Editorial opinion
Plans for outdoor graduation will go smoothly with or without help from Mother Nature
Imagine trying to coordinate a com
mencement ceremony involving some
5,000 eager students and approximately
25,000 of their proud-and excited relatives
and friends, and then adding the unknown
variable of Happy Valley’s infamous
spring weather, and you have one
gigantic headache.
This year, however, the University
seems like it is going to try their darndest
to make sure everything runs smoothly,
come rain or shine, or more ap
propriately for Lion Country, come
heatwave or monsoon.
According to Karen Rugh, manage? of
campus relations, whose office organizes
the event, there will be some changes
from the past.
This Spring Term’s commencement
exercises will be held at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday, May 31, in Beaver Stadium.
However, unlike last year, the times and
places for the indoor ceremonies, in case
Letters to the Editor
Medical ignorance
I was very surprised to learn that students were charged by
the University for medical treatment associated with the
apparent food-borne disease outbreak that recently affected
over 100 dormitory students.
In the first place, if I assume that you have been quoting
accurately, Dr. Hargleroad has demonstrated an em
barrassing and frightening ignorance of food-borne disease.
His statements to the press have revealed archaic concepts
that sound like something out of a textbook written in the ’sos.
And I know for a fact that he has riot drawn from expertise in
residence at the University. In short, you are being charged
for treatment of an illness by the same institution that may be
responsible for the illness in the first place. And, the health
service you are paying for has yet to be proven worth the cost.
Certainly outdated medical concepts could be given out free
by the University in a time of medical crisis. I just hope that
the University is ready to assume legal liability for such
treatment if anyone ever decides to subject the actions of some
of its representatives to legal scrutiny in the future.
James L. McDonel
Department of microbiology and cell biology
April 21
Reubens versus dims
I was very disappointed in The Daily Collegian’s April 14
article on last weekend’s possible food poisoning problem. I’m
sure the reporter was made well aware of some of the other
conceivable causes of this sudden epidemic but none of these
were brought out.
For example, the University was spraying elm trees all over
campus Friday night to prevent them from getting “Dutch
Elm Disease.” Could there be a cause-effect relationship here
since many people got sick early Saturday morning and all
weekend long? Or is this merely a coincidence?
Also, if the reuben sandwiches served during Friday’s lunch
are’to blame, why did so many people get sick on Sunday and
Monday? And how about those students who didn’t eat the
reubens, or for that matter, didn’t eat in the dining hall at all?
Why did they get sick?
The article just seemed to scratch the surface of the
problem. Perhaps if the Collegian had not presented such an
Secret societies inhibit and control Happy Valley .
Editor’s note: This is the last of a two
part series' looking at elite and secret
organizations in America both in
government and on the University level.
One of the country’s oldest in
stitutions, an educational bastion of
intellectualism and elitism, Yale
University, is spotlighted in the national
press often these days.
The New York Times.last week ran a
long article about the first female editor
of the oldest college daily in America
The Yale Daily News. The story ex
plained that the woman, Andy Perkins,
had successfully transcended the
traditional wall around the editor’s desk
because her credentials were im
pressive. It was, after all, her stories
alleging that the provost of the
university had misused $67,000 of the
university’s money to redecorate his
house, that led to a major scandal at the
school and ultimately the provost’s
resignation.
Just last month Yale made other
headlines when it was revealed that one
of its graduates. Presidential candidate
George Bush, had belonged to a club
called Skull and Bones, while he at
tended the university.
Rain or shine
of inclement weather, will be included in
an information packet that spring
graduates will be receiving soon. The
decision to move the exercises indoors
will be announced the day before and/or
on the morning of commencement on all
local radio stations.
Last year, graduation was also planned
for Beaver Stadium. But when the
forecasts said rain, students had to be
informed of the change in plans and the
times and locations their major was to
meet, causing confusion and irritation for
everyone.
