Israel reaches
secret decision
From our wire services
JERUSALEM Prime Minister
Menachem Begin said early today the
Israeli cabinet, meeting in an ex
trordinary session, made many
"reasonable" decisions about Egyptian
terms for a peace treaty.
Begin declined to reveal the contents
of the decisions but said he expects "a
positive response" to the proposals from
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
:The Israeli prime minister said he
assumed Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
would_ leave for Cairo after the Cabinet
meets with Carter • and the U.S
delegation at 3 a.m. EST today.
Begin said he did not reveal the con
tents of the decisions because he thought
it would be best for Egyptian leaders to
heartof them from Vance rather than
from the news media.
Begin said aides kept Vance informed
of the decisions as they were being made
i t throughout the night in the Israeli
Cabinet's emergency session called
after. six hours of talks between Carter
and the Israeli delegation yesterday.
"I am quite tired," Begin told
reporters as he left the Cabinet meeting
wrapped up against the dawn chill in a
iark overcoat and black hat.
".:Begin said the Cabinet debated all the
outstanding problems between Egypt
and Israel.
He said he expected Vance would
inTorm Carter of the decisions when the
American president_ awakened at his
oiuite in the King David Hotel in
" Jerusalem.
Carter is expected to return home this
afternoon after addressing the Knesset.
- As he called the Cabinet into session
Students who applied.
may get dorm space
say DON Del VECCHIO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
.After waiting as long as 34 hours in
lines last week, it is possible that all
students who submitted dorm contract
applications will be provided dorm
space for the first time in three years,
housing director Donald T. Arndt said.
This year, about 7,600 students
currently enrolled here applied for dorm
spaces. Of the total 12,800 available
dprm spaces', 7,000 are open p2 .. returning
Students. Th University is expecting at
least 600 voluntary cancellations, Arndt
said. Students may cancel their ap-
Oplications by sending a written request
of cancellation to the`Assignment Office
for CampuS Residences, 101 Shields.
Students will bd refunded their full $45
advance payment if cancellations are
made by March 23. Remaining ap
plications will be reviewed at this time,
• Arndt said.
Of the remaining dorm spaces, 4,100
are reserved for incoming freshmen.
Trnsfer.students from Commonwealth
campuses and other universities receive
dorm space according to the number of
students applying in each of these
catagories.
Cunningham discusses proposed funding legislation
last night, Begin made it clear he felt
Israeli security was at stake.
There were persistent reports Carter
would extend his visit to Israel another
day in hopes an agreement would be
reached but White House aide Hamilton
Jordan said there were no plans for this
at the moment.
Carter was to breakfast with the
Israeli Cabinet today to hear its reply to
the still secret Egyptian proposals that
brought on the Begin statement last
night.
Both the Israeli state radio and
television said Carter would send
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to Cairo
to report to Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat on the talks. American officials
said it would be a good sign if Vance
made the trip to Cairo. •
Begin and Carter toasted each other
at a state dinner in the president's honor
held in the Marc Chagall Hall of the
Knesset (parliament) building. Begin
copvened his cabinet immediately af
terwards for what his spokesman ter
med a decision making and clarification
session.
Outside the Knesset, baton-swinging
police scattered about 300 right-wing
extremists protesting Carter's peace
mission in a scene reminiscent of anti
war demonstrations in the United States
during the 19605. Police said they
arrested about 40 people.
There were 'shouts of "Go home,
Carter!" before police drove them
away.
Carter, appearing fatigued following
more - than six hours with Begin and the
full U.S. and Israeli Wegotiating team,
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This year's application figures con
trast greatly with last year's, when 1,200
of 15,000 applicants included returning
and transfer students, as well as
freshmen.
Steve Matt, vice president of the
Association of Residence Hall Students,
said this year's system of submitting
dorm contract applications did not affect
the number of students who applied for
dorm space.
"If -people'really wanted to live in the
dorms they would either wait in the lines
or give their contract to a friend," Matt
said.
According to Matt, the only flaw in the
system was the long lines. "People
panicked when they saw the lines for
ming so early," he said. Students who
wanted a particular room got in the lines
at the "earliest possible time. Then
everybody jumped in to be in line," he
added.
Matt said that last year's system of
submitting dorm contract applications
was impossible to work because too
many students asked for reassignments
and Housing could not guarantee them
all.
Gregg Cunningham
the
daily
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PennDOT Secretary Thomas D. Laison promised pothole repairs and help for portation budget. Larson spoke Friday to highway interest groups and legis
the state's highways if the department gets a2O percent increase in its trans- lators at Toftrees.
