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"It's done."
With those simple words, federal mediator
Ken Moffett announced at 5 a.m. Friday that
the major league baseball players and owners
finally had reached a tentativeagreement in a
most exasperating strike
So 50 days and 711 games almost one-third
of the season later, Ray Grebey can sink
back into obscurity, Marvin Miller can go back
to occasionally blasting Commissioner Bowie
Kuhn,. Moffett can return to the air traffic
controllers, and the Doral Inn in New York can
resume a more mundane tourist business.
And this Sunday, with the All-Star Game in
Cleveland, baseball will be back and all will be
right with the world. Right?
The strike has changed the sport of baseball
so it will never be the same as it was on June
11. Too many people have been hurt and
disillusioned, too many truths about the game
have been revealed too much innocence has
been lost.
This strike over free agent compensation (in
other words, what kind of player a team that
loses a free agent should receive from the team
that signs one) was conducted like most other
labor disputes nastily. The player
representatives and the owners' Player
Relations Committee members called each
other nasty names over the bargaining table.
Grebey and Miller went after each other every
day in the papers and on television.
The players suspected the owners of every
kind of crooked bargaining practice, and the
owners said the players were trying to cheat
them out of millions of dollars in revenues by
refusing to agree to a settlement and go back to
playing. •
Kuhn turned out to be a figurehead with no
power to end the strike and nothing to say but,
"The owners this," and "The owners that."
And the fans were caught in the middle, split
almost evenly about who was right, knowing
only that whatever was going on definitely
wasn't baseball.
Baseball had suffered minor upsets before
this year with the establishment of free
agency, and players striking for 13 days in 1972
reader, opinion
Propaganda
During the 'past few 'weeks I have been wondering
about the propaganda that was carried by the media
concerning the royal wedding. I asked myself and
some of my collegues, "What is the reasoning behind
celebrating this ceremonyin the United States?"
• To celebrate the marriage of the first well-edu
cated prince in the history of England —although his
education is far from exceptional.
• To celebrate someone's wedding who does not do
anything for a living and works hard at it.
• To celebrate the marriage of a royal member
Big business, big money, big troubles
Bigger is becoming better in the United States.
While big business battles it out in the Conoco
and Seagram, Dupont and Mobil bidding war, we
see a big newspaper, The Washington Star, lose to
the bigger paper in the nation's capital as the
Democratic Party loses to big Ronald Reagan and
the Republicans. The man with the bigger image
and the bigger organization won the war in
Washington
But as many people are prone to question the
movement toward larger corporate mergers, the
astounding Republican victories .are also ques
tionable.
It's not that the Republicans should be knocked
for winning. That's politics. However, the tactics
used by Reagan and the Republicans surpass just
politics. His methods both extensive and expen
sive are legal, but they make the average
American say "so this is politics . ."
The average scenario played out in Washington
on Wednesday, the day of the overwhelming
Reagan tax cut victory, went something like this:
When Rep. Bob Traxler, D-Michigan, started
his office routine he remained committed to the
Democratic alternative tax plan.
At 10 a.m., according to The Washington Post,
Traxler received a call from Reagan. Even under
the pressure of a personal call from the president,
opinions
Strike 2
Who ever said baseball was a game?
ofiwartrDooltyat,s...,
over pension benefits. But baseball still was
basically baseball: the timeless game to lull
away the summer, the traditional national
pastime, our greatest escape, provider of the
American Dream every little boy wants to
play for the Yankees.
No more. Baseball now has been revealed as
a business, pure and simple. The players went
on strike over a labor problem the free
agent's right to be able to sell his services to
whatever team he wished without being
penalized. The owners were saying that wasn't
fair, that they deserve more than a minor
league draft choice for losing an established
talent.
But the strike was inevitable, if not this year,
then next year, or 1984 or 1990 free agency
and the problems that go with it have been an
explosive issue since the beginning of baseball.
It's been a right the players fought for and
won, and it's been a sore spot with the owners
since 1975, when Andy Messersmith and Dave
McNally went to court to get it established.
If the blame for the strike must be put
somewhere, it's with the owners. In asking the
players to agree to professional compensation
directly from the signing team, they were in
effect asking the players to control the owners'
signing of free agents
If the strike went on longer than it should
have, it's because of the owners. When Moffett
introduced a compromise proposal the middle
of last month, the players accepted it, but the
owners turned it down without offering
another. The owners had nothing to lose with a
strike they had a $5O million insurance
policy that, after 153 games were missed,
would pay each team $lOO,OOO for each missed
game —until Aug. 5, this Wednesday.
In the end, neither side won. The players got
a compromised form of the direct
compensation they wanted a pool of players
and the 'owners got their professional
"compensation. It's a good, compromised
collective bargaining agreement. Blue collar
union-labor disputes work the same way.
