Oom pa pa!
Tubas boom out from the back row of the Musk Building practice room during
a recent White Band rehearsal.
"Peace
killed
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI)
Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, an
outspoken champion of human rights
and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize nominee,
was assassinated yesterday by four
gunmen who walked up to him a
funeral mass and shot him point blank ;
A witnesses said.
Romero, 63, whose life had been
threatened several times, was hit "in the
• , chest and face and died almost im
, mediately," said Ana Maria Riva, who
was at "the'"' mass at "the Diviric
Providence Hospital's chapel in nor
thwestern San Salvador.' : '
Newspaper publisher Jorge Pinto said
"fou' middle-aged men dressed in civilian
clothes walked down the chapel's center
aisle as Romero said mass, edged up to
the altar and shot at him several times
with pistols at close range.
"There were several shots and
*monsignor fell dead at that moment.•
They took him, to the (private)
Salvadoran Polyclinic but he was dead
by the time he arrived there," Pinto
said.
There was no immediate indication if
leftist or rightist extremists killed the
Sewage plant remains unfunded
By DON KUSIITO
L)aily Caiegian Staff Writer
The University waste water treatment
plant has remained in violation of state
I and federal pollution control regulations
for over a decade despite efforts by
University'officials to obtain funding for
renovations.
The plant, located on University
Drive, empties approximately 3.5
million gallons a day of treated waste
6 water into Thompson Run, a tributary of
Spring Creek. •
The plant processes waste for all the
University and for a portion of the
borough.
Phosphate levels in Thompson Run
are being exceeded by a factor of 30
& dines more than is allowed by law, said
‘P Dan Alters of the Department of En
vironmental Resources in Williamsport,
Pa.
Alters. who is operations-chief for the
Water Quality Management department
of the DER, said excessive phosphate
foi evels cause an excess growth of aquatic
vegetation and creates an environment
that is detrimental to fish.
The University sewage plant, he said,
is violating the federal Water Pollution
Cantrol•Act and the state's similar clean
stream laws. However, the federal
Environmental Protection Agency is
le' allowing the DER to administer the
federal laws concerning the University.
The University's "number one
request" on the Capital Budget Bill,
Wait for tomorrow
Cloudy, breezy and very cool today
with a few totally worthless flurries,
especially this morning. Today's high
will reach 43. Tonight the clouds will
clear off and the low will reach 29.
Tomorrow though, we can look for a big
le improvement with mostly sunny skies
and milder temperatures bringing us a
high of 51.
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prize nominee
in El Salvador
Waste water in violation for decade
archbishop. Both factions are waging a
bloody war for control of the Central
American nation that has taken some
1,500 lives since Jan. 1 1979.
Traffic ground to a halt and a profound
silence dropped over San Salvador as the
news of the slaying of the popul,ir ar
chbishop spread throughout the
violence-torn nation of 4.8 million.
Eulalio -Perez, a photographer for the
Diario de Hoy and a UPI stringer, was
arrested by police at the 'chapel, a Diario
editor said. -He said Perez, who• was
being held incommunicado, may have
taken pictures of the assassins. •
Riva said the four men fled through
one of the chapel's side doors and
escaped in a red Volkswagen after the
shooting, which occurred in the early
evening.
Pinto, publisher of the Independiente
newspaper, said Romero was saying a
mass for his mother, who died Friday.
The family placed newspaper ad
vertisements announcing the archbishop
would say mass for her.
Romero, nominated for the 1979 Nobel
Peace Prize for his outspoken defense of
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which may be voted on in the next few
weeks, is for $4,132,000 for the com
pletion of sewage plant improvements
that would bring the University into
compliance with state and federal
regulations, Arthur V. Ciervo,
University director of public in
formation, said.
The bill is included in the Gov. Dick
ThOrnburgh's executive budget
recommendations for capital projects.
The University has had a plan to deal
with the treated waste problems since
1962 but has had difficulty in obtaining
funds for the project.
A University research team developed
a system of disposing of treated waste by
spraying them on the earth, Robert A.
Patterson, University senior vice
president for finance and operations,
said.
This method of dealing with sewage
waste is known as the "living filter
system" and it won international ac
claim among environmentalists when it
was first developed here, he said.
The "living filter system" not only
provides a way of disposing of treated
waste hut it also improves the quality of
the area it is sprayed on, Patterson said.
The treatment of areas results in an
increased growth of vegetation that is
especially suitable for small animal
cover and food.
"About a half million gallons per day
has been being sprayed on state game
lands for the last 13 or 14 years," said
John Nesbitt, professor of civil
engineering and chairman of the State
College Sewage Authority.
"The project has proved to be suc
cessful," he said.
In 1967, a Capital Program was started
to fund the development of a spray
dispensing system to handle all the
treated waste from the plant, Ciervo
said.
