-Editorial Opinion Anger, confusion with BDR may be fixed Nothing is more confusing such as computer science or than the maze of different accounting. But, the world is courses each college and made up of more than com major department demands puters and accountants. What for a student to graduate. separates man from the rest Many students find it mind- of the animal species is his boggling to pick courses ability to create beauty in which fulfill basic degree reality or abstract from his . requirements and major mind. courses along with electives. Contrary to popular con- And those poor souls who census in this economically transfer into a different conscious decade, students college often find their come to college not only for courses aren't acceptable and marketable skills but for an they are delegated back to education. ' about third term. A large percentage of However, the University 'students change their major Faculty Senate hopes to once or several times during remedy the situation by their college career, and the separating required courses reshuffling of credits should into four categories so that make the process a little ; students checking into 'dif- easier. ferent majors can clearly see When colleges and what they need to transfer departments decide how they into another college or major. will reshuffle the credit Six credits in arts and requirements around, they humanities will also be added should remember that while it to University basic is important for students to requirements, Daryl K. prepare for a career, it also is Heasley, chairman of the important for the students to • Senate Committee Affairs, experience a complete said recently. Instead of the education. : I present six credits alloted for The credit requirements for . arts and humanities, students the colleges in the University • : will have to take six credits in .. vary. from 124 for the College each area. of Liberal Arts to about 140 for The change doesn't the College of Engineering. necessarily mean an extra six Some degrees allow a lot of :• credits in total credits for leeway for electives while ' : graduation, Heasley said. The others allow about three total number of credits will credits for electives. depend on each college and Students should have ample • departments being asked to opportunity to take courses revise or redefine their which interest and intrigue majors into four categories: them and not just those University standard "practical" courses. The . requirements, college colleges and departments requirements, major courses with stringent rules should let i • • .and electives. students have some breathing So for one major, it may space for taking courses for mean one extra course of their own enrichment, such as three credits; for . another arts, literature, religion or - major, none at all. ~ .; )(I•, r ;ievenibasket weaving, if they • Some students will frown on' i§ h 1 .2 ' 1 . the change, saying they 09,1.4:, li An college education should . ; want .to take extra "junk," be the time of life where a such as art or humanities, but student prepares for life in all more "practical" courses, aspects. . Pope brings brotherly love back to Philadelphia Making a pilgramage to see Pope John Paul H was quite an ;xperience, a once-in-a-lifetime one, as some people along the away remarked.: • Many persons expected that anyone who journeyed to Philadelphia lag week would be deeply religious. "Are you Catholic," a few persons asked. "No," was my reply. After that it became necessary to :explain that the papal visit was somewhat historic for the city ;Of Philadelphia, that perhaps a million people would attend the ftstivities, and that the pope, as head of the Catholic Church, still retains a powerful influence in many parts of Europe, :Latin America and Asia which sometimes supercedes :respective heads of states. Most people in the United States, or at least the ones I've :come across, including my mother, believe the pope to be just :he head of a religion, akin to a glorified preacherman. His :4ffice, of course, carries international stature for the holder, 'but in a country based on secular principles,, that fact is ;sometimes hard to accept. "Oh," was a typical response to my long-winded reply, at 'least, on this side of Harrisburg. Once across the Susquehanna ;giber, however, I ran into more people indirectly connected :with the papal visit, such as Joe, the AFL-CIO public relations officer. Joe told me that he had gold tickets, the ones reserved for ;the to the pope's Holy Mass on Logan Circle the next :day. But he said he gave them to his wife, a fact we both :regretted since he said he would have given them to me. We parted in Philadelphia, where the television was oc- John Paul II smooth as silk, Smock simply slick BDRrrrrrr "John Paul 11, we want you," the 100,000-person crowd shouted throughout Saturday night, clinging together to keep warm, much like Penn State students do on the overnight lines to get concert tickets. It was an event that will long be remembered throughout this country . I was in Washington, D.C. this past \ weekend, and the pope's visit made me cupied with pre-visit papal coverage. The Market Street Subway carried persons so anxious to see the pontiff that they left home at 2 a.m., and the first wave of police officers settled in to maintain crowd control downtown. Along Logan Circle and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, reserved for last Wednesday's outdoor mass and spotlighted by a huge cross atop the raised altar, the initial shift of police officers was friendly. However, it was still very early, about 3 a.m. The area was still nearly deserted as city workers put the finishing touches on the enormous platform, set up