—Editorial Opinion
Students and ticket office have to keep both ends of bargain with stadium seating
Joe Student gets up Saturday morning, ex
cited about going to a home football game.
After drinking and socializing at a tailgate
party sponsored.by his club, he and his friends
saunter over to Beaver Stadium and present
coveted senior tickets to the usher, expecting to
see the game from the 20 yard line.
"Section full," the usher says, blocking the
entrance. They go to another senioi. section. A
sign near the entrance says FULL.
Joe and his friends end up in the end zone with
freshmen. •
Overcrowding in student sections has long
been a problem. Students with tickets,
especially in junior and senior sections, have to
arrive at the stadium at 11:45 a.rh. when the
gates open or risk not getting a seat.
Last Saturday at the Rutgers game, all the
students sections were overflowing with
students. Many students with junior or senior
tickets had to stand in line to wait for a seat.
William Meredith, University ticket
manager, said all of the student seats were not
sold out, hut most of them were filled with
students who had jumped the railings from
different sections or who slipped non-student
friends past the usher.
Students who have tickets for a certain
section should sit in their designated areas and
not take up seats that belong to others.
Granted, the seats reserved for students are
A shattered trust
It's not fair. No one cares. Always rules. I have
my own problems. These are just a few phrases
that ring in my .ears from student voices. The
point I always thought was to listen, to try and
help, and to extend myself for students. Need a
phone, use mine, need a quiet plaCe to work, my
office is available. Can't meet tuition, I will help;
pay me back when you. can. My philosophy may
agree with yours; perhaps you behave similarly
with students, friends, etc..
Well. my attitude was altered Friday .af
tei•noon at 5 and perhaps so should yours. I
trUsted a student to remain in my office for a few
seconds while I took care of the student's
curriculum problem. so the student would have
an unanxious weekend and not worry about
being able to graduate. I was already late for my
return home. but placed my belongings in my
desk. When I returned to my office to let the
student learn of the i'esults of my query, the
student was gone and so was my purse.
A purse .is a priyate treasure chest. It goes
beyond the cash lost, the credit cards that need
lo be canceled, and the checking account that
must he closed. It houses momentos from family
and' friends that are not replaceable =the gold
coin from a beloved dead grandparent, the four-
Val clover found when a child. 'and the key ring
given by someone you love. Its loss represents a
piece of yourself. It represents a major violation
oflperson.
For those of you who trust others, be careful.
For those of you who feel I am a sentimental
Kennedy is making the news now for 1984 race
I believe Teddy Kennedy is not running for president
I may have to eat these words within the next few weeks, but
if my hunch is right, he will save his "real" campaign for the
)984 elect ion.
As a columnist, I try to analytically look' at different
situations. and often play "devil's advocate" with the draft of
column to make sure my arguments are strong and sound.
While I wiil admit this is at best, a hunch, I will not go around
claiming psychic powers if I am correct.
Kennedy has developed a carefully planned strategy to win
him the 1984 presidential campaign. Using the "long-term"
approach. Kennedy is jockeying' to insure himself the
Democrat is party's leadership for the next,lo years.
I can see . him entering the 1980 race, only if Jimmy Carter
leads the nation into the nation's second major depression.
I base my theory on several factors.
At the moment, Ted Kennedy is the most powerful Democrat
in the U.S. Senate. and among other committees, he leads the
democratic forces on the judiciary committee, and he is
chairman of the joint economic subcommittee on energy.
Since his election to the Senate at the ripe old age of 30, he
has developed into an articulate, polished orator in the style of
older brother, the late John.
The senior senator from Massachusettg has continued to
develop a talent that is the cornerstone of American politics
a mastery of how to deal with the press.
In addition, Ted Kennedy has the Kennedy "aura" around
him. Devleoped by brothers John and Robert, it is a concept
hardly understood by the unsuspecting American public.
Even I was taken by it, while working as an intern on Capitol
Hill last year. Despite constantly being within an arms reach
of some of our nation's top politicians, I felt a chill up and down
my spine when I got next to Ted Kennedy. The only other
person whose presence was as awe-inspiring on Capitol Hill
was the late Hubert Humphrey.