In September of 1968, the state
provided $2,262,500 for the project, he
the
daily
Candidates urge organizing USG
BY LORRAINE CAPRA
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
~,Most of the Undergraduate. Student
Government presidential candidates
said at last night's debate that their
single-most important goal would be to
organize USG and its interractions with
other student orgnanizations.
The candidates responded to • a
question by panelist Melvyn S. Klein,
University director of Student Activities.
Presidential candidate Joe Kreta said
cooperation within USG is needed to
"put USG back on its feet."
Presidential candidate Stephen
Reeves said his goal is to bring student
organizations together to do more than
was accomplished this year.
Presidential candidate Joe Healey
said he would organize USG by
educating USG members and students
on the various services that USG and
student organizations offer.
Presidential candidate Dave Prit
chard said the USG Executive Council
could unify USG and act as a link bet
ween student organizations.
However, presidential candidate
Charles P. Kennedy's main goal was
different from that of the other can
didates. He said he wants to increase
voter registration and educate students
in political matters.
USG President Hal Shaffer asked the
candidates if they would bring their own
views to University administrators or
represent the student opinion. All of the
candidates said they would represent the
students.
Shaffer also asked the candidates their
opinions on reinstatement of the
peacetime draft.
Reeves and Kennedy said they are
opposed to the draft but will represent
the students' opinion.
USG Senate postpones decision on board
By KAREN McMANIMAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Underg t ra . cluate Student Government Senate last
Kight pos - tOonbd a decision , to form d
. board•of dire.ctors,
which would include students, faculty and senate
members, to oversee USG's money.
The senate has debated two months over how USG
can better control its money. Most of last night's
discussion concerned which USG branch executive or
senate should have final say in financial matters.
The board would be composed ofthe USG president,
vice president, treasurer, senate president, senate
appropriations committee chairman, a faculty
member, two senators elected at large and the
manager of the business department.
Fraternity senator Jim France said, "This is our
clear-cut best choice. The board of directors is going to
work with and be headed by a group of people who
really know what they're doing."
If the bill to form the board is approved, USG's
"The project was designed to comply
with the state's Sanitary Water Board's
the predecessor to the DER im
plimenta tion plan for intra-state
waters,"he said. "The University was to
be brought into compliance by October
1968."
Because of the time required to
receive the permits to spray, the
General State Authority separated the
project into two phases, Ciervo said.
"Phase one provided for the con
structon of a holding area pump, a pump
house and a distribution line to the spray
area," he said. The project was com
pleted in 1976 at a cost of $1,128,500.
"The University required a number of
extensions because of the time needed to
complete the project," he said.
The University then discovered that
more money was needed for the com
pletion of the second part of the project
than was originally estimated, Ciervo
said.
The completion of the project requires
the construction of a receiving base and
additional pipelines in the spray area, he
said.
"The University has kept the EPA and
the DER informed, and told them that
the University would be in compliance
with the pollution' control regulations
within 24 months of funding," Ciervo
said.
Alters said, "The University officials
are proceeding as well as they can. The
problem is not because of reluctance on
the part of the University officials but
because of funding.
"They are moving ahead now, unlike a
year or two ago.
"There are no actions or fines planned
against the University at this time. We
are hoping the funding comes through
and the project goes though as planned,"
Alters said.
Ciervo said, "If the Capital Budget Bill
falls though, we will have to find other
ways to fund the project."
Edwin Cooper, professor of zoology,
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Healey and Pritchard said their views
are irrelevant and they will represent
the students.
Kreta said he did not have enough
information on the subject.
"I've done a lot of reading, but per
sonally I'm confused on what is a
peacetime draft."
Student trustee liaison Mindy
Morrison gave the candidates a quiz
concerning University matters. Some
questions were: "Who is the provost and
what does he do?" "Who is our state
representative and what is the number
of his district?" "What is University
Council and who sits on it?" and "flow
many people sit on Borough Council and
the Board of Trustees?"
Qf the 10 questions, Healey-Weintraub
answered 8 correctly; Kreta-Cobb, 6;
Reeves-Calkins, 5.5; Pritchard-Nesky,
4.5 and Kennedy-Leach, 3.5.
Daily Collegian Editor Betsy Long
asked the candidates how much control
the USG Senate should have over USG's
money and what decisions will not in
clude the senate.
Kreta proposed a board of directors
-composed of USG executives and
senators be created to monitor the funds.
"The senate will .be involved in the
board and should be involved in all
decisions," he said.
Reeves said he will form a business
deparment separate from programs and
services to be monitored by the
executives and senate.
"All financial statements will be open
to the senate and public, but the nature
and details of contracts I believe should
be left private," he said.
Healey said he would not make a
financial decision until he consults a
business expert.
"The senate will have open access to
said the main concern is the pollution of
Spring Creek.
"We want to see if we can clean up
Thompson Run and the section of Spring
Creek down to the Houserville sewage
plant," he said.
"It has never been shown that a
stream could be brought back (to its
original condition), this will make a
great research project," he said.
