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If it was under my nose, I’d know!
" There’s an old rule that says the
best place to hide something is in a
, place so obvious no one would think to
look for it there.
Police Services have learned that
„ little trick the hard way.
“ Last Monday, David Hironimus, a
.« University landscaping employee,
Now for something completely different
Do you like to make faces at people
on a bus? Do you like to stand facing
, the back of elevator cars? Have you
ever considered asking your calculus
■professor a question like, “Is war
. ever just?” in the middle of a class?
' If so, Free U has the course for you.
This term’s Free University course
guide lists, among several rather
original courses, a “creative
-So Why can’t I pay the tuition?
The May issue of “Changing students with summer jobs earn an
Times” magazine reports that Penn average of $1,500 during the summer
• State students rank second highest in second only to Augustana College in
earnings from , summer jobs com- South Dakota whose working students
pared to other college students in the earn an average $1,750 a summer
country. ‘
• The magazine drew their con- However, on the average about 41
elusions from information supplied P er , , a student body
from eighty-two “large and small, works; only 33 per cent of the Penn
public and private, urban and rural” State student body works.
colleges and universities across the All we have to figure out now is,
country. , what in the world could they be doing
According to the survey, Penn State in South Dakota?
/Another reason to park with a friend
In their May meeting, the Presently at University Park, a
University Trustees approved, student can park all term in parking
among other things, plans for the lot 80 for ten dollars. At that rate, you
construction of a parking lot for 125 could pay off a 125 space, $119,500
student cars at Penn State’s York parking lot in 23.9 years,
campus at an estimated cost of That’s a lot of time, and for that
$119,500. , . amount of money per space it might
That works out to $948 per parking be easier to buy 125 used cars,
space to be covered by student But then, where would they park
parking fees. them?
Australia! Australia! Australia!
Ever have a sudden urge to drop all trade your ’7O VW for a Land Rover to
your books and take off to the tour the mysterious Outback?
Australian wilderness? Have you Face it, practically none of us have
ever been seized by a sudden desire to ever felt like that, but if any of us ever
should, the HUB information desk is
ready.
Weather
Here’s'a chance to get a good start
on class assignments as indoor
studying weather continues. Today
we’ll have variable cloudiness,
breezy and cool with a high of 65.
Partly cloudy and cool tomorrow
night low near 45. An improvement
for. the weekend, however, with
mostly sunny and warmer weather
Saturday, high 70. The outlook for
Sunday: Partly sunny and warmer.
GOP names commissioner nominee
i I By FRED LANCASTER
. Collegian Staff Writer
Russell 0. Spicher, 59, was nominated Wed
! nesday night by the Centre County Republican
•{ Committee to succeed J. Doyle Corman as
i county commissioner. Corman vacated his seat
.when he was elected to the State Senate May 17.
.! Spicher’s nomination must be approved by
■\ .Common Pleas Court Judge Paul R. Campbell,
■i who can accept or reject the
1 recommendation. The new commissioner cannot
| be a Democrat because state law prohibits one
I party from occupying all three seats. Corman
w was the lone Republican commissioner.
Names of the other thirteen applicants were
not released. Ruth Meyers, Centre County
; Republican committee vice chairman, said:
| “In a community the size of Centre County,
* most of the applicants would know the others
who applied. This could create tensions among
|ldi Amin at home, threatens Britons
I NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) Uganda’s
j President Idi Amin yesterday ended his game of
international hide-and-seek with the British
i Commonwealth, admitting it was all a hoax to
f disguise what he said was a secret meeting with
VJf African revolutionaries.
’! Radio Uganda also announced that an un
named Briton had been arrested on spying
< charges during Amin’s absence and “will be
. ex ecuted by firing squad if found guilty. ’ ’
1 The report increased fears that Amin, who
j Coo! weather a phenomenon
I? The unseasonably cool and overcast weather
rfthat has plagued the State College area for the
~past several days is not just a local phenomenon
!|but is the general pattern throughout the north
'n? Stern United States, said meteorologists at
i'the University weather station.
j The temperature fell to 39 degrees Tuesday
|morning, only three degrees from the record low
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Along - with footballs, frisbees,
softball bats, .'softballs, and
volleyballs, the HUB desk also
carries one genuine Sportcraft
boomerang.
As of yet, there are no kangaroos on
campus that you can hunt with the
boomerang, but considering the HUB
desk, it’s probably just a matter of
time.
discovered (and turned in) a
marijuana plant he found growing
outside the Police Services offices in
the Grange building.
So the next time you discover your
own personal stash running a little
low, remember an old rule.
silliness” class.
The course is geared for “simple
minded public absurdity” and lists as
a prerequisite a fondness for
“slapstick, Woody Allen and Monty
Python.”
