daily collegian fall term Reagan, semester plan, bongs, tuition . By IRIS NAAR Daily Collegian Staff Writer Fall Term was a time of beginnings foi• Penn State, its community and the nation, as a new president was elected to lead the United States, a new cal endar and system of studerit govern ment were suggested for the University, and a controversial drug paraphernalia ban was proposed by the State College Municipal• Council. , Probably fall's biggest7 l 'l6,vevainei, near the ,end of L ,the term, , „as,Ronald, Reagan and his fellow Republicans swept victories Nov. 4 in the presiden cy, much of Congress and many state legislatures. Reagan's landslide victo ry over incumbent Jimmy Carter fol lowed poll predictions the day before that termed the race too close to call. While state and county vQters fa vored Reagan,' University students leaned toward Carter, with indepen dent John B. Anderson also faring well among students. Republicans also did well nation wide, as that party scored enough victories to control the Senate for the first time since 1954 with a six-person majority over the Democrats, and to make the Democratically controlled House of Representatives more con servative. In the race for U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, Republican Arlen Spec ter defeated Democrat Pete Flaherty, while Republican William F. Clinger retained his 23rd District congressio nal seat by beating Democratic candi date Peter Atigan and and Consumer Party candidate Doug Mason. Locally, state Rep. Gregg L. Cun ningham, R-Centre County, defeated Democratic candidate Robert C. Bra zil] and independent Michael G. Day in the 77th District race, amid Brazill's .~ ~. 11 10 0 ~. .„ 4,,i.,,..,-„,„.,.,., Aitt, riti.sll .:•': . :' 1 .! 1 : , :i.Y 44:)!:: , -:,-• ...--:.':. • d • ,l• Photo by Rick Graft Penn State running back Jon Williams (44) turns the corner on Ohio State linebacker Keith Ferguson in the Lions' 31-19 Fiesta Bowl victory over the Buckeyes the ~~ ~. ~~. i : / 7‘, --- '- - ,.,.. , c,r.,!w .4 -4'l., ,t'''!"iii ~:.7i:'.- 0r, i, ... , 1 / 4, : •.:t.i.v;'41..•-•' •i-t.v.0.:,,w4 \ %. 7 r >"7 4- :'!' ~ 4, 1 Pe . , ,, , . ~.: 7 . 41,tv 4,11041 .'.ic • '..i''' - , t• ,, . IP '<•• ,t4A. ,imellft.:34l!,,#o,' '. t'.7:i, 2.,:, '..4` 4 '''''''..t.'"•'"`''' . . e • • • ..:t.'-•,1.:',4 , :,;:';:.;:.,.;: . ) - :•....... ~:,;; ' , ; .:4).:i.: ~...,, .ae:. T._,j i..,~ NEGRI accusation that State College Demo cratic officials had engaged in election fraud because they allegedly distrib uted leaflets which stated Brazill was ineligible to run. On campus, the possibility that the University would revert to a semester calendar after 20 years on a 10-week term system became realized as Uni versity President John W. Oswald an `pounced, Sept. 10 that he .favorecLa emestet system. --L "Conversion to a semester. system by 1984 seems probable, although not certain," said Oswald, who asked in terested parties to submit recommen dations to him. "I believe the semester system provides a preferable learning environment." University Provost Edward D. Eddy also expressed his approval of a se mester plan. "If it weren't for the academic prob lems created by the present term system, I don't think we would be talking about going to a semester system," Eddy said. "It seems to me, from my vantage point as provost, that a change in the calendar might result - in a significant change in the intellec tual climate of the University." Forums were held to elicit opinions from students, faculty and administra tors, with members of the University community listing pros and cons. A new calendar was not the only changed contemplated Fall Term, as members of the Undergraduate Stu dent Government Executive Council voted to assist in work on a proposal to reorganize student government. An independent committee was organized to study the plan, first considered in 1978. Initial reaction to the reorganization was favorable, with Eddy saying that ai i r • .1 . . . A O •ac USG "better. do something fast. They're losing the confidence of every body —administration and students." Coed housing joined in the limefight when a survey by the Association of Residence Halls Students showed 97.7 percent of 8,785 residence hall students favoring the idea of a coed housing option on campus. And in a prelimi nary report prepared by ARHS, 85 percent,of 317 parents of past, 'present *and' Mike University student sur-: veyed said they would allow their children to live in a coed house. While many things