--The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1978
Collegian workshop seeks ideas
• The Daily Collegian will hold a
workshop with its readers and news
sources at 7:30 tonight in the HUB Main
Lounge. tiring your criticisms and
suggestions.
• Robert H. Sebring, senatorial
candidate for the 34th district, will be
interviewed on WTLR, 89.9 FM, at 5:20
this evening. The interview is part of
WTLR's "Election '7B", a program of
candidate interviews concerning various
issues in the listening area of WTLR, a
non-profit, non-commercial station.
• Members of the Save-A-Life
program, sponsored by Circle K, will
meet at 7:30 tonight in 309 Boucke.
• Save-A-Life is conducting blood
pressure testing from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
today and tomorrow in the HUB
Ballroom.
• College Bowl competition, spon
sored by the Academic Assembly, will
be held from 7-10 tonight in 102 Kern
Building and the HUB Assembly Room.
• "The Damned", a film by Visconti,
Punk rocker Vicious fails in suicide attempt
NEW YORK (UPI) British punk
rock star Sid Vicious, free on bail in the
stabbing death of his American
girlfriend, yesterday slashed his arm in
a suicide attempt to "keep my part of the
bargain."
The 21-year-old Vicious reportedly
screamed, "I want to die, I want to join
Nancy!" as he inflicted a deep cut
almost the entire length of his right
forearm just before 3 a.m. in the Seville
Hotel room he shared with his mother.
Friends of Vicious quoted the
distraught musician as crying out, "I
didn't keep my part of the bargain!" just
after he tried to take his life with a
broken light bulb and razor blade.
Vicious, whose real name is John
Simon Ritchie, was taken by ambulance
to Bellevue Hospital, where he was listed
in satisfactory condition. • •
A police spokesman said Vicious'
private psychiatrist, Steve Teich,
will be sponsored by the Comparative
Literature department at 7 and 9:30
tonight in 112 Kern.
• The Engineering Undergraduate
Council will meet at 7 tonight in 212
Hammond.
Collegian
notes
• Dr. Bennett Dyke, associate
professor of anthropology and graduate
admissions officer for the Anthropology
department, will speak on the
preparation and selection of a graduate
department in anthropology at 7:30
tonight in 316 HUB. The speech is
sponsored by the Anthropology Club.
• College Life presents a Ron Ralston
serial, "A Christian Analysis of Social
Isgues", at 7 tonight in the HUB Main
Lounge.
• Qualified referees are needed to
officiate in the Black Caucus Basketball
summoned police to the Manhattan hotel
about 2:50 a.m.
When officers entered Room 814,
Vicious, who was clad in only a pair of
pants and bleeding profusely, was
struggling with Teich. Police said Teich
told them Vicious had tried to jump out
the window but he restrained him.
His mOttiei; Ann McDonald, who came
from England to be with her son after his
arrest on Oct. 12, was in the room with
him, crying, police said.
It was not immediately clear whether
Teich and Mrs. McDonald were in the
room when Vicious cut himself.
Vicious allegedly confessed to killing
his girlfriend, Nancy Spungerr, on Oct. 12
after police found her bloody and
scantily clad body in the bathroom of the
$35-a-night room they shared at
Manhattan's Chelsea hotel.
Miss Spungen, a native of Huntington
Valley, a Philadelphia suburb, had been
League. For more information call
Jerry at 234-4990.
• The Undergraduate Student
Government Department of Programs
and Services will meet at 7 tonight in 203
HUB. Anyone interested in working at
the record exchange must attend.
• The Young Socialist Alliance will
meet at 8 tonight in 307 Willard.
• The Liberal Arts Student Council
will meet at 7:30 tonight in 124 Sparks.
• The Social Welfare Club will hold a
"practicum awareness" meeting at 7:30
tonight in 265 Willard.
• The Centre County chapter of the
National Organization for Women is
selling tickets to the Helen Wise lun
cheon to be held today at noon at Gat
sby's Restaurant.
• Colloquy will meet at 7 tonight in 321
HUB.
• The Hetzel Union Board will meet at
7 tonight.
stabbed in the stomach with a hunting
knife.
Vicious, a one-time member of the
now-defunct spitting and stomping Sex
Pistols, was released from the Rikers
Island jail last Monday after his at
torney, Bradley Wexler, posted the
$50,000 bail for his release.
Vicious was kept at the prison
detoxification center during his stay at
Rikers because he was suffering from
withdrawal of methadone.
At a hearing last Tuesday in
NITTANY DIVERS
PENN STATE SCUBA CLUB
Meeting: Wednesday
October 25, 1978
Natatorium Classroom ..•
8:00 p.m.
Topics: NOMINATION OF CLUB OFFICERS
Myerstown Dive ,
Bluehole Dive
Florida Trip
•
•
Ocean Dive
Meeting: Wednesday
November 1, 1978
Natatorium Classroom
• •
8:00 p.m. •.
• Topics: ELECTION OF CLUB OFFICERS •
Myerstown Dive
Florida Trip
a.
