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President Reagan. Not that he has a life of smiling.
done anything good but he knows
how to win.
The Princess of Wales. She sure Anyone contributing to the Our Store
lucked out. No more doing the food co-op's yard sale on Friday and
dishes, no more screaming Saturday at 827 W. College Ave. The
kindergarten kids to deal with just co-op is a concept worth supporting.
Montgomery County Judge Samuel
W. Salus, the judge of the Rev.
Daniel and Philip Berrigan's anti
war group, the Plowshares 8. In
protest of the idiocy of war, the
Plowshares 8 damaged nuclear
equipment and poured blood on
documents at a General Electric
nuclear missle plant. Not only did
Salus impose rather harsh prison
terms on the members three to 10
years for the Berrigans, the Rev.
Carl Kabat and John Schuchardt,
two to five years for Pittsburgh's
Molly Rush, one and a half to five
Where, oh where, can one talk straight? 'Not here, bud'
A high degree of self control is essen
tial to the career of any successful poli
tician, because he must often restrain
from speaking his mind. The examples of
two political animals I've written about
recently, state Rep. Gregg Cunningham
and CIA Director William Casey, bear
this out.
In this space lat Friday, I portrayed
Cunningham in a most unfavorable light,
and I'm sure the first thought that raced
through his mind was, "this young punk
is taking a cheap shot at me." But he
couldn't very well come out and say that.
An image is at stake.
Casey now finds himself in the same
circumstances. How can he not think of
:his accusers as cheap hustlers froin the
'media? Don't expect to see him calling a
:news conference and annoqncing to the
:press that they are "a bunch of lying
-slime who seek to unfairly dethrone me,"
:though. No, that's not going to happen.
, The director of the United States' highest
reader
Clarification
We note that the July 13 issue of The Daily
:Collegian contained an interview with Ms. Suz
:anne Glasow, president of the Centre County
•chapter of Citizens Concerned for Human Life.
- Ms. Glasow inaccurately linked the March of
:Dimes to. experiments on severed fetus heads.
•Please inform your readers that this work was
;not supported by the March of Dimes.
•
• As a matter of policy, no March of Dimes grant
:may be used to destroy life. No March of Dimes
:funds are allocated for unethical experimenta
tion.
There have been occasional allegations that
March of Dimes funds have been granted for
A cure
This letter is in reply to Yvonne S. Gentzl
er's letter of July 20 on the "parking prob
lem" for students. Although walking is quite
good for your physical and mental health, it
can be too slow when you're in a rush to, get
from Parking Lot 80 to Walker Builking in 10
minutes. On a bicycle you could easily reach
Walker Building less than 10 minutes. You
could carry a bicycle to campus by putting a
bike rack on your car, or you could simply
lock a bicycle close to your parking area and
leave it overnight.
On campus, a bicycle provides quick, con
venient and healthful transportation. If you
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intelligence organization cannot very
well appear to be unstable. Goodness no.
So what do these politicians do? How
do they cope with criticism and threats?
Like the punch line to those stupid jokes
about elephants and gorillas, the answer
is "very carefully."
Cunningham responded to my crit
icism by promptly getting in touch with
me and offering me a job. An internship.
A chance to play ball with his team.
Casey has now decided to start return-
opinion
Eco-Action, for supplying bicycles
for use on campus.
years for Dean Hammer, Elmer
Maas and Sister Anne Montgomery
he spewed forth some John Birch
Society-type rhetoric: "If I had my
choice I would send you to a leper
colony . . . or to Russia where you
would eventually be sent to Siberia."
All those freshmen who accepted
offers of admission and will be
clogging the dormitories Fall Term.
The admissions office expects a only
certain percentage of you to accept;
how dare you surprise them.
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unethical reasearch, charges that have been
constantly refuted by the March of Dimes.
G. Michael Bonsai
Coordinator, Chapter Services, Pennsylvania
July 26
What to do?
