-Editorial Opinion State should seek advice of rape programs in ironing legislation To the people who run the Rape Crisis Center on a year-to-year shoestring budget, ,two bills sent to the state senate for increased funding to rape crisis shelters are like presents, under a Christmas tree. However, there's concern that those gifts will be wrapped in red . tape, the same uncutable kind used to wrap many packages from Harrisburg. County Rape Abuse Services coordinator Jacqueline Stutts, although naturally in favor of the proposed funding increase, indicated that the proposal would increase the already im mense amount of grant request applications, which pull center volunteers and ad ministrators away from people tg paperwork. The part of the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended bills 744 and 745 that some people fear would create the paper mountain is the proposed creation of an Office on Crime Victims. The office would serve as statewide coordinator for programs to assist rape and domestic violence victims. Another question raised surrounding the new department is the basis by which funds would be distributed. While a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape said the legislation would unfairly provide the same amount of funding for all programs regardless of size, an aide to the bills' chief sponsor said the money would be distributed depending on each center's need. Other spoiled brats Dear Mr. Micklo, Are you out of your mind? For your-and/or simplicity's sake, rape means "assault." In this. case, "assault" means an unlawful violent attack. "Unlawful" means illegal, so, I wouldn't try it if I were you! And "violent attack" means someone is going to get hurt as'in OUCH! This "ouch" can lead to an even bigger "OUCH" as in DEMISE! In other words Douglas, GROW UP! As a twenty-four-year old self-supporting woman, I . find it very difficult to deal with my own emotional or ego problems (not to mention financial, I do not think I should be responsible for .the educatioti,7 reformation, or rehabilitation of sexual deviants, male graduate students and other spoiled brats! More compassion To David Micklo, in reply to his astounding letter to the - Collegian on September 17, 1979: We are L extremely appalled with the manner in which you have used your fine writing ability to reduce females to such non-thinking, devious, totally seductive creatures. Equating the consented sexual activity between a man and a woman with a criminal rape is horrifying. • Victims of rape have not been engaged in a flirting game, but have been brutally offended. It is unspeakable to justify a rape regardless of how a woman choses to dress or act. The crime lies purely with the assualter and not with the woman who is simply exercising her right to walk alone. Evidently, you have not attempted to understand what it feels like to be utterly petrified by the fear that one may be attacked upon the simple wish of a solitary stroll. This fear infringes upon our freedom to be alone, and any defense 'of such a ghastly act is unjustifiable. Tattered sneakers return to closet Confessions of a jogger outcast In this world of long distance, short distance and around-the-block runners, I am a jogger outcast. I do not own a pair of orange running shoes with glow in the dark running stripes and padded soles, no sporty running shorts and no T-shirts that proclaim,"l Sur vived The Boston Marathon," or "Joggers Do It With Stamina." Perhaps the closest I ' get to jogging paraphernalia is a pair of K-Mart sneakers left over from high school gym class and a pair of my brother's dirty sweat socks that found their way into my laundry basket. Sometimes I feel ashamed that I do not enjoy run ning. It seems as if the whole world is running for fun and health, and I am being left behind at the breakfast table munching a jelly donut. But after attempting to join the rest of my species in what seems to be the national sport, I have chosen to defect from the jogging route. My first and last serious attempt at jogging was last Spring Term when I began running with my roommate. Before that, I only ran when I had to catch a bus or give the dog a workout. At that point, I did not despise running, I just never went out of my way to do it. It seems highly insane to remember I actually wanted to begin a jogging program. Everyone else was doing it and they all looked so happy, healthy and socially, well-adjusted that I just had to try it. I en visioned myself becoming so good at running that I Surprise package Barbara •J. Weaver sth-religious studies Sept. 17 a}rll Clearly, the mechanics of the new office and funding distribution system'have not been hammered out. While the Senate judiciary Committee should be commended for focusing government, at tention on a social problem greatly in need of it if the immediate fears aren't addressed the gift will be a disappointing one. If bills 744 and 745 are passed by the legislature, the newly-created Office on . Crime Victims would be well-advised to start by gathering input from. the 26 rape and 19 domestic violence centers across the state. The centers know best the aspirations and limitations of volunteer-based operations. Currently, the Rape and Abuse Services division of the county Women's Resource Center operates wih but one full-time CETA employee, funded on a year-to-year basis; two half-time positions, the grants for which will expire next month; and volunteer help. The center assures that it'll be able to con tinue with 75 percent funding from a governor's continuation grant ( which required six weeks of paperwork) and 25 