Rugh said the University has recently
received confirmation that the person
who was asked to give the com
mencement address has accepted the
invitation. Though she declined to name
him or her, she did confirm that the
speaker is a well known person from
outside the University sorry Joe. She
said University President John W.
The Wall Street Journal began a front
page article about the presidential
aspirant like this: “When George Bush
was a student at Yale University, he
joined Skull and Bones, a society so
secret its members are supposed to get
up and leave the room should a non
member be gauche enough to mention
its name.”
The Journal then made an analogy
between this elite college group and one
of the U.S. government’s own such clubs
the Trilateral Commission. The story
goes on to say that “those who subscribe
to a conspiratorial theory about how
Yale and the rest of the world are run
believe it is a natural progression . . .
after all, the Skull and Bones people wish
they ran Yale, and the Trilateral
Commission wishes it ran the world in a
tidy new order of its own making.”
Conspiracy or not, Skull and Bones is
comprised of important student leaders
who meet in secret. And maybe if
George Bush had been editor of The Yale
Daily N.ews last year, that story about
the provost may never have made it into
newsprint. Odds are that at Yale
University the Skull and Bones group is
friendly towards, and has a working
relationship with the administration
they can talk about keeping con
troversies quiet for the better interest of
the university.
Penn State has its chapter of Skull and
Bones, but it is significantly less in
fluential than that of Yale's. But at
University Park there is a comparable
secret organization called Lion’s Paw.
Late on Sunday evenings, when the
sky is dark around Old Main, a light can
be seen shining from a small corner
room window in the third floor, below the
bell tower. It is in that room, called the
Lion’s Lair, that meetings of Lion’s Paw
convene whenta dozen or so students sit
back ig old *W)den chairs around a big
lion’s fur rug.'''"' !S
Their attention is focused on the leader
open and shut case, the University Health Services would be
making a more public investigation.
Anne Laffan, Oth-business logistics
April 15
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Are you hooked?
Since the introduction of the electronic video games,
the popularity of pinball seems to be on the upswing.
Arc you a pinball wizard? What do you see tn those
flashing lights? Perhaps pinball is the classic example
of the “man versus machine'' battle. Or, is pinball
simply a psychological release for sexual frustrations?
Or could it be an addiction? But. from the other side of
the bumper, maybe pinball is just a waste of time and
money.
Whatever the reason, people are once again spending
their time and money in amusement arcades.
On Tuesday, April 29, The Daily Collegian will focus
its oped page on pinball and why people seem to be
compelled by the silver ball If you have some pointers
on pinball or would like to share an experience, please
sulmut them to the Editorial Editor, 126 Carnegte, All
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of the group who is called the Right Paw.
It is here that these select student
“leaders” carry on a tradition nearly as
old as Penn State itself by discussing
current issues or politics of the
university. The group comprises
students representative of various
campus organizations usually one of
the editors of your campus newpapers,
the presidents of student government,
the heads of the fraternity and sorority
councils and usually a sports per
sonality.
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Explained in another way, an aspect of
what these people are learning to do, (in
the words of a former Right Paw, former
editor of the Collegian and recently
retired head of the University’s Board of
Trustees), “learning to manipulate
students and opinion.”
Despite these words spoken by the
guest of honor at an annual Lion’s Paw
alumni reunion, it would be difficult to
document all the activities
“manipulative” of the group since its
activities remain so secret. But
sometimes as unintentional as it may be,
the leaders of student organizations may
not be serving the best interests of their
respective organizations when they
simply go along passively with the ad
ministration policy. In other instances,
however, direct conflicts of interest are
quite evident.
An incident that took place last year
best illustrates the compromises which
are fostered by this system. Oh&evening
during .the winter months when'the
provosb'of this University was strongly
Oswald will make that announcement in
a couple of weeks.
This year, the diplomas will be given
out at the end of the ceremony on the
stadium field, while family and friends
will be asked to wait outside the stadium.
Students will be instructed in the
program as to which table to go to for
their diplomas. Only those receiving
Ph.Ds will be called to the stage to
receive their degrees during the
ceremony.