Steve Brackin's intelligent and heart-felt que
ries that appeared in the forum section of The
Daily Collegian deserved to be answered. The
howl of student protest was to be expected
many of their letters were also intelligent and
raised good questions. But no solutions were
suggested. The facts of the matter are that many
undergraduates do not want to learn, that these
live within five miles of campus, may I
suggest that you simply leave your car at
home and commute by bicycle.
I live in Houserville and commute by bicy
cle everyday. It is a pleasant ride of about
four miles, and takes half an hour. Using a
bicycle would allow you to save gasoline and
the aggravation of having to hike in from the
hinterland. If you try it, I think you'll find it
an invigorating activity that helps you to
relax and enjoy the beauty around you in
stead of whizzing by it as if it where on
television.
More bicycles and better bicycle parking
are part of the answer to transportation
problems at Penn State. New parking lots will
simply take up more precious open space with
their ugly monotony. New parking lots would
soon be full as more people were encouraged
to drive because of the added convenience.
Soon the cry would once again be hears about
overcrowded parking and inconvenience.
Also, our society would be closer to weaning
itself from that ugly, inefficient form of
personal transport called the automobile.
Need I remind you that nearly 50,000 people
die in auto accidents every year? During the
entire Vietnam war about 54,000 soldiers died.
In addition, the real health effects and costs of
these monsters spewing tons of deadly pollut
ants into the. Earth's atmosphere everyday
may never be fathomed.
For the sake of your own will being and that
of your children, get a bicycle and use it.
John Dougherty, 9th-geoscience
July 24
OVNXIM.gtOO2N , DIitx •
ing phone calls and to "bare all" to the
various committees and reporters who
want to know mare. We can work this out
together, then.
And maybe we all can work things out
together. Maybe the politicians and the
reporters just don't understand each
other. Perhaps we should spend time
doing each other's jobs in orddr to bridge
this ever-widening gap. Some sort of
exchange program might help us gain
insight into the pressures and the de
mands that are put upon our coun
terparts.
Initially I was intrigued by Cunning
ham's offer. I would be allowed to ob
serve things first hand. I would be privy
to "secret memos of an internal nature"
and ,to "brainstorming sessions," he
said. We'd go out to lunch together and
down to Harrisburg. Maybe we would
even be able to have a few drinks togeth
er. It sounded just like what any writer is
looking for at least until I had a chance
to drink a few Piels and think it all over.
people bring psychological pressure (through
evaluations and more direct methods) on in
structors, for easy grading and undemanding
course content, and that there is no effective
force to counter this pressure.
There is no question at all in my mind that, as
Mr. Brackin asserts, "most of Penn State's
faculty care" and that "there are good students
at Penn State, lots of them;" nevertheless, I
believe it is also true that Brackin is correct
when he states that we are approaching the point
of allowing students to go through the motions of
learning and still obtain a degree. I also believe
that there are many students, faculty and admin
istrators who agree with these propositions.
So what are we going to do? I do not mean the
question to be rhetorical: What are we going to
do?
John D. Palmer
Instructor, food service and housing administra
tion
July 29
Provocative
I more often than not resist the temptation to
write letters to the editor. Couldn't pass this one
up, however. Joe Gow has to border on genius.
His column on "Greggie-baby" last Friday is
both humorous and provocative. I'm not going to
Washington, but I'd sure love him on my staff!
Keep up the vigil!
Mimi Ungar Coppersmith, State College resident
July 28
Tunes
It shocks me that the youth of America,
especially the unemployed, alienated youth of
the cities, fail to feel any solidarity with their
counterparts in England. The issues and im
pulses that have driven English young people
into the streets in senseless and destructive
rioting are, in many ways are the same feelings
that our teenagers relate to. Another common tie
between the young people of America and the
young people of England is music.
In Manhattan and Manchester, Philadelphia
and Falmouth, in Bristol, Pa. and Bristol, En
gland, when adolescents and young adults are
feeling down, they turn to the music. It is the
music that expresses their common fears and
frustrations, their hopes and their confusions.