•
• Nittany Divers has SCUBA GEAR for sale at •
very inexpensive prices in the basement of the
•
Natatorium
Monday 7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
Thursday 7:30 p.m.-10:00 p.m.
•
"9 Nittany Divers will sponser a
BASIC SCUBA COURSE
1-.
Winter Term
for more information contact: David Panko 234-2634
• Dean Carole Leland, the new dean of
the College of Human Development, will
speak at a meeting. of the American
Home Economics Association at 7
tonight in the Living Center of Human
Development Building.
• Guest speaker Rick Santorum will
talk about election day politics at 7:30
tonight in 306 Boucke.
• The Orthodox Christian Fellowship
will hold a vesper service at 7 tonight in
Eisenhower Chapel.
• An organizational meeting for the
Toastmaster's Gavel Club will be held at
7 tonight in 307 Boucke. All those in
terested may attend.
• The Penn State Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws will meet at
4 today in 319 HUB.
• The 2nd regular American Home
Economics Association student meeting
will be held at 7 tonight in the Living
Center of the Human Development
Building.
Manhattan Criminal Court, Judge Leon
Becker allowed Vicious to remain free
on bail pending a preliminary hearing
Oct. 30.
It is believed the case is being
presented to a grand jury.
After his release, Vicious' former
manager Malcolm McLaren said
Vicious would try to line up some con
certs, complete a film on the Sex Pistols
and work on an album, in an effort to
raise money for his defense.
USG record, tape
exchange tomorrow
The Undergraduate Student
Government expects to attract both
bargain hunters and browsers at its
record and tapes exchange from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow in the HUB
Reading Room.
Persons interested in selling
albums or tapes may register from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m.
"Last year's record exchange went
very well," Marina Zeccarda, head of
the USG Programs and Services
Department said. "Everyone liked it
we got a lot of good feedback," she •
said. •
This•year's record exchange will be
set up differently than last year's
was. Albums will be on tables this
year, instead of being stacked on
shelves. Also, a three-part voucher
Alcohol arrest made
after four-car crash
• State College police said Robert
Fay, 133 W. Irvin St., was arrested for
driving under the influence of alcohol on
Saturday, following a four-car accident
on E. College Avenue.
According to police, Fay's car was
traveling east on College near Porter•
Road, when it §truck the median strip
and collided with a car owned by Harold
Welsh, 221 Park Ave., Woolrich. Fay's
The Central Pennsylvania Chapter of
ACM
presents a •
cornputercareemig ht
Tuesday, Oct. 24, 1978
112 Buckhout Lab
7:30 pm Refreshments 8:00 pm Meeting
Hear and Question Representatives from:
Armstrong Cork IBM
Digital Equipment Corp. Mellon Bank
. • National Security Agency
Everyone's Welcome
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
Tuesday, October 24
SPECIAL EVENTS
Comp. Lit. Luncheon, 12:15, talk, 1 p.m., Hotel State College. Roger Cornish,
theatre and film, on "All the Kings Men—Novel to Stage to Screen."
CDPC Seminars, "Job Search Strategies," 4th period; "Resume Preparation,"
sth period; "Interview skills," 6th period, Walnut Conference Room.
Comp. Lit. GSA film, Visconti, The Damned, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Room 112 Kern.
Artists Series film, Seiter, 1935, Roberta, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger
Rogers, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium.
English Colloquium, Rodelle Weintraub, English, on "Shaw's Celibate':
Marriage: Its Impact on his Plays," 8 p.m., Room 101 Kern.
Meetings:
College Life, 7 p.m., HUB Main Lounge. •
Colloquy, 7 p.m., Room 321 HUB. . •
Council for Exceptional Children, 7 p.m., Room 174 Willard.
Wargamers, 7 p.m., Room 107 Sacket.
College Republicans, 7:30 p.m., Room 306 Boucke. ..
P.S.O.C: Equestrian Division, 7:30 p.m., Room 111 Animal Industries Bldg.
Star Trek Fans, 7:30 p.m., Room 165 Willard. -'
YMCA class in aerobics, 7:30 p.m., Room 317 Boucke. -
will be given, with one copy going to
the person selling the album, one
going in the USG's files, and one
attached to the album.
"Last year each person got one
voucher; this year each record gets
one voucher," Zeccarda said.
The seller's ID number also will be
put on the voucher and the record.
"We're trying to do a better job with
the book-keeping this year," she said,
citing the problems with lost
vouchers last year.
"Albums that cost $5.99 downtown
usually run from $2.50 to $3.50 at the
record exchaige," Zeccarda said.
"The albums are usually in good
condition, although they should be
checked before being purchased,"
she said. —by Lee Carpenter
1973 Ford station wagon then crossed the
median strip and hit two westbound
cars, one driven by Myrna Zamick, 457
Nimitz Ave., and the other driven by
Roberta Hutchinson of Williamsport.
Damages to Fay's station wagon were
estimated at $l5OO, while those to the
Hutchinson's car and Welsh's car totaled
about $7OO.
—by Bill Leonard