But no fleas
Dave Drissel (I2th-individual and family studies) has seen everything from for USG’s Flea Market began last Monday. Items will be on sale today and
oscilloscopes to enema bags come into the HUB ballroom since registration tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. f
daily
A.W. & Sons tenants join to fight rent hike
By GREG BROWN
and DAVE COLBORN
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
( Hit with rent increases up to 37 percent
for next year, student tenants of A.W. &
Spns are joining with campus
organizations.to fight the price hike. - • .
An an’gfy group of 15 to 20 students met
last night, with the Organization for
Town Independent Students and Mike
Stinson of the Undergraduate Student
Government to plan strategy.
A nine-tenant committee was formed
to fight rent increases proposed by the
management.
The main emphasis should be to en
courage current tenants not to renew
their leases right away' Stinson said.
A.W. & Sons sent tenants rent increase
notices Jan. 25, telling them they had 12
days to sign a lease guaranteeing them
their apartment for next year.
Stinson said that becasue of such in
creases and the rise in tuition “it’s
getting tougher and tougher to stay in
school.”
Carl Deck, OTIS vice president, said
the apartment management and State
College Municipal Council members will
Laetrile
over warnings
Editor’s note: This story is the first of
three about laetriie and its effects.
Tomorrow: Disputes over laetrile’s
effectiveness in treating cancer.
By PAM STEIN
And BARBARA KLEIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
More than 2,000 students on this
campus will eventually die of cancer, if
today’s statistics prove reliable.
Cancer victims seek a cure, but no
single cure exists. However, their search
for comfort and for hope in prolonging
their lives continues. Most turn to
conventional means of treatment, in
cluding surgery, radiation and
chemotherapy, to realize this hope.
Still others look to an alternative form
of treatment: amygdalin, commonly
known as laetriie.
Laetrile, a naturally occuring sub
stance discovered in the 1920 s by Ernst
T. Krebs, Sr., can be found in more than
1,200 plants, fruits and vegetables. The
most common source of laetriie is the
apricot pit.
According to a report in “Newsweek,”
Scottish scientist John Beard explains
that laetriie works on the
"throphoblastic theory.” Beard claims
that laetriie contains hydrogen cyanide
which acts, with beta glucosidase, a
cancer cell enzyme, to attack only the
malignant growth. Normal cells remain
unharmed due to rhodanese, an enzyme
in the cells which detoxifies the cyanide.
Ernst T. Krebs Jr., continuing his
father’s studies, said in 1952 that laetriie
is not a drug. He explained,that cancer is
a deficiency disease and that laetriie, or
vitamin B-17, is the necessary
nutritional supplement.
Although laetriie is declared con
traband by the Food and Drug
Administration, its, decision has been
Apartment
Efficiency
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2 person max
One bedroom,
3 person max
Small two bedroom.
4 person max
Large two bedroom,
5 person max
Three bedroom,
6 person max
be invited to a 7:30 p.m. Thursday
meeting with tenants in the HUB.
The management will be asked to
justify the increases on paper and will be
given examples of the kind of questions
to expect, Deck said.
A 1 Toth, A.W. & Sons general
manager, refused to return calls made
by The Daily Collegian to his answering
service..
trusted
overruled in several states, where it is
no longer illegal. In other countries,
including Mexico, Canada, Germany
and Japan, laetriie remains legal and is
widely used.
The American Cancer Society and the
FDA reject laetriie as a substance of any
benefit in the treatment of cancer,
stating that it is an unproven therapy
which will defraud the public and en
danger the lives of countless persons.
The FDA continues its condemnation
of laetriie by saying it does not fulfill the
definition of a vitamin, for there is no
evidence that laetriie is necessary to
normal body functions or that its ab
scence will cause specific disease!
Despite the FDA’s stand, an estimated
20,000 people per year turn to laetriie as
a treatment of cancer. Many feel the
side effects of surgery, radiation and
chemotherapy are too severe.
However, surgery is still considered
by the medical profession to be the most
effective and practical method of
combatting cancer. Its effectiveness is
limited by the location of the tumor and
the tumor’s degree of matastasis (the
spread of cancerous cells to other por
tions of thebody).
It is not unusual for entire legs, arms
or portions of the lung, stomach or
kidney to be surgically removed, as well
as the tissue surrounding the tumor site,
according to George E. Moore, in “The
Cancerous Diseases. ”
Compounding the severity of the
illness itself are the dangers connected
with surgery as well as the strength
required for recovery.
