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It seems that
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getting a lot of fi
lately. Its long j
for a liquor license
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the club significa.
Unfortunately, court litigation
and more specifically, legal
advice is not free.
The University-retained
law firm of McQuaide, Blasko
and Brown has been providing
legal services to club mem
bers since the club’s begin
nings in the fall of 1976. But
because of the non-profit
status of the club as a corpor
ation, the University retains'
the aesthetics of ownership
without actually owning. The
University ‘ ‘leases ” the club
to faculty members for $1 per
year.
3 groups fight over
This session of Congress faces several heated
battles in 1978, such as energy and tax reform.
One of its most controversial fights is shaping lip
around HR 39, a bill introduced in January, 1977,
by Morris Udall to set aside parts of Alaska for
future generations.
In 1971, Congress passed the Alaska Native
Claims Settlement Act, which gave Alaskan
natives the title to 44 million acres of land and a
$962 million cash payment. The bulk of Alaska’s
375 million acres is still owned by the federal
government, which has owned most of Alaska
since we purchased it from Russia in 1867 for less
than two cents per acre.
Congress gave itself a deadline of. Dec. 18,1978,
to pass legislation pursuant to the Act. What
eventually became HR 39 was a political football
for five years, kicked around between com
mittees until Udall introduced it in 1977. His
ambitious proposal calls for aproximately 100
million acres of unspoiled Alaskan wilderness to
be incorporated into the National Parks and
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Snow job
Most students worry only about how to get out of a class or
how to get that extra cash to pay for the spring tuition hike.
Put as a work-study student I came to see the plight of
anot her group the University employee.
Friday afternoon when it was announced that the University
was oflicially closed at 2 p.m., everyone had something to
party about including most University employees . . . until
thej’ discovered on Monday that by taking'off, they'lost
vacation time and received no pay for the time off, even
I hough there was no alternative but to go home.
What were they supposed to do, sit in Shields or Boucke until
5 o'clock and risk the chance of a serious accident on the snow
covered roads?
Coming from New Jersey I’m accustomed to prompt road
and sidewalk clearing, but I guess it all goes with the territory.
The University sent the employees off into the Godforsaken
hills of Bellefonte, Boalsburg, and Port Matilda early in the
afternoon to prevent accidents, and then it turns around and
gets the people with a knife in the back over this vacation and
salary controversy.
The University ought to set itself straight on its policies. In
(he long run, it will be to their advantage to take such
precautionary measures. After all, a working employee who
receives due pay for Friday is of much more worth than one
who is in traction in Mountainview.
Can!
Congratulations Penn State! Eco-Action has been informed
that there were more throwaway cans sent to Carter from
University Park than from any other location. This news came
from Environmental Action, the Washington-based group who
sponsored the natiowide mail-in.
A total of approximately 600 cans were mailed last Friday
by Eco-Action members for the various persons who par
ticipated and signed and stamped a can. A total of 15,0,00 cans
were mailed in all.
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in the administration? Would
University lawyers provide
the same services for student
groups?
Just like any large corpora
tion, the University realizes
the necessity and the fiscal
prudence of retaining legal
help to have on hand and on
a consistent basis.
But it is easy to lose sight of
the fact that it is tuition (now
more than ever) that helps to
pay for such a service. It is, in
effect, students’ resources
that helped to pay for the
Faculty Club’s legal excursion
for a liquor license.
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Wilderness Systems, Wildlife Refuges and Wild
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Congress is now gearingup for an intense floor
fight this spring over this bill, which President
Carter has called the most critical en
vironmental decision in American history. At
stake in this bill is the transfer of large segments
of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land
Management and the Forest Service into the
jurisdiction of the National Park Service and the
Fish & Wildlife Service.
Letters to the Editor
This campaign is to show support for a national deposit
legislation which would put a mandatory deposit on all beer
and soft drink bottles and cans.
Seventy billion beverage containers become trash in
America annually because they are nonrecyclable. This
represents a wasteage of 81,000 barrels of oil per day.
