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:Gentle Thursday 1979 will be
remembered as the "day of sharing",
that never fully materialized.
- --,The skies were threatening when the
day began at 10 a.m., and the cloudy, ,
Overcast skies brought heavy rains
which forced the late afternoon can
celation of Gentle Thursday.
'But the weather didn't dampen the
spirits of University students who
braved the rain to enjoy some of the
ninth annual event.
"I'll probably be the last one to leave,"
maroon robe clothed Darryl Mdore (9th
man-environment relations) said. "I'm
;glad they didn't move it to the In
tramural Fields. Whenever they start up
a tradition like this, they should keep it
:there," he said.
The only band to perform for Gentle
.Thursday, Avatar, began to play for, a
'moderate-sized crowd at 11 a.m. Gentle
!Thursday coordinator Pam Winterhalter
said, "This is it. We can't cancel now
-since a band is performing."
The crowd was very mellow and gentle
in the morning hours, as most listened to
.the rock' sounds of Avatar. An art class
was seated in a circle, painting land
scape scenes. Eco-Action members
manned their refuse barrels, awaiting
recyclables. Marshals passed out
,novelties like balloons, candy, yo-yos
Night dream
The character Bottom in William ShakespeareN "A Midsummer Night's
Dream" has been turned into an ass, although he doesn't know it. David
Hughes plays Bottom and Lisa Barnett plays Peasblossom in a University
Theater production this weekend and next week at the Playhouse. See review
on page 12.
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Beaver's big blast: maybe the last
Though some Beaver Hall residents
feel their massive dorm party
scheduled for tonight may be a test case
for future parties of this size on cam-
pus, South Halls coordinator Marilane
Bond says this is not necessarily the
It is estimated the party will draw
over 1,000 residents and guests --
perhaps the largest on-campus 'crowd
to attend a dorm party since the new
alcohol enforcement policy went into
effect three years ago. Because of its
Gentle Thursday—for a few hours
and squirt guns to the crowd. University
Police Services remained on the fringe
of the HUB lawn, warning potential
drinkers to dispose of their coolers.
The Recreation and Parks Society
organized games for the day, with
participants playing tug-of-war and
human pinball while others rolled
around atop a giant earthball.
Matt Leininger, (6th-recreation and
parks), one of the coordinators for the
games, said the games were the idea of
the Gentle Thursday committee.
Leininger said the Gentle Thursday
Police issue many citations
By NANCY BOYD
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Although Gentle Thursday was can
celed there were numerous arrests ort
the HUB lawn throughout the day by
both University and State College police.i
State College Police Sgt. Thomas'
Rusnak said numerous citations were
also issued during the day for underaged
drinking.
"We will be dealing with these all
night and tomorrow," he said. "I can't
make an estimate at this time, only to
say that there were many."
In one late afternoon incident, a
female minor was arrested after a
size, the party will be attended by two
resident assistants instead of the
normal one RA and two night recep
tionists.
But other than that, Bond said the
party in Beaver will not bias
Residential Life's outlook on other
parties in other dorms whether the
outcome is favorable or otherwise.
"Our biggest concern over the party
in Beaver is for fire and safety
regulations," Bond says. "With such a
large crowd estimated, there may be
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committee was trying to alter the image
of Gentle Thursday, and the Recreation
and Parks Society was glad to help out.
"We played all afternoon last week,'
and we'll be here all day today,"
Leininger said. "I think we will ' have
more people playing when they see we
are here," he said.
Joel Smith (9th-food service) sported a
dozen balloons attached to his hat and a
sign advertising yogurt, hot dogs and:
other snack foods. Smith was ad
vertising for Food Service 330, and said
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scuffle when she tried to run while being
cited for underaged drinking, he said.
"There was nothing else we could do,"
Rusn'ak said. "She ran like a wild
animal, resisting everyone in sight."
Rusnak said a male, also a minor, was
arrested with the girl when he resisted
both town and University Police Ser
vices in the same incident.
About 15 persons were dealt with by
University Police, beginning at 7 a.m.,
according to University police manager
Thomas. R. Harmon.
Harmon said two State ' College
residents were charged with several
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Thatcher predicted British winner
LONDON (AP) Margaret Thatcher's Con
servatives scored upsets in urban strongholds of the
governing Laborites and surged toward victory today in
Britain's general elections as the rural vote rolled in.
Computer projections indicated a comfortable Con
servative majority in the House of Commons.
With results in from 350 of the 635 parliamentary
districts, Labor had 179 seats but showed an overall loss
of 15. The Conservatives had an overall gain of 23 seats
for 161 and surged ahead in the popular vote from
yesterday's election.