Penn State is a large and well
respected institution, and those who have
worked hard for four long years deserve
a commencement ceremony worthy of
such a University, one that will not make
the soon-to-be-graduate apathetic about
attending. This year, the University
seems to have its act together, and if we
are granted weather sublime, it should
surely be a memorable event.
State College lacks alternatives
Local radio:
By PEIRCE LEWIS
and WILBUR ZELINSKY
Professors of geology
How much longer will Penn State’s
academic community tolerate the
continued indignities of radio station
WDFM under its present management?
The station is at best an irritation. At
worst which is most of the time it is
a public embarrassment.
Here in central Pennsylvania, the
standard spectrum of AM and FM radio
alternately insults the ear and insults the
intelligence. State College’s radio
wasteland is so bleak that one forgets
that most Pennsylvanians have access
to high-quality radio stations, most of
the time. Drive a car from Pittsburgh,
for example, and listen to WDUQ-FM,
public radio from Duquesne University,
fade out as you cross the mountains. Or
drive west from Harrisburg, and listen
while WITF-FM, public radio from
Hershey, grows faint as you approach
Seven Mountains.
Where is public radio in State College?
Where is the kind of high-quality
programming that most Americans
!' have enjoyed for decades? Where is a
station like WOSU, Ohio State’s splendid
AM station that can be Heard over much
of Ohio? Where is a WILL, the
University of Illinois’ excellent station in
Urbana? Where is a public radio net
work like Wisconsin’s, which brings
good and varied programming from
Madison to the state’s most sparsely
populated corners?
Where is such radio at Penn State?
Well, there’s WDFM the self-styled
“alternative station.” Alternative to
what? Through most of the day, WDFM
offers programs which resemble
privately-owned radio in State College—
that is, equal to the worst in the country.
State College offers a wide range of AM
and FM stations which play in
terchangable rock-and-roll, tediously
lobbying for a campus dictum allowing
the campus police the right to carry
firearms, he entertained the Lion’s
Paw in his home.
While they all were seated around the
wood burning stoves of the living room,
the provost let slip the fact that he had
known all along about the incident which
occurred in the Grange Building when
an officer fired a gun. Although the in
cident took place long before any
decision was made pertaining to the use
of firearms by campus personnel, the
provost failed to reprimand the head of
police services. In fact, publicly, Dr.
Eddy claimed he never knew of the
Grange Building affair until affair until
after the Daily Collegian learned of the
incident and reported the story.
The point is this, the time during which
the provost talked to the students was a
particularly sensitive moment of debate
among campus groups and the.
University’s Board of Trustees. Yet, one
of the editors of the Collegian who was
present that evening merely accepted
the information without acting to
disclose it or undertaking any further
investigation.
Apparently this method of briefing
student leaders continues. A former
editorial page editor of the Collegian (at
the Collegian the editorial department
and the rest of the paper are autonomous
departments for the most part, Thank
God), recently told me, that the editor in
chief he served under (a Lion's Paw
member), was often “getting inside
information from the president, the
provost, and other top administrators in
Old Main. “I would say to him,” the
former editorial editor continues,
“you’ve got to let us report on this stuff.
But he always insisted that it was
priviledged information.”
The conflict here is obvious. The editor
of a college neWpaper, especially at such
an or her career, should
be learnihg tO challenge the institutions
and the people in power and should have
two band wasteland
and endlessly. Is it really necessary for
the University radio station to duplicate
those dreary offerings?
To be sure, there are oases in the
desert of WDFM programming. Three
hours of classical music in the morning,
and yet another three hours in the
evening are sops for local egg-heads.
Yet even that music is punctuated by
insane chatter from would-be top-40 disc
jockeys, whose specialty is tasteless
humor, and illiterate mispronunciations
of well-known composers’ names. It is
bad enough that WDFM’s programmers
interject jarringly inappropriate
pseudo-commercials between
Beethoven and Brahms, while an
nouncers giggle, chatter and tell in-jokes
to one another like adolescent teeny
boppers.
