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e .By GINA BRISGONE
n Daily Collegian Staff Writer
An amendment is in the works in the
state House of Representatives to fund
31• the University as part of the state's
•#general appropriation budget a move
cl which may enable the University to get
its state appropriation on time. •
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• If passed, the amendment would, in
effect, change state-related universities,
(including Penn State, the University of
tsPittsburgh, Temple University and
Lincoln University), from non-preferred
to preferred status in the state ap
propriation budget.
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Task force is established
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to probe racial climate
By 808 WARE
'Daily Collegian Staff Writer
, The State College chapter of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People voted at a
4 meeting last -night to establish a task
,11 dpi•ce to study the racial climate in State
College
The meeting was "basically held" as a
'; result of an Eastern Patriots Association
of Kutztown meeting in State College
11 last Saturday night, Thelma T. Price,
&resident of the local NAACP, said.
i
" Members of the local NAACP said
, 1 they received information from a
reliable source that the Eastern Patriots
`1 'Association was a part of the Ku Klux
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_Klan, Jane Madsen, chairwoman of the
Centre County Advisory Council to the
Pennsylvania Human Relations Com
mission, said.
• Newspaper stories in The Express of
Easton and the Morning Call in Allen
town on Dec. 27, 1978, confirm this view
in quoting' Wallace Rile; the' Exalted
Cyclops of the KKK as saying, `:The
Students voice dissatisfaction
Misunderstanding caused lines
By DON DEL VECCHIO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
- Student misunderstanding of a housing notice on dorm
‘: application procedures led to lengthy lines that formed as
• early as 34 hours before contracts were to be accepted,
William H. McKinnon, assistant vice president for Housing
s and Food Services, said yesterday.
) it' *Students received information that Housing Services was to
i begin monitoring lines at 6:00 a.m. Wednesday, he said. It was
the students' own "perception as individuals" when they
should line up to submit their contracts, he said.
_ McKinnin said the' 6:00 a.m. monitoring time probably
i •f
• 1 :iould not have been established in the housing notice.
owever, Housing Services had to monitor the lines at that
i, :line to avoid confusion and problems within the lines.
A petition, signed by 714 students "expressing their
'. dissatisfaction" with the dorm application procedures, was
• originated by seven Nittany Hall residents. Signatures were
collected between 3:45 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Wednesday outside
', ,the Pollock Union Building.
Mark Bauer (11th-mineral economics), an originator of the
petition, said because of the tension and confusion in the lines,
(*Pa lot of students were happy to sign the petition." However,
when the processing began, many students were more con
cerned with having their contracts processed than with the
petition.
Bauer said the petition offers no alternatives to the present
iforpuTi on
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Aluminum cans make interesting munchies
Dan Daley (9th-industrial
engineering) eats aluminum cans.
"It's just something people get me
to do when I'm really ripped," Daley
said. "I don't swallow."
Daley said he has been eating
aluminum cans since he was a senior
in high school at Allentown.
"I don't know if being from
Allentown has anything to do with it,"
he said, "but I've seen other people
from that area do it.
"I've only hurt myself once,
minimally. I cut my tongue a little,
but it was nothing to write home
As part of the state's "preferred
payments" the University's ap
propriation would be voted on as part of
the state's general fund budget package.
The preferred payments which no•w
include state-owned colleges and state
agencies must be voted on as a whole
each year by June 30, State Rep. Ronald
R. Cowell, D-117 of Allegheny County
who proposed the amendment, said.
The University is now funded as part
of the state's non-preferred ap
propriations which are voted as separate
pieces of legislation.
If the University is funded as part of
the general fund budget, he said, funding
Eastern Patriots Assodiation and the Ku
Klux Klan are usually synonomous."
The local NAACP contacted the
Sheraton Penn State, where the
association had planned to meet, and
informed them that the association was
part of the KKK, Price said.
The Sheraton Penn State cancelled the
association's reservations, but hotel
bartender Cubby Bair denied the can
cellation was because of the nature of
the association.
"Hell no, I had a party already booked
for that room," Bair said in a telephone
interview last night.
The association met Saturday night in
the Beaver Room of the Hotel State
College, Price said. This was confirmed
by Chris Papas, co-owner of the Hotel
State College.
A few members of the NAACP and the
Human Relations Advisory Council
attended the meeting.
_"The . dooy was closed when we went;,,,
young man about 18 orl9 years old Was
standing there, obviously standing
about," Daley said.
When asked if he has ever eaten
other such indigestible objects, Daley
said, "I once took a bite out of a glass
on a two dollar bet. I never hurt
myself doing that, though.
"It's not that hard to do," he said.
"Actually, aluminum is quite soft."
"The steel cans are harder to take a
bite out of," Daley admitted. "In any
case, though, I don't think eating cans
is conducive to good health. You have
to be in the right state of mind to do
it."
The right state of mind?
dorm application procedures, but that its purpose is solely to
convey to Housing Services the idea that many students were
dissatisfied with the procedures.
