Colloquy treats
economic future
Journalist's outlook optimistic
t
i!We are far more to blame for
the oil crisis than OPEC •
because we are the biggest
,energy wasters in the world.'
• ,
—Frank Vogl
By CIIRIS DELMASTRO
and DIANE MASTRULL
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
The United States can have a bright
• economic future if it will be patient and
realize there are no easy outs, economic
journalist Frank'Vogl said last night to a
Schwab auditorium audience.
• Vogl, in a speech sponsored by Collo
cuy, was optimistic in his analysis of the
nation's economy.
"Americans will see zero growth with
8 percent unemployment for three or
four years before the economic condi
tions improve, but economic prospects
for America are good," he said.
Vogl said the price of reducing infla
tion is unemployment for one of every 10
people. However, he said the alternative
is a recession leading to the worst
economic conditions since World War 11.
The situation would be comparable to
the recession Britain is experiencing
now, he said.
Good news in curbing inflation has
come through denial of wage and price
*controls, Vogl said. He said the best hope
for' battling rising prices is through a tax
incentive program, which offers tax in
centives for income restraint and
penalizes excess spending.
Vogl said he favors letting competition
work against inflation. He blamed the
pall of the American car industry on bad
management and planning and called it
absurd for auto manufacturers to ask
the federal goverment for help.
Vogl said he thinks tax and en
vironmental relief programs are
rightfully implemented in the steel in
odustry because of the importance of
steel to the nation's economy.
He also said he favors deregulating
business, but not to the extent of
Reclining enrollment
Joe Balena (I nth-management) takes a break yesterday in a circle of sun on the winds that sent leaves flittering and most students scuttling to class
lawn of Old Main. Balena seems oblivious to the cold temperatures and chilly
High prices force University libraries to cut back
'4l\ JOYCE A. VENEZIA
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Increases in the cost of books and periodicals
haVe forced University libraries to cancel more
than $22.000 worth of subscriptions to publica
tions in the past year, a University library of
filial has said.
"I'm not satisfied with the situation," said
Murray Martin, associate dean of University
libraries. "It's not good to cut back when suppor
ting a University of this size, but people unders
tand that sacrifices must be made occasionally.
Our collection basically reflects teaching and
research interests."
The prices of some periodicals have increased
as much as 200 percent in the last year, although
the average price increase has been about 15 to
17 percent, Martin said
He said faculty consultants and library
workers decide which periodicals should be
canceled on the basis of how often a journal is
used.
iiCharles Ness, assistant dean of University
libraries, said that if the libraries' funds remain
the same this year, they will have the same pur
chasing power to obtain the number of books and
periodicals they ordinarily get.
"All we can do is wait and hope," he said.
Martin said the libraries have to anticipate an
added cost of about $150,000 this year if they want
.keep the periodicals they now have. "There's
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Republican presidential candidate
Ronald Reagan's proposed economic
policy. "Reagan wants to deregulate
everything and that's an illusion," Vogl
said.
He said he opposes Reagan's program
for free market gasoline prices since it
would not encourage conservation, and
said he supports independent presiden
tial candidate John B. Anderson's
50-cent gasoline tax proposal to boost
conservation.
"We are far more to blame for the oil
crisis than OPEC because we are the
biggest energy wasters in the world,"
Vogl said. He cited overusing heat and
air conditioning and neglecting car pool
ing and public transportation.
Vogl stressed conservation to avoid
dependence on OPEC. A dangerexists
that OPEC will use oil to assert political
power and destabilize the world finan
cial situation, he said.
Vogl used the example of Saudia
Arabia threatening to withdraw its
money from the International Monetary
Fund unless support was given to the
Palestine Liberation Organization. Such
an action would hurt underdeveloped
countries relying on this money, he said.
"This would be a frightful and awful
prospect," Vogl said.
Vogl said the way to minimize the
OPEC danger is, through conservation,
assisting poor underdeveloped countries
and keeping trade free.