It is downright embarrassing to listen
to the news, read by announcers who
seem perplexed by simple English
sentences and appear incapable of
pronouncing German or Russian names
without making them sound like poor
ethnic jokes. We realize that any
* university the size - of Periri State will
inevitably err and admit a few students
' who'are functionally illiterate. But is it
really necessary for those illiterates to
have free access to public microphones?
We are told, of course, that WDFM is a
“student station,” an exercise in
democracy where students gain
valuable experience in managing a radio
station. Well, if we were Penn State
students, we would feel humiliated to be
associated with such incompetence. And
God help the students when they get
their first job at a professional station,
where station managers do not allow
people to make fools of themselves in
public. Whoever is doing the so-called
“training” at WDFM should be
discharged instantly on grounds of gross
incompetence. At present, WDFM is
the good sense to point reporters in a
particular direction to investigate
moves by authorities, if indeed they
cannot do so themselves. An editor’s
responsiblility is, after all, to the student
body which depends on their newpaper
for information.
What is of major significance here is
that a system which promotes a special
understanding between elites (be they
students and adminstrators or
politicians and media execs) succeeds in
deceiving or misleading the masses of
people who they are supposed to be
responsible to.
The universities of this country which
encourage these secret senior service
societies are actually indoctrinating
tomorrow’s leaders into a system which
presupposes that a select group knows
what is best for a majority of the people.
This seems to me an insult to our in
telligence and a threat to democratic
ideals.
To be fair to Lion’s Paw, it should be
said that individuals don’t always agree
or go along with the adminstration’s
plans. Several years ago militant
members of the group who didn’t agree
with the philosophy of University
President John W. Oswald called for his
resignation. But a past Lion’s Paw
member, Molly, says that the type of
person selected is usually not an ex
tremist or a person who rocks the boat.
“They select people who have the
same attitudes, have .similar per
sonalities and are malleable so they
fit right in,” she explains.
According to another past member,
Anita, who identified herself as the
group’s token minority member, most of
the people who get in Lion’s Paw view it
as a stepping stone.
“From there you can go on to bigger
and better things,” she says speaking on
thephdn&f rom her office in a building of
orte 4 world’s largest multinational
corpsrcrtiorfs. “It’s obviouslf^a'way of
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treated as a sandbox for children at
play. ..
But the matter of WDFM is more
serious than clumsy management and
sloppy journalistic education. WDFM is
a serious reflection on Penn State as an
institution of learning.
WDFM is, at the very least, the
University’s principal public voice.
Penn State’s radio station should a*fd
could serve as a public standard for the
best that Pennsylvania’s premier public
university has to offer: ideas, drama,
music and public information. When a
university assumes responsibilty for a
radio license, it makes a public com
mitment to excellence. Many univer
sities around the country have done
precisely that and they take the
responsibility seriously. But not Penn
State.
Instead, WDFM is a public
humiliation. Whether we like it or not,
the present mismanagement of WDjfFM
is speaking for the University as a
whole, and it is saying very clearly
that the Pennsylvania State University
is tasteless, incompetent, illiterate arid
irresponsible. ' ' !
It is long past time to bring this public
embarrassment to an erid. The Federal
Communications Commission ± has
granted the WDFM license to' the
University’s Board of Trustees. The
board should forthwith take control of its
radio license and put it in the hands of
professionals. At the same time, the
board should take steps to affiliate the
station with PBS. *
If that were done, at least three things
would happen. Residents of central
Pennsylvania could enjoy high-quality
local radio for the first time. Students
could receive really professional
training at the radio station for a
change. And Penn Staters could ftop
being ashamed of the University’s public
voice.
perpetuating the system. . .it figures
right into a pattern of the corporate life
in America.”