Radiation is often used in conjunction
with surgery and is not applicable to all
forms of cancer. Radiation treatment
damages all cells but the cancerous ones
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9 month lease
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month's month’s
rent rent
increase
Nine month leases
are no longer available
on 3 bedroom apartments
Between 500 and 550 A.W. & Sons’
tenants signed a petition circulated
Saturday and Sunday asking
management to discuss the increases
with tenants, Jami Saltzman (12th-social
welfare) said. Saltzman organized the
first Cedarbrook tenants meeting Friday
and drafted the petition which will be
given to management Tuesday “to at
least let our grievences be known and
12 month lease
’77-’7B ’7B-’79
month’s month’s
rent rent
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Billy Beer was brewed expressly for Billy Carter, according to the can. Accord
ing to an informal survey by The Daily Collegian, the majority of State College
beer drinkers think he should be the only one to drink it.
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get a justification for the increases,” she
said.
Stinson said that he will urge the USG
to notify the branch campuses of the
increases, as an aid in apartment
selection for transfer students.
increase
~ The .tenants discussed the ppssibility
bf picketirigA.W. & Sons.’ Beaver Hill
office Saturday if nothing is ac
complished during the week.
Jeremy Abrams, OTIS president, said
he will meet with A 1 Toth on Tuesday to
discuss the increases and the tenants
meetings.
He also said he will meet with
Raymond 0. Murphy, vice president for
student affairs, to discuss the effects the
increases will have on the University.
Abrams will ask the University to in
tervene for the students.
20% '
Figures compiled by OTIS (above)
show why A.W.&Sons’ tenants are upset.
The increases do not include $5 per
month extra for a balcony apartment on
a nine-month lease and d $l5 per car
parking fee.
The increases are for Beaver Hill,
Garner Court, Cedarbrook, Penn Tower
and Park Hill.
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Talks to resume
on Middle East
military
JERUSALEM (AP)lsreal decided
Sunday to resume military talks with
Egypt, giving a new push to Middle East
peace negotiations following a cooling of
the public war of words between the two
countries and intensive backstage U.S.
diplomatic efforts.
The military talks in Cairo between
defense ministers are expected to
resume early this week. But there was
no indication after Sunday’s, regular
Israeli cabinet . meeting when the
parallel political negotiations in
Jerusalem might resume.
“That is up to Egypt,” cabinet
secretary Aryeh Naor said after the 3>/fe
hour session. “It wasn’t Israel that
broke off the talks.”
Israeli officials said, however, that
agreement is possible as early as this
week before Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat confers with President
Jimmy Carter in Washington on a
joint “declaration of principles” to
outline future negotiations.
Agreement on the declaration would
be the first breakthrough since Sadat’s
trip to Jerusalem in November created
the first real peace negotiations in the 30-
year conflict.
But Egyptian Foreign Minister
Mohamed Ibrahim Kamel has taken a
more pessimistic line, saying agreement-
SA Ts decline more
than nation's average
By COLLEEN GALLAGHER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The drop in the average Scholastic Ap
titude Test score among freshmen ad
mitted to the University this fall was
larger than the national decline, but
Penn State freshmen continue to score
above average on the test.
Among high school seniors in the
United States who took the SAT intending
to enter college , this fall, scores were
down an average of four points from the
previous year, Educational Testing
Service reports show.
At Penn State, however, SAT scores
fell an average of 21 points for University
Park freshmen and an average of 11
points for freshmen at all the campuses.;
according to University figures.
TJie 1977,.national average was 899,
compared to 1038 for University Park
and 985 for all the campuses.
Robert E. Dunham, vice president for
undergraduate studies, said the Univer
sity is admitting students with lower
SAT scores because, while applicants’
SAT scores have been going down, their
high school grade point averages have
been going up.
Since both figures are used to deter
mine whether or not a student is ac
cepted, “it may be easier than five or 10
years ago” to be admitted with a rela
tively low SAT score, Dunham said.
Dunham said he believes SAT scores
are better indicators of aptitude than
grades, and said it “may be true” that
since grades are rising and SATs are
falling, the University is admitting lower
quality students.
“But don’t forget, what (the admis
sions system) is saying is not that the
students’ aptitude for college is better
or worse,” Dunham said.
Billy Beer heading
down, out
By FRAN WEISBERGER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
If beer drinkers in the rest of the
country are anything like those in State
College, then Billy Carter is the only
person buying his beer.
Jim Reeder, sales manager of Nittany
Beverage Co., said that Billy Beer is not
in demand and added that they have sold
only 10 cases in the last month.
Billy Beer is considered a novelty item
that will just die out, Tom Hartman,
assistant manager of Centre Beverage
Co., said.