This mystical attraction makes leaders ihfallable, while at
the same time it allows them a small handful of allowable
mistakes. • '
Teddy Kennedy has , made just three major mistakes. One,
obviously was Chappaquiddick. Another was being a prime
sponsor of the famous S-1 Criminal Code revision bill. And the
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not the most favorable, and one does get tired of
'seeing the goalpost throughout the g . ame.
However, jumping section barriers or sneaking
in friends is cheating other students of their
right to a seat. •
Meredith said many students also could not
find seats because one person often would take
up two seats. Each row of seats holds 16 people,
but more often, 14 or 13 people would take up
the whole row, he said.
Football games are for fun and excitement.
Share the feeling with someone. If a lone
student is wandering and looking for a seat,
move over.
However, the responsibility doesn't solely lie
with student fans.
The University also has a responsibility for
guaranteeing seats to all student ticketholders
who want to go to the game.
Although the total number of student seats
were not sold out, Meridith explained that his
office intentionally oversold the number of
senior section tickets. Meredith said 6,675
tickets were sold for 6,421 senior section seats.
Meredith reasoned that the overflow of
seniors could sit in the junior, sophomore or
freshman sections.
But according to, the strict sales guidelines
that the ticket office distributes each spring,
"seniors and graduate students may sit in any
student seating section."
Letters to the Editor
romantic, question your values. For those of you
who take offense, analyze your behavior.
This campus is large with many unattended
spaces and many types of people. Hopefully, by
sharing my anger, upset and sadness over my
loss, just one of you will give a second thought
about securing your property or a second
thought about not violating someone else's:
Francine 'Deutsch
Assistant professor of Human Development
Sept. 12.
To a thief'
To the person or personsd who stole my CB
antenna last Saturday: I'm handioapped and
require my CB when in in need of assistance. It is
not a toy to me. I hope it fails you in your time of
need.
, Dick Farrell
giaduate-vocational industrial education
Sept. 18
Another toast?
It amazes me, the things money will do. It
bought me a car this summer, and I got my
books too. Also, it seems to have brought
together the town of State College and the
University students. "A toast to town and gown
cooperation," to quote another writer.
The future of the Phi Psi 500 is now safe, and
the interests of town and student alike have
been satisified. The Phi Psi brings money to
many organizations and businesses in the area,
third mistake was beign involved in a college cheating scan
dal.
The way people nowadays view the Mary Ann Kopechne
incident is, "Well, the guy was under pressure and panicked
instead of staying cool." One of the world's greatest writers
once coined the phrase "to err is human, to forgive divine." I
believe the American public is convinced that not only has
Kennedy proven he is an effective leader, but that now he has
learned to deal with and thrive under constant pressure.
Kennedy has atoned for the mistakes of the S-i bill by
working with Congressman Robert Drinan, a highly respected
Massachusetts Democrat, in redrafting an entirely new
comprehensive Criminal Code bill that both liberals and
conservatives agree with.
Ted Kennedy's• third error' caused him to lose honor at his
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and it is not surprising to see the Municipal
Council act so quickly.
Let us look a t•another controversy involving
"town and gown": the proposed Human Rights
Resolution which was before the council early
last year. NO money was involved, just the issue
of human rights.
The council voted against this resolution,
which dealt with issues of discrimination by
landlords concerning cohabitation and sexual
preference. Citizens rose up to protect
"violations" against their Chirstian morals, but
they are in favor of having their streets filled
with many drunken people. The difference ap
pears to be money.
Should we propose another toast?
Commitment
An interesting incident happened to me last
spring. I got interviewed by The Daily Cotlegian
because of my involvement with a committee in
the Undergraduate Student Government Senate.
At least a dozen of my friends congratulated me
for making the news. However, they all were
referring to the fact that they noticed in the
police log the disappearance of my bike.
Because of the incident, I was once again made
aware of the fact that the USG Senate, the
students' representative body, is of little concern
to most University students, so much so that
most students just skip over what coverage the
Collegian gives us. However, I hope to say there
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If the athletic department expects students to
follow the rules, it must also follow through on
its own regulations.A . student who faithfully
attends Penn. State football games for three
years should be able to sit in the senior section
and finally see the action.lt means a lot to many
students to.sit in the senior section. The ticket
office should not treat it as a supply and
demand problem.