chairs and often slipped away from their duties to catch some sleep in the wee hours. Food vendors, anticipating huge crowds in the morning, slowly began taking their curbside spots. Three hours later, I realized I was in a priviledged position, inside the police barricades, which simply were not there earlier and which proved harder to enter than leave. My While the pope was in Philadelphia, Penn State students were 'treated' to the exploits of a different evangelist, and there was quite a different reaction. John Paul 11, whose baby-blue eyes, boyish smile, humor and humility en thralled Catholics and non-Catholics Slightly sarcastic Penn State and its wonderful housing staff have struck again. Doing all they can to make the Words efficient and Penn State housing mutually exclusive, housing has taken down the tiles from our ceiling. Now we have the great fortune of hearing conversations from the other end of the hallway. Instead of wasting our time by sleeping at 2 a.m., we get to catch up on all the gossip. Since we damage a lot of tiles, housing gets rid of all of them. The reasoning behind the removal of our tiles can be termed as a typical housing reaction. Applying this great logic to other aspects of residence hall living, I propose that all windows be filled in to prevent breakage, and that all fire extinguishers be emptied to prevent any discharges that could lead to further depletion of our general deposits. As a note to housing, this letter was intended to be sarcastic. I don't really expect you to be dumb enough to fill in the windows and empty the fire extinguishers maybe, just empty the fire extinguishers. Remove the plank To Jed Smock, do The Daily Collegian In your lecture, if I may use that term in its most pedantic sense, on Oct. 3, you made an issue of the fact that there is sin because there are sinners, murders because there are murderers, theft because there are thieves, etc., ad nauseum. There is also, Mr. Smock, libel because there are the libellous. In your blanket moral implications about certain female groups here at Penn State two sororities and a female dorm area in a previous tirade, you have not only blantantly insulted every member of these groups, be they "virtuous" or not (which is really none of your business anyway), but also set yourself up for a dandy of a lawsuit. Unless you have some personal seamy experiences to relate, complete with witnesses, perhaps you should be a little more cautious in your verbal assaults, lest ye lose the three piece off your back. I'm not a Biblical scholar, but I seem to remember somewhere from your Good Book a line about taking care of the plank in one's own eye before minding the splinter in someone else's. There is something to be said for preachers who push storybook Christianity upon insecure masses and in the same .breath slander whoever seems convenient. Perhaps in your next lecture you could explain exactly what you call that. Misguided logic Monday's issue of The Daily Collegian devoted three pages to an interview with evangelist Jed Smock heditedleSifiligtq. the pope tomes •to AMeriCa and 'merits O . ' k'threC'lbiu - m - n's.' 3 *AhlioUgh 'this leave§ question to the Collegian's priorities, the point of this "letter is to air our disagreements with the basic logic of Mr. Smock's statements in the interview. The following, we think, are some of his more notable points: One "The person diligently seeking'God is the one / 1 1 itte/ 71m,ixe/t/ think about religion, evangelism, souvenirs, politics and many other Letters to the Editor"' • Mark Berkowitz 11th-psychology and' ociology Resident of 3rd floor Beaver Hall Oct. 8 Michael Peters 7th-architecture Oct. 5 temporary headquarters was the television news control van that KYW-TV used to coordinate its broadcast coverage. "I think this whole thing is silly," the elderly man guarding the van told me. He said Mayor Frank Rizzo had caused a lot of trouble using city funds to pay for the altar. "He isn't paying for it. You and I are, and what good does it do me? It's a great honor for the city, sure, but what are we getting for the money," he asked, not really epecting an an swer. As we talked, more barridades went up, anxious nuns and others started taking their seats for the mass, and the few students from Temple University began waking up from under the trees, where they camped out to reserve vantage viewing points, The mid-morning rain, appearing ominous at first, began to clear up, putting everyone, especially the policemen, in better spirits. I was soon joined at my own waiting spot by three men, two with cameras to record the event, and who happened to be elders of a local Protestant sect. One had very definite ideas of the pope. He told me that the pope was "the Beast" mentioned in the Book of Revelations. His description of the pope brought to mind the legendary figure of the anti-Christ, a sign of the Apocalypse. "Oh, well," I thought to myself, "it takes all kinds to make an event like this." Some were amusing, such as the many spectators carrying signs such as, Hello, P.J. H We love you. Some were distasteful, such as the two men holding up alike, arrived in the United States and was immediately labeled "the people's pope." George "Jed" Smock, on the other hand, a former self-professed "hippie freak-turned evangelist," was met with animosity, insults and verbal fireworks by several hundred University students. Smock, a very polished orator, was very successful in getting students to think about his style of "confrontation evangelism." He was not very suc cessful, however, at getting people to believe in what he was saying. Commenting about atheism, the pope did not dismiss non-believers, instead commenting that all the peoples of