o—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 10, 1981
Ruling on N.Y. primary appealed
NEW YORK (AP) The top lawyer
for the nation's largest city went to the
U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in an
effort to overturn a voting rights ruling
that would bar tomorrow's primary elec
tions for local offices.
Allen Schwartz sought a stay from
Justice Thurgood Marshall after failing
to win reconsideration from the special
three-judge panel that issued the ruling
Tuesday. The ruling left campaigns in
chaos and voters in confusion.
Schwartz had pleaded with the judges
to let the election proceed for citywide
and boroughwide offices and to postpone
primaries for City Council seats. It was a
redistricting of City Council lines that
prompted a suit in behalf of blacks and
Hispanics who contended the reappor
tionment was discriminatory.
When the Supreme Court is not in
session, Marshall has jurisdiction over
such requests from this part of the coun
try.
"Regardless of which way this goes, I
see confusion" among voters, said Betty
Dolan, executive director of the Board of
Elections.
"This is a Thursday election to begin
with —that's unusual and has added to
confusion," said John Dearie, ruling for
Man told too old for Merchant Marines
SEATTLE (AP) When James H. Petrie was accepted into
a Merchant Marine training program at a Texas college, he
borrowed $2,400 to pay his tuition and set off eagerly to start
classes
But as soon as he showed up, the school sent him home
saying that at 71 he was too old.
'I spent three years trying to get into
the program and finally it was nailed
down and some little twerps,
young'ns, threw in a monkey
wrench.'
—James H. Petrie,
"I spent three years trying to get into the program and finally
it was nailed down and some little twerps, young'ns, threw in a
monkey-wrench," he said yesterday.
Last year Petrie, a retired railroad and Boeing employee who
Falwell attacks sexual assault reform act
'WASHINGTON (AP) The Rev. Jer
ry Falwell, eader of the Moral Majority,
has announced a campaign to have Con
gress veto a sexual assault reform act
passed by the District of Columbia city
Council. The proposal would legalize ho
niosexuality and adultery
iThe required veto resolutions were
being introduced by Sen. Jeremiah Den
tOn, R-Ala., and Rep. Philip M. Crane, R-
':• If you're thinking
Process Control, you should be talking to
TAYLOR.
city comptroller. "If the election is re
instated tomorrow . . . we'll end up hav
ing the fewest people participating."
Twenty-five percent is a good showing,
for a city primary.
Councilman Edward Sadowsky of
Queens, who had no primary foe, said the
development was "the only exciting
thing in an otherwise dull election comp
aign."
Among the contests involved are May
or Edward I. Koch's bid for renomination
on both the Democratic and Republican
tickets.
While refusing to stay or modify its
ruling, the panel indicated to Schwartz it
would be willing to entertain a compro
mise if the minority groups that brought
the suit would agree to the idea of bar
ring only the City Council races.
Schwartz said he talked with the plain
tiffs' lawyers for 15 minutes, but was
unable, to reach an accord. Opposing
lawyers, however, said an agreement
might have been reached if they had time
to get in touch with their clients.
"He wanted an immediate determin
ation," said Paul Wooten, lawyer for the
New York State Black and Puerto Rican
Legislative Caucus.
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111., Falwell said yesterday, adding that
the measures would have numerous co
sponsors
The proposed law would overhaul the
city's sex assault statutes. It would tight
en some rules by making the crimes
apply to both sexes equally, but also
would legalize most private sex acts
between consenting adults over 16 years
lives in Kirkland, Wash., was accepted by Texas A&M Univer
sity's Moody College Merchant Marine officer program. After
securing a federal education loan, he reported to the college in
Galveston on Aug. 24.
That's when Moody College President William H. Clayton
wrote Petrie to say he couldn't stay because "you could not
graduate from the license-option program until you are 76.
"The potential is virtually zero that companies hiring . . .
graduates of this institution would employ a man of your age,"
Clayton wrote.
"It's pure age discrimination," said Petrie,
Petrie says he visited Texas A&M in 1980 and Kenneth
Haynes, then superintendent of the Marine Academy, "was
agreeable to me coming . . . Haynes told me I'd raise the
average age of cadets."
