Martial
imposed
by Polish government
By THOMAS W. NETTER
Associated Press Writer
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland’s
new martial law regime flew
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, to
Warsaw yesterday for talks aimed at
heading off a nationwide strike urged
by union militants defying
proclamations of a state of
emergency.
Authorities announced that anyone
in the army or government service
who refused to obey orders would be
subject to penalties of from two years
in prison up to death. The independent
union Solidarity was officially
suspended, but some activists called
for a nationwide strike, defying the
proclamation of a state of emergency .
and martial law.
Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the
Roman Catholic primate of Poland,
pleaded with the nation in a broadcast
sermon to remain peaceful and not
“give your lives away.’’
Martial rule was imposed early
yesterday after Solidarity called for a
nationwide vote on whether to retain
communism. Authorities were
reported to have interned —held in
isolation or under house arrest
without charge an estimated 1,000
people around the country.
The new military council
announced that all but religious
meetings were banned, the right to
strike or protest suspended, sale of
gasoline prohibited and unofficial
distribution of information outlawed.
All normal communications in the
country were cut, and the nation’s
borders were sealed.
The state-run news media reported
about 200 demonstrators at the
Solidarity building in the capital were
inside
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Cloudy with snow developing during the afternoon.
High temperatures near 30. Snow occasionally mixed
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The hunt is
By DINA DEFABO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
While the search for a new University president has
stepped into full swing, the chairman of the Presidential
Search and Screen Committee is calling for strong, active
University-wide participation in the search as well. 1
“We intend to conduct the widest possible search, and we
strongly urge everyone interested in Penn State to submit
names of candidates,” said Robert S. Friedman, professor
of political science.
“We’re looking for general views on the presidency
what qualities people think the new president should have
and so forth,” he said. “We’re also looking for specific
candidates’ names as well.”
The 15-member search and screen committee was
established following an announcement in July that John W.
Oswald, president of the University for the past 11 years,
will retire on June 30,1983.
Friedman said the search and screen committee,
composed of faculty and staff members, students and
aiumni, recently submitted an advertisement publicizing
the available position to national publications including The
Chronicle of Higher Education, The Wall Street Journal and
the
daily
law
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dispersed with fire hoses. It was the
only reported street agitation in the
otherwise apparently calm city.
Government spokesman Jerzy
Urban told foreign reporters that v
Walesa was “being treated with all
due respect. He is considered the head
of Solidarity and Solidarity’s
activities have only been suspended.”
Officials said Walesa was flown to
Local opinions of Solidarity, government action vary
By ANNE CONNERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Although the Soviet Union may be : behind the
crackdown on Solidarity, Soviet troops will not
invade Polish soil, a University professor said
yesterday.
“The Russians may have sent a signal
directly or indirectly to (Polish Premier
Wojciech) Jaruzelski saying, ‘Clean up your own
house or we’ll clean it up for you,’ ” said Vernon
Aspaturian, Evan Pugh professor of political
science.
However,' the Soviets have too many economic
and political problems of their own to become
embroiled in a bitter conflict with a Warsaw pact
ally, Sigmund Birkenmayer, professor of Slavic
languages, said.
“The Soviet Union would not invade because it
would not be in its best interest,” Birkenmayer
said. “The Poles hate the Russians and no
amount of propaganda would change this.
“The Soviet Union doesn’t want to see its own
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Collegian
on for a new University president
The New York Times
The advertisement, which defines the University as
“Pennsylvania’s land-grant university dedicated to
providing comprehensive programs in instructions,
research and public service,” states that nominees for the
position should have “familiarity with the diverse missions
of a comprehensive undergraduate, graduate and research
institution.”
' In addition to the advertisement, the committee, whose
duty is to publicize the search and receive and evaluate
applications, has also sent letters requesting input to
administrators of other universities and colleges and to
members of educational societies.
Friedman said it is also important that the committee
contacts knowledgable people outside of the educational
realm.
“Quentin Wood (president of the Board of Trustees and of
the trustee committee) is getting in touch with people in the
corporate world,” he said. “We are considering the political
world, not excluding nominations from government and
industry of appropriate people.
“We are making a special effort to get people in
Pennsylvania ones who know a lot about Penn State
Warsaw from Gdansk hours after
martial law was declared early
yesterday.
Late yesterday there was no report
of the outcome of the talks with
Walesa. Warsaw Radio reported that
Cabinet members met to evaluate the
situation. The broadcast said
“principles for work of the
government have been defined as well
as the most urgent tasks resulting
from the present, extraordinary
situation.”
The East German news agency
ADN quoted Urban as saying at the
news conference that Walesa was
among the Solidarity leaders
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soliders being shot by Polish soliders,'’’ he said.
Although the Polish government’s ultimate
goal is probably to crush Solidarity, world
pressure could save the independant trade union,
Birkenmayer said. ,
“Simply threatening Poland with invasion.is
an act of aggression,” he said. “There should be
. some kind of firmness in U.S. policy toward
Russia.”