Vogl said export policies increase
employment and reduce ihflation. For
example, he said, Germany and Japan
utilize exportation and have high gross
national products and low rates of
inflation.
"If we took exporting more seriously.
we could do better. We have to keep the
market open if we want to grow," Vogl
said.
Vogl concluded his speech by stressing
the need for a strong nation.
"America needs to be strong and to
support her economy to secure a more
prosperous world," Vogl said.
a limit as to how much you'can cut back on book
purchases to buy new journals," he said.
Some money is available from contributions
and private book funds, Ness said. Individuals
and organizations also help by providing funds
for certain purchases, such as equipment for the
handicapped.
The University libraries, including Corn
monwealth campus libraries, buy about 25,000
new book titles each year. Although the Universi
ty buys about 90,000 books annually, some of the
purchases are duplicate copies of books or bound
volumes of periodicals already in the University
collection.
The proportion of new titles is not as high as
the number of new books published annually,
and it allows about one new . book per student at
University Park every year, Martin said.
Thomas Smyth, newly appointed vice chair
man for the Faculty-Senate Library Committee,
said the amount received per student is among
the lowest for any land-grant library.
"Out of 98 major institutions, University Park
is perhaps 78 when considering the number of
volumes we have,". Smyth said. "About 12 years
ago we used to be No. 2."
Books published in the United States have in
creased in price about 5 to 12 percent annually.
In addition, the University buys many books
published in Great Britain that have increased in
price by as much as 30 to 50 percent, Martin said.
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Iraqi drive on Abadan countered
BASRA, Iraq (UPI) Iraqi ground
forces ran into tough Iranian resistance
yesterday in their drive on Abadan and
its shattered oil refinery. Both sides car
ried out new air and artillery strikes.on
each other's oil fields in the fourth week
of the Persian Gulf war.
Facing hostile terrain as well as a
determined foe, the Iraqi drive to get
control of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway
concentrated on Abadan, site of the
largest oil refinery in the. Middle East
and supplier of almost all the oil Iran
consumes.
On the 22nd day of the war, Baghdad
Council picks CATA student representative
By DENISE LAFFAN •
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A student representative to the Centre Area
Transportation Authority board was appointed last
night by the State College Municipal Council despite
some controversy over discussing personnel matters
publicly
Linda Roosa (10th-man-environment relations) was
one of three nominees chosen by the Authorities,
Boards and Commissions committee and was presented
to and approved by the council in a 6-1 decision.
The nominations were made by the Undergraduate
Student Government'Executive Council in conjunction
with the Graduate Student Association, and were
presented to the council last month.
Roosa, who worked for CATA last summer as an in
tern, said she believes she is well qualified for the posi
tion of student representative because of her ex
perience with CATA and her major man and enviro
ment relations with an emphasis in urban and regional
planning.
Her term will last until September 1981
Mayor Arnold Addison said public discussion of such
appointments could prove embarrassing to the council
because the members may know nothing about the
candidates.
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For a year's subscription, Martin said, "An
average book costs about $5O to $100; some
periodicals, mainly indexes and abstracts in
science and technology, range as high as $l,OOO
to $5,000." •
"Even a standard novel used to be cheap
now it costs about $l5. Many people don't realize
that it costs this much," he said.
Periodical prices for institutions are higher
than for individuals, Martin said, probably due
to a library's multiple use of materials. Many of
ficials have protested but to no avail, he said.
The library spends about $2 million in new
materials every year, but the number of publica
tions received is not as large as expected, Martin
said.
For instance, one of the publications demand
ed most by chemistry and physics majors,
Chemical Abstracts, costsabout $B,OOO for an an
nual subscription. The University must buy it, he
said, and it puts a squeeze on other purchases.
A temporary freeze on University purchases of
library books and journal subscriptions will end
as soon as library officials receive notice from
the administration concerning the 1980-81 budget
appropriations, Martin said. He also said the
libraries have been holding back on new journal
subscriptions for more than three 'years.
