r -Collegian
Vol. 78,t10. 110 16 pages
University Park, Pa. 16802
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Eastgate tenants may be ousted
ANDY RATNER
| 'Daily Collegain Staff Writer
j' t ; If the conditions get much worse,
-Eastgate tenants might have to find
{another place to live. ’
\* State College Housing Code en
[kbrcement officer James Pettingill said
“We’ll give the place a close
! once the bad weather breaks.
17 “I was there today to check a carbon
§ 'monoxide leak in one apartment and a
1 ."broken furnace in another,” he said,
lilt’s reaching the stage where the
! ' building might h’ave to be closed down. ’ ’
s f Pettingill added that, because of the
| jtemporary status of - the Alpha
Co., now in charge of
JEastgate, the financial situation limits ■
'any major repairs. ( (
IF- In the meantime, tenant complaints
'are heating up.
i. Eastgate residents will meet in the
{apartment management office on
night at ,7 to clear up a few
"rumor-clouded issues,
ir “We’ll try to form a tenants
1 said Marty Scarano, a
i for the Organization for Town
H -Independent Students and a two-year
AuEastgate tenant himself.
Scarano and Mike Popcke, another
| "OTIS member living in Eastgate, are
1 {working to coordinate their organization
| "with the disgruntled tenants and Alpha
I 'management.
1 1 .. “There’s a lot of interest being stirred
among the tenants,” Scarano said.
ta“The crowds on the buses yesterday
I
A.W. & Sons
rent, term of I
By GREG BROWN
". Daily Collegian Staff Writer
, , Rent increases in apartment
1 complexes owned by A.W. & Sons
V 1 Enterprises may have a profound
, effect- on downtown merchants and
the University as well as tenants,
■, according to Jeremy, Abrams,
./president of the Organization, for
Town Independent Students.
Abrams said that it is very possible
, that the number of dorm contracts
submitted will be.iip. He added that
many students may be forced to drop
\ out because, they will be unable to
/ afford to live in an apartment and
if unable to.secure dorm space.
Because more money will be used
to meet rent payments, downtown
j merchants will probably do less
. business, Abrams said.-
OTIS also is very worried about the
j- possibility of the A.W. & Sons in
creases setting the trend for other
. apartment owners, Abrams said.
According to OTIS, the increases
*. range from 11 to 37 percent and affect
" Beaver Hill, Cedarbrook, Garner
; Court, Penn Tower and Park Hill
k Apartments.
A.W. & Sons’ general manager A 1
Toth said that the increases reflect
'.'/rises in the cost of labor, trash
u removal and utilities.
\2 Renie Morrison, manager of A. W. &
;r> Sons’ East Beaver office, says that
vandalism in the apartments has
been worse this year than in previous
>'■ years.
. . Morrison cited damages done to
v " fire alarm bells and fire hoses as well
’ | as fire hydrant misuse as examples of
;: some of the vandalism done.
HncDiTion-
Sorry folks,
* we’ll clue you in
It didn’t take long for several
people (and it seemed like thousands)
to call to tell us we left the clues out of
the puzzle we reprinted in last
Friday’s “In Edition.”
Here they are. We hope
remembered to save the puzzle
Across
1 Humans
8- Beach Boys girl
14 Wager too much
... 15 Name of a space probe
." 16 Political affiliation
18 Latin phrases for "he was"
. 19 Knows the —Msfamlllar
20 Part of an encyclopedia: abbr
21 Falls behind
,■ 22 Rhythm's partner
•23 Parlez —francals? \
24 Ram's dam
25 Actor Will and family
; 26 Serve the wine
t 27 Semiannual checkers .
29 Roosts
.. 30 Hamelln's problem
31 Red or ticker
- 32 Prospects, in a way
33 "—hard all over"
37 Canter or pace
, 38 Revolving part
39 "MynameisAshur—"
40 Fronded plant
, 41 Craze
"■ 42 Stare
; ; 43 Merkel, for one
~ 44 Subject "
45 Of a region
•t 46 Political affiliation
49 Get too large a total
" 50 Wariness
51 Ones who estimate
, , 52 Seems
*' Down
■ 1 Was in a fashion show
2 Abash
3 Town on the Rhine
'4 Runs
5 Rudiments
v * Neptune
were really buzzing about the whole
thing.”
Popcke said that he and Scarano had
tried to organize a tenants association
last year, but the management ripped
down all the meeting announcement
signs. ‘
Scarano said that neither the tenants
nor the Alpha Management Co. are
responsible for the numerous problems
plaguing the building. He said that when
the Eastgate maintenance crew left the
apartment a few weeks ago, they carted
away most of the tools and snow-blowing
equipment with them.