American students could pressure legislators
to support Solidarity, said Ralph Reed, national
projects director of the College Republicans
national committee, which has organized a
petition supporting the Polish workers
moyement.
“We have the capabilities at this point to let
our representatives, president, congressmen
and, really, the whole world know that we’re not
going to let this (elimination of Solidarity)
happen without some action being taken on our
. part- '
“The’Polish government won'f be allowed to
In this first photo available from Poland since the government imposed martial law this weekend, Polish troops surround a
building in which Solidarity was meeting in Warsaw. The Polish government has detained some union leaders and seized
their headquarters.
involved in the search.”
Daniel M. Bollag, undergraduate member of the search
and screen committee and Colloquy president, said the
committee must have input from everyone at the University
in order to make an intelligent decision reflecting the
concerns of'the entire community.
“Everyone on the committee has their general ideas
about what qualities the next president should have, and no
one is right and no one is wrong,” Bollag said. “The best
way to do a good job in selecting the next president is to get a
lot of input.
“We can only make as informed a decision as the people
are willing to give us, to tell us what they feel,” he said.
The deadline for applications to be submitted is March 15,
Friedman said.
In May 1982, the search and screen committee will submit
a list of five to 10 candidates to the Trustee Presidential
Selection Committee, which is composed of eight members
of the University Board of Trustees.
The trustees’ committee will then recommend one final
presidential candidate to the full Board of Trustees in
November 1982.
Although the search and screen committee will evaluate
function if we urge our government and the
entire world to stand behind Solidarity,” he said.
Reed said the committee was going to try and
collect a million petition signatures and prepare
to “blitz the country again.”
Nationwide, about 200,000 people have signed
petitions that support the Polish workers
movement; locally, the University chapter of
College Republicans has collected 5,000
signatures.
“We will take steps to see that this issue is not
forgotten,” he said. “We don’t want another
Czechoslovakia or Hungary.”
Frontlash, a student affiliate of the AFL-CIO,
will begin selling T-shirts, buttons and bumper
stickers from 9:35 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. today
through Friday, in the ground floor of the HUB, a
Frontlash member said. All money earned from
the sale will be sent to the Polish Workers’ Aid
Fund, Joe Cionzynski, said.
Cionzynski said he was counting on public
Calendar change
be discussed
HUB today
By ROSA EBERLY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
For this year’s freshmen and
sophomores at the University,
ignorance won’t be bliss after fall
1983.
In an attempt to encounter
questions about the planned switch
to semesters in 1983, two members
of the University’s Calendar
Conversion Council will be in the
HUB main lounge from noon to 1
p.m. today.
Chris Hopwood, president of the
Undergraduate Student
Government’s Academic Assembly,
and James R. Dungan, special
assistant to the director of the Office
of Planning and Budget, will give
introductory remarks and then
accept questions from the audience,
Hopwood said the program is
intended “to create awareness in
current freshmen and sophomores
. . . that the University is changing
its calendar, and it will affect
them.”
The sole student on the conversion
council, Hopwood said he wants to
know what questions other students
nominations and submit a list of candidates deemed most
qualified, it is possible that the selection committee
committee will reject all nominations on the list.
Should this happen, the search and screen committee
would “go back to the drawing board and give them a new
name,” Friedman said, noting that the trlistee committee
would not select a candidate who had not previously been
recommended and approved by tbe search and screen
committee.
Friedman said the search and screen committee has
received between 50 and 75 presidential nominations so far
and that he is pleased with the response from people both
inside and outside the University community.
“I am quite amazed at the phone calls I am getting and
the number of people who are stopping me and giving me
names,” he said.
Freidman said people wishing to nominate an individual
should do so, and not worry about whether the nominee will
be available for the position.
“At this stage in the search, people should not assume that
an individual is available or not available we will deal
with that later,” he said.
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pressure to keep Solidarity alive.
“If anything more severe happened, I don’t
think the rest of the world will sit by and do
nothing,” he said.
Aspaturian said the Polish government’s
crack down on Solidarity was probably a last
resort.
“To put it in the proper perspective, we have to
view it as a desperate action on the part of the
government to arrest deteriorating conditions in
Poland,” he said. Jaruzelski was forced to act
decisively to prevent the Soviets from invading,
Aspaturian said: “Jaruzelski had to show they
had the situation in hand.”
If the present situation is not worked out
peacefully, civil war could break out in Poland,
he said.
But before any negotiations can begin,
Solidarity has to convince the Communists that
they can control their radical members, he said.
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have in case he is overlooking
possible problems.
And he said it is important that
students begin to understand now
what the conversion will mean in
two years.
“I don’t want that kind of culture
shock (in 1983),” he said.
Hopwood said he thinks most of
the communication about the
calendar switch is going on between
administrators only. With programs
like today’s, students will have the
opportunity to start talking about
the switch, he said.
“I want the students to start
communicating themselves,”
Hopwood said.
After students know some facts
about the switch, they will be better
informed to call administrators and
faculty members with
recommendations about the switch,
he said.
Just as the administration and
faculty need student input, students
need the information about the
calendar change that only members
of the administration have,
Hopwood said.