The Scottish National Party had won only two seats
while losing six, and other minor _parties won three
seats and lost two. ,
Computer projections by two British news '
organizations predicted that Thatcher would become
Europe's first woman prime minister with a majority of
40-43 seats in the 635-se'at House of Commons, ending
five years of rule by Prime Minister James Callaghan's
Labor Party. •
In the popular vote from 350 districts, the Con
servatives had 6,648,977 42.6 percent; Labor 6,294,208
40.3 percent; Liberals 1,965,624 12.6 percent, and
others 716,582 4.6 percent.
In the last election in October 1974, Labor gained 39.3
percent of the votes and that gave them 319 seats in
Commons a majority of two.
Califano expects Island area cancer death
WASHINGTON (AP) The govern
ment yesterday doubled its estimate of
radiation exposure to the public from the
Three Mile Island nuclear accident,
prompting' HEW Secretary Joseph A.
Califano to predict at least one ad
ditional cancer death among residents of
the area.
Califano also told a Senate hearing
that some scientists "would predict up to
10 additional cancer deaths" for the two
million central Pennsylvania residents
living within 50 miles of the stricken
plant.
The secretary of Health, Education
and Welfare abandoned his earlier claim
that the March 28 accident did not pose a
cancer threat to anyone living within 50
miles of the plant.
Testifying to a Senate Governmental
Affairs subcommittee, Califano said it
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problems. If Beaver's party exhibits
flagrant violations, we may look un
favorably upon future parties of this
size in Beaver Hall. But we will look at
parties in other buildings with other
students objectively."
The party is billed as encompassing
four floors in Beaver Hall, and
featuring dancing and punch on each
floor.
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quality not quantity that counts.
Whenever, wherever
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Laurence - Gilbert and his wife,
Sherrill Reid, have celebrated their
wedding anniversary on Gentle
Thursday, regardless of the date, each
year since they were married on that
day, May 1, 1975, on Raven's Bluff in
Poe Valley. The rainy weather and last
week's postponement of the 1979 Gentle
Thursday did not dampen their
celebration.
"We've been stretching out the
celebration over the whole week,"
Gilbert said,
But what if the University cancels
future Gentle Thursdays? "Well, we
probably won't be here next year
Members of Avatar perform before the rains fell to wash out Gentle Thursday for the second week in a row. There will be
no third shot for the event in 1979.
The returns, laboriously counted by hand, showed a
74.8 percent turnout, with about 30 million of 41 million
registered voters casting ballots. .
Vote counters planned to take a break at 5 a.m.
(midnight EDT), and resume work around 10 a.m. (5
a.m. EDT).
Pollsters, bookmakers and stockbrokers had been
confident of a Conservative victory.
Despite the chilliest May weather in almost 50 years,
voters trooped to polling stations in schools and pubs,
town halls and cricket pavilions to decide whether
Britain should have another round of moderate
socialism under 67-year-old Prime Minister James
Callaghan and his Labor Party or yeer to the right with
Thatcher.
"We never count our chickens before they are hat
ched, and we don't count No. 10 Downing St. before it is
thatched," quipped the opposition leader, a champion
of free enterprise, when asked yesterday whether she
was confident of winning.
Five opinion polls published Election Day gave her
Conservative Party leads ranging from two to eight
percentage points. The nation's legal bookmakers
reported heavy wagering in favor of the Tories, in
cluding one bet of 20,000 pounds ($41,000). Stock prices
nudged record highs on hopes the party that
traditionally backs big business would win.
now appears that enough radiation was
released to cause one additional cancer
death, one additional non-fatal cancer
and possibly one additional birth defect
in the area.
And he said that workers at the plant
and those engaged in clean-up
operations "have been exposed to
significantly higher levels of radiation
and will face significantly greater
( health) risks than the general
population."
However, Califano said risk figures
had not yet been calculated for these
workers.
The nation's No. 1 health official
released new figures showing the total
dose received by those living within a 50-
mile circle of the plant, an area which
includes the state capital of Harrisburg,
was at least 3,500 "person rems" instead
anyway, so we'll hold our own Gentle
Thursday," he said.
When asked if they would celebrate
on May 1, he said, "We'll see if it's a
Thursday."
Happy fourth anniversary,
whenever, Laurence and Sherrill.
Some amusements
just can't be beat
Starhawk, a video game at the local
pinball arcades, can't be beat by its
creator, Tim Skelly, head game
programmer at Linematronics.
"I felt that if I made a controllable
high speed game, the game would be
too easy to beat," Skelly told a Daily
Collegian reporter. "The goal is to blow
up all of the damn ships and not let a
single one off the screen. I haven't done
it yet myself."