The Daily Collegian's editorial opinion is determined by its
Board of Opinion, with•the editor-in-chief holding final
repsonsibility.
whose family cannot be described by any standard less
or more than being figures and symbols.
• To celebrate the royal wedding because England
is ally to the United States. ,
• To celebrate a wedding of a country that has
thousands of people who are unemployed and hungry;
moreover, the turbulent situation in Northern Ireland.
• To celebrate the wedding in order to bring to the
memory of people that this counrty was under British
royal crown at one time, or to show people what Dark
Ages looked like instead of reviewing history,
• To celebrate the wedding of colon Wist oppres
sors who created the Third World with its racial,
political, economic and social inequality.
• To celebrate the royal marriage as a tradition of
the immigrants to America those immigrants escap
ed in order to be free from the European false tradi
tions.
0 Finally, perhaps, to present to the public Lady
Diana with extremely expensive wedding garb. Some
girls cannot afford a $lO dress.
The royal family killed 800 Canadian bears to make
hats for the royal guard. I believe that the ceremonial
wedding of the Dark Ages should not exist; the world
conscience does not accept that now. The free world
citizens should not be corrupted by this propaganda.
I would like to ask the organizations sponsoring these
unreasonable celebrations in the United States,
"Would you hold a ceremony for an American govern
ment figure or member of his family if he or she
weds?" I do not think so. I still need a rationale for this
More probably fell under the wiles of a president
and a staff skilled at public relations and the
powers of persuasion.
Take, for example, Rep. Dave McCurdy, D-
Oklahoma. He was invited to Camp David to
spend a weekend with the president, according to
the Post. Reagan gave him a personal phone call
also. Finally, on this vote, McCurdy gave in. He
didn't on the two previous Reagan/Democrat
struggles. This time he said he wanted to help
move the Democratic Party "more to the mains
tre4m."
Wednesday wasn't the first time that Reagan
and his party have shown the Democrats who is
more skilled at politics. Twice before, once during
Reagan and his political henchmen weren't a vote, on/ a resolution 'supporting the Reagan
very happy about the representative's stubborn budget plan and again when the House voted on
refusal. About 20 minutes passed before Traxler the specific budget cuts, House Speaker Tip
started receiving phone calls from representa- O'Neill was humiliated. II
tives of powerful constituents a top executive of These victories demonstrate how outt. govern-
General Motors, another big shot from DOw mental system is quickly moving toward a huge
Chemical, a vice president of Ford and ultimately federal body consisting of an extremely powerful
a lobbyist from Chrysler. president, a legislative branch more than willing
This congressman was determined. He said he to bow down to the president and a judiciary full
would stick by his beliefs. And he did. of self-restraint judges unwilling to challenge
But many other Democratic Congressmen —4B either Congress or the president.
to be exact obviously didn't. Sure, some of The constitution demands three branches of
those men supported Reagan and his tax plan. government Reagan, under the mask of an
Traxler stayed committed to Democrats. By 1:30
p.m. he received another call not from Reagan,
but from a presidential aide.
Traxler's answer was still no.
Belting
For the past six months, the Reagan
economic program has dominated Con
gress, and grabbed a lion's share of the
national press coverage. The public in
terest in this matter is justified for more
than just economic reasons. The theatre
of the street has come to prime-time
television and the average TV-viewer is
the big winner; the congressional antics
accompanying the debate provide some
of the best evening entertainment since
the major networks dropped professional
wrestling.
From this congressional circus of bull
slinging, insult-hurling arid desk-thump
ing temper tantrums, some new and
some not so new faces have emerged.
Rep. Jack Kemp looks more and more
like the heir apparent to the president.
House Speaker Tip O'Neill, rather than
Sen. Ted Kennedy, has emerged has the
champion of the old liberal ideals
promising to stand red-nosed, sword in
hand, between the administration's drag
on and the widows and orphans that it
seeks to devour. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski
is the little Dutch boy inserting his finger
into the dike in order to prevent the tide
of Reaganisrn from flooding the nation.
Regardless of who one's heroes and
villians are in this charade, one has to
admit that most of the support and crit
icism of the program. has at least been
disguised in reputable terms. Kemp and
the president's other supporters argue
that the situation is very serious and that
they are the only ones who have pre-
public display in a free country where everyone is born
free.
Magdy M. Taha
Chairman, American foreign student committee
July 29
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economic plan, is trying to make it one.
He campaigned saying he would try to lessen
the impact of the federal government upon Amer
icans. By creating a "new federalism'," Reagan is
supposedly transferring powers from the federal
government to the states; but he seems to want to
gain control of whatever remains of the federal
system.