Bill Hickey, owner of W.R. Hickey
Beer Distribution, Inc., said Billy Beer is
one of the specialty beers that comes
onto the market every six to eight
months. Hickey said he doesn’t expect it
to have a very long life.
Woody Kephart, manager of the
Shandygaff Saloon, said he does not sell
Billy Beer, but if it became popular he
would.
The manager of the Lion’s Den, Kevin
Lamb, said, “If people would ask for it, I
would sell it. But I haven’t had any call
for it.”
Although the gut reaction to Billy Beer
has been sober in State College, the West
End Brewing Co. of Utica, N.Y., which
brews Billy Beer, said their sales are
foaming a-head.
West End bought the rights to
manufacture Billy Beer from the Falls
City Brewing Co. of Louisville, Ky. Falls
City brewed five different beers for Billy
Carter before he chose his favorite, a
representative of West End said.
West End also brews Utica Club,
' Matt’s Premium and Maximus Super.
The bright orange and white Billy
Beer can is aluminum and can be
issues
on the declaration should not be ex
pected even during Sadat’s U.S. trip.
Naor said Sunday: “Agreement is
coming close.”
The military talks on an Israeli pullout
from the Sinai Peninsula recessed Jan.
13, deadlocked on Israel’s demands to
maintain a score of settlements in the
desert wilderness.
The following week political
negotiations between foreign ministers
on the Palestinian issue broke down
after the first day. Sadat abruptly
recalled his foreign minister and each
side charged the other with sabotaging
the talks.
While both political and military talks
were stalled, U.S. Assistant Secretary of
State Alfred Atherton, based in a
Jerusalem hotel, worked on refining the
proposed declaration of principles.
Atherton leaves Monday for Cairo to
get Egyptian reaction to the Israeli draft
and is scheduled to return to Washington
at midweek, U.S. officials said.
Atherton briefed Jordan’s King
Hussein in Amman Saturday. Israel
regards ultimate participation by the
moderate Arab leader in peace talks as
essential. But State Department
spokesman George Sherman said
Atherton has not tried to draw the king
into the talks at this stage.
“All it’s saying is what are the predic
tions for the student’s grade point aver
ages at the end of their freshman year?”
he said.
Because of grade inflation at the Uni
versity, Dunham said, students also may
be predicted to earn higher grades than
students in earlier years with the same
SAT scores and high school grade point
averages.
“I don’t think we ought to be an elitist
institution,” Dunham said. “But I’m
afraid if we’re not careful, we will attract
more and more unqualified or low qual
ity students,” he said.
“In the long run, it may be better to
curtail enrollment in order to maintain
quality students,” Dunham said.
Enrollment would probably decline if
the University required higher SAT
scores, since SATs have been falling
nationally.
Dunham said, however, “If you’re
talking about recruiting students; the
best device a high quality program.”
“If we ever get trapped into the idea
that we’ve just got to trap bodies and ad
vertise that we don’t care who our stu
dents are, we just want to get them in;'
then in the long run, I think it will work
against us,” Dunham said.
A dandy winter day
Compared to recent weather, today’s
may seem quite acceptable, with occa
sional sunshine and slightly higher tem
peratures, with a high near 24. Winds
should abate throughout the day, which
should lead to mostly clear and calm con
ditions tonight with a low of 7. Watch for
snow returning Tuesday at least
enough to make a nuisance.
the drain
recycled, a representative of West End
said.
Billy Beer is the first alcoholic
beverage marketed with the signature of
a president’s brother on the container,
and so may become a collector’s item
one day.
Students complained that Billy Beer
has a bitter, bland and flat taste, and - a
popular comment was that Billy Beer
tasted like Utica Club.
“I recortimend drinking it only after a
half case of Michelob,” Todd W. Jeffreys
(16th-ceramics) said.
Ted Rutkowky (Bth-petroleum
engineering), 9 defender of Billy Beer,
said, “I think it is the greatest example
of free enterprise our country has ever
seen.”
A six-pack of Billy Beer sells for about
$2.60.
Clarification
In Edition in last Friday’s Daily
Collegian incorrectly reflected the
Collegian’s policy on letters to the editor.
The story criticized Edward J.
Walsh’s Sociology 1 class for submitting
letters that are not suitable for
publication. '
The Collegian, however, welcomes
and encourages letters from all readers,
saying only that not all letters can be
published. The editors decide which
letters should be printed.
In Edition also incorrectly reported
that Walsh requires his students to
submit letters to newspapers for
publication as part of their grade.
Publication of the letters is for extra
credit only.