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New discipline system treats students more,like people
Getting busted on campus, used to be a little
like getting busted in New York City. The
~, , lecused student wouldn't be thrown in a dirty
h:Ading cell with pimps, junkies and drunks,
bat the University's disciplinary process was
almost as slow and impersonal.
Offending students were told by their RAs
that they would be referred to the director of
he Office of Conduct Standards, an unknown
entity somewhere deep in the bowels of Boucke
Building.
The correspondence from that office often
took three months to arrive. No immediate
hearing, no visit from some disciplinary en
forcer•. Entire college careers were at stake,
yet students were getting the old "just another
number" routine again.
New York City's justice system may not be
getting any better, but the University's disci
pline procedure is now being personalized.
Imltead of waiting those three long months,
cases will be heard by dorm area coordinators
within three working days.
Big deal, you say, an administrator is an
The Daily Collegian's editorial opinion is determined by its
administrator they're all out to get students. Board of Opinion, with the editor-in-chief holding final
Not necessarily. responsibility.
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This is what I wish were true:
Mark Green is on vacation this week. His
column will return next Thursday.
I could really use the vacation. Here's what is
rue:
Niarh Green is caught in the midterm crunch, a
:form of ::or? - ure and slow death by deadline. His
:mind is chaos, but his column will still run.
'The presses stop for no man.
Batt no orderly thoughts will floW around those
.ieeded for my classes. My mind is like the screen
of a.r. Asteroids game. Big thoughts, little
thoughts, medium thoughts, all unrelated, drift by
:with no order apparent to me (yet maybe there is
.a pattern beneath.)
Some asteroid thoughts-.
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"Sadat is dead. What, I ask you, what is this
• ;world coming to?" That is what the note in my
mailbox. said on Tuesday morning.
It's always been that way to me. I remember a
!Jay when I was five, my brother and I running up
and down the street, balanced on the curb, chas
j.ng the cloud shadowS on the ground.
• When we made it to the top of the hill one time,
Danny Farnan, a year older than I, told us
President Kennedy had been shot. He was dead.
we called him a liar and ran home to ask the_
;authorities.
; My mom was in the house watching the guy
install our new rug. They confirmed the news. I
was still' learning about my world. Some guy shot
The president dead. Our new rug was brown.
• This type of thing has happened enough
throughout my life and even more so in the recent
past, to reinforce the fact in my mind: people in
the public eye, people who lead, people we rely on,
Some pretty good people, they get killed for
reasons I don't usually associate with death.
• I accept it, even expect it to some point, but it
'till bothers me.
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Students now have the chance to argue their
cases before a person who is closer to their
environment. They may eventually end up
talking to Donald Suit the director of the
Office of Conduct Standards but not without
a chance to talk with someone closer to the
incident.
Students, especially those new to the Univer
sity, will benefit from the procedural change
because it will give them immediate feedback
on their problem. No waiting, no sweating.
Staff members of the Office of Residential
Life will also benefit, because they May see
personal problems before they get out of con
trol.
Although some discrepancies may result
because coordinators may have different
methods of dealing with similar situations,
University policy is specific enough to ensure
fairly equal treatment.
Personal treatment by the University ad
ministration is a rare and cherished thing.
Maybe this change will help ease the unplea
santness of one aspect of University life.
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Here's a poem I wrote:
When in the midst of all this joy
I get depressed a bit
I remember that
Even something good as an Oren
Leaves you with brown spit.
Here's a true story Bob McGough told me
Once, very late, at night, Bob was walking his
large German shepherd along the road { that runs
along the border between Philadelphia and a
neighboring township. He found a large crowbar
lying in the street, picked it up and continued
walking. It was kind of a tough neighborhood.
A township cop car pulled up alongside Bob. Not
being the most respectable looking of people, Bob
backed away. But instead of grabbing him and
pulling him inside the patrol car, two cops got out
and pulled a old guy out of the back.
They threw the guy toward Philadelphia. "And
don't come back!" they warned him.
The guy was obviously drunk, down on all fours,
staring at Bob.
"They threw me out," the drunk said
Bob saw fear in the drunk's eyes, then under
stood why. So, standing beneath a "Welcome to
Philadelphia" sign, he outstretched his arms to
embrace the drunk, a large crowbar in one hand
and the leash to a large dog in the other, and
smiled.
"Welcome back," Bob said.
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"The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies" was on
TV the other night. It reminds me of something
my brother Karl (with a K) always says.