changed on cam pus Fall Term, others remained the same. In another housing matter, Os wald announced in a letter to Ray mond 0. Murphy, vice president for student affairs, that dorm contracts would, be accepted this year on the same first-come first-served system used last year, and not by a lottery system. And the reality of the annual tuition increase was faced again when the University Board of Trustees decided to include a 5 percent tuition increase built into its 1981-82 $144.7 million ap propriation request from the state Legislature. The state House of Representatives later voted to appropriate $127 million to the University for 1980-81 and Robert A. Patterson, senior vice presi dent for finance and operations, said "the question of a second tuition in crease becomes completely academic with the final passage and signing of this appropriation." Soon after, Gov. Dick Thornburgh assured the University of its $127 mil lion state appropriation after hesigned legislation fully funding state-related institutions. XO4 n. ~ ..~,r~.{.~.r The happier moments in the news of late 1980-early 1981 included Ronald Reagan's moments at the Republican National Convention, the release of Robert Ode and 51 other former hostages from Iran, and the successful launch of the space shuttle Columbia with astronauts Robert Crippen, shown here, and John Young. Born during the term was the State X 4 l .;Ai r - College Municipal Coun cil's ordinance to ban the sale of drug par aphernalia in State Col lege. The ordinance spurred controversy over questions of consti tutionality. A hearing was held in the U.S. District Court in, Scrabton, and two Stitte '''College"bbsiness es, Lazy J Ltd. and Quickdraw Accessories, Inc., filed for temporary restraining orders against the parapherna lia law, claiming it was vague and indefinite, and did not clearly de fine what paraphernalia items were prohibited. After numerous con flicts during his 1 1 / 2 years in the position, Centre Area Transpor tation Authority Man ager Vernon Lyght announced he was leav ing the job to move on to "newer challenges." In his letter of resig nation to the CATA board, Lyght said, "I have just completed a review of my personal career accomplish ments and objectives within the field of urban mass transit and have reluctantly concluded that it is now time to move into opportunities and responsibilities broader than Centre Line can afford." On the entertainment side, viewers of the hit television series "Dal las" finally learned that Kristin Shepard had shot the dastardly J.R. Ewing. The revelation climaxed months of waiting lengthened by the summer and an ac tors' strike. Fall Term was a time of celebration for local Phillies fans, who saw their baseball team win its first world championship in its 98- year history, downing the Kansas City Royals 4-1 in the final game of a six-game series. The victory spurred a mob to con verge on downtown State College, with jubilant fans blocking traffic and caus ing several arrests in the process. Scoring victories for the University was the Nittany Lion football team, which posted an 8-1 record by the end of Fall Term. The team's only loss, to Nebraska, came despite the crowd's consistent chant of "Nebraska bites the dust." Rely tampons did bite the dust Fall Term, as women who received sam ples of them through ARHS' Goodstuff program were warned that their use could increase the risk of Toxic Shock Syndrome. At the time of the ARHS warning, the national Center for Disease Control - 'tt•VMen t , riYik ' . :4l' ,PsP , ' , 4.l, 4 fir i -' , 7:1tif ,. ., 44, ,WhY 4 ol" . ",),'Rei•: , • pr,t.Z ., ~ ; $ 3 ,0 0 5) :' ,•, - ,<.•'• iey. ,,, • UPI wlrepholos ~~ '~Y, -. ~: . 'To maintain peace requires strength. America has never gotten into a war because we were too strong. We can get into a war by letting events get out of hand as they have in the last 3 years.' in Atlanta had reported 299 cases of TSS and 25 deaths. A big letdown during the term was singer Carly Simon's concert cancella tion because of illness. At the time, Melvyn S. Klein, director of student activities and a member of the Univer sity. Concert Committee, said "we will make every effort as a committee to reschedule this concert if at all possi ble, but specifically when at this point I couldn't say." A photograph of a nude woman pos ing by the Nittany Lion shrine caused its share of controversy, with State College photographer Bill Coleman calling the dispute "a matter of aes thetic value" while 'some