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tudent leaders say better communication needed
Editor’s Note: This is the last article in a
series examining the use and abuse of funds and
privileges in residence hall government.
By.BIRUCE BECKER,
SHARON RUPERT and
BEV STETLER
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
• In response to recently revealed improprieties
in the governing of the Association of Residence
Hall Students, several student leaders have
suggested ways of preventing a repeat of such
occurances. -
Some leaders have said there is a need for
increased communication between ARHS
members as well as between other organizations
on campus.
• '‘The majority of problems stem from a lack of
communication between people within the
organization,” North Halls President Steve
Osborn said.
University has unnamed weapons
Photo by Chip Connolly
A .38 caliber pistol as shown above is just one of many weapons in the
University’s arsenal. David E. Storincr, University safety director, said the
University has 33 .38 caliber pistols as well as a 37 millimeter tear gas gun. But
he would not comment about other Uniersity weapons. Stormer has asked the
University Council to allow certain police officers to carry guns. Thirty-three
University officers were armed during most of the Summer Term.
Varter urged to veto tuition tax credit bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) HEW
Secretary Joseph Califano yesterday
criticized a college tuition tax credit
before Congress as an unfair
'*Tireak for the wealthy and recommended
a presidential veto of the measure.
Califano called for Congress to enact
President Carter’s plan providing tuition
grants based on need.
.He said the congressional plan that
a $250 tax credit for each student
nvould only encourage universities to
automatically increase tuition by that
amount.
Ice Pavilion change leaves skaters
The Ice Pavilion, shown above, will soon become a . floor is covered by 4 inches of concrete and will be car
fieldhouse for practice by varsity teams. The building’s peted by Astroturf in the near future.
The lack of communication is “usually bet
ween the executive board and the individual
representatives to the general council,” he said.
Deb Montick, Centre Halls president, said
there also is a need for better communication
between organizations, specifically the Un
dergraduate Student Government and ARHS.
One step towards better communication has
already been established between ARHS and
USG. A USG correspondent reports back and
forth to each organization on the activities of the
other.
“We need more people like that (the
correspondent) to let organizations know what
the other is doing, so they don’t overlap in
events,” Montick said.
She suggested a weekly report of the minutes
of both USG and ARHS be circulated to keep
each other informed.
She said the organizations are too decen-
“I believe the tuition tax credit is
worse than nothing,” Califano said at the
White House.
The measure would provide “millions
of dollars to the most affluent in
dividuals in our country ... at a time
when the budget is so hard-pressed,”
and is inflationary, unfair and a
potential bureaucratic mess, Califano
said.
But a proponent, Sen. Robert Pack
wood, R-Ore., disputed Califano’s
judgment.
“Tuition tax credits would not en-
tralized, and that “no one has anyone to answer
to.”
Montick said what may be needed is a board of
students to oversee activities and to make sure
policy violations don’t take place.
Kathy Dodson, South Halls president, said
there are about 400 student organizations on
campus. She said ASA cannot check up on all of
them.
ARHS Vice President Steve Matt said the
problem of improprieties is something for
council to look into as a whole in order to prevent
them from happening again.
Marina Murphy, Summer Term ARHS
president, said a summer council could be for
med for the Summer Term, instead of having
only four students run ARHS.
She said a summer council would be beneficial
By MARY ANNE MULLIGAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The people at University Police
Services have more weapons than they
are willing to talk about.
In addition to a tear gas gun and
several .38 caliber pistols, “there are
other weapons that we keep that I’d
rather not comment on,” Safety
Director David E. Stormer said.
The police services arsenal includes a
37 millimeter tear gas gun that has
never been used, Stormer said.
“We also keep weapons for students or
staff,” Stormer said. "They check them
in and out. The number varies, usually
between 10 and 15 in the summer and 100
to 150 in the fall.”
Stormer said, .38 caliber weapons are
“assigned but not carried” by 33 of
Stormer asked University Council last
week to consider allowing campus police
to carry firearms. He told the council
that the officers carried guns for most of
the summer.
All but .three, of. the. 33, officers have
undergone' training for the use of
weapons at police academies in Penn
sylvania, Ralph E. Zilly, vice president
for business, said.
In a “fact sheet” on University
security, Zilly said all campus police
officers are required to have “either the
bachelor’s degree in the social sciences
tangle educators in a whole new
bureaucracy,” Packwood said. “Instead
it frees parents and students from the
current excessive bureaucracy. It
provides simple, direct tax relief, to
millions of Americans.”
“I’ll be interested to learn who has the
president’s ear, Joe Califano or the
American people,” Packwood said.
The bill, which was approved by House
and Senate conferees last week, would
give a $lOO-$250 tax credit for each of the
nation’s 11.6, million college students,
regardless of need.
or twd years of university education plus
at least two years of prior law en
forcement experience.” The 33 officers
at the University are “undergoing
continuous training to maintain their
skills and proficiency,” Zilly, said.
University police were granted the
same powers as municipal police in 1968,
and the University “undertook the
responsibility for providing law en
forcement service independently to the
campus . . . thus relieving the police of
the Borough of State College and the
Pennsylvania State Police of any
significant responsibilities for protective
services on campus,” Zilly’s report
says.-
“In cases of extreme emergency or
violence, the University, without an
adequately equipped police force, must
rely either on the state police or the State
College Borough Police,” Zilly reported.
“The state police recently moved from
Rockview to Milesburg, approximately
12 miles from campus,” it says.
Three campus police officers have
■been assaulted, one with a knife, in 1978.
The report says there were four assaults
against officers in 1977 and 12 in 1976'.
Campus police, the report says, have
investigated an average of four cases of
rape or attempted rape annually over
the last five years. “In all cases,” it
says, “the assailant claimed to be armed
or was armed with a knife or a club.”
