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By H. JOSEF HEBERT
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) Air traffic controllers and
the government gave the first indication of "serious
bargaining" early this morning as they attempted to
4 , avert a morning strike that could ground half of the
nation's air traffic.
A spokeswoman for the Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service, B.J. Yount, said there were
"serious negotiations under way" but that she could not
say whether there was movement toward a settlement.
Th'e assessment was a sharp contrast to earlier
claims last night from all sides that no progress was
being made.
Meanwhile, controllers across much of the country
began a strike vote, union spokeswoman Marcia
Feldman said.
Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis during a
recess in the talks last night said he saw little chance of
averting a strike, threatened for this morning.
"Nothing has been accomplished," Lewis told
reporters during the break. He said he considered a
settlement almost impossible unless the strike deadline
was extended.
WDFM campaigns
`to offset budget cuts
By JUDD A. BLOUCH
Daily Collegian Staff Wrifer
Shortages in the funding of public
broadcasting caused mainly by
President Reagan's budget cuts
have prompted WDFM, the student
radio station, to campaign for funds
with "Challenge '81."
The campaign to raise money
through special programs and events
and pledges from listeners began
yesterday and continues through
Saturday.
Reagan's cuts in aid strike directly
at the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, the umbrella group for
National Public Radio. The cuts will
...force the cancellation of some
p?ograms WDFM subscribes to, and
an increase in the cost of the surviving
shows.
Although the effect on WDFM is not
as direct as other stations, the impact
is no less severe, said Daniel G.
Mushalko, director of development. He
said the syndicated expenses of NPR
added to the cost of keeping up the
station's supply of recording and other
materials will affect programming
availibility.
"We can't provide as much at the
same price," Mushalko said.
Much of the funding cuts, according
to the Reagan administration, are to be
made up by-money from private
interests, such as businesses and
foundations. Private money for public
radio often comes through
underwriting or non-commercial
sponsorship for programs.
But Mushalko said that it is hard to
get support from businesses.
"In the past underwriting by
downtown businesses such as
Quickdraw Accessories Inc., the Lazy
J and the University Book Centre was
enough to let us clear the fiscal year by
our fingernails," Mushalko said.
"Unfortunately, not enough businesses
feel underwriting is worth their
while."
Major corporations like Mobil and
Texaco sponsor programming, (like
Texaco's Metropolitan Opera series)
Lobbyist
Editor's Note: Jay Hedlund, a federal congressional
lobbyist for Common Cause a citizens lobbying
group supporting governmental openness and
accountability was interviewed by Daily
Collegian Staff Writer Charles M. Tocci on
Saturday. The following has been edited for length
and clarity.
interview
COLLEGIAN: How many Common Cause
lobbyists are there in Washington?
HEDLUND: Three full-time and one part-time
lobbyists whose main responsibilities are lobbying.
We have a number of other folks who are registered
as lobbyists who may have a little contact on Capitol
Hill and with the executive branch.
COLLEGIAN: Do you have any specific
responsibilies as a lobbyist for Common Cause? For
instance, would you cover the House of
Representatives or the Senate or any specific aspect
of the federal government?
HEDLUND: Various lobbying groups divide
lobbyists up in certain ways. Some will be assigned
to the House and some to the Senate. We divide up
by issues. A lobbyist is assigned a chunk of the
issues we work on.
I work on voting rights legislation, a lot of the
ethics legislation and House and Senate codes of
conduct. Right now we are pushing for the televising
of Senate sessions the House sessions are
friendly ski
Air traffic
but these shows are a very small part
of WDFM's total schedule.
Mushalko said it is difficult to raise a
lot of money from private sources in a
community like State College because
tastes are so diverse. He saidle is
constantly asking himself, "What
audiences do I gear my pitches to?"
Because most of WDFM's
"alternative sound" is geared to one
group or the other, already hard-to
find private money becomes even
more scarce.
"We have so many speciality shows
that companies aren't willing to
(sponsor us)," he said.