It's the music that gives them the messages that
What bothered me most about Cun
ningham's offer was his use of the word
"loyalty." It came up when I inquired as
to whether I would be allowed to write
about what I observed. The representa
tive stated that he had never tried to
restrain the press, but that a politician
cannot always be "on the record." If I
were to work on his staff, then there
would have to be loyalty on my part. "I
wouldn't want to be brainstorming over
possible legislation and then see in the
morning paper that I had committed
myself to something," he told me. A loyal
staff member doesn't leak information. I
admitted to him that I am not the most
loyal person in town.
I won't be working with Cunningham
for the same reason I wouldn't ever be
able to get a job at William Casey's CIA.
The guys at the CIA have to be some of
the most loyal people in the country.
They have to know when' ,
to keep their
mouths shut, even if it means cracking a
cyanide capsule between their teeth to do
so. These boys know the meaning of the
word "secret." But maybe there are too
many secrets being harbored by people
like Gregg Cunningham and William
Casey today.
Watergate and the Vietnam war taught
us all a bitter lesson about loyalty and
secrets a lesson none of us will soon
forget. My faith in anyone who says he is
doing something "in the public interest"
has been all but shattered. Most college
students feel this way, Representative
Cunningham told me. Oddly enough,
though, according to the Pennsylvania
Manual, Gregg L. Cunningham is a deco
rated Vietnam veteran. He knows what
it's like to be lied to, then. You'd think
he'd know better than to get involved in
politics.
People like Cunningham and Casey do
know better. They know that through
loyalty and secrets a person can go far in
this country. You help someone and he
helps you in return. You work hard for a
prospective president and when he is
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they listen to, whether it be to cool down and sit
tight or to take to the streets.
It seems to me that the musicians whom the
kids in England listen to the Police, the Clash,
Peter Tosh, Madness, the Who, Jimmy Cliff
have an obligation to their audience. An obliga
tion not to sit holed up in their million-dollar
mansions while the streets of Liverpool and
London burn, but to go out into the neighbor
hoods and tell the kids to cool out and stop their
senseless rioting. I guarantee that any of the
rioters would listen to Pete Townshend before
they'd listen to Maggie Thatcher. I know if I
were a young British kid I'd listen to Sting of the
Police before I'd listen to Home Secretary White
law.
Let not these wealthy rock stars neglect those
to whom their every word is gold. Let the Police
play in the streets of Brixton (and not the police)
"When the World is Running Down, You Make
the Best of What's Still Around" and see if they
can help, along with other rock stars, put an end
to the craziness in the streets of England.
Matthew I. Hirsch
Wayne, Pa.
July 20
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elected he appoints you director of the
CIA, and then you appoint one of your
buddies to be the head of your clandes
tine operations unit. Or you toil in the
dinky office of a state Representative
and he takes you to Washington with him
when he makes the jump. Just make sure
you have the stomach for it all.
But what about the person wh6 doesn't
have the stomach for this system? What
of those who aren't loyal and can't keep
secrets? What hope is there in our society
for the straight talkers?
Well shucks. Who can speak with any
certainty about our "society?" I know
that I sure as hell can't; but I can say it is
a dead fact that the rude arena of politics
offers little or no hope for the person who
enjoys speaking his mind. Find another
line of work, mac.
Jow Gow is a 10th-term journalism ma
jor and a columnist for The Daily Colle
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Friday July 31, 1981—Page 2
Paula Froke
Editor
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The MGM Grand Hotel lights up the Las Vegas sky. The hotel reopened yesterday after a November fire that took 84 lives
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remodeled to remove the last trace of the fire in which 84
persons died, the MGM Grand Hotel now said to be one of the
safest in the world officially opened for business yesterday.
No ceremonies were planned, and the reopening was so low
key that the first guests at the Strip resort since the November
1980 fire began to check in Wednesday.
"We always open a day ahead of time to give our employees a
chance to get acclimated," hotel president Bernard Rothkopf
said Wednesday. The resort, rebuilt at a cost of $5O millioh, now
features a $5 million computerized life-safety system that
includes thousands of fire sprinkler heads and smoke detectors
in each room. A huge display board in the system's nearly
fireproof control center automatically pinpoints the location
and nature of any problem.
