Problems abound with switch to semester plan By JOHN ALLISON Daily Collegian Staff Writer Think of all the paper work students go , through just to change majors; then imagine what would have to be done to change the four term University calendar to semesters. "I think the time before switching to a semester system (about three years) would be spent resolving a half a dozen or a dozen critical issues and dealing with 50,000 little details," James Dungan, special assistant to director of Planning and Budget, said. Dungan said he has been studying the calendar - systems of colleges throughout the country for several years. "Every document the University ,publishes would have to be examined and adjusted to fit a semester calendar," he said. A few of the critical issues would be teacher workload, classroom and laboratory space and i effect on research, he said.. University Provost Edward D. Eddy also said faculty workloads and academic space, par ticularly lab space, would be among the most difficult problems to solve. Committees will be formed to look into the entire system change, Eddy said. The University Faculty Senate will probably start five or six small groups to look into separate areas, such as Military coup hits Turkey :ANKARA, Turkey (UPI) The Turkish army, apparently seeking to end widespread political violence, seized power early today, overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Suleymen Demirel, Turkish radio an nounced. 6 The announcement said the con stitution was suspended, the Turkish Parliament abolished and members of Parliament lost their immunity from wosecution. ' In Washington, the §tate Department said the military chief of staff, Gen. .Kenan Evern, led the coup to take control of the government. 41 ' Diplomatic sources said the chief of the military general staff took control of the government. The diplomatic sources first reported the coup, and the State Department confirmed the government upset. Turkey, a nation of more than 43 • million people, is a member of NATO and strategically located to the south of the Soviet Union, separating that country from the Mediterranean. It also borders Iran, Iraq, Syria, Greece, Iraq and Bulgaria. Relations with the United States have been rocky. The agrarian nation has been beset by inflation, widespead unemployment and massive foreign debts in recent years. Demirel took power on Nov. 12, 1979, when his conservative Justice Party took all five seats in parliamentary by *elections. He succeeded Bulent Ecevit, of the socialist Republican People's Party, who ruled from 1978 to 1979. Demirel rose to power with the claim that he unlike Ecevit could control rapidly rising political violence. The sources said that parliamentary 14 • • immunity apparently was canceled. The coup followed reports of political In (DITIOA Roach races amuse Irvin Hall collectors Fraternities have beer. Joe Paterno has football players. And Irvin Hall has cockroaches. At least that's what Dan Harris, founder and curator of the Irvin Hall Cockroach Museum, says. "It's a memorial to Housing," Harris (7th-geological sciences) said of the three-year-old museum. The cockroach museum includes four test tubes crammed with the little buggers, Harris said. "Last year someone gold-plated a cockroach for a class," Harris said. "It was in the museum for a while, but the guy took it with him when he graduated and turned it into a tie tack." One use of the cockroaches, Harris said, is for paperweights. Another, 202 FAME violence in several Turkish cities during the last several days. Turkish authorities said left-wing activists hung about 20 booby-trapped banners across the capital city of Ankara to mark the 60th anniversary of the outlawed East Berlin-based Turkish Communist Party. A bomb expert was slightly injured trying to remove one of the devices, police said. And gunmen shot dead a man kid napped in the Mediterranean city of Tarsus where two houses were bombed and four workshops burned down by suspected terrorists. Almost 1,800 people have been killed so far this year in political violence in Turkey, authorities said. The Turkish Embassy spokesman said there was "no violence, no resistance" to the coup. He said the embassy had no reports on the whereabouts of ousted prime minister Demirel. The duties of Demirel and the parliament "have been taken over by the armed forces," he said. The spokesman said while no official communication has been received from Ankara; "The news reaching us is that the Turkish armed forces under General Evren took over the administration. "The first communication issued by the Turkish National Security Council is to the effect that in order to preserve the immunity of life and property of the citizens, in order to stand against anti- Kemalist principles which covers the extreme left as well as the extreme right the armed forces took, jurisdic tion. . : " The spokesman said "anti-Kemalist" refers to principles of, the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk. 4 COP the daily curriculum or physical planning. The University Council will look into all the non-academic problems, such as holidays and commencement, intercollegiate and intramural atheletics, and music and cultural series. The Council of Academic Deans will look into all the academic aspects. Eddy will act as coordinator for all the com mittees. The committees are forming under the assumption that switching to semesters is feasible and practical, Eddy said, not asking if it is or not. He said many problems are hidden and won't be discovered until the actual planning starts. "We may have all kinds of questions that were never thought of, that were never considered." Eddy said. However, he said, "If the problems we see are so overwhelming, we may pull back. Someone may suddenly discover some serious problems. "We may get such a problem with the faculty workload that it may not be worth the time to switch," Eddy said, although he said he does not think this is likely. The faculty has gotten used to teaching in a three-term academic year system and will have to restructure its courses. Dungan gave the example of a teacher who gives three courses a term, three terms a year according to Harris, is cockroach races. "The cockroaches are usually pretty unwilling to have races because we kill them before they cross the finish line," Harris said. The race is started and stopped on two whistles, he said. "The cockroaches are lined up and the first whistle is blown and the roaches scatter," Harris, the self proclaimed exterminator of Irvin Hall, said. "When the second whistle is blown, the cockroaches are killed with a convenient shoe and whichever one is closet to the finish line is the winner." The Irvin Hall cockroach races prove only one thing nobody comes to see the cockroaches race, they just want the crashes. ()Ile • liar) ~...