15°
the
daily
USG night map source of controversy
Candidates
By LORRAINE CAPRA
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Undergraduate Student Government
presidential candidate Joe Healey said at
ti last night's presidential debate that he
7eceived no help from USG on the Penn
'State Night Map and was justified in
!Putting his name on the map.
) Healey said the senate formed an ad
hoc committee to help him after he had
told it his idea of the map. However,
'after four weeks all members left the
liommittee and Healey worked on. the
;map alone, he said.
"I went to the senate seven times after
that and submitted lists of the places
that needed checking, but no one gave
helpexcept one person from the
'Association of Residence Hall
'llgtudents," he said.
However., presidential candidate Dave
Pritchard said Healey should have given
the USG Senate credit on the map, in
stead of "just putting Joe's name all
over it.
"I agree the map was very well done
and Joe does deserve recognition, but
the senate does too," he said.
An audience member questioned
Healey about ARHS' refusal to reim
' burse him $6O for the map.
Healey said ARHS President Steve
Osborn said he would reintroduce the
ilProposal after the elections.
He also said he did not ask the senate
for money because USG's funds are low
'and "I didn't think it was important
enough to ask for a bill.
"It's not my responsibility to say what
organization, including USG, should give
44vhat amount." Healey said. "They
should respond to me instead of me
asking them."
However, Pritchard said Healey; not
the senate, should make the first move.
Panel questions centered on the in
ternal workings of USG. Senate
*President Mark Berg asked the can
didates to define the power of the USG
executives and senate.
Presidential candidate Charles P.
Kennedy said executives lead the ad
ministration but they are balanced• by
the checks of the senate. He said the
main problem in the senate is its loss of
r 4 edibility
"I've come out of the senate and I've
Senator .
By JUSTIN CATANOSO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
U.S. Sen. Richard S. Schweiker, R-Pa., has strongly denied a
conflict of interest accusation made by a Philadelphia labor
coalition that is opposing legislation written by the senator.
The accusation concerns a bill designed to regulate the
Oithority of the Occupational Safety and Health Ad
ministration.
The bill, sponsored by Schweiker and three other senators,
was introduced two months after a company Schweiker and
his family were associated with was cited by OSHA for safety
code violations.
Schweiker strongly denied the accusation, calling it "ab-
Cutely false and a disgusting slur," in a statement issued
immediately after the accusation
The company, American Olean Tile, was issued a citation on
Oct. 4 for allegedly exposing workers in its Lansdale, Pa.,
plant to high lead concentrations and excessive noise. Olean
was fined $6,500 and told by OSHA to make corrections, ac
cording to the New York Times.
gt Olean was controlled by the Schweiker family but was sold
to the National Gypsum Company. According to the senator's
statement, he "resigned all positions with American Olean
Company when he entered Congress in 1961." However, he and
his family now own at least s33o,oooworth of common stock in
National Gypsum.
With that in mind, the Philadelphia labor coalition grew
slispicious of Schweiker after it learned of the Occupational
Safety and Health Improvements Act of 1980 (S. 2153) that the
II 4EDITIO
‘‘WAKE. Qp4ot.) 1010'n! COMPUTER NO. oNe moves
QuCc-pi To PAWN ,BisNof , -nipee.Hl
Computers move slowly looking'for mate
Oh, the pastimes of educated minds. engineering) have done away with the
If it's true that simple minds are furrowed brows and even with the
simply amused, it would appear that thinking.
complex minds are complexly amused. Both Glew and Dignan own chess
Playing checkers is usually computers a computer programmed
associated with sitting around a to play chess against you and have
Cracker barrel at Clem's General Store, pitted them against one another.
while playing chess is usually According to Glew, the game has
associated with sitting around a college been going on a week now with only four
library with furrowed brows. moves having been made.
However, Tom Glew (9th-computer It's too early to tell who's . . . er . . .
science), and Dale Dignan (Bth-nuclear what's winning.