A phrase which might best describe
the state of affairs in this country under
the behind the scenes guidance of s#:h
groups as Skull and Bones, Lion’s Paw
and the government’s Trilateral
Commission and Council on Foreign
Relations, is one borrowed from George
Orwell’s 1984: “A ruling group is a ruling
group so long as it can nominate its
successors. The party is not concerned
with perpetuating its blood but with
perpetuating itself. Who wields power is
not important provided that the
hierarchical structure remains always
the same.”
This coming week is the time when the
Lion’s Paw will be inducting some new
blood into its machinery. So if ydfa’re
going to be a senior next year, and
someone wearing a black hooded robe
and carrying a candle comes knocking
on your door in the late of night,
welcome to the establishment that’s
your foot in the door.
Michael Whitehouse is a gracmate
student in journalism and a columnist
for The Daily Collegian.
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Walter Braun will retire in June
By MERRY MELOY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Walter G. Braun, associate dean for
instruction in the College of
Engineering, will retire as professor
emeritus on June 23 after 38 years at the
University.
He will be succeeded by George J.
MfjMurtry, co-director of the Office for
Remote Sensing of Earth Resources
(ORSER).
Braun said he plans to work part time
after retirement to complete work
already started. Although he will be in
the office, Braun said he wants to make
a ckan break from the duties of dean.
‘Tt’s bad if someone who retires hangs
around,” Braun said, “The new person
doesn’t have quite the freedom to make
new policies. I’ve been here long
* enough.” '
Braun said he is particularly in
terested in helping with a history of the
Ccilege of Engineering that is being
written. He said he would also like to
travel.
Braun started at the University as a
v! research assistant in 1943. He became a
‘/full-time instructor in chemical
/ engineering in 1951, and a professor in
Iv]£6s. /,
> THe was acting head of the chemical
•/engineering department between July
State labor group calls for Stevens
By PAMELA MACLEOD
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO has passed a
resolution calling for the University and all state
institutions to join a boycott of J.P. Stevens Co.,
a southern textile firm accused of illegal and
Unfair labor practices
The resolution, submitted by the Legislative
-Committee of Pennsylvania of the United
• Steelworkers of America, was passed
unanimously at the state AFL-CIO convention
■: April 17 and 18 in Pittsburgh.
. The resolution advises the University to stop
purchasing linens and other products from the
- company, which it calls the “Number One labor
law violator in this country.”
It also calls for a law that would make it illegal
c for any state public institution to purchase from
r the company, and it resolves the continuation of
efforts to try to ensure Stevens products are not
i&ed, even through an indirect bidder.
The resolution says the Stevens Company
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, April 23
,r ••• I"
lAHS/Colleges of LA and:HßEß.lectures: Mark Harrisy spurts novelist,,on
f “insights into.the CreaA|f>fi of a Sport Novel/ ’ noon, Room 104 White; “‘The
‘ Imaginative Creation of Sport Heroes and Myths,” 2:20p.m., Room 2 White;
“Sport and Literature,” 7 p.m., Room 101 Kern.
Shorts: baseball vs. Mansfield, 3 p.m.
Music in Interesting Times lecture, 3 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall. Bruce
Trinkley and Patricia Heigle-Tanner, PSU, on “The Relationship of Music
and Dance to Society.”
Yachad lecture, 7:30 p.m., Room 320 HUB. Amnon Shamosh, Israeli novelist, on
"The Peace Process: A Golden Age for Cultural Cooperation Between Jews
♦ and Arabs.”
English Colloquium, 8 p.m., Room 102 Kern. A. C. Spearing, Cambridge Umv.,
on “Chaucer and the Chaucerians.”
HUB Coffeehouse, 8 p.m., HUB Main Lounge.
Shakespeare film, Henry V (BBC), Bp.m., Room 304 Boucke.
Alard String Quartet, 8:30 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall.
Black Arts Festival, Mandinka kora players from Gambia, 8:30 p.m., Robeson
,4 Cultural Center.
Meetings:
Business Student Council, 7 p.m., Room 60 Willard,
Delta Sigma Pi, 7 p.m., HUB Assembly Hall. Wm. Heiser on “Accounting
Profession.”
