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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s early lead over President
Carter in the Pennsylvania presidential primary
Swindled to near deadlock early this morning, hours
after the Democratic challenger claimed to have won
“a narrow victory.” George Bush gained a Republican
upset over Ronald Reagan.
Before midnight when he led by 100,000 votes, Ken
nedy said he had scored a “narrow victory.” But his
huge margins in the economically hard-hit coal regions
|of the state were countered by a large and late repor
ting Pittsburgh vote which brought Carter within 30,000
votes of the lead early today
Kennedy won big in Philadelphia, the dominant
Democratic city. But Carter votes carved into his
margin as the ballots were counted in Pittsburgh and
rural Pennsylvania.
, “Tonight, it appears, we have a narrow victory,
Kennedy told cheering supporters shortly before
midnight in Philadelphia.
But White House News Secretary Jody Powell said
Carter wasn’t conceding defeat. Powell, at the White
House, said if the challenger could win, “it would
certainly be a boost to him.”
t He said that even with Pennsylvania, Kennedy would
Carter and Bush win in 6 student precincts
By PETE BARNES
# Daily Collegian Staff Writer
George Bush and Jimmy Carter won
the most votes in six student-dominated
precincts in yesterday’s Pennsylvania
primary elections, according to unof
ficial results.
Voter turnout in those six student
dominated precincts was 1,842 of 4,101
eligible voters, or 44.9 percent.
Among Republicans, Bush received
501 of 1,069 votes, or 46.8 percent,
followed by John B. Anderson with 381
write-in votes, or 35.6 percent. Ronald
Reagan took third with 158 votes, or 14
.percent.
* On the Democratic side, students gave
Jimmy Carter 385 of 773 votes, or 49.8
percent, and Edward M. Kennedy 307
votes, or 39.7 percent. In addition, John
B. Anderson received 30 write-in votes,
Edmund G. Brown received 13 votes,
and 25 voted no preference.'
More Republicans than Democrats
tinned out in the student-dominated
precincts. 1,069 of the 2,108 registered
Republicans voted, or 50.7 percent, while
773 of 1,993 Democrats turned out, or 38.8
percent.
There are eight student-dominated
precincts in State College. As of 3 a.m.
today, six of those eight- East 1,2, 3 and
4; and East Central 2 and 3 had
reported. East Central 1 and West
Central, with 965 additional Republican
votes and 830 additional Democratic
votes had not reported.
Shaffer reflects on achievements.
Editor’s Note: Former Undergraduate
student Government President Hal
Shaffer’s term in office was marked by
his abolishment of JEM Productions and
the resignations of JEM employees,
Ernie Hicks’ unauthorized spending,
including a safe cemented in Sparks
Building, and the breakdown of the USG
Senate after its constructive beginning.
IDaily Collegian staff writers Lorraine
Capra and Larry Gallone interviewed
Shaffer on the problems and highlights
of this year. The following is a transcript
of the interview, edited for length and
clarity.
Interview
COLLEGIAN: This year’s USG will be
known for merging JEM Productions
with the department of programs and
services. You received criticism from
t.se senate for not telling them about the
merger before it was made. Looking
back on it now, would you change
anything?
SHAFFER: I would say that the only
thing I would change with the merger of
JEM Productions with programs and
, services is having senate input into the
-* decision that was made even though it
was a good decision, as they (the senate)
took offense to the executive order.
COLLEGIAN: You ' would do this
before the decision?
SHAFFER: Yes, I would have asked a
u couple of senators to come to the
meetings.
COLLEGIAN: Why a couple of
senators? That was the problem this
year in that only a few senators were
involved in the decision. What they
wanted was for the entire senate to be
4old before hand.
SHAFFER: It’s not necessarily a few
senators; I’d say more than a few
senators (would be consulted in the
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have to capture almost 70 percent of the Democratic
delegates yet to be chosen in order to overtake Carter.
Bush beat Reagan 54 percent to 45 percent in the
popular vote. But Reagan said he had won the majority
of Pennsylvania’s nominating delegates elected
separately —while losing the preferential election.
The vote and percentage for the leaders in the state
Democratic primary as of 3:15 this morning with 82
percent of districts reporting:
• Kennedy 628,180 votes, 47 percent, 93 delegates;
• Carter 597,829 votes, 45 percent, 92 delegates;
In the Republican race with 82 percent counted it
was:
• Bush 493,214 votes, 54 percent;
• Reagan 413,955 votes, 45 percent;
Kennedy battled hard to beat Carter in Pennsylvania,
spending 10 days in the state over the last two weeks.
