-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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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,
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almost unlimited power to waive state
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water rights, primary air quality, civil
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and, safety, and antitrust and criminal
laws.
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.
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number of projects. But Sen.J. Bennett
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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
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Any legal challenge to actions of the
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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
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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
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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."
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