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Ilinois to select Ikenberry
,:y HARRY GLENN
ay Collegian Staff Writer
Stanley 0.. Ikenberry, senior vice
resident for administration, is expected
) be ,named the president of the
( D iversity of Illinois this morning in
ogo.
!The school's board of trustees will
eet at 10 a.m. in the Continental Plaza
) approve Ikenberry's appointment,
raiversity of Illinois sources said
esterday.
, II had no knowledge that they were
eking for a president until about four
reeks ago," Ikenberry told The Daily
!ollegian in a telephone interview from
Is Chicago hotel room. "This whole
ring has come up so suddenly.
"The University of Illinois is one of the
ountry's major universities and it is a
teat professional honor to serve as its
resident."
A 22-member search committee,
haired by Martin Wagner, a University
f Illinois professor of labor and in
ustrial relations, will recommend
kenberry's name to the trustees today.
lore than 300 names were considered
or the position, a-University of Illinois,
pokesman said. Ikenberry said he did
lot apply for the position.
University of Illinois President John
University's appropriation rests with state
'or HARRY GLENN
laily Collegian Staff Writer
The University's $l2O million state ap
ropriation is not money in the pocket until the
souse and Senate work out a compromise budget
ad a tax package to fund the budget, two area
!gislators said yesterday.
The House last week passed a $6.3 billion state
adget that included an increase to Gov. Dick
hornburgh's recommended appropriation to
le University. The Senate, however, rejected
lis budget, so it will go to a conference corn
iittee this week.
Still to be acted upon is a tax package that
ould maintain the state personal income tax at
^ percent and the corp6rate net income tax at
- , Gercent.
package is needed to provide $44 million to
^e *the general budget and non-preferred
such as the University's.
TMI accident blamed on operatibnal error
LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) The
company that built the Three Mile ; '
Island nuclear reactor said yesterday
it was primarily operator error, and
not failure of the equipment, that
precipitated the worst accident in
civilian U.S. nuclear history. .
But officials of Babcock & Wilcox
Co., in their first news conference
,since the March 28 accident,
acknowledged they had revamped
their training program and would
make other changes as a result of the
accident.
"We don't believe we have blame in
the Three. Mile Island accident,"
John H. MacMillan, vice presideht of
.the c.ompany's nuclear power
generation division, told reporters at
the company's nuclear engineering
headquarters.
"We believe inappropriate
operators' actions were what led to
core damage and the subsequent
release of radioactivity," he said. ,
The incident began when a pump in
the water cooling system malfunc
tioned, and a series of equipment and
operator errors resulted in cooling
water draining from the reactor and
uncovering the fuel rods, federal
authorities have said
MacMillan said the accident, which
spilled radioactivity into the Penn
sylvania countryside and caused
thousands to flee their homes,
stemmed from "a recognizable and
manageable sequence of events ( that
could have been controlled) with
existing plant instrumentation and
controls."
George G. Zipf, president of the
company, said he was "confident"
that Babcock & Wilcox was not
legally liable either to the utility that
operated the plant, Metropolitan
tate House kills $l.l billion highways plan
ARRISBURG (AP) The House For over 2 1 / 2 hours, the debate was
'ected a $l.l billion highways budget virtually a carbon copy of last week's,
the second time yesterday, after when the same budget failed by a
kering for hours over where the similarly large margin. All sorts of
iney would be spent. roads and financial statistics were
he road program, which is Gov. Dick brought up, with legislators admitting to
ornburgh's proposal to repair Penn- being hopelessly confused.
ivania's crumbling highway system, House members are wary of passing a
s reje- ted 118-75. roads budget that will require higher
ep. Gregg Cunningham, R-Centre, taxes, but that isn't the biggest problem.
• d for the budget. Democrats accused the Republicans
t would have required the Legislature who are in the majority —of funneling
hike tht. 9-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax more of the highway money into
order to raise an extra $2OO million in Republican districts.
, d revenues that Thornburgh wants. And members of both parties in
=MU
Corbally submitted his resignation to the
trustees last Sept. 20. He said he sensed
"increasing repetitiousnesein his tasks
as president, and said it was time to
develop new career opportunities. He
served as the university's president for
eight years.
Corbally said he will take a one-year
sabbatical and then return to the
university to do research in his field of
higher education administration. At the
time of his resignation he said he would
not accept a presidency at another
university.
The search committee was formed in
October, ' and narrowed the field of
candidates for the position down to seven
by March.
Ikenberry will receive $67,900 a year
as president. He will also be given a
home at the school's main campus in
Champaign-Urbana and a condominium
in Chicago, where the school has a
branch campus and medical school. The
University is a land-grant institution
with a combined enrollment of 60,000.