The petition will be submitted to the Pollock-Nittany
Residence Hall Association, and then to Housing Services,
Bauer said.
McKinnon said students who began to form lines in Waring,
Pollock and Findlay dining halls on Tuesday evening were
asked to leave by Housing Services when the halls closed. The
lines reformed at 6:00 a.m. Wednesday when the dining halls
reopened.
McKinnon said Housing Services did not anticipate lines
would begin to form as early as they did. "It's hard to know
when the lines were to begin."
Housing Services decided to accept dorm contracts at 7:00
p.m. Wednesday instead of 8:00 a.m..Thursday because of a
sufficient number of students in the lines. McKinnon said that
because of the large number of students in line at that time,
Housing Services believed students not in the lines were
probably not eligible for dorms.
The dorm application procedures were completed by 8:15
p.m. Wednesday. McKinnon said the lines moved rapidly and
orderly. He said the only problem was the "lining up process
itself was long."
The lines were reopened at 8:00 a.m. Thursday for students
who had not already submitted their contracts. Approximately
25 students were in each of the three lines, McKinnon said.
Illustration by Dells Hoke
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would not be withheld or delayed
because of a budget crisis.
In 1977, when the state lacked funds,
the general fund appropriations were
voted on to balance the state's budget, he
said, but the non-preferred ap
propriations were delayed.
The legislature got the budget passed,
and wanted to "concentrate on the non
preferred appropriations later," he said.
"As a result, the University ap
propriation was delayed for six mon
ths," he said, "and the University found
it had to borrow money to meet
operating costs until it received the state
appropriation."
guard," Madsen said. The man said the
meeting was closed only members
were allowed, she said. However,
another man appeared after a short time
and allowed them in, she said.
"We watched a 30 minute film . . .
designed to scare people of the United
States about the growing influence of
Russia," she said.
In the room were six young men who
were invited. When members of the
NAACP and the Human Relations Ad
visory Council left, the men, one
carrying a briefcase with a white cross
led the boys away, she said.
"Obviously, we foiled the meeting,"
Madsen said. "The movie was a cover
up."
"It (the KKK) is something this
community does not want and will not
tolerate," Price said. "We cannot
prevent them from coming, but we can
tell them that they're not welcome."
The task force will be composed of
, community,. religious, business and
'academic leaders, as well as students,
the NAACP decided.
Sproul Hall is selling
Pinchot Hall shirts
The latest in "T-shirts for Penn
State" this week is a comment on the
Pinchot Hall elevator fire. The T
shirts, sold by sth floor Sproul Hall as
a fund raiser, read "Elevator,
Elevator Pinchot, We Got The
Shaft."
The shirts are the idea of Greg
Woodman (Bth-food service and
housing administration), who runs
his own T-shirt corporation "Who
Loves Ya, Baby, Inc." out of the
Kappa Delta Rho fraternity.
Woodman has marketed several
other Penn State-related T-shirts
("Sooner or Later, Oklahoma," "1979
Sugar Bowl, How Sweet It Is," and
others) this year.
Woodman said he had 144 Pinchot
shirts printed, but he added he'll
probably order more because sales
are going well.
His idea's on the button, but it has
its ups and downs.
Registration worker
tells tales of terror
Registration for Spring Term is
over, but the rumors and the stories
"The legislature withheld all (non
preferred) appropriations for six
months to pressure some legislators to
vote in favor of a tax increase to fund the
state related universities," he said.
. "We must eliminate the possibility
and likelihood that the students, faculty
and staff of these schools will again be
used as pawns in some future budget
impasse," Cowell said.
Cowell said he does not want to see the
University and other state-related
universities used as "scapegoats" to
raise taxes.
If passed, the amendment will
President Carter and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Cairo's Tahra Palace. The meeting is part of Carter's
engage in informal discussion prior to their meeting in peace mission in the Middle East.
Mideast peace talks inconclusive
CAIRO, Egypt (UPI) President
Carter, buoyed by a tumultuous
welcome from one million cheering
Egyptians, yesterday began what he
said were "crucial" peace talks with
President Anwar Sadat. But already
there were signs of snags and American
officials termed the first meeting in
conclusive.
"There was a full threshing of out
standing issues. But it is too early to say
whether there can be a successful
conclusion," one U.S. official said after
the first round of talks lasting almost
two and a half hours.
Both sides were .aware that Carter's
own reputation as well as an Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty were riding on the
outcome of his personal mission to the
Middle East. But despite that,
diplomatic sources said, the Egyptian
side to the first round of talks "did not
appear to be too happy" when when they
ended.
American officials asked the Egyp
tians 'to maintain a strict news blackout
on the talks, an indication that both sides
considered the negotiations to be active
and serious despite the fact that no
progress was reported.
live on forever in the halls of infamy.
