♦ Questions about the use of ARHS movie funds escalated into
iFor the Association of Residence Hall
Students it was a bad month. An in
vestigation by Daily Collegian reporters'
which started out examining the uses
• and abuses of movie co-op funds, ended
up examining not only the co-op, but
several former area presidents, a
projector sale, the Student Travel
Organization, a floating meal ticket and
asummer Arts Festival party.
0 wVsa result of art ARHS examination of
these matters, the ARHS Council
yCsterday asked for the resignations of
President Jeff Glazier and. Vice
President Steve Matt. Glazier and Matt
said they had no intention of resigning.
iast Wednesday, Mike Edwards, West
Halls president, resigned because of
ac&demic reasons and dissatisfaction
w?th the ARHS Council.
Former movie co-op co-chairman Bill
BOerschinger and Glazier were charged
tins sutnmer by the Office of Conduct
. Standards with misuse of $l,OOO
collected from the Feb. 3 and 4 showings
of "Annie Hall.” Glazier was cleared of
involving
charges
organizational funds to personal use and
/fiuerschinger refused to comment on the
| charges brought against him.
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The state legislature
goes house cleaning
By DAVE GILMARTIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
•September ’7B brought to the state
General Assembly an extensive
questioning of its ethics which led to a
Tlurry of month-before-election bills
aimed at reforming politics in Penn
sylvania.
The Philadelphia Inquirer started the
controversy with its series on the
legislature’s abuses of taxpayers’
Money. The articles, which were the
result of an eight-month investigation,
revealed a complex, secretive political
system in both the House and Senate
which allows a Senate librarian to
charge the state $l,OOO for candy, allows
many of Senator Henry J. Cianfrani’s
employees” to reappear on the
Sate payroll after he admitted their
existence last February and allows a
retired legislator to earn more on
pension than he did while on active
service.
""One of the most important disclosures
centered around the abuses of the
Senatorial Scholarship program. The
Inquirer discovered that many of the
senators were giving scholarships to
children of friends and political leaders
who had little or no financial need with
college costs.
'’l'he‘s3.l million program gave each
senator 96 scholarships, averaging $6OO
Guns, appropriation top September page one news
’ -Traditionally, students take the first
month of the school year to catch up and
readjust. But the rest of the University
community keeps functioning and news
continues to be made. These were the top
stories in September:
Appropriations
request
‘The University’s Board of Trustees
approved a 1979-80 state appropriations
request of $130.1 million, representing a
percent increase from last year’s
11.9 million allocation. Eddy said that a
third of the increase was required to
offset a rise in tuition. Helen D. Wise, a
tstee and state representative from
State College area, warned the board
that the chances of the full appropriation
gibing granted were slim in a non
election year, especially because ad
ditional revenues from personal and
industrial taxes implemented for 1977
from the co-op at a closed ARHS meeting
Feb. 16 because he failed to promptly
deposit movie receipts in the Associated
Student Activities office, the
organization which keeps the books of
most student organizations. ASA policy
requires that movie receipts be
deposited by 5 p.m. the working day
following the movie.
Another movie co-op chairman, John
J. Osswald, was said to have violated
ASA policy when he allegedly deposited
$4OO from movie profits into his personal
bank account. Buerschinger and
Osswald also reportedly gave about $3OO
to former ARHS Publicity Director
Mary Anne Eves to pay her rent.
Sources said all the money was
returned after it was discovered
missing.
Former North Halls President Dana
Van Cise spent $407 of North Halls funds
last winter without the consent required
by the constitution of North Halls
council.
Also, two former area presidents,
Centre Halls’ Kelly Hause and South
Halls’ Mary Spyridakis, failed to turn in
budgets for the 1978-79 academic year
leaving their respective areas without
money.
converting
each, to be given to students at five state
schools - including Penn State with no
criteria as to who should get preference.
When the Inquirer requested a list of
scholarship recipients from fifty
senators, only 20 replied.
On September 13, three days after the
first Inquirer article, the Senate Rules
Committee failed to send a bill to the
floor that would have abolished the
scholarship program. On September 15,
a more in-depth article was released
concerning the program’s abuses. Five
days later, the same committee passed
the measure to get the bill on the floor.
Six days after that the Senate abolished
the program, effective 1979.
Local politicians got involved when
Representative Helen Wise announced
that she and five other House democrats
were proposing a watchdog committee
to monitor House members’ public
accounts and to force the stepping down
of any legislator who is under indictment
until his case verdict is determined.
- Wise’s opponent in the next election,
Gregg L. Cunningham, charged Wise
with “an incredible change of position”
from her previous legislative record.
Cunningham said Wise had voted
against efforts to remove House Speaker
Herbert Fineman from office after he
had been indicted.
will expire Dec. 31. She said the
University could expect at best a 5 to 6
percent increase.
Oswald hospitalized
University President John W.
Oswald was admitted to the Milton s!
Hershey Medical Center Sept, li to
undergo unscheduled surgery to repair a
detached retina in his right eye. He
originally was scheduled to remain
hospitalized for a two-week recovery
period, but his stay was lengthened
indefinitely. Oswald later asked the
Trustees for a two-month leave of ab
sence. Eddy will assume Oswald’s
responsibilites in his absence.
Ford speaks on campus
In a move to bolster the campaign of
local Republican congressional can
didate William Clinger, former
president Gerald Ford made several
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Hause also sold two movie projectors
and a switch-over system to Buer
schinger, STO president, without the
approval of Centre Halls’ council, which
is a violation of their consitution.
Hause said the equipment was not
working properly and was of no further
value to Centre Halls. However, Tom
Hartman, Centre Halls’ movie chairman
said the equipment was still usable.