alumni ex pressed dismay over the photo. Monday, May 18 28 Ronald, Reagan Back off campus, Rep. Michael My ; ers, convicted of accepting a bribe hi the FBl's Abscam undercover oper ; tion, was expelled from Congress. Mr, ers became the first congressman ,f 9 be expelled by his colleagues since tlc , outbreak of the Civil War. In September, former Nicaragua►) dictator Anastosio Somoza was assas ; sinated in Paraguay after being exiled from his country. And the American hostages contin'. ued to be held in Iran, with constant debates as to whether they would be released. Iran finally listed conditions the United States would have to meet before the hostages could be set free, winter term The hostages, Lennon, Barney and Crybaby . . . By JUSTIN CATANOSO Daily collegian Staff Writer "I read the news today, oh boy." 1 Those were his words and on Dec. 9, having read the news, millions of people ?: around the world struggled - with their reaction to it. Oh boy, John Lennon had been murdered, gunned down outside his (• ' New York City apartment building. It wasn't the brightest way to begin Winter Term. But while Lennon's death didn't make for a happy Christmas, the country's spirits were lifted after the New Year by the imminent conclusion to , the hostage crisis. The Carter adminis- Viqration, led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren S. Christopher, negotiated around the clock during its final weeks in power in hopes of freeing the 52 hostages. k r • Still, Americans were rehictant to let their hopes— dashed so many times in i he last 14 months soar too high. With a liew administration moving into the White House and Iran embattled in war With Iraq, however, the Ayatollah Kho meini and his revolutionary government no longer held the upper hand. Finally, on Jan. 20, perhaps the most exciting news day in modern history, Iran released the hostages after 444 days of captivity. And as if to humiliate Jimmy Carter one last time, the hostages were set free just as Ronald Reagan was sworn in as 40th president of the United States. It was a day of optimism, the kind that naturally precedes each new administra tion. And it was a day America wrapped itself in a big yellow ribbon in anticipa tion of its returning citizens. But behind the homecoming parades 'Lind Reagan's promises to revive the country's economy, there ,were major crises in Poland and El Salvador that dominated international news. Solidarity's insistence on greater union rights brought the Soviet Union march ing to the Polish border. And in light of the political unrest and slaughter of two American lawyers, and later, four Amer ican nuns, in El Salvador, the Reagan administration sent military advisers to the war-torn country to aid the govern ment in San Salvador, the country's capital. With 2 million young men born in 1962 required to register for the draft soon after New Year's Day, more than a .spring term it shoo tings, shuttle, ~~, -~. P ~I , ~,,,.„. :i...; . ("ram r te 11 0. 7 ,1 .. ,i4 LA ~ • t.ll ~, .-' ', ... , ,-. ~. ,:..„ , r ) ; , 4 1 , , ,i• • t , An on-campus rally protesting U.S. involvement in El Salvador had about 75 participants on April 16. Sponsored by the Friends of Central American Liberty and the Third World Coalition, the march was held to increase student awareness of the El Salvador issue, said Brian McNeil, a University graduate. By ELLYN HARLEY Daily Collegian Staff Writer , Spring Term was the beginning of the Space shuttle program and the Colum bia's maiden mission, which was com pleted with "flying colors." It was a time of frightful violence assassination at !empts on President Reagan and Pope John Paul II shocked the world. It was time for a new calendar at Penn State. On the afternoon of March 30, all activ ities and concerns at the University took a back seat to the scene outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. ' Only 70 days into his presidency, Ron ald Reagan was shot and press secretary James S. Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy and policeman Thomas Delahanty were wounded by would-be-assassin John W. Hinckley. :Reagan suffered a chest wound but recovered amazingly well, his doctors t ~: =` ~ t'l The nation and world were stunned March 30 by an assassination attempt on President Reagan that wounded Reagan and three others. Here, agents tend to presidential press secretary James fewpeople believed U.S. military inter vention in El Salvador was inevitable. Reagan, however, denied any such inten tions. Life was more peaceful in University Park during Winter . Term; the most important issue with which administa tors, faculty and students had to contend was the proposed switch from terms to semesters. Although most people thought the switch to semesters was previously de- said. Brady, the most seriously hurt with a gunshot wound to the head, was de clared dead at one point by all three major television networks. However, his recovery since has been termed "re markable" by his doctors. Less than a month-and-a-half after the presidential assassination attempt, the world was shocked again when Pope John Paul II was shot May 13 as he appeared before 15,000 people at St. Pet er's Square in Vatican City. The pontiff survived and received the prayers of millions world-wide. Nehmet Ali Agca, 23, a convicted mur derer and exile from Turkey, was accus ed of attempting to take the life of the popular Polish-born pope, who turns 61 today. A second Irish Republican Army hun ger striker, Francis Hughes, died, and Northern Ireland erupted violently as it The Columbia had had its share of problems including a 48-hour delay in take-off and the loss of several heat shield tiles during the launch in addi tion to being two years behind schedule. But when astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen glided into Edwards Air Force Base in California, America knew how it felt to be proud again. For the first time, an aircraft had returned from space and landed like an airplane. At University Park, students returning to campus for Spring Term were greeted with University President John W. Os wald's announcement on March 12 that the University would be on a semester calendar in Fall Term 1983. Oswald said the semester system would provide a better learning environment for stu dents, offer more flexibility in summer scheduling and bring the University's calendar in line with other university calandars around the country. The announcement, which followed two terms of debate on the relative merits of the term and semester sys tems, was generally accepted by the University community, which faced the massive task of converting many of its functions to conform to a semester cal endar. Photo by Renee Jacobs Another another plan of change did not fare as well as the semester proposal, however, when a referendum to reorga nize student government fell short of the voter turnout needed to be valid. The proposal, which called for the unification of 10 student groups into one centralized Pennsylvania State Universi ty Student Association, needed 25 percent voter turnout but received only 20 per cent. Of that 20 percent, 2,853 voted agianst PSUSA and 2,015 voted for it. Former ARHS President Fran Kenawell expressed dismay more students did not vote but then-USG President Joe Healey said the students did not have enough time to make a decision. In the same election, Bill Cluck and Ken Reeves were elected to succeed Healey and Andy Weintraub as USG president and vice president defeating a gerbil named Wimpy by 797 votes. Wimpy the Gerbil gained national at tention with his suprisingly strong finish, and the rodent's candidacy gave many students a way to show their disillusion ment with USG. tided, with the "period of input" a mere formality, University President John W. Oswald maintained that the decision had not yet been made and that he was weighing the postive and negative as pects of the switch. The plan was met with disapproval from a majority of students and equal amounts of skepticism and optimism from the various colleges. And Oswald continued his support for an early semes ter calendar had earlier when Bobby Sands died on May 5 in the 66th day of his hunger strike. Both men starved themselves to try to gain political status for IRA inmates at Long Kesh. As many as 100 IRA prison ers pledge to join the strike one by one as their comrades die. And the death toll of black children dead or missing in Atlanta continued to rise during Spring Term as it had all year, with the latest count at 27 dead and one missing. Despite the international and domestic violence, however, Americans had much to cheer about when the space shuttle Columbia touched down on April 14 after 54 1 / 2 hours in space. Brady (right) and police officer Thomas Delahanty, moments after the shooting. p ~,,,:,,,,., ::: ,: ~;7:, • , ;. ° ..., '. : 4 ,... ‘ 1 • I 79(ii Although Wimpy's candidacy was sponsored by Froth and the Monty Py thon Society, Fred Schiller, Wimpy's runningmate, insisted that