,~p.~ ~~:e}. • "0. +±? . Skt.. • • • • . • • • ) Ytl4 i ., ••,',;;;."- rhCe3.101.4:". • . • • , • • ' • • • ';'.44:),16 . •••••••.' • • • " State Reps. Gregg L. Cunningham, R-Centre County, left,tand Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, discuss their abortion restricting bill during debate this afternoon. State House votes restrictive abortion By TIM PETTIT. Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG (AP) The House voted late yesterday for legislation that would restrict many women's access to abortions in Pennsylvania. - _ After more than 12 hours of heated debate, the House voted 131-62 for a bill that opponents say would make Pennsylvania the toughest state in the nation in which to get an abortion. The abortion language was amended into a Senate-passed bill that was sent directly to the Senate Happy Birthday A box of gold golf balls evoke a chuckle from President Reagan and House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., D-Mass. The golf balls were a gift from the president on the occasion of O'Neill's birthday yesterday. Please see related story, Page 9. .i' • Panelponders philo hi es education • By ROSA EBERLY . "I know there are students who come to the greatest risks we face are from others courses that the three panel members agreed Daily Collegian Staff Writer college to have a good time .. . it's a lot better around us." could be more effective. Their purpose seemed pointed enough. than working Btos at some job." , Students need more than practical "(Basic Degree Requirements) don't always A three-member panel gathered Monday night However, Paulson said, "there are more understanding —. they need understanding of do what we want them to do," Osborn said. "If to discuss the quality of education at Penn State. students who come to Penn State today to get human nature and other cultures, he said. students were required to take a language they But after the discussion began, the panel and training for a job than for any other reason." The faculty should be a vehicle of that more wouldn't say, `l'm taking a language,' they'd the audience showed that philosophies of But 10 years ago, studies show that students obtuse knowledge; said Caroline D. Eckhardt, say, 'l'm being forced to take a language.' " education are by definition complex. The who had chosen to attend the University had in associate professor of English composition. In Paulson said that the instructor's attitude complexity grows in part from the conflict mind the acquisition of a philosophy of life rather addition to disseminating technical or specific along with the students' attitudes could between skills-oriented minds and liberal arts- than a technical skill, Paulson said. information, University faculty have the decrease the effectiveness of a basic degree oriented minds. Paulson said he wonders if mastering a field of "responsibility for helping students to get from requirement course. Besides the three panelists, an audience of 13 technology suffices for a college education. here to there." . "All a faculty member may do is say 'This is contributed to the discussion, sponsored by the "The question of concentration on the singular The multi-faceted responsibility of college the second course of astronomy and we will Forum for Free Religious Thought. goal of work capacities .. . may be a mistake," faculty includes more than practical skills cover this area' and never say 'What is it about , To begin, panelist Steve Osborn (graduate- he said. , instruction. astronomy that is a different way of examining . business administration) asked how the Rather, he said, the goal of the-University "Beyond that," she said, "a more subtle but the universe from what a novelist uses?' University can get skills-oriented students should be to allow students "to acquire more important responsibility is to .. . make "Might it be too much for a philosophy interested and involved in a liberal education. intellectual and social competence." someone who says 'I want to be an engineer,' see professor to say the way he looks at scientific An engineering graduate of the University, Practical education often misses the mark in what it means to say 'I want to be an engineer.' " knowledge differs from the way a scientist Osborn said a liberal education is "something the long run, he said, because "by and large the In addition, faculty members should unsettle does?" Paulson asked. ' that I feel that I've kind of missed out on." preparation (received at college) is for the first things, and force students to "look at the roads However, Osborn said that goal cannot be Osborn said it is difficult to get students job." People often change jobs, and, because not taken." College should give students the accomplished in one shot. "It can't be 15 minutes interested in a liberal education if they are skills many skills can be learned after graduation chance to explore things they don't want to do of the first lecture the first day. It has to be 15 oriented. . once a person is on the job "the long-range "to make sure their (career) decision Is more minutes every day." "It's the University that isn't pushing its investment may not be as good as it should be." informed," Eckhardt said. students to be involved in that way," he said. Only 20 percent of life is spent on the job, Another responsibility of the faculty —one that Instead, he said, a professor could say, " 'As we learn these new things let's go back and Stanley F. Paulson, dean of the College of The Paulson said, and a strictly technical education "might be the one that the faculty does least Liberal Arts and also a panel member, said that may not deal with other areas. . well" —is to act as role models in the reflect on how this applies.' although students attend college for a diversity Intellectual and social competence should community, Eckhardt said. "On the other hand, I don't think the professor of reasons, Penn State is seen as a place to teach students how to make decisions on the To offer a more general education, the can stop every day and say 'Why do I look at acquire practical knowledge. basis of ethics, Paulson said, because "some of University offers basic degree requirements, (things) , differently?" Paulson said. the daily , , , ;r7, MEM floor a strategy supporters say is necessary to avoid having Senate leaders bury the bill in