Even on primary day he blasted the Carter ad
ministration’s economic policies after another round of
government statistics showed inflation was continuing
at a level of above 18 percent annually..
There was a surprisingly strong turnout in Penn
sylvania a state known for apathetic voting in
presidential primaries. Excellent weather throughout
the state aided, and voting was heaviest in the coal and
An estimated 9,700 students, about
one-third of all students, are registered
to vote in Centre County, according to
Undergraduate Student Government
department of political affairs figures.
High Republican preference for Bush
and Anderson apparently reflected each
candidate’s campaign efforts in the
area. Bush was the only major
presidential candidate to visit State
College, and local Anderson cam
paigners pushed hard in a write-in
campaign.
In State College as a whole, nine of 18
precincts, including the six student
dominated precincts, had reported by 3
Centre County favors Carter and
By PHIL GUTIS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer ;
Centre County Democrats voted more conservatively than
their statewide counterparts as President Carter recmed
3,833 votes to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy s 2,111 with 58 of 82
county precincts reporting at 3 a.m.
Republican candidate John B
Democratic write-in votes. .
However, Centre County Republican voting was indicative
of statewide trends as George Bush was leading Ronald
Reagan by a margin of 3,680 to 3,242 at 3 a.m. Anderson ha
received 1,132 write-in votes. t . . . .
In the Democratic nomination race for the 77th district state
House seat, last-minute write-in candidate and University
student Bob Brazill (7th-division of undergraduate studies)
appeared headed to victory over another last-minute write-in
decision.) But I think that looking back
at how the senate has handled this
decision afterward, it’s evidence that 36
senators cannot come to a decisive
decision on something as important as
this. There’s no way that you can let 36
people have input and come to a good
decision as a smaller committee can,
and the senate has been bogged down in
issues concerning JEM Productions.
COLLEGIAN: But how do you decide
which senators to choose and how do you
pacify the others?
SHAFFER: What should be done is
that the senate should decide itself which
senators will represent it .. . In those
meetings (before the merger was
made), I assumed that Senate President
Mark Berg would represent the USG
Senate as he is president of the senate.
COLLEGIAN: Some senators have
criticized you for not attending senate
meetings when they discussed
something that needed your input.
According to USG’s constitution, the
president does not have to attend the
meetings.
SHAFFER: That’s correct.
COLLEGIAN: Do you think that a lot
of this year’s problems could have been
avoided if you had gone to the meetings
when the senate had questions?
SHAFFER: I’d have to say that I have
attended at least half of the senate
COLLEGIAN: But you left before a lot
of the major discussion came up.
SHAFFER: Well, in the senate
meeting you have executive reports and
I gave my presidential reports in the
beginning of the senate meetings
throughout the whole year.
I have been accessible to any senator
who had any questions, and if they_ had
anything to ask me they would have
lead diminishes
defeat with race so close
a.m. Turnout in the borough for those
nine precincts was 3,007 of 5,919
registered voters, or 50.8 percent. About
one-third of all registered voters in
Centre County are registered in State
College.
Among Republicans, 1,768 of 3,139
eligible voters, or 56.3 percent, turned
out. Breakdown by candidate was as
follows: Bush 871 votes, or 41.4 per
cent; Anderson 466 votes, or 22.2
percent; Reagan 347 votes, or 16.5
percent. A handful of votes were cast for
minor candidates and candidates who
have dropped out of the race but whose
names remained on the ballot.
Anderson received 195
come to me personally. I gave my
reports to the senate it’s not like I
totally snubbed the senate at all.
COLLEGIAN: Paying people in USG
was a big issue this year. What about the
stipends for USG president and vice
president? Do you think it’s good?
Should it be continued? Is it enough?
SHAFFER: I think it’s a good idea. I
think it should be continued. I cannot
make a value judgement on how much it
should be that’s up to the committee
that votes on that.
However, let me put it this way. An RA
gets paid half tuition and full room and
board, which is a hell of a lot more than
the USG president gets. I would say that
the amount of time that the USG
president puts in is equivalent to what an
RA puts in, at least. And there are a hell
of a lot more RAs than USG presidents
on this campus.