"At the moment we are purchasing only
urgent and rush orders," Martin said. "As soon
as we hear the budget is cleared, we will pro-
claimed its, forces destroyed nine tanks,
eight other vehicles and a missile base
while killing 38 Iranian soldiers in the
fighting near Abadan, which was set
afire by Iraqi air attacks in the first
week of the war.
Iraq said its ground forces were "still
courageously advancing toward the oil
complex of Abadan."
Iranian forces were resisting the Iraqi
advance with tanks, artillery and
helicoptei gunships. Baghdad said it
shot down two of the strafing
helicopters.
Tehran Radio said Iranian aircraft at-
Council member Fred J. Honsberger said he agreed
that he needed to know more about the nominees.
"I feel like you're saying, here's the name rub
berstamp it," Honsberger said. _ _
Council member Ronald F. Abler said the ABC com
mittee had given enough notice on whom the committee
had chosen. Any council member could have discussed
or made suggestions to the committee concerning the
nominations, he added.
The only solution to the debate was "to scrap the com
mittee and sit as a whole on every decision," Abler said.
Honsberger said he doesn't want to get involved in all
decisions, but "I just do not have any idea why one can
didate is different from another."
Council member Joseph Wakeley Jr., a member of
the ABC committee and the only council member to
vote against Roosa's appointment, said "no clear-cut
decision" had been made by the committee concerning
this nomination.
Abler said, "We have three highly qualified can
didates and the problem is that councilman Wakeley
feels one is more qualified than the others and not
because one is unequal."
Later, when the meeting was open to comment from
the public, USG senator Vic Dupuis said he thought the
council had chosen the most qualified candidate, but
tacked Iraqi armored columns near
Khurramshahr, which Iraq surrounded
before going on toward Abadan, destroy
ing "a large number of enemy tanks,
personnel carriers and military
vehicles."
A BBC correspondent hand-picked by
Iraqi authorities to tour the war zone
said Iraqi forces had advanced to
"within a few miles" of Abadan.
He said the Iraqis fanned out from a
pontoon-bridge bridgehead across the
Karun river, some striking north toward
Ahvaz and the rest wheeling south
toward Abadan.
WASHINGTON (UPI) Cuba, sur
prising the State Department, announc
ed yesterday it will release all 37
American citizens held in its prisons, in
cluding about 10 Americans charged
with hijacking aircraft to the island.
The State Department called the
development "positive," and Ramon
Sanchez-Parodi, head of Cuba's
diplomatic mission in Washington, said
there was "no quid pro quo of any kind
involved here."
While Sanchez-Parodi could not give a
precise figure of those to be freed,
United Press International obtained an
unofficial list including 38 names 37 of
them American citizens and one Baha
rinan captured by Cuban authorities
with an American. One of the Americans
to be freed holds dual Cuban-American
citizenship.
"In essence, all of the Americans who
are currently serving prison terms in
Cuba will be freed," Sanchez-Parodi
said.
Rene Mujica, a spokesman for the
Cuban Interests Section located in the
Czechslovakian Embassy, was asked if
the move was intended to help President
Carter's re-election campaign because
of Republican presidential candidate
Ronald Reagan's tough stance on Cuba.
Photo by M. P. Ford
"No, no, no," Mujica replied. "The
Cuban government has been reviewing
bably be able to resume our regular level of
purchases."
The library recently became a member of
Research Libraries Group Inc., an organization
of about 30 university libraries in a collective
management program. Martin said the group
looks at ways to get materials at a lower cost.
"Most universities have the same problem
with purchases, especially the schools in the Nor
theast," Martin said. "But I can understand
when oil bills go up 10 percent that there are cer
tain kinds of pressures that are more urgent."
Martin said one of the biggest problems facing
the library is the continual uncertainty over the
budget. Library personnel plan a "flow pro
gram" that allows for continual purchasing
throughout the year, not only at peak times.
