6 The Daly Colleg an Fr day Oct 9 981 Liberal Arts education suited to business world By MERI JO MONKS Daily Collegian Staff Writer Liberal arts majors, especially those in the fields of humanities and social sciences, are successfully pursuing careers in business, a Bell System researcher says. A Bell System study showed that liberal arts majors fared better than more specialized ma jors, such as engineering, in skills required for success in management positions, said Richard Ritchie, district manager for research for Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph, in a University- Employer Relations Forum held yesterday at the Nittany Lion Inn. These skills include leadership, oral commu nication, decision making, interpersonal skills, Kepone pesticide found in county fish By KATHY ANDREWS Daily Collegian Staff Writer Kepone, the carcinogenic pesticide polluting Thornton Spring Creek, has also turned up in fish taken from the Foster Joseph Sayres Reservoir near Howard in Centre County, according to a state Department of Environmental Resources report. The DER found small quantities of kepone in the tissues of bass, crappies and bluegills, all in quantities below 100 parts per billion. William P. Parsons, spokesman for the DER, said the Food and Drug Administration has set a limit for eating fish containing kepone at 300 parts per billion. Parsons said accord ing to the FDA, the fish are safe to eat. Parsons also said the water is probably safe because kepone is in the soil and enters the fish through the insects they feed on in the soil. The Ruetgers-Nease Chemical Company, which once man ufactured kepone, is the only source of chemical pollution known to the DER that flows into the reservoir, Parsons said. Thornton Spring Creek, which was contaminated with the pesticide from Ruetgers-Nease, flows into Bald Eagle Creek .and then into the Sayres Reservoir. Previously, the DER found police log shotgun and the other with a knife,.forced them to unlock a safe at the steakhouse. The employees were leaving work • Employees of Ponderosa Steak- when the two ma, wearing ski masks, house, 1630 S. Atherton St., told the State approached them, police said. College Police Department on Wednes- An undetermined amount of cash was day that two men, one armed with a taken, police said. *********************** * * ' * The Dept. of Legal Affairs helps students * * with disciplinary and legal problems. * * * If you would like to be a member, ' * * apply now thru Oct. 20, at 213 HUB. * 4 ( 8268 *********************** intellectual ability and managerial motivation. The only area in which engineers scored higher than liberal arts graduates was in quantitative skills, he said. Two types of exercises have been developed to determine if a prospective employee has the skills and abilities to be successful in middle manage-: ment positions in the Bell System, Ritchie said. A one-on-one exercise might entail an interview or questionnaire. Bell also uses group situation exercises, where one of the significant factors occurs when members of the group emerge from the exercise as leaders, he said. The study was compared to one that was administered to college graduates from 1956 through 1960. The results from that study were that brown trout and white suckers taken from Spring Creek, which is closer to Ruetgers-Nease, showed kepone levels to be much higher. Harold Klotz, vice president of engineering for Ruetgers- Nease, said he, has not been officially informed about the Sayres Reservoir incident. However, Klotz said he read an article about the reservoir in the Centre Daily Times and believes that since the kepone level is very low, there seems to be little concern from the DER or from Ruetgers-Nease. On July 19, 1981, the DER ordered Reutgers-Nease to clean up three specific areas on its property responsible for leaking chemical pollutants. Parsons said Ruetgers-Nease is cleaning up the former drum storage area and the surrounding soil and is also decontaminating the groundwater. The DER and Ruetgers-Nease are now involved in litigation regarding the third project, which is the removal of chemically fixed wastes buried in two abandoned lagoons. Ruetgers-Nease is not cleaning the area because it feels it is not responsible for the failure of the lagoons since the DER ordered their devel opment, Parsons said. The deposition is scheduled for late October and the hearing is set for the beginning of the year, he said. almost exactly like the results of the more recent study, Ritchie said. Again, the only area in which liberal arts graduates scored lower than engi neers was quantitative skills. "It's nice to see some things haven't changed in 25 years," Ritchie said. The study also showed that liberal arts majors advance in their careers about as rapidly as business majors. Interpersonal skills are very important in the Bell System, Ritchie said. Engineers or other technical majors who are weak in other areas do not have as much of a chance to work for Bell, he said. "We got tired of recruiting engineering grad- Uates who were so weak in other areas," he said. • Jim Ream, 225 E. Foster Ave., told i>` John Goodrich, 1000 Plaza Drive, State College police Wednesday that a told State College police Wednesday that car AM-FM cassette player and speakers four wheel covers were missing from his were missing from his car. car. • The wheel covers were valued at about The cassette player and speakers were $126, police said valued at about $250, police said Capture the Flavor of Penn State with Cooking Around the College Available at the game, on lnc ARo4iao A ' OP coma campus and around town O • A cookbook K-1 for Penn State