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Legislative love letters
Something to do if you're bored over term break
They'd like to know you better
Legislators, like newspaper editors, are of
ten happiest when they get reams of letters —it
makes them feel appreciated.
Sure, they get lots of letters, phone calls and
visits from constituents when something
comes up that directly affects them but not
at other times. State legislators in Harrisburg
complain that the 'only time they hear from
Penn State students is when the University's
budget is .being voted on during spring and
summer and even then, they don't hear
much.
That's too bad for Penn State, because a lot
of the decisions on the state budget are made
long before the actual vote. In fact, the state
legislature is deciding now, little by little, how
much money to give the University next year.
So, University community, when you have a
moment between football games and cold
turkey sandwiches, make your legislator feel
needed by writing him or her a letter during
term break.
Legislators need to know how tax money
actually helps their constituents they need to
know what students get out of Penn State. They
also need to know where funding shortfalls. to
higher education hurt their constituents. Ask
your legislator why Pennsylvania ranks last in
reader opinion
CornpSci reply
In his letter printed Nov. 11, Scott
Tinslet noted the increased pressure of
student demand for courses in computer
science, the seeming lack of planning on
the part of the computer science depart
ment, and the lack of quality advising
within the department.
There is no question of the increased
student demand. Each term, the depart
ment has made every attempt to fill our
service obligation to the University by
opening additional sections of elemen-
Promoter King: new breed of hero
Don King was the first person that I recognized as we
nonchalantly slipped into the press party in the Hyatt
ballroom in Pittsburgh last week. You couldn't miss
Mtn; hair combed straight up a la the Little Rascals'
':Buckwheat," a lavish diamond pendant around his
neck and a huge cigar in his hand. The ex-con from
Cleveland had come a long way.
He was in Pittsburgh to sell something he'd labeled
`lmminent Danger," the Holmes/Snipes heavyweight
championship. To the uninitiated this may sound like no
great task, but consider the circumstances: Larry
Holmes, one of the greatest champs the heavyweight
division has seen in recent years, was going to go 15
rounds with Renaldo "Call Me Mister" Snipes, an
unknown 7th-ranked contender who looked ridiculous in
his last two outings.
"Who the hell would you put your money on?" orie of
the scribblers at the bar shot back in response to my
query regarding the line on the fight. The betting odds
are usually the most valuable tool in gauging the quality
of a sports event. There were no odds being given on the
Holmes/Snipes scrap. No surprise. No one doubted the
skill of the champ.
Yet Don King managed to sell the contest to ABC
television. And the network pumped it out to an esti
mated 47 million viewers, the largest TV boxing audi
ence ever.
• Further, the bout was covered by a group of sports
media heavies that included the New York Times' Dave
opinions
tary programming algorithmic proc
esses courses.
year and the department would be able to
continue to maintain a quality program
with linearly increasing resources.
Planning for increased student de- Effective Winter Term, the depart
mand is basically a futile exercise. Once ment will have an undergraduate adviser
one confirms that the increase has an who will assist majors with routine mat
exponential component, there is no solu- ters. Individual advising will continue by
tion to absorbing such increases with a - faculty advisers.
linear increase of resources. The depart- The central administration has been
ment is seeking enrollment controls on extremely helpful in supplying tempo
the major. thus, the most qualified stu- rary resources. Tbis enables the depart
dents will be able to continue their stud- ment to continue to expand its service
ies in computer science past the commitment. Beyond this, the computer
sophomore year. A reasonable estimate science department through the College
is that 200 students could enter the junior of Science, continues to seek additional
permanent resources. When these per
manent resources are obtained, enroll
ment controls would be relaxed. Mr.
Tinsley's concern of continued quality of
education continues to be a concern of
this department, college and University.
Joseph M. Lambert, acting head, com
puter science department
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the United States in funding increases for
higher education over the last decade.
Tell your legislator. about how much you
dislike the fact that none of your professors
know you on a first name basis because your
classes all contain more than 100 students. Tell
your legislator if you have trouble finding
study space or library materials or lab facili
ties or advisers.
Tell your legislator that your diploma isn't
worth much to you if you don't get a good
education to go along with . it.
If legislators dqn't hear these things from
their constituents, they won't be too likely to
believe what Penn State's lobbyists tell them.
A letter to a state legislator will be delivered
if it's addressed to the Capitol Building, Har
risburg, PA, 17120.
A sensible bill staggers
While you're writing a state legislator, ask
why Gov. Dick Thornburgh's bill to abolish
Pennsylvania's state stores still is stalled in
committee.
