Dorm meals 'poor, overpriced'
Grad food tickets 'forced choice'
By LYNNE MARGOLIS
Collegian Staff Writer '
Graduate students living on campus
are forced to buy $lOO worth of meal
tickets and won't be able to get refunds
or extensions on any tickets that are
unused by the end of summer term,
Lynda Lin ( graduate-chemistry) said.
Lin and several other graduate
students said they don't use the tickets -
regularly enough to get their money's
worth. "I go home on the weekends,"
said Betsy Chadwick. "There's no way
I'll spend $lOO worth of tickets, and I'd
rather not eat at the Terrace Room."
Cindy Peake (graduate-physical
education) commented, "A lot of people
are feeling compelled to eat on campus
to use the tickets up, but the food is not
very good, and it's highly overpriced."
She claimed that the food served this
summer has "no quality at all."
"We really get ripped off. This is a
forced-choice situation," she added.
Group concerned about vehicle code
Some borough intersections are unsafe
because they are not yet posted for no
right turns on red lights, the Tran
sportation Committee of the State
College Area Chamber of Commerce
said Wednesday.
The new state law allowing right turns
Experimental films in HUB
Experimental filmmaker Dick Festival Theatre offers free seats to
Myers will hold two shows at 3 p.m. ushers contacting the Playhouse box
and 7 p.m. today in the HUB office
'Assembly Room
Hillel holds services at 8 p.m
Collegian notes tonight and 10 a.m. tomorrow.
. The Free U mushroom foraging
class will not meet Sunday.
FSHA 330 is holding a German
luncheon 11:40 to 12:45 Tuesday in the
Maple Room.
Mated Delicious Watecmelon
' Relief on a Hot Day
The Other Place 130 W. College
Friday, July 15
CPFA sidewalk art sale and exhibition, through July 17, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., noon - 9 p.m
Sunday.
CPFA Artists in Action, through July 17, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., Allen St. Mall, Noon - 9 p.m
Sunday.
State College Community Theatre, The Great Western Melodrama, 10:30 a.m.,
Festival Tent.
Tommy Wareham and the Intrigues, soft music, noon, Festival Tent.
Composers' workshop, 1 p.m., Festival Tent.
Anglo-American folk songs, Bob Doyle, 2 p.m., Allen stage.
Dick Meyers, filmmaker, avant-garde films, 3 p.m., HUB assembly room. More at 7
p.m.
Cook & Cosey, mellow rock, 4 p.m., Festival Tent.
Round 11, rock and roll, 5 p.m., Festival Tent.
CPFA film, The Harder They Come, 5 p.m., HUB assembly room.
Rockview Men's Glee Club and The Penn Statesmen, 6:30 p.m., Music Bldg. recital
hall.
Music with Ray Pickin, piano, classical and modern music, 7 p.M., Festival Tent
France-cinema, Chronicle of a Summer Paris, 7 and 9 p.m., Room 112 Kern.
Saturday, July 16
State College Community Theatre, The Great Western Melodrama, 10:30 a.m.,
Festival Tent. .
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1977 fiddlers' competition, noon - 5 p.m., Festival Tent.
State College bicentennial sculpture presentation, 2:30 p.m., Schlow Library.
Jazz on film, 3 p.m., HUB assembly room.
Antonio Frasconi, printmaker and artist in residence, open discussion, 4 p.m., Zoller
Nittany Highland Pipe Band and Nittany Scottish Dancers, 5 p.m., Festival Tent.
('PFA films, Union Maids and Ramparts of Clay, 6 p.m., HUB assembly room.
('PFA jazz festival, 7 p.m., Festival Tent.
Nathaniel Rosen, cellist, 8 p.m., Music Bldg. recital hall.
Festival Theatre, A Little Night Music, 2:30 and 8 p.m., Playhouse Theatre.
The name alone doesn't tell you,
we have home-style dinner platters,
sandwiches, and fine desserts.
Entire menu served all day
in the fine atmosphere of
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"The - University is really bowling us
over. I understand their reasoning, but
they are just trying to make money off of
us."
According to Lin, these complaints fall
on deaf ears. "They don't listen when we
talk to them. We feel helpless," she said.
