Pitt game stay
may cost extra
• By VICKI SCHNEIDER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Although residence halls will open for
the Penn State-Pitt game, ad
ministrators are undecided whether
students will be charged for the early
opening.
William McKinnon, assistant vice
!president for housing and food
operations, said the staff is dete . rmining
!what extra costs will be involved in
!opening the dorms a day earlier than
planned.
Administrators decided last week to
, open the dorms immediately following
tthe football game to accomodate
:students who return early.
"It's hard to say what the extra costs
=will be at this point. If they are minor,
; chances are good that costs can be ab
sorbed in the regular budget. If the costs
are significant, the students may have to
rbe charged," Donald T. Arndt, housing
services director, said.
Residence Hall Advisory Board
Refrigerators may Abe
standard dorm fixture
:By VICKI FONG
'Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The University will consider installing
refrigerators in the dorm rooms for next
Fall Term, a University housing official
said Wednesday.
The refrigerators would increase
room and board by $3O for three terms,
said William McKinnon, assistant vice
president of housing and food services.
He said it would cost less than the
current refrigerator contract which
eosts $32 for three terms.
McKinnon said there are currently
4,550 refrigerators for 6,350 un
dergraduate dorm rooms, but the
requests for refrigerators exceed the
supply by 400 or 500.
The graduate residence halls have
refiligerators installed in the rooms
already, Donald Arndt, director of
housing said. Graduate students pay a
different room and board rate which was
adjusted to include the refrigerators.
Mondale's visit may be picketed
By LEON BOGDAN .
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Vice President Walter Mondale, when he visits the
University Oct. 13, may encounter a group of pickets
protesting President Carter's human rights policies
relating to South Africa and Iran.
The protest was one action discussed last night during an
internal educational workshop and organizational meeting
of the steering committee for the newly-organized Penn
State Coalition Against Apartheid, formerly the Penn State
Divestment Coalition.
The coalition is seeking University divestment in cor
porations that deal commercially in South Africa.
"We do not want the University to divest its entire port
folio of trust funds," said Butch Randolph, a coalition
spokesman.
"We want to concentrate on Rockwell, General Motors,
In (DITIOR
It's all free but,
you'll pay in the
end
It is being billed as "the first an
nual AWFUL NIGHT" and
everybody is invited to attend.
The Penn State Science Fiction
Society is sponsoring the event
tonight, which will be a collection of
some. of the worst films in cinema
history. Films such as "Catwomen of
the Moon" and another film starring
Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff will
be shown.
Admission is free for the movies,
but, get this, you must pay to get out.
The event will run from 7:30 p.m.
until 11:30 p.m. Price of escape will be
$1 until .8 p.m., when it will drop five
cents every 15 minutes. If you stay
the whole time, you can get out for 25
cents.
And if that isn't enough of a
bargain, free popcorn will also be
given out.
All that and free popcorn too. Who
said there aren't any bargains left in
America?
Bears, acorns:
They both go
together
First it was reported that a buinper
crop of rabbits this year was causing
the
daily
Chairman Frank Lignelli said Tuesday
that these charges could amount to $2.35
a night.
The charge, which does not include
food services, is higher than the rebate
students received for the delayed start of
Spring Term. At that time, costs per day
totaled $2.10 and included food services.
Arndt said this discrepancy is due to
building and office operations costs
necessary to open the dorms early.
The costs include resident assistant
salaries which come out of the Student
Affairs budget and also must be taken
into consideration, McKinnon said.
"It would be very difficult trying to
collect such a charge. Students have
keys to their rooms and we'd almost
have to resort to police measures to
collect from everyone," McKinnon said.'
McKinnon said a final decision will
probably be made in the next two weeks
after cost studies are ' completed and
recommendations are made to the
University business office.
Arndt said the program is working well,
and the graduate students say they like
the convenience.
Arndt said when Housing started the
refrigerator contract program seven or
eight years ago, they did consider in
stalling them permanently in the rooms
sometime in the future. Housing has
been buying about 250 to 1,000 more
refrigerators each year to keep up with
the requests, he said.
Even if the student does not want the
refrigerator,. it would be costly to
remove it, McKinnon said. "It would be
part of the room and board package like
the telephones," he said.
Housing would save time and money
by eliminating the separate request and
contract forms and also by keeping the
refrigerators in the rooms which
reduces the amount of damage done to
them by the constant moving at the
beginning and the end of the year, Arndt
said.
the recent rabbit outings at the soccer
and football games, but now there
seems to be a shortage of acorns.