Penn DOT chief pledges to repair potholes
By PAULA FROKE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Department of Transportation
Secretary Thomas D. Larson Friday
promised an end to potholes, poor
PennDOT service and patronage
highway jobs, and a fresh start for the
state's stalled highway construction
program. . ' •
He has, however, one problem.
Before these planned reforms can be
started, Larson said, the state
legislature must grant Gov. Thorn
burgh's request for a $202 million, 20
percent increase in the transportation
budget.
"We obviously can't make any
commitments until we get the money,"
Larson told an audience of highway
interest ' groups and central Penn
sylvania legislators :.attendizig ..,a
"summit, on highways" at Toftrees.
Berwyn woman dies after Penn Tower fall
By BETH ROSENFELD -
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A Berwyn woman died after she apparently jumped
from an 11th-floor window in Penn Tower apartments
yesterday afternoon.
Mary Beth Englehart of 368 Beachwood Road was
still alive after she landed on the second floor patio in
back of the building about 2 p.m., a resident of Penn
Tower said. A spokeswoman at the Mountainview Unit
of Centre Community Hospital said the woman died at
the hospital at 2:30 p.m.
The State College Police Department and County
Freshman state Rep. Gregg Cun
ningham has raised a few eyebrows
since his victory last fall over Democrat
Helen Wise for the Centre Region's seat
in the state House. On Feb. 16, Daily
Collegian staff writers Sharon Fink and
Bob Frick interviewed Cunningham.
The following is the transcript of that
interview, edited slightly.
COLLEGIAN: Rep. Cunningham, in
your campaign platform you said you
would push for legislation guaranteeing
continuous funding for non-preferred
institutions. Would you describe it, and
tell us when you plan to introduce the
legislation?
CUNNINGHAM: I plan to introduce it
within the next two to three weeks. I
have drafted it; I am now reviewing it.
I'm going to be sitting down with people
at the University to get the benefit of
their thinking. I'm going to be talking
with representatives Rep. Cohen (D-
Philadelphia) for instance and
various other representatives of
districts in which non-preferred funded
institutions of higher learning are
located.
So it's something that I would like to
get into the system very early in the
session so it can get repaired to the
proper committee and get into the
consideration process as quickly as
possible, because what I'm proposing
necessitates an amendment to the
state's constitution, which is a very
lengthy process and as a result of which
I'm anxious to get it going as soon as
possible.
COLLEGIAN: Are you working with
people and representatives from Pitt,
Temple and Lincoln on this legislation,
or is this mainly being introduced from a
Penn State angle rather than all the non
preferreds?
CUNNINGHAM: It's my legislation in
the sense that I have drafted it, but I
want the effort to be collective. I want
the collective force of the non-preferred
institutions behind the- thing if I can
persuade them that it's in their best
interest, and I'm fairly sure I can.
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"We're just playing financial games if
we propose to spend money we don't
have."
Thornburgh, in his budget address last
Wednesday, proposed to revitalize the
ailing PennDOT by tacking a 6 percent
sales tax to the wholesale price of
gasoline, and by increasing by 25 per
cent all truck registration fees.
Critics of the proposed tax, which
would be passed on to the consumer in
the form of an estimated 3-cent-per
gallon price increase at the pumps, have
termed the tax too inflationary. Larson,
however, said he disagrees.
"Actually," he said, "it's exactly the
opposite.
"Better transportation cannot be
called inflationary," he said, adding that
the things which do create higher in
flation are those which are "non-
Interview
COLLEGIAN: An amendment is a
difficult piece of legislation to enact.
Realistically, do you think the
legislature will seriously consider such
an amendment?
CUNNINGHAM: Yes, I think they Will
seriously consider it because my
amendment not only provides for the
continuous funding of the non-preferred
appropriations, it provides for the
continuous funding of the preferred
appropriations as well. So it is in the
interest of all representatives and
senators to support legislation that's
going to minimize the likelihood of there
being ati impasse situation that's going
to plunge the state into economic chaos.
So .' . . there should be some self-interest
motivation here on the part of all
members of the General Assembly to
give this very serious consideration.
I might also point out that in addition
to this amendment, I'm proposing
legislation both in the form of a House
rule and in the form of a statuatory
change that would prohibit the General
Assembly from recessing for more than
one day at a time when we go beyond the
end of the fiscal year and we don't have
any budget.
COLLEGIAN: When do you plan to
introduce this?
CUNNIGHAM: I will probably in
troduce this in two stages both within
the next four to six weeks. That
timetable can be accelerated if the
House moves to consider the adoption of
new House rules prior to that time.
Obviously, I'll be pressed to do this more
quickly if the House moves to consider
impasse rules in the very near term.