Phosphates kill some types of fish,
mainly trout, in an indirect way, Cooper
said. The phosphates cause the un
derwater plants to grow faster. During
the day the plants photosynthesize and
the oxygen levels in the water go way up,
but at night the plants use oxygen and
levels get very low.
In warm weather the plants use more
oxygen, so three or four hot days a year
wipe out the trout population, Cooper
said.
Other treatment plants in the area are
also in violation of phosphate
regulations, Nesbitt said, but the
University plant is the largest violator.
"Phosphate regulations are tough to
meet and violations are common," he
said.
University compliance would put
greater pressure on the other violators
in the area, Cooper said.
"When the system is complete, ef
fluent will be sprayed over two areas
either a 200- or a 400-acre plot in the
state game lands on a rotating basis,"
Ciervo said.
There will then be no discharge of
treated water into Thompson Run, he
said.
"The new system will meet all en
vironmental regulations and there will
be no effect on animals and vegetation in
the spray areas," he said.
Saturday, at a Board of Trustees
finance meeting, Trustee Kenneth
Holderman said living filters are in use
throughout the country and that "after
all this time, something should have
been done by now."
business aspect will be removed from the department
of programs and services
Centre Halls senator Steve. Cummins, one of the co
sponsois of the bill', said, - With just one person in
charge of the business aspect, there is not enough ac
countability. On the other hand, to make all 36 members
of the senate in charge is too much.
"I envision this board to be responsible for what
happens in the department and accountable to the
senate," Cummins said. Another benefit of this board
would be that it would have the input of the entire
senate, he said.
The most important money that the board would
oversee would be profits from USG's movies.
Association of Residence Hall Students Steve Osborn
said many factors are involved in running movies.
"By creating a board, this formalized group could
handle these problems," he said.
All members of the board would vote except the
business manager, the faculty adviser, the USG
all records," he said. "No decision
should be made privately."
Pritchard and Kennedy said they
would not comment on the senate's
control until the senate decides its pay
structure.
Daily Collegian Editorial Editor
Maryann Hakowski asked the can
didates how they would find a respon
sible student to run for the State College
Municipal Council and how many seats
are open this year.
Healey and Reeves said student
organizations would review candidates
and choose'the best one.
Kreta said he would look for a student
from the political science department
and possibly make the seat an -in
ternship.
Kennedy said he would interview
applicants.
"The main key to increasing student
Election survey conducted
By MIKE SWEAR
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
An informal survey conducted by The
Daily Collegian shows about 56 percent
of those responding don't care who wins
this week's Undergraduate Student
Government election.
The. telephone survey was conducted
Sunday with a random sampling of 225
undergraduate students.
"They (USG) make a big fuss over it,
but nothing is ever accomplished. USG
has never done anything major in the
four years I've been here," Joe Wall
(9th-vocational education), who was
surveyed, said.
About 34 percent said they cared who
won the election and about 10 percent
were undecided.
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Although there appears to be little difference, the water on the left runs dear
while the water on the right flows from the University sewage treatment plant.
Pollution levels of the sewage-treated water have exceeded state and federal
regulations for a decade.
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State Univers
interest is to emphasize voter
registration," he said.
Pritchard said the USG departmenrof
political affairs could choose the council
candidate. Voter interest could increase
by "competition between fraternities
and dorms and giving away prizes," he
said.
Reeves and Pritchard were the only
candidates who knew that no council
seats are open this year.
The candidates were asked who they
would vote for if they were not running.
Kreta, Reeves and Healey said they
would vote for Kennedy. Healey said he
based his decision on "the lack of
backstabbing in his campaign."
Pritchard said he would vote for
Reeves, and Kehnedy said he would vote
for Kreta because of "the amount of
homework he has done."
If the survey is any indication of
University-wide feeling, this year's
voter turnout should be record-setting
with 40 percent of those surveyed saying
they planned to vote.
Rob Fallon, USG election com
missioner said he has no idea of how
strong voter turnout will be this week.
"The USG Elections Commission
expects students to come out and vote,
but we just don't know how many,"
Fallon said.
Of those who said they were going to
vote in Wednesday's and Thursday's
election, 76 percent were undecided.
However, of those committing
themselves, the Stephen Reeves/Chris
Calkins ticket has a slight margin over
the rest of the candidates.
treasurer and the chairman of the board.
The bill states that the chairman will be a student, but
some senators said the position should be held by a
sefiator. -
West Halls senator Ron Goodman said the chairman
should be a senator because the board will he respon
sible to the senate.
"The person dealing the most often with the senate
should be a senator and someone who knows what's
going on," he said.
However, Cummins said the chairman should only
chair the board and not influence any decisions. USG
members should carry the responsibility of the board,
he said.
If the chairman position is to be filled by a person not
in USG, it will be open to any registered student. The
senate appointments review board will interview ap
plicants and refer the most qualified applicant to the
senate for approval.
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