According to a University professor
of wildlife management, this year
bears in Pennsylvania are causing
problems for humans because of an
acorn shortage, a favorite food of
bears.
"Although bears are rarely a
danger to humans, they're making a
nuisance -of themselves this fall,"
James S. Lindzey said.
Because bears are hungrier this
year, they are causing people more
problems, according to Lindzey.
Stupid actions on the part of human
beings can cause problems also, he
added.
Some of the most danger-provoking
actions Lindzey has witnessed or
heard about•include:
- A man who smeared peanut
one • ian
Exxon and a few of the bigger corporations directly in
volved in South Africa. The University's economic interests
are heavily tied in with these companies," Randolph said.
The petition drive for University divestment' has now
reached approximately half its goal of 3,000 signatures,
Randolph said.
Joseph Seymour, an editor for Workers Vanguard, a
Socialist publication, will • speak on apartheid in South
Africa at 7:30 this evening in 304 Boucke. Seymour is also
expected to discuss current university divestment ac
tivities nationwide.
A general coalition meeting for the public will take place
in late October or early November, according to Randolph.
Plans are also underway_ for a guest speaker from South
Africa to discuss apartheid and the South African govern
ment.
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Chopper - Army ROTC students watch an Army helicopter take off from Parking Lot 83 yesterday afternoon. The students were part of a class in
topography and were flown over the area to study how maps and land formations correlate.
House fails to override public works veto
WASHINGTON (UPI) Handing President Carter a pleasant it is, as long as Congress sends me unac
resounding legislative victory, the House yesterday ceptable legislation that is not compatible with fiscal
failed to override his veto of a $10.2 billion public works responsibility," Carter said.
bill which he had branded wasteful and inflationary.' The chairman of the subcommittee that drafted the
The vote, 223 for overriding the veto and 190 opposed, bill said no attempt would be made to pass another bill
fell 53 votes short of the two-thirds needed to override this year.
despite intensive efforts by the - leadership of both
parties to resurrect the bill.
Both House Speaker Thomas O'Neill and , Senate
Democratic Leader Robert Byrd warned Carter
against the political consequences of killing the
legislation, but Carter said the bill eventually would
cost taxpayers $l.B billion in unneeded costs and he was
determined to hold down inflation and wasteful spen
ding.
"I will continue this process, no matter how un-
butter on his arm so the bear could
lick it off.
- A man who fed cookies to a bear
from his mouth.
- And, last but not least, a man who
laid down on the ground and put
marshmallows on his stomach for a
bear to eat.
Some people will do anything for a
laugh.
Newspapers
weakly survive the
week
It's been a rough week for
newspapers all over. The Washington
Post, the Centre Daily Times and The
Centre Democrat from Bellefonte are
no exceptions.
Last Friday, the Washington Post
ran an untimely article concerning
the late Pope John Paul I. The Post
edition received in State College has
an early deadline and the death of the
pontiff happened too late for the press
run to be stopped. The article the
newspaper ran was about how the
late pope was so friendly and always
smiling. The headline on the story of
the pope who reigned only 34 days
read: Divine Comedy.
The Centre Daily Times, the day
before, had a much similar ex
perience involving headline
problems.
An Associated Press story was run
on page five explaining how Alabama
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Four groups okay vote change
By 808 WARE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Four student organizations have of
ficially approved a proposal lowering
the required student vote in a referen
dum from 40 percent to 25 percent, it was
reported at the USG Executive Council
meeting, last night.
The Association for Residence Hall
Students, the Hetzel Union Board, the
Panhellenic Council, and the Un
dergraduate Student Government
Senate all reported approval of the
proposal in a vote among thier mem
bers.
Only two more official votes will be
necessary for the referendum change to
receive final approval.
Gov. George Wallace had decided not
to seek public office again.
The headline read: Wallace Says
He. Won't Run Again. Wallace is
paralyzed as a • result of an
assassination attempt in 1972. Doc
tor's don't expect him to ever walk
again, let alone run.
Finally, The Centre Democrat ran
two pictures on the front page con
cerning former President Gerald R.
Ford's visit •to the University last
week.
Under the picture of Ford and the
Nittany Lion is the caption: Gerald R.
Ford and William F. Clinger greeting
a crowd at University Park Airport.
Under the picture. of Ford and
Clinger is the caption: Ford, showing
Nittany Lion mascot, a football
presented to him by Coach Joe
Pa terno.
