PSORML seeks
D.A. candidates?
The president of the, Penn State
chapter of the National Organization for
the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(PSORML) said last night he plans this
summer to try to change the attitudes
the Centre County district attorney
candidates have toward marijuana.
Both Republican Robert B. Mitinger
and Democrat David E. Grine have said
they oppose reform of marijuana laws.
PSORML president Bill Cluck also
said he will attempt to get recently
elected state Senator J. Doyle Corman
(R-34th District) to co-sponsor a bill in
the General Assembly that would reduce
[the penalty for smoking marijuana to a
civil offense.
Cluck said a proposed amendment to
[he current bill would reduce the penalty
for possession of marijuana to a sum-
'Georgia Mafia'
strong Carter
WASHINGTON (UPD
After 100 days, President
Carter’s team is intact and
in good standing where it
counts.
Controversy has swirled
around U.N. Ambassador
Andrew Young, HEW
Secretary Joseph Califano
Jr., and White House
congressional liaison
Frank Moore. But the
bottom line is what counts,
and all remain in Carter’s
good graces.
analysis
The so-called “Georgia
Mafia,” if -anything, has
increased in stature and
strength.
Youngsters Hamilton
Jordan and Jody Powell,
Carter’s aides since he ran
for governor, remain his
two top assistants.
Domestic advisor Stuart
Eizenstat, criticized during
the campaign by political
pros, has cleaned up his
act. Questions about his
political acumen have
In a town where power
and prestige accrue to
those closest to the pres
ident, no one doubts that
Jordan, Powell and Eizen-
FRIDAY, JUNE 10
HUB Craft Center summer class registration, 1-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m., Room 312
HUB.
G.S.A. Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., Room 102 Kern.
SATURDAY, June 11
Penn State Wargaming Club meeting, 9 a.m.-ll p.m., Room 101 EE East.
HUB Craft Center summer class registration, 1-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m., Room 312
HUB.
International Council film, Tapasya, 7:30 p.m., Room 112 Kern.
SUNDAY, JUNE 12
Penn State Wargaming Club meeting, 9 a.m.-ll p.m., Room 101 EE East.
P.S.O.C. Hiking Division, trail clear on R.B. Winter Extension of Mid State Trail
with swim and picnic supper, 9 a.m., HUB parking lot
Free U registration, 1-6 p.m., HUB
HUB Craft Center summer class registration, 1-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m., Room 312
HUB. '
Opening reception for retrospective exhibition by Florence Eck, 3 p.m., Zoller
Galley EXHIBITS
Earth and Mineral Science Museum: Hours are 1-5 p.m., and by appointment for
groups. Mineral Industries Bldg
Frost Entomological Museum: Hours are Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, and 1-4 p.m., and
by appointment for groups. Room 102 Patterson.
Playhouse Gallery: Hours are Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. “20 Years of Festival
Theatre,” photographs and related memorabilia. Room 132 Arts Bldg.
Pattee Galleries: Photographs from the Historic Registration Project of Centre
County, East Corridor Gallery; Herman Love, photographs, Lending Services
Lobby.
POTTERY MUGS
FOR DRINKABLES
THE END RESULT
mary offense for which an offender may
be arrested.
In a civil offense, the violator is not
arrested but may be fined up to $5O.
-Currently, possession of marijuana is
punishable with a fine from $250 to $3OO
and-or up to 30 days in jail. The offender
also may be put under probation for up
to a year.
Cluck said he has several meetings
scheduled with key Harrisburg lobbyists
and legislators this summer.
“The only way the law will be changed
is by public support,” Cluck said.
He stressed writing letters to
legislators as an important way to work
for marijuana law reform. Letters
should emphasize that the writer is a
marijuana smoker and a registered
voter, he said. He also advocated having .
stat are as shrewd and
tough as they come.
.Budget Director Bert
Lance is another with
unquestioned clout. He is
the closest to Carter of any
Cabinet member.
And two unlikely
newcomers, Vice President
Walter Mondale and
energy advisor James
Schlesinger, have become
close professional advisors
of the President.
.Carter chose the liberal
Mondale as his running
mate and said he intended
to make the Minnesota
senator a most active vice
president.
He has.
Besides Lance,' only
Mondale has a weekly
lunch date with the
President. Mondale sits in
on far more presidential
meetings than his
predecessors. Carter sent
him on a round-the-world
trip immediately • after
inauguration, assigned him
to handle the ad
ministration’s election
reform package, and put
him in charge of policy
toward Africa.
Carter did not meet
Schlesinger, a Cabinet and
agency head in the Nixon
and Ford administrations,
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is still
power
until during the fall
campaign. The rapport
between the two scientists
was immediate.
Privately, Carter has
praised Schlesinger’s
brilliance and his skill in
putting together an energy
package in 90 days.
Much of Carter’s at
tention the first 100 days
has been in three areas
foreign policy, energy and
the economy.
In foreign policy, his key
advisors have been Young,
Secretary of State Cyrus
Vance and national
security aide Zbigniew
Brzezinski.
Vance was a member of
past administrations and
came with a reputation as a
highly polished lawyer.
Brzezinski was drawn from
the academic world. Young
was a black congressman
from Atlanta to whom
Carter owed much and who
was, in the President’s
words, “the best public
official I have ever
known.”
There’s a rough parity
among them. Blumenthal
is brilliant. Schultze has
sure Washington instincts*
and a capacity for clarity
in talking about economic
matters.
county
support
students get their parents to write
legislators for marijuana reform.
Cluck said several prominent
musicians are being asked to perform a
benefit concert for PSORML for needed
organization funds.
