Kennedy stirs tearful cheers, denounces Reagan
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Sen. Edward Kennedy addresses the 1980 Democratic National Convention delegates. Kennedy pleaded last night for party
unity on the eve of Carter’s renomination but stopped short of endorsing him. The Massachusetts senator also made a
personal plea for an economic program the Carter administration has rejected as too expensive.
Key Kennedy proposals
meet delegate approval
NEW YORK (UPI) Democratic convention
delegates jubilantly responded to Edward
Kennedy’s pleas for the common man yesterday
by approving key parts of the senator’s economic
platform proposals, including a pledge for a $l2
jobs program.
President Carter’s forces, watching a 39-
minute outpouring of affection for Kennedy
following his only speech to the convention,
worked out a deal that allowed the jobs plank and
two others to be approved by voice vote.
In return, Kennedy forces accepted the con
vention’s rejection again by voice vote of
the wage and price controls stand he wanted to
include in the platform.
Richard Moe, Vice President Walter Mon
dale’s chief of staff, said one reason for the
compromise was that “a lot of delegates wanted
to return the gesture that Kennedy made” in
withdrawing from the presidential race Monday
night.
He said a number of delegations also were
supporting the Kennedy planks unanimously
because “they want to go home together.”
But Moe said Carter would likely submit a
written document to the convention today
“stating his reservations” about the platform
CATA representation to resume
By CALLAS RICHARDSON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Regular student representation on the
Centre Area Transportation Authority-
Board will resume this Fall Term,
Undergraduate Student Government
President Joe Healey said yesterday.
Until then, Beth Brickman (lOth-labor
studies), an interim representative
selected by Healey from a group of
applicants at the beginning of Summer
Term, will fill the CATA seat vacated by
former USG Vice President Vicki
Sandoe, Healey said.
“We took her (Brickman) because she
was experienced,’’Healey told the Daily
Collegian yesterday. But he added that
student government will seek someone
more qualified to handle the CATA seat
this fall.
Healey said that when he took office he
heard only “rumblings” that Sandoe
would resign from her seat.
Healey, who assumed his office Spring
Term, also said he did not receive of
ficial notification of Sandoe’s
resignation until May.
“What we had here was a lack of
continuity caused by the amount of time
between Vicki’s resignation and the time
we had to find a suitable replacement,
Healey said.
"This transition problem will go on
every year when there is one
representative leaving,” Healey said.
“We will have to find and train someone
else for the position, ’ ’ he said.
Healey went on to say USG will work
toward eliminating continuity problems
with the CATA seat.
U 202 PATTEE
Healy to choose Sandoe replacement
“It was right after the March (CATA)
meeting. I told Joe I was going to resign
and that with my letter of resignation I
would name a nominee so that the
transition would be a lot smoother,”
Sandoe said. “When I did send my
resignation I sent an apology with it for
it being late.”
Healey said the State College
Municipal Council, which makes all
appointments to the CATA board, was
sent a letter expressing the wishes of
himself and Bob Karp, president of the
Organization of Town Independent
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plank urging a $l2 billion jobs program, which
Carter feels would be inflationary.
Kennedy’s top aide, Paul Kirk, said, “We’re
delighted with the construction of a platform that
brings us closer to the kinds of principles that
Senator Kennedy talked about in his statement
before the convention.”
"The Kennedy imprint went on that platform,”
he said.
Kirk said Carter now “has a right, and I
believe a responsibility, to express whatever
misgivings he has about the platform that’s been
voted on by the delegates that represented the
people back home.”
He'said he thought the compromise was
worked out because Carter lacked the votes to
defeat the $l2 billion jobs plank and because
convention leaders did not want a prolonged
session.
Democratic party chairman John White, who
helped put the compromise together, said, “The
only thing they were really far apart on were
wage and price controls.”
He said he did “a quick bit of telephone
negotiating” to get Kennedy to concede the
Sandoe, currently Executive
Secretary of the Graduate Students
Association, said yesterday, she in
formed Healey right after he assumed
office that she .planned to resign. Sandoe
said she also informed CATA in late
March of her intention.
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Students, to work with the council on
finding a student representative.