And they say there is no power in
the press. With just two pictures, the
press turned William F. Clinger into
the Penn State mascot and the Nit
tany Lion into a Congressional
candidate.
Pitt-Penn State
ticket saga
continues
After reading Monday's In Edition
item about the Pitt News' quest for
Penn State-Pitt football tickets, the
folks at the News got worried.
~~;:_, .
A continuing resolution will be offered to keep current
programs going at the same level. House Democratic
Leader Jim Wright of Texas, who with O'Neill and GOP
Leader John Rhodes has worked for an override, said
this would ultimately cost more money "because the
vetoed bill provided less than what was approved last
year."
Emotions ran high during last minute lobbying on the
House floor. Congressional sources. said the lobbying
from both sides was as intense as they had seen in
'.~~ ", ~
Those two votes are expected to come
from the USG Academic Assembly and
the Interfraternity Council.
Last year, a student vote on the Task
Force proposal that would have
reorganized student government failed
because the necessary 40 percent of the
student body did not vote.
In other business, USG President
Dave Haberle, said he favors arming
University Police Services officers with
guns.
"The gun is for their protection as well
as the students'," he said.
Tony Cortese, USG vice president
disagreed, saying David E. Stormer,
director of University Police Services,
has not presented adequate facts to
justify campus police carrying guns.
The item reported that the Pitt
News had not obtained the four
tickets as of Monday for a contest
that they had already promoted.
Well the people at Pitt don't want
anybody to think they're running a
contest without a prize. If you thought
that you can breathe a sigh of relief.
According to Mark Murphy,
assistant sports editor of the News,
the paper was able to obtain four
tickets from the Golden Panthers, the
Pitt alumni association.
"We do have a prize," Murphy said
more than once.
`Gonna fly now' or
`fly me to Nittany'
Frank Sinatra is famous for 'his
song 'Come Fly with Me,' but Ken
Porter (10th-journ.) also has been
doing a lot of "Flying" lately.
Porter, who lives in Nittany 24 next
to the University chicken coops, this
week killed 231 flies in 54 minutes,
according to the "official fly counter"
Andy Musolino (11th-economics).
"I think it's definitely a world
record," Musolino said.
Porter used eight rolled-up copies
of The Daily Collegian to kill the flies,
which had been bothersome for quite
a while, Musolino said.
"He used one rolled up, and when it
got bloody, he used another,"
Musolino said.
He said he did not know how long
the record would stand up though.
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Friday, October 8,1978
Vol. 79, No. 66 16 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
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years. Rep. John Myers, R-Pa., said at one point
Wednesday evening Republican congressmen were
literally "lined up" at a telephone to talk to Carter.
Carter formally vetoed the bill yesterday morning,
urging Congress to pass a new, fiscally responsible bill
before this month's expected adjournment.
A clothes changer
The weather through Saturday should be windy,.
much colder, with a considerable amount of cloudiness.
and a chance of a passing shower at any time. High:
today 57, a low tonight 46, and a high Saturday 51..,
Sunday should see more sun and less wind with a high of ,
56.
"I think we should talk about alter
natives that are not being considered,"
Randy_ Albright, president of the
Academic Assembly, said.
Haberle said, "I think the biggest
misconception is the students' idea of the
(University) police officers' training:,
They are better qualified than many
regular police officers."
"One of the big factors is the percent
of crimes being committed by students," ,
he said. "It's only 50 percent." • •
"We are the target for any type of:
weirdos on this campus," he said,.
referring to the 50 percent of the people
arrested on this campus who are not
students.
"You know," he said, "you do this
and tomorrow some joker will turn
around and kill 232."
Ah, that's the life of a fly catcher.
Rev up
the ark, Noah
An open house on the fourth floor of
Brumbaugh nearly became a flooded
house Monday night.
Members of the floor, better known
as McKeesport House, were spon
soring an open house to get
acquainted with the residents of the
third floor, according to Marsha
McKee (4th-animal biological
science). Everyone began to notice
that things weren't going quite right
when water began to appear on the
floor of the hallway.
It seems as though someone had
left a water faucet running and it was
flooding the floor, McKee said.
The whole group from third and
fourth floors got together and bailed
out the floor with mops, brooms, dust
pans, buckets and Dixie cups.
"It turned into a really great social
event for the house," McKee said.
According to McKee, residents of
the house are going to buy shirts that
say, "We survived the McKeesport
flood."
That's Floods 1, McKeesport 0.
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