Fred Mohn, director of the University
of Illinois' news bureau, said the
selection committee played it "very
close to the vest" during deliberations
over the new president. Ikenberry was
"The tax increases are the snafu," Rep. Gregg
Cunningham, R-Centre, said yesterday. "I will
not support a massive tax cut."
Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre County, said
he is still undecided on•how he will vote on the tax
package. "I want to know what the budget is
going to be before I decide," he said.
The personal income tax was raised .2 percent
and the corporate net income tax 1 percent in
1977 to balance the state budget. But the taxes
we're to revert to the old levels at the end of this
year.
Corman said it is appropriate'to pais a budget
before passing a tax increase to.fund it.
"You have to see how much you're spending
before deciding on how to get that money," he
said.
Both legislators said they are confident the
budget will be passed before the end of the fiscal
Students at Eco-Action registration table yesterday demonstrate their feelings towards the Three Mile Island accident.
Edison, or to plant neighbors near meltdown, no China syndrome, and would recommend that the Nuclear
Harrisburg. emission to the environment were Regulatory Commission give greater
"We've tried very carefully not to extremely low. The accident was attention to medium-size accidents,
say anybody's to blame beyond the contained," he said. . "in addition to the 'maximum
hypothetical' accidents that have
indication that inappropraite Favret said as a result of the ac- been studied so extensively."
operator actions were taken," said cident the company would try to . MacMillan maintained that the
L.M. Favret, vice president of the improve "the man-machine in- operators at Three Mile Island, who
company's power generation group. terface," which he defined as how were trained by Babcock & Wilcox
"With regards to health and safety easily people could control the under contract to the utility, had been
—yes, there was an accident. Yet the reactor. instructed what to do in case of
equipment survived, there was no He said Babcock & Wilcox also I equipment failures.
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flown to Chicago and registered at the
Continental Plaza Hotel under the name
S. Berry.
Ikenberry said he will be moving back
and forth between universities during
September. He said he will remain on
the staff at Penn State until September's
Board of Trustees meeting.
"It will be with great reluctance that I
leave Penn State," Ikenberry said. "It
isn't easy to leave a University and a
community that have been the center of
our lives and work for nearly a decade.
The opportunity to provide leadership
for the University of Illinois is an ex
citing challenge."
Ikenberry, 44, came to the University
in 1969 as professor and associate
director of the Centre for the Study of
Higher Education. He was named 'senior
vice president for 'University and
Development and Relations in 1971. Last
year his title was changed to senior vice
president for administration.
In March 1978, Ikenberry was one of
five candidates being considered for the
presidency at the University of
Maryland. But Ikenberry said he
withdrew from the running for personal
and professional reasons. He said his
"roots and commitments to the
University were too deep."
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fraction of the money that they deserve.
Others complained that they can't vote
for a highway program when they still
don't know exactly where the, money is
going.
"We are told to vote blindly for this
budget because we (western Penn
sylvanians) have the worst problem,"
said Rep. James Manderino, D-
Westmoreland, the minority whip.
Manderino said that part of Thorn
burgh's one-shot, crash program for
repairs would be used to resurface less
year, June 30. But they both warn that a failure
to pass the tax package could mean cuts in the
University's appropriation.
"I think higher education would take it in the
neck," Cunningham said. "I am very hopeful
that if sacrifices have to be borne by higher
education they are spread about all institutions."
Corman said the future of the University's
appropriation and the general budget will
depend on how skillfully the legislative leaders
negotiate in the conference committee.
The committee, composed of three Democrats
and three Republicans, will review the House
budget and then come up with its own budget
recommendation. Its recommendation will be
sent to both the House and Senate for approval.
Cunningham ,ppshed_a budget amendment
through the House before the budget was passed,•
calling for the University to receive a 7.1 percent
funding increase. Gov. Dick Thornburgh in
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University President John W. Oswald
said Ikenberry was important in many
ways to the University.
"I have always been impressed by Dr.
Ikenberry's breadth of vision and the
grasp which he has on his respon
sibilities," Oswald said. "He has been
equally effective in working with Penn
State's external constituencies the
alumni, members of the legislature and
friends and with such internal groups
as the University Faculty Senate,
dealing with academic matters related
to the educational heart of the Univer
sity.
"His handling of this broad range of
responsibilities is what has made him so
effective in working with me and
prepared him so well for his new and
very challenging responsibilities," he
said. "Although I hate to see Dr. Iken
berry leave Penn State, I think our
University should be very proud that the
University of Illinois has come to us to
find new leadership."
University Provost Edward D. Eddy
said nothing will be . done about finding a
replacement for Ikenberry until Oswald
returns from vacation at the end of the
month.
than 1 percent of the highways in
southwestern Pennsylvanian counties.
