•Editorial Opinion
USG should commit itself to naming a replacement representative to the vacant student seat on the CATA board
The decision - or lack of one on
the part of the Undergraduate
Student Government to fill the
vacant student seat on the Centre
Area Transportation Authority
board suggests a lack of com
mitment to student representation
onCATA.
The position has been vacant since
March. USG President Joe Healey
said a new student representative to
the CATA board will be named in the
fall.
But why do students have to wait
until Fall Term to have their con
cerns voiced to the board a voice
that has been mute since former
USG vice president Vicki Sandoe
resigned early Spring Term?
Healey said when he took office
Spring Term he heard only “rum
blings’.’ that Sandoe would resign
Faulty comparison
1 would like to respond to four points brought up in Jean
Guertler s letter of Aug. 8.
First of all, I find the comparison between prohibition and
the pro-life movement absurd and insulting to the value of
human life. The pro-life stance against abortion does not claim
in any way to be “the answer to all society’s ills.”
Second, when a couple makes a decision to engage in sexual
intercourse the possibility of conception and pregnacy is a
natural result.
As it stands now, if a woman’s quality of life is threatened or
she is inconvienced by an'unwanted pregnacy she can end it.
Being a women I realize the great trauma pregnacy brings but
to assert that abortion is a viable option is wrong.
Both men and women must learn to live with the respon
sibility of their actions. According to Guertler, the ending of a
pregnacy is a choice which “will determine some possibilities
which will be lost forever.” 1 think the possibilities Guertler is
talking about are the unique lives of children aborted because
the mothers did not want them.
Thirdly there is Guertler’s statment that “No one can dictate
moral choices.” I hope she isn’t serious. Taken to its logical
conclusion, society has no right then to try and sentence a man
: pwhp-;hasshot and killed another person. •
iH ri arni thankfuFthat society has a law system Where we can
| Jhatjpan’s moral choice against killing someone else
by placing him in jail. ThatTs a simplified'versidn version, I
realize, and I do not think there are simple answers to moral
choices, but the killing of innocent, unwanted children is not a
valid answer either.
Finally, I want to express my concern that pregnant women
be treated with love and concern. When I take a stand against
• abortion, I also am taking a stand for helping expectant
mothers deal with their pregnacy. It is crucial that each
woman be treated with respect and compassion, as individuals
with individual needs.
Laurie J. Hildreth, class of 1978
August 11
Another view
The abortion issue has again surfaced in the local news and I
would like to offer an opposing opinion to that expressed by
Jean Guertler in the Friday, August 8 Collegian.
We live in conditions of choice. One may rob a neighbor, rape
He's really harmless—if you leave him alone
If Jimmy can't, maybe
He should run for president. He is experienced in
government and foreign policy. He name is on the lips
of all the power brokers in Washington. He is fast
becoming one of the most visible public figures of our
time.
Not bad for a guy who graduated last in his high
school class. But he learns fast, his detractors say. So
fast, that in less than four years he made the transition
from gas station owner to foreign policy spokesman
and arms negotiator.
Billy Carter. The name is synonymous with
American influence and prestige. Foreign dignitaries
tremble in his presence. They are aware of the power
he wields. At home, parades are held in his honor, coins
bear his charicature, and no one makes a move without
first consulting Billy.
Yes, when Billy speaks, even E.F. Hutton listens.
"Never mind his brother Jimmy,” many an elite has
been known to say. “If you want the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth, go to Billy.”
Only in America and only with the help of the
her seat and he said he did not
receive official notification of
Sandoe’s resignation until May.
However, Sandoe said she per
sonally told Healey when he
assumed office in March of her
intentions to resign from the board.
She said she also told CATA of her
resignation in March. If so, then why
didn’t Healey produce a nominee for
the board in the spring?
For the summer, Healey selected
Beth Brickman (lOth-labor studies)
as interim representative from a
group of Spring Term applicants.
However, Brickman said she never
recieved official notification of her
appointment to the CATA board.
Brickman said Healey and his vice
president, Andy Weintraub, have
each contacted her only once this
summer and she also said Healey
Letters to the Editor
and murder. Anyone can make these choices. But somewhere
along the line, someone’s morals, and ethics based on these
morals, have been imposed upon society to provide protection
to the neighbor, woman and human being.
The unborn child, however, has been ostracized from the
ranks of human beings and no longer has the protection of law
as we, the born, enjoy. Killing, thus, has been legalized and
marketed in the form of abortion. All because of seven men (of
the Supreme Court) who imposed their morals (or lack of it)
upon the millions of innocent unborn.
Ultimately, the goal of Gregg Cunningham, Ronald Reagan,
and millions of other women, men and children of America isto
make the Human Life Amendment law and reality. Hence,
legal personhood and protection would be granted to all of us
Washington press corps could a laughable, beer
guzzling gas-pumper usurp his infinitely smarter,
popularly-elected brother in the power position of the
presidency, no less.
No one knows quite how it happened. Never mind
that Jimmy was valedectorian of his high school class,
is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (with a
nuclear engineering degree), a former member of the
prestigious Trilateral Commission, a former governor
and currently President of the United States.
