Special interests sway Johnson, Ammerman says By JAY SCHONTHALER ' Collegian Staff Writer Joseph Ammerman, Democratic Candidate for the 23rd Congressional District, last night accused incumbent ttepublican Albert Johnson of voting With special interest groups, including some outside this area. i Albert Williams, incumbent Republican candidate for State Representative of the 77th District, criticized Democratic challenger Heldn WiLZ for favoring a graduated income tax for Pennsylvania. The candidates spoke before about 200 persons at Fairmount Elementary School. Each gave a five-minute statement' and then fielded questions from the audience. r "My 'charge is that Mr. Johnson is rejresenting special interest groups," Ammerman said. 'He read a list of contributors to the Johnson campaign and said many of them were from the Washington area. 1 , - Ammerman said Johnson has done little during his 13 years in Congress to 01. funding for local projects. ' Johnson said he played a significant role in getting the $4.2 million Mid- Centre Authority grant, as well as Money for sewer projects in Port Matilda and Philipsburg among others. . Williams said, "The big issue is taxes. 'e taxpayer, has had it." He said ex pegditures are rising to meet legislator's rising ,incomes and that the taxpayer is shouldering the burden. Williams said there is much talk among law Makers to revise the tax system, but "tax revision is a code word for tax increase," which he said would b(t;most sharply.felt by the working man "afid small businesses. ; He said a graduated income tax favors the wealthy because only they have the Money to hire lawyers to find the loopholes in it. • Ford, Carter differ on policies for higher education By 808 HEISSE Collegian Staff Writer President Ford .stands . by his admin istration's record in higher education by fltressing his current budget provisions, according to• information on his views supplied by the President Ford CoMmW tee in Harrisburg. His budget for the present fiscal year provides $6.3 billion' for higher educa tion, including. $4.3 billion for thd G.I. Et z .,lll. This funding, by a Ford estimation, 'allows approximately 2.4 million stu dents to attend post-secondary insti tutions. Ford's beliefs are reflected in the two principles which are used in his adMin istration to determine funding for educa tion. I.' First, "no student should be denied ac cess to a post-secondary institution be bause of financial barriers." lie- sup- Ports grants for those truly in need and loans for those with 'higher family in comes who' need assistance in meeting the costs. , ' Second, "in most cases, aid should be provided to the individuals rather than to institutions." Ford believes that in this may students would no longer be forced to choose a college or university solely on the basis of the federal assistance it receives. His 1976-77 student aid budget re 'quests include: —51.379 billion fOr the major federal program, the Basic Educational Op portunity Grant ( BEOG). —s4oo million in federal subsidies for In (DI Something there is that loves a wall ' Alaska has its Mt. McKinley. Nepal has its Mt. Everest. Penn 'State has its wall behind Hammond. And the Mountaineering Division of the Penn State Outing Club wants to climb it. Jeff Dolbeare, president of the division, says the members of the club use the 15-foot retaining wall behind Hammond as a training wall. Dolbeare says the climbers get "a very intense workout" from the wall, developing strength in their arms and fingers for when they scale Mt. Nittany. The University, though, is a bit worried that a club member might fall and sue the University as owner of the ersatz mountain. Therefore, the word came down that henceforth the wall was not to be used for climbing. Williams accused the Shapp ad ministration of excessive spending, pointing to the $25 billion spent thus far. Wise, however, said she is not a friend of Shapp's and, in fact, "actively campaigned against him." Ammerman said Johnson has turned the campaign into "a debate on gun control." Instead, the challenger said, a major issue should be Johnson's voting record on environmental bills. Ammerman, who served on the state Senate Environmental Resources Committee from 1971 to 1973, has gained the support of an environmental group known as the "Dirty Dozen," which is seeking to, oust Johnson because it op poses his voting record on en vironmental bills. Ammerman attacked Johnson for voting against a solar energy bill in 1975, but Johnson said he voted for the initial proposal and only opposed later, ad ditional funds for the bill. "I have the best conservation record of anybody in Congress," Johnson said. , Williams said' he wouldn't seek to lower the drinking age, to 18 because it would affect too many persons still in high school. "I wouldn't want to see drinking in high school added to all the other problems we've got," he said. Wise previously has said she favored lowering the drinking age to 19. Regarding labor-management relations, Wise said this area needs a full-time legislator and that future drafting of bills must strive for a balance between management and labor. • She said legislators must evaluate the effectiveness of task forces they have created, and not continue funding them "simply . . . because they're there." Both Wise and Williams said the University is a primary economic concern of the area and that increased appropriations should be sought for education programs. loans made under the Guaranteed Stu dent Loan (GSL) progiam. —s2so million for the College Work- Study Program. —sllo, million for the Developing In stitutions Program. ' ' - -460 - million for Special Programs for the Disadvantaged. . —s44 million for the State Incentive Grant program. Despite these funds, however, the Re publican