—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, November 3, 1976
Film library will
move off campus
By BECKY BENNETT
Collegian Staff Writer
The Instructional Film
Library housed in Willard
Building will be transferred
to the• Radio Astronomy
Building on Fox Hill Road
where more space is
available, according to Audio
Visual Aids Director fiobert
Allen.
Allen said the films and
equipment may be moved to
the new location by January
1977. He said that although
the Radio Astronomy
Freighter rescues stranded sailor
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico
( UPI) A West German
freighter yesterday rescued
young American adventurer
Robert Gainer and radioed he
was in "very good condition"
despite 19 days adrift aboard
a rudderless sailboat in which
he had hoped to sail around
the world.
News of the rescue came in
a message received by the
Coast Guard from the
freighter Hagen, searching
Philadelphia threat unfounded
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
The city kept a close watch on
its water supply yesterday Following receipt of the
but it appeared residents had tape-recorded threat Monday
nothing to fear from an morning, city officials took
anonymous 'threat to pollute emergency procedures , to
the water unless a handsome protect the water supply
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qentleman , s ham
Building is about four miles
from the campus, the
distance will not affect the
prompt delivery of films to
the classrooms.
The film ordering
procedure followed by , in
structors will not change,
Allen said. "The instructor
will simply place an order for
a specific day and the film
will be delivered." He said an
office where films can be
picked up and taken to
classrooms by student
projector operators will be
the Atlantic 550 miles east of 23, aboard and was at-
Puerto Rico. tempting to pick up his
"Discovered' sloop at 1540 damaged sloop, the Boodles
GMT' (10:40 a.m. EST) by Ginny.
radar and by sight at position \ Gainer, whose radio signal
18 degrees three minutes was heard by a Dutch tugboat
west," the message said. "We Saturday more than two,
will now try to take the man weeks after
. he disappeared,
on board." originally told rescuers he
The Coast Guard ' didn't want to leave the Bood-
spokesman said the Hagen,
bound for Santa Cruz de
Tenerife, Canary Islands,
reported later it had Gainer,
ransom was paid
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maintained at Willard.
Allen said that part of the
additional space at the Radio
Astronomy Building will be
used as a reference-advisory
center where audio visual
staff members will assist
faculty in using films more
effectively. • He said the
reference-advisory center
will also serve as "a place
where instructors will be able
to sit down with the staff and
discuss films which should be
added to the library collec
tion."
According to Donald R.
Zimmerman, assistant
director of operations and
finance, the University film
collection contains about 9,000
separate titles, and 15,000
individual copies. He said
films are available for use by
Commonwealth Campuses at
1 ,
les Ginny. But the Coast
Guard convinced him he
would have to abandon ship,
unless a freighter—such as the
The tape-recording, found
in a \ city hall conference room
at 9 a.m. Monday, ordered the
city to drop $1 million from a
helicopter along the
Delaware River.
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no charge, and are rented to
high schools and colleges
throughout the country. '
He said that Behrend and
Erie campuses in particular
use a large number of films.
The audio visual office has a
representative at each
campus who orders the films, -
Zimmerman said. They are
usually delivered by , mail or ,
by the United Parcel Service.
Zimmerman, said a large
number of films in the social
and behavioral sciences are
lent out. He said Penn State
has the "premier behavioral
science collection of . the
nation."
According to Zimmerman,
the audio visual aids service
is supported by University
funds and by the rent charged
for film use.
Hagen—equipped with heavy
winches and booms to lift the
sailboat aboard, came along.
"One of the first things the
Hagen said was that Gainer
was in very good condition,"
the Coast Guard spokesthan
said. -"He's going to sail with
the Hagen to their next port in
the Canary Islands."
The spokesman - - said the
Coast Guard "released to
their nornial duties" the
cutter Sherman, which had
left San Juan early Monday
for the, rescue area, and a
Cl3O search aircraft assisting
in the search.
Gainer's father , Harold,
when told Sunday that his son
had been found, said he would
buy his son a new boat "if he
will just come home."
Book co-op proposal called off
By JANICE MASCIOLI
,Collegian Staff Writer
The proposed . University-widd boOk
sale for Winter Term has been dropped
because,of too many problems with the
University, according to John Arndt,
coordinator of the book sale. .
The University , thinks it offers an
excellent book sale service in McAllister
Building and the proposed one would just
duplicate services, Arndt said last night
at an Asso6ation of Residence Hall
Students' meeting. Arndt said he doesn't
think the service provided is excellent.
Arndt said he knew the University
couldn't approve the book sale because
of the sales and solicitations regulations.
Arndt planned the book sale for the HUB
ballroom.
But Arndt said he hopes the sales and
solicitations committee will .make the'
changes necessary to allow the sale.
-He and' Kathy Howe (4th-therapeutic_
recreation)• are working on plans for a
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Peru buys 36 Russ
LIMA, Peru (UPI) Peru
announced yesterday it would
buy 36 supersonic fighter
bombers from the Soviet
Union (in . the first Soviet
arms sale in Latin America
outside of Cuba) because of
Moscow's better payment
terms. _
Foreign Minister Jose de la
Puente said that after the
United States, France,
Britain and the Soviet Union,
Peru decided the Russian
proposal "best fitted the
needs of its air force and of its
treasury."
"The extremely convenient
FTC probes test
WASHINGTON (UPI)
The Federal Trade Com
mission announced an in
vestigation yesterday of
whether companies offering
crash courses for college
entrance tests to millions of
high 1 school students are
really defrauding their
customers. ,
The FTC said it wants to
know if the courses can in
crease test scores, and
whether. the amount of in
crease is as great as ad
vertised.