the world must work together toward universal peace and brotherhood. Smock instead told people that if they chose not to accept his interpretation of the Bible, they would be damned forever. I sat and talked with Smock at great length to find out why he was doing it, where he was getting his money from and to see what his crusade was all about. He said he was confronting us, with our sins "sex, drugs, booze and rock and roll," because he didn't want to see students wander down the path "toward eternal damnation." God is going to reveal himself to in most cases." The Bible provides many cases in which God revealed Himself to people who were .by no means diligently seeking Him; for instance, Moses at the burning bush, Paul as he was going to persecute Christians, Mary as she slept, and Cain after he slew Abel. Two "Sorcery comes from the Greek word phar makia which is our word for pharmacy. Anyone using drugs illegitimately for altering the state of con sciousness is practicing sorcery." The word sorcery comes from the Middle French sorcier, which comes from the Latin sors, sort, which means fate, not drugs. Fate and drugs are hardly in terchangeable. Three "And then some of these women may fly off .to New York City on Sunday morning to get an abortion, to murder their own babies." Are abortion clinics open on Sunday mornings? Four "College campuses are 'hotbeds' of homosexuality. On practically every campus there's a thing called a 'gay student union.' " A representation of a small minority does not a "hotbed" make. What does he mean by "hotbed," anyway? Do gays converge on Penn State in huge herds; or do the colleges offer many courses in gaiety? We could go on to cite more examples of the misguided logic which is abundant in Jed Smock's interview, but the point should be clear by now: The yea'rs he spent as a hippie on the beaches of North Africa have apparently left deposits of sand in his cerebral membranes. ' He has twisted and fabricated facts to no end. Indeed most of Mr. Smock's points may have some valor, and he may be eloquent in his quotations from selected passages of the Bible, but his over-all distorted* com prehension only tends to make his purpose much less effective, as his logic appears to be in desperate need of salvation. Can't ignore him In response to Timothy Daily's letter, printed Oct. 9: Since Jed Smock arrived at Penn State, many people have had the chance to form opinions about him both favorable and unfavorable. Many dislike and are of fended by Smock's style of evangelism, but these same people apparently find it difficult to ignore him. These are excellent reasons for printing an article on Jed Smock. The reason we have newspapers is to keep us informed on current issues and events. Some people don't like nuclear power or tuition in creases, either, but they will agree that these topics are newsworthy. The coward's way I resenilfOilger`Frank's accusation niade in the Oct. 5 edition of The. Daily Collegian that by stating my disagreements with Jed Smock I am defending opinions that I "really don't belieVe." While listening to a portion of Mr. Smock's condemnation crusade, I found mysdf being repeatedly insulted, and it was impossible to view his prejudiced comments with "quiet acceptance." Just as Jed Smock has the right to express his Gary W. Clark Bth-community development Daiv Schneider 7th-food service and - housing administration Oct. 8 Paul Hebestreit 4th-liberal arts Oct. 9 I was very offended at many of the things he had to say about my Jewish heritage. For example, speaking about Adolph Hitler he said: "If the world would have allowed him, he could have brought peace." He did clarify his statement by explaining that the key to the statement was whether the world would have allowed peace at any cost. ** • % - v,le 47 • iff Meanwhile, the pontiff was eloquent in his speech to the United Nations, in his moving references to Auschwitz. It is "most distressing and overflowing with contempt for man and his fundamental rights -- the extermination camp at Auschwitz, which I visited during my pilgramage to Poland last June," he said. In my four years at this University, Bro Cope, Steve and the rest of the local evangelist 'group have always been tolerable, while preaching what they opinions publicly, I also have the right to challeng those opinions if I so choose. Passivity, Mr. Frank, is the mark of a coward 'You may be next- The brothers of our fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, 1 Would like to take the time to thank the Collegian for the \ chance to speak out on the evil of racism, an injustice to ,( any human being of such magnitude and occurence, must be considered evil. Is • racism a significant ' problem at Penn State? Racism anywhere is significant. It's as subtle as cancer and should be dealt with in the same manner immediately. Our nuinbe and location in an area with no real black Community . with which to relate makesus especially susceptableA to attack. We are further isolated in - the way of air time r / of black music, concerts, or something as basic as food. Very, very, very infrequently are we even covered in your paper. What can be more evil than the systematic erasing of a people's culture?. Think about. it and i you get a chance, do something about it. After cancer doesn't stop- - it spreads: Your people may b next. Face the music With this season's coming of Pure Praric League and Chuck Mangione, the University Concert Committee has answered many of its critics. Yet many students still express- disatisfaction over the entertainment brought to Happy Valley. A common complaint is the big-name bands that play 'Philadelphia and Pittsburgh rarely pass through Happy Valley, even though metropolitan