candidate's 1976-77 budget Marked the fourth consecutive year that a president proposed cutbacks in higher education proposals. While it increased BEOG funding, Ford's budget proposed elimination of the SUpplemental Educational Opportun ity Grant (SEOG) program for espec ially needy students, elimination of all new capital in the National Direct Stu dent Loan (NDSL) program and close to a 35 per cent reduction in funds for the College Work-Study program. The cuts in funds for these programs, especially SEOG and Work-Study, are one of the significant differences be tween Ford and Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter. Ford proposed to elimin ate or reduce these programs; Carter "strongly. supports" them according to his issues literature. . In reviewing the president's budget proposals, Congress later provided for the student aid -programs which Ford had proposed to eliminate or reduce. Ford signed the most recent form of legislation concerning federal financial assistance to students less than two Dolbeare and other members of the club are negotiating with the University. 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At right, candi- dtatizCollegian PLRB orders end to testimony by deans By DAVE SKIDMORE and JOHN MARTELLARO Collegian Staff Writers Pennsylvania Labor Relations 'Board ( PLRB ) hearing-examiner Sidney Lawrence ruled yesterday that James Beattie, dean of the College of Agriculture, would be the last of five deans to testify as a University witness. The University originally intended to call all 11 college deans to testify in the hearings to determine the makeup of a proposed faculty union bargaining unit, but Lawrence ruled yesterday that testimony from deans weeks ago in the form of the higher ed ucation amendments of 1976. The amendments provide for a three year extension of the major federal aid programs including BEOG, SEOG, NDSL and Work-Study. The amendments also provide for changes in procedure, eligibility and maximum awards in the GSL program. Funding for the SEOG and NDSL pro grams, which the president did not sup port earlier when making out his budget proposals, will remain ,at about the same level, according to the new act. PSU prepares for a 49-hour weekend Eastern Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend. Readers are reminded to turn back their clocks one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday. If you have trouble remembering whether you turn the clock forward or backward, just remember that what you do in the spring is the oppos„ite of what you do in the fall, and vice versa. If that confuses you, just remember: Spring forward, fall back. And if that confuses you, just sleep off your hangover Sunday morning. It really doesn't matter, anyhow. Brotherized in the prime of his life Albert Williams has been waiting to become a brother at Sigma , Phi Epsilon for a long time. More than 33 years, to be exact. Williams, the State College in surance salesman who's running against Helen Wise for State Legislature from the 77th District, pledged at Sigma Phi Epsilon in the fall of 1943. World War II intervened, however, and it wasn't until last Mon day night that Williams became a Sigma Phi Epsilon brother. Hugh Palmer, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said Williams was probably the oldest initiate ever brought into the fraternity. He said the timing of the initiation just before the election was coin cidental. Williams said the initiation was "very interesting." He said he has two daughters who attend the after Beattie would be repetitious. . University lawyer John Gilliland, through questioning of Beattie, attempted to further establish the University's contention that department heads are supervisory personnel and should not be included in a faculty bargaining unit. American Association of University Professors (AAUP) representative Marvin Rozen tried to prove through cross-examination of Beattie that department heads are essentially faculty and not supervisors. Tomorrow, Beattie will be cross-examined by the Penn State University Professional Association By 808 HEISSE Collegian Staff Writer Jimmy Carter's government reorganization theme extends to changes he would make in the federal outlook . .toward, higher . education, _ac cording to views supplied by the can ,didate's Atlanta campaign headquar ters. - • - If elected, . Carter would create a cabinet-level. Department of Education to make federal funding procedures to colleges and universities more efficient. This would be accomplished -by con solidating what he calls the 60 different federal agencies into a Department of Education. The agencies now administer 375 seperate education-related pro grams. The office would "increase coor dination between these federal funding agencies, minimize federal bureaucratic red tape and give education a stronger voice at the federal level," Carter says. While this change is in the making Carter says he will designate a . "top member" of his staff to serve as a special liaison between the government and the education community. • Carter also strongly supports federal financial aid to students, saying that the fed Oral government should help guarantee educational access to all students regardless of family income. "Unfortunately, the Ford Administration has failed to take leadership in providing adequate funds for higher education," he says. "Indeed, it even proposed an 18 per cent reduction University, both of them little sisters at other fraternities. "They're ' fascinated by the initiation," Williams said. "I told them, 'Hell, you should have waited and become little sisters at Sigma Phi Epsilon. Then, you could have been my daughters and my little sisters.' " ~...