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Israeli planes bomb
Palestinian villages
By United Press International
Israeli warplanes struck ,
Palestinian targets in Lebanon:for
the third straight day yesterday with -
a double bombing run that included a
sortie about a mile from Syrian
troops stationed near the sensitive
diplomatic "red line."
In Fez, Morocco, the 44-nation
Islamic Council vowed to suspend
Egypt's membership, to punish Cairo
for signing the first peace treaty ever
between an Arab state and Israel.
Egypt boycotted the conference
and calling the action illegal,
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
promised he will forge ahead with the
peace process despite "Arab shouts
. . . to set the clock back."
In a move sure to rankle the
Palestinians, government sources in
Jerusalem said Israel's secret plan
for Palestinian self-rule calls for the
Jewish state to claim sovereignty
over the occupied West Bank and
Gaza Strip at the end of a five-year
autonomy period.
Under lsrael's newly-announced
policy of striking "terrorist" targets
almost at will for reasons of security,
Israeli planes bombed near the
,Black students consider white attitudes insensitive
By ANDY RATNER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A white Penn State co-ed chatted with
her friend in the basement of the Hetzel
*Union Building. As the afternoon class
periods changed, a wave of people
rushed through the HUB, pressing the
girl into an open doorway.
She turned pale when she discovered
the title on the door of the room she'd
accidentally stepped into. She sprang
from the doorway like she thought she'd
never get out alive.
The sign on the door read "Black
Caucus."
"Some white people think we want to
eat them, or hurt them, or something,"
said Rick Snow, president of one of the
four black fraternities at the University.
* He said at least half of his black friends
from two years ago have since left the
University because they had trouble
coping with "all that whiteness."
For some black students, attending a
predominantly white university is
merely a continuation of their high
school experience. For many other black
students and faculty, though, Penn State
nestled in white, rural, conservative
Pennsylvania might well be where the
phrase 'culture shock' originated.
"When white people try to run you
down with their cars and yell 'get the
qk out of the way, nigger!,' it might
upset me but I can deal with it," said
?Charles Kennedy, who recently com
t pleted a year-long term as president of
' the Black Caucus. It's not the individual
racism at Penn State that is tough to
deal with, said Kennedy, but the "in-
stitutional kind." "An all-white male
'administration simply cannot relate to
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mouth of the Zahrani River in the
morning and the afternoon.
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The Zahrani, south of the port of
Sidon and an undefined "diplomatic"
boundary, is referred to as the "red
line," beyond which Israel considers
the movement of Syrian troops a
direct threat to its security. The State
Department Monday said the raids
endangered peace in the area.
Incomplete casualty reports in
Lebanon said one civilian had been
killed. Three others, including a
Palestinian, were wounded when the
bombs plowed into the wooded
hillsides south of the Zahrani.
Beirut's state radio charged that
the Israelis dropped U.S.made anti
personnel cluster bombs, which
scatter many shells over a wide area.
Israel, which has promised the
United States it would use those
deadly bombs only in defensive
operations, said its forces have not
dropped a cluster bomb since the
March 1978 raids into Lebanon.
The Israeli military command in
Tel Aviv said the targets in Lebanon
were "terrorist concentrations," but
gave no indication of the size of the
strongholds. It said all planes
returned safely to base.
complaints from black students, he said.
"The administrators are from another
planet," said Kevin Brockenbrough, who
was recently elected assistant vice
president of the Black Caucus. "They
can't understand blacks,, whose
backgrounds are so different."
Elmore M. Browne, director of the
University's Patil Robeson Black
Cultural Center, also senses that
University administrators lack minority
sensitivity. "They are well-meaning, but
they don't understand that their lifestyle
is completely different."
But Thelma T. Price, a black, ad
ministrator, said University officials,
especially President John W. Oswald,
are sensitive to the needs of black
students.
Yet one high-level white ad
ministrator, who claims he has little
difficulty relating to blacks because of
his urban background, provided this
analysis of the black climate at Penn
State: "The reason we have trouble
attracting and keeping blacks is because
there isn't much for them here ... no
black churches . . . no black restaurants
. . . you know, blacks like chicken a
certain way and they can't get it here."