cooks! BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) Two pages of an advanced biology text book used in Bellevue East and West High Schools have been glued together because they describe spe cific birth control methods, a school administrator says. Jim Davis, assistant superinten dent of schools, said the 970-page biology book is a college-level text. He said the pages were glued to gether because of a 10-year-old administrative policy. The policy specifies that "schools will not advise or prescribe specific methods of birth control to individ ual students or groups of students," Davis said. The gluing was done by secretar ies and teachers on a building-by building basis, according to Cathy Williams, school, district spokeswo man. —by Francine Kaufman "We've really tightened our standards for engi neers." Ritchie also said that fewer than half of the 6,000 people hired each year are from recruitment at college career offices. Most send resumes or are walk-in applicants. The Bell System is the largest private employer in the United States, with more than 1 million people working for it, Ritchie said. Each year the company hires about 6,000 people a third of which are liberal arts graduates, he added. The other keynote speaker at the forum was Stanley F. Paulson, dean of the College of The Liberal Arts. Paulson compared a liberal arts graduate to the opening lines of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two University observing Mindpower Week, support for higher education sought By CHRISTOPHER COONEY special activities this week because of Daily Collegian Staff Writer time conflicts, it will be involved in a The University is among 1,000 colleges special state-wide event scheduled for and universities across the country ob- the middle of next month. serving Mindpower Week, Oct. 3 to 11, to generate support for higher education.. The College and University Public Re lations Association of Pennsylvania will Mindpower Week is part of a year-long campaign organiied by the Council for sponsor Higher Education Week a Advancement and Support of Education, statewide effort to call attention to the with the theme "America's Energy is contributions of the Pennsylvania higher Mindpower." educational system, said Don Hale, chairman of the Higher Education Week The goal of the campaign is to create a Committee greater public awareness and apprecia tion, for higher education's value to socie ty and the contributions made by college educated citizens Colleges and universities across the state, including the University, will hold a "Back to School Day" to bring mem bers of the press who are alumni of the The campaign also wants to aid in schools back to see the various advance achieving adequate funds for higher edu- ments in higher education, Hale said. cation, said Arthur V. Ciervo, director of the University Office of Public Informa- "Pennsylvania is one of the lowest tion and Relations and a member of (states) in the country in support of CASE. higher education," Hale said. "Mind power is the most important power of all," Ciervo said. "It is the "People have taken higher education intelligence of America that keeps the for granted," he said. "We're producing country going." leaders of the state and contributing While the University will not hold any major research." ********** * * * * * * * * * * ie • Nittany's Ist PSU Homecoming, and the start of a new tradition! * R• 232 ********** * * * * * * * * * * Cities." "The liberal arts major often feels like Charles Dickens it was the best of times, it was the worst of times," he said. A study of 1961 and 1970 graduates in business careers showed that they think their most impor tant courses in college, next to their business classes, were English and communications courses, he said. He also said that the ability to communicate in a foreign language is beneficial because one out of five jobs in the state is dependent on foreign trade. The forum ends this morning with workshop summaries beginning at 10:30 and closing re marks scheduled for 11. Cheers to Pollock Best Wishes, 3: P.N.R.H.A. * Sadat mass: Tribute to peace By BRIAN E. BOWERS Daily Collegian Staff Writer Anwar Sadat lived and died for his („ vision of peace, said Father Andrew Campbell in a memorial liturgy for An war Sadat yesterday. The mass was performed at the Uni versity Catholic Center at Eisenhower Chapel in memory of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, who was assassinated Tuesday during a military parade. "The liturgy is offered for peace and in memory of Anwar Sadat," Father Camp bell said. The mass was planned around the theme of peace. The congregation was asked to pray for peace and sang hymns asking for peace. There was a feeling that the community wanted such a serv ice, Campbell said. In his message, Campbell said, "The Moslem faith has a lot of roots similar to ours. Those who believe in Allah and the prophet Mohammed have a sense of the future that we share. "We all look forward to the day when brothers and sisters throughout the world recognize that we have one god and we have one family. That common vision is something worth living for. That common vision is something Anwar Sa- • dat, a man of vision and a man of deep () faith lived for, and out of that faith, living as a peacemaker, he lived and died for his vision of humanity as one," Campbell said. "I am deeply committed to peace, and to see a man who was so committed die is such a tragedy to me. I personally am glad to have participated," he said. Mary Keith (graduate-food science) said, "He had spent so much of his time and energy to get a little more peace in the world. He was very religious about his own religion and he was following his own beliefs very strongly. It ( his death) was a real shock. 