W 20a P< . - *\ Rosey Grier on campus to aid Cart " - Id hell hen he ran “We should unite behind the one another Sa 'We should unite behind the president. The president can't solve all the problems; we are the authority to solve this country's probl Tuition rate increase uncertain By DIANA SIMS Daily Collegian Staff Writer University President John W. Oswald ' said he cannot say whether tuition will increase 10 percent next year until he is certain that the state Legislature will pass the proposed 5.8 percent increase in state funding to the University. Oswald yesterday told the Student 4t’ ' advisory Board that he will announce 'the tuition increase when the University. Board of Trustees meets ih late May or after the Legislature has approved the state budget in July. A 5 percent increase in tuition was * New sanctions imposed on Iran WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter yesterday, banned. “If this additional-set of. sanctions that I have, described to travel and money transfers to Iran, barred imports of Iranian you today and the concerted actions of our allies is not suc pn-.ducts and said if such steps- do not free the hostages he cesful,” Carter said, “then the only next step available that I foresees “some sort of military action/’ can see would be some sort of military action which isi the Carter also said he will ask Congress for power to use the $8 prerogative and the right of the United States under these billion in Iranian assets America has in its banks, to com- circumstances.” pensate families of the 50 American hostages and pay other Carter opened the news conference with a statement on Iran claims against Tehran. and the 40-minute session was dominated by questions on the The statement was the strongest the president himself has crisis. Miade publicly on possible military action against Iran, though Administration officials said earlier Carter probably would administration officials have said repeatedly that a blockade ban shipments of food and medicine to Iran but after the news and other steps are being considered. conference, they said Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had Carter did not say when he might make a military move. But talked him out of it arguing such a cutoff would be better as when asked whether the United States would be satisfied if a potential threat. Iran’s Revolutionary Council considers the hostage question in In February, the latest figures available, the United States July, he replied: “I would think that would be an excessive shipped no food and only $200,000 worth of military equipment Ane for us to wait.” tolran. . . For now, Carter told a. televised news conference, he is . As for the new ban on imports, Americans imported $36.2 prohibiting’ all financial transfers from anyone in the United million worth of goods from Iran in February, most of it oil States to anyone in Iran except for news organizations. shipped before Carter announced the cutoff. In addition, he said, all imports from Iran will be barred, Other big imports all of which will be eliminated under the and American travel to Iran again except for journalists latest order include caviar, lamb and goat skins, dried will be forbidden. apricots and dates, carpets, turquoise, coins, brasswear, president called on the media "to minimize as severely as possible their presence and activities in Iran.” He said military equipment Iran had ordered will be offered for sale to other buyers. “If a constructive Iranian response is not forthcoming soon, the United States will proceed with other measures,” he said, including a ban on the little food and medicine now exported to Tehran apd cutting off Iran’s access to international com munications facilities Illustration b) Penn State reubens having a hard time Reuben sandwitches have taking a lot of abuse lately. •First they were charged with causing a bunch of people in North Halls problems last weekend and then they itook more abuse Tuesday afternoon when Republican presidential nominee bindery 'ATTES 'ems. approved by the trustees in September before the University submitted its budget request of $l4O million to the state Legislature. Gov. Dick Thornburgh proposed a $127 million allocation to the University in February approximately $l3 million less than the University requested. Oswald said to make up for the gap between Thornburgh’s proposal and the University allocation request, the University will have to forego some programs that are not as important as others and continue reallocating money from lower priority programs to ones candidate George Bush dined in the Lion’s Den. When the former CIA director was eating his lunch, a group of concerned students began yelling, “Don’t eat the reubens!” 