A deposit legislation would encourage recycling and
eventually, hopefully, a major emphasis on returnable
containers. This would reduce wasteage of energy as well as
other scarce resources.
Show your support for this law and write your legislators, or
mail a can to Carter today.
Nuclear unsafe
People should take some more risks and step into the dark
unknown, huh. Dale F. Brown is way off in his article that
appeared in Tuesday’s Collegian. He says nuclear energy is
efficient, clean and relatively safe and the risks involved
aren’t that bad.
Hell, a nuclear explosion isn’t that awful. Sure, the chances
of an explosion have been greatly reduced, but you try and get
homeowners insurance if you live near a reactor site. Nuclear
power is currently very inefficient (less than 5 percent) and a
lot of uranium would be poorly utilized at the present rate,
uranium will run out around 2025. Brown says the excitement
is gone and we don’t want to take chances. Does it make sense
to develop something that is agreed by many experts to be
possibly quite harmful? I’m all for more research in this area
to increase efficiency and reduce dangers (which I think is
quite possible), but there is another problem •
Nuclear energy is electrical energy, and presently only 25
percent of our energy needs are fullfilled by electrical power.
Finally, why not make our use of fuel and energy more ef
ficient right now? I’m sure we can improve gas mileage in
cars considerably, in fact it is being done on a small scale
right now. Oh, yeah, I forgot that if big business has to in
crease the efficiency of fuels in automobiles they might get
upset. And after all, we don’t want to disturb them and their
It is understandable' that
there are times when lawyers
might be prevented from
speaking about specifics of
cases under litigation, but to
give information to the Uni
versity community concern
ing how they do their work
and what criteria they use for
accepting University cases is,
in our opinion, a legitimate
request.
So how about taking the
stacks of law books off the
windowsill and letting in a
little sunshine?
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Daily Collegian forum:
By CORENE JOHNSTON
Nurse Practitioner Health Education
A tubal pregnancy occurs when a
fertilized egg implants and begins to
grow inside the Fallopian tube instead of
the uterus. It requires surgical removal.
Luckily it is quite rare only a little
more common among lUD users than
among any group of sexually active
women, who also face a slight possibility
of tubal pregnancy.
Oral contraceptives are composed of
two' laboratory-synthesized hormones,
estrogen and progestin, similar to those
produced continously by a woman’s
ovaries. They are secreted in much
greater amounts during pregnancy, and
their presence in a pregnant woman’s
blood stream prevents the release of
eggs from the ovaries.. Hormone pills
taken orally each day do the same thing.
' Birth control , pills containing both
hormones can be more than 99 per cent
effective, but if one'considers women
who forget to take them, or do so in
correctly, 90 - 95 per cent is probably a
more realistic figure. “Mini-pills”
containing only one of the two hormones,
progestin, expose the woman to fewer
health risks, but are somewhat less
effective as' birth control. Because
they’re not widely used, I’ll not go into
detail about them.
Pills containing both hormones,
estrogen and progestin, are called
future of Alaska wilderness
Although these are all federal agencies, what
makes grown men scream at each other is that
the bureau and the Forest Service generally
grant permits to companies to drill for oil and
gas, dig for minerals and cut timber in the
multpile-use land management concept. These
industries lease the land from the agencies and
are required to observe certain environmental
standards, although how properly they observe
them is debatable.
,The National Park Service and the Fish &
Wildlife Service, on the other hand, manage land
under the special-use technique, which allows
virtually no commercial infringement.
Representatives of the major industries in
Alaska are lobbying hard to reduce the acreage
in the Udall bill, while environmental groups are
urging that the proposal include as much
wilderness as possible without “locking up”
economically valuable tracts.
. Environmental groups have banded together
to form the Alaska Coalition, which initiated an
excellent lobbying effort last year in support of
Marie Soveroski
12th-biology
Jan. 26
combination oral contraceptives.