In . announcing the in
vestigation, the FTC said it
Court to decide fate of
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The U.S. Court of Appeals
yesterday set out to decide whether the President can prevent
Congress from_ seeing national security wiretap records
because of the risk it might lead to public disclosure.
President Ford called this risk "unacceptable" and a lower
court enjoined the American Telephone and Telegraph Co,
from turning over FBI wiretap, request letters being sub
poenaed by the House, oversight subcommittee.
Chairman John E. Moss, D-Calif., in appealing that
decision, made it clear he would Carry his confrontation with
executive power to the Supreme Court, if necessary. - The
appeals court took the case under advisement after a'hearing.
E. Barrett Prettyman Jr., subcommittee attorney, said
allowing_ the President this "extraordinary" executive
privilege would "deter the right of Congress to check against
abuses through its oversight ever executive functions."
"The same principle could , be applied on any type of activity'
Collegian ads.
book sale for !Spring Term. Arndt said student, 50 cents is still charged and•the,
plans should be ready by the Christmas extra money is used for• repairs in the'
break. • dorm areas, Tom Broitman, advisor to
Arndt said he considered an alter- ARHS said.
native site at the Wesley Foundation, but Rich Cartwright, ARHS vice
there wasn't enough time to organize it president, said the students deserve to
at the location. know why the University takes money
Mel Klein, director of Student. out of their general deposit. - -
Activities, said he had discussed plans Brendan Maily, ARHS representative
with Arndt and Howe, but wanted to see from North Halls, said many damages
a written formal proposal. Klein said he are charged to students when it should
never received this proposal.:, , ,' 'just be accounted as normal wearrand-
In other business at' the ARHS tear.
meeting, Wayne Sweeney, president of Cartwright suggested the committee
the, Pollock-Nittany Residence Halt investigate the possibility, of an' itemized .
Association, proposed a committee to , charge list for all students, if money is
investigate the minimum 50 cents dorm taken from their general deposits. ;t '
damage charged to students each term. Cartirtight also said that yesterday's
Sweeney said there is no written rule co-ed residential housing meeting was
~ about the charge. The University said delayed until he can finish the report on ,
the 50 cent charge is necessary to cover the housing proposal. The proposal will
administrative 'handling, according to• be given to M. Lee Uperaft, director,of
Sweeney. Residential Life by the end of-the term,
If charges are only 12 cents pe r 7 Cartwright said.'. •
terms of payment" played a . De la Puente declined to with ten years to pay and a
major part in the decision, de specify the make or price of two year grace period, a
la Puente said. . the fighter-bomber Peru is bargain price for , an ad-
De la Puente denied the buying - i but diplomatic vanced modern airplane.
purchase had any political sources indicated the plane is Peru's air forceis generally
implications. • the SU22 7 - a supersonic considered to :be in "sorm
"Airplanes have • no fighter-bomber fister and .shape," according to military
ideology," the foreign •heavier than the American experts. • , •
minister said. "All countries FSS being offered for export.
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renew their ' air forces The , diplomatic sources also - Peru's military ' govern
periodically." • gave credit to Peru's ex- , . ment, dice , considered !the.
The Peruvian purchase planation that economics, not most ,left-wing regipie on .the '
represented the first Soviet politics, constituted the main South American,:continent,
arms sales to a Latin motivation for the purchase. now is generally considered
American country outside of The Soviets are said to have centrist with the Government
Cuba and one of the largest offered terms of ,about $7 of ' Gen. .Francisco , Moralei
armament purchases in . million dollars per jet, plus Bermudez facing an acute
recent history in the area. full maintenance services, financial crisis. •
was not prejudging the
coaching, industry, but
making the probe publiC as
part of its standard policy. It
said it wants to determine
whether ,the operators of
coaching services "are
engaged in
~ unfair or
deceptive acts or practices."
There are more than 2.5
million new students each
year, and most colleges
require some kind of entrance
test. The most common is the
SAT, the Standard Aptitude
Test administered by the
College Entrance Examina
tion Board, usually during
the student's junior or senior
ian bornbers
crash courses
year in high sChciol. It said one student in 15 will.
A board spokesman said 1.4, find that his score increases
million students take the SAT by 100 points or more between
,every year, adding:" - , . his junior and senior years,
"We do , not recommend regardless of whether .he . is ,
coaching schools because'we coached, and tutori:i
feel that the SAT measures. sometimes wrongly point to,
verbal and mathematical,. those particular students as
abilities not achievements proof that outside help was
that have been developed valuable:
over'a lifetime. Any two-week "Among those from whom
crash course,is not the kind of information may besought in
thing that's going to affect the this investigation are
performance on the test." operators , of test preparatioe°
The board said `studies centers, review courses or
made in 1968 indicate coaching schools, as well as
.coaching will yield only educators, statisticians,
"insignificant increases in ,psychologists and con
scores." siimers," the FTC said.
wiretap records :
such as housebreaking, opening the mail and - the like,"
Prettyman said.
In this case, he said, the subcommittee only wants to be sure
they are not domestic wiretaps conducted under the "guise"
of national security surveillance to avoid having to get court .
warrants. •
Assistant Attorney General Rex E: Lee argued the con:
stitiltion gives the President the final word.
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Lee said every House member would have a legal access to
the secret records and the subcommittee could decide by
majority 'vote to release the records unlesi the full House
intervened.
- Prettyman said subcommittee staff members with security
clearances routinely deal with CIA and FBI secrets and are
now keeping over 500,000 sensitive documents in vaults. He
said there has never been a single leek. ,
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