Mormon Student Assn., 7 p.m., HUB Reading Room.
Students for Performing Arts, 7 p.m., Room 227 HUB.
Chess Club, 7:30 p.m., HUB Game Room.
Dairy Science Club, 7:30 p.m., Room 201 Borland.
Froth, 7:30 p.m., Room 221 Boucke.
HOPS, 8 p.m., Room 323 HUB. Pennie Vanderlin, Pa. Dept, of Health, on
“Gay V.D. Is No Fun.”
Marketing Club, 7:30 p.m., Room 111 Forum.
Equestrian Team, 8 p.m...R00m 317 Boucke.
Monty Python Society, 8 p.m., Room 365 Willard.
Sports Car Club, 8 p.m.. Room 318 HUB.
1969 and February 1970, when he was
named assistant dean for resident in
struction for the College of Engineering.
Braun became the college’s associate
dean for instruction in 1974.
Braun said the major change over the
years has been the rise in enrollment in
the College of Engineering. "This in
crease is beyond anything experienced
before,” Braun said. Larger class size
has caused a strain on faculty and dif
ficulties in labs, he said.
Braun’s major research effort has
been in analytical Raman and infrared
spectroscopy, and in petroleum refining.
He is co-editor of “Technical Data Book
Petroleum Refining” and has co
authored technical articles, reports and
many chapters in technical books.
Braun also holds a patent with M.R.
Fenske for “Heat Transfer Method for
Solvent Recovery and Aromatic
Crystallization.”
Braun has served on the Graduate
School policy committee, the Ad
ministrative Council on Undergraduate
Instruction, and has chaired both a task
force on registration and the University
Senate committee on admissions.
Listed in “Who’s Who in America” and
“American Men of Science,” Braun is a
member of several professional
societies, including the American In-
the second largest textile employer with 85
factories employing 44,000 workers pays its
employees some of the lowest wages in the
country and is guilty of discrimination and
permitting unsafe working conditions. It also
says the company has been battling for 15 years
against union efforts to organize its workers.
Harry Boyer, Pennsylvania AFL-CIO
president and a member of the University Board
of Trustees, told the convention that he has
talked with University President John W.
Oswald about the issue, and will hold further
conferences soon. Oswald could not be reached
for comment.
Meanwhile, Frontlash, a student group
associated with the AFL-CIO, has collected
about 6,500 student signatures on a boycott
petition and is now trying to set up a meeting
with Oswald to present the petition, Frontlash
President Bill Uehlein said. Uehlein said the
group plans to draw on the AFL-CIO resolution
for additional support.
stitute of Chemical Engineers and the
American Society for Engineering'
Education. He is a fellow of the
American Institute of Chemists.
Braun’s successor,George J. Mc-
Murtry, has been co-director of ORSER
since 1970 and is the University Senate’s
chairman for the current academic
year.
Braun cited McMurtry’s experience
with the Senate and ORSER as good
background for his upcoming position.
“I’m glad he accepted the position. He’s
a fine fellow to work with,” Braun said.
As dean for instruction, McMurtry will
be responsible for the instructional and
curricular activities for the College of
Engineering. McMurtry said a main
area of concern will be the heavy
teaching load on engineering because of
large increases in enrollment.
“This puts a great strain on faculty,
facilities and students,” he said.
McMurtry said he would like to in
crease the role of continuing education
for people who have graduated but need
specialization or refresher training. He
is also interested in expanding the use of
computers in both the curricular and the
support-services area.
“Technology is a very rapidly
changing field,” he said. “You always
have to keep on your toes to keep
“We feel what we have to do is convince the
University that the students back us,” Uehlein
said. “We want to assure the students that Penn
State won’t be buying from J.P. Stevens.”
Uehlein said Frontlash, which now has about
40 members, was organized in the fall. He said
the boycott campaign got underway im
mediately, and has since gained the en
dorsement of 12 campus organizations as well as
faculty members and downtown merchants.