Piddling around
did not define her functions as
student representative to the board.
Brickman also said she has not been
able to reach either Healey or
Weintraub this summer.
Healey said he selected Brickman
because “she was experienced.”
Healey also said he will be looking
for someone more qualified to
handle the CATA seat this fall.
But, if Healey considered
Brickman qualified for the summer,
then why should he and. the student
government waste time in the fall
selecting and training her
replacement?
Healey said he sent a joint letter
with Bob Karp, president of the
Organization of Town Independent
Students, to the State College
Municipal Council, which makes all
appointments to the CATA board.
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human beings, born and unborn from the moment of con
ception to the moment of death.
We must grant this protection and personhood else we see
the present day atrocities of abortion, infanticide and
euthanasia rise to terrifying and uncontrollable proportions.
Yes, illegalizing abortion will not “be the answer to all of
society’s ills,” but neither will abortion. We must all accept the
difficult responsibility of loving, caring and helping the poor,
needy, desperate, lonely and all human beings of our society
and, inevitably, the world. Killing is not the answer.
Finally, I and millions of other citizens of the commonwealth
and nation refuse to have our hard-earned tax dollars used to
fund murder. For this reason, we are grateful to Rep. Cun
ningham and others for their efforts on our behalf.
Billy can
Somehow, some way, Billy the uneducated redneck
who has accomplished very little outside of driving the
family peanut business into the ground suddenly
emerges as.an influence-peddler.
Who was he supposedly influencing? Jimmy, of
course. Billy, on the sly, was used by Libyan tricksters
who wanted to use him to get to Jimmy. Can’t you
picture the scenario?
“We’ll get Billy to carry out our wishes in
Washington,” the Libyans plotted. “He’s relatively
young, stupid and harmless if left alone. He’ll fall for
anything.”
Well, the truth is that the Libyans were right. Billy is
relatively young, stupid and harmless if left alone. And
maybe he did fall for it. But do you really think such a
trick could slip by a politician so sharp he came from
out of nowhere to win the presidency in 1976?
I don’t. Jimmy Carter may or may not be a lot of
things, but he isn’t stupid. If Ted Kennedy and most of
the Democratic Party can’t undercut Jimmy, do you
honestly believe Billy could get away with it?
All of the rumblings in Washington concern Billy’s
illegal or immoral dealings, not his brother’s. As Sen.
Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., a member of the Senate
committee investigating the incident, said: “We want
to know why the President allowed his brother to deal
with the Libyans.”
Doesn’t Strom know that Jimmy can be no more his
brother’s keeper than you or I can dictate to our
siblings? If it worked that way, Billy could not only
become an agent for Libya, he could run the economy,
organize boycotts and, as he joked “sell nuclear
submarines for desert warfare. ’ ’
But Billy is not the President. Nor is he the
President’s complete responsibility. He is, for better or
worse, an individual who thinks and acts as he sees fit,
autonomous from anyone else, just like the rest of us.
And, just like the rest of us, he alone must accept the
consequences of his actions.
Perhaps better than any of us, Jimmy knows the
liabilities of having Billy as a brother. And perhaps we
should adopt the philosophy which I’m sure Jimmy has
about Billy.
“He’s relatively young, stupid and harmless if left
alone.'
Paul Sunyak is a 13th-term journalism major and staff
writer for The Daily Collegian.
The letter expressed a desire to
work with the council' to find a
replacement for Sandoe.
Acting Municipal Council
President Mary Ann Haas said
council recieved such a letter from
Healey, Karp and USG Senate
President Andrea Solat dated July
25 roughly four months after
Sandoe’s resignation. Haas also said
there has been no official
notification of. Brinkman’s ap
pointment.
According t 6 Healey, CATA has
continually threatened to do away
with the student seat. Healey said
elimination of the seat would reduce
a “democratic voice” from the
board.
Healey’s concerns here are cer-
The American advertising in
dustry, always a bastion of social
consciousness, has finally decided to
cash in on the women’s liberation
movement. The industry's success in
using liberation to sell products has
created a new stereotype about
women that may be more damaging
than the old one.
Since the early years of television
commercials,' the American woman
has beenportrayed as a pretty,
empty-headed housewife whose most
meaningful conversation of the day is
with a small, blue man in her toilet
bowl.
However, that old image is rapidly
being replaced with an even more
unrealistic concept of the typical
woman
The men on Madison Avenue have
come up with a new fantasy that
attempts to reconcile the traditional
roles a woman has played with the
more modern expectations of her
existence.
The new American woman is not
only a sensuous lover, a warm
mother, beautiful wife and perfect
housekeeper, but she is also expected
to be an Up and coming lawyer, paint
like Rembrandt and parachute frorn
planes without messing up her hair.
We must stop the slaughter of the innocent today or ut
may never live to stop it tomorrow. :
Mark D. Vail Ouse, public relations chairman
Penn State Students for I.ife
August 11
Draft registration has divided many people in this country
and on this campus. With Supreme Court Justice William
Brennan Jr.’s stay of a Philadelphia court decision ruling the
sign-up process unconstitutional, many young people will be
anxiously waiting for the Supreme Court’s final ruling on the t
matter. -
The constitutionality of forcing persons to reveal their social
security numbers has been questioned. Moreover, any
registration plan excluding women may be ruled as
discriminatory against males.