You could probably write the letter in the
time it takes to get service in a state store over
the holidays.
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mtl owtzer;,...(/,
Anderson, the Daily News' Dick Young and ABC's
Howard Cosell.
How did Don King pull it off?
The liquor being served at the party was expensive.
Wild Turkey and Tanqueray. But the drunken sports
writers exchanged no currency with the bartender. Don
King was taking care of everything.
Press credential*? See Don. He'd make sure you were
at ringside when the action went down.
Maybe•you'd like to get an interview with the champ?
That was no problem. Just talk to Don he's tight with
Larry. Holmes received $l.l million for participating in
this "fight" that King was promoting.
Access? No problem. It's what the man with his hair
combed straight up is all about. Don was going around
Nov. 12
Post-mortem
It has been my custom in six elections
not to engage in post-mortems. However,
the coverage you gave State College
Municipal Council candidates Felicia
Lewis and James Deeslie is based on so
much unfair assumption that it tends to
insult the majority of citizens who voted
Dombroski and Wiser to office. It is, in
addition, unfair to two candidates who at
least deserve the opportunity to serve
and then be evaluated.
I have both
. enjoyed, and in some
instances endured the change in the
majority, party in the Council. Unlike
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candidate Lewis, such a change failed to
suggest to me that the "effect would be
devastating."
All of sudden Lewis suggests, after
eight years of a Democratic majority,
disaster strikes in local government.
Now, I have had my disagreements with
each and every one, in both the majority
and minority parties over the years, but I
have yet to find an alleged change in
politics and philosophy was devastating,
as Lewis contends in her post-mortem
remarks.
The facts are that voters chose Dom
broski and Wiser for more reasons than
the 1-2-3 team approach, so capably
explained by Dombroski in the same
edition.
Candidates Lewis and Deeslie talked
"Community Cosmetics" and little else.
Candidates Dombroski and Wiser are
long-term residents, have supported the
efforts of countless planning profession
als and lay people for years in the com
munity planning effort.
My purpose in this post-mortem, which
I find somewhat distasteful, is to respond
to the unfair assumption of both candi
dates Lewis and Deeslie. Moreover, I
break my resolution of earlier election
years to assure the community that the
newcomers, together with Councilman
Fred Honsberger and Joseph Wakeley
may look, talk and act' differently than
others who have opposed them, but they
are nonetheless dedicated to meet the
new challenges facing this government.
The talents that Dombroski and Wiser
have are in short supply now.
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Nov. 6
the room shaking hands, posing for pictures and talking
with scribes from even the smallest college newspa
pers. In long, somewhat verbose sentences he'd tell you
all you wanted to. know.
He'd tell you that this was the first championship fight
held in Pittsburgh in three decades. He'd tell you that he
was "humbled to be in a . city with such a great tradition
of championship teams." He'd tell you that Larry
Holmes was the greatest heavyweight champion ever.
He'd tell you that the champ, in taking this fight, was
risking a $3O million §crap next year with Gerry Cooney.
Don King would tell you all about that $3O million
dollar bout in Vegas. He's promoting that one too. The
gig in Pittsburgh was just a warmup.
Maybe in this age a man with his hair combed straight
up who can successfully peddle a worthless boxing
match is to be respected. I don't know. I do know that
Don King also promoted the Holmes/Ali "fight." That
one brought in $ll million.
Then is King a new breed of hero? I'll never forget
what he told a Washington Pbst reporter:, "I wear my
hair like this here because it's an indication of my
uncontrollability. It's an indiCation of my blackness and
my wildness, so this is a wild nigger, when you deal with
me, so you have to deal with me on business principles,
not the color of my skin or what I represent because I'm
not one of the conventions or norms where I'm gonna
have my hair'cut or my shoes shined and I'm gonna
stand at attention and go to scratching when you talk to
me. You understand what I mean? I'm gonna deal with
you on what the issues are at hand. You put in what you
have on the table, I put in what I have on the table, we
extricate what is mutually advantageous to both of us,
and we both must go to the bank."
After I had a few more drinks and picked up a
complimentary $2OO ringside ticket-to the fight, I shook
Don King's hand. I guess he"d say that the meeting was
mutually advantageous for both of us.
Joe Gow is a•lOth-term journalism major and columnist
for The Daily Collegian.
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Already anticipating
a distant reunion
It'll be a bar, or better yet, a
lounge. Yes, that's it. A plush, dimly
lit room with candles flickering un
der glass and cocktail waitresses
moving about silently. His suit will
be oft gray flannel, the kind that
always looks pressed and has those
thin pinstripes lending it an air of
sophistication. My jacket will be of
tweed, the kind that is fraying in my
closet right now.