The University has a bad reputation
with blacks throughout Pennsylvania,
said Cyril E. Griffith, director of the
Black Studies Program. "It's always
under pressure from the state and
national government to increase black
enrollment," he said.
According to Price, the University's
reputation with college-bound blacks
was strained further during the past few
months by two atypical events the
appearance of six racist classified ads in
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For the upcoming football season
No ticket policy changes foreseen
By TIM BEIDEL
Daily Collegian Staff Writer .
There will not be any major changes in student
season ticket policy for the 1979 football seson, Ticket
Operations Supervisor Frank Pope said yesterday.
Beaver Stadium's student sections will remain the
same, and there will not be a reserved seat system
used in the upcoming seson.
"The problems we encountered last year made us
look at some alternatives (to the way seating is done
now), but the proposals met a negative response from
the Student Advisory Board," Pope said. "It would be
hard to come up with a new policy and implement it
during the summer."
The door has still been left open to a change in the
current system, which is now faulted by probleins like
getting a seat in the proper section, and sometimes just
getting a seat, Pope said.
"It's going to be an ongoing project by the Student
Advisory Board," Pope said. "They can contact their
friends at other schools and look for a better system."
Pope said one of the main problems right now in a
general admission system is that students often take
more space for their seat than the architect allotted.
"If you don't have reserved seats, you're not going to
get 500 people into a 500-seat section," Pope said.
"Once the students get in their seats, they don't want to
be pushed around."
The new design of the stadium caused problems that
were unexpected by the ticket department. Pope said
that that the elimination of standing room didn't help
the situation at all..
"Last year, if too many people got in there was a
place to stand until seating started to open up," Pope
p loop,
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an issue of The Daily Collegian and the
emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in State
College.
The highly-publicized Daily Collegian
incident began with an anonymous male
placing several ads in the newspaper
which he had copied from a South
African publication. It ended with black
students burning Collegians in heated
protest on the steps of Carnegie
Building, which houses the student
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newspaper office.
Weeks after that January incident,
blacks received more distressing news ‘
when it was revealed that a Ku Klux
Klan organization from Kutztown, Pa.,
had scheduled a meeting for the State
College area. The KKK meeting was
attended by local human rights officials,
who also kept close watch on a State
College High School student who was
distributing Klan literature in the school
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said. "Now if they don't get a seat, they end up sitting
in the aisles. If anybody would have to leave quickly, it
would be a dangerous situation."
But this season it should be a little different. Pope
said that the ticket department has made some
changes that should make'the seating a little smoother.
"The students will see a little more organization and
stronger effort on our part to control the gates, because
of our experience," Pope said.
Ticket design will be changed to make it more dif
ficult for students to sneak into a better section than
the one their class is assigned. Pope said that the
ushers may try to make the sections fill slower in an
effort to increase space-efficiency. Pope said that if the
students would co-operate more by taking only the
space that were allotted, more tickets could be offered
to the student body.
"People think that we're trying to sell more ticketsto
make more money, but we just want to give the
students more tickets," Pope said.
Season ticket applications will be mailed to every
student's local address at the end of this week. Pope
advises students to be on the watch for them. If an
application is not received before the student leaves
campus, he should notify the ticket office before he
leaves.
Once an application is received, Pope said that the
information pamphlet should be read carefully, and
returned as soon as possible.
In past years students could pick up their tickets at
the ticket office at the end of the term, but there are no
tickets to be given out yet this year. Students can still
drop off cash, certified check or money order at the
ticket office, and their tickets will be mailed to them.
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Carter rewrites
rationing scheme
WASHINGTON (UPI) Stung by a
Senate Energy Committee vote against
his standby gasoline rationing plan,
President Carter rewrote the measure a
second time yesterday and the panel
approved it.
The committee gave the latest com
promise a 9-7 vote, sending it on to the
full Senate after two hours of debate in
which Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn.,
pleaded, "Can't we stop nitpicking every
plan that comes up to us?"
Earlier in the day, the panel had
rejected the plan 15-3, despite changes
Carter had put forth Monday in an effort
to win votes. Two weeks ago, it approved
yet another version of the measure by a
narrow margin.
