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Smiles made the rounds yesterday on the HUB lawn as Gentle Thursday was celebrated under mostly sunny skies. This young child’s gleeful expression
was typical of the warmth that flowed through the crowd.
Dry sky makes Thursday gentle
By PAM MEDVE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Despite a few brief sprinkles, rain
did not dampen Gentle Thursday as
people packed together on the HUB
lawn yesterday.
“The weather makes it,” said
Thomas Watson (12th-metallurgical
engineering).
A University police officer said
yesterday afternoon Gentle Thursday
was going “very, very nice.
“Surprisingly, there are not many
problems with high school students,”
he said. Several student marshals
said only a few people were asked to
leave.
Although there were few conduct
problems, some students experienced
ill effects from alcohol and drug use.
Dr. John A. Hargleroad, director of
University Health Services, said,
“There has been a heavy traffic of
people who have had too much to
drink,” although he could not specify
the exact number.
He said several people were
hospitalized in Centre Community
Hospital. Some people became
sedated from mixing drugs, par
ticularly Quaaludes, with alcohol, he
said.
Spokesmen from the hospital said
they could not release any in
formation.
But most people seemed to enjoy
the music and Frisbees, as well as
sharing new friendships. Even dogs
made new pals as they romped
through the crowd.
The first few bands did not enjoy
strong crowd reactions, but the
milling people grew rowdier as the
day passed.
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Heartsick Nittany
men fooled by Cupid
In yet another episode of Penn State’s
version of “Love of Life,” the men of
Nittany 28 are giving a weekly award to
the man in their dorm who screws up
his love life the most in a week.
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Sharing the day
Local musician and University graduate Glenn Kidder was one of the many performers who participated in Gentle
Thursday’s festivities yesterday on the HUB lawn. His songs included his own ‘‘Acoustic Disco” as well as “Ohio,” Neil
Young’s song commemorating the deaths of four students at Kent State University in 1970.
Tom Hardisky (9th-biology) ex
pressed a common feeling about
Gentle Thursday. “I love it,” he said.
“Everybody’s having a good time. I
like everyone else having a good
time.”
The crowd seemed to make new
friends easily.
“Everybody’s in a really good
mood and everybody’s talking,” said
Leslie Hrebin (sth-electrical
engineering).
Tim Braughton (lOth-general
agriculture), a member of the Fool of
the Week selection committee, said the
award is a trophy of a horse’s hin
dquarters given out every Sunday
night.
Braughton said one of the winners
was a guy who was talking to a girl in
his room when his girlfriend stopped
over fora visit.
“That guy won it two. weeks in a
row,” Braughton said.
Personal ads lend
to personal birthday
A rather personal experience hap
pened to Mark Zod (12th-engineering
science) Friday he received 38
personal ads in the Collegian.
Saturday was Zod’s birthday, and his
girlfriend called and wrote to many of
Zod’s friends telling them to buy a
personal in Friday’s paper.
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Some groups flew flags to identify
themselves. The Rolling Stones’
trademark a red tongue wagging
from an open mouth aroused a
short roar from the crowd each time
the sign was intermittently thrust
skyward.
Some individuals had their faces
painted.
Kenneth Bost (graduate-political
science) and his friends brought an
“When I first saw them,” Zod said, “I
didn’t believe that some of those people
put them in themselves. I haven’t seen
a couple of those people for two years. ’ ’
However, Zod’s birthday wasn’t quite
as jubilant as Friday. He had to take
engineering exams all Saturday.
Wisconsin student
govt, self-destructs
It’s now time to count our blessings.
Penn State’s student government has
often been criticized justly and un
justly for mismanagement,
streching the truth and just about
everything short of bad weather.
But the party in control of the
University of Wisconsin student
government, headed by Jim Mallon and
Leon Varjian, has. lived up to its
campaign promises to leave the
organization in a shambles.
After two years in office, they spent
about $BO,OOO in student funds and
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effigy of an Arab. Bost said they
made the effigy to protest oil prices
and the Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini. He said they planned to
burn the Arab at sundown last night.
Families also enjoyed Gentle
Thursday. Jay and Lois Loftus, 1125
S. Atherton St., said they liked the
huge earth ball being tossed around
the crowd and dogs playing Frisbee,
and said their young daughter Terra
liked the free gifts she got.
$28,000 of profits from insurance and
printing businesses.
Let’s hope the new'Undergraduate
Student Government administration
doesn’t take this as a direct challenge.
Kentucky kid wins
$l3 labor settlement
And it’s justice for all, at . least in
Kentucky.
According to a United Press In
ternational story, Robert Miller, 10, of
LaGrange Ky., hired himself out as a
kind of “tidy farm” man by cleaning
out a barn at $1 per hour.
After 13 hours of work however, his.
employer, an 80-year-old Louisville
man, decided not to be a Southern
Gentleman and refused to pay him, so
young Miller did what any adult might
do —took him to court.
The fifth-grade student at LaGrange
Elementary School received some
satisfaction from the small claim’s
Eight die after
Carter cancels
hostage rescue
From our wire services
Two American planes, withdrawing after an attempt to rescue the hostages in. Iran
was canceled, collided on a desert airfield in Iran, killing eight American airmen and
injuring two others. ... ,
A statement from the White House said the mission was “terminated because ot
equipment failure.” .
The statement said that as the American personnel were being withdrawn there
was a collision between our aircraft on the ground at a remote desert location in Iran.
“There were no military hostilities but the president deeply regrets that eight
American crewmen of the two aircraft were killed,” it said.
The militants holding American hostages in Tehran since the U.S. Embassy there
was seized Nov. 4, have threatened repeatedly to kill the hostages if there was a
military attempt to rescue them.