Mushalko said WDFM receives from
$10,009 to $13,600 a year from the
Associated Student Activities budget
funds and the sposorship of the show
"Options" from the Undergraduate
Student Government. However, he
said that the station can't get
additional money from these groups.
"We would be taking away from
other student organizations and that's
not our goal," he said.
As of 6:30 p.m. yesterday, pledges
and donations had reached about $295,
Mushalko said.
Station Manger Mark Giesen said
the first goal of Challenge 'Bl is to
reach the break even point of $5OO.
The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting estimates that stations
should be able to raise $26,000 from
such a campaign, but Giesen set his
sights much lower. He gave an
optimistic estimate of between $2,000
and $4,000.
Mushalko said Challenge 'Bl is being
held during the summer as an
experimmit. A larger campaign is
plannned for February.
A table is set up at the base of the
Mall, where staff members are
accepting donations and broadcasting
WDFM. The station will also be giving
away T-shirts, buttons and
membership cards for discounts at
local businesses to those who pledge
support.
controllers ready to
Alluding to the fact the two sides were more than $6OO
million apart in their proposals, Lewis said, "When
you're 17 times apart it's fruitless to negotiate."
A controllers strike, targeted for 7 a.m. EDT, could
ground half the nation's commercial flights and cause
confusion and delays despite a government
contingency plan aimed at keeping as many planes in
the air as safely possible.
Federal mediator Kenneth Moffett said the evening
recess, which lasted 3 1 / 2 hours, had been requested by
Robert E. Poli, president of the Professional Air
Traffic Controllers Organization. Asked if the deadline
could be extended, Feldman replied, "I don't see any
possibility of extending anything."
Lewis, who earlier characterized the union's
demands as "nothing short of outrageous," said before
resuming the talks at mid-afternoon that the
administration intended to stand firm on its $4O million
offer, a figure nowhere near the amount the controllers
have demanded.
Lewis said he briefed President Reagan on the talks
earlier in the day and was told by the presidentto come
down "with the full force of the Justice Department"
against any striking controllers. He said the president
the
daily
discusses Common Cause
televised, but the Senate sessions cannot be, right
now. I usually have about six or eight issues
assigned to me.
COLLEGIAN: What are your group's priorities
right now?
HEDLUND: Probably our main priorities right
now would include the Voting Rights Act passed in
1965, extended in 1975 and due to expire next August
We're working to get it extended to 1992.
COLLEGIAN: Is there opposition to this
extension?
HEDLUND: Yes, it seems remarkable that there
would be. The Voting Rights Act covers parts of 22
states, wherever there had been a demonstrative
action of discrimination regarding voter
registration and voting prior to 1965.
A number of the southern states would like to let
the Voting Rights Act be terminated. President
Reagan has appointed Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-
S.C., as chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee. Thurmond said he would like to kill the
Voting Rights Act.
COLLEGIAN: Did Thurmond give any reason for
this?
HEDLUND: He said that we don't have any
problems anymore. The act worked, so why pick on
one section of the country?
As I say, a number of the provisions apply
nationwide. The ban on a literacy test, the ban on a
poll tax and other kinds of discriminatory
techniques are banned nationwide.
The main enforcement provisions of the act cover
parts of 22 states, although it's mostly focused on
the south. So he's saying (the act is) picking on the
South.
'es?
strike this morning
also instructed him to cut off negotiations if a strike is
called and said there would be no amnesty for strikers.
Lewis urged the union to come up with "an offer
anywhere reasonable" and extend the strike deadline
another week to provide more time for bargaining. But
Poli said there would be no extension and said it was
time for the government to come up with a
counteroffer.
As the talks resumed yesterday, the union stood firm
on its demands, which included a reduction in the 40-
hour work week, increased pay and improvements in
the retirement plan. The union said its package would
cost about $5OO million, but the government said it
would cost $6Bl million. Both figures are far beyond the
$4O million package offered by the administration.