COLLEGIAN: Judging the current
Coroner W. Robert Neff were - still investigating the
incident last night. A spokesman from the University's
public information department said he believed the
woman was visiting from out of twon.
The Penn Tower resident said she heard a thud
outside, and when she ran out on the balcony, a man,
from the second floor who said he had called an am
bulance was already there. The resident said she
contacted Rick Heiden, a manager for the fifth and
sixth floors, and then got some blankets to keep the
woman warm.
Heiden said they tried to keep the woman alive until
productive," such as replacing a new
tire because of pothole damage.
Although he said he cannot take any
action on actual highway , repairs or
construction until the legislature passes
the budget increase, Larson said he has
been working to establish priorities that
will assure a more efficient and credible
transportation department for the state.
One of his most important goals as the
new transportation secretary has been
to re-establish the importance of good
quality service, Larson said.
"When I first took office, I found that
the condition of the system had been
allowed to fall to a point where good
service was not provided," he said.
"This was the central problem."
Providing good service, he said, in
cludes placing competent people in
appropriate jobs, using lasting
materials in highway construction and.
atmosphere in Harrisburg, do you think
that this legislation also has a fair
chance of getting passed this year?
CUNNINGHAM: I think it does, and I
think that it's going to be very difficult
for any representative to argue against
it. I can't imagine what their rationale
might be. It's not responsible for the
legislature to walk out on a budget crisis
and go home. That's what happened two
years ago, and it created a very un
favorable appearance, and a number of
people were at least, in part, not
returned to public office as a con
sequence of thet debaucle. And I think
the attitude of the General Assembly
towards this kind of legislation is going
to be different than • it might have been
two years ago.
COLLEGIAN: Of course, Penn State is
a non-preferred institution in the state
funding scheme. Would putting Penn
State on the preferred list improve the
University's overall situation?
CUNNINGHAM: I personally do not
believe it would improve the Univer
sity's overall situation. I think that it
might give the University access to a
more stable stream of funding, but there
is no free lunch either in government or
in the private sector, and the price I
believe the University would have to pay
ultimately for that funding security
would be a steady erosion of its
autonomy.
I think there would be aggressive,
more serious incursions on the part of
the General Assembly - in the internal
affairs of the University. There are
members of the General Assembly
whom I imagine would like to see Penn
State on the state procurement system
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repair, meeting the state's tran
sportation needs, and using the people's
tax money wisely.
But his priority among all these ob
jectives? Filling the potholes.
"There is no question that the people
want the pothole problem addressed,"
he said. "At least 90 percent of the
comments I hear are that the potholes
must be filled,"
The. Associated Press has estimated
that more than 4.5 million potholes now
scar Pennsylvania's roads, and Penn-
DOT itself has reported more than 25
percent of state highways need some
type of resurfacing or surface treat
ment. In an effort to begin emergency
repairs on the most critically damaged
roads, Thornburgh last Wednesday
approved a $9.6 million fund to begin
immediate work. In addition, he has
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the ambulance arrived from the Ritenour Health
Center.
Quick changes
March is known for quick changes, and this week's
weather will be no exception as today will be partly
sunny and breezy, a flurry possible. A high of 26 is
expected. Tonight will be mostly clear, and tomorrow
will be mostly sunny despite some high clouds, with a
low of 19 tonight and a high of 42 tomorrow.
and the state Civil Service system; who
would like to see the General Assembly
have some input into curriculum
decisions,curriculum content decisions,
faculty and staff hiring and firing
criteria, and all of the internal things
which I believe the University ad
ministration is uniquely qualified to
make. I think the University ad
ministration is uniquely qualified to
make decisions in these areas and that
the General Assembly is badly un
derqualified to make these kinds of
•decisions.
So I don't think this would operate to
the benefit of Penn State or higher
education or the people of this Com
monwealth, and despite the feeling of
some of the representatives from the
Pitt legislative area, I just don't believe
this is going to be good for the non
preferreds. It's also my understanding
that the University is rather cool
towards the motion.
COLLEGIAN: Is Penn State's trouble
in getting funds due to the fact that
things are tough all over in Penn
sylvania, or does the University lack
respect in the state legislature.
CUNNINGHAM: I don't think that
there is any anti-Penn State conspiracy
in the legislature, and I don't think that
there is any anti-higher education
conspiracy in the General Assembly.
There are representatives who are much
more cognizant of the importance of
higher education than some other
members of the General Assembly.
There appears to me to be a
correlation between the education of the
representatives involved and their at
titude towards higher education
generally. Most representatives who do
possess a higher education are much
more favorably disposed towards the
interests of higher education because
they have personally benefited from
their education and they realize the
importance of higher education.
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