The department could rope off a part of
another section where the seats are not sold out
to allow more seniors in. Since season tickets
are purchased in the summer, the athletic
department should be able to better estimate
the number of students in a section.
To curtail the problem of students, taking up
seats they aren't entitled to, tighter checking of
tickets and seats could be enforced by ushers.
Many students know if they get to the stadium
early enough, the ushers are often lenient about
who can enter senior and junior sections. With
all the money being sunk into stadium con
struction,perhaps better barriers could be`
erected between the sections so rail-hopping
into another section could be avoided.
As it stands now, the football ticket
distribution system is not the best, but it's what
the University offers. Unless students and the
University come up with a better solution, they
should make football games an enjoyment for
everyone and not a hassle.
David A. Moskowitz
4th-secondary education
Sept. 14
alma mater, Harvard University. If someone is allowed to be
forgiven for an error while growing up, it seems Ted Kennedy
has been forgiven. He is listed as an "outstanding alumnus,"
of Harvard, one of four people to be so designated. It appears
the cheating scandal of the early 1950's has been forgetten.
Besides being bright and sharp-witted, he has managed to
surround himself with what is often called "Washington's
sharpest minds."
That leads me to believe this is all a hoax. In 20 years in the
Senate, Kennedy has mastered publicity. -
Take, for example, the past two weeks. In only two of the
past 14 days, was Kennedy not on the front page with one
Statement or another. What clued me in to his strategy was
that about the sixth day, Kennedy disappeared from the news
columns._Before the public had a chance to forget about him,
may be a change in that apathetic attitude due to
some recent and future events.
Recent events I am referring to concern some
actions taken by the senate at last Monday's
meeting in 225 HUB. For openers, the senate
decided to set up a mechanism to handle student
grievances. They were given a choice of either
setting .up a standing policy and procedure
committee to funnel student grievances or to
handle all student problems through ad-hoc
committees.
The senate chose the latter method and im
mediately founded ad-hoc groups to work with
the atheletic department concerning the issue of
the price of being number one and to work with .
Ritenour Health Center concerning medical
services. I foresee, soon, - ad-hoc groups being
formed to monitor police services, , study the
Campus Loop situation and find out why the
drop-add fee was raised. These actions them
selves warrant additional interest on the ac
tivities of the senate but there's more.
Last Monday, the senators reaffirmed their
commitment to an active participation in the
various USG executive departments as depart
ment members by defeating a bill which I
sponsored which would have relieved senators of
this responsibility. I had become concerned that
senators were overloading themselves with
work, - work which I believed would have
distracted from senators' primary duty: student
representation.
The discussions in the * senate after debate
during the senate's gathering Monday night
spotlighted that subject of student represen
tation. Senators talked enthusiastically about
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improving representation. For example.
districting town senators was proposed. Ap
parently the senate hasn't lost focus of its
primary dUty despite the additional work it
committed itself to, thus calming my fears on the
subject.
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Yes, each senator, by becoming anaggressivrff
representative, working office hours, ; being
active in ad-hoc committees and executive
departments and just by making Monday night
senate meetings, has committed himself or
herself to more time for student government and
students than those members of past senates
had.
Vic.c..Prv4eut Vicki Sandoe summed it
uti'nfcely '
bight when she said the sucH
cess , of the senate depends •
'abilities of the individual senate members to gel
what they want done. With that thought. I think
our senate members have the will and ability to: .
get what they, on behalf of the students, want
done, so much so that I dare eo say students will
have an interest to follow up on what is hap
pening with their representative body in this
paper in the future.
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Wednesday, Sept. 79, 1979 Page 2
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Editor Business Manager
he announced that his family had said it was all right if he
decided to run —a well-planned. front-page news event:
I think Ted Kennedy is too clever to run for the off ice now.
when he knows it will be handed to him in 1984
Some people may argue it is currently his for the taking. hut
historians will point•out how tough it is to defeat an incumbent
president of the party. 81.
Kennedy strategists are very waQy of challenging..linuit
Carter. In 1984, Ted Kennedy will be all of 52 years old. and one'.
school of thought insists that he will just he nearing hiit;',
political prime. It appears strange that Kennedy would riSW
splitting the Democratic party, when he can wait and grab the
fruit at harvest time instead.