Cluck said NORML’s purpose is not to
encourage marijuana use but to achieve
reform of marijuana laws.
He advised marijuana smokers in the
dorms to place a wet towel under the
closet door to prevent smoke from ex
capting into the hall and to light incense
to mask the odor of burning marijuana.
He also advised closing the windows
when smoking in the dorms because he
claimed telescopic surveillance has been
used to enforce University policy against
marijuana smoking in the dorms.
Cost not key factor in selecting housing
By DAVID COLBORN
Collegian Staff Writer
Four hundred forty-two
students were forced to
cancel their dorm contracts
for next fall because of lack of
space, despite the strict
residence hall alcohol en
forcement policy. M. Lee
Upcraft, director of
Residential Life, said a
decline in requests was ex
pected because of the policy.
“No one really knows why”
so many requests were filed
this year, but students might
be reacting to differences in
costs between dorms and
apartments,” he said.
“Generally speaking, it is
cheaper to live on campus
than off.” he said.
But direct cost comparisons
between living on campus and
downtown are difficult. The
$491 per term dorm housing
Mondale enjoying unprecedented power, prestige
WASHINGTON (UPI)
After 100 days, Walter
Mondale’s dreams of
becoming the most influential
vice president are intact.
The early assurance from
Jimmy Carter that Mondale
would be a working partner in
his administration were
greeted with ' skepticism.
Even Mondale’s staff was a
bit nervous not because
they doubted Carter, they
explain, but because of the
“rather dismal” history of the
office.
Photo by Patrick Lillie
Construction has begun on the borough’s senior citizens housing project on Bellaire Ave. near Eastgate apartments.
fee breaks down to $56.67 a
month for rent and $25 a week
for food. However, “It all
comes down to the in
dividual,” said Bob
Costagliola, chairman of the
Residence Halls Advisory
Board. A dorm resident could
be the type Who snacks a lot
downtown and ends up
spending more than he might
in an apartment, he said.
However, apartment
dwellers also go to
McDonalds, Charlene
Harrison, assistant director
of Residential Life, said.
“Food costs go up when
people hit the fast food chains
and mini-marts,” she said.
Furthermore, cost is only
one of several variables a
student is concerned with in
choosing where to live,
Harrison said.
In a study conducted by
“All of us came into this
with some apprehension,”
says Dick Moe, Mondale’s
chief of staff. “In recent
history, there haven’t been
too many happy vice
presidents, and the
relationship between most
presidents and vice
-presidents was a faulty one.”
“The thing that stands out
from our perspective is how
well it’s working. It couldn’t
be better.”
Carter’s commitment to
give Mondale access not only
Residential Life in 1974,
nearly 60 per cent of 732
students surveyed said lower
costs were an important
factor in their decision to
move into an apartment.
Yet other factors rated
higher. Quietness of apart
ments was important to 85 per
cent; 76 per cent said the
freedom to choose their own
roommate was crucial and 75
per cent cited a desire for
privacy as an important
reason for leaving the dorms.
Harrison said students
choose the dorms because of
closeness to campus, the
social activity, and the
convenience of not having to
cook, clean, shop and wash
dishes. Also, she said,
students with practicums or
those graduating in fall or
winter don’t want to be
bothered with subletting.
to the inner circle, but to the
Oval Office itself, holds the
key to the vice president’s
somewhat surprising success
so far.
Carter has included
Mondale in all his meetings,
briefings and strategy
sessions. Mondale receives
the same information as
Carter on all issues
domestic and foreign.
The two lunch together
every Monday, and Mondale
usually is in and out of the
Oval Office three or four
The Daily Collegian Friday, June 10,1977—5
A random survey of 23
students conducted by The
Daily Collegian Spring Term
found students about evenly
divided on the question of
whether they chose to live
where they did because of
costs. Thirteen said cost was
unimportant while 10 said it
was a factor.
Of those who live on
campus, most said it .was
cheaper to live on campus
than off. But students living
off campus thought apart
ment living was cheaper.
Renee E. Stoudt (12th-non
degree) lives off campus
because of the savings in food.
“I don’t want to have to pay
for meals I don’t eat like 1
would in the dorms,” she said.
Mary Kay Hiegel (6th
individual and family studies)
is leaving the dorms next
term because “I’m tired of
times a day.
“Carter is clearly deter
mined to make use of his vice
president,” Moe said. “That
makes all the difference.”
Mondale started receiving
important assignments im
mediately. His first, three
days into the new ad
ministration, was a 10-day,
globe-circling diplomatic
mission to traditonal U.S.
allies in Europe and Japan.
His new office is in the
White House, a few steps
living in the dorms and want a
change.”
Pat. S. Presser (9th
elementary and kindergarten
education and education of
exceptional children) said
cost was not an important
factor in her decision to leave
the dorms. Rather, she said,
she “just wanted an apart
ment for my senior year. ’ ’
Brian R. Miller (12th
management) said he was
less concerned about costs
than about the freedom an
apartment gave him.
Joe Pugliano (12th
economics) said costs are
probably equal on or off, but
apartment living is better
because of the privacy and
increased space.
Lonni E. Eposey (3rd-law
enforcement and corrections)
said, “It’s cheaper to live on
campus unless a person really
budgets very well. ”
down the hall from Carter’s.
Previous vice presidents
found a driveway and parking
lot kept them at bay in the Old
Executive Office Building.
In addition to his foreign
policy role, Mondale has
received three additional
important assignments from
Carter jobs that pose
challenge and opportunity.
He played a major role in
writing and presenting the
administration’s election
reform proposals.