Acting council President Mary Ann
Haas said council received a joint letter
dated July 25, from Healey, Karp and
USG Senate President Andrea Solat,
saying they were interested in finding a
person for the seat. According to Haas
the letter also expressed apologies for
not forwarding nominee names for the
seat vacated by Sandoe.
Haas said that CATA board business
could conceivably continue without the
student representative because the
student representative does not vote on
many issues, especially those affecting
other municipalities.
As far as a USG interim represen
tative holding a seat, Haas said: “She
may have been attending and not voting.
I was not aware of any USG represen-
School Board approves drug policy
By JOHN ALLISON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Area School Board has
unanimously approved a drug policy Monday
night that states specific actions against
people involved with drugs in school and
school-related functions, yet stresses
prevention over punishment.
Director of Community Relations Edward
T. Frye said the policy doesn’t make the
school’s drug rules much stricter, but “raises
the school district’s whole level of con
ciousness about drugs.”
The new policy is somewhat of a com
promise between two other proposed policies,
said Robert Dunham, vice president of the
board and chairman of the committee that
prepared the policy.
The two other policies were the Drug In
volvement Policy, prepared by the District
Drug Task Force, and the Benson-Sims
proposal, prepared by Thomas Benson and
Francis Sims.
The Drug Involvement Policy was critcized
for having too much emphasis on discipline
and not enough about counseling or
prevention. “A more of a catch-and-punish
approach,” Dunham said.
The Benson-Sims proposal had more em-
NEW YORK (UPI) - Sen. Edward
Kennedy, apparently ready to endorse
President Carter for re-election, elec
trified the Democratic National Con
vention yesterday with a stinging attack
on Ronald Reagan and an emotional plea
for party unity.
Kennedy so stirred the 6,000 delegates
with his plea for the economic planks
that were the heart of his losing cam
paign that the Carter forces allowed
them to pass on a voice vote rather than
risk the embarrassment of defeat on a
nationally televised roll call.
The Massachusetts Democrat stopped
short of endorsing Carter, but his call for
the delegates to “march toward a
Democratic victory in 1980” coupled
with earlier statements linking his
backing to an acceptable platform made
it apparent .he would unite behind the
president.
“Sure, it was an endorsement,” said
Carter campaign chairman Robert
Strauss, after watching aroused
delegates hammer four Kennedy
economic planks into the platform on
which Carter will have to run.
The night of high drama in the
Madison Square Garden arena saw even
the Georgia delegation and Lillian
Carter, the president’s mother, ap
plauding Kennedy and tears streaming
down the faces of many of the Kennedy
delegates.
The night of high drama in the
Madison Square Garden Arena saw even
the Georgia delegation and Lillian
Carter, the president’s mother, ap
plauding Kennedy and tears streaming
down the faces of many of the Carter
delegates.
Four Kennedy planks were hammered
into the platform within minutes. But
tative. There has not been any official
notification.”
Brickman said she never received
official notification of her appointment
to the CATA board. She added that no
one informed her about when and where
the meetings are held.
“Joe Healey contacted me once this
summer. Andy Weintraub (USG vice
president) contacted me once this
summer, but I never was really told
what to do or what my function would
be,” she said. “Somebody down there
(USG) doesn’t know what is going on
because I have to be appointed by
borough council.”
Brickman also said she has been
“pretty much left in the dark” this
summer as far as what her official
duties are and how they pertain to USG.
Sandoe helped her with some in
formation but besides her two
discussions with Healey and Weintraub,
Brickman said she heard nothing.
“When Healey contacted me he said
he had delegated Weintraub to tell me
about the position,” Brickman said.
“After Andy contacted me he said he
was not interested in doing the job the
same way the former vice president
(Sandoe) did,” she added.
“It’s really hazy right now. I want to
do as much as I can ar;d I’m really in
terested, but no one is telling me
anything, and now I hear the seat will be
open again in the fall,” she said.
Brickman said she has tried con
tacting Healey and Weintraub about the
CATA position but has been unable to
reach them.
Kennedy had to give up a big one his
call for mandatory wage and price
guidelines. Within minutes a com
promise that eluded negotiators for 15
days was forged.
“The concession on wage and price
controls was significant,” said John
White, the Democratic National
chairman who negotiated for Carter
along with Strauss and campaign chief
Hamilton Jordan.