1 Z COPIES ~o, . antiques and paintings. Carter said the decision on whether to take military action against Iran would depend on the effectiveness of the current sanctions, how strongly American allies support the sanctions and how Iran reacts to the sanctions. “I do not feel it appropriate for me to set a specific time schedule for further actions that may include military ac tions,” Carter said. ByPAULBOYNTON and TOM VERDUCCI Daily Collegian Staff Writers Former University and professional football great Rosey Grier, a long-time supporter of the Kennedy family, campaigned for President Carter yesterday on campus. Grier said he went through “weeks of consideration” before he offered his support to Carter in a White House visit last Dec. 21. Grier had worked as a bodyguard for Bobby Kennedy, and with the help of former Olympian Rafer Johnson, ap prehended Sirhan Sirhan Kennedy’s assassin in the kitchen of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968. Grier also named his only son Roosevelt Kennedy Grier. “It’s not that I’m not backing Ted Kennedy, I’m backing the president,” Grier said. “I backed him in ’76, and I said if he would work hard and be Collegian that are more critical The University cannot decide the amount of tuition increase necessary until it is assured the Legislature will pass the increase proposed by Thorn burgh and until it has reallocated and cut programs wherever possible, Oswald said. “I’ll take action when I know what we’ve got,” Oswald said. If the state Legislature maintains the 5.8 percent increase in state funding presented in the Thornborgh budget, Oswald said the University will try to keep tuition from increasing too far above 10 percent. Student written in, surprised, eliminated There’s nothing like a surprise, but to wake up one morning as a politician may be a bit too much to handle. Mike Mcllwain (12th-marketing) woke up recently and found out he.was an Undergraduate Student Government town senator without even running. Mcllwain said he was asked by Rob Fallon, USG elections commissioner, to help run the polls for a few hours. He obliged and found the work run ning rather slow. “Nobody was voting,, and it was becoming pretty boring,” he said, so he and the other person working at the polls started drumming up business by calling people to vote. “Most of the people didn’t know anything about it,” Mcllwain said. “So they asked who to vote for and I told them that I didn’t care.” He said they then asked him his name and wrote him in as town senator. With a smashing total of 12 votes, Mcllwain won a seat, but since he is 12th term, he had to be disqualified. John Anderson should hope it was so easy. TVs shut off, free kid-stoppers offered Some say the media has power over life and death. Death, somehow I doubt; however, some people in Thailand seem to think elected that I woul again. “Now I had a heavy decision to make whether to stay with what I said, or change it or do something different. So I assessed it. I said the man has tried to do the job he said he was going to do, and when he went around the country he was representing me when he spoke because I had endorsed him. If he’s representing me, why should I desert what I said? “When it came time to making a decison I made it. And it had nothing to do with my relationship with the Ken nedy family, but it had something to do with my beliefs for the good of the country. The star of numerous television series and movies also said greed bred by fear has disunited the United States and made it weak. When asked about Carter’s specific policy stances, Grier criticized the vast gulf separating U.S. citizens. Margaret J. Biggers, 60, of 1321 Old Boalsburg Road, State College, was seriously injured yesterday when the car she was driving collided with another car driven by Floyd F. Baker of Huntington at the intersection of South Atherton Street and Pollock Road. Although the investigation is still pending, State College -police issued Baker a traffic citation. Accident seriously By SUE KLINEDINST Daily Collegian Staff Writer A 60-year-old State College woman was seriously injured when the car she was driving collided with another car at the intersection of South Atherton Street and Pollock Road yesterday afternoon, the State College Police Department reported. Margaret J. Biggers, of 1321 Old the media does say something about life. According to a United Press In ternational story, after the Thai government ordered television stations to halt broadcast to save electricity, a birth control group began offering free “blackout” condoms and vasectomies. Meechai Viravaidhya, secretary general of the Population and Com munity Development Association, already is working to make sure the spare time does not lead to more babies. His group is offering free “blackout” condoms during the energy-saving experiment and announced vasec tomies, which usually cost $5O, also will be done without charge during that time. “Statistics show that the pregnancy rate is higher in areas without elec tricity than those which have elec tricity,” Meechai said. Maybe it could help the television stations’ profits. If the government allows them to begin broadcasting in a few months, they could sell more disposable diapers commercials. —Written and compiled by Mike Sillup Good for chugging