W 202 PATTEE
•
Friday, March 21, 19130
Vol. 80, N 0.136 22 pages
• University Park, Pa. 16502
debate issues on USG Senate
witnessed enough misuse of power. The
senate has to have the respect of the
students and administrators back now,"
he said.
Presidential candidate Stephen
Reeves said the senate should not have
absolute power, but should monitor the
performance of the executives, and limit
the execlitive's spending.
Presidential candidate Joe Kreta said
the executives and senate are equal and
can work together by improving com
munication.
All of the candidates said any major
changes in their administration would go
through the senate before they were
enacted.
Fortner JEM Productions business
manager Ernie Hicks 'asked the can
didates what they will do with USG's
money.
Healey, Kennedy and Pritchard said
they could not answer the questidn and
would consult a business expert on
USG's financial affairs.
Reeves said the money. "should be
funneled back into student organizations
and services and maybe someday invest
in a store."
rejects charge
4 COPIES
Joe Healey (second from left), Undergraduate Student Government presidential candidate, told students at a USG can
didates' debate last night that he received no help from USG in compiling the Penn State Night Map and was justified in
putting his name on it. Listening are, from left, Healey's running mate, Andy Weintraub, and candidates Ray Leach and
Charles Kennedy.
senator introduced with three co-sponsors on Dec. 19
According to a spokesman for Schweiker, the bill would
"target OSHA inspectors to those industries, companies and
plants where the most serious injuries take place."
The spokesman said that, because of a limited number of
inspectors, OSHA is only able to inspect 2 percent of American
industries. Two-thirds of those places inspected, he said, never
have safety problems.
"What the senator is saying," Schweiker's spokesman said,
"is 'let's target OSHA inspectors to where the likelihood of
injuries is the greatest, based on workmen's compensationand
other company records ' "
According to the Times report, however, the Philadelphia
coalition sees the proposed bill as an attempt to reduce the the
agency's authority to conduct random and unannouced safety
inspections, thus reducing its ability to ensure worker safety.
Coalition chairman Curt Wiblesaid Schweiker's introduction
of the bill, while still maintaining interests in a company af
fected by the safety and health agency, "certainly looks as
though there would be a conflict of interest."
In his statement, Schweiker said he began working on the
bill Feb. 5, 1979, nearly eight months before Olean was cited
for violations. Also, the statement said the senator "was
totally unaware of any OSHA activity at the American Olean
Tile . company until March 14." . .
Labeling the labor coaliton's accusation "an obvious smear
campaign," Schweiker's spokesman said he did not believe
any investigation into the senator's private interests would
materialize because of it.
Chris Cobb, Kreta's running mate,
said the money could be used for student
loans; the campus loop and ARHS' book
co-op.
USG Vice President Vicki Sandoe
asked the vice presidential candidates
how they would conduct senate meetings
and encourage the senators to work.
harder.
Cobb said the senators should know
each other better and should have small
gatherings during the week to talk about
their programs.
Pam Nesky, Pritchard's running
mate, said the senate is run by people
with strong personalities and she would
get all of the senators involved in
decisions.
"I also think the senate shouldn't be
bogged down with financial aspects,"
she said.
Chris Calkins, Reeves' running mate,
said any senator who misses more than
two meetings will be fired.
s. "In the, past years the senate was sort
Of a money allocating : group," he said. "I
will stress dorm senators working with
their government and town senators
working with the Organization for Town
Waitress won't rob
customer of service
One of the signs of a good waitress is
remembering her customer's orders.
According to a United Press In
ternational story, a doughnut shop
waitress in Houston did just that
recently when a regular customer tried
to cut in line.
She told the man she knew what he
wanted and he would have to wait while
she waited on the customer before him.
The waitress recognized the
customer because, police said, he was
allegedly in the process of robbing the
store for the fourth time in two weeks.
Slim Whitman fans
party in West Halls
Anyone who has ever watched
television has probably seen those
ridiculous record commercials offering
something like "The Best of Heimi
Goatwad and the Sleepy Tyme Five."
And every few weeks or so a new star
of these advertisements emerges the
latest being Slim Whitman, an alleged
country singer.