Administration sources said privately yesterday that
they believed the controllers were bent on a strike,
unlike a month ago when the union failed to get the 80
percent approval for a strike and agreed to a tentative
settlement. That settlement was rejected by 95 percent
of the union members last week.
Poli said a strike vote by the union's 15,000 members
was to begin at midnight. _
Promenade
The 28th annual Penn State Square Dance
Festival was held this weekend. Square
dance clubs from Pennslyvania, New York,
Delaware , Maryland and Virginia
participated in workshops as well as
recreational dancing. The "Squares," as
they call themselves, finished the weekend
with a four-hour hoedown in the White
Building and in the HUB.
Freshman acceptances up 3.2%
By DAVID POLIN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
About 5(10 more freshmen than anticipated have
admitted to University Park for Fall Term because a
higher percentage of people accepted offers of admission
than in previous years, the dean of admissions said.
"Last year at this time the proportion of people who
had accepted University Park was 48.4 percent," Donald
G. Dickason said. "This year at this time it's 51.6 percent
a shift of 3.2 percent. That's an enormous shift in our
world. Historically, those data will shift in any one year
fractions of 1 percent one way or the other."
The University made a few more offers of admission
than it did than last year, Dickason said, but the largest
factor for the increased number of freshmen was the
yield the percentage of students who accepted offers.
"We're 500 over our goal," he said. "Fifty of the 500 are
attributable to more offers . . . (but) the other 450 would
be roughly attributable to the higher percentage yield."
Another suprising trend was a 15 percent increase in
the number of applications and a change in the timing
with which they were recieved, he said.
"We were way behind in December," Dickason said.
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Thurmond also said, "If we don't kill it, we'll love
it to death. We'll extend it nationwide and have a lot
of the procedures of the act."
Those 22 states, before they can make any
changes in their voting laws or requirements, have
to send those changes to the Justice Department for
what is called "pre-clearance." Essentially, they
send changes to the Justice Department and if the
Justice Department does not act
within 60 days, the changes are
automatically approved. It's a
small group of 14 people in the
Justice Department who
administer and it's not a costly
program at all.
Thurmond says this should be
extended nationwide even to
places where there have been no
discriminatory voting practices.
These voting changes would include
the re-drawing of district lines,
changes in voting hours, voting
places and precincts.
The bureaucracy would simply
expand and they would not be able
to enforce it. This would take the
focus of the law away from what it was designed to
do
COLLEGIAN: If the Voting Rights Act were ~
terminated in 1982, do you believe there are places
that would actually go back to literacy tests, as well
as other such provisions?
HEDLUND: Literacy tests and poll taxes, etc.,
were banned as a part of the law, so other kinds of
more sophisticated kinds of discrimination would
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"It was in late January that we got, on a percentage
basis, equal to last year.
"Other universities had the same experience not as
extreme as we did but a similar phenomenon," he
said. "We'd love to take credit for having done a better
job being better communicators and I think the
office has done a tremendous job this year. But there's
something else in the water. It's not just what we did."
Enrollment projections in a survey sponsored by The
Chronicle of Higher Education indicate an increase of 7
percent at public institutions.
"The number of freshmen has been growinl despite a
decline in the country's 18-year-old population the
prime source of college freshmen," it stated.
A number of reasons have been proposed for the
increase in applications, James T. McKee] Jr., director
of undergraduate admissions, said.
"There's a larger age spread of applicants," he said.
"There are more applicants coming from community
colleges and possibly there's a larger percentage of high
school graduates that aspire to have a higher education."
Because of the large number of applications, offers of
admission, except those for special programs, were not
Jay Hedlund
Local flight cutbacks possible
By DAVID MEDZERIAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The effect of a possible nationwide air'
traffic contollers strike on service at the
University Park Airport is uncertain, but
some flight cutbacks can be expected.