percent via the United Way. But as a local representative for the state Coalition Against Rape puts it: "You can't Wild a .professional staff on one-year funding. It should be more than a one-year thing." Now that the state is providing the attention, and hopefully the funding, the crisis centers should provide the direction. Letters •to the Editor We hope that in the future you will write with a more acute sense of human compassion A case of street One of the most rude and bothersome forms of advertising is the forced . handing out of flyers. While those who do the soliciting - have First Amendment rights to express them selves,they liave no right to physically force something on the public. We all have, at one time or another, encountered such a solicitor who perhaps is merely doing his or her job. After registration, for instance, I was bombarded with New York Times, magazine subscription flyers and religious questionaires. The solicitors strategically guarded the exit door of the Intramural Building to hit the massive number of students. Many charity flyers or religious pamphlets are offered douwntown. The Hare Krishna group in particular stands out. I have not yet encountered a member, but I have seen scores of others walk out of their way to avoid the "physical" ad vertising. The other night my doorbell rang and when I opened the door, a pleasant looking lady stood there with a stack of could enjoy it, lose weight and someday end up leading a pack of Olympic runners through a flaming autumn countryside. Those bouts of motivation did not last long. I ran with my roommate as she jogged merrily around the perimeter of the north end of campus. To me, it felt like the distance from here to Moscow. She kept insisting it was only five miles. I gasped and perspired like an overworked race horse. She chatted, did not sweat and kept'up an even pace of about 500 miles per hour. At the end of our run, I doubled up in pain akin to appenrlicitis.l was sure I would never move again and as soon ,as the blood stopped coursing through my veins at race track velocity, I told her so. "Nonsense," she said. "You just aren't in shape. A few weeks of this and you'll love it." I doubted I would live to see the light of the following day, let alone do this repeatedly to grow to enjoy it. But sure enough, a day later, we were back to the same thing. My marathon partner told me I would soon find it easier to run because I would achieve a natural high. All I could think about was filling my tortured lungs with oxygen and getting my mind off the pain that was shooting up my legs. I theorized that in order to forget about my increasing pain and decreasing willpower to live, I would have to be about as high as a cat sniffing Xerox printing fluid. I wondered how anyone achieved this high. Is it a lack of oxygen to the brain brought on by forgetting to gasp in air because you are thinking about keeping your legs moving? If it is, I can do the same thing by holding my breath until I faint. Somehow, I must never have been destined to be any kind of runner. I gave it the " old college try" for several weeks and then sporadically . for , several months. But never once did I achieve any sense of accomplishment aside from the fact that I cheated death from a wicked victory along my jogging route. Gone forever were .the romantic images of my leading a pack of runners through the autumn coun tryside in my matching warm-up suit and glow-in-the dark sneakers. I never ever felt romantic while I ran. I • Pat DiFeliciantonio 6th-physical education Nancy Kiscaden 10th-individual and family studies Sept. 19 felt, at best, like a sweaty, three-legged buffalo. When I ran in a group, I felt like the same buffalo in a pack of sweatless gazelles. I retired my K—Mart sneakers to the back of my closet and devoted what was left of my energy to simple existence: From that point on, I realized that if I had to run for a bus, I would probably catch it, but would not outrun it to my destination. Amy Smith is an 11th-term journalism major and a staff writer for The Daily Collegian. I CAN Ake nieß DecoNT plscos. IcAN 'Re 1114 COCKON FRANCHISES AND iRAIaTA Mckiles.lCAN eveN ST6MAGI Tflelß eiwiNmes AND Biel MACS ~,BUT ENOUGH Is eNoua4 Don't want a solution Another pro-rape letter from Doug Micklo! Apparently he is a member of the KKK (Kinder, Kirche, Kueche) School of Slavery a woman's place is in the home, with the doors and ' windows barred. solicitor blues pamphlets on Jesus Christ. Shetave one to me, smiled and left. On bad days, ' I refuis,e:to take any flyers. On mediocre days, I accept them,' take•them hoine anthread them. On good da'ys; I-- accept them, and throw them into the first waste can I see. Last Monday night, the State College Borough Council - .L.- adopted ordinances that will protect the community from bothersome peddlers and solicitors. People wishing to engage in this activity will have to buy an annual license for $lOO. With Moonies troubling many citizens, concern by the council for the public welfare has naturallyincreased over the past couple of years. Municipal Manager Carl B. Fairbanks said State College gets about 10 serious complaints about transient solicitors a year, but "when the Moonies are in town, it's 100 a day." Soliciting invades our privacy. On the other hand, newspaper and television advertising is roughly regulated to protect the consumer. We pick up a newspaper and turn the television on when we want to. We read posters and billboards when we want to. Free advertising, if there is such a thing, is the cheapest. It is also the most bothersome. Newspapers, magazines, television