15'
the
daily
One if by land, 2,000 if by sea
The view high atop Porter Hall shows South Halls and downtown State College- Although opposite in many ways, Paris and State College must have similar
to be a sea of lights and true competition for the real city of lights, Paris. electric bills.
Quebec gives PO mandate
MONTREAL (AP) The people of
Quebec gave the separatist Parti Quebe
cois a renewed mandate last night to
govern the predominantly • French
speaking Canadian Province.,
Incomplete unofficial returns gave the
PQ, led by Premier Rene Levesque, at
least 63 seats in the 122-seat provincial
legislature and the opposition Liberal
Party at least 30. The popular vote was
much closer 48 percent for the PQ,
which has governed the province for 4 1 / 2
• years, and 46 percent for the Liberals.
The PQ, which lost a referendum on
separatism last year, has put aside the
independence issue temporarily.' The
Liberals, led by former newspaper edi
tor Claude Ryan, had asked voters to
bury the issue permanently by bringing
down the LeVesque government.
Pre-election opinion polls had indi
cated a victory for Levesque and the PQ.
The day was cool and clear across the
vast province, which is twice the size of
Texas, and polling stations reported a
heavy turnout among the 4.4 million
voters. An 80 percent turnout is usual in
Quebec.
The new government will be formed
by the party winning the most seats in
the National. Assembly, as the provincial
legislature is called.
In the previous 110-member assembly,
dissolved March 12 as the PQ govern
ment neared the end of its maximum
five-year mandate, the separatist party
held 67 seats, the Liberals 34, the conser
vative Union Nationale 5 and indepen
dents 2. Two seats were vacant. The new
assembly has 12 new seats.
During' the campaign Ryan told Que
becers they should throw out the PQ
government to "finish the job" begun
last May, when they rejected Levesque's
plans for independence in the referen
'Communication skills cure shyness
By MARY ANNE JANCO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
How many times .have you wanted to
ask a question during a lecture in the
Forum, but just couldn't get up the
courage? Or how often have you gone to
a party and been unable to start a
conversation? Does the thought of giving
a speech make you tremble? •
If so, you are not alone. Most people
are shy in one situation or another.
Shyness is not a 'disease, it is the lack of
basic communication skills, said Gerald
Phillips, professor of speech commu
nication.
Phillips, who has developed a program
to help shy people, said the program
does not deal with the psychological
aspects of shyness it teaches specific
skills.
" Most shyness is nothing more than
the inability to talk effectively," he said.
"Whatever shy people feel inside, it's the
result of knowing that they are not able
to perform the task of talking with
others."
Effective communication is a matter
of acquiring skills, Phillips said.
The program helps people unable to
recite in class to participate in group
discussions, handle job interviews or
initiate conversation, at social gather
W 202 PATTEE
,
•
* '
Tuesday April 14,1981
• . • • Vol.Bl, No. 150 18 pages
University Park, Pa. 18802
"Our cause is infinitely better than the
cause of the other," the French-de
scended. Ryan; a. dedicated , .Canadian
federalist, told 'a rally en - election eve.
The social democratic PQ4Nis founded
in 1968 and first gained power in elec
tions in November 1976, defeating a
scandal-ridden Liberal government.
That election stunned the rest of Canada
and the United States, which has sub
stantial business investments and an
obvious strategic interest in the neigh
boring Canadian province.
The PQ contends secession is the only
way to end what it calls Quebec's eco
nomic subservience to English Canada
and to preserve Quebec's French lan
guage and culture. Four-fifths of the
province's 6.3 million people are solely
or. primarily French-speaking.
In the referendum, the PQ asked Que
becers for authorization to negotiate
"sovereignty-association" with the rest
of Canada political independence for
Quebec with continued close economic
ties to Canada. The voters said "no" by a
percentage margin of 60 to 40.
Stung by the defeat, Levesque in this
campaign vowed not to hold another
referendum during the PQ's next man
date if re-elected in other words, for
approximately three to five years.
He said he remained committed to
sovereignty-association as a plan "bet
ter for Quebec and all of Canada." But
he sought to keep the focus off separat
ism and on his government's accom
plishments, such as • partial
nationalization of the automobile-insur
ance industry, zoning laws protecting
agricultural lands, moves to take over a
U.S.-owned asbestos-mining firm, and
other mildly socialist measures.
The Liberals countered with attacks
ings, he said.
Stage fright, which is the number one
fear of Americans in the Book of Lists, is
another problem common to students
who enroll in Phillips's program.
In the program, Speech Communica
tion 200 option D, students learn to set
goals, plan and prepare their remarks
and carry on a conversation, he said.
Social situations are set up in the class
room and students are given assign
ments.
For example, simulated cocktail par
ties are held between the students of the
different sections. The assignment is for
each student to meet three strangers and
learn three facts about the people, Phil
lips said.