Terry Dolinar (12th-marketing), a
student working at registration,
remembers these:
One student, a transfer from a
branch campus, had all his courses
on his pink slip for spring but took a
wrong turn in the Intramural
Building and went "on the floor." He
thought he had to pick up his courses
there again, and he did. When he left
the floor, after two hours of horse
trading, he had to give back all of his
"new" courses. Frustrating? Of
course.
And then there was another
student, his first term at registration,
who had . everything he had
preregistered for, but who
unknowingly gave his course cards
back. He was then told he had to pick
up the same courses again on the
floor.
New this weekend:
the 'Weekend' page
We'd like to call your attention to
page 15 of today's paper and a new
weekly feature, "Weekend."
"Weekend" will be published every
Friday in The Daily Collegian and
will cover all of the sports, films,
shows, television specials and
preferred status
decrease the number of votes needed in
the state house and senate to approve an
appropriation from two-thirds of both
house and senate to a majority..
State Rep. Gregg Cunningham, R-77,
of state College, said he is "ap
prehensive" about the, proposed
amendment because he thinks it will
lead to an increase in state control of the
University.
"Penn State would find itself in
creasingly subordinated by the state
Department of Education," he said. "It
would be like the University was state
owned, it would lose its automony."
Prime Minister Menachem Begin
yesterday said President Carter risked
coming to the Middle East because he
felt chances for concluding an Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty were more
promising now than ever before.
Begin sent his best wishes to Carter in
Egypt, because "his success would be
our success."
But if the president comes to
Jerusalem with "unacceptable coun
terproposals" from Cairo, the 65-year
old Israeli leader warned, "We shall not
accept them."
Begin, who returned home from the
United States at about the same time
Carter's three-day trip to Egypt was
beginning, was in a euphoric mood
despite his caution that all treaty
proposals must be acceptable to Israel.
He repeated Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan's prediction Wednesday that a
peace treaty could be signed "within
weeks, not months."
Begin cut short his U.S. trip to prepare
for Carter's arrival in Jerusalem
tomorrow. The prime minister will
preside over a special Cabinet meeting
and give a secret briefing to opposition
and coalition parliamentary leaders
musical events you'll want to know
about for your weekend en
tertainment.
`Remedial' course
for veeps
It was reported (by an unnamed
source) that a dozen or so vice
presidents in charge of student af
fairs all faculty administrators
took a remedial writing course over
term break.
Raymond 0. Murphy, vice
president for student affairs, com
mented, "I don't like to call the
course 'remedial' though it was for
some of us. 'Developmental' is a
better word."
Murphy said the two-day course
was given under the supervision of
Dr. James Hill of the University's
English department to "refresh our
skills in writing memos, reports and
other papers and to help us eliminate
common errors in our writing.
"It was our idea to take the
course," Murphy said.
When asked if any of the ad
ministrators failed the course,
Murphy said, "Ask me if any of us
passed." We didn't ask.
Murphy said this kind of in-service
training is common in University
departments.
Cunningham said if the University is
funded like the state-owned colleges, the
state would begin to gain control of the
University's decisions such as
curriculum, hiring and firing criteria.
Frank E. Forni, director of com
monwealth relations for the University,
echoed Cunningham's concern about an
increase of state control as a result of the
new funding status.
"We would welcome" legislation to
stop the delay of state funding, Forni
said. "but we are very concerned if the
Univ.ersity would have to lose its
autonomy."
today.
Begin's Cabinet Monday endorsed a
series of U.S. proposals designed to
break a four-month deadlock in the
peace treaty talks.
A high official with Carter's party said
the president was "not
„particularly"
optimistic he could persuade Egypt and
Israel to sign a treaty at this point
because "it is much easier for things to
go wrong than to go right."
A snag appeared when Sadat gave
Carter a sharp reminder that the
Palestinians were the crux of the
problem. In his welcoming speech at the
300-room, 19th century Koubbeh Palace,
Sadat said, "We are determined to
enable our Palestinian brothers to
realize their national Tights and regain
their freedom."
The remark prompted Carter to in
troduce an off-the-cuff sentence into his
prepared speech saying, "President
Sadat and I repledge ourselves not to
disappoint those here, in Israel, among
the Palestinians, among countries also
possibly in a state of war, who depend
upon us among others to realize their
deepest desire to bring peace to this
region."
"The secretaries are next,"
Murphy said.
—compiled and written
by Bob "Suds" Caryllle
Wire Story
Of The Week
WARREN, Mich. (AP) The
Michigan policeman who comes up
with the most outlandish excuse by a
motorist caught speeding probably
won't have to worry about making up
an excuse if he's caught speeding.
Michigan's Fraternal Order of
Police is holding a statewide contest
during March to see who has heard
the most "creative" excuse for
speeding.
First prize, to be announced in
June, is a device used to locate radar
detection units before they detect
speeders.
Nice and nasty
Today will be nice with mostly
sunny skies and a high approaching
50. The clouds will increase tonight
with a low of 35. Tomorrow will be
nasty with some rain showers
possibly mixed with some snow
showers at times and a high of 42.
Sunday will be partly sunny, breezy,
and colder with a high near 34.