Famifier words end presidential campaign
By the Associated Press
.Amid campaign tumult soon to yield to
•;., the intimate hush of the voting booth,
President Ford and Jimmy Carter
delivered last night the final, familiar
words of a close contest for the White
House.
Ford went home to Grand Rapids,
Mich., and said in an emotional cam
.naign finale that his motto as. President
N simple: "What can we do to help
you?"
Carter said the nation needs a
president "who is not parr of the
establishment," and counseled voters
against discouragement that might keep
them from the polls today.
"The promises I've made have been
t , p•
4 , ery cautious, and I'm going to keep
them," Carter said in -an election eve
television broadcast.
In Detroit, suburban Livonia, then in
Grand Rapids, Ford sought the votes to
guard his home territory against the
Democrat who has whittled his lead
t! there to a standoff in the last-minute
surveys of voter opinion. "I am a part of
this great state," said the Presidedt. "I
know you will support me as you always
have."
Democrats sought to turn to •their
advantage the episode in which Carter's
,flains, Ga., Baptist Church canceled
t tiunday services after a black minister
tried to gain church membership and
join worshippers there.
.Carter told a Sacramento, Calif., news
conference thiiit he disagreed with the
church deacons who called off the ser
vice, and would work to eliminate such ,
fyestiges of discrimination, but would not
resign from the church. .
"I can't resign from the human race
because there's discrimination," he
said. "I can't - .resign from America ,
because there's discrimination. I can't
resign from my, church because there's
discrimination."' •
ct " . . . This is not my church, it's God's
church," he said. " . There is a dif
ference between resigning from a
country club and resigning from a
church that is one's life."
Black leaders campaigning with
Carter, among them Mrs. Coretta Scott
King and C. Delores Tucker, the Penn
sylvania secretary of state, defended
Carter and praised his ' civil rights,
record.
President Ford's supporters :sent a
telegrain - to — Some 375 to 400 black
clergymen and field workers
questioning Carter's risponse to the
episode, saying if the Democratic
3 nominee can't influence his own church
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) The strident
campaign rhetoric wound down
yesterday, replaced by softer "please
:I vote" appeals, as the hotly-fought
battles for president and U.S. senator,
both still too close to call, made Penn
sylvania crucial in today's election.
What happens in the Keystone State
could decide whether Democrat Jimmy
Carter or Republican Gerald Ford wins
the White House, a result that may be
reached by less than 65 per cent of
Pennsylvania's 5.7 million eligible
voters.
The race to succeed retiring Sen. Hugh
Scott is even tighter between 'two at
tractive ' 38-year-010 liberal
Congressmen: Green, a
Philadelphia Democrat, and Republican
John Heinz, the Pittsburgh heir to the
pickle-and-ketchup millions.
Whatever edge there is probably
belongs to the Democrats; on the
'strength of the party's record 3.1 million
registration and a 750,000 lead over the
slumping Republicans. But this whop
ping majority will pay off only if there is
a big turnout.
Graduate students face unique marriage problems
By EVE MARKOWITZ
Collegian Staff Writer
The great majority of married students on campus are
graduate students, according to a University psychologist,
and that can cause problems in marriage. •
Guy Pilato, who offers free"couples counseling" at the
Mental Health Center in , Boucke, said the greatest number of
marital conflicts arise when one member is a student and his
.
mate isn't. •
. "The graduate has more freedom than the mate who may
have kids at home," he said. "Often he's busy meeting people
and making friends 'and that can be a cause of resentment and
sometimes jealousy." •
l'ilato noted it is becoming more and more common that the
grad students are women whose husbands work in town.
Whatever the student's sex, he said, the problems exist.
the
a kind of waiting-in . -the-wings feeling on the part of
the non-student," Pilato said. "They may feel like they're not
growing themselves, or feel like they're not doing things that
are important. These are the seeds of conflict."
Sometimes, if the couple can make it through a "demanding
and anxiety-ridden" degree program, he said, the struggle
will add strength to their marriage.
"I think couples who make it through that time are ahead.
They've got a sense of struggling. It's a testing time. It gives
them a chance of viability in marriage that they may not look
at if things were honky dory." ' . ,
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"can we expect him to influence the
issues and opinions of the United States
Congress?"
, The telegram was signed "President
Ford Committee, Washington, D.C." But
Martin Dinkins, director of black ac
tivities for the People for. Ford Com
mittee, said his organization sent it.