Every day, the media report many examples of
a federal government merger. On Wednesday, the
Reagan administration announced that if Con
gress approved a reworked communications bill,
Reagan would consider dropping an anti-trust suit
against American Telephone and Telegraph.
The Supreme Court has bowed twice in recent
memory to the wishes of the two other branches.
It deferred to an executive decision that former
CIA agent Philip Agee did not deserve a passport
because he was a rabble-rouser. It also OK'd
Congress' decision not to draft women ignoring
its own precedents.
This country previously has had a strong exec
utive. Many people are drawing similarities be
tween Reagan and Lyndon Johnson they both
could make Congress jump through a hoop. Rea
gan and Franklin Delano Roosevelt are also being
portrayed as presidents who dramatically
changed the course of the country.
the Sun Belt
scribed the proper medicine to cure the
nation's economic constipation. On the
other hand, O'Neill and the critics insist
that when the administration's laxative
takes effect and the budget cuts hit the
fan, the people who will catch the largest
share of economic offal will be those poor
slobs who are least capable of cleaning
up the mess.
Whether the arguments blowing out of
Washington consist of pure wind or some
thing of greater substance, until recently
the politicians could insist that they had
the best interests of the nation at heart
and that their , version of the economic
package would be easier on the poor:
In the midst of all this clatter about the
truly needy, a handful of legislators
came to the defense of the truly greedy. I
am speaking of those members of Con
gress that represent the oil-producing
states of Texas, Arkansas and Oklaho
ma. They threatened to hold the econom
ic bills hostage until Congress and the
president granted major concessions to
the oil companies in. the form of tax
breaks and deregulation. In the end both
sides gave in and amended their tax-cut
proposals to include economic bonanzas
for the oil men.
This is a shameless attempt on the part
of the legislators to repay some of their
biggest political contributors. The legis
lators are blackmailing the Archie Bunk
ers of America's industrial belt into
forking over extortion money to the J. R.
Ewings of the Sun Belt.
Ordinarily such a clumsy attempt at
political terrorism in Congress would be
worthy of no more than contemptuous
'laughter; as goofy as our political lead
ers may appear at times, they should be
capable of knocking these cowboys off
their high horses.
But they did not, and the situation
becomes even more ominous when we
consider recent developments in Mon
tana. The big sky state has recently been
considering an export tax on all coal that
leaves the state. This in effect is laying
the groundwork for an eventual domestic
equivalent of OPEC, which would enable
a handful of states to redistribute Ameri
ca's wealth right into their own capitals.
I for one have had enough of the talk
about how the future belongs to the Sun
Belt and how the Northeastern states can
drift into the ocean and join Atlantis. Just
once, the members of Congress from the
Northeastern and Midwestern industrial
states should forget about the differences
between rural and urban, liberal and
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But Reagan seems to have the political attrib
utes of both men. He controls Congress and he is
not faced with a hostile Supreme Court challeng
ing his own new deal.
As Rep. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, told The New
York Times: "We might be moving into a new era
of government. Previous presidents tried and
failed to go over the heads of Congress, but in this
era of electronic media, with a good communica
tor as president, he can go straight over our heads
with a simple and direct message."
One can only hope that Congress and the Su
preme Court do not continue to act as secondary
players in the drama that is federal government.
With many controversial and pressing questions
facing this country abortion, busing, voting
rights we need our federal government working
as it was designed.
The checks and balances built in the constitu
tion are not there to create red tape and paper
work.
They exist to prevent a strong president from
becoming a omnipotent dictator.
Philip Gutis is 6th-term journalism and political
science major, and is managing editor of The
Daily Collegian.
W His CNCENIUTION. '
conservative, democratic and republi
can. They should show some of the same
solidarity found in other regions of the
country and join together to give the
rebels, cowboys and California
the
babies a good political kick in the ass.
One issue that begs for such treatment
is a federal takeover of welfare. For
many years Northern industrial cities,
such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago
and Cleveland, have been getting the
economic life squeezed out of them by a
staggering welfare burden. Everytime
one of these cities asks for any kind of
federal assistance, there is always some
smirking cracker standing on the steps of
the Capitol and draw.ling into a news
microphone about how these cities must
learn to exercise restraint. They must
straighten out their own economic mess
because his committee just doesn't think
that it's right for decent country folk to
pay for the big cities' excesses.
Now, hold it right there and ask your
self just whose poor are creating the
welfare burden in New York and Phila
delphia: Are they the city's poor or thc;
nation's poor?