If this starts a trend, who knows?
We might start seeing classes like
“Buffoonery 202” or maybe “Clown
Ed. 490.”
Mark Van Dine
those who applied. The nominated could be in a
precarious position.”
The eight members of the selecting committee
were chosen by Republican Committee County
Chairman Eugene M. Fulmer. A geographical
balance was attempted in choosing the panel
members, who were: Meyers, chairman, of
Beech Creek, Hubert Shirk and Jerome McCrea,
both of State College, Edward Agostinelli of
College Township, Bonnie McCormick of Patton
Township, Robert McNichol of Bellefonte,
William Campbell of Centre Hall, Earl May of
Benner Township, and James Potts of Phillips
burg:
According to "its press release the panel felt a
successful business background with fiscal and
management skills was the most important
asset sought in an applicant. Emotional balance,
the ability to handle controversy and accept
criticism, was required.
The release also stated the appointee must
barred 300 Britons from leaving Uganda on
Wednesday, might follow through on his threat
to do “something serious” against the Britons.
The radio also accused other unnamed Britons of
“subversive activities.”
The Radio broadcast a series of vague war
nings in which Amin thanked France for helping
him carry out his hoax, told France to stop
helping Britain, appealed to Britain to reopen its
embassy in Kampala, warned that anyone Who
bought British goods did so “at their own-risk”
of 36 degrees. Throughout the northeast 80 to 100
year old low temperature records were broken.
The temperature then struggled Tuesday to a
high of only 55 degrees during the daylight hours,
making it the coldest June 7 in State College on
record. Weather records for the State College
area have been kept for 90 years.
Meanwhile, the southwestern part of the
United States is sweltering in 90 degree weather.
the
daily
Bill faces House opposition
Senate votes lower drinking age
The State Senate voted Wednesday 27
to 21 to lower the drinking age for all
alcoholic beverages to 19.
J. Doyle Corman, newly elected State
Senator from the 34th district, voted for
the bill.
The bill now goes to the House Liquor
Control Committee which has a new
chairman, James Barber, who is op
posed to the bill. Rep. Helen Wise,
however, said that she thinks the bill will
Movin' Excavation continues for the new track and field complex just south of Beaver Stadium
Union to hold forum
Teamsters
By DAVE SKIDMORE
Collegian Staff Writer
After an 8-hour negotiating session
Wednesday Teamsters Union Local 8
will take a new wage package back to its
membership for a strike vote June 30, a
University spokesman said.
A two-thirds majority vote of union
members is required to reject the offer
and' initiate a strike. Nearly 2,000 food
service, maintenance and technical
University employees are union
members.
Both the University and Teamsters
consider the position of county commissioner of
prime importance; decision-making should not
be colored by conflict of interest. Another quality
strongly weighed by the panel was the ability to
sift through different points of view in making
fair judgments, according to the release.
Although all registered Republicans in Centre
County were allowed to submit resumes, no
■women or University students applied.
Spicher, a self-employed businessman, has
been precinct chairman of the party since 1957.
He served as Spring Township auditor for 16
years, first by appointment by Judge Campbell
and twice elected by write-in vote.
Spicher is a director and vice president of the
Pleasant Gap Water Company and a director
and secretary of the board of the First National
Bank of Centre Hall.
If his nomination is confirmed by Campbell,
Spicher would serve the remaining two and one
half years of Corman’s term.
and said he was going on a honeymoon.
The bizarre mystery of Amin’s whereabouts
began three days ago when Uganda Radio an
nounced that the unpredictable dictator was en
route to London to gate-crash the Com
monwealth Conference from which he had been
excluded.
He was reported aboard a borrowed military
jet flying over Dublin, Brussels and Paris and
later was reported to have stopped in a “friendly
African country” to plan his arrival in London.
Earlier yesterday, the radio said that Amin
actually Had arrived in London and coupled that
news with the warning he would do “something
serious” against the Britons in Uganda unless
the 6-foot-4, 250-pound dictator was carried
shoulder high through the streets of London.
Britain immediately denied that Amin was in
Britain and Prime Minister James Callaghan
said he believed Amin had never left Kampala.
Hours later, Kampala Radio announced that
Amin was back in Uganda from a secret meeting
he had with “top revolutionary military officers
from Tanzania and Zambia” held on the border
between Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda.
Collegian
Friday, June 10,1977
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reach the floor of the House quickly,
perhaps in the next few weeks.
Last month Wise told the Collegian
that while many Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh legislators had thought
lowering the drinking age would in
crease violence in their areas, there was
now significant support from these
representatives.
Although the State Senate also passed
a bill to lower the drinking age in its 1975-
officials refused to disclose details of the
offer or the recommendations of the
Teamsters negotiating team to union
members until Local 8 informs its
members of the offer.