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curriculum up to date and maintain a
leading position on a national level,” he
said.
McMurtry said he wants to continue to
have some contact with students.
“I do hope to maintain some academic
activity by teaching an occasional
course and possibly supervising
graduate students,” he said.
McMurtry has been a full-time
member of the electrical engineering
department since 1969.
He has done extensive research on
projects involving the analysis and in
terpretation of aircraft and satellite
remote sensingdata.
He was an invited panelist for the
National Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration Applications requirements
review for synchronous earth ob
servations satellite in 1974, and for the
land inventory applications survey
group for Landsat Follow-on in 1976.
He has also published several papers
on remote sensing, pattern recognition,
adaptive systems and optimization. He
wrote a chapter in the book “Adaptive,
Learning, and Pattern Recognition
Systems.” He was a delegate to the U.S.-
Japan seminar on learning and pattern
recognition systems, held in Japan in
1970.
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Campus briefs
The University reported that it
saved $91,000 through energy con
servation efforts during this year’s
winter break. By lowering ther
mostats to 55 degrees and closing
ventilation in some areas, more than
$5,200 a day was saved, said Ralph E.
Zilly, chairman of the Executive
Energy Conservation Committee.
Mark Harris, a sports novelist from
the University of Pittsburgh, will hold
three lectures today. “Insights into
the Creation of a Sport Novel,” will be
held at noon in 104 White Building. A
second lecture,“The Imaginative
Creation of Sports Heroes and
Myths,” will be held in 2 White
The University’s School of Jour
nalism will conduct a minority
journalists conference this summer,
from July 28 to August 1. The
program is designed for early- to
mid-career journalists who want to
explore ways to get ahead in the field.
product boycott
“Every dorm sheet that I’ve seen on campus is
a J.P. Stevens sheet,” Uehlein said. “If-sheets
were bought six years ago I doubt they’d all still
be around now, unless the University has a
considerable number in stock. I would hate to see
the next big stock bought from Stevens.”
University Purchasing Director Wilmer E.
Burget said as far as he could tell, the University
has not ordered any Stevens products for several
years. He did say, however, that housing may be
Energy 'break' saves money
The committee also approved plans
Pitt sports novelist to
Conference for minorities set
The Daily Collegian Wednesday. April 23,1980—3
to turn off Heat in the University’s
classrooms and administrative
buildings on May 5. Heat in residence
halls and Ritenour Health Center will
be shut off May 23. J. Carroll Dean,
manager of energy conservation
programs, said adjustments will be
made if short-term weather forecasts
indicate the need.
Building. Harris will discuss “Sports
and Literature” at 7 tonight in 101
Kern. Harris’s list of screenplays,
novels, and plays mark him as one of
the most distinguished "man of
letters” to visit the University in
many years.
Claude Lewis of the Philadelphia
Bulletin and Richard Smyser of the
Tennessee Oak Ridger will be among
the conference staff members. The
school plans to sponsor a number of
workshops and conferences of in
terest to minority journalists.
storing some of the company’s sheets and pillow
cases to be used as replacements for old sheets.
Burget said that the University places an order
with a firm that meets specifications for the
goods, such as the size, quantity and weight of
fabric of sheets, for example. He said, therefore,
that the University could buy Stevens products if
the company meets the specifications.
Uehlein said Frontlash wants to see the
University establish a policy of disqualifying
Stevens bids as they are received because the
company is not a responsible bidder.
“Temple, Pittsburgh and Harvard Univer
sities have already been successful in instituting
policies of refusing Stevens bids,” Uehlein said.
“We’re trying to get Penn State to follow.”
J.P. Stevens manufactures domestic products
under the following brand names: Utica,
Tastemaker, Fine Arts, Meadowbrook, Culistan
and Forstmann. It also makes the following
designer labels: Yves St. Laurent, Suzanne
Pleshette, Dinah Shore, Angelo Donghia.
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