and radio are designed to give paid advertisers an outlet to sell their product. - However, solicitors who try to get away with free ad vertising do not have the right to invade our privacy. Bob Montgomery is a ninth-term journalism major and a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Grade school wasn't the breeze you think it was A kid in the eighth grade shifts his weight from one foot to the other as he stands in the principal's office. He knew he should not have thrown that spitball, but it seemed like the thing to do at the time. Now he is worried about, how long his parents will ground him. His stomach knots as the principal steps into the room. A college student lights a cigarette in his room. Ws 7:30 p.m., and he's still hung over from last night's party. He knows he's going to have to call his girl to apologize for his behavior last night. The sad part of it was that he doesn't remember what he did. But everybody laughed, so he forgot about it and had another beer. He reaches for the phone and wishes he was back in elementary school when he had no worries... No matter what your term and major are, you've been in a situation when you thought the •world was about to end because you blew' it, whether it was because of throwing spitballs in eighth grade or insulting people at a party. When it came time to reckon for your deeds, you got that same knot in your stomach, your voice 'would waver and your palms would start to sweat. No matter how Rape is a social control mechanism to keep women terrorized. If women are afraid to leave home, they won't cause. Micklo any trouble (like organizing to demand their rights). Unfortunately, Micklo's position isn't fundamentally tki,e,- ferent from that of the administration and most male student& faculty and townspeople. -It is their indifferent, insensitive attitudes that allow this violence to continue. - ' They all want to keep women under the control of men. The "escort service" proposed by the administration is designed to continue women's dependence on men. This is anon -solution., Men have raped women for a long time. Men have been power for a long time. Rape helps keep them in power. The don't want a sokitign. I 'IU I It) ) Robert L. Twitehel graduate-feminist T studi4 ' Sept. 18 Collegian Thursday, Sept. 20,1979 Page 2 197.5To'logien Inc. Marjie Schlessifiger Business Manager BOARD OF EDITORS: Managing Editor, Harry Glenn; • Editorial Editor, Andy Ratner; Assitstant Editorial Editor, Maryann Hakowski ; News Editors, Gina Carroll, Bruce Becker; Copy Editors, Vicki Fong Paula Froke, Lynne Johnson, Jim McCanney, Marc Techner, Beth Rosenfeld, Dave Van Horn; Photo Editor, Chip Connelly; Assistant Photo Editors, Dave Kraft, Sherrie Weiner; Sports Editor, Jot Saraceno, Assistant Sports Editor, Denise Bachman; Arts Editor:" Diana Younken; Assistant Arts Editor, P.J. Platz; Features Editori Lynn Osgood; Graphics Editor, Della Hoke; The Weekly Collegian Editor, Allen Reeder; Assistant Weekly Collegian Editor, Betsy Long; Office Manager, Jackie Clifford. . Pete Barnes Editor BUSINESS COORDINATORS: Layout, Cindy Bond, Terri Gregos, Cathy Norris; Co-op Advertising, Mary Jane Carson; Marketing, Mark Friedberg; Special Projects, Bob Belichak. Fantasizing about the good old days will not help solve the problem. The human biain does not have the ability to concentrate about two things at once, so for every second you spend dwelling on the error, you lose that amount of brainpower that could have been spent on the solution. When you're faced with a problem, • don't wish you were back in eighth grade standing in the principal's office, because at that time, that problem was paramount to you. When Jou were standing there you didn't think, "Boy, I'm glad I'm not in college with all the worries those people have. Gee. I'm only an eighth grade wise-ass that's gonna get' a detention for fooling around. It could be a lot worse." More than likely, you stood there shifting your weight from one foot to the other, and your stomach knotted when the principal walked in. The next time you're sitting in your room procrastinating an apology or wishing you stayed home to study' , instead of going out, don't waste your time reminiscing about grade school: "It was so much easier then." It wasn't. The troubles you had then were as serious for an eighth-grader as your collegiate problems are now. Wishing you were a kid doesn't help the situation. Not only does it waste time, but it's an incorrect fantasy. Mike Sillup Is an 11th-term jour nalism major.and a staff writer for The Daily Collegian. 1 : 44 / 76 0 . 0147406/ /1 / serious the problem, you would get the same symptoms of acute ner vousness. Energy board voted power WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Energy- Cbnarnitt,ee voted 8-1 yesterday to give a proposed energy mobilization board only limited power to override federal, state and local laws in speeding action on high-priority energy projects. The Senate version of legislation to put energy projects on what is being called a "fast track" appears to lie Between 0 10 'widely differing bills already approved by the House Interior and COrnmerce committees. Still awaiting final action' by, the committee, the Senate bill would give the board,'no general authority to waive federal,'tate and local 10,vs except 0111 where specifically author4ed in the proposed law. The House Interior Committee ver sion, generally... supported . by en vironmentalistS. and state and local officials, would . deny the board any authority to override state and local ( *laws. ; -The House Commerce Committee bill, Italians rocked by e•arthquake ROME (AP) - . An earthquake struck Italy shortly before midnight yesterday from L.,'Aquila in the north's Appennine Mountains to Naples in the south, shaking buildings, shifting furniture and sending thousands of persons running into the streets. ,There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. In the Rome and the Vatican, walls of, palaces and .churches shook Chandeliers swayed and beds isRAEL LOW COST FLIGHTS X-mas/New Years * Inteisession * Easter - (212) 689-8980 Outside N.Y. 