they were serious about their candidacy despite the satirical nature of the two organizations. Only 22 percent of undergraduates voted, a slight increase from last year's 20 percent turnout. Following Cluck /Reeves with 2,229 votes and Wimpy/S -chiller with 1,432 votes were the team of Doug Kahn/Cindy Dutt with 1,378 and Kevin Leondi/David DeGrose with 329. Write-in candidates received a total of 368 votes. As the winner, Cluck promised to "light a spark in student government" and said the USG Senate needs to be "an active and dedicated senate that is will ing to be more than a body that allocates money." Gentle Thursday became history this spring. Except for a weak attempt to revive it one soggy Thursday, the tradi tional spring event was abandoned and replaced with Horizons a four-day festival of music, art, speakers and exhi bitions co-sponsored by USG, the Grad- - uate,Student Association, Colloquy, Eco- Action and Free University. Another new event, Brotherhood Day, featuring Atlanta legisator Julian Bond as the keynote speaker, was the kickoff for Horizons. The cancellation of 'Santana the third major concert to be called off this year was a disappointment for Hori zons, but with more than 200 organiza tions involved with the planning and presentation, the festival went well. Despite some changes at the Universi ty during Spring Term, many things remained the same. Students still waited outside in the cold for dorm contracts, Academic Assembly Vice President In a term-long saga that captured the Chris Hopwood, during the Faculty Sen- hearts of students and local residents ate forensic session on the calendar alike, Rick Kronewitter, a graduate stu change, said more specific information dent in geology, managed to stay the on the switch such as the total cost demise of two University black bears was needed before people could make up Barney and Crybaby. With the. help of their minds. Hopwood said the Universi- Eco-Action and amazing public support, ty was holding back some information. Kronewitter who fed and cared for the James E. Dungan, special assistant to bears for two months was able to find the director of planning and budget, said them a new home in the Black Hills of there was some information the adminis- South Dakota at Bear Country, USA. ' tration didn't even have such as the While the bear story brought state- ~.~-.~ ~;~~ ,~ CiEEM x ~~a ~ ~, 4 ;'r~ ; ~ The annual Sy Barash Regatta at Stone Valley netted $8,600 for the Centre County chapter of the American Cancer Society, and made for more than its share of wet canoe racers and general frolickers. UPI wlrephoto Wimp}i ; :',:.:-C . luck..'N.-.;-..-ag . "'. vrigol.o4o. ~t'r' ':'~; _~x`:`- GEM but this year they were granted an over night reprieve from the freezing temper atures. And students learned that the coed housing proposal made by ARHS would not become a reality, when Oswald re jected the plan and said he saw no evidence that coed housing would be academically beneifical or would im prove security. Other traditions were kept alive, in cluding events that raised more money this year than ever before. This year's 13th edition of the Phi Psi 500 took in $20,- 000 for the Second Mile, a boys' rehabili tation home. And the seventh annual Sy Barash Regatta contributed $8,600 to the Centre County chapter of the American Cancer Society Movin' On, sponsored by ARHS, was blessed with a perfect weekend, and students basked in the sun while listening to bands and weaving through a maze of Frisbees. Musician John Hall delighted the crowd that Sunday night with his energetic style. About $l,OOO in proceeds benefited On Drugs Inc., which has suf fered funding cutbacks this spring. While some students were running races or paddling canoes, others were marching in Harrisburg and Washing ton. About 200 people from the University and State College joined the 15,000 who went to Harrisburg on March 28 to dem onstrate to keep T Tnit I of the Three Mile Island nuclear facility shut down. On May 3, 43 students and area resi dents joined, in a protest at the Pentagon against United States involvement in El Salvador. On the other side of the nuclear issue, Nunzio J. Palladino, demi of the College of Engineering, was nominated by Presi dent Reagan to become head of the total cost of the switch because they didn't want to invest time researching some thing that was not yet official. In mid-January, it was announced that Gentle Thursday, a traditional day of blowing off classes in favor partying of