However, Majority Leader Matthew
Ryan, R-Delaware, responded that
fewer roads would be fixed because their
poor condition requires more money.
"Of $44 million, almost 25 percent will
be going -to those counties," Ryan said.
"The west is receiving far more thmi its
fair share."
• One Democrat, Rep. Fred Trello of
Allegheny County, said he might be
willing to vote for the roads budget. But
first, he said, he wanted to see some
routine maintenance done in his district.
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March recommended that the University's
appropriation increase 4.8 percent.
Cunningham's amendment increases the
University's appropriation $8 million over the
governor's recommended $ll2 million.
University President John W. Oswald said he
was pleased with Cunningham's amendment,
but earlier last month he said a tuition increase
for next fall would be inevitable.
"I'm not going to be pinned down on the size of
the increase," he said, "but I have no intentions
of making up the whole gap with tuition."
The University requested a $l3O million ap
propriation for this year. Oswald said the dif
ference in the request and what is received will
be made up in part by reallocating funds,
reducing expenditures and increasing tuition.
Oswald said the University has reallocated $2O
million in the last seven years. The last tuition
increase was approved in 1977.
Judge delays effect
for DCIO groundings
WASHINGTON (AP) A U.S.
District Court judge yesterday told the
Federal Aviation Administration to
ground all U.S.-registered DC-10s, but
delayed the effect of his order and the
FAA halted the drafting of a directive
that would have kept the planes out of
the air.
`We are not grounding the planes
tonight," said FAA spokesman Dennis
Feldman.
Feldman made the announcement less
than half an hour after he had said his
agency was drafting an order that would
have grounded the planes immediately.
He had said the directive would prohibit
"the air carriers from continued
operation of the DC-10 model series
aircraft."
Government attorneys asked the U.S.
Court of Appeals to prevent the
grounding order from taking effect until
the court can hear an appeal. Royce
Lamberth, chief of the U.S. attorney's
office civil division, said he is asking for
a stay "so we don't have to issue a
grounding order tonight."
U.S. District Judge Aubrey E.
Robinson Jr. also granted a rehearing of
the case at 9 a.m. EDT today. If his
order remains in effect, it would im
mediately ground 138 planes and disrupt
airline schedules here and abroad. Eight
U.S. airlines fly DC-10s and the planes
carry 33,000 passengers a day.
Government lawyers asked Robinson
for the second hearing so they might
have a chance to change Robinson's
mind.
"We will seek to assure the judge that
everything that needs to be done to the
DC-10s is being done," said John
Leyden, an FAA spokesman.
Leyden said the FAA is studying the
effect of the judge's ruling and had not
issued a grounding order by late
yesterday. All airlines with DC-10s
contacted by The Associated Press said
they were continuing service.
In his order, Robinson directed FAA
chief Langhorne Bond to bar continued
operation of DC-10s "until such time as
the cause for the loss of the left engine on
American Airlines DC-10 Flight 191 is
identified and sufficient corrective
measures have been taken to prevent
future occurrences of the type that led to
the crash."
Robinson referred to the May 25 crash
of a DC-10 at Chicago that claimed 275
lives. It was the nation's worst air
disaster.
The judge's order, issued in response
to a plea by the Airline Passengers
Association, remains in effect until
Wednesday, June 6,1979
Vol. 80, No. 1 24 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
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Stanley Ikenberry
conferees
The University Board of Trustees at last
month's meeting approved an interim budget for
the coming fiscal year, which begins July 1. The
$390 million interim budget was approved at the
level of the adjusted 1978-79 budget.
"Due to the pending status of the state ap
propriation, it is recommended that no action be
taken at this time on changes in tuition, salaries
and wages, staff benefits or other necessary
expense increa'ses," Oswald said,. "A final
budget will be submitted at the July trustee
meeting, when the state appropriation is
clarified."
A tuition increan Auld be brought before the
board at its July meeting in New Kensington.
Oswald said he hoped to have salary increases
reflected in Aug. 1 checks. But he said he would
not speculate on how much wages and salaries
would increase.
Monday, when he will have to decide
whether to extend it.
Robinson said the consumer group had
shown the FAA "has failed to adequately
promote safety of flight of civil aircraft"
in violation of federal laws.
The judge earlier had expressed doubt
about his authority to override the FAA
in air safety matters, but in his decision,
he said he had found a precedent for
"providing limits on the administrator's
discretion."
He said he would reconsider his order
if the government can show that the FAA
acted pursuant to the law or if "other
interested parties" presumably
airlines could show the order would
cause them "substantial harm."
Although Robinson's order was
directed at the FAA, it is the National
Transportation Safety Board that has
responsibility for determining the cause
of the Chicago crash.
Photo by Chuck Androoko