• And in the runoff, Undecided won! The results are in from Beaver Campus, and the winner is: Gerald Ford. ' ' _ In a campus opinion poll, Ford won with 37.4 per cent, Carter took 33.3 per cent, undecided pulled a spectacular 19.7 per cent and Eugene McCarthy drew two per cent. The poll was reported in the Beaver Herald, which noted that the results, "may well set a trend for the remainder of the nation." But the election is not all our comrades at Beaver are thinking about. According to the poll, 87.8 per cent believe in God; 76 per cent own electric calculators; 24.6 per cent use marijuana regularly; and 64.6 per cent disapprove of homosexual relationships. Nonetheless, don't think that students at Beaver Campus only ponder serious issues. The poll also surveyed favorite musical groups (Chicago, with Glenn Miller receiving six votes), favorite actresses (Farrah Fawcett-Majors, ' the Take-It-Off woman) and other topics. Under most admired person, the Beaverites most often replied "myself." Other receiving votes were father, mother, Larry Cox (? ), Jesus Christ and Richard Nixon. Luckily, Hitler and Donald Duck didn't make the list. people at the discussion in the funding of higher education in its 1976 budget." This reduction, according to University Director of Financial Aid John F. Brugel, occurred partially because . the president's position has been to eliminate the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant ( SEOG) program for especially needy students and to reduce the National Direct Student Loan ( NDSL) program funds. Congress later funded these two programs which Ford proposed to cut. Carter supports adequate funding of the Basic Educational Opportunity Grant ( BEOG) program which Ford has consistently supported. But Carter cites the SEOG and College Work-Study Program as those that would be "strongly supported." Loan programs, he suggests; "must be run efficiently while meeting the financial needs of college students." Various initiatives supported by Carter include: giving students better consumer information so they are fully aware of their rights and responsibilities when applying for federal financial assistance. • offering more counseling and guidance about the various aid options which have been "poorly publicized." developing a common application form for all financial aid programs to simplify the procedure. tightening up the administrative procedures for all loan programs along the lines of the Higher Education Can't judge a book if it's mutilated Somebody decided that they didn't want to take the time to take notes on American painters Winslow Homer and Joseph Turner. So they went to Pattee, took out a pair of scissors and cut the information out of the Encyclopedia of World Art. It was disgusting action but not an unusual one, according to Charles Ness, assistant dean of libraries. "We sure have a mutilation problem," Ness said. Ness said in 1974-75, 5,600 pages were clipped from periodicals in University libraries. The cost of replacing a page is 60 cents, without considering the cost of staff time. After all, it is a biological society Not all honoraries are stodgy af fairs. Check out Phi Sigma, for example. That honorary society recently sent out its fall tap. It read in part: "Congratulations! You have been nominated for initiation into the Beta , Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Honor Society. "Phi Sigma is a National Biological Honor Society, and its main purpose is stimulation of interest in research ' and promotion of general interest in the biological sciences . . . . "Our first meeting will be Tuesday, November 2 . . . . Dr. JoAnn Farr will speak on, "The Royal Road to Orgasm and How to Avoid the Potholes." Apparently, they're interested in stimulating more than "interest in research." W 202 PATTEE University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University (PSUPA). Both AAUP and PSUPA are seeking to represent the faculty Beattie's testimony tomorrow will conclude the University's case concerning department heads. • Starting Nov. 3, 4 and 5, PSUPA and AAUP will call its witnesses. Lawrence said that because the University will not be allowed to call the deans of six colleges if AAUP and PSUPA introduce testimony concerning those colleges the University will be allowed to introduce rebuttal testimony. Amendments Act of 1976, which was recently signed by President Ford. Carter maintains, however, that financial assistance to institutions and students cannot mean very much unless there is a "healthy economy" that enables graduates to secure jobs and utilize their skills and talents. "This will only be possible if we have new leadership in Washington that is capable of reviving our ailing economy," he continues, stressing a major campaign theme. In the case of the missing artists, the vandal also cut out several pages of color plates. Pages of print can be replaced with photocopies, but the loss of art work presents a different problem. "You're faced with the decision of replacing the volume which is very expensive or copying pages, which wouldn't be extremely satisfactory," Ness said. Each volume of the Encyclopedia of World Art costs $5O. Thus, due to one person's knife-work, the University could be out $lOO. And that is the cruelest cut of all Correction In yesterday's front-page story on faculty unionization hearings, the Col legian misspelled the names of Marc Kornfeld, a representative of the Penn State University Professional Associ ation, and John Gilliland, of the Uni versity. `Chip' off the block Chip Carter, son of presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, will speak and meet voters at a rally 3 p.m. today in the HUB. What's Inside Letters page 2 Temple preview page 5 Sports pages 5,6,7 and 8 Ammerm'an vs. Johnson .. pages 9-10 Living Page page 11. 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