"Some students say they don't know
what to discuss," he said. "We suggest
talking about something in the immedi
ate vicinity such as the weather, sports,
fashion or school. We stress that it is
perfectly all right to have prepared
material," he said.
"We inform students on safe topics
and safe places to socialize," he said.
"We also help students analyze social
situations realistically so they won't feel
disappointed or rejected," he said.
Job interviews are also set up in the
classroom. Students prepare their re-
4 COP‘;
on PQ "socialization" and on free-spend
ing government programs that contrib
uted to a $3 billion deficit in the PQ's
< newly proposed $2O billion prpvincial
budget. y'
The Levesque government also
adopted a. law making French the sole
official language of government and
business in Quebec and restricting ac
cess to English-language schools.
The law angered many in the million
strong English-speaking minority,
which overwhelmingly supports the Lib
eral Party. Ryan called for amendments
to lift the ban on English-language com
merical signs and to make English
schooling more available.
New education findings Page 6
Women's lacrosse team drubs
visiting Slippery Rock, 10-3... Page 8
It will be cloudy today with
showers and thundershowers
likely. Some of the rain will be
heavy as the high temperature
reaaches the low 60s. Clearing,
windy and becoming noticeably
colder tonight with a low of 36.
Some sunshine, breezy and cool
tomorrow with an afternoon high of
57. Sunshine will return Thursday
with a quick warmup pushing
temperatures to unseasonably mild
levels again.
plies to common interview questions,
such as "What would you like to be doing
10 years from now?" The answers are
rehearsed and delivered as short
speeches.
Phillips said, "People who cannot
speak clearly and coherently cannot
advance on the job."
The program has been in existence at
the University for 17 years. The Rever
end Laura Muir and Phillips collabo
rated on the idea for the program at
Washington State University while Muir
was performing research at a speech
and hearing clinic, he said.
Many students came into the clinic
who had difficulty talking but no speech
defects, he said, and the program was
developed to help these people.
"Since the program began, more than
3,000 people have been taught to think
through their social relationships and
obtain skill at talking with others,"
Phillips said.
About 200 students, a slightly higher
number of which are men, volunteer to
go through the program each year, he
said. Three sections are offered each
term. A substantial number of 13th- and
14th-term students who have apparently
been putting off their speech commu
nication requirement have enrolled, he
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
inside
weather
Base ideal for Columbia landing
By ROBERT LOCKE
AP Science Writer
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) The
Rogers Diy Lakebed, destination•for Columbia's landing
today, is a sun-baked pilots' dream chosen for the first
space shuttle return because there's so much room for
error.
And because the weather is so predictably ideal
The landing is due at 10:28 a.m. PST on this giant desert
base in the Antelope Valley whose 44-square-mile lakebed
airstrip has been at the cutting edge of aviation technology
since America's first jets were tested in 1942.
The scene will little resemble the thundering fires that
sent the space shuttle soaring above Cape Canaveral early
Sunday. The ship will come sailing out of the blue desert sky
without power, like a gigantic glider.
Equipped with "elevons" (wing flaps) and speed
brakes, the shuttle is the first spacecraft ever designed to
return from space to be re-outfitted and sent aloft again and
again.
Columbia should fly 100 times in its lifetime.
Lt. Col. Winston Crandall, commander of the Air Force
weather forecasting detachment, said, "We're looking for
conditions to be very favorable for a landing," with clear
skies and light winds expected. Landing conditions are good
here about 350 days a year.
The landing sequence begins about an hour before
touchdown, when the astronauts will fire reaction control
jets to turn the ship around and, while flying backwards,
fire its engines to reduce speed and begin leaving its 172-
mile-high orbit.
Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, Columbia will re
enter the atmosphere, where friction will cook its black
belly' to temperatures, of about 2,300 degrees. The ship is
protected by 30,922 insulating tiles whose performance is
among the most dangerous unknowns of the mission.
The Columbia will enter U.S. air space near Big Sur,
coast over desert towns like Buttonwillow and Mojave, pass
over the lake bed at supersonic speed and circle back.
Then, with Young maneuvering through a control stick
between his knees, the shuttle will drop steeply to a 27,000-
foot runway on the lake bed.
Eventually, civilian shuttles will land back at Cape
"Most students make at least a little
progress, others make giant leaps,"
Phillips said.
A study was conducted to evaluate the,
effectiveness of the program over the
past five years. More than 1,400 former
students were called and questioned
about the program, he said. About 85
percent of the students remembered a
technique they had learned in class and,
could tell how they used it in the past'
week.
"We try to give students a great deal
of individual attention," he said. Phillips
said the instructors for the program are
carefully trained through an internship.
.
.
Desegregation
talks to begin
By JOHN SCHLANDEH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Voluntary discussion between federal
and state education officials to work out
disagreement over a federal desegrega
tion order which may affect Penn
State is planned to start Thursday, a
state education official said yesterday.