Petrie said trouble started when he failed to put his age on a
housing application. He put his age on all other documents and
talked about his age with "deans, associate deans and depart
ment heads."
But "the corps advisor, J. B. Mainord, and some other
underlings objected that I didn't show my age on the housing
application. Mainord took me before the president," Petrie
said.
William J. Whartle, assistant vice president for academic
affairs, said university officials accepted Petrie on the basis of
test scores and grades and didn't "flag" his age on the
application.
"The clock is running and we are
'running too," Schwartz said.
Koch's foes in the Democratic primary
were State Assemblyman Frank Barba
ro and Melvin Klenetsky, an 'academic
turned politican. The Republican contest
pitted Koch against Assemblyman John
A. Esposito.
In the comptroller race, Dearie faced
incumbent Harrison J. Goldin. Voters
also were to pick candidates for borough
president and district attorney. The dis
trict attorney's race in Brooklyn pits
former U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman
against assistant District Attorney Nor
man Rosen.
The court's ruling did not address the
discrimination charge, saying only that
the election would be illegal because "the
city had not done all it could to comply"
with the federal Voting Rights Act.
The act, aimed mainly at Southern
states, also requires. the boroughs of
Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn to
get Justice Department approval of any
new local election law or redistricting.
Queens and Staten Island needn't have
such approval, but no elections were
expected there if other city races were
prohibited.
old, including homosexuality, sodomy
and adultery.
Falwell said his group fears that such a
law in the nation's capital would become
a model.
D.C. City Council Chairman Arrington
Dixon said the city would lobby against
the proposed veto. He said groups from
outside the city had no right to impose
their will on district citizens.
Spider art
The cool Adirondack mountain air coats a spider's work with dew outside the village of Lake Placid
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demanded it be allowed to control the delivery of food, but the government is rationing the rations, and much of the food is
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Blast off!
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) —The 'space shuttle Columbia "lifted off" yesterday afternoon 3 1 / 2 hours behind
schedule in a major dress rehearsal for its scheduled Oct. 9 launch.
An electrical failure late Tuesday threw the simulated launch behind schedule.
Problems later came up in computer programming, but officials said the programming problems were related only
to the simulation.
At 3:35 p.m. EDT yesterday as astronauts Joe Engle and Dick Truly sat in the Columbia's cockpit in full space garb,
launch was simulated.
The team also practiced procedures for a failure of one engine
Ye Olde College Diner gets facelift
BY MICHAEL ROSSI
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Ye Olde College Diner has a new look.
The diner, 126 W. College Ave., got a $50,000 facelift over the
summer but renovations still are not completed, Daniel Barbet,
owner of the diner, said.
Renovations began at the end of last spring, Barbet said.
Copper and brass from the front of the diner were exposed and
bricks, were added. Inside the diner, an unused room was
converted to an ice cream parlor and the lighting was changed
to brighten things up, Barbet said.
Business has increased as a result of the addition of the ice
cream parlor, Barbet said. The ice cream parlor, which opened
during the Arts Festival, features 30 flavors of homemade ice
cream.
"If you're not 21, it's a nice place to bring a date," Barbet
said.
The Diner reope'ned Sept. 11, 1980, after Barbet bought it,
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Although the front of the building is still undergoing renova
tion, Barbet said he has more changes planned. He plans to
open a small bakery in the front of the diner which would sell
bread, pies, cakes and pastries. Barbet also said he plans to fix
up the diner's kitchen, possibly during Christmas break.
The diner is open 24 hours a day and serves 'a full menu at all
times, Barbet said. He said the ice cream parlor is open from
noon until midnight. •
"You can have breakfast at 6 at night or a hamburger at 8 in
the morning," Barbet said.
Marlene Steinkirchner, daytime manager of the Diner;
agrees that business has increased.
"I think it has," Steinkirchner said. "It has gotten quite
popular. I don't know if the renovations or the food. We give
fast service and fast food."
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