If you think back to the theme song of that show,
you'll recall that it had a banjo playing the theme
song which would end with the announcer's voice
saying, "The Beverly Hillbillies," and then the
song would start up again.
Karl holds to the theory that if you start that
song playing in your head it's next to impossible
to stop. I agree, because it has.happened to me
before. You hear it once, then the announcer says,
"The Beverly Hillbillies" and it plays through
again until the announcer again and then the song
again, ad infintum.
Karl said that maybe when he is old and his
mind is less strong, he won't be able to stop it. He
paints the scene of him in an old age home rocking
very rhythmically. People talk to him but he
doesn't answer. He's too busy listening to the
Beverly . Hillbillies song in his head and rocking to
the beat.
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The Homecoming parade is this Friday at 5:45.
I suggest you go. I went last year and had a lot of
fun, but I don't know why. If you like crowds,
there's plenty of them. If you like band music,
there's the Blue Band and it's pretty good. If you
like floats of big footballs or wedding scenes or
Nittany Lions you'll probably find them there,
too. You even get lots of frat people on the floats
waving like they're Captain Kangaroo in the
Macy's parade or something. Even that's okay. .
It gives you 'a chance to laugh and cheer and
clear the way for all these asteroids.
That's my tip for the week.
Mark Green is a 10th-term journalism major and
a staff writer for The Daily Collegian. His column
appears on Thursdays.
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Thursday Oct: 8, 1981—Page 2
Paula Froke
Editor
BOARD OF EDITORS: Managing Editor, Phil Gutis;
Editorial Editor, Tom Boyer; Assistant Editorial Edi
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McCleary; Weekly Collegian Editor, Neil Axe; Assis
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Loeb:
death of a
It is January 1972 in New Hampshire and a
heated presidential primary race is 0n... A
man, the front runner of the Democratic race,
is addressing a crowd outside a newspaper
office building during a downpour of snow.
Suddenly, he breaks into sobs. The publishe
r/editor of the statewide, weekly paper has
just published a series of editorials attacking
his wife.
That newspaper publisher was the com
manding voice of New Hampshire politics and
that state's quadrennial primary until his
death Sept. 13 at 75.
The man outside the office of the The
Manchester Union Leader was Sen. Edmund
S. Muskie of Maine. The man who drove him
to this human but politically digastrous mo
ment was William Loeb, the publisher of the
Leader since 1946. Loeb wielded an envied
power over the New Hampshire primary, and
most presidential candidates cowered before
the authority of this self-proclaimed "19th
century liberal," and "Teddy Roosevelt con
servative."
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Loeb decided that Muskie was soft on the
Soviet Union and shouldn't be president. His
first assault on Mtiskie was the damaging
"canuck" letter, signed by a fictional Paul
Morrison, published 11 days before the prima
ry. The letter was later confirmed to be a
fabrication and written by Richard Nixon's
Dirty Tricks operator, Ken Clawson. The
letter accused Muskie of calling French Ca
nadians "canucks," a racial slur. About 60
percent of New Hamshire's voters are French
Canadian.
The letter was printed on the front page of
the Leader along with an editorial attacking
rgiuskie. The letter, and perhaps Loeb's in
volvement, was part of what Nixon's Dirty
Tricks henchmen called "rat-fucking" opera
tions. It was later learned that Clawson had
contacted B.J. McQuaid, then editor-in-chief
of the Leader.
The letter alone would have damaged Mus-
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kie's chances, but Loeb went on to attack
Muskie's wife,.Jane.
Loeb twice ran an editorial chiding her for
her remarks in a fluff piece that appeared in
Women's Wear Daily and Newsweek that had
her saying flippantly, "I can't mix booze and
wine."
These attacks led to Muskie's last stand. On
that winter morning, nine days before the
primary, Muskie broke into sobs and said:
"This man doesn't walk. He.crawls . . . . It's
an insult to the people of New Hampshire that
you have to pick up this' rotten newspaper
every morning." Muskie's chances for the
presidency died that morning,
Unfortunately, Muskie's outburst was just
what Nixon and his henchmen wanted be
cause it allowed George McGovern to get the
Democratic nomination. McGovern, as every
Watergate buff knows, was seen by Nixon as
the easiest Democrat to beat In 1972.
Muskie was not the first of Loeb's victims.
He wrote a front-page editorial on Henry
Kissinger headlined "Kissinger: A Kike." He
called Gerald Ford a "jerk," Jimmy Carter,
America's "most incompetent president,"
and Eugene McCarthy "a skunk's skunk's
skunk."