„,.....,.."-. ~•••\ ~ ."\\*.\ .. . :•• . ~ ..., s. '`` ~,':'•• • \ '''Z ~"'"- ' : ''..,, ~,, , ,,,,, ,, z ,>'• :" ,-, • -:..- ..,,',..\'• ,•:, ‘",' ~...., :zsz, s -N .,. e, • 4.,4,•:* 1,,., ' QN,“•••••-• ' N. ..,,,,,„ • ...'", ''' . ' , 4 1 / ...• - •~~"fit.3 Y ". "..t W • ;760 *4 %7i • 4 N§5i74479 -4 Power Lines A camera flash illuminates smoke from the University Power Plant last night Card carrying frosh hangs on to credits After Kevin Mathias (Ist-general agriculture) was through picking up his Fall Term classes in the IM building, he presented his number 6 cards, like the sign requested. "I didn't know what I was doing," Mathias said. Everything seemed to be going along just fine. When Mathias returned to his room, his roommate asked what courses he had gotten. Mathias simply checked his number 6 cards, which were still in his possesion. "They just gave them back to me," Mathias said. lon by Della Hoke When he found out what had hap pened, Mathias gave the cards to his orientation leader. "That's the last I saw of them," Mathias noted. Sort of reminds you of a corn mercial, doesn't it? "Hi, I'm Kevin Mathias. You may not recognize me, so that's why I carry this, a number 6 card. . . ." Magnum force goes under without cover ReMember the letdown when your new toy came "batteries not in cluded"? The members of the Penn nine courses an academic year. Under a semester system, he asked, how is the equivalent of these nine courses going to be determined? Could they teach five courses one semester and four the other, stretching each course out? 'The tuition for a full year probably wouldn't change because of a semester calendar. But it means tuition would be one-and-a-half times more for a semester than a term. We have yet to know if this would cause a problem for the financial aid , office.' —James Dungan, special assistant to director of Planning and Budget "That's probably excessive to get quality academics," he said. "A period of discussion is needed to solve these situations." . 'r , 4 4 ,4 ' •.-', Sk • • "Pr - *c4l •$, e . • ~, , „•.h.. .;',.• 4 5: 4 . . 0 " ; 4 ''' , 1 ' . \'''\ s ‘,.. . 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This seems a shrewd piece of dealing and would have netted $4,094 dollars in the trade in difference, according to Jim Cox, a police spokesman. Trouble is the new shorter guns and longer cartridges don't fit the old holsters. The trade for the new ( not in cluded) holsters cost the state $61,172, a net cost of $57,078. Don't ya know, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Save the anecdotes for In-Edition copy Everything you read in In Edition is true. Really Every week, In Edition goes through painstaking efforts to find funny or what we think are funny things that occur either here at University Park or, depending how desperate we are for copy, across the country. You can help out In Edition. So please don't can those humorous For academic space, new schedules will need to be worked out to accommodate laboratory and large lecture classes. Room for both is limited. • In a two-semester year, fewer sections will be possible, he said. Eddy said a possible solution for laboratory classes might be to split the semester, and create two separate lab courses for the semester in that time. President of the Academic Assembly Ted Szklenski said . one of the first problems he thinks of is that "all the courses in the University have to be changed. All the material is going to have to be rearranged." Szklenski said the Academic Assembly will possibly be forming a committee to study the problems. In adapting the curriculum, Eddy said, a benefit will be seen. Every course in the University will be reviewed and examined closely. "We will see if some courses can be combined, and whether some can dropped or added," he said. Qualifying it as a slightly gross analogy, Eddy said, "It would be like a flood sweeping a graveyard. "Sometimes it takes an outside force to initiate such a thorough review," he said. "This would be Bani-Sadr charges U.S. prolongs crisis By United Press International Iranian President Abolhassan Bani- Sadr said yesterday there was "nothing new" in Secretary of State Edmund Muskie's recent letter to Iran and he charged the United States has hampered his efforts to win the reledse of the 52 American hostages held for 313 days. Bani-Saar's remarks, in an interview with All India Radio, were made as he himself came under growing fire for his moderate position in the hostage crisis. The militants holding the hostages joined in that' criticism and vowed once again that their captives will not go free until the United States apologizes to Iran "and returns the shah's wealth. Meanwhile, Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim declared the United Nations had "no reason to be happy" because of events in the past year, and said he saw no early breakthrough in the hostage crisis. "The political situation in Iran must first be clarified," he told reporters at the annual news conference held prior to the opening of the new General Assembly session in New York. "Only two-thirds of the new cabinet (in Iran) has been approved,' he said. "And as long as we don't have the necessary interlocutors we will not be able to negotiate a satisfactory solution to the crisis." Waldheim said he maintained contact with the Iranian authorities over the issue of the 52 hostages and he thought the United Nations still might play a role in a solution..