"It could shut us down to about one or two
flights per day," said Ray McGill, customer
service agent for USAir's Allegheny
Commuter. He said the flights would operate
to and from Pittsburgh.
McGill said when contingency plans are
developed for operations at University Park,
they would be announced on local radio
stations.
"We won't know until the strike is in
effect," he said yesterday. .
Air traffic controllers who remain on the
job will allow only a limited number of
flights, and will specify exact times for the
traffic.
"I don't even know if reservations are
going to hold true," he said. "It could be first
come, first served."
Rick Morgan, facility chief for the Federal
Aviation Administration at the Philipsburg
result.
In the South, there were more than 400 objections
between 1970 and 1975 that the Justice Department
had to enter into. There were as many objections
from 1975 to 1980, so there is still a pattern.
But now, as urban areas become increasingly
more dominated by minorities, they'll annex
surrounding cities to build up the white population
so the minority still stays at less
than a majority in the district.
There's an urban district in
.Mississippi where the core of the
population is black surrounded by a
white suburban-type area. Instead
of drawing a district line with one
or two black districts and then the
rest white districts, they did it pie
shaped so that the blacks are 30
percent of every district with the
whites at 70 percent of every
district.
The Justice Department will look
at these kinds of things. So
whenever they have to change from
one provision to another, the
Justice Department must look at it
simply to determine if it causes racial
discrimination or not.
If the law expires, you will see a continuation of
these areas where there have already been
objections and you won't be able to object anymore
You'll see an increase in the drawing of lines,
annexations, and voting changes. There was one
case in Alabama that has been in court for 14 years
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State Airport, said a contingency plan has not
yet been developed.
But Bill Clark, executive vice for
Pennsylvania Airlines, which operates
Allegheny Commuter's service out of
University Park, said two plans have been
developed.
Clark said the percentage of employees
who walk out will determine which plan goes
into effect. One plan will go into effect if 50
percent of the workers walk out, and the other
if 25 percent go on strike.
"At State College, (with 75 percent of the
controllers working) we're only talking about
losing two round-trips to Pittsburgh," he
said. In case of a 50 percent walkout, four
round-trips and one one-way trip to
Pittsburgh would be canceled, along with one
flight to and from Washington.
Clark said because flights out of University?
Park have been operating at about 60 of
capacity, passengers should be able to make
alternate plans.
"If a person's flight is canceled, we should
be able to accommodate them on the flight
before or the flight after," he said.
Monday Aug. 3, 1981
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made after Feb. 25. The final acceptances were based on
applications that had been recieved by Jan. 13.
"It was the earliest in at least 10 years," Dickason
said. "We were trying to skid to a stop, but there's a lot of
momentum in this outfit."
The trend of the higher pecentage yield was not
apparent until after the last acceptances had gone out, he
said.
To avoid overloading the University's capacity, about
260 fewer advanced standing students were admitted this
year, Dickason said.
The University is also being much more restrictive
with non-degree students, he said.
"Non-degree students are able to register on a space
available basis and we're running out of space."
"We're referring them to continuing education."
Dickason also said the number of applications from
women increased drastically.
"For the first time, if not in history at least the first
time in a long time, we'll have more women than men in
the freshmen class," he said. "It probably will be over 52
percent this year.
Intervals of clouds and hazy sun
shine, continued warm and more
humid today with the chance of an
afternoon shower and a high of 84.
Tonight will be partly cloudy and
mild with some patchy fog and a
low of 64. Hazy sunshine tomor
row, warm and humid with some
increasing afternoon cloudiness
and again, the chance of an af
ternoon shower with a high in the
mid 80s. Tuesday night will be fair
and mild with a low in the mid 60s.
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inside
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President Reagan's tax•cut plan
faces a final vote in the Senate
today Page 4
• After 50 days of Marvin Miller,
the country is gearing up for 53
games of Pete Rose, Willie Stargell
and brand new pennant races
• The State College Municipal
Council is expected to take final
action tonight on the North Ather
ton Street turning lane proposals
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