"It makes for extraordinarily difficult plann
ing, but the University allows us a fair degree of
latitude as to how we approach it," Martin said.
"The freeze means you go along carefully for
next year and don't overestimate. Old. Main
doesn't have any control over the budget, but
they're very supportive of the library system.
"We have always been given high priority on
contingency funds," he said. "Officials must
realize that libraries support everyone and if we
get cut, everyone gets hurt."
It is conceivable that the entire library budvt
could be temporarily cut, Martin said. This has
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
Cuba
American
_prisoners
Move called positive
He said he watched Iraqi troops blow
up "a major pipeline leading north
toward Tehran," but gave no indication
of its location.
An Iraqi military spokesman in Basra
said Iraqi forces pounded Abadan with a
heavy artillery attack yesterday, but ad
mitted the Iranians returned the fire,
also "heavily."
The Iraqi spokesman said Iraq was
still pouring men and machines across
the Karun River three to five miles north
of Khurramshahr, pinning down the city'
to the north and east and sweeping down
the east toward Abadan.
that there should be more discussion before such ap
pointments are made because of the importance of the
subject.
In other business, the council rejected a proposal
from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
to do additional work on West Park Avenue and im
prove turning onto North Atherton Street. The council
cited possible ill effects the work would have on the
residential neighborhood in its rejection of the proposal.
"I'm not about to ruin our community because the
funds are available this week," council member James
Deeslie said.
Council member Dorothy Lennig said PennDOT's
report was not thorough in examining the effects that
such road expansion would have on traffic and on the
community.
The council also extended the free parking downtown
on Thursday evenings for another month on the recom
mendation of the Downtown Merchants Association.
Honsberger said the $lO3 to $153 that State College
lost every week to the free parking night was a good in
vestment in the downtown businesses.
Also last night, the council tabled consideration of a
resolution requiring open meetings and open public
discussions.
to release 37
the matter for some time and finally the
decision was reached."
Nlujica said Fidel Castro's govern
ment acted in response to petitions for
release of the Americans from relatives,
members of Congress and religious
organizations.
About 10 of those to be released are ac
cused hijackers, some of whom have
been in Cuban prisons for as long as 10
years.
The Cuban government statement said
the Americans will be released "as soon
as the required procedures are com
pleted." They will be free to go to any
country of they choose, it said.
The decision to pardon them is "con
sistent with the traditional attitude of
friendship and mutual , respect between
the peoples of Cuba and the United
States," the statement added.
The administration moved to warm
relations with Cuba very early, and even
sent then Assistant Secretary of State
Terence Todman, now envoy in Madrid;
to Havana to sign the Maritime Boun
daries Treaty.
The two countries agreed to exchange
"interests sections," a . diplomatic mis
sion that is several grades short of an
embassy. But any improvement in rela
tions stopped with the appearance in
Africa of massive numbers of Cuban
troops.
happened at other schools, such as Case Western
Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
"I hope it never happens here, but if the budget
remains constant then inflation will force us to
eliminate periodicals simply because of price in
creases," Martin said.
Because of the high cost of books and publica
tions, a large security system has been set up in
each library. Books are cheaper to keep than to
replace, Martin said.
Martin said another potential problem facing
the libraries is a recent ruling by the Internal
Revenue Service requiring publishers to pay
taxes on back stocks of books.
Many compariies are destroying or selling
their inventories to avoid the tax, he said, and
this has had serious consequences for libraries
that wish to replace old volumes. He said Con
gress may pass a bill soon to alleviate this
problem.
Skies should be mostly sunny today with dry,
chilly air and temperatures falling to the 40s.
The high should be 54. Partly cloudy and chilly
tonight with a low of 32. Variable cloudiness and
milder tomorrow with a shower possible and a
high of 59. Partly sunny, noticeably milder
Thursday with a high of 65.
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