There are three settings for speed on
the machine: slow, medium and fast.
"When you play," Skelly said, "you
don't have to use the fast speed. But the
slow speed is ridiculous, too."
So, for you Starhawk patrons, take it
from the creator: play the medium
speed. It's the only setting where you
have a chance at winning.
Incidentally, the reporter lost a total
of the 1,800 person rems reported in
early April.
Califano said he expects an even
higher figure will be reported in a fuller
analysis of the data which is expected to
be completed and made public next
week by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
Person-rems measure the total
radiation exposure in a given population.
The figures represent the product of the
number of people living in the area
multiplied by the average dose received
by each individual, measured in
"rems."
A rem is the standard unit of radiation
exposure. An individual dose of 600 rems
is considered fatal and 10 rems can
damage vital organs. The average
person receives close to 200 millirems a
year from background radiation,
of four dollars on the machine trying to
prove Skelly wrong.
Jewish anecdotes
reflect European life
Funny thing is, you just can't tell a
Jewish joke without the gestures and
voice inflections.
Gil Aberg and Phil Klass told Jewish
jokes Sunday at the pseudo-annual
Jewish Joke Festival, sponsored for the
last 13 years by the Jewish Community
Center, albeit with gestures and in
flections. The jokes, they said, provide
some introspection into the cultural
traditions of Jewish life in Europe from
the 19th century to the present.
"The jokes are told in context with
the background and heritage of the
Jews, and we feel they preserve the
Jewish heritage, which is in some ways
lost to the new generations," Aberg
said.
Aberg said the festival was attended
by more than 100 Jews and Gentiles, but
he said he could not tell a Jewish joke
unless, somehow, the accent and ex
pressionism was included.
I guess you had to be there.
—compiled and written
by Bob "Suds" Carville
15'
Friday, May 4, 1979
Vol. 79, No. 169 22 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
An electorate of 41,093,262 was eligible to cast ballots
for the new Commong. The party that wins the most
seats will be asked by Queen Elizabeth II to form a
government. It will hold power for up to five years, until
it calls a new election.
Few women in modern history have led their nations'
governments. Sirimavo Bandaranaike was prime
minister of Sri Lanka in 1960-65 and 1970-77, Indira
Gandhi served as prime minister of India in 1966-77,
Golda Meir was Israel's prime minister in 1969-74 and
Isabel Peron was president of Argentina in 1974-76.
Callaghan fought an uphill battle since a vote of no
confidence brought about a dissolution of Commons in
March, Labor won 319 seats, a majority, in the last
election, in October 1974. But deaths, by-elections and
party defections eventually cut that number to 306, and
Callaghan had depended on the support of the Liberals
and other small parties to stay in power.
The campaign was waged mainly over the pocket
book issues of jobs —1.3 million Britons are out of work,
a 5.6 percent unemployment rate and prices, most of
which have doubled in the past five years.
Callaghan stressed his experience as a former
foreign secretary, home secretary, chancellor of the
exchequer and prime minister, the post he moved into
in April 1976 when Harold Wilson resigned as govern
ment chief and Labor Party leader.
medical X-rays, home appliances and
other sources. A millirem is one
thousandths of a rem.
Califano said he based his projections
on the traditional formula for computing
the link between radiation doses and
cancer. But, he noted, "scientists who
believe that traditional theory un
derestimates the risk of low-level
radiation would predict up to 10 ad
ditional cancer deaths for this
population."
"Although one additional fatal cancer
or even 10 fatal cancers may seem small
statistically ... it is nonetheless
ultimately significant for the individuals
who become these statistics."
Califano said that in any general
population of two million, some 325,000
individuals will ultimately die of some
form of cancer.
Wire Story
Of The Week
WASHINGTON (UPI) The White
House has prepared a list of friends and
supporters willing to speak out in behalf
of the administration on controversial
issues, an aide said yesterday.
The aide said many on the list offered
their services to speak out in favor of
Carter's policies ranging from inflation
to the strategic arms limitation treaty.
Around Rafshoon's office, the
program is called "Operation
Response."
It is an outgrowth of a memorandum
from Rafshoon seeking to respond to
public criticism of the president's
programs,
Wet's the word
The weekend will get off to a poor start
as we have lowering clouds and cool
temperatures today, with a high of only
55. Heavy rain • will develop this af
ternoon and continue through Saturday
morning. Saturday will be breezy with
increasing sunshine. The low Friday'
night will be 48 and Saturday's high will
be a cool 53. Look for mostly sunny skies
on Sunday with a high of 58.
Photo by Jon Saracen°