So, in its final hours,' the campaign
took another detour from the issues the
candidates sought to stress; just as it had
in the controversy over Eastern Europe
and over Carter's interview with
Playboy magazine.
Three national public opinion polls
reported Carter and Ford in a razor
close race. A survey by Burns Roper,
issued on election eve, called Carter the
leader by a four-point margin. The most
recent Louis Harris survey gave Carter
a one-point lead. George Gallup reported
a one-point Ford lead. With the voting
hours away, It was a contest too close to
call. ,
Ford concluded his long campaign in a
voice husky with emotion, recalling in
Grand Rapids that during 25 years as
congressman "we said what can we do to
help you and this is the way I want to
be your President."
As he rode into Grand Rapids, Ford
heard a youth shout: "Yea Carter."
"Don't bet on it," Ford retorted over
his limousine speaker system.
The election eve themes were those
the candidates had raised from the start.
The episode at the Plains church was the
new element. Carter• and his . allies
moved quickly to cope with it.
In New York, Bayard Bustin said the
episode was totally irrelevant and called
Carter a man "committed to racial
fairness in,every respect."
Richard Hatcher, the mayor of Gary,
Ind., said black Amdicans are too
smart and sophisticated to be influenced
by the incident.
Sen. Walter F. Mondale, the
Democratic vice presidential nominee,
said there was something very peculiar
about 'the Plains incident. "There's
something very suspicious about a last
minute trick like this, to try to escalate
an issue when there's no time to explain
it," Mondale said. He said the result
could be beneficial.to the Democratic
ticket.
. - .
,At a Los,Angeles rally, Carter assailed
Ford's running mate, Sen. -Robert' J.
Dole Of 'Kansas. "Can you imagine a
President Robert Dole?" he asked. "It's
important when you go to the polls
tomorrow to think about a ticket
Carter, Mondale and you." • ,
"We will bring out the largest vote this
city has ever seen," said Philadelphia
Democratic chairman Martin Weinberg
whose organization is aiming at a
300,000-vote majority. Such an out
pouring could sew it up for Carter arid
Green.
Pennsylvania's 27 electoral votes are
considered so important by Ford and
Carter that both spent more time in the
state than anywhere else in the cam
paign's final week.
Drew Lewis, Ford's state director,
said without Pennsylvania the President
probably will lose the election.
Joseph Timilty, a Massachusetts state•
senator imported by Carter to head his
Pennsylvania operation, said th 6 main
Democratic effort is concentrated in the
cities, reporting that Carter is running
strong in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh,
Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Reading,
Allentown, and .Bethlehem where labor
is providing an important impetus.
Ford concentrated on the Republitan
suburbs, on Erie, and in the rural
mountain areas of central, northeastern ,
and northwestern Pennsylvania.
Election day is here—campaigners and campaign workers are still busy trying to
getout the vote: Right, President Ford plays the game of politics with a basketball
in Livonia, Mich. Left, Jimmy Carter supporter Pat Schroeder, of Easton, Pa.,
Final exam policy to be reviewed
USG sponsoring end-of-term bus
The Undergraduate Student Govern
ment will sponsor a chartered bus
service to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
Tuesday through Friday of • final
examination week, Jim Minarik, USG
business manager, said at last night's
USG Senate meeting.
Buses to Pittsburgh will leave the
HUB at 7 p.m. and buses to Philadelphia
will leave at 6:45 p.m. on Nov. 16 through
19.
Students riding the chartered buses
can save $6.50 over the ticket price of the
Budget proposes 4.5 mill tax increase
The State College Municipal Council, after receiving, council that a representative from the' Building approved a replot request at the Sheraton Inn site
the proposed 1977 municipal budget containing a Officials and Code Administrators and• a Labor and on S. Pugh Street.
property tax increase of 4.5 mills, last night set Nov. 30 Industry official will conduct inspections of two local extended approval of the revised traffic pattern for
as the date of a public hearing on the budget. bars, the Phyrst and the Shandygaff Saloon, to compare the drive-in window at the Mid-State Bank on College
Municipal Manager Carl Fairbanks, who was how each method would affect occupancy. The in- Avenue, subject to some minor construction
responsible for the preparation of the budget,- told spections should be completed by the end of next week,
council that if the budget was accepted in its entirety it he said.