Gene Paranzan took over as manager
for Alpha two weeks ago and organized a
five-man maintenance crew to begin
cleaning up the cracked plaster and the
waterlogged carpets.
The combination of awful weather and
vandalism, he said, has compounded the
problems. ,
“Because of this frigid cold spell, heat'
in the apartments is my main concern,”
Parenzan said. “We just replaced a
couple of doors and windows.”
Parenzan will meet next week with the
principles in the Maswest corporation in
their New York offices. “My bosses will
come here on Feb. 7 for the sheriff’s
sale,” which will determine formal
ownership of the building, Parenzan
added.
52,432,000 is owed on the Eastgate
property, he said.
Parenzan said that as of right now, it
isn’t feasible for 'Maswest, Inc. to sink
raise
ease
Also, problems have arisen with
hot-water heaters and boilers,
Morrison said.
Lee Rosenberg (Bth-electrical
engineering), a resident of Penn
Tower, said that the rent increases
are “absolutely outrageous for the
condition of the apartments.”
Rosenberg said that the rent on his
large two-bedroom apartment is
going up $B5 per moiith. “Even if we
moved to a small two-bedroom
apartment, the rent would be higher
than it is now,” he said.
Another problem for tenants of
Garner Court and Penn Tower is that
they will no longer be able to lease on
a 9-month basis.
Rich Bartkowski (Bth-civil
engineering), a resident of Gamer
Court, said that the apartment he is
currently in could only be rerented at
a rate of $540 per month on a 12-month
basis.
Because the residents there only
desire to live there during the school
year, the apartment would have to be
sublet during the summer, Bartkow
ski said.
The management informed
residents of this change on Jan. 25
and is giving tenants only until Feb. 6
to decide if they want to remain in
their current residences.
Bartkowski said that he and his
roommates would like more time to
decide on whether or not to keep their,
apartment.
Abrams said that OTIS will
“probably request that the
management postpone accepting
applications” from persons who are
not currently tenants.
7 Some actresses
8 Makes potato particles
9 Beer ingredient
10 "—Clear Day"
11 Jumpy
12 Alternate route'
13 Aromatic hydrocarbons
IS Meerschaums
17 Guided trips
22 Defeats
23 Campaigner's desire
25 Jack's foe
26 Ridderof 30 Across
28 The Orient Express,for one
29 Pacific islands
31 South America's larhest lake
32 Low wall of a fort
33 Restoring drug
34 African nation
35 Storyteller
36 Women's or men's names
37 Famed convention site
38 Swift
40 Craze
41 Shapes
42 Give a lecture
44 Type of beam
45 Sell someone
pull a fast one
(slang)
47 Mist: Scottish
48 Siesta
Nittany Mountain
high, I’m freezin’
Let’s all sing “Stuck on top of
Nittany and so-cold-I’m blues again.”
And let’s dedicate the song to Bob
Murray (sth-business ad
ministration) and John Holko (sth
mechanical engineering).
Bob and John, known to their
friends as Murf and Keno, last Friday
decided to camp out on Mt. Nittany
for the evening.
The two rounded up some camping
essentials sleeping bags, blankets, -
matches, plastic sheets to insulate
them from the wind, and candy bars.
too much money into the building, since
it is only the temporary ‘mortgagee in
possesion.’
Many tenants have been waiting so
long for repairs, that the added delay is
merely accepted with a sigh.
Ken Pehanick (Bth-marketing), a two
year resident of Eastgate, said that his
roommate hasn’t been able to live in the
back room of their apartment since mid-
December, because of an inch of water
sitting on the carpet..
• “The problem is now worse than
ever," he said. Pehanick added that his
apartment doesn’t have any heat, but it
does have a gaping two-foot hole in the
bathroom ceiling.
“The conditions are horrible. W 6
called the former management every
day, but nothing was ever done. The new
manager tells us that he hasn’t received
the necessary parts yet. We refuse to
pay our rent until we are given some
livable conditions,” Pehanick said.
Bruce Generotti (Bth-finance) said his
carpet is soaked by outside water
seeping in through the walls. After
several unanswered requests for help,
Generotti stapled a piece of plastic
stripping to the wall to channel the water
away and chopped ice off his windown
sill with a hammer.
Pehanick said “the maintenance crew
was always very friendly. It was the
people in the office who gave us the
trouble.”
• Several tenants complained that the
former management used, “scare tac-
Trails Cornell, Temple;
PSU rates third in tuition race
By PAM STEIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The University has made the top five once again.
Although it is not as prestigious as a fifth place in
football, Penn State has claimed third in the tuition
race.
The University’s recent tuition increase raised it
from the fifth to the third most costly government
supported school in the United States. .
