for a direct room exchange. “If a student
is now unhappy with his room and wants
to leave, he must find a person who
wants to move in. This person goes into
temporary space. People already in
temporary housing are moved into the
permanent space first,” Mueller said.
According to Mueller, students have
not complained about the living con
ditions in temporaries. He said that
some students requested to stay in these ,
rooms because they are larger than
some of the permanent ones. A good
example of this is in West Halls, where
temporary housing residents face the
chance of being placed in a single room
which is much smaller than some of the
study lounges.
Students living in small singles con
verted to doubles, in triples, or in
temporaries all pay $3O less per term for
their rooms than students living in other
Rain or cloud date is tomorrow
night.
Yesterday was a lousy, soggy
example of the State College monsoon
season. It was even worse for the
local weathermen.
From Thursday’s Daily Collegian:
“Sunny this morning, becoming
partly cloudy this afternoon and
tonight.”
From Wednesday’s Centre Daily
Times: “Tomorrow the skies will be
partly cloudy with a high of 65.”
From Thursday’s Pennsylvania
Mirror: “Partly cloudy through
tomorrow .... Chance of rain 20 per
cent today and tonight.”
And the score is: State College
weather 3, weathermen 0.
All right, it'rained yesterday. We’ll
stake our weathervane that a nice
Saturday is coming up, a Saturday
free of puddles and dark clouds.
There will be intervals of clouds and
sunshine today with slightly milder
temperatures. High 65. Partly cloudy;
cool weather tonight will give way to
mostly sunny skies and pleasant
temperatures on Saturday. High 69.
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pollution.
Allied Chemical earlier this year
pleaded no contest to 941 charges of
violating federal antipollution laws by
discharging Kepone into the James over
a period of several years when it
manufactured its own Kepone at
Hopewell.
Life Science Products, which
manufactured the chemical for Allied
for 16 months beginning in-March, 1973, *
was closed by the state in July 1975 after
many employes were sickened by
Kepone poisoning.
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Dial ‘B’ (or 116) for Bureaucracy
Resident Assistants and dorm area
coordinators had unlisted phone
numbers for the first part of the term,
thanks to a marvelous case of
bureaucratic overkill.
Callers to University information
last week were told that M. Lee
Upcraft,. director of Residential Life,
had ordered that the phone numbers
not be given out under any cir
cumstances. The operators were
upset; they were afraid that
somebody would call in an
emergency, and they wouldn’t be
allowed to give out the numbers.
Not so, says Upcraft. Upcraft says
his office asked the operators to avoid
giving the numbers out until the new
student directories were published.
He said RAs and coordinators are
often called by students seeking
numbers, and his office wanted to
Tidy Bowl Man, beware!
It was through last Saturday’s
Tennessee-Auburn football game.
Keith Jackson or Jim Simpson or one
of ABC’s other announcers finished
drooling over a play, and they cut
away for a commercial.
Suddenly, Mimi Barash was on the
screen.
Mimi Barash runs Barash
Advertising, one of the State College’s
largest firms and the publishers of
Town and Gown. She is an alumni
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member of the University Board of
Trustees. She is not noted for acting
in television commercials.
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By DAVE SKIDMORE
Collegian Staff Writer
Teamsters Local Union 8 last night accepted the Univer
sity’s latest contract offer in a vote 84 short of the number
needed for a strike.
Some 625 members, a 59 per cent majority, voted to reject
the contract and initiate a strike, and 437 voted to accept the
offer. The contract was accepted, however, because a two
thirds majority was required to reject the contract. A vote of
one third of the members was sufficient to accept the offer.
Union officers had recommended acceptance of the contract
by a 6-1 vote.
After Local 8 Secretary-treasurer C. Rodney Knepp an
nounced that the contract had been accepted, several union
members voiced their disapproval from the floor of the
University Auditorium, where the vote was held.
“Are you happy, Rodney?” one member shouted, “You
pushed us down the Goddamn drain. ’ ’
“I had one vote, one ballot, same as you,” Knepp answered.