Kennedy has carefully-sidestepped almost all direct linko;
with the Carter administration, joining them in support of
many important pieces of legislation, while criticizing thelit
when the administration has not acted with enough force.
When a national health plan finally passes Congres ,
sometime next year. the credit will go to Ted Kennelly. even if;
the version that passes is not the one he originally proposecl.
Another strong point in my theory is that if KennedY Wei.*
planning to run, he would be out there organizing. Thei-e•has
been no campaign organization binned and no field-Work .
done. The Kennedy's have always relied on top-notch
organization.
Ted Kennedy projects the image of being a winner, and this
is reflected in his nationwide 1980 campaign. •
Even if it is largely
.an image. the press continues to•conj
vince the American public that what we are missing with the
Carter administration is leadership, while'projecting Kennedy
as the obvious future of America.
Whether you support 'him or not, you almost have to be
impressed with his'command of the situation.
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believe Kennedy started the race truly believing hewaS not,
going to run. And I don't think he has changed his mind . .
Kennedy is no fool. He is leaving himself an out, or an it*
waiting to see if the situation changes.
In the eyes of the nation, Senator Kennedy can do praticall4;
no wrong. Once again planning a media blitz, Kennedy-says hel
will make his
,decision within the next half year ,. when he sees.::',
how the economy is doing.
It is common knowledge that we are heading toward ki.l'
recession in January.
'Kennedy is separating himself from the Democratic party to:i,
come out in January and,,say that he's not really splitting t
Pa - rt;Y:-L oi.ii'ilatiOnfr'Ohi 6-depression.
Whatever his reasoning, I must applaud the strategy behind
the Kennedy non-race for President . , . it's Skillful political
strategy that this country has rarely witnessed.. '
Alan Schlehi is a 10th-term, political . science ~maj‘ir- a nd
columnist for The Daily Collegian.
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Sept. EN
1979 Co/legion /or.
Ike's diary calls
MacArthur 'baby'
HOUSTON ,(UPI) Dwight D.
Eisenhower considered Gen. Douglas
MacArthur a temperamental "baby"
and found the chief of U.S. naval
operations so rude he thought he
should be shot, according to a diary
transcript turned up by a Rice
University historian.
• The transcript of the former
preSident's never-before-published
early World War II diary was
discovered among 9 million
dOcuments received at the Dwight D.
Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kan.,
Francis L. Loewe'nheim said.
Loewenheim's account of the diary
was published in a copyright Ties
by the Houston Chronicle. ,
Excerpts from the diary showed
Eisenhower's strong displeasure with
the Navy, particularly Adm. ErneSt
King; chief of Naval operations.
"One thing that might help win this
war is to get someone to shoot King,"
Eisenhower wrote in a March 1942
entry. "He's the antithesis of
cooperation a deliberately rude
person which means he's a mental
bully."
,Eisenhower characterized King as
an. "arbitrary, stubborn type, with
too much brains and a tendency
toward, bullying his juniors!" That
characterization contrasted with
Eisenhower's published descriptions
of King in "Crusade in Europe."
In that post-war book, Eisenhower
remembered King as "a Naval of
ficer of the fighting type, abrupt,
decisive and frequently so blunt as to
frighten his subordinates."
The .diary revealed Eisenhower's
impatience and disenchantment with
MacArthur in the Pacific front while
recogizing MacArthur's successes.
"In many ways, MacArthur is as
big a baby" as ever," Eisenhower
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wrote on Jan. 19, 1942. "But we've got
to keep him fighting."
Four days later, wrien MacArthur
had named Maj. Gen. Richard K.
Sutherland to be his successor in the
event of his death, Eisenhower
wrote: "He picked Sutherland,
showing he still likes his boot
lickers."
When MacArthur proposed a
possible evacuation plan for
President Quezon of the Philippines
in the event of the fall of Bataan,
Eisenhower's diary showed his
reaction: "Looks like MacArthur is
losing his nerve. I'm hoping that his
'yelps are just his way of spurring us
on, but he is always an uncertain
factor."
The significance of the diary,
Loewenheim said, was that
Eisenhower never let it out of his
possession and never allowed
authors, historians or researchers to
view the unexpurgated version.
"When the editors of the
'Eisenhower Papers' published his
wartime records in May 1970, they
had good reason to believe that, with
the principal exception of a small
number of still security-restricted
items and his personal letters to Mrs.