COLLEGIAN: Ernie Hicks was the
center of controversy this year. Vicki
Sandoe said you would not tell her about
Ernie’s spending, especially the $5,000
Publlihtd by Stui
steel cities and towns where the downturn in the
economy has been felt for some months.
Former Pittsburgh Mayor Peter Flaherty, a two-time
loser in previous statewide bids but boosted by his
widespread name appeal, trounced seven rivals
yesterday to capture the Democratic U.S. Senate
nomination.
The early vote totals were as follows:
Democrat: „„„„„ r.
Flaherty 115,563; Joseph Rhodes Jr. 39,987; u
Delores Tucker 19,273; Tom Anderson 9,281; Peter
Liacouras 13,428; Craig Lewis 8,728; Ed Mezvinsky
9,004, and John J. Logue 1,083.
Republican: . ,
Arlen Specter 49,327; Bud Haabsted 43,644; Edward
L Howard 8,989; Lewis C. Richards 4,035; Norman
Bertasavage 3,979; Andrew J. Watson 2,998; Warren R.
Williams 1,517, and Francis Worley 1,336. .
Sen. Michael O’Pake, a crusading anti-crime
lawmaker, was leading veteran prosecutor Walter
Phillips as early returns emerged in the race for
Pennsylvania’s first elected attorney general With 27
percent of the vote tallied, O’Pake was ahead of Phillips
by a margin of 170,812-121,108.
Among Democrats in the nine
precincts, 1,239 of 2,780 voters, or 44.5
percent, turned out. Breakdown by
candidate was: Carter 945 votes, or
60.5 percent; Kennedy 473 votes, or
30.3 percent; Anderson 79 votes, or 6.3
percent. 44 no preference votes were
cast, and Brown received 19 votes.
candidate, former University doctoral candidate William
M i?c o umbanU7th district freshman Rep. Gregg Cunni J
(R-Centre Region) who ran unopposed received 3,101
votes and 32 Democratic write-in votes.
Cunningham said he had no knowledge of a democratic
write-in campaign on his behalf.
Tsteyeluompletely out of the Democratic primary race
against the urging of many Democrats,' Cunningham said,
“because I genuinely believe in the two-party system.
Incumbent U.S. Rep. William F. Clmger (R-central Pa.)
received 2 547 votes in his bid for the Republican nomination to
the U.S House. Democratic counterpart Peter Atigan o
McKean County received 1,579 votes.
Republican turnout appeared to hover around 60 percen
throughout the night and Democratic turnout around 55.
Hal Shaffer
Following the statewide results, the
nine reporting State College precincts
went overwhelmingly for Republican
Arlen Specter of Philadelphia and
Democrat Peter Flaherty of Pittsburgh
in the race for nomination for the U.S.
Senate race.
Bush
movie equipment and later the $9OO safe.
Vicki said you would tell the treasurer
but you would not tell her ahead of time.
Why? J _
SHAFFER: It had nothing to do with
Vicki. The treasurer is in charge of all
money relating to the organization, so I
would think that the treasurer is the one
you would be in contact with if a
financial decision was being made.
COLLEGIAN: You don’t think you
should have told her as vice president?
SHAFFER: I did not purposely
withhold that information from her.
COLLEGIAN: What about the role of
pfesidept and vice president working
together or working separately? Should
there be a dichotomy?
SHAFFER: I think there should be a
dichotomy. For example, this year there
has been a definite dichotomy between
the two persons. Number one, I ve been
in charge of the representative nature of
USG, dealing with the administration.
Vicki has been in charge of programs
and services for the organization.
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Passenger ship sinks;
400 reported missing
MANILA, Philippines (UPI) An
crowded inter-island passenger ship
sank last night after being rammed by
an empty oil tanker, the Coast Guard
said. About 400 people were reported
missing and more than 500 were
rescued.
The tanker, reportedly empty of
cargo, left the scene of the crash without
helping those in the water, the govern
ment radio said.
Antonio Mapa of the Negroes
Navigation„Co., ..which, .owns, the
passenger ship M.V. Don Juan, told CES
News there were 550 known survivors of
the crash in the Tablas Strait near
Mindoro Island, about 120 miles south of
Manila.
He said 500 of those rescued were put
ashore near Luzon and 80 more were
aboard rescue ships.