Local 8 president Jane Pikovsky said
she would release more information
after the union meets 7:30 tonight at the
1.0.0. F. Hall on College Avenue.
No further negotiating sessions are
scheduled before the strike vote is taken.
After the last negotiating session,
union officials said a strike seemed
tonight
to vote on wage offer
Carter energy proposals
dealt a 'stunning blow'
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The House Ways
and Means Committee dealt President
Carter’s energy program a major blow
yesterday by voting down his gasoline tax
and severely abbreviating his “gas-guzzler”
auto tax.
The committee voted 27 to 10 to kill Car
ter’s proposal for a gasoline tax that would
have come in five-cent amounts each year
that gasoline consumption failed to meet
conservation goals.
Members voted 25 to 11 against a com
promise, one-time three-cent tax for 1978.
Earlier yesterday, the committee voted 24
to 13 for Carter’s idea of taxing fuel
inefficient cars, but not before putting the
effective date off for a year and considerably
weakening the tax on 1979 and subsequent
models.
It also voted 31 to 5 to kill the rebate that
Carter wanted buyers of efficient cars to get.
In debate on the gasoline tax, Rep. Jim
Guy Tucker, D-Ark., said, “There should be
some good conservation justification. How
much are we going to save and who is going
to bear the burden?” He said the poor and
people in rural states with long driving
distances would be hurt the most.
Carter proposed to return the gasoline tax
in the form of income tax rebates at the end
of the year. Opponents said that combination
would not save appreciable amounts of fuel,
which is the main idea of the Carter
program.
Rep. Abner Mikva, D-111., summarized the
shambles the Carter program was in: “I
have a feeling that what is left would not be
enough to be meaningful. The fuel-efficient
car rebate has been shot down. The guzzler
tax has been watered down sub
stantially . . . There are not enough carrots
and not enough sticks.”
Mikva tried unsuccessfully to persuade the
committee to tax existing cars that fail to get
6 session, it was defeated in the House 93-
100.
Members of the black caucus are
expected to lobby against the bill
because they think it will cause com
munity problems.
Another bill, House bill 905, which
would lower the drinking age for all
alcoholic beverages to 19 is presently in
the Liquor Control Committee. Since the
Senate bill passed, the House bill will
unavoidable, but one Teamster, a
University technician, said a strike was
unlikely because most maintenance and
food workers were satisfied with their
pay, while most skilled workers were
not. He said the skilled workers do not
have enough votes to carry a strike.
The University and Local 8 signed a
two-year contract last fall, but the
contract had a one-year re-opening
clause for wages and surgical benefits.
The contract will expire June 30 unless
an agreement is reached.
C. Rodney Knepp, secretary-treasurer
University Park, Pennsylvania
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stay there and the committee will work
on the Senate bill.
If this bill fails, it is unlikely the House
bill will pass either.
Undergraduate Student Government
president Grant Ackerman said, “Our
efforts now will be to prepare for the bill
when it goes to the House.” He said USG
will continue its campaign to encourage
students to write their congressmen.
of Local 8 said Tuesday that an
agreement on surgical benefits had
already been reached. The only issue
that remained to be discussed on
Wednesday was wages, he said.
Last fall a majority of union members
voted to strike, however, the vote fell 84
short of the required two-thirds. The
union officers had recommended ac
ceptance of the contract. The union
voted overwhelmingly to reject the
University’s first offer last fall after the
officers recommended rejection.
a certain fuel mileage. Amid charges by Rep.
Bill Frenzel, R-Minn., that the idea is “fairly
absurd . . . totally unworkable” and unfair,
Mikva withdrew his idea.
Carter’s original gas-guzzler proposal lost
on a 23-14 vote, but the committee then
passed a compromise far short of his goals.
Chairman A 1 Ullman, D-Ore., said the
compromise was a reasonable way to en
courage Americans to buy more fuel
efficient cars, without "disruptions and
unemployment” through higher taxes and
possibly lower car sales generally.
Rep. Otis Pike, D-N.Y., said, “I don’t think
we are getting anywhere. We should be biting
bullets and we are gumming marsh
mallows.”
Carter’s proposed rebate was killed 31 to 5.
He would have given the buyer of a 1978
model rated at 20 miles a gallon an $B9
rebate, for example. A 1985 model rated at
38.5 would get a $493 rebate.
Carter’s tax plan wanted 1978 models,
which come out in a few months, to be taxed
on how far they fell short of gas mileage
standards that are already in law.
A 1978 car getting at least 18 miles to the
gallon would have escaped the tax. By 1985
models, the Carter tax would fall on any car
not getting at least 27.5 miles per gallon. By
then the tax would have been $2,488 on the
worst offenders.
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