Editorial Opinion
Some people avoid making changes because
a certain amount of risk always exists when a
change takes place. But without change, there
would be a lot of messy babies and a lot of
disgruntled and disgusted bus riders in State
College.
But thanks to the foresight and courage of the
Centre Area Transportation Authority, the RE
bus route has been changed to "better serve"
its riders.
It was no secret to those students and com
munity members who ride the RE and the R
routes that things were not running smoothly.
RE buses were cruising around town late and
empty, and R buses had standing room only
because they ran the only Waupelani Drive
route that stopped at College AVenue and Allen
Street the most popular bus stop.
• And the RE was truly not an express route. It
took just as long to get to campus on the RE as
it did on the R.
But since Dec. 1, all that has changed. Now,
the RE runs on Atherton Street without any
stops instead of running on South Allen Street,
Judical joke
On Dec. 7, the Harrisburg Sunday Patriot-
News reported the woeful plight common to our
plus 600 appointed-for-life federal trial judges.
As a nation we have let our robed people of
distinction slide into relative economic poverty.
In these years of double-digit inflation "your
honors" are objecting that $54,000 to $57,000 does
not sustain their family as far as it has years
ago. Since it is hard ,to make ends meet, they
want a raise, and I agree with them.
I believe they deserve the following increased
benefits to restore their self-esteem, dignity and
lifestyle in the eyes of their private practice pro
fessional colleagues and, to maintain the ex
cellent standards of our expensive, yet quality,
legal system.
1) An economic rehabilitation center to help
them cope with the cold turkey wage cuts they
must endure frolic service transition from
$50,000 to $lOO,OOO annually.
2) White collar felons and transfered jail
guards to replace the butlers, , Swedish maids and
mammies forgone for public service. ,
3) Food stamps good fcedouble S&H 'Green '"
Stamps and a coupon book loaded with free
ball/concert tickets and a 50 percent discount
card for any liquor purchases, private club dues,
lottery tickets, social games (bingo) cards,
vacation/travel vouchers, etc.
4) Guaranteed admission and free tuition to
the Ivy League law school for their children and
guaranteed Philadelphia law firm placement
after graduation.
5) Interest-free loans, free checking accounts
without minimum , balances.
6) Rolls-Royce or Mercedes of their choice
with government-paid insurance, and free in
spection stickers complete. with a gas station
employing Mr. Goodwrench.
This despicable, national travesty must not
continue. Our federal judges need money
because they cannot literally spend their status.
It is a shame our judges must tolerate tarnished
silverware . . . what would the lawyers think?
Gordon Zernich, 7th-theater and film
Dec. 8
Ban support
Although my opinion seems to be very much in
the minority among Penn State students, I think
that both the State College Municipal Council
and Gov. Dick Thornburgh should be applauded
for their recent anti-paraphernalia laws, or
"bong bans."
The only change I would make would be to
make these laws stricter. In my opinion, all
paraphernalia used with illegal drugs should be
outlawed.
I realize that this would cause some inconve
nience. For example, during the summer, when I
earris.d my lunch to work, I had been in the habit
of putting my sandwich in a baggie. However, if
Cool change
RE schedule change beneficial to riders
which makes it a quicker route. It also stops
four times an hour at College Avenue and Allen
Street, which eliminates overcrowding and long
waitingperiods.
Joesph Biedenbach, CATA interim manager,
said the idea for the change came about in a
management committee meeting. Biedenbach
said the board knew a problem existed with the
RE route, because it had trouble keeping the
route on timeand more people were riding the R
because its performance was better.
After the first week of service on the new
route, a 50-50 ridership split between the R and.
the RE has been achieved, relieving the
overload on the R route and improving the RE's
on-time performance Biedenbach said:
"We're really happy with the way things are
going. It's amazing what a dramatic difference
a small change can make," he said.
CATA should be commended for its actions
with hope the change continues to be successful
for CATA and its riders. It is refreshing to see
that a public service is truly concerned for the
convenience and the comfort of those it serves.