The government radio also said more
than 580 survivors had been rescued and
at least 17 persons were confirmed dead,
most of them children.
There was no word on the fate of
nearly 300 other passengers, aboard the
Don Juan, which reportedly sank 15
minutes after it was rammed on the port
difficulties of year
I would say that these are our fortes
and what we are best suited to handle
because I don’t think the USG president
can handle both the representative
nature and the programming nature of
the organization. .. it’s just too much.
COLLEGIAN: What about an extra
position, an extra vice president?
SHAFFER: That is a very good point.
I’ve been talking to Joe Healey about
that point in the transition period that’s
been going on. I’ve mentioned to him
that an executive vice president would
be a good move in that that person would
be in charge of the internal workings of
the executive branch because there is
definitely another dichotomy in the
nature of the USG president’s role.
You have the internal and the external
parts of the job external meaning you
deal with the administration and local,
state and federal government. Internal
where you’re talking about the executive
departments. Now you always have to
have a balance, a trade-off in this, and
sometimes you have to give a little for
one part to get something for another. ..
By getting an executive vice president
to run the internal workings, the USG
president then could worry more about
representing students instead of
worrying about the internal workings of
every little detail of the organization.
I’ve suggested this to Joe.
COLLEGIAN: Some of the senate
meetings this year have turned into
screaming battles mainly between the
candidates who were running for
president. Monday night (April 14),
another battle took place. How can the
senate avoid these personal differences
and work together?
SHAFFER: I think that’s something
you should ask the senate.
COLLEGIAN: As a former senator
how would you answer that?
SHAFFER: I would have to say that
many of the senators in the senate this
year have been extremely biased in their
viewpoints. Their objectivity has been
nil in certain issues throughout the year,
and this has clouded their earlier efforts
which were successful with the ad hoc
committee system.
COLLEGIAN: Why the breakdown?
side by the Tacloban City.
The oil tanker, owned by the govern
ment’s Philippine National Oil Co., was
on its way from Bataan province on
Manila Bay to Cebu City at the time of
the accident.
Earlier, the Coast Guard in Manila
said ships plying the area picked up 506
survivors and brought them and 10 dead
to Batangas City, 50 miles south of
Manila.
The Coast Guard said there were
several more seriously injured suryivors
but their number was not immediately
known.
The Coast Guard said it had sent
underwater rescue teams to scour the
waters off Maestre de Campo for more
survivors.
A Philippine air force plane was also
on standby at the Gasan airport in
Marinduque Island near Mindoro to
ferry injured passengers.
The 1,349-ton Don Juan left Manila’s
South Harbor yesterday afternoon for
the central Philippine city of Bacolod
with about 890 passengers, including a
complement of 19 officers and 69
crewmen.
SHAFFER: Well, the breakdown
occurred in January when the JEM and
programs and services controversy
started. I think the breakdown was due
to one, sensationalism of the coverage of
the Collegian, and number two, there’s
noway 36 people in one body can come to
a consensus on certain things and that is
how they have gotten bogged down in the
last few months.
I think a good step was taken when
Mark Berg and I think it was (Senator)
Dave Winkler started that sub
committee to look at the whole idea of
the structure of the business operation of
USG. Since then it’s been proven that a
smaller committee can work much more
effectively than 36 students.
COLLEGIAN: In your representative
duties, did University administrators
and the Board of Trustees show respect?
SHAFFER: I would have to say the
Board of Trustees was probably the
most enjoyable forum I had to speak in
this year - they did listen. They would
not always change their minds, but when
I got up and spoke as a student
representing students, they definitely
listened. ,
COLLEGIAN: What about ad
ministrators?
SHAFFER: When I have seen a
problem that has arisen on campus,
most of the administrators that I have
dealt with have been accessible they
would listen to me. A lot of times they
would not agree with my position but at
least they would have the courtesy and
respect to hear me out.
Continued on Page 14.
Downhill from here
This afternoon will be mostly sunny
and continued warm, despite the mor
ning cloudiness. Today’s high will be a
pleasant 71.. Tonight will be partly
cloudy and somewhat cooler with a low
of 44. Gentle Thursday’s outlook is not
that encouraging, for we will have partly
cloudy skies in the morning, with af
ternoon and evening showers and some
not-so-gentle thundershowers likely.
Tomorrow’s high will be a much cooler
61.