Conrad Jones, director of the state's
Bureau of Equal Educational Opportuni
ty, said the federal Education Depart
ment's Office of Civil Rights requested
the meeting to work out differences over
the OCR's Jan. 17 order. This order
required including Pennsylvania's four
state-related universities which in
chides Penn State in a revised deseg
regation plan.
Jones said no agenda has been
planned, and specific points of discussion
are not known, but this is probably the
first in a series of meetings.
Jane Glickman, OCR press secretary,
said the meeting would be a general
discussion of how to further implement
desegregation in the state.
Pennsylvania's current plan, approved
by the OCR in 1974, covers only the 14
state-owned institutions.
She said it is almost certain the deseg
regation plan will be revised to include
the state-related universities and com
munity colleges. The question is to what
extent, she said.
Penn State, Temple University, Lin
coln University and the University of
Pittsburgh are classified as state-re
lated.
Jones said he hoped these schools
would not be included in a federal deseg
regation plan. He said the state's position
is that voluntary desegregation is more
constructive.
The federal request for the Thursday
meeting resulted from, a letter the OCR
received from the state disputing the
OCR's jurisdiction over the state-related
universities and community colleges, he
said.
Jones said, "The issue here is not
whether desegregation is right or
wrong."
"We want teachers who know the tech
niques and can demonstrate them."
Observing the classroom provides the
most obvious evidence that the program
is working, he said. During the first class
period, there is dead silence, but by the
fifth meeting, people who usually do not
talk have created a happy, noisy atmo
sphere, he said.
Phillips said that no magical cure is
offered, but through the program people
can acquire a set of techniques for future
communication experiences.
Phillips has written a book based on
the program, "Help for Shy People,"
which will appear in paperback within
the next six weeks.
Canaveral, but space agency officials are ending the test
flights at Rogers Dry Lakebed because the runway is so
long and there is room for the spaceship to skid and swerve
and still.survive. The Cape runway Provides a generous 15,-
000 feet.
Among the steel building's with NASA's logo on the
walls, 18 trucks and vans have been waiting at NASA's
Dryden Flight Research Center alongside the lake bed.
The recovery convoy, manned by 160 well-rehearsed
crew members, will dash onto the lake bed the moment
Columbia's wheels stop rolling, about 11,000 feet after it
lands at a touchdown speed of about 215 mph.
Denis Bessette, Dryden's deputy shuttle project man
ager, said the first person to reach the ship will be "a safety
man . . . with a sniffer," who will sample the air to ensure
no explosive or poisonous gases are leaking from the ship.
If any are found, a giant, trailer-mounted fan will kick
in, sending a 45 mph wind past the shuttle to clear the air.
When safe, hoses from a pair of big trucks will be
attached to the rear of the shuttle. One will provide air
conditioning to keep the re-entry heat from seeping into
electronic systems.
The other will begin purging engine areas and fuel lines
of residual gases, especially the highly explosive hydrogen
fuel.
If high concentrations are found in the shuttle, NASA
says, the astronauts and convoy will leave the area immedi
ately.
A doctor will board the ship to briefly check the crew
The astronauts will disapear into Dryden for a complete
physical about 45 minutes after the landing.
Correction
• It was incorrectly stated in the interview with Chauncey
Kepford in yesterday's Daily Collegian that the book
Unacceptable Risk was Kepford's book. The book was
written by McKinley Olson and Kepford is mentioned in the
book.
The issue is whether the state-relate(
universities and community colleges as
public and therefore within the OCR':
jurisdiction, he said. •
The OCR is required by Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act to order desegregation i
segregation exists in public schools.
The letter sent by the state last week tc
the OCR explains Pennsylvania's posi
tion on the matter:
"While the Commonwealth is unwillinf
to formally include the community col
leges in a revised desegregation plan, the
state is actively seeking the voluntar3
cooperation of the institutions.
"The state-related institutions and the
community colleges have been contactec
by the (state) Department of Educatior
to discuss program offerings and artic•
ulation agreements.
"The Department hopes to be able tc
provide the OCR with a status report or
the discussions in six months."
Jones said if the state-related universi.
ties and community colleges are includ
ed in the plan, the extent would be
determined in the form of numerical
goals, not quotas.
“A goal is target. Quotas are illegal,"
Jones said.
The term "quota" means forced com
pliance that could cause schools to disre
guard student qualifications, he said.
Penn State already has an affirmative
action plan. Jones said, "Penn State's
current efforts may ease compliance
(with a federal desegregation order.)"
As to what action the OCR would take if
the discussions fail to produce a solution,
Glickman said, "I think it's much too
early to tell."
Jones said if the discussions would fail,
it is unlikely a federal court would order
desegregation.
He said, "If there were a court order,
I'm sure there would be litigation."
This litigation could involve the OCR,
Pennsylvania, and the state-related uni
versities and community colleges and
would further delay desegregation in the
state, he said.
\ I
Illustration by Michael Walters