Letters to the Editor
it would help save the moral fiber of our youth
from the corrupting influence of the worst and
most dangerous drug in America, I will gladly
use Saran Wrap.
I also won't be able to shave without a razor
blade or a mirror, but who likes to shave
anyway? The only slight problem I can foresee is
the need to do without paper money.
To some, I might seem idealistic, or even
naive. I realize that this proposal is unconstitu
tional and would be totally unenforceable.
However, it would defintely accomplish the
municipal council's aim of making a strong
statement of their disapproval of the use of il
legal drugs.
Greg Pierson, Bth-industrial engineering.
Dec. 8
Take note
As an educational institution, Penn State does
a goqd job of making its resources and facilities
available for the use of students and community
members.
Colloquy speakers, correspondence courses,
plays, concerts, library services and recrea
tional facilities can all supplement the student's
classroom education and provide a valuable ser
vice for non-students in the area.
The purpose of this letter is to point out the ef
fort of a few students who are devoting their time
to providing an additional service in the form of
free• campus films. In cooperation with Eco-
Action, these students have acquired a number
of pertinent, interesting movies that can enter
tain without insulting the viewer's intelligence,
that can serve as a forum for real ideas and
issues. If you are tired of the usual year-old box
office fair, watch The Daily Collegian this Thurs
day and Friday for announcements of good free
movies.
Greg Bubel, 4th-mechanical engineering
Dec. 8
Lacking response
About a month ago, The Daily' Collegian saw fit
to print one of my pieces in a column for the
editorial page. For this, I will be forever
.indebted.
But I was dismayed when I found the general
reaction to the piece was positively underwhelm
ing, if not completely non-existent. It has been a
month now, and my name is not a household
world anywhere but in my own house, and there
only to take out the dog.
A few close friends and acquaintances said
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Lennon leaves musical legacy
When John Lennon died Monday night,
I thought the world was going to end.
Seventeen years of my life died in a mat
ter of minutes from bullet wounds.
But the world kept turning. I was copy
editing at The Daily Collegian on Mon
day night and, in spite of Lennon's death,
I still had to read other stories and write
other headlines. Many of my friends said
nothing mattered to them; they, didn't
care about classes or work anymore.
John Lennon was dead that was all
that mattered.
But classes continued; jobs continued;
laughter among many continued. The
world does not stop turning even for the
death of one of the Beatles.
One of my friends said, "I guess I
never realized how much of an influence
he had in the world. He made so many
people very happy with his music and his
understanding of human nature."
And he was allegedly shot by a
"deranged" person. Someone just walk
ed up to John Lennon, pulled out a gun
and shot five bullets into the man who
wrote "She Loves You," "Imagine,"
"Norwegian Wood" and "I Want to Hold
Your Hand" songs about peace and
Nop
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they liked it very much, which only served to in
dicate to me that they had missed the point. But
here I labored many a minute on a subject that
had little, if anything at all, to do with anything
else, and yet not one single letter to the editor for
the immediate and unconditional release of my
services.
Here I had covered some 40 square inches of
the slickest college newspaper in America with
the incoherent ramblings of your average state
legislator, and not a peep of protest is heard from
the student body. One of my friends insinuated
that my column might be "too illiterate and sub
tle" for the average reader. To obscure is more
like it.
He was talking twaddle. And it pained me to
hear him impugn the literary acumen of my
school mates. I will gladly make public his name
and address and furnish the requested hand gun
to the first person who writes a letter to the
editor demanding that persons holding such a
malicious opinion of The Daily Collegian's
readership be summarily pistol-whipped.
Why even the editorial page editors discreetly
suggested that I "reconsider my audience." I
will not tolerate such slander. There names are
found easily enough.
My guess is this. The average reader possesses
even more of a critical mind than I give him or
her credit for. Obscurity, incoherent thought and
love. Why would anyone shoot such a
person?
Sixteen years ago, the Beatles ap
peared on "The Ed Sullivan Show," and
changed the course of popular music in
the United States. Many people argue
that I was too young to remember, but "I
can see that night more clearly in my
mind than I can any night, last. week,
because that night 16 years ago was
more important to me and to many
others than any night since.