According to*a. survey, of 1977-76 student ~charges
released by the National Association of State Univer
sities and Land-Grant Colleges, Penn State was ranked
fifth with $1,263 per year for resident tuition.
With the $35 a term increase to begin next-term, Penn
State tuition will be higher than that of the University of
Vermont ($1,'348) and the University of Pittsburgh
($1,366), now ranked sth and 4th respectively.
Those schools with higher resident tuitions are
Temple University ($1,450) and Cornell Univeristy
($1,950). Cornell has the highest tuition of all govern-
'Gov, Shapp will have to make decisions
Coal strike may force
By TOM PEELING
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Gov. Shapp may have to ask the
University to close if the energy'
problem, caused by the coal strike,
continues, Fred Sovyak, West Penn
Power Co. engineer, said Thursday.
“The governor will have to get in
volved in this soon,” Sovyak said. “The
governor is going to have to make some
decisions.”
West Penn has only a 39-day stockpile
of coal left, Sovyak said. It will take 15 to
18 days for coal to reach West Penn after
the coal strike is settled. Actually, that
leaves about a 21-day supply of coal, he
said.
They tried setting up a campsite at
the top of the mountain but they
couldn’t find any wood there for a
fire. They'finally settled on a spot
further down the slope, lit a fire, ate a
candy bar, and went to bed.
Murf and Keno left at 7:30 p.m. on
Friday and returned at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday, colder but wiser.
Like they say, you gotta suffer if
you’re gonna sing the blues.
Grade point,
counter point
The Daily Collegian has been
flooded lately with letters to the
editor..
Ordinarily, the people who work on
the editorial page would be thrilled
with all of the material, but un
fortunately many of the letters are
simply not worth printing.
It seems that a sociology professor
has been making his Sociology 1 class
submit letters to newspapers for
publication as a part of their grade.
Now, we can see a teacher wanting
to get his students interested in the
power of the press, but some of these
letters have been downright
ridiculous.
Most deal with abstract concepts
only a sociology, professor could love
and a few have even quoted passages
from sociology textbooks.
Regretably, space for letters is at a
premium, so many of the sociology
letters can not be printed. The
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
tics” to get people to pay their bills on
time.
Benton Leong (grad-commputer
science) said that a friend of his delayed
paying his rent because the Rojay Co.
would not make repairs on his apart
ment. He said that Rojay continually
threatened to press charges against his
friend and even declared that they had
carried out the action.
Leong’s friend then went to the
District Magistrate’s court and learned
that no such suit had ever been filed.
David Jenks, an Eastgate tenant since
1974, worked for the former Rojay
management for several months and
said that they put heavy pressure on
tardy bill-paying residents and the
maintenance crew.
After a dispute over his own late
payment, Jenks said that he threw the
management a bluff, telling them he was
a government employee v with the CIA,
involved in an investigation of Eastgate.
“They looked like they saw death. I
was always suspicious of them,” Jenks
said.
Rojay coula not be reached for
comment.
Four years ago, Eastgate was called
Bluebell Apartments. It was owned by a
man named Burt Rudy,'who also owned
Laurel Glen. Maswest, Inc. took over
from Rudy in February 1974 and Rojay
bought the apartment three months
later.
1 ‘ Rojay also owns Southgate Apart
ments in State College.
“With 30 percent conservation, we
could extend the time by one-third, from
21 to 28 days,” Sovyak said.
J. Carroll Dean, manager for the
University energy program, said he
doesn’t believe the coal strike can last
too much longer.
Sovyak said that since negotiations
with the coal miners broke off Tuesday,
he does not share Dean’s optimism.
“Coal miners are hard-working
people, though,” Sovyak said. “I don’t
think they’re the type who like to sit
around the house.”
Sovyak said he hopes voluntary
conservation will work at the University.
editorial page is a forum for opinion,
not a battle ground for grade points.
In this respect the Collegian is a lot
like the New York Times. That is, all
the news that’s fit to print, not all the
news that’s printed to fit.
There’s snow better
way to do it
You’ve heard of Carrying coals to
New Castle? How about carrying
snow out of State College?
Last week, while wading around in
the snow downtown, a Daily Collegian
staff member noticed several
borough trucks loaded with snow
driving out College Avenue.
When we heard about this we were,
needless to say, very impressed. Most
of us were simply standing around
complaining about the weather while
our borough council was figuring out
a way to make money by exporting it.
But, like they say, there’s no
business like snow business.
Name, rank and
recycling number
It’s hard to believe that a recycling
contest could be taken over by a
military junta, but at Penn State it is
a real possibility.
We’ve learned that the reason
Centre Halls didn’t have any papers
to recycle last week was because the
beats Pitt
ment-supported schools.