Certainly the conversation will
touch on interest rates and tax shel
ters, not to mention the current
administration and its effect on so
cial problems. But invariably, it will
move into that tight little circle that
only he and I know. We'll dredge our
memories, we'll trade stories, we'll
laugh hysterically and then we'll
just shake our heads and smile.
Damn, it's good to see you again.
He hasn't left yet. The ceremony
that will reward him for three-and-a
half years of concentrated study
then wisk him off into the world he
has carefully prepared himself for
is more than a week away.
But already I'm thinking about
what it will be like somewhere off in
the future when we get together
again. What type of, yardstick will
we use to measure our post-college
days? How accurate will our predic
tions about ourselves and each other
have been?
It has never occurred to me that
this reunion may never take place.
And it's nothing we've discussed.
There is no need. Surely we are
headed in different directions, into
different fields and different life
styles, but we have left an indelible
imprint on each other's lives that
neither time nor space can erase.
The initial Penn State experience
is an awesome one. Your first day
here, your name is replaced with a
number. You are assigned to a huge,
looming dorm complex. For some,
your first classes have more people
in them than your entire high school
did. You wander around wondering
when, if ever, you'll be able to get
around campus without asking di
rections. And also, how you'll man
age to wade through that never
ending sea of faces to find that one
special friend. ' .
Somehow, it happens. All of it. The
size of the campus shrinks rapidly
once you get the system down. And
miraculously, you find that friend,
too. He could live in Sproul Hall, or
she could live in Shulze, but wherev
er you live, that's, where you'll find
them.
And so it was with my friend. It
took some looking. It took some
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patience. It took a handful of bad
experiences to distinguish the caring
friends from the careless ones. And
it took a little faith in the distance.
But for whatever reason, something
. clicked and we subconsciously de
cided to 'spend the next 10 terms'
influencing each other's values,
morals and daily decisions.
At the outset, we were simply a
couple of kids closer to our high
school glory days than the academic
environment we were caught up in.
What wasn't fun was at least funny
and we certainly, spent more time
giggling than actually thinking
about anything. Gradually, though,
we were growing up.
As we began to.narrow our focus in
on our own chosen directions, we
branched out, gathering new
friends, more experiences, further
insight. Yet it all circled back into
our lives as we used this time away
from each other to build on our
friendship once we got together
again.
The indelible imprint. Without
ever approaching the stage of be
coming mirror images our ideals
are much too different for that we
simply selected the aspects of each
other's personality that suited us
best and gradually traded them off.
I may never understand 'why he
pledged a fraternity or why he
chews tobacco, but I know why he's
headed for the business world and
why he'll be successful. This knowl
edge about a person cannot be
learned in a 30-minute interview.
You have to suffer through a trauma
or two. You have to have more than
a few all-night discussions about life
in general when you both have ex
ams in the morning. You have to
give time to time.
But that time is slipping away
now. Our days in college are as
evanescent as the words we speak.
No sooner do they roll off our tongue
then do they flash and fizzle, leaVing
only the memory of their sound.
Although they cannot be recaptured,
the truly special sounds can be
played over and over again in our
minds. They leave an indelible im
print.
In a week, I'll be off in Canada for
some of the term break only to
return to the routine that has been
my life the last three years. At the
same time, my friend will be start
ing a new routine. That soon will
become his life, thus putting more
and more space between the life and
routine he is leaving behind in State
College.
But in that dimly lit lounge some
where off in the future, nothing will
have changed. It'll seem•like yester
day. It'll seem like we never left this
place to begin with. And we'll just sit
there and dredge our memories,
trade stories and laugh hysterically.
Damn, it's good to see you again.
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=--reader opinion
End of world?
Americans do not lack the knowledge
of the consequences of a nuclear war, at
least not an all-out "end of the world"
war. Paul McGuirk (Nov. 10) seems
surprised about the reactions to Haig's .
comments about a limited nuclear war.
The fact is, a limited nuclear war is a
new idea to the public. The salespersons
for the Pentagon and the arms peddlers
sold us nuclear weapons, along with the
paranoia that goes with them. Our lead
ers told us not to worry about the number
of bombs around, but only about whether
the race was balanced or not. We were
told that this stockpile of bombs would
never be used, as the missiles were
simply deterrents according to, the; Mu
tually Assured Destruction principle.
However, Reagan has stated several
times; reaffirmed again last night, that
he envisions situations where nuclear
weapons might actually be used. One of
these situations, Haig inadvertantly sug
gested, might be in .
