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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.
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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.
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Panelponders philo hi es education
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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