“We’re going to suffer through another two years,” another
member said.
A total of 1,078 union members voted. A committee of 12
members voided 16 ballots and accepted the rest.
Union members, on the recommendation of their officers
voted 1,068 to 196 to reject the University’s first offer Aug? 26.
Judges split 4-2-1
Court kills Rizzo recall
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Sipping
from a glass of champagne, Mayor
Frank Rizzo said yesterday he was
“pleased and gratified” that the Penn
sylvania Supreme Court had killed a
recall petition that would have forced
him to defend his office in a yes-no
election Nov. 2.
“It’s over. Finished," Rizzo told
newsmen. “I never had any doubt that
the Supreme Court would rule fairly
based on facts and the law and not on
emotion. The law was on my side.”
In an 83-word order, the state’s highest
tribunal upheld a ruling by the city
commissioners that petitions submitted
to force a recall vote were invalid. The
high court, by a 4-2-1 vote, reversed an
order placing the issue on the ballot by
Common Pleas Court Judge David
Savitt.
In killing the recall action, the court
said it would issue opinions explaining
the order later. Lawyers for the 55-year-
dorm space. However, another
spokesman for Housing and Food Ser
vice said that when a person is moved to
a regular sized room, he must pay back
the reduction he received for the weeks
he will be in his new space.
Some students said they really didn’t
care when they were moved out of
temporary housing. One student in
Packer Hall, who shared his converted
study lounge with only one other
roommate, wanted to stay as long as
possible because he liked the extra
space. Since a telephone is installed in
all temporary rooms, he said he would
also miss sharing a phone with just one
other person.
On the other hand, some students who
shared a room with between four and six
others were happy to be getting out.
“It was hard because'we all went to
bed at different times and you could
never stay up late without bothering
somebody else,” said one girl who had
three roommates when she lived in
temporary housing. •
spare them that nuisence.
Upcraft says he did not order the
operators to keep RAs and coor
dinators incognito entirely. But
somebody took off on the edict, and
RAs and coordinators became un
persons, at least for the first part of
the term.
Ah, but there is a happy ending to
the story. Upcraft’s office issued a
memo last week, and the numbers
are once again available. Resident
assistants’ numbers are being issued
if callers ask for either the RA or his
floor; coordinators’ numbers are
given out when the coordinator is
asked for by name, or in case of
emergency. Residential Life is
happy, the operators are happy and
potential callers are happy.
Now, if Upcraft could only do the
same thing with beer ....
But there she was, working in her
office as a narrator extolled the
virtues of a college education. Then,
she looked up at the camera, and
said, “It’s worth it.” And then, it was
back to the football game.
The commercial is one of several
filmed this summer using local
people. The commercials, which will
be shown nationally, are aimed at
persuading more people to attend
college.
Barash says she enjoyed making
the commercial, but she hasn’t seen it
yet.
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'ublished by Students ol The Pennsylvania State University
old mayor said the ruling also declared
the recall question unconstitutional, but
the court did not immediately release
their opinions.
Last spring, a committee of dissident
voters organized the recall effort. They
said the mayor withheld information of a
growing financial debt during his
campaign and then raised property and
wage taxes by a record 30 per cent.
During that stormy period, Rizzo
stayed at arm’s length from the media.
Syrian forces pound
Palestinian
ALEY, Lebanon (AP) Palestinian
guerrillas suffered a major loss to
Syrian forces early yesterday and the
top guerrilla leadership met in this
mountain resort to decide whether to
continue fighting or to negotiate.
Syrian armored units kept up their
advance and clashed with guerrilla
forward positions five miles from the
villa where overall guerrilla chief Yasir
Arafat met with his senior military
lieutenants.
A Palestinian source said they were
choosing between “war or talk.”
After meeting for six hours, the
guerrilla leaders were reported moving
their discussions to Beirut. Nothing was
revealed of the talks.
Lebanese leftist sources said Syria
was demanding that the Palestinians
give up their positions on the Beirut-
Damascus highway and start with
drawing to refugee camps to the south.