,a limited nuclear war
in Europe. What giVes us the right to use
Europe as our battleground? By putting
missiles in Europe, are U.S. strategists
trying to draw fire away from American
soil? While some • NATO leaders may
want missiles, the inhabitants of those
countries don't. Europeans are incensed
over the nucelar missle-rattling of the
United States, as shown by the million or
so demonstrators in the streets. These
are Europeans protesting, not anti-
American countries. This is not out of
ignorance of the nuclear issue. They
realize what a nuclear war confined to
Europe means. It means economic and
social collapse. Bluntly, it means a lot of
dead Europeans. Are we as Americans
that willing to pawn off our most loyal
allies and, for many, relatives?
Our leaders are making decisions that
affect our lives in the most profound and
distressing ways. Some examples of pro
posals are: 1) a doubling of the war
budget by 1984, from $162 to $304 billion;
2) new, expensive toys, such as the B 1
and MX missile delivery systems; 3) the
Neutron Bomb a "tactical" nuclear
weapon that destroys humans, but not
house porches; 4) nuclear warning shots
the U.S. is the only nation that has ever
used nuclear weapons in war; everyone
knows they work and that we are willing
to use them; 5) limited nuclear wars, for
instance, confined to Europe; 6) surviva
ble military targets, resulting in only 20
million American citizens dying.
Paul McGuirk suggest that " . . . we
must learn to live with it ( the bomb)."
We find that attitude totally unaccepta
ble, We are not ignorant of the nuclear
arms situation, nor are we passive and
indifferent. It is time to say ENOUGH
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I first attended the University in 1967
and graduated in 1971. In the 14 years
that I have closely watched the Penn
State Football Program, I have come to
one inescapable conclusion. It is time for
Penn State to get a new coach. For years
I have acted irately at any suggestion
that Joe could not win the big one. It has
become painfully clear to me now that
the critics are correct. Penn State has
lost to teams over the past few years that
had no right to be on the same field as
they. This year's team is probably one of
the finest collection of athletes that the
football program has yet seen.
It is time for the Penn State Athletic
Department to find a coach who appre
ciates the fact that a good offense wins
the game. It is time for the Athletic
Department to find a coach who under
stands that there is more to the game
than the development of linebackers.
I have lost any and all regard that I
once had for Joe Paterno's coaching
ability. Penn State can never hope to be
number one without good coaching.
Joseph C. Korsak, Class of '7l
Nov. 5
ose your appetite for slaughtered turkey meat
BY• SUSAN PALUMBO
('l►icf Editor, Our World
Trans Species Unlimited
As autumn slips into winter, we, Americans pre
pare a celebration of one of our favorite holidays:
'Thanksgiving. This day is set aside for us to show
thanks for the food we have to eat, for the people we
love and for the strength we have to strive for
happiness and 'comfort. •
The tradition of Thanksgiving is a celebration of
another year's conquest of life's hardships. Yearly,
we gather with our families and friends before a
table filled with potatoes, cranberries, turkey,
pumpkin pie. and other specialties of the season.
Warm feelings and delicious food fill the day.
However, along with this valuable tradition, some-
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No Thanksgiving for
Chakhcharan, Afghanistan, June 9
The boy's spindly body sank slowly to the
dusty gravel road. He lowered his head to
the pebbles, resting his sunken cheek on
his hand. His dry, cracked lips did not
close. He tried to cover his feet, but the
torn, dirt-encrusted rags he wore were
not long enough. He placed an empty tin
can, his only possession, near his stom
ach. And then he started to cry.'
James P. Sterba, The New York Times,
My dad always told me that some day I
would find out. Some day,• he said, I
would see how "other" people lived —the
ones who had nothing to eat, the ones who
didn't blow their hair dry every morning
and the ones who didn't have the opportu
nity to hate their eighth-grade algebra
teacher.
He told me there are people the
United States and other parts of the
world who don't know what candy or
pizza is, who wear the same pair of shoes
(whether they fit or not) for four years.
"Dina,"• he pounded into my brain,
"you should thank God for what we've
got."
thing very ugly is happening right now and has been
happening all year long, and the special guest is the
victim. This guest is our featured attraction: the
Thanksgiving turkey. P-.
We spend time and ; ;,Noosing the biggest
and juiciest turkey we can find, for on Thanksgiv
ing, the dressed bird is the centerpiece. We savor
the taste of the meat, butnot many of us are aware
of where the bird came from before it appeared in
the supermarket or under what conditions the
turkey spent its life. • •
With few exceptions, we buy our Thanksgiving
turkeys in the• local grocery 'store or meat market.