on the HUB lawn, would be discontinued. Free U and Eco-Action, the organizations that had sponsored Gentle Thursday, decided that Gentle Thursday was no different than Movin' On. Along with some other student or ganizations, they d 6 cided to initiate Horizons a four-day festival consisting of a variety of music, arts, sports and culture. Also around that time, the University opened the gates to its revitalized indoor ice skating rink. And in February, the Ninth Annual Interfraternity Council Dance Mar athon, with 464 danc ers, raised a record $96,000 for cancer re search. Depsite aching bones and weary mus cles, 276 dancers com pleted the 48-hour waltz. EEMMI : '.:,:-„:,•.:_:„,.•-.,,,•:.:,":..'' ~.' The Daily Collegian Monday, May 18, 1981-29 wide attention to the University, two alumni brought the school national ac claim. Former U.S. Sen. Richard S 1 Schweiker joined the Reagan's cabine as Secretary of Health and Human S?rv ices, and Paul Berg won the 1980 Not,.' Prize for his contributions to modern chemistry and genetics. In Harrisburg, however, the Universi ty wasn't treated nearly as well. Gov. Dick Thornburgh, in his Feb. 3 budget address, announced he was allocating Penn State $133.7 million for the 1981-82 school year. That amount was about $ll million short of what Oswald had re quested. Also, the College of Medicine at Hershey, for the 10th year in a row, did not receive a grant per student increase. Consequently, tuition was expected to rise anywhere from 5 percent to 12 per cent. Just before his budget address, the governor announced his plan to take the state out of the retail liquor business by turning over its 725 state-owned liquor stores to private owners. The proposal met with strong oppostion from the Inde pendent State Store Union, which rep resents the 3,500 state store employees across the state. On the lighter side of the news, Jan. 26 was a very special day for followers of the Doonesbury comic strip. With Roland Hedley Jr. announcing Iran's release of a 53rd hostage known as "the bald spy," fans rejoiced with the knowledge that the gun-toting, drug-powered Uncle Duke was returning to the strip after a year's absence. In sports, Joe Paterno's football squad lost the Lambert Trophy to Pitt when the Panthers edged the Nittany Lions 14-9 in the last game of the regular season. The Lions, who finished at 10-2 and ranked eighth in the country, redeemed them selves in the Fiesta Bowl by thrashing Ohio State 31-19. Over term break in November, Gillian Rattray's Lady Lion field hockey team avenged its second place finish of the year before by defeating California- Berkley for its first national championship. In the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Eagles, enjoying their finest season since 1960, folded, embarrassed by the Oak land Raiders, 27-10. 5 ., 0,41. -Age '';ad '"'""" ¢ _%_• Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In sports, the Lady Lion gymnastics team, with all-arounders Heidi Ander son, Karen Polak, Marcy Levine and Lisa Ingebretsen leading the team, fin ished the regular season undefeated: But the Lady Lions suffered a down meet and finished fourth in their bid for a second straight national championship. Freshman Heidi Anderson sparkled in the floor exercise event, capturing top individual honors for her daring double backs and delightful dancing. The men's gymnastics team finished sixth at nationals held in Lincoln, Neb., and Bill Stanley came out an All-Ameri can on pommel horse. The wrestling team took a giant leap as it bounded from a 45th place finish in last year's National Collegiate Atheltic Asso ciation wrestling tournament to a sixth place finish this year. "I can't say enough about Bob Bury, Bernie Fritz, John Hanrahan and Steve Sefter," coach Rich Lorenzo said about his four national qualifiers. Tailback Jon Williams was the star of the Blue-White spring football game, gaining 172 yards rushing. The Lady Lion lacrosse team found that things come in threes, even national championships, when Maryland ended the Lady Lions' bid for a fourth consec utive national championship by a score of 12-8. Baseball coach Chuck Medlar retired after 19 years as a head coach and 14 years as assistant coach of the Lion squad. The Lions finished 16-11 on the season. And the men's volleyball team did both Penn State and coach Tom Tait proud as it placed third at the NCAA championships held in California. =Ea Eir=ia ?hoto by Dan Vogeley
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