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E64 s) l3[(34_)[llE;il]4+E)Pi e Fig rc 11 ig ;;;: 7 77 7 7 7 7 7 7 go c ....,cd, w c , r e HAPPY BIRTHDAY 77 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 1..i3 7 7 Oa 1 a 7 1 .1) CI%) TO 1344-vw RIJ 17ui THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA [l t ck Pcs fl. A lc> Ob The 70th Anniversary of u eQ Uz Li d --- the Establishment of I V op PA A?' 7 3ti- the First Democratic Republic Oq G•Q. tuil .-,....... '?" EE. 4c:* i t ~,-) in Asia, BO Iltat, ----- o .00 Da it 4-- 14 1.:0-- 4. r --- , I Dr. Sun Yat-sen's ell Pc i Three Principles of the People pc] 510 OCT OBER 10 THE DOUBLE TENTH NATIONAL DAY 10 nin e° .° 4V113 il E:1 (1 C: Ej Pfiec American Indian myths poetry, prof says American Indian mythology can be considered a form of poetry, accord ing to guest speaker Dell Hymes. Hymes, a professor at the Universi ty of Pennsylvania, said many of his friends do not agree that American Indian mythology is poetry because they think poetry must rhyme. The concept Hymes has adopted is that poetry is something organized in terms of lines. Because American Indian mytholo gy was spoken and not recorded in writing, no one can know exactly Ushers have hard time, Kenawell says Continued from Page 1. • However, Bud Meredith, ticket manager, said an officer would not be as effective as a student asking for the object-throwing to stop. In addition to object-throwing, there have been problems with drinking, overcrowding and crowd control, council members said. Chris Calkins, president of the Association for Residence Hall Students, said ushers cannot control fans and they are having problems with large numbers of students coming into the game at the same time. An increased number of ushers seems to be a good solution to the problems at football games, several council members said Fran Kenawell, former president of ARHS, said because ushers have a hard time directing students to seats at the top of the stadium and keeping students from drinking alcoholic beverages, the number of student ushers decreases each game. Bob Karp, president of the Organization for Town Independent Students, said he ushered the first football game and is hesitant to do it again because he was abused by unreasonable students. Stacey Fleckenstein, Undergraduate Student Government representative, said the most viable solution to the problems would be to propose some form of student reserved seating to the administration. Also at the meeting, the council discussed problems with the scheduled 3 p.m. closing time for the dorms after the Notre Dame football game. Calkins said, because there will be problems with students driving home intoxicated and traffic backups, an alternative plan must be established. •E here are some •t.hins you just can't fore't... , get your yearbook pc-Lure -taken before tnis homecomin parade passes by c for apat: 206 hub • .. 865-zeoz -, .. Ito N z , 1 : 0 *alb colle lls ges • • 1 - p deartlftle: 0 ? 00 r t . e - ,4 1 :: 4: •) ri. clay, cc:L(6 A'' 1\ . • , f b et7la )( . ne 4 vlq2l4‘ f t i a the peni;istate leYrbcok 9-0:52..) If et • where the lines end in a myth, Hymes said. Hymes is the author of a book, "In Vain I Tried to Tell You," which was also the title of his lecture last night in Willard Building. The title comes from a line in an American Indian myth called "Seal and Her Younger BrOther Lived There," which Hymes read to the audience. The numbers three and five are very significant to many American Indian myths as are two and four. senors* The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 9, 1981-1 These numbers are called pattern numbers and - they are used through out many myths. The numbers are meaningful and not just formal, Hymes said. • Though Indian adults enjoyed the myths, the main purpose the stories was to educate children, Hymes said. "If a child fell asleep during the time stories were told during the winter, he had to chop a block of ice out and swim in the water," he said. "It is not feasible to ask the 100,000 people at the game and the group of students left afterwards to be gone by 6 o'clock," Calkins said. Although one proposal would be to have the dorms open until Sunday morning, Calkins said University officials feel the plan would not be economically feasible. Paul Bell, student representative to the University Board of Trustees, said money that would enable the dorms to remain open until Sunday will have to come from some University progam. "( William 11. McKinnon, assistant vice president for housing and food services) is going to say 'we are going to need this amount of dollars to keep the dorms open and what programs do we take it out of?' " Bell said. However, USG President Bill Cluck said, the University could have problems with drunken students, vandalism and wild parties if the dorms are open until Sunday morning. "You have to remember if we are undefeated and we beat Notre Dame, this town is going to he run down," Cluck said. "You are going to have some crazy dorm parties because students will be here Saturday night with nothing to do and they'll go out and party," he said. Karp said the athletic department should help solve the dorm problem. "I think one of the most important allies is the athletic department," he said. "If they want students at the game, the dorms are going to have to be open." Also at the meeting, Ray Boyle, Consumer Party candidate for State College Municipal Council, urged the council to get their groups involved in the upcoming election. —by Patricia II ungerford
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