A group of men in West Halls have
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State 'University
Independent Students."
Andy Weintraub, Healey's running
mate, said each new senate is not aware
of its duties, and he will hold a special
orientation program with past USG
members to explain the workings of
USG. He also said each senate com
mittee will meet every other week "to
make sure things are done."
Ray Leach, Kennedy's running mate,
said the executives will work more
closely with the senators to fill their
duties.
The candidates were asked if they
were willing to eliminate the executive
stipend money to provide more funds for
student services.
Leach said he and Kennedy would
work without the money because the
experience is valuable.
Reeves and Healey said they would
eliminate the money and base the
stipends on need.
Kreta said the executive positions are
full-time jobs and' he is "in - favor •of
paying because_they take 'fas - ' lot of the
executive's time."
Pritchard said the stipends help the
students with their tuition.
Aiieeyyy!
Charlie Millman (left), vice president of the Penn State Karate Club, practices moves from Isshinryu karate at a club
demonstration in White Building last night. Isshinryu karate originated in Okinawa, Japan, and is one of many styles of
weaponless defense.
organized a Slim Whitman party to be
held tomorrow night. Bob Mooney
(11th-accounting), one of the organizers
and treasurer of the unsanctioned Slim
Whitman fan club, said they have
Whitman's album and plan to raffle it
off at midnight.
"We're thinking about dressing up
like Slim Whitman, with the moustache
and slicked-back hair," Mooney said.
But no decision has yet been made.
And no, Mooney said, it won't cost
$9.95 to get in and those who arrive
early won't get a free disco dance book.
Times are rough;
Englishman for sale
And you thought indentured servitude
went out with three-cornered hats.
According to a United Press In
ternational story, an unemployed
English teenager placed ad
vertisements in American newspapers
offering to sell himself to the highest
bidder because he didn't want to be
classified as a "layabout."
Steven Upton placed ads in
newspapers in Texas, California and
Florida that read: "19-year-old English
boy for sale to highest bidder in return
for a new life in America. Would like to
'Oaf **
- 4 :=
-VAN
.1„, ,
~~~~
x ~ra~~~
". ~.
Deposits
jeopardy in case
By JOYCE VENEZIA
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Laurel Glen apartment tenants should
not be affected by the owner's
bankruptcy case and should receive
their security deposits when their leases
expire, according to Laurel Glen's at
torney Robert Knupp.
Knupp also said a recent classified
advertisement in the Wall Street Journal
listing the apartment complex for sale
was a fraud.
"The ad was placed by an
unauthorized person who had no con
nection with Laurel Glen," he said. "I
have no answer for his motive."
Laurel Glen Inc. has entered into a
mortgage agreement with'the Rochester
Savings Bank and the Home Savings
Bank of upstate New York. The cor
poration has until April 30 to obtain a
loan to discharge the mortgage.
"If Laurel Glen does not obtain a loan
by that time, it does not mean
foreclosure,"
mean
said. "It would
probably mean that Laurel Glen
wouldn't be the owner in the future."
Bankruptcy proceedings began in
June 1976, and all security deposits have
been paid back to tenants since then. The
Federal Bankruptcy Court in
Sadat wants
By United Press International
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat may
remain in the United States after his
meeting with President Carter next
month in the hopes of turning the talks
into a Camp David-style summit with
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Begin, diplomatic sources said
yesterday. •
The sources in Cairo said that
American and Egyptian officials hope to
make enough progress in the talks to win
Begin's agreement for a summit whose
goal would be to break the 10-month-old
deadlock in the Palestinian autonomy
negotiations.
"This is intimately tied in with the
Persian Gulf stability, with the threat to
Southwest Asia by the invasion by the
Soviet Union and the energy supplies for
our country, and also the whole
dependence of our nation on imports of
oil from foreign countries," Carter said.
Sadat, in an interview published in the
Israeli newspaper Maariv, said both he
and Begin must bring "new ideas" to
break the deadlock when they visit
Washington for separate meetings with
President Carter next month.
"I am still convinced that without new
ideas from me and from Begin it will be
difficult to reach concrete agreement,"
k ' \
_. , .