According to a statement by University President
John W. Oswald at this month’s University Board of
Trustees meeting, Penn State is second in tuition rates
among land-grant colleges. Only Cornell University, a
land-grant school in Ithaca, N.Y., has higher resident
tuition rates.
Temple University in Philadelphia is funded by the
state but is not a land-grant college.
The University of Vermont, a relatively small school,
is the third land-grant college that has tuition in the
“top five" category.
According to the college association study, the
median 1977-78 student bill was up 6.7 percent over last
year. The increase was slightly higher than the genreal
inflation rate which was 6.6 percent for the 12-month
period. ,
Penn State tuition increased 9.9 percent with the $ll4
tuition hike approved last May.
While undergraduate tuition was raised at most in-
Pot questio,
Rep. Helen Wise, D-77tli, said Thursday night at a HUB question and ansvyer
session that the marijuana decriminalization bill in the state legislature must
get into caucus soon. Otherwise, it stands a poor chance of getting passed for a
while, because of upcoming primaries, she said.
University
It will take the cooperation of everyone,
he said.
“Very little or no night lighting” will
be necessary to cut energy use, Sovyak
said. “The University can’t eliminate
lighting where safety and health are
involved,” he said.
Cleaning offices during the day is one
way to conserve lighting at night,
Sovyak said.
Dean said shutting down elevators in
three and four story buildings would be a
reasonable way to reduce electric
consumption. Handicapped people could
be given keys to operate the elevators
that would be turned off, he said.
The Office of Physical Plant has not
Centre Halls division of Army ROTC
has been taking them.- -
The story is that the ROTC takes
the paper and then sells it to be
recycled. Proceeds from the sale go
to a fund to pay for a trip to a mar
ching competition.
It’s nice that the papers are being
recycled, but the money raised by
Eco-Action goes to the Western
Pennsylvania Conservancy, not just
another march-in.
The contest results this week were
as follows: North took an easy first;
the graduates in Atherton Hall, and
expansion club, took second; and
West took third.
The other dorm areas finished in
this order (from best to worst):
South, Pollock, East and Centre.
The monthly award has not yet
been announced. ,
Remember, if you catch someone
with a uniform swiping papers from
the recycling barrels, shoot first and
ask questions later.
Minutiae:
Fall down, sit up
Last week’s weather contributed to
the making of some spectacular
icicles in the area. We found a nine
footer hanging from Irvin Hall in
West Halls.
With the recent temperature
fluctuations and rain, icicles falling
from roofs have become a pointed
reality.
posed
stitutions, the study shows more dramatic changes in
tuition and fees in graduate and professional schools.
The primary reasons for these increases, as cited by
responding colleges, were inflation and program
quality maintenance. The need for more faculty and
staff and inadequate state appropriations were also
cited.
Chalmers G. Norris, director of-the Office of Budget
and Planning, attributed Penn State’s .increases to
inadequate appropriations. Norris.said if the state had
met Penn State’s appropriation requests for the past
few years, tuition would not have been increased.
Penn State has moved from Bth to sth in total resident
charges ($2,877). Cornell again claimed first place with
$3,970 total charges.
Karen Leigh, research assistant for the college
association said the yearly survey is very useful to its
member institutions. She said that when universities
can compare their tuition with other schools, no one will
“madly raise tuitions.” '
to close
proposed closing the University, Dean
said.
For the first time in several weeks,
traveling home for the weekend is
possible (except to places such as Ohio,
which is closed today). Yet, icy winds
will continue, with variable cloudiness,
flurries, and occasional snow squalls
today, tonight and Saturday. Keep in
mind, wind chill factors will be well
below zero with a high temperature
today of 12 and a low of 5. Traveler’s
Advisories are in effect but roads are
open.
For this reason, children should not
be allowed to play beneath hanging
icicles. University students should
refrain from trying the Ella Fitz
gerald Memorex test while under
neath icicles.
After a tough internal struggle,
Andy Epstein did break the two
minute sit-up record and by even
more than he told us he would last
week.
Andy’s new record is 141 sit-ups in
two minutes, 18 more than the old
record. He had guessed he’d beat it by
15.
Andy is now preparing to file his
new record in the Guinness Book of
World Records. He says he’d like to
be on the next David Frost-Guinness
Book television show.
He is planning on trying to break a
jump-roping record next, but that
may be more .of an up-and-down
battle than he realizes.
As of February 30th, The Daily
Collegian must wish a fond fairwell to
Diane Monderine, our production
shop’s night assistant supervisor.
Diane is getting married next month.
Diane helps “paste up” the pages of
the Collegian that you read every
day. It is an exacting job that
requires a good deal of attention to
how straight the various articles are
set on the pages.
She will be missed.
by Mark Van Dine. Contributing writer,
Bob Frick
Deep freeze