ticket prices frequently do. By the same token, the UCC is strapped by a location far from the maddening concert tour routes, very ,limited on-campus facilities and the seeming unpredictable music tastes of University students. On Tuesday, Oct. 16, The Daily Collegian will focus its weekly Op-ed page on the topic of on campus concerts. If you have any gripes concerning past performances or requests for future acts, please write to the Daily Collegian Editorial Editor, 126 Carnegie (across from Willard). =Collegian * Wednesday, Oct. 10, 1979 Page 2 © 1.979 Collegian Inc. (11., Pete Barnes Marjie Schlessinger. Editor Business Manaai' COMPLAINTS: News' 4ditorial complaints should _he presented to the editor. Business and advertising complaints should be presented to the business manager. If the complaint is not satisfactorily resolved, grievances may be filed with the Accuracy and Fair Play Committee of Collegian Inc. In formation on filing grievances is available from Gerry Lynil Hamilton, executive secretary, Collegian Inc. high their middle finger to the crowd, cursing 'all the bullshit!' under their breath. And others were mildly annoying, like the five virginal looking girls from Scranton Prep sitting next to us having sing -along of modern Christian "popular" music. • A student from the Philadelphia College of Art standing next to me complained about the singing. "Don't they have any feelings for the rest of us," asked the girl, whose only concern was to get a couple of good pictures. Although it was difficult to criticize a person for getting into religion at the site of a papal visit, one's perspective doeS change somewhat when sitting next to it. The pope was delayed in New York City for about 45 minutes. The authorities decided to quicken the motorcade's" pace from the scheduled five to 20 miles an hour. This spoiled the day for the many who waited patiently several hours because the pope simply came and went much too fast. It seemed that it was more important for the "big guys" in Logan Circle to hear their mass on time. Ordinary people take second place. Nevertheless, the general attitude was ecstatic. People felt good about themselves and the day. They had seen the pope, and would tell others about it. - Too bad it took a pope to get people feeling that way. Maybe he should play the U.S. circuit every year. Marc Techner is a 10th-term journalism and Latin American Studies major and a columnist for The Daily Collegian. , believe on the steps of Willard Building. Unlike "Brother Jed," the, pope; preaching the same basic message, was a pleasure to watch." John Paul ll's message was at least as strong' . and powerful as his Penn State counterpart, but I came away with opposite pressions. While I had trouble agreeing with the Pope's pOints, his approach appealed to all people. In a heavily-accented English, John Paul H said his purpose hi coming to the United States was to "serve the cause of world peace, in ternational understanding and the promotion of full respect for human rights everywhere." When the pontiff spoke to the crowd that had gathered overnight on the Washington mall waiting-for the mass to begin Sunday, the pope responded to the chants of "John Paul 11, we want you," by saying "John Paul 11, he loves all of # you." John Paul 11, you are an inspiration to us all regardless of race, creed, color or religious belief. Alan Schlein is a 10th-term political science major and columnist for The Daily Collegian. Susan Kacmar 2nd-liberal ar .OCt• Kevin Brockenbrough Alpha Phi Alpha Oct. rob ems hinder 'Continued from Page 1. "Instead of selling it, we could use the 'material in Centre County," he said. .',"Half the material could be burned as fuel. We could try to sell it to local in ; lustry, or another option would be using it to heat government buildings such as ,the courthouse in Bellefonte, • the State Correctional Institution at. Rockview,_ / schools or the University," Regan said According to the report, glass could be used for road patching material, clean paper could be traded for cellulose based Insulation material, and leaves ) could be used as mulch. I would have to talk to industries such as Chemcut Corp. in State College SAB seeks more student input, consultation The University Student Advisory Board yesterday asked.the administration to work with students before making decisions affecting them. "We're called the Student Advisory Board, but if we're not told anything, how can we advise the ad ministration?" Mindy Morrison, student trustee liaison, said. Morrison spoke for student trustee Dave Hickt6n at the meeting. 4 "All we want to do is give you student input. We're 'just asking that you consider our opinion," she said. The request came amid discussions of the Campus ; Loop fare increase and the automatic tuition increase in the University budget. However, Steve A. Garban, controller for the j. University, said there has been student input. , "There was student input, very well expressed at the \O P ' University Board of Trustees meeting, about 'the .