Otto Mueller, assistant vice president
for housing and food services, said: "No
one was forced to do anything. If you live
in the dorms, you buy meal tickets. They
knew what they were getting into in the
first place when they signed their con
tracts."
He added that students who waist on
campus space and food service, should
not tell his department how they want it.
He said that the meal ticket
arrangement was "the only fiscally
feasible operation for grads to live un
der.
"What we , really need is more un
dergraduate • spaces," Mueller said.
"B,ut the grads'wouldn't have any of it."
on red lights went into effect July 1 for
all non-posted intersections.
In the meantime all right turns are
authorized at red lights except where
this would be the wrong way on a one
way street, naturally. Committee
chairman Elliot Abrams said that
A bicycle ergometer exercise
program for overweight women is
offered by the Human Performance
Research Lab in Noll Lab. Individual
starting dates and times are
available.
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He said they wanted their own on
campus space, so they must put up with
the terms of their contracts.
"Any student who feels they are being
ripped off can move off," Mueller said.
Tickets bought in the fall are
redeemable until the summer, but must
be spent by the end of summer term,
according to Mueller. "This is not any
different from the rest of the year," he
said.
Grads may pick one of three optional
contracts in the fall. They can buy room
only, room with food coupons or room
with a meal ticket in an assigned un
dergraduate dining hall.
Under the room-only option the
student must pay extra to compensate
the University's loss on the unsold meal
ticket.
But none of these options totally
satisfy the graduate students. "I feel the
University is completely inconsiderate
of the students," Lin said.
everyone probably has a pet corner at
which they would like to make sure turns
are allowed and other corners where
they should not be.
Abrams also said at the meeting that
the McCoy Flying Service, which started
July 1, would not affect the University
Park airport expansion plan. The ser
vice flies an eight passenger aircraft
between Lewistown, Harrisburg and
Baltimore.
Balances taken
from Whitmore
University police reported the theft of
three balances from 110 Whitmore Lab
Wednesday. Estimated value was $3,600.
State College police reported the theft
of a wallet from an apartment at 1218 S.
Allen St. Tuesday night. The wallet
contained $36.
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Bomb investigation continues
By MARK SHULTZ
Collegian Staff Writer
University Department of Safety personnel said
yesterday they are "checking out all possible motives"
for the bombing of a car in Graduate Circle 5 a.m. Sun
day.
Police Service Manager Thomas R. Harmon said
results of tests on the chemical make-up of the bomb are
"eagerly awaited" from FBI experts in Washington as
campus police continue "a very intense investigation" of
the incident.
Harmon said police canvassed Graduate Circle in an
attempt to find anyone who might have information
concerning the explosion.
The bomb destroyed the front end of a white 1961 Ford
Falcon owned by John C. Thompson ( graduate-academic
curriculum), of 12-B Graduate Circle, and caused $l,OOO
in property damage, police estimated.
Although campus and state police have been unable to
determine a definite motive for the bombing, Harmon
said all possibilities, "from a prankster to a case of
mistaken identity," were being considered.
He said this in reference to the fact that two other older
white cars, one of them a Ford Falcon, were parked in the
same lot.
Although one neighbor, who wished to remain
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HEAVY ARROWS INDICATE DIRECTION OF BLAST
CAR DESTROYED BY
unidentified, speculated that "you could have been in the
car at the time and not have been hurt," Harmon said he
felt this was due to the fact that the bomb was planted
between the grill and radiator of the car.
"Because of the positioning of the bomb, it would not
have been likely to have killed a driver, but it would have
been a severe shock to have been in the car," he said.
While Harmon said the placement of the bomb and the
time of detonation would indicate that it was not the intent
of the bomber to kill, damage to the vehicle and the area
was severe.
Police said the bomb was strong enough to tear through
the metal of the hood and hurl it more than 20 feet. The
front fender was seared in half, and flying shrapnel
riddled the wall in front of the car, shattering glass in
eight windows.
Although no one was injured, neighbors are worried by
the incident.
Many married couples live in the complex and have
young children. One father who commented on the
bombing wished to remain anonymous, saying, "the
bomber might be deranged enough to come back again."
Another neighbor said the police had told her not to
discuss the topic with reporters, but said she was "scared
to death it might happen again."
The Daily Collegian Friday, July 15, 1977