committee. Earlier, the House reversed a previous decision and voted 100-93 to reject an amendnient that would have allowed the voters to decide whether the Abortion Control Act should take effect. The bill would make it harder to get an abortion by requiring: • A 24-hour waiting period before an abortion. Counseling would have to be provided, pointing out the physical olle•iari -62 131 legislation and emotional risks of abortion. • A female minor to get one parent's consent for an'abortion. • Doctors to use an abortion technique most likely to result in a live birth when a well-developed fetus is aborted. A second doctor must be present to save the life of a newborn child. a That no abortions be performed in public hospitals and clinics unless the woman's life is endangered or pregnancy results from rape or incest. AP Laser. for ::., A Reagan Christmas gift Fired air controllers may apply for other government jobs By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, citing a "tradition that individuals deserve to be treated with compassion," opened the door yesterday for 11,500 fired air traffic controllers to again seek federal jobs but not in the flight towers. "I do not believe that those who forefeited their jobs as controllers should be foreclosed from other federal employment," Reagan said as he lifted , * three-year federal hiring ban against the controller,s, who launched an illegal strike last August. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis , told reporters that none of the dismissed 11,500 individuals would be accepted, at the Federal Aviation Administration, where they previously worked. He acknowledged that some of the fired workers eventually might work as military controllers. The FAA has picked up some of the slack in its depleted workforce by borrowing from the military. Federal personnel officers said the former controllers' job applications would receive the same treatment as those of any other person, but pension and other benefits would be carried over from the time they went on strike. Because of employee reductions across much of the federal government, there was a question, however, as to how many jobs would be available especially at the $22,500 to $49,800 a year pay levels the controllers once commanded at the FAA. Donald Devine, director ofrthe Office of Personnel Management, said that many of the former controllers might be hired by the Defense Department, where 20,000 additional civilian jobs are expected to open. But there are few federal jobs available elsewhere. The normal government attrition rate of about 10 percent outside the Defense Department and Postal Service has been largely countered by Reagan's budget cuts, acknowledged John Scholzen, a spokesman at the Office of Personnel Management. The fired controllers "will be treated essentially the "Ifirj! 20° Thursday Dec. 10, 1981 Vol. 82, No. 87 20 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University Drew Lewis same as any other employee that left federal service" when their applications are considered, Devine told reporters. But he said each applicant will be given a background check and those found to have intimidated working controllers or coerced others to strike "would not determined suitable." Reagan's decision to waive the regulations that bar federal employment for up to three years to anyone who engages in an illegal strike against the government came a week after labor leaders urged him Lo show compassion toward the fired.controllers. At the meeting Reagan said he would review the matter, but wanted to wait until Lewis returned from Japan. But most labor unions had sought to get the fired controllers back to directing air traffic. Constantine slips to poor condition By BRIAN E. BOWERS Daily Collegian Staff Writer Norman Constantine, former Nittany Lion mascot, slipped back from stable condition into poor condition, a spokeswoman for the University of Pennsylvania Hospital said yesterday. Earlier yesterday, the phone-a thon benefiting Constantine, who is in the hospital as the result of an October automobile accident, was cancelled, said Mary Beth Johnstone, the coordinator for the fund-raiser. The phone-a-thon, scheduled for Dec. 14 to 17, was cancelled because Constantine's lawyer said Constantine's insurance would cover bills from the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Johnstone said. Constantine's insurance covers emergency care and primary hospitalization, so there was some doubt as to whether it would cover his stay at the university's hospital the second hospital he has been in since the accident, Johnstone said. "They are 99 percent sure it will cover it," she said. The Norman Constantine Fund was set up to help cover his bills if the insurance would not, she said. Constantine's no-fault automobile insurance will cover what the health insurance does not. Also, the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Philadelphia, Constantine's employer, will organize some fund raising drives for his benefit and will put the received money in a trust fund. Constantine, Nittany Lion mascot from 1978 to 1980, is "pretty well taken care of for the next few years," Johnstone said. Raymond 0. Murphy, vice president for student affairs, said that money contributed to the Norman Constantine Fund will be returned to the contributors. When the money is returned, a note will also be sent, which says the money may be recontributed to a scholarship fund sponsored by Delta Chi fraternity to benefit handicapped students. inside • In a "strictly informational picket," local plumbers and pipefit ters have been protesting that non union workers are renovating locker rooms inside Rec Hall Page 4 • Undergraduate Student Gov ernment President Bill Cluck as sessed his performance last night in communicating with his constitu ents: a disappointing "C minus" • Penn State's wrestling team fell to Michigan, 19.17, last night • It's Christmas again, and the holiday season is the theme of today's Collegian Magazine Section 3 weather Variable cloudiness and windy today with occasional snow show ers. High temperature of 28 de grees. Partly cloudy and breezy with flurries tonight. Low temperature of 18. Intervals of clouds and sunshine with the chance of a flurry tomor row.'High temperature of 31. —by Mark Stunder Page 7 Page 11
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