Carter proposed tuition grants, which
would provide a sliding scale of $250 to
$l,BOO for about 5 million students, based
on need.
“It is such bad tax policy and such bad
education policy that if it were enacted, I
would recommend the president veto the
legislation,” Califano said of the tax
credit plan.
“If each student is going to get a tax
credit of $250 it would be an almost
immediate and logical reaction for hard
pressed universities to immediately
raise their tuition by $250.”
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series
of articles examining the new sports
complex.
By KAREN EGOLF
and DAN McKAY
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
The ongoing conversion of the Ice
Pavilion into a fieldhouse for outdoor
varsity teams will provide a warm
practice area for those teams, but is
leaving skaters and hockey players out
in the cold for at least a year.
The new fieldhouse, described as an
indoor sports complex, is expected to be
ready for use by Nov. l, but the con
struction of a new indoor ice rink
requires that additional outside funds be
raised.
“It depends how fast the money rolls
in,” said Robert J. Scanned, dean of the
College of Health, Physical Education
and Recreation. “We could do it all at
once, or it might be four to five years
away.”
The entire project, including both the
fieldhouse and the new ice rink, will cost
an estimated $3.5 million. The rink alone
is expected to cost about $2 million.
The fieldhouse will provide the soccer,
track, baseball, football, men’s and
women’s lacrosse and field hockey
teams with an indoor artificial surface
for practices.
“Penn State is probably the only
major university in the country that
doesn’t have a decent track facility or
indoor sports complex,” track coach
Harry Groves said.
"They need a fieldhouse,” Penn State
Hockey Club faculty adviser Robert
Hettema agreed, “but why take away
the only indoor ice rink when the next
closest one is 98 miles away?”
for the freshmen, and it would give them early
exposure to student government. She also said
having an administrator co-sign purchase orders
with the treasurer would provide a check on the
use and amount of money spent.
Osborn said the bylaws should be amended to
specify how ARHS works during the summer.
Osborn said ARHS officials should not be
elected solely by ARHS members.
“The constitution should be changed so that
ARHS officials are elected popularly from
among the residence hall students,” Osborn
said.
When asked about budget controls, Osborn
said more controls should be placed on the
amount of money spent by executive councils
without council approval.
North Hall’s constitution has been rewritten
Made in the shade
Bruce lowin (2nd-business administration) shields his face, and his mind, from
the sun and other distractions.
out in the cold
The Penn State Hockey Club will hold
this season’s home varsity games at the
Skatium in Mechanicsburg, the closest
indoor ice facility.
Hettema said the club will request
funds from the athletic department this
week to help pay for the additional travel
expenses and ice time at the Skatium.
Mechanicsburg is 7 miles west of
Harrisburg.
"We’ll gain from the support in the
Harrisburg area,’’ Hockey Club
President Jerry Fry said. “We’ll also
show the University that we’re a viable
varsity contender.”
Public skating will be available on a
temporary outdoor rink scheduled to be
built on some of the tennis courts near
the old Ice Pavillion, but the Univer
sity’s regular physical education ice
skating courses have been cancelled this
year.
The temporary rink will damage the
surface of four or five tennis courts,
Scannell said, but those courts will be
resurfaced at a cost no higher then
$46,000 apiece, depending upon how
much has to be repaired.
The cooling coils, ice resurfacing
vehicle and other ice equipment will be
moved from the old pavilion to the
temporary rink. A small warm'-up hut
will be built adjacent to the rink, and
high intensity sodium lights will allow
night skating.
John Sowers, president of the Penn
State Ice Skating Club, said without a
cover, the weather will damage the
outside ice rink for figure skating. The
club is going to the Skatium Tuesday
nights to practice.
“Everyone understood,” Nancy
and now states that all treasury appropriations
must be approved by council. There are
guidelines set up for emergency expenditures,
but the amount spent is limited to $4O in a single
payment and no more than $l3O in any one term.
“As president of North, I feel that my number
one task is to try to key into what the reps want to
do, instead of just reiterating what was done in
the past,” Osborn said.
He said last year’s North Halls’ problems were
“a direct result of the president not being able to
deal effectively with council members.”
Many of the new sections of the constitution
were written as direct checks and balances on
the president and other executives.
Also, the treasurer should report all financial
dealings to the council on a regular basis.
Members may demand to see North Hall’s
financial records at any time if they are
suspicious of operations.
Hoblack, a skating club member, said,
“but what can we possibly do? The point
of it is, they (the varsity teams who will
use the fieldhouse) have other places to
practice, but the only place we have to
practice is 90 miles away.”
The varsity teams have other existing
facilities, Hettema said. “But they
weren’t satisfied with that they had to
go and grab something from someone
else.”
“We’re clubs,” Hettema added, "we
have no varsity coaches pounding the
table.” He said he expects the tem
porary outdoor skating to last two years
“From my view, I have to look down
the road,” Scannell said. “The sooner 1
can have them in a proper rink, the
better off I am; and if in order to do that
I have to go through a year or two of
makeshift, I’ll doit.”
The new rink eventually will be
equipped with heat and air conditioning
so it can operate year round. An area for
spectators, locker rooms and a changing
area also are planned. Scannell said the
existing mechanical parts of the rink
would have had to be replaced by 1985.
Another try
After some dense patchy fog early this
morning the sun again will try to shine
on Happy Valley. Partly sunny skies are
expected today with a high of 64. Clouds
will again be moving into our area
tonight with a low of 47. Cool winds from
the ocean should make tomorrow a
downright lousy day. It will be cloudy,
drizzly, breezy and cool, with showers
most of the day and the high struggling
up to only 60.
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