In spite of some clouds this morning, we will have sunny skies and clear nights through tomorrow. Daytime highs will be 56 today and near 62 tomorrow. Tomorrow night will be partly cloudy and milder with a low of 45. Skies will clear by Sunday afternoon and the high will be a still pleasant 59. president,” Grier said to a small group of students gathered around him on the campus mall. “The president can’t solve all the problems; we are the authority to solve this country’s problems. Unity behind him will provide the stage for the president to,speak to other nations,” he said. “We as a nation are disunited the fear is killing us.” Although Carter has been criticized for not uniting Congress, Grier placed the blame on congressmen. “It’s their responsibility, they were elected,” he said. “That’s why he’s having problems. They’re looking out for themselves, each one’s looking out for his own turf. Carter stepped into a hornet’s nest.” Grier compared kids in city gangs fighting for their own turf to clashes among superpowers which he said are rooted in an uncaring attitude towards Boalsburg Rd., State College, was in serious but stable condition last night, a spokesperson for the Mountainview Unit of Centre Community Hospital said. Biggers was driving west on Pollock Road when a car driven by Floyd F. Baker of Huntington allegedly went through a red light and collided with Bigger’s car, police said. Both Biggers and Baker were taken to Zimbabwe ruler calls for SALISBURY, Zimbabwe (UPI) - Britain brought down the Union Jack in Salisbury last night, handing over to black rulers an independent Zimbabwe, the last outpost of a colonial empire which once covered half of Africa. New Marxist Premier Robert Mugabe said he loved the whites and called for “a per fect peace.” The midnight (5 p.m. EST) ceremonies marked the end of the last European colony in black Africa. • Absent from the ceremonies was former Premier lan Smith, who declared white-ruled Rhodesia in dependent of Britain 14 years ago an action leading to a seven-year guerrilla bush war that cost 28,000 lives. He was in South Africa on a lecture tour. In a stiffly ceremonial farewell at government house, home for a suc : cession of colonial governors, Britain’s Prince Charles watched a police honor guard lower the British flag to the lawn for the last time as a lone black bugler played “The Last Post.” A noisy celebration by 40,000 blacks at Rufaro Stadium climaxed at midnight when the new red, green and black Zimbabwe standard floated to the top of the flagstaff watched by British and Zimbabwe leaders and delegations from almost 100 countries. Mugabe set the tone for the new nation The 6-5, 310-pounder, who was named the University’s Distinguished Alumnus in 1974, was asked how this nation can move away from the selfishness plaguing its ability to be a world power. “Study your bible. There’s a lot of ’em that are doing it. It works . . it works forme.” Grier said the news media sen sationalize violence, therefore the public in turn is preoccupied with a fighting attitude. This uncaring attitude is carried over to discrimination, which is why minorities fail to make strong inroads into education in an attempt to secure good-paying jobs, he said. “If all you heard in your life was ‘brother you are so poor, you are so unworthy, you can’t make it in this world, the whites they got them big brains’ you begin to believe it,” Grier said. University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University injures driver Mountainviewby the Alpha ambulance crew, police said. Baker was treated and released late yesterday afternoon. Police said that Baker received a traffic violation citation but the accident report had not been completed last night. Biggers is employed by the University as a secretary in the metallurgy office in Deike Building. peace born in the blood and bitterness of war with a call for “a perfect peace" and national reconciliation devoid of racism. To the whites, the Marxist guerrilla leader said: “If yesterday I fought you as an enemy, today you have become a friend and ally with the same national interest, loyalty, rights and duties as myself. “If yesterday you hated me,.today you cannot avoid the love that binds you to me and me to you.” Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, joined British Governor Lord Soames and Foreign Minister Lord Carrington in greeting guests at a final reception. The reception and a banquet hosted by President Canaan Banana set in motion festivities which were set to continue informally for several days. Mugabe praised the British for the way they handled the transfer of power to the black majority and credited Lord Soames as the guiding force behind the success. “An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or by black against white,” he said. “Our majority rule could easily turn into inhuman rule if we oppressed, per secuted or harassed those who do not look or think like the majority of us.”
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