And I also distinctly remember stan
ding on the steps of Apple Studios in Lon
don last year. Traced on the steps are
two footprints which are marked as the
place where Lennon stood during a scene
of the Beatles' last movie,. "Let It Be."'
That was as close as I ever got to
barbaric prose are simple not, tolerated. 'lt
readership realizes that it is symbolic death for
any writer to be ignored, while controversy and
criticism are a blessing.
Therefore, the readers have chosen to remain
silent. Many probably did not even read my col
umn. In this, they showed rare wisdom. Original
ly I thought that my continuing anonymity w 4
the result of my being misunderstood, and I con
soled myself with the a Thoreauvian maxim, "To
be great is to be misunderstood."
Then I realized that it was . not that I was
misunderstood, but more basically, that I was
not understood. But then what is it to be not
understood? Answer: Not to be worth Ur
trouble.
Josh Borowicz, 10th-English
Dec. 8
Sunday school
The most religious title of the year is uponius
again. Many students will be attending church
for the first time all year when they return home
for the Christmas holiday.
Why do so many students stop attend*
religious services regularly when they attend
college? Is it because they are no longer forced
to go by their parents, or are they just too lazy?
Do students stop attending church because
they no longer believe in God or because they are
skeptical about organized religion? Does.a per
son with a higher level of education tend to learire
the church because he or she thinks.the church's
teachings are too simplistic? .
On Tuesday, Dec. 16, The Daily Collegian Will
focus its weekly Op-ed page on students and
organized religion: faltering faith.
Anyone wishing to comment on this topic
should submit letters to the Editorial editor, #6
Carnegie. All letters must be typed, double
spaced and no longer than 30 lines. Deadline is 5
p.m. Friday, Dec. 12.
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Thursday, Dec. 11, 1980Tage 2
Betsy Long
Editor
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meeting John
Now there will never be the potential
reunion. People cannot even hope for one
any longer.
Beatle memorabilia will come off the
shelves and back Qnto the market more
fervently than ever.
Record companies will re-rele*e
Beatles albums in all sorts of special
packages with extra never-released
photographs and songs. Magazines will
run old interviews with John and need in
terviews with the other three Beatles.
Television stations will rerun "A Hard
Day's Night," "Help!" "Yellow St*
marine," "Magical Mystery Tour" and
"Let It Be," not to mention the Ed
Sullivan segments and all the British
Broadcasting Corp. specials available.
One-fourth of a legend has died and
while many people will profit, the impor
tant thing to remember is that may
people are mourning and will mourn,
some for the rest of their lives. A great
man is dead, and as when anyone dies,
the world does not stop turning, but peo
ple do care:
Cindy Deskins is an 11th-term jour
nalism major and a copy editor for Th i
Daily Collegian.
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.•Evidence disputed
July clerk robbery
Continued from Page 1
The check had been paid to the Univer
sity by a visitor, James W. Zollickoffer,
who had rented a room July 12 in Waring
Hall during a conference. Zollickoffer on
Tuesday identified the check as the one
he paid to the West Halls clerk.
Henderson testified Tuesday he had
It never seen the piece until Bennett show
ed it to him. He also said the only way it
could have gotten in his sneaker was if
the officer had put it there.
Nollau, in his closing arguments, said,
"Bennett did not , put it in the shoe
because he had no reason to. How could
i he put the piece in the shoe if the rest of
the check was not found until 12 hours
later?"
'We had a pretty strong
case. The com
b monwealth evidence
was overwhelming, and
the verdict reached was
just. The jury discharged
a difficult duty.'
-Lee G. Nollau,
prosecuting attorney
In a brief account of the events of July
12, Allan said that during his midnight to
'l' 8 a.m. shift in the Waring Hall Post Of
lice, he had dozed off and was awakened
by a man who pulled a gun and demand
: ed money. After putting bills and a check
into a bag, he was taken into the base-
ment and forced to lay on the floor
His attacker then choked him until he
"'passed out, Allan said. When he regained
consciousness at about 6 a.m., he called
University Police Services, he testified.