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For the second straight day, the Senate panel refused to go along with a demand by,Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, that the board be given more power. "I don't think it goes far enough," the assistant Senate Republican leader said. Stevens cast the lone vote against approving the provision. A lack of a quorum late in the day prevented the committee from com pleting -work on the bill and further consideration was put off until Thur sday. The Senate version differs from the two House.bills in still other ways. The House Interior bill would allow a maximum of 24 projects on the "fast track" at any one time, while the Commerce version would set no limit. slid on the floor. Dogs barked and children cried while anti-theft sirens of thousands of cars were set off by the earth's movement. There were reports of panic scenes in dozens of cities and towns from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Adriatic. The U.S. National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the quake was centered in the heart of Italy and measured 5.8 on the Richter scale. 1---mumulemmowismemi Sigma Pi's Thanks so much for our "bubbly" evening. We are all excited to be' #1 I in homecoming '79! I u 030 the Chi O's EVERY THURSDAY IS "THIRSTY THURSDAY" GET A FREE SOFT DRINK ITH ANY PURCHASE OVER ,$l.OO enjoy our daily special: a taco, homemade chili and corn chips for.only $1.09). PhPile,to(itake,ciut •,, 234-4725 131 S. Garner St. (near the corner of College and Garner) Want To Know Some Background On Courses? Like To Know What You're Registering For? Then COURSE SELECTOR May Give You Some Answers! Stop By 203-4 HUB To Pick One Up! ACADEMIC ASSEMBLY 865-9111 The Senate bill, like the House Com merce version, would put no limit on the number of projects. But Sen.J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., said the committee would urge in its report on the legislation that, the board not lower the priority of projects by approving too many at the same time. Before giving up for the day, the committee voted 12-0 for a "grandfather, clause" that would let the board waive federal, state and local laws adopted after the start of construction on a high priority project. - However, it provides no waiver be granted unless the board finds it necessary "to ensure timely, and cost effective completion" of the project and that it would not endanger the public health or safety. Any legal challenge to actions of the board would go to a Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals, from which appeals could be taken only to the Supreme Court. Moslems will fight Marxists in Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) Moslem rebel leaders yesterday spurned an offer of amnesty from Afghanistan's new president and vowed to fight until an Islamic government was established in Kabul. President Hafizullah Amin, who assumed power after his predecessor, Nur Mohammad Taraki, was shot and killed, had also pledged moral and financial support.for Islamic religious leaders—provided they confined their teaching to religion. "We know Haffizullah Amin will try to deceive the Afghans, but our struggle will continue with greater missionary zeal," Mohammad Yunus Khalis, Afghanistan's religious leader, said in a telephone interview from Peshawar, Pakistan. Khalis, 60, said the death of Taraki BRITS y start Jim Rothdeutsch (11th-civil engineering) is making sure he's not quite as desperate as other students will be around mid terms time. elevation to power had produced a split in the ruling Kalq Party and has "encouraged us to take advantage of the situation." "We will have no compromise with Hafizullah Amin, who does not believe in Islani and is a devout Marxist," Khalis said, speaking on behalf of the Moslem rebels seeking.to overthrow the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. In his promise of amnesty for those who had fled Afghanistan for Pakistan and Iran, Amin said many people had been hoodwinked into leaving by person's who wanted to maintain the old feudal order. Reports reaching New Delhi said Amin's hold on power in Kabttl was shaky following numerous purges in the government. and Amin's 0 . • %. The Daily Collegian Thursday. Sept. 20. 1979-3 Amin's offer of amnesty was made at a meeting of tribesmen in Kabul. His remarks were broadcast in a Pushtulanguage bulletin over Radio ' Kabul late Tuesday night. He stressed the brotherhood of the Pushtan tribesmen and said those who returned to Afghanistan could live where they chose, provided they cooperated with the government and ceased political activities. • Amin also emphasized the importance of Islam in his speech to the tribal leaders. Islam is the state religion of Afghanistan. "We respect Islam and respect mullahs whose ac tivities are confined to mosques and teaching of religion and who support our revolution," he said. "We respect them and will provide them with financial assistance." Photo by Janis Burger 4 ,9 Q .0 •*f \ ~.:
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