„ 1 automatic 5 percent tuition increase," he said. Morrison said, "This was a drastic change in policy, and what we all find objectionable is that no one told us nor even asked us about it." to find out if they would have a use for these reclaimed materials," Regan said. However, SCS Engineers rejected the refuse-derived fuel systems that Regan is proposing because, "their cost is high, their market uncertain, and storage and transportation of the product can be expensive. "Ferrous recovery alone is • out, because the costs are high and market price fluctuations which large-scale systems can risk and sometimes profit from make small systems insecure," the firm said. "Composting is out because the cost is high, the capital investment is high, and next to no market exists for the product," it said. Incineration for heat, recovery and Garban said he takes the opposite view. "For the first time in several years we gave in dications that there would be a tuition increase. "We're saying to students, 'let's be realistic,' " he said. Garban said the University has never been able to deliver the promise of no tuition increase in the past. "If before you had gone to the:board," Morrison said, "you had just asked for our input, that would be more than we have now." "Maybe the increase in tuition was inevitable, but we're being educated with / innovative _ldeas. All we want is to be informed and maybe discuss it with you," she said. L. Furtado, director of planning and budget, reminded the board that tuition has not been 'set. Tuition could be higher or lower, depending on whether the state Legislature passes the budget. Mark Berg, USG Sehate president, presented the preliminary results of a Campus Loop survey con ducted by the senate. local recycling source-separation got high ratings_ in reliability, waste volume reduction and marketability of products. It also has the lowest net cost per ton $11.68, SCS Engineers said. If the Resource Recovery Plan is used by the borough, one problem would be how to encourage and maintain public support and cooperation, Regan said. "There are two groups of people in State College those who own and those who rent," he said. "How can people be turned on to recycling, especially people who rent?" , Three ways to encourage the public - Philadelphia, asking the agancy to come would be to use recycling revenues to and talk to the council about what op reduce the annual solid wastg charge or tions are available for resource to fund municipal improvements and recovery, Regan said. Concerned consumers read Collegian ads. Right? special municipal projects, the report said. According to a survey taken last spring by the State Energy Extension Service, 75 percent of 106 local residents surveyed want a recycling system and are willing to contribute money to recycling. "The borough is responsible for taxpayers' money, so it can't squander the money on whims," Regab said. "It has to find the best use of public money." On Sept. 14, a letter was sent to the Environinental Protection Agency in The survey, based on 1,056 responses, shows a 44.5 percent decrease in student ridership. If first term students and students with unchanged ridership habits are excluded, the survey shows an 88.2 percent decrease. "We can conclude from the survey that student behavior concerning ridership has changed as a result of the fare increase," Berg said. "We request that the USG Senate see current ridership figures for the fall" so a group„working with the administration, can study the results and discuss alternatives, Berg said, He said the senate considered the Loop a student service and that the. University should underwrite its Ralph E. Zilly, University vice president for business, said the Loop system started in 1972 and has operated at a loss every year. The Fullington Bus Co. owned the route before, but had increasing losses and decreasing ridership. TMI president says plant closure okay HARRISBURG (AP) Herman because the governor has indicated Dieckamp, president of the company he favors plans to go ahead with that owns Three Mile Island, said purifying contaminated water at the yesterday he would not mind if site of the crippled Unit 2 reactor. citizens voted to close the facility Attempting to explain the con forever if they agreed to compensate flicting reports given to the public its owners. • after the accident, Dieckamp said "If a group of citizens wants to vote two to three days passed before plant that in their minds they don't want operators had a reasonable idea of nuclear, plants, I would assume they what had happened. would readily accept the costs of "It was an unfolding event," he 'alternative energy and the costs of said. "The population was on ten confiscating the property involved," derhooks. This was not an airplane Dieckamp, president of General crash. It was a continuing saga." Public Utilities Corp., told the Society The utility executive denied any of Professional Journalists. conscious cover-up and said company "I would be concerned about that representatives revealed what they choice because I'm not sure we have knew at the time. adequately prepared the public to "If our people were guilty of make that choice in an informed anything, it was inadequate way," Dieckamp said. awareness of what they didn't know "I don't think it's wise. I would be at any point in time," he said. against it. But I have no trouble with Dieckamp repeatedly compared it." the situation to the DC-10 plane crash Dieckamp, also acting president of this summer in Chicago, which he Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant said took experts several days to operator and a GPU subsidiary, understand. accused local officials and politicians He said the Federal Aviation Ad of "seizing upon the accident for ministration wrapped up its DC-10 short term political gains, using it as investigation in two weeks while the an opportunity to vent emotions and Nuclear Regulatory Commission is resonate what their constituents want going to take at least a year to decide to hear." whether to re-open the undamaged Too many leaders are unwilling to reactor at TMI. "step forward and move in a con- "I think we know now it will be structive vein," he said. sometime late next summer before However, he excluded Gov. Dick we even have a chance of TMI-1 Thornburgh from that description operating," he said. 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