There was no immediate reaction in Tehran to the U.S. rescue attempt.
President Carter “accepts full responsibility for the decision to attempt the
rescue,” White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said.
“The United States continues to hold the government of Iran responsible for the
safety of the American hostages,” the White House statement said. “The United
States remains determined to obtain ,their safe release at the, earliest possible time.
The White House said those involved were airlifted out of Iran and were receiving
medical treatment. They were expected to recover.
The statement emphasized that the action “was not motivated by hostility toward
Iran or the Iranian people, and there were no Iranian casualties.”
The White House said preparations for the rescue attempt “were ordered for
humanitarian reasons to protect the national interests of this country and to alleviate
international tension.”
It was not immediately clear from the White House statement what time the rescue
attempt was made or how long an interval there was between the failed attempt and
the White House announcement of the operation.
Neither were any immediate details as to the scope of the attempt nor how many
U.S. servicemen were involved.
Defense Secretary Harold Brown was conferring early this morning with his aides
at his Pentagon office.
He apparently called a meeting at the Pentagon around midnight and was seen
hurriedly leaving his office for the White House last night about 5 p.m.
At his news conference last week, Carter indicated military action would be taken if
all other methods to obtain the release of the hostages failed. He gave no hint any
rescue mission was in the works.
While the White House provided no details of the rescue bid, it did not appear that
the rescue force got anywhere near Tehran, because the reported aircraft collision
was in an area described as remote desert.
The middle-of-the-night announcement of the resuce attempt followed recent hints
by key administration Officials that American news organizations think twice before
assigning reporters to Tehran.
The officials, who had asked not to be identified, had made the suggestions while
trying to explain official disapproval of trips either made or contemplated to Iran by
relatives of the hostages.
The mother of one hostage said she was shocked when told of the rescue attempt
“Our planes? Well, that seems sort of silly. This is such a shock. I don’t know what
to think. I don’t know what to say,” said Wynona McKeel, mother of Marine Sgt.
Johnny McKeel Jr., 26, of Balch Springs, Texas.
Black revolt against
capitalism 'inevitable'
By STEVE HOLBROOK
and DAVID MEDZERIAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Organized revolution by blacks
against the oppression of the capitalist
system is inevitable, Stokely Car
michael, organizer of the All-African
People’s Revolutionary Party, said
yesterday during a symposium spon
sored by the Black Arts Festival
Committee.
“The enemy the people are fighting is
the capitalist system,” Carmichael said.
“It is a vicious system. It is a backward
system.”
Carmichael, former prime minister of
the Black Panthers, said all people must
become aware of their innate struggle
against capitalism, which exploits the
labor of many for the benefit of few. This
unconscious struggle for justice
chronicles the history of blacks in the
United States and can end only in
organized revolution, he said.
Carmichael was joined in the sym
posium by Michael Thelwell, black
historian and author; Barbara
Sizemore, associate professor of
education at the University of Pitt
sburgh, and James Stewart, assistant
professor of economics at the University
of Notre Dame.
Thelwell also stressed that
“whichever aspect of the black world we
look at, the enemy is the same in
ternational capitalism as represented by
imperialism, colonialism, and slavery.”
Blacks suffer, he said, because of the
economic crisis brought on by the lack of
responsive and creative leadership in
the United States.
This economic crisis will end “when
this nation undertakes a revision of its
relationship to the Third World, com
pletely revises its pattern of production,
court complaint, according to Oldham
County District Judge Dennis Fritts,
who reported a $l3 out-of-court set
tlement paid to the youngster.
It looks like the meek shall indeed
inherit the earth. . . at least if they go
through the courts.
Python group tough
on Gentle Thursday
Gentle Thursday originated some 10
years ago as a protest against protests.
It was designed originally to be “A Day
of Sharing”, a day to sit back and be
peaceful.
But Penn State’s Monty Python
Society is offering an alternative to this
years event Vicious Friday a day
of murder and mayhem.
The society tried to place an ad
vertisement in Friday's Collegian
promoting the event, featuring Sid
Vicious and the Pirahna Brothers, but
missed the deadline.
and revises its wasteful pattern of
consumption,” he said.
Sizemore said the double con
sciousness of blacks the struggle to be
a Negro and to be an American limits
the vision of many poor blacks, forcing
them to see advancement only in terms
of employment and education, rather
than the revolution which is needed.
Referring to the programs for black
studies at many universities, Sizemore
said, “We are losing a potential to carry
on what I think we could use
organization and mobilization for
revolution.”
Stewart, who critiqued and reviewed
the comments of his colleagues, said the
double consciousness of American
blacks was only partly resolved by the
uprisings of the ’6os. The problem that
remains to be solved is the hardship
engendered by capitalism, he said.
“An anti-capitalist strategy is the key
for blacks in the ’Bos,” he said.
Carmichael, also a former president of
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, said the organization for the
black anti-capitalist struggle “consists
of giving principles to the people which
they come to adhere to, and are willing
to stick to and kill for and die for.”
Recovery Friday
Today will be partly cloudy and
continued mild through tonight. Clouds
will increase tomorrow, with showers
starting in the evening and continuing
into the middle of Sunday. Today’s high
will be 67, tonight’s low will be 52 and
tomorrow the high will get up to 64. On
Sunday, the high looks to be a cooler 59.
Illustrations by Tom Mosser
However, the Python society member
who tried to place the ad couldn’t be
reached for comment Thursday af
ternoon. Maybe he was out getting
gentle with most State students
yeaterday.
—Written and compiled by Mike
Sillup