would raise the local tax rate from 16 mills to 20.5 mills. Denny Mason, an attorney for the Pennsylvania
Fairbanks said that the increase was necessary due Tavern Owner's Association, presented a petition
to inflation and a lower assessment of State College real signed by 50 local businessmen endorsing the idea of
estate by the county assessor. , obtaining a comparison of occupancy methods before A good day for voting. Brilliant sunshine and cold
Council' member Allen Patterson said the taxpayer determining which State College will use. temperatures this morning will be followed by partly
should not get too excited about the propoSed increase In other action, the council: cloudy skies and moderating temperatures this after
because council has not yet had the opportunity to study passed an ordinance adopting state rules and noon. High near 50. There is a risk of a brief shower
it and propose ways to trim expenditures in the budget. regulations for public eating and drinking places. ; tonight, but for the most part it should remain dry for
The problem of which method of determining bar voted to install "Stop" and "No Parking Anytime" any last minute voters. Low 37. Intervals of clouds and
occupation limits also was discussed. Fairbanks told signs in the newly-opened section of S. Fraser Street. sunshine, breezy and cool tomorrow. High 47
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regularly scheduled buses, according to
Minarik.
He said bus tickets 'will go on sale at 9
a.m. Monday at the HUB•desk.
Academic Assembly President Joe
Taglieri said the Assembly will conduct
a poll Thursday to determine if class
instructors are adhering to the faculty
senate's revised final examination
policy.
The revised policy states that only
quizzes or narrowly limited tests can be
given on the last day of class.
Taglieri said' any students with
complaints regarding violations of this
Just because both spouses may be graduate students,
doesn't mean they won't have problems, Pilato said.
"If both are high=achieving, competitive people, they might
become competitive with each other. This can have a serious
effect on the one behind." _
Yates Mast, student legal advisor, sees the ingredient of
struggle in graduate marriages as detrimental. He says that a
lack of money can be the number one problem.
"When people don't have money to pay the rent, they fight
about little things," he said. "I think poverty is the biggest
cause of graduate student divorce. Students are poor, and with
poverty all problems become severe and compounded."
Mast, who said he sees six or seven young people with
marriage -related legal problems every week, accounts the
rising divorce rate to "a change in outlook from the 60's and
70's. The problem is far deeper than just being students."
"I read that there were one million divorces in this country
in 1975," Mast said. "Never in history has there been anything
like it. Everyone is getting divorced,more than they used to.
People 70 years old are getting divorced."
Besides poverty, the second and third most significant
causes of divorce, as Mast sees it, are respectively, changing
outlooks toward the stigma of divorce and the rise of female
consciousness. •
"The shame people associated with divorce years ago is no
longer a problem. Most people don't see it as a moral problem
as they used to."
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policy are encouraged to call the
Academic Assembly office on Thursday
at 865-9111.
Grant Ackerman, director of the USG
Department of Communications, said
the Communications Department will
set up a public opinion polling service to
"widen the channel of information
between USG and the student body."
This decision was reached following a
random survey conducted recently to
determine how many students knew by
name the USG president, vice president
and their area senators. Results of the
survey showed that 45 per cent of the
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He added that - "women today, since they have been
liberated, have an altogether different outlook on this
problem. Since the liberation they say, 'Why should I continue
to put up with a stifling situation? I'm going to go out and get a
career'."
Counseling is one means to help prevent career-shaping
from pressuring marriages. "Good counseling is going to
result in one of two things," Pilato said. "Through therapy
simple talking things out it will either help the members to
take steps toward improvement or it may suggest that the
couples actually should separate.
Pilato said that it is not the job of the counselor to decide
whether or not the marriage can work and then convince the
couple accordingly.
"There are hidden messages like someone saying un
derneath the words 'I want to get out,' so in that case, coun
seling would naturally take its own direction. If the couple is
actually decided they will get divorced, we try to make it so
they separate with some measure of understanding, dignity
and humanness."
Pilato said that because many feelings of failure in
marriage stem from a breakdown in communication, talking
things over is quite important.
"They'll be arguing over some trite thing like how good the
meal was that night when the real issues lie much deeper.
Many couples never tackle the deep issues that set the fight off
in the first place."
students polled did not know their USG
president including one student who
thought the president was William T.
Hicks. (W. T. Williams is the president
and Dave Hickton is the vice president. )
The Senate defeated a motion to
reconsider a bill, tabled at last week's
meeting, that would provide USG funds
for the University Coalition.
USG Senator Jeff Tempest said the bill
should not be considered by the Senate
until the Coalition has contacted the
Association of Student Activities for a
funding request.
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