White explained the maneuvering this
way:
“We had a little quick negotiation . . .
in which a voice vote was accepted on
(minority planks) 2-3-4-5. Then we won
on voice vote No. 1, which would be no
wage and price controls. ’ ’
There was speculation that Carter and
Kennedy would hold a unity summit soon
after the president arrives at the con
vention city today. Carter will be
nominated tonight and the grand gesture
of unity would be for the two once bitter
arrivals to appear on the podium
together tomorrow night when Carter
accepts the nomination.
Later a Kennedy aide said “I think it
went very well.” Asked if it translated
into an endorsement, he said, “I don’t
want to embellish it with a whole bunch
of speculation. The speech speaks for
itself.”
In language reminiscent of his
brothers Robert and John, Kennedy
stirred up the delegates first with a plea
for the liberal principles-he called “the
soul of our party” and then with a
stinging denunciation of Reagan, a
conservative who he said wants to lead
the nation on “a voyage into the past.”
“Let us pledge that we will never
misuse unemployment, high interest
rates and human misery as false
phasis on counseling and recommended
lighter punishments than the Drug In
volvement Policy.
Neither proposal was totally acceptable to
the board. An ad-hoc committee comprised of
four school board members was formed to
develop a more acceptable proposal.
David MacKenzie, spokesman for In
formed Parents and member of the District
Drug Task Force, expressed approval for the
new policy. “I’m glad to see the art of com
promise is not dead,” he said.
The approved policy states: “It is the goal
of this school district to eliminate the im
proper use of drugs and behavior-altering
substances in our school and at school-related
functions.”
To accomplish this goal, the policy states
the need foi* instructional programs, effective
counseling, fair but firm penalties for drug
offenders, and regular evaluations of the
effectiveness of the policy.
“Action to be taken as a consequence of
drug involvement will be determined by the
principal. . . . Details of action will vary but
will always contain two elements
rehabilitation and discipline.”
Rehabilitation “might include a special
drug education project, counseling sessions in
Heaven sent
The last rays of sunshine filter down over an evening’s mist as it makes its way
toward this stream along Route 26, giving a heavenly aura to the entire scene.
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weapons against inflation,” he said.
“Let us pledge that employment will be
the first priority of our economic policy.
Time and time again he contrasted
Reagan’s current position on major
issues with more conservative stands he
took as governor of California.
“The same Republicans who are
talking about the crisis of unem
ployment have nominated a man who
once said ‘Unemployment insurance
is a prepaid vacation plan for
freeloaders.’ That nominee is no friend
of labor.”
Even if Carter and Kennedy forge a
treaty the new alliance would not enjoy
the backing of all the delegates at the
convention.
Some angry Kennedy supporters,
working independently, began to rebel.
There was a threatened walkout by some
sullen labor delegates and a scattering
of “Dump Carter” buttons over the
convention floor.
“We are going to walk out,” said
William Winpisinger, president of the
Machinists’ Union. “As of right now our
plan is that as the president begins his
acceptance speech, we’ll make an exit.”
Today will see lots of blue skies and
brilliant sunshine accompanied by low
humidity readings as temperatures
stroll toward a comfortable high of 78.
Tonight will become partly cloudy with a
seasonable low of 60. Tomorrow will be
warm and a bit more humid with af
ternoon thundershowers returning with
temperatures rising timidly to a high
near 80. Friday will become partly
sunny, breezy and refreshingly cool with
a meager high of 74 degrees.
school, meetings with a psychologist or
participation in a community drug in
volvement program,” according to the policy.
No new counseling services were approved
but the policy recommends that “further
attention should be given to the initiation” of
certain programs.
The strength of the discipline will be
based on the seriousness of the incident and
the past behavior of the student. In cases of
drug possession or use (including possession
of paraphernalia containing drug residue),
the policy calls for three-day suspensions for
first offenders, and five-day suspensions for
repeat offenders.
Parents will be notified, and repeat of
fenders, will be identified to the police. The
policy gives the principal the right to impose
shorter suspensions or replace suspension
with expulsion or loss of privileges.
For students found selling or distributing
controlled or illegal substances, the usual
action will be 10 days suspension with a
consideration of expulsion. Offenders will be
identified to the police.
If non-students are found in violation of
drug rules, they will be reported to the police
but cannot be detained by school officials.
Welcome relief
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