For more than a 100 years; the refuse
of the world has been dumped on the
Northern and Midwestern industrial cit
ies. With nothing but strong backs, a
willingness to work and an unwillingness
to quit, the scads of immigrants built an
'economic base that gave these cities an;
unprecedented standard of living. For
the first time ever, it became possible to
offer a decent standard of living to those
who could not work.
Meanwhile, other parts of the country
tried to preserve the status quo by insti
tuting a system of repression, racism/
'and bigotry that produced economic
:stagnation. The victims of this system
- fled to the Northern cities in search of a
better -life. In some areas of the South,
the welfare offices handed out gratuitous
:one-way bus tickets to New York.
Later when the great depression struck 0
:and a drought blew away a good portion
of the Sun Belt's farmland, the federal
government created jobs through pro
grams like the Tennessee Valley Authori
ty and the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Most of the revenue needed to finance
.these operations came from the industri
al belt.
Now that the Sun Belt states are finally
experiencing a little prosperity, it is time
they began accepting some of the na
tion's financial burdens.
There are enough votes in the big ;
industrial states of Massachusetts, Con
necticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, . 1.171
Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin
and Pennsylvania to take these bush
league, oil state legislators and give
them a few lessons in how to play big- I
time political hardball.
Sean de Hora is a graduate student in ez o ,
history and a columnist for The Daily
Collegian.
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in this fall's
freshman clais
Continued from Page 1.
"A 2 percent jump in that sort of
thing is it just doesn't happen."
Dickason said he does not know
why all these • statistical changes
occured this year.
"What I can show you is a lot of
symptoms where you've had ex--
treme variations in historical
trends," he said.
"I've had enough. conversations
with my peers at other institutions to
know that they've had unusual years
also. It will be an interesting fall as
we go to our conferences."
The problem next year will be
whether to consider the variations
as' a one-year changes or a new
trend. Dickason said the University
will have to work out a number of
ways to deal with admissions next
year.
One possibility would be a waiting
list.
"That's dangerous in its own
right," Dickason said. "If you put
someone on a waiting list, they may
say 'Thanks: but no thanks.'
In recent years, the University has
not used that option, he said.
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Continued from Page 1. • Cause has worked on? •
COLLEGIAN: As a lobbyist, how would you go about per- HEDLUND: We have worked for the Freedom of Information
suading a legislator to support a bill that you might advocate? 'Laws, some of the open meetings laws and the sunshine laws.
HEDLUND: Well, Common Cause lobbyists work differently We, along with the League of Women Voters, probably get the
than industry or trade association lobbyists. They would most credit for the passage of the sunshine laws throughout the
typically make campaign contributions, oppose or endorse country. All 50 states now have sunshine laws. We helped pass
candidates, wine and dine folks, take them to football games, the Civil Service Reform Law in Washington and have worked
that kind of thing. on the Ethics and Government Act, which includes financial
We don't do that. There are inside and outside lobbyists in
Washington. My job is that of an inside lobbyist in Washington,
and I view myself as the eyes and ears for our members around
the country.
I work a lot with committee staffs preparing testimony,
coalition meetings with senators, literally standing off the
House floor waiting to speak to legislators.
COLLEGIAN: What have been some of the past legislative
matters that Common Cause has supported and how successful
were you in achieving them?
HEDLUND: Common Cause started 11 years ago. Our first - "We lost in court, so now you tie the court's hands in these
issue was to get a legislative end to the Vietnam war; and in areas." This issue will reach the Judiciary Committee and
doing that, a number of institutional changes had to be made. Pennsylvania Rep. Arlen Specter will be an extremely crucial
We had to end the seniority system in Congress, shut off funds player in those issues
to the Vietnam war
When I say "we," I don't mean we did it alone, but we played
a major rule
We were also the first organization to pursue President Nixon
for illegal fund-raising activities. We have had a continuing
interest in campaign reforms. We were probably the most
instrumental in getting public financing for presidential elec
tions so (candidates) don't have to rely on private contributors.
We've worked to get public financing of congressional elec
tions, but have not been successful there.
COLLEGIAN: What are some of the other things Common
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Court's ability to rule or decide on issues of abortion, capital
punishment, bussing and prayer in schools.
Many groups that advocate controls in those areas have been
disappointed with court rulings. So now they're going into
Congress and they're saying, "Don't let the court rule on
these."
It's not right for an interest group to go to Congress and say
COLLEGIAN: Have you had any problems with the Reagan
administration yet?
HEDLUND: The Reagan administration wants to repeal or
restrict many of the major mid-'7os reforms, many that we
were involved in. Many of these were major reforms for the
country. They want to do away with the Federal Elections
Commission. They want to gut the Foreign Corrupt Practices
Act and make it administratively unenforcable so corporations
would again be able to scrape money overseas so they can get
contracts.
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