-iN t . i . :1,. .4 , ~.
' X '
li ‘ k .. . -'.: .. 4
.. ''., . .:, ‘
::,'!' ; ; . 10'
•A , 't A .
. ,
work on a ranch. Will pay my air
fares."
"He just wants to go to America," his
mother said. "It's so hard to find work
here, and it's really different over
there.
"Job opportunities here are
hopeless," Upton told a British
newspaper. "Since leaving school when
I was 16, I have had only two jobs
working briefly in an office and on a
building site.
I wonder if anyone in the French
Riviera is willing to purchase a 21-year
old American boy.
Poster found, cheap
price is advertised
It's amazing what turns up when you
do spring cleaning.
Ask Paul Ott (9th-accounting) or
Scott Fahringer (6th-electrical
engineering) who found an unusual bit
of Penn State history in Ott's Lyons
Hall dormitory room.
Last year, Ott said, he was hanging
posters temporarily with masking tape
when a few friends came by to go to
lunch. When he returned, the posters
were gone. He speculated they fell
behind a bolster (a cabinet attached to
not in
Harrisburg has an escrow fund of
$350,000 which can be used by court
order for any use, including payment of
security deposits.
The fund was put up by Dan Melnick of
U.S. Management Corp. in Atlanta, Ga.,
the former manager of Laurel Glen.
Property Management, Inc., which
manages Executive House and Park
Forest Apartments, has been managing
Laurel Glen since Feb. 4.Property
Management was placed at the complex
under agreement with Laurel Glen and
the banks. Both wanted a local company
in the event of a change of ownership.
"The company will continue to honor
all leases," Knupp said. "And there is
nothing in the history of the project
which shows default of security deposits.
"Nobody anticipates failure," he
added. "In the event that the loan is not
paid, Property Management will take
over for the banks."
In related matters, building code
violations have been corrected in living
areas in Laurel Glen, Code Enforcement
director David Beitz paid.
And all sewage service payments are
currently up to date at the complex, a
representative of the Patton-Ferguson
Joint Authority said.
April summit
Sadat said. "Without agreement bet
ween me and Begin, the ministers
participating in the autonomy talks will
not arrive at real results."
The official Egyptian news agency
Mena said Sadat will confer with Carter
on April 8-9 and then spend "several
days" touring. the United States, ap
pearing at universities, while Begin
meets Carter in Washington.
Diplomatic sources added Sadat will
be available to return to the White House
on short notice if Carter thinks that a
Camp David-style summit is called for
and if he can convince Begin to agree to
one.
Begin has not announced his travel
plans yet but Israel's state-run television
Said he would make a 48-hour visit to
Washington sometime between April 9
and 15.
Begin, who said on Wednesday that he
sees "no reason and point in budging"
from Israel's position, has said he is
bringing no new ideas on the autonomy
question.
' But Oit another issue, he told a visiting
delegation from the U.S. National War
College yesterday that he favored a
trilateral defense pact between the
United States, Egypt and Israel
the wall), never to be seen again.
That is, until about a week ago, when
Fahringer stopped to see Ott and they
talked about the missing posters.
Fahringer suggested that Ott loosen the
screws on the bolster and maybe the
posters would fall out.
The pair loosened the screws and
sure enough, a few posters fell out
the.two Ott lost the previous year and
one other one, a bit older.
It advertised the new year of
productions from the Department of
Theater Arts and the Penn State
Players. A season ticket for five
production cost $4.00. The productions
were slated for the 1961-62 season.
Gee, at that price, I wonder if tickets
are still available.
—Written and compiled by Mike Sillup
Wet, then wild
Rain will be steady before turning
cooler this afternoon with occasional
showers. Today's high will be 53 and
there will be a low tonight of 40 with
showers changing to flurries by mor
ning. Tomorrow will remain cold and
very windy with occasional flurries and
a high of 43. Sunday promises to be
sunny with a cool breeze and a high of
49.
4 11 •
..,..iie ' , :
Photo by John Brlcklemyor