Loeb despised Democrats, whom he charac
terized as "left-wing kooks." He perennially
attacked the Kennedys, prompting Robert
Kennedy to comment, 'AU there's anyone
more reckless with the truth, I don't know
him."
But Loeb did like some politicians all
fervent conservatives. Those he admired
most were Sens. Joseph McCarthy of Wiscon
sin and Robert A. Taft i of Ohio; Nixon until he
went to China; and Ronald Reagan.
His philosophy was simple: "Things are
either right or they are wrong - ,"
Throughout his career, h 0 encouraged nar
row-mindedness, racism. and a. hypocritical
world of moral absolutitm-: He felt that
"grays" confused the reader.
Few politicians will mourn his death consid
ering he attacked so many. It's sad, but I
suspect that many New Hampshire readers,
too, are decidedly ambivalent or happy about
his death.
Gene Grygo is a 9th-terrn Jour:holism and
history major and a senior reliorter covering
municipal government for The Daily Colle
gian.
By MIKE HEIMOWITZ
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
State College, along with the rest of
the nation, is suffering from a penny
shortage.
Tom Wulf, manager of Majik Mar
ket, 151 S. Garner St., said his store has
been running low on the copper coins
since the middle of the summer. -
"There is definitely a penny short
age. We've run out, not too often, about
four or five times," he said. "The
banks can't give us any because they
don't have them. They give us $2 worth
a day."
Wulf added that since Majik Market
has a lot of stores in the state, he can
sometimes get pennies from stores
that don't have the problem.
"If not for that (the other stores
supplying pennies), we wouldn't have
any," he said.
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The manager of McLanahan's, 414
E. College Ave., said that store is also
running low on pennies.
The manager, who asked not to be
identified, said the problem started
when students returned to the Univer
sity for Fall Term.
He said the banks in the area cannot
give the amount of pennies he re
quests.
"If you ask for $lO worth, they give
you $5 worth. They cut in half what you
ask for. Some days they give even less.
Every bank seems to have a short
age," he said. "We appreciate stu
dents or whoever with the right
amount of change. The odd cents are
killing us."
The manager said that although his
store has come close to running out, it
never has been caught penniless. ,
"We go to other (McLanahan's) to
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help out," the manager said.
Lloyd Jackson, regional vice presi
dent of Central Counties Bank, said the
penny shortage is not a problem just in
State College, but throughout the na
tion.
"It's gotten worse over the last few
months," Jackson said. "It's a nation
al problem. People are holding on to
pennies. We've had to ration them."
CCB sometimes runs programs in
which people who bring in pennies are
paid a premium, he said. Right now
the bank is not paying the premium,
which is 10 percent of the amount, but
will be in the future, he added.
Paying a premium "doesn't alle
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Bob Frederick, vice president of
Farmer's Community Bank, said his
bank is not having as much of a prob
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"It's not a desperate problem with
us," Frederick said. "It's more a prob
lem with banks that have big commer
cial accounts. We have a better mix of
accounts than most banks."
"There is definitely a penny short
age. They're not printing enough," he
said.
The penny shortage is just a local
problem, Frederick said.
"If you mention 'penny shortage' to
someone in Indiana or Illinois they
look at you with a quizzical glance," he
said. "They don't know what you're
talking about. It's an Eastern prob
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"It's all across the country," Mur
doch said. "It varies in intensity
though. It's particularly troublesome
on the West coast and in Chicago,
Detroit and around here. I don't know
about the Sun Belt, but it's more or less
a burden everywhere."
"The problem started in January of
1980 when gold and silver prices went
high," he said.
"Copper went up at the same time
and people thought if they hung on to
copper pennies the price would go up
further and they could melt them
down. Actually, the price (of copper)
went down," he said.
Murdoch blamed the shortage on two
opposite effects.
"One, people think pennies are
worth something as collector's items
and they hang on to them," he said.
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pocket or pocketbook, take them out at
the end of the day and don't use them.
They don't think they're valuable and
they don't bother with them.
"There are an awful lot of pennies in
bureau drawers. The mint is making
more than ever and putting out more
than ever, but they're not circulating."
To alleviate the problem, a new
penny made of zinc will be made by the
government in the near future, Mur
doch said.
"Copper pennies are now 95 percent
copper and 5 percent zinc. The zinc
pennies will be 98 percent zinc and 2
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