Because the pills are taken by mouth
and circulated through the blood stream,
they affect the entire body. Estrogen can
alter the clotting 1 characteristics of the
blood, so the most harmful potential side
effect is abnormal blood clotting
perhaps leading to a heart attack
(particularly in older users and
smokers), stroke or a blockage of cir
culation to the lungs. Any one of these
could be fatal, but luckily the risk is
small less than during pregnancy,
when such problems are also slightly
more common. Women who use the pill
also risk a rise in blood pressure (one
reason for frequent check-ups) and,
after long-term use, gall bladder or liver
disease.
None of these occurs frequently, but
minor side effects do. Women who use
pills are more susceptible to vaginal
irritations and to gonorrhea than other
women. Weight gain, moodiness,
irregular bleeding, and breast ten
derness bother some women on oral
contraceptives, especially during the
first three months, while their bodies
adjust to the hormone change. None of
these need be a reason to stop using pills,
at least not without trying another type.
One of the more pleasing side effects
of oral contraception is a decrease in
menstrual flow and cramping.
No one knows for sure about the ef-
huge profits because big business is what the United States
represents, isn’t it?
Phone deposits
There is one thing I do not understand about your reasoning
in regards to telephone security deposits (Tuesday’s
editorial). Why, if everyone is made to pay a deposit, would
the amount of the deposit be smaller? If a customer skips with
several months’ service charges due does the company keep
that person’s deposit and make up the difference by con
fiscating part or all of some paying customer’s deposit?
Letter hit
This letter is in reference to the opinion expressed by
Douglas Micklo in his Letter to the Editor of Jan. 24 entitled
“Rapp Different?”. I hope Mr. Micklo got a chuckle from his
comments because, indeed, that’s what they were worth. If he
is a “typical representative of the male sex” in expressing his
superficial vision of a woman’s literal femininity (in his
words, “the hole”) as a “meal-ticket,” then the so-called
‘ ’ has long been over.
He contended that rape is nothing for a woman to go insane
over as it falls in a class with being mugged, beaten and
robbed. Due to the structure of society including its current
mores and evolutionary development, women have always
been at a disadvantage. In specific, the physical disadvantage
needs consideration.
When a woman is confronted by a male robber, mugger or
rapist (how many are female?), she immediately realizes that
she is hardly a match for his physical “prowess.” (This
student has already had an encounter with two muggers and
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the bill. A congressional subcommittee chaired
by John Seiberling of Ohio opened hearings on
GR 39 on Jan. 17 and, by revising it, is making
significant, concessions to industry without
altering the effectiveness of the bill.
Last week the national press carried the an
nouncement of the formation of Americans For
Alaska. This group is dedicated to the passage of
a bill which is a reasonable compromise between
development and conservation of Alaska’s
natural resources. Members of the national
committee include Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson,
Gen. Matthew Ridgeway and a number of cor
porate leaders in America, indicating the
diversity of support for the bill.
A number of suggestions have been put forth
regarding the final language of the bill. The
Carter administration supports a measure
providing for 92 million acres of Alaska, while
industry calls for as little as 25 million acres to
be protected. Americans For Alaska and the
Alaska Coalition support the protection of 100
million acres of the most spectacular scenery,
fects of extremely long periods of pill
use. It does not appear to cause cancer
(nor does the lUD,\for that matter), and
in fact,may prevent the development of
fibrocystic breast disease a condition
which makes it difficult to detect breast
cancer.
Diethylstilbesterol, DES, the
“Morning After Pill,” is really a series
of pills. It is the same drug which was
used in the 1950 s and ’6os to maintain
pregnancies which otherwise might
have aborted spontaneously. DES is
usually used as a contraceptive only in
extreme situations like rape. The hor
mone must be taken \yithin 72 hours
after intercourse—the earlier the better
and like menstrual extraction, is not
always effective. Because of its ap
parent carcinogenic effects upon infants
exposed to it before birth, DES should
only be used as birth control by a woman
willing to have an abortion if it doesn’t
work.