STO was formed to provide students
with low-cost travel opportunities, but
since the organization received its
charter in February, it has co-sponsored
only one trip, which was a financial
disaster.
According to STO Secretary Matt, the
trip was co-sponsored with Centre Halls
and 150 tickets were bought at $4 apiece.
The money was a personal loan from
Osswald, also an STO member. Two
buses were chartered for the trip at a
cost of $l,lll. Tickets for the trip cost $2O
apiece.
Matt said only 60 tickets were sold and
the trip was unsuccessful because there
was not enough time to advertise for the
trip due to the extended Spring Term
break.
The STO charter will come up for
month in review
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Rules governing tenure challenged in court,, revised
A professor who sued University
President John W. Oswald last summer
to learn the reasons he was denied
tenure rejected an out-of-court set
tlement in September.
Kurosh Ostovar, formerly an assistant
professor of food science, said he ex
pects a hearing this fall.
In another tenure matter, Oswald
appearances locally, including a $5O-a
-plate speech at Gatsby’s and a speech to
an overflow crowd at a rally in the HUB
Ballroom. At Gatsby’s, he said
President Carter “blew it” in his han
dling of economic and domestic policy.
Rep. Joseph Ammerman also an
nounced that Vice President Walter
Mondale would appear in the area on his
behalf Oct. 13. Ammerman remainded
hospitalized throughout the month,
recovering from hip injuries incurred in
an automobile accident Aug. 20.
Police request guns
David E. Stormer, director of
University Safety, requested that the
University Council, an advisory body to
• the president of the University, consider
the possibility of arming Police Services
officers. He also revealed that 33 officers
had been armed from July 17 to Sept. 21,
following three incidents of potentially
review within the next few weeks. The
review is a routine one, to determine if
STO is living up to the terms of its
constitution and meeting the
requirements of registered student
organizations.
Buerschinger was also issued a
floating meal ticket enabling him to eat
in any dining hall area, although he was
no longer a member of ARHS. Only
ARHS Council and Executive Council
members, Residence Hall Advi ory
Board members and the movie chair
man are entitled to that privilege.
RHAB Chairman Frank Lignelli
issued the meal ticket at the request of
Glazier and Matt.
ARHS also sponsored a summer Arts
Festival party which cost $608.12, in
cluding $131.44 for eggrolls. The original
cost of the party had been agreed on as
$425 by ARHS Summer President
Marina Murphy, Glazier and Michael
Leeper, vice president of the
Organization for Town Independent
Students, and was to be split between
Leeper and ARHS.
Leeper said he paid $212.50 cash from
his personal money and not from any
OTIS funds.
Photo by Lynn Dudinsky
approved six of nine Faculty Senate
proposals to change University
promotion and tenure policy.
Under the new tenure and promotion
policy, faculty ’ members would be
notified of the reasons for their tenure
denial. Oswald said that if tenure is
denied, the provost will inform the dean
violent natures. Acting University
President Edward D. Eddy recom
mended the Council study the problem
and hold public hearings on the issue.
Airport challenge
Four Philipsburg residents filed suit
in Centre County Court requesting that
the University Park Airport be closed
because it took business away from the
Mid-State Airport. Because Mid-State
was built with state funds, the plaintiff
argued, no municipal funds should be
channeled into the University Park
Airport, as this would directly affect
operations at Mid-State and therefore
would be in conflict with the Municipal
Authorities Act of 1945.
Lowered referendum
The Undergraduate Student
Government Executive Council initiated
a move to lower the minimum number of
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In what many were calling a one- described as a small-scale riot. The
game season, the Nittany Lions beat police said it was all in good fun, but
Ohio State, 19-0, largely on the merit several students and town residents
of an airtight defense and Matt took offense to beer being dumped
Bahr’s right foot. What ensued back from balconies, cars being walked on
home in Happy Valley could only be and buses being rocked.
or deans informally of the reasons and
the dean or department head would
inform the faculty member informally.
Oswald said the policy was changed
“to insure that ultimately the individual
will be informed in private by his dean or
department head as to the reasons for
tenure denial.”
students required to vote in a referen
dum change, such as last spring’s Task
Force student government proposal. The
Council originally sought to lower the
number from 40 percent to 20 percent,
but that effort was abandoned when two
thirds of the organizations in the council
Academic Assembly, Black Caucus
and the Organization for Town In
dependent Students voted down the
referendum change. Two-thirds of the
nine Executive Council organizations
must approve any change in the
referendum. The council now is bringing
a proposal to the member groups to drop
the minimum requirement to 25 percent
of the student body.
Learning support
center
Vice President for Student Affairs
Raymond Murphy agreed to open the
Learning Support Center to all students,
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The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1978
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Jeff Glazier (left), ARHS president,
Oswald told the Senate on Sept. 7,
“There were two changes that I felt were
so important that I would refer them to a
joint administrative-faculty com
mittee.” He rejected a ninth proposal
because he felt “it did not belong in the
policy statement.”
reversing a decision in June to allow
only Equal Opportuntiy Program
Students to participate in the project due
to budgetary cutbacks. Murphy’s
decision came following a meeting with
Paul Weppler (lOth-chemical
engineering), who had initiated a
petition drive to reopen the center to all
students.
CATA drivers' charges
Centre Area Transportation
Authority bus drivers, represented by
the Association of Federal, State, County
and Municipal Employees, decided to
drop unfair labor charges against CATA
management, pending the success of a
newly-formed labor relations committee
made up of union and management
representatives. The charges stemmed
from what the drivers said were
discriminatory actions against union
steward John Strand in considering
candidates for a higher position.
—by Mary Anne Mulligan