Although The Daily Collegian has run op-ed pages in the past
on women in the draft and on registration, the question still <
lingers of whether registration is right or wrong.
On Tuesday, Sept. 9, The Daily Collegian will focus its first
op-ed page - of- -Fall •’Term;' ! on"‘thg ; ' i c‘dntinuing ) “ephtrove:rsy
surrounding the new military draft sign-up. If you have attjy
comments on registration, please submit them to the Editorial
Editor, 126 Carnegie. All letters must be typed, double-spaced
and no longer than 30 lines. Deadline is Friday, August 15.
Wednesday, August 13, 1980—Page 2
Betsy Long
Editor
BOAIID OF EDITORS: Managing Editor, P.J. Platz; Editorial Editor,
Andy Linker; News Editor, Rick Jackson; Sports Editor, Paul
Boynton; Arts Editor, Paddy Patton; Photo Editor, Rick Graff;
Graphics Editor, Randy Guseman; Copy Editors, Lynne Johnson, Bari
Winemiller, Elyse Chiland, Callas Richardson; Weekly Collegian
Editor, Martha Snyder McCoy; Assistant Weekly Collegian Editor.
Wendy Trilling; Office Manager, Jackie Clifford.
TV women make
it tough for rest
We’ve all seen the commercials
tainly legitimate since a large
number of students depend on CATA
for transportation. But can Healey
seriously expect the board to respect
a student body that, through its
government, must piddle around for
six months until it can name a
replacement?
Council last fall postponed in
definitely a review of the CATA
board structure. When it does
review the structure, it will decide if
a board seat will still be reserved for
a student representative.
If USG wants the municipal
council to value student represen
tation on the board, USG should
demonstrate its self-proclaimed
concern for the students by main
taining student representation on
the CATA board.
Now hear this
-Collegian
heralding her arrival she’s a
virtual wonderwoman who can bring
home the bacon, fry it up in a pan and
never, ever let him forget he’s a man.
Why is she so capable? Not because
she is a gifted person with an ex
ceptional talent for efficiency the
jingle goes on to inform us that it is
simply because she’s a woman.
Housewives must feel hopelessly
inadequate trying to compete with
the image of a woman who not only
fulfills traditional roles successfully,
but also personifies every other
aspiration a woman could dream of.
Even worse is the demoralizing
effect this new stereotype has on the
woman who by-choice or by necessity
does attempt to work, raise her
children, please her husband, keep
house, recreate and maintain her
appearance.
Realistically, not even an ef
ficiency expert could integrate all of
these roles successfully without some
undesirable side effects.
The wonderwoman stereotype is an
inaccurate translation of the
women’s movement. Instead of
emphasizing the choices woiften can
make, the new commercials demand
that women fulfill every role
available or admit failure and in
feriority.
In effect, the men on Madison
Avenue are implying that women are
only equal when they overachieve
a new sexist burden that in many
ways makes the old cliche about the
small, blue man in the toilet bowl
seem more attractive all the time.
Lynda Robinson is an Bth-term
political science and history major
and staff writer for The Daily
Collegian.
' 1980 Collegian Inc.
Kathy Mathenv
Business Manager
Journalists should look inward in
In the field of journalism there are
| problems with competency just as there
in other professions.
! Two of the worsts problems with in
competence, as far as I can see, are
occasional bias and the too frequent lack
of knowledge by reporters on the subject
they are covering.
Not just coverage, but coverage that
•Vill bring to the reader a complete
understanding of not only the news
i coverage, but the personalities and
I events in the news itself. I would like to
jsee this, because, like anyone else who
drops a few cents at the news counters, I
am a reader.
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paigning in the Kansas primary, a
reporter asked him a question con
cerning parity. Ronnie, in his infinite
: wisdom, did not know what parity is. For
i those of you who know nothing of parity,
! here is as clear an explanation as I can
give in a column: a system of regulating
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Reagan won a lot of primaries in the procedures. The press was in a tiff. But
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discovered when the Zebra killings were
an issue in Los Angeles in 1973-74. The
, series of 13 murders were committed by
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The American Civil Liberties Union
began to bring litigation against the
police department and Alioto. Needless
to say, civil rights leaders recieved a lot
of press, and Alioto was dubbed a racist.
To get to the point, a columnist for the
Baltimore Afro-American was writing
columns calling Alioto and the LAPD
racist. He also claimed the ACLU was
not doing its job and the community
should be concerned about this latest in
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white suspected of killing blacks on the
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tactics the police were using (which
were the same as those used during
Zebra), but he advocated stronger
measures to maintain security in the
black community. He praised Alioto for
the tactics which “would ease the ten
sion in black communities and would at
least show them the city of Los Angeles
was doing something effective in their
behalf.”
But only four years later he called the
same tactics racist because it occurred
on the other side of the color spectrum.
That columnist and the majority of the
reporters covering Reagan in Kansas,
did not do the print media’s readership
any good by being biased, or being
uninformed. They do even less for
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