Eisenhower, they would be making
available all of the general's most
interesting and important wartime
papers," Loewenheim said. "They
were mistaken."
Loewenheim determined
Eisenhower's transcript was one of
two copies of the diary and that the
other was ordered destroyed by
Eisenhower in 1945 when he
discovered that Navy Capt. Harry C.
Butcher, his friend •of 20 years,
planned to use portions of it in his own
book, "My Three Years with
Eisenhower."
Athletes get priority, ARHS says
By BILL CASSIDY
and BARB DiOBILDA
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
The Association of Residence Hall Students last night
passed' a motion condemning recent .practices by the
athletic department which it said did not serve the best
interests of all students.
Alan Gedrich (4th-business administration) in
troduced a motion to the association condemning the
administration's partiality in giving varsity athletes
priority to use certain University facilities. .
Two of the
. recent moves by the administration that
Gedrich cited as unfair were the closing of the Rec Hall
jogging track during basketball pracitces and the 67
Miami voters defeat massive property tax cut
Smiling Dade County Iylanager Merrett Stierheim talks to reporters following
yesterday's vote on a property tax tut in the county. The cut, which would have
reduced . property taxes 99.95 percent, was overwhelmingly defeated.
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percent cutback in hours students can use the weight
rooms in the same building.
"The principle of the move bothered me," he said.
"It's disturbing that the trend of the administration is to
cater to the whims of a .few at the expense of the general
student body."
ARHS President Steve Osborn said, "We (ARHS)felt
that we have had a lot of hassles with the athletic
department recently and that some of the actions they
have taken haven't been in the best interests of the
general student body."
In other action, ARHS endorsed a motion to ask
Housing to keep the residence halls open a few hours
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MIAMI (UPI) A mistakenly worded
proposal that would have cut off 99.95
percent of property taxes collected for
Dade County government operations
was overwhelmingly defeated yesterday
in a special election.
With nearly three-fourths of Dade
County's precincts tabulated, the anti
tax cut forces had collected more than 62
percent of the vote. The remainder of the
vote was in favor of the proposal.
Election officials said it appeared that
about 36 percent of the registered voters
took pert in the election.
The anti-tax cut forces were financed
by a $200,000 "establishment" campaign
that buried an underfinanced taxpayers'
revolt.
If the proposal had passed,the county
would have collected only about $91,000,
instead of an anticipated $173 million to
run its police, fire, transportation,
hospital and social services for the next
fiscal year, beginning Oct. 1.
Harry L. Wilson, framer of the tax cut
proposal, admitted he had wanted to cut
the county's operating funds in half.
Instead, the 58-year-old retired pet
supplies salesman incorrectly worded
his proposal to call for only 4 cents worth
of property taxes per $l,OOO assessed
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later this year at the end of Fall Term to accommodate
those students who wish to stay on campus for the
Temple game on Nov. 17, and those who want to return
to the dorms early for the Pitt game on Nov. 24.
The association also:
Announced there will 'soon be a sign-up in
residence hall areas for the escort service program.
Discussed tentative plans for a campuswide in
formational program to combat rape.
Announced its support for the administration's
policy to discourage "cork-popping" during coni
mencement exercises.
Discussed purchasing a sound system to be used in
all residence hall areas for various functions.
valuation, when actually he wanted to
set the tax ceiling at $4 per $l,OOO
assessed.
After a lengthy court battle, Miami's
Dade County Metro Commission made
Wilson stick to the Original wording.
Wilson, nevertheless, campaigned for
the deeper tax slash.
But, at last report, he had spent less
than $2,500 in his effort and was pinning
his hopes on the dissatisfaction of
property owners with rising taxes and
inflated government.
By contrast, greater Miami's political
establishment rose en masse from
union and church leaders to industry.
business and professional leaders to
oppose Wilson. They collected nearly
$300,600 and spent most of it in a cascade
of media advertising.
The special election itself cost voters
$400,000.
County officials said aripi•oval of the
referendum would have resulted in the
elimination of 9,000 jobs in metro
government, including 900 in the police
and fire departments.
Dade County includes Miami and 26
other cities and large unincorporated
areas.
Gov. Bob Graham urged rejection of
the proposal, calling it "too severe."
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