The birds. are products of. factory farms. They were
never free creatures living in the wilderness.
Most of us have heard about the lifestyle of
factory farm chicken: These stories hold true for
turkeys as well. Jammed .quarters, inadequate
ventilation, and insect
. infestation are some of the
specialties of the factory .farm sheds used to house
turkeys. They never see, the light of day;
,instead
they are kept in near, darkness in order to reduce
activity. They are On a ; controlled, often unbalanced
diet designed for quality of the meat rather than
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When I visited Italy and France a year
. ago, I did not see examples of extreme
poverty things you would expect to see
on a trip to India or Africa but I began
- to understand what my father meant.
I almost cried when I saw blind and
disfigured people begging in the steets
and I got nauseated after smelling the
stench of a lady who could only bathe
once a week.
After arriving home, obscure articles
containing facts about the world's poor
suddenly began to capture my attention.
June 16, 1972
The World Bank estimates that some
800 million people live in absolute pover
ty.
In the slums of Santiago, Chile, people
live in huts of cornstalk plastered with
mud.
In Bombay, more than 300,1100 people
sleep outdoors.,
I read that about 1 billion people one
fourth of the world's population suffer
from chronic hunger and malnutrition.
h '. a lib
In some third-world countries there is
only one doctor for every 50,000 people.
The life expectancy in developing
countries is 56 years; in the industri
alized nations, 72. One in 10 infants in the
developing world dies before its first
birthday; in the industrial world, only
one in 50 dies.
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I don't understand all the statistics, the
suffering and the contrast in the way the
world's people live.
What about the little, starving kids who
who eat the dirt they walk on and the
women who watch their babies die be
' cause they are too skinny to breast-feed
800 million 'others'
proper nutrition, and because of overcrowding,
there is a lack of feeding space.
Like chickens, due to . these stressful conditions,
turkeys are known to have outbursts of feather
pecking and cannibalism. Since they have no natu
ral outlet for their energy, they become unusually
nervous and may kill each other.
Unnatural conditions are the cause of these
dreadful outburstg, but rather than improve the
conditions. which would cost money, the poultry
men make the environment worse by keeping the
sheds even darker so that the birds will remain
calm.
The poultrymen add further control of the out
bursts by de-beaking young birds. Part of the
turkey's beak is cut off by a guillotine-like device or
by a hot knife. Poultrymen claim that this operation
is painless; however, studies done by an expert
British government committee headed by zoologist
Professor F. W. Rogers Bramwell show that tur
keys have a highly sensitive tissue in their beaks,
much like the kind under our fingernails. When this
tissue is cut during the de-beaking, the bird suffers
from extreme pain.
their own kids? Who is taking care of
those people? Why do I have so much and
that little crying boy has nothing?
It just doesn't seem fair. What can we
do to help? I don't know who has the
answer.
But I do know that in a couple of weeks,
our country will celebrate Thanksgiving.
I don't have to tell you about all the food
you'll have to eat and the fun you'll have
watching football and drinking a few
beers.
For 800 million people, however, Nov.
26 will be just another day of hunger
pangs and nothing to do. They don't have
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much to be thankful for
As I shovel an oversized piece of pump
kin pie (with whipped topping, of course)
in my Mouth, I will think about my
European tour, what my father tried so
hard to tell me and how foolish I was not
to believe him.,
But my father was gone when I came
home from Europe. I never got the
chance to tell him he was a very smart
man.
Dina peFabo is a 4th-term liberal arts
major and senior reporter covering ad
ministration for The Daily Collegian.
From the moment they are born until the time
they are to he butchered, turkeys live packed
together in the sheds. The sole purpose for their
existence in such conditions is profit. And the profits
come pouring in as we all prepare for Thanksgiving.:
We buy the turkeys, and therefore we support how
they are forced to live.
Doesn't this suffering behind the celebration of
Thanksgiving take away from the tradition? The
intentions of the holiday are wonderful, but is it
quite as wonderful
. when we realize how deprived
the turkeys are of a natural existence'? The holi
day's special attraction is forced to live a tormented
life so that we can satisfy our tastebuds. Maybe we
should think about that.
Thanksgiving dinner is possible without turkey.
perhaps even more interesting and exciting. A
splendid meal is being prepared for an Alternative.
Thanksgiving dinner by Trans Species Unlimited. It
will be served at the Wesley Foundation, 25G E:
College Ave., on Sunday, Nov. 15. Tickets are
available at the New Morning Store, Dandelion
Market, Our Store Co-op, and the Eco-action table
in the basement of the IIUB.
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