Aley is on the highway 10 miles east of
Beirut. Forward positions of the
guerrillas and their leftist Moslem allies
are five miles east around another resort
town, Bhamdoun.
There was no word yesterday on
responses to Egypt’s call Wednesday for
a limited Arab summit within 48 hours to
deal with the worsened crisis in the 17-
month-old Lebanese civil war. Cease
fire efforts by new Lebanese President
The Lion
After the rejection, the negotiations went to mediattion. The
present contract is a result of the mediation.
The new proposal offers the same wage rate as the
Dreviously rejected offer.
However, while the rejected offer provided for an additional
six cents an hour raise to employes with 10 years service, the
new contract provides an additional six-cent raise to all
employes effective next Jan.l. This amounts to an average 7.5
per cent increase during the first year of the new contract,
exceeding the 6.6 per cent increase of the rejected proposal.
The pay raise is retroactive to last July 1.
The new contract which covers the two years from July 1976
to June 1978 calls for new wage negotiations at the end of the
first year.
The University said it is willing to discuss an increased
insurance payment plan to include coverage of employe
dependents for the second year. The union’s demand for the
plan was not met in the current offer.
The University also did not meet the union’s demand for
vacation schedules that matched those of other University
employes. However, the University did agree to a clause in the
contract forbidding the University to use outside contractors
for work that could be done by Teamster employes.
Local 8 represents more than 2,000 University employes,
including dining hall, maintenance and farm workers.
refusing to hold press conferences or
answer questions on the matter. Those
heading the recall movement also
charged the mayor of involvement with
a union action against the Philadelphia
Inquirer that shut down the paper for
one edition.
The ad .hoc Citizens Committee to
Recall Rizzo collected more than 211,000
signatures. For the petition to have
forced Rizzo to a recall showdown,
145,000 valid signatures were required.
Elias Sarkis and Arab League mediator
Dr. Hassan Sabri Kholi have so far
proved futile.
Guerrilla positions in an area jutting
into the 800-square-mile enclave of their
right-wing Christian enemies north of
the highway were overrun after a two
day Syrian push that began at dawn
Tuesday.
The radio operated by the Phalange
party, which has the largest Christian
militia, said if the guerrillas fail' to with
draw by peaceful negotiations “they will
be committing military suicide.”
Christians demand that the guerrillas
stop their support of the leftist-Moslem
side in the civil war, return to their
refugee camps and submit to Lebanese
control of their armed activities.
On other fronts, Palestinians said
Syrian guns had been pounding the
northern port of Tripoli for 24 hours.
Syria intervened in the Lebanese war
with 13,000 troops and 450 tanks in June
when the Palestinian-leftist alliance
appeared to have the Christians on the
run. Syria began aiding the Christian
side in the hope of forcing the
Palestinians and leftists to negotiate.
The Palestinians are now boxed in,
holding less than one-fifth of the country,
with their bases along the Israeli border
lost and their backs to the
Mediterranean.
\ Hastings meets the
>aws that refresh
Corrections
With ali the corrections we have to
int, it’s nice to know that some
\er people make mistakes, too. In
easy access section of the student
indbook, two telephone numbers
:re incorrect; the correct number
the ticket office is 865-5767, and the
mber of the Division of
.idergraduate Studies is 865-7576.
Now, for one of our own.' Rep.
Lawrence Coughlin was identified as
a Democrat in two articles in the
Collegian this week. He is a
Republican, and even admits it.
guerrillas
We received a university press
(lease the other day, and we’re
.‘ginning to understand why Andy
;ailey does what he does.
You know Andy Bailey. The Nittany
ion. He of the pushups and hairy
iws. Well, Andy has been receiving
ills and notes from anonymous
Imirers for the last term. Finally,
ie admirer set a date to meet at the
ittany Lion the limestone lion
:ar Rec Hall.
When he got there, the release says,
“was overwhelmed by 30
Teaming coeds” the women of
ird floor Hastings, who apparently
ive had a crush on the fake feline for
te past year.
And that, apparently, is where the
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