Though presently the center of ethical
and legal controversy, abortion is legal
in this country, up to the 24th week of
pregnancy. The risk to health is less than
that of carrying a pregnancy to term,
especially for such high-risk pregnancy
groups as adolescents and diabetics.
Permahent birth control tubal
ligation for the woman and vasectomy
for the man requires only simple
minor surgery.
James L. McDonel
assistant professor of microbiology
Jan. 23
Birth control advice
knows that all the work-outs and lessons available would be
futile to surface untouched.) In the case of rape, a woman is
not concerned with what his motives are, either sexual,
gratification or an act of violence stemming from sonie T •
psychological maladjustment, she knows that something j
more is at stake herself. It has been stated that the ultimate I
expression of love is concummated in sex. Rape forces a i
woman to accomodate a bully by allowing him to penetrate the |
inside of her body (at the least level of damage), which only |
then changes her “femaleness” to the proverbial hole. *’
You can rest assured that if one had to wake up every
morning and view a grossly deformed face as a result of an
unprovoked beating, one would have ampleTeason to be on the
verge of insanity. Everyone takes pride in their body’s ap
pearance for as mentioned above, it plays a vital role in ex l'
pressing and sharing love. Granted, a woman’s “interior” is N
only severely damaged in rare cases but that doesn’t mean
she can’t have the right to become wildly upset. As Mr. Micklo
astutely noted, the physical and psychological trauma is
there. A woman is coerced to learn that a part of her private
self is a prime target for the maladjusted. This boils down to
an added vulnerability to the “common list” all must
safeguard. (
Roy Sletson
sth-food science
Jan. 23
Is it fair to call a man’s flash of pearly whites, before the
punch, a “bargaining commodity?” Come on, let’s not get
defensive about a woman’s attributes. Besides, as the adagi ■
goes, “Behind every great man... ”
Jeffrey Hawkes
Editor
outstanding recreational opportunities and
critical wildlife habitats found anywhere in the
world.
The bill which Congress will pass later thj& f,
year will not satisfy those who want to save all of/ ?
Alaska’s land, nor will it satisfy those who wism ;;
to develop it all. Americans must realize two keA':
facts about the 100 million acres now included for *
protection in the bill: Most of Alaska’s mineral
and petroleum wealth lies outside the proposed
conservation areas; and there is to be no seizure
of state or private lands by the federal govern
ment. It is merely a question of transferring',
lands into the federal agencies best equipped to
manage them.
Many are concerned with the senseless
destruction of areas which include the largest
glacier system in the United States and habitats
for bald eagles, Peregrine falcons and caribou'.:
Alaska is America’s last great frontier and
1978 is our last chance to save it.
Charles Mitchell is' an eleventh-term political
science major.
The person or couple wishing to use ,?
birth control can benefit from f
professional advice. The Peer Con
traceptive Educatioif Office at Ritenour
trains students with a background in ',
biology and sexuality to teach
fellow students about birth control
methods. ...
The Family Planning Center in i
Bellefonte (355-2762) offers similar
confidential educational and clinical
services to the Centre County Con)’, i
munity. Styudents who desire lUD’s are .j
referred these from Ritenour, and all . !
birth control methods are available. . };
Physicians in private practice provide
birth control services, of course. A
woman who wishes to go to a provate
physician should do a great deal of‘ “
reading before going, and write down
any questions she wants to ask, for most ;
doctors don’t have time to review the ;
advantages and disadvantages of all
birth cpntrol methods with each client. ;
The decision to use birth control is one ’
which involves the responsible man or
woman in a continuing series of ; i
decisions, but it is an important and l.\
positive way of saying, “I believe in (]
myself. I don’t want life to just happen to "3|
me. I want some control over my own |'
future.”
The article does not reflect the policies
of any agency.
Collegian
Maureen McPoland
7th-animal science
Jan. 25
Scott R. Sesler
Business Manager