After yesterday's first committee
vote, Committee Chairman Sen. Henry
Jackson, D-Wash., told Carter his
proposal was "dead in the water."
It was the half-and-half. plan that the
Senate Energy Committee rejected,
with Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La.,
saying it did not go far enough.
Jackson said after that first vote he
"told the administration they are dead in
the water by a margin of two-to-one,"
without new amendments.
He said the new plan "will and can be
supported by a majority."
After yesterday's first committee
vote, White House press secretary Jody
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parking lot.
"What it says to blacks is 'see, it still
happens here.' " Price said. "A black
parent thinks twice before sending their
children into an area that is perceived as
hostile."
Still, University Provost Edward D.
Eddy said the University is "holding its
own" in the area of black recruitment.
Noting that black recruitment problems
are common to the great majority of
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According to Pope, a trip to Rec Hall would be un
necessary, as walk-in applications are processed with
the mail-ins when the tickets come in.
If tickets are not received by the beginning of
August, the student should contact the ticket office.
Pope said that it should still be possible to pick up
tickets should a check get lost in the mail.
Single game tickets will be available starting August
27. Those who mail in their applications will take a
back seat, Pope said.
"The mail comes in at noon, and we can't open it
until the evening because we are so busy with window
sales," Pope said. "By that time we may be sold out of
certain games." •
Evidently students who want to buy single game
tickets will have to make a choice between making the
trip to University Park, or taking a chance in the mail.
There will be no absolute deadline on the acceptance
of applications, because of the short time it takes to sell
out. Students who want tickets are advised to return
their applications as soon as possible.
"We'd like to do this with the least amount of
hassling to the student," Pope said. "Nothing would
please me more than to sell every student the right
ticket the first time."
It will continue to be hazy and hot with increasing
humidity each day, making it feel a bit uncomfortable
in some of the heated dorms. Today will mostly sunny
and tomorrow partly sunny with highs of 87 and 84
degrees. Tonight will be clear with a mild low of 69.
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Powell made clear Carter said the
nation is being jeopardized by a
squabble over the desires of this or that
particular interest, this or that state or
region, or area within a state, for a few
gallons more for them and a few gallons
less for somebody else.
But Johnston said Carter's energy
advisers had failed in their promise to
"substantially alleviate or eliminate"
inequities a rationing program would
bring to states with heavy dependence
on gasoline.
Under law, both the House and Senate
have to approve the rationing plan by
Friday or it dies.
Though the measure cannot be
amended by Congress, Carter had of
fered his own changes in an effort to
answer criticisms.
His plan, similar to a proposal used in
World War II to reduce driving and save
rubber, calls for vehicle owners to be
given coupons that could be redeemed
for gasoline during a severe shortage.
Originally, the president proposed
giving every family enough coupons for
all their cars, but critics said the rich
might buy extra cars at junkyards so
they could qualify for extra gasoline.
Other critics said such a plan could
cause chaos in states and areas that
depend heavily on cars and have little or
no mass transit.
Sticky situation
rural, land-grant universities, he said,
"Nationally, our reputation is average."
After 1972, when the number of black
undergraduate and graduate resident
students reached a peak of 1,300, black
enrollment declined steadily until 1976,
when Penn State created a black
enrollment task force. In the fall of that
year, 963 blacks attended the University,
comprising 1.8 percent of the resident
student population.
Although black enrollment soared
near its peak in 1977, by the fall of last
year, the number of black students
dropped to 1,277 an increase of 14
blacks since the implementation of the ,
task force.
While the University has established
several programs and recruitment
centers in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
in an effort to spur black enrollment,
Price, assistant vice president for
student affairs, explained that declining
college-age populations will not be a
solely white phenomenon but will slice
into black student growth rates also.
It seems that bad timing will also
restrain recruitment of black faculty.
According to Affirmative' Action Officer
William Asbury, the University did not
recognize the supply-and-demand
squeeze for black faculty as early as
many other schools. "We tried to do in
'76 what everybody else started in '74
and '75," he said.
Black instructors made up 1 percent of
the faculty in 1978, while black un
dergraduates comprised almost 3
percent of the student body. Of 1,330
faculty members, 41 were black. Asbury
said that while black faculty increased
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