• A five-member U.N. commission visited Iran ealier this year, but returned after three weeks because it was refused access to the hostages, an agreed part of its mandate. "Our inquiry commission could play a role, but at the moment I think it would be premature," Waldheim said. The Indian radio quoted Bani-Sadr as saying the United States was making it Photo by Janis Burger anecdotes dumped on you during the course of another academic year. The Daily Collegian is collecting them for In Edition, the Collegian's weekly humor column. We try not to grovel too much for copy, but this is close. So, if a funny thing happens to you during the course of your stay here at Happy Valley, please share it with the rest of the local populace by passing it along ( via telephone or campus mail) to Andy Linker or Brian Gamerman at The Daily Collegian, 126 Carnegie Building. The phone numbers are 865- 1828 or 865-1820. SWAT joggers run down Texas Houdini SAN ANTONIO, Texas (UPI) Bexar County's Houdini was in jail Tuesday, wondering why his third escape attempt put him in the middle of a group of jogging police SWAT team members. Jose Villanueva, 22, slipped off his handcuffs Monday and fled Judge Ted Butler's district court, where he was being taken for trial on one of four burglary charges against him. Villanueva knew the technique of escape well. In July, he walked boldly from the county jail just two days after he was captured and charged with an escape from the same jail in June. It looked for a moment Monday like 15' Friday, Sept. 12, 1980 Vol. 81, No. 35 28 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University almost like starting over, asking if this course is neccessary." Class length would be another consideration. Most semester systems use a 50-minute class as the standard, but that does not automatically mean the University would do so, Dungan said. Saturday classes would be reviewed, to see if they are neccessary. "The Saturday class is a myth," Dungan said. "Everyone usually meets on the first Saturday class to decide when a better time to meet is." The present 75-minute class was necessitated by the four-term system, and has never been a favorite of most people, Eddy said. Changes in the financial aid program would have to be considered, Dungan said. "The tuition for a full year probably wouldn't change because of a semester calendar," he said. "But it means tuition would be one-and-a half times more for a semester than a term. We have yet to know if this would cause a problem for the financial aid office." A great deal of paper will be shuffled before the University could switch to a semester calendar. But with University President John W. Oswald aiming for a summer 1984 starting date, the University should be able to complete the task without much problem. "Most students will find it easy to adapt," Eddy said. "impossible" for Iran to free the hostages. "It is U.S. policy which has been delaying the solution of the problem," Bani-Sadr was quoted as saying. He did not elaborate but he was thought to be referring to Iranian demands that the United States "apologize" for its past actions in Iran. The State Department said Wed nesday it was willing to discuss the apology demand with Iran but was not prepared to offer one. But Bani-Sadr said he did not believe that Muskie's letter to Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ait i 4 jai , ti hi called for negotiations to end the crisis, "would make any difference to the hostage issue. There is nothing new in it," he said. The bitter political feud between Bani- Sadr and the fundamentalist forces who control Parliament indicated yet another power struggle in the Islamic regime with the hard-liners backing Ali Rajai. Kuwait Radio quoted Tehran Radio as saying the militants will not release' the captives unless the United States apologizes for its past "behavior" and returns the wealth of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who died in Cairo in July. Rajai earlier demanded the United States "repent" before negotiations could begin on the hostage crisis. In another statement broadcast Wednesday by Tehran Radio, the militants attacked those who did not support the "divine act" of taking the hostages. Without mentioning Bani-Sadr by name but obviously referring to his recent remarks that the crisis had hurt Iran the militants accused moderates of lacking the "courage" to stand up to the United States. The struggle between Bani-Sadr and Rajai threatened to indefintely delay Parliament's debate on the fate of the hostages. Villanueva's luck was changing. As he darted up the bank of the San Antonio River and onto a city street, he was well ahead of a group of pursuers from the court room. But, just as it looked like the Texas Houdini would break into the clear, a group of 10 SWAT team joggers came into view and were hailed by the pursuing court officials. Trapped, Villanueva was quickly captured. He was returned to jail, held without bond and now faces another felony escape charge. Prosecutors said they will try again to get him to the courtroom for his burglary trail. In Edition footnote: We do not know if Villanueva was also charged with jaywalking. We're still investigating. Stayed tuned next week. written and compiled by Andy Linker and Brian Gamerman Shaky weekend Sunshine will fade behind high cloudiness today as the temperature climbs to a mild 77. It should become mostly cloudy tonight and remain mild with a low of 60, but a shower or two cannot be ruled out for lvte tonight. Saturday and Sunday will feature lots of cloudiness along with the threat of showers from time to time, with drier air moving into our area late Sunday. It will stay com fortably mild through the weekend as temperatures move to within a few degrees of 80 each day.
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