His injuries were severe ; requiring
treatment at Centre Community
Hospital and then at Geisinger Medical
, Center in Danville.
10. University police apprehended
Henderson at the bus station about 6:30
• a.m. After Allan identified him as his at
tacker, they arrested Henderson.
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After the trial, several jurors agreed
that the check fragment was the most
damaging evidence.
One juror, who did not want to be nam
ed, said, "The piece of check was the
most incriminating thing they (the pro
secution) could have done. Up to that
point, there was really nothing."
The jury decided without trouble that
Henderson was guilty of robbery, the
juror said, but they had some trouble at
first with the attempted murder charge
because they were not sure of the dif
ferences between aggravated assault
and attempted murder.
One juror, Robert E. Klinger Jr., said,
"We were not really sure on what the
meanings were. It was best to ask and be
sure than to say something that we
didn't really want." He also said the
piece of check strongly influenced his
vote.
Joe Lamey Jr., another juror, said the
piece in the sneaker "brought
everything together."
"We had a pretty strong case," pro
secutor, Nollau said. "The com
monwealth evidence was overwhelming,
and the verdict reached was just. The
jury discharged a difficult duty."
Allan said he was satisfied with the
verdict and relieved that the trial was
over. Despite McGee's questioning of
Allan's testimony, Allan said he was
positive that Henderson was his
assailant.
To testify, Allan said he had to take
three days off from his student-teaching
practicum.
"I have no negative feelings about the
trial," he said. "I was the victim. I try to
approach it (the trial) as matter of
fact."
Allan said he has recovered complete
ly from his injuries.
Henderson has 10 days to file an ap
peal with the Centre County Court of
Common Pleas.
Nollau said Henderson, a former
University student, has another charge
pending against him. Henderson is
charged with the theft of about $8 from
an anti-vandalism collection container
in the Corner Room, Nollau said.
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Commission may close Boalsburg museum
By JUSTIN CATANOSO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Budget cuts and closing of museums operated by the
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission are
still in the speculative, uncertain stages, Commission
Executive Director William J. Wewer said.
Last week, the Associated Press reported the com
mission may face budget cuts ranging from 3 to 9 per
cent of its $7.5 million appropriation for this fiscal
year. Such cuts would reportedly require the closing of
seven museum and historic sites across the state, in
cluding the Pennsylvania Military Museum and 28th
Division Shrine in Boalsburg.
Kirk Wilson, assistant press secretary for Gov. Dick
Thornburgh, said the commission released the budget
information, and that museums and historic sites
would not necessarily be closed if full funding were not
appropriated.
Wewer said that alternatives to closing sites and
museums have been discussed, but denied the commis-
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"The entire matter is still under research and in the
preliminary stages," Wewer said. "We won't be able to
make any decisons until late February or early March.
Right now, I just can't say if there will be a need for
any budget cutting. I can only speculate."
Wewer said museums and histnric sites are
statistically the second-largest tourist attraction in the
state. Because of that, he said, the commission will
continue its plans to operate all 52 sites under its con
trol and also improve them as necessary.
In the event of budget cuts, however, Wewer said
those historic sites contributing least to the economic
growth of their areas would be forced to close, at least
until full funding could be restored.
Since its opening in 1969, the military museum in
Boalsburg was affected once by budget limitations
when two of five staff members were laid off for eight
months in 1975.
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The Daily Collegian Thursday, Dec. 11, 1980-3
Donald Morrison, administrator of the Boalsburg
museum, said the site is a popular attraction. He
estimated 70,000 people have seen the museum or used
the sprawling grounds for recreation this year.
"We have a great historic value here. That's evi
dent," Morrison said. "But what people don't realize is
that we make a significant economical contribution to
the county by attracting tourists."
Located on U.S. Route 322, the museum houses inter
pretive exhibits concentrating on individual ser
vicemen and the role they played in major conflicts in
volving Pennsylvanians, from the French and Indian
War to World War 11.
Displayed in chronological order on the circular
route through the museum, exhibits include military
dress and weaponry from each war era. The museum's
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