"You name it, they've got it," Clark County Fire Chief Roy
Parrish said of the system.
"In my opinion, it is the safest hotel in
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New program ZlPped?
Plus 4 postal program future uncertain
By K.E. FISHMAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Although major business mailers in State College were
to recieve their ZIP Plus 4 numbers starting tomorrow,
Congress and the U.S. Postal Service are now unsure of the
program's future.
The ZIP Plus 4 program is included in President Rea
gan's proposed budget cut package to be voted on tomor
row by Congress. If the budget cuts are approved, the ZIP
Plus 4 program implementation date will be pushed back
to Oct. 1, 1983, said Mark Heuer, press secretary for Rep.
William F. Clinger Jr., R-Central Pa.
If Congress fails to approve the budget cuts, business
mailers in State College will get their ZIP Plus 4 numbers
yesterday.
"The Budget Recommendation Conference in the Con
gress is working to iron out their differences on the budget
cuts," Heuer said. "The proposal is expected to go
through, which will delay the plus-four program."
"Deference of the implementation of the plus-four pro
gram will not delay the Postal Rate Commission's hear
ings on the program," said A. Dennis Watson, information
officer for the Postal Rate Commission in Washington,
D.C.
The commission must approve any program proposed
by the Postal Service before it can be implemented,
Watson said.
"We will hold public hearings, beginning Sept. 1, 1981, to
examine the postal service proposal and give interested
parties a chance to express their views on the program in a
fully open, public, evidentiary hearing," Watson said.
Representatives of all sides of the issue will attend,
Watson said. An officer of the Postal Rate Commission,
Gerald Cerasald, will represent the views of the general
public, and Nicholas F. Barranca will represent the Postal
Service, Watson said.
Other interests to be represented include the J.C. Pen
ney Co., Time Inc., the American Postal Workers Union
and the American Bankers Association, Watson said.
At the end of the hearings, the commission will issue a
recommended decision on the program. The recommenda
tion will be forwarded to the governors of the Postal Rate
Commission who will either accept, reject or modify the
proposal, Watson said.
The program, as it will be presented to the commission,
calls for the addition of four digits to the present five-digit
ZIP code.
It also specifies that all non-prerated and five-digit
presorted, first class mail be given a per-piece rate '•
discount if it, bears a proper nine-digit ZIP code and meets
certain volume, machinability, address legibility, postage
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payment and tendering requirements.
The large mailers attending the hearings will be taking
issue with one part of these specifications, Watson said.
The new ZIP Plus 4 system is designed to increase
accuracy and efficiency of deliverance, said Paul E.
Maches, mail processing manager at the State College
post office.
The extra four numbers tacked onto ZIP codes will
permit mail to be machine-sorted way down to the delivery
routes, Maches said.
Under the current system, the first three digits brings
the mail to the post office. In State College, 168 brings the
mail to the State College post office. The last two digits
determine whether the mail goes to the University or the
downtown area, Maches said.
From there the mail must be hand-sorted into routes
determined by the letter carrier, Maches said. With the
new system, mail would not only be machine-sorted into
routes, but it would also be coded so as to determine the
exact building and office or address of delivery.
Since the ZIP Plus 4 system is a voluntary program, the
ZIP 44
postal service is considering petitioning the Postal Rate
Commission to grant a postal rate cut for users of the
additional numbers, Maches said.
Even if the rate cut is denied, Maches said, it is likely
that the ZIP Plus 4 system will help hold the postal rates
where they are if the system is used by all.
Central Counties Bank is working to institute the new zip
code system, John W. Atkinson, head of operations, said.
"If our customers are ready, than we will institute the
system fully," Atkinson said.
But officials at Mid-State Bank foresee a slower change
over to the system because of the conversion and program
ming costs, Eugene C. Miller, assistant operations officer
at the Bellwood office, said.
Peoples National Bank officials said they will not be
making the changeover as yet because of a lack of
information about the program.
The University mail service has not received word about
the system changeover, but James F. McKivison, man
ager of Mailing Services, said he does not expect to run
into any problems when the changeover does take place.