4—The Daily Collegian Friday, March 26, 1982 West Penn requests 1 6.8% rate. increase By REBECCA CLARK Collegian. Staff Writer ' West Penn Power Co. has requested a 16.8 percent rate increase, amounting to $93 million, from the Public Utilities Commission, the manager for the State College branch of West Penn Power said. ' •Thomas Kearney said if the PUC ap proves, the rate increase will take effect April 27. If the rate increase is approved, an average West Penn customer who does not use electric heat will be billed 18.6 cents more per day, and a customer who uses electric heat will be billed 45.6 cents more per day, Kearney said. The proposed increase, which was filed on Feb. 27, is needed because of the high cost of equipment, inflation, the cost of building power plants, and the cost of contructing pollution control units, Kear ney said. This year, West Penn Power plans to put into service a $7B million power plant. The company has also installed pollution control units this year. "Its time to get the money back from building the power plants," Kearney said. "The rate increase is necessary if we are to continue to provide reliable electrical service." ' West Penn Power is seeking the in crease because the PUC has never grant wl the company the full rate increase amount it has asked for, he said. West "Which diet is right for you?" panel discussion * Nautilus manager * nutrition professor * Ritenour nutrition counselor Saturday, March 27 2:00 p.m. 5209 H Dev sponsored by the S.D.A. R. 253 ROAD THE BOOK OF AMOS -- V - 33 WE WM ...GOD THROUGHOUT THE WEEK WITHOUT FELLOWSHIP! BIBLE STUDY 7:30 PM MONDAY, MARCH 29,1982 EISENHOWER CHAPEL SMALL LOUNGE PRESENTED BY UMPS AND n T ,• • MIDNITE MADNESS Get two tacos for only $1,19 FRIDAY and SATURDAY from 12-2:30 a.m. /ID 131 S. Garner 234-4725 Open Mon-Thurs. 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Fri & Sat 11-2:30 a.m. Sunday 12-12 p.m. Penn Power does expect problems in getting the rate increase approved be cause of previous cuts in proposed in creases, he said. Two years ago, West Penn sought an $B7 million rate increase, but on Jan. 30, 1981 the PUC granted the company only $46 million. Charles Smetak, chief electrical man ager with the PUC Rates Bureau in Harrisburg, said West Penn Power was not granted the full amount requested at that time because during the public hear ing "the testimony the company gave didn't support their claims for a rate increase, so the commission gave them an amount based on the commission's review of the company's records." The commission has not made any decision on the request because the PUC staff is still reviewing the rate increase proposal, he said. "What will probably happen is that the PUC staff will review the rate increase report, then the report will go to the commission for review, " Smetak said. After the'commission receives the re port, the proposal will go on suspension for a seven-month period, set aside for public hearings. After the hearings are held, an administrative judge will rec ommend an opinion on the rate increase, Smetak said. West Penn Power serves about 573,000 customers in 23 southwestern and central Pennsylvania counties, including Centre County. vi Zkz r •0- OF THREE 4414111 - ) A, du_tx.vx..4l a's • _s4tyl - fiearctia Lobrelloby Seymour (Waif blus. by Groyanni 8. P.RIPW.M )11 • %1,1 llt Trial by,Jury d o r y . % .,R)Archy & Alehitabel ',ILION. 1111 \IR! - \lt( II 25.2.6 27 , h %WPM Tiek•ls aa.oo.r i n. PlWouse Offme rassvrio Or Da U.N..5.7 ./SIPIN/ IKAInt LIMPAArAYP ftlf SCHOOL or Md. 16" Researchers may attain professor-rank titles By BRIAN E. BOWERS Collegian Staff Writer University research faculty who make teaching contributions or attain a rank equivalent to professor may soon receive new titles, the vice president for research and graduate studies said. R.G. Cunningham said if his recommendation is approved by the University administration, research faculty would gain professor-rank titles when they have achieved equivalent status. Research faculty now have a separate title system that does not match all the ranks in the professorial system governed by PS-23, the University policy for promotion and tenure. Also, research faculty who make teaching contri butions would receive temporary professorial titles recognizing their work, he said. The recommendation was put before the University Faculty Senate on March 9 as an informational report Protestors oppose war By SCOTT G. OTT Collegian Staff Writer Between 100,000 and 200,000 people from across the country are expected to gather in front of the White House tomor row to protest the war in El Salvador, a spokesman for Friends of Central Ameri can Liberty said yesterday. Chavin Escobar, a spokesman for the State College group, said, "The protest will let the American government know that there is a strong commitment Available at Record Ranch, Record Bar, and Plastic Fantastic i L J among a large number of people to change American policy in regard to Central America." A bus to Washington, D.C., sponsored by FOCAL and the Third World Student Coalition, will leave the University at 7 tomorrow morning and return at about 11:30 p.m.. Bus tickets cost $l5 and will be on sale from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. today in the HUB ground floor. Escobar said protestors, including a group of about 150 from the University, s ~._~..---i 1 1 I Debut Album ff coupon clip 'n save approved by the Senate Committee for Faculty Affairs. M. Frank Mallette, chairman of the committee, said the professor-rank titles would help the Universi ty retain researchers and hire new ones. The faculty supports the new titles, Mallette said. Cunningham said the professor-rank title would be that of "senior scientist —(modifier) research." An example would be 4 /senior scientist acoustics research." "We will now have full matching of the ranks," he said. The title of research scientist would preserve the meaning of the term professor by leaving it only for those who actually teach. However, the second part of the recommendation makes this title available to researchers on a temporary basis, he said. The proposed temporary titles would "recognize active teaching or thesis direction contributions," according to Cunningham's recommendation. Mallette said the title may be given if the research- in El Salvador will rally at Malcolm X Park from 11 a.m. to noon and then march to the White House. Speakers for the event will include congressmen, clergy, SalVadorans and Nicaraguans, Escobar said. This protest comes only one day before El Salvador's - elections that have been denounced by insurgents and supported by the U.S. government. "We want to show the Reagan adminis tration that the majority of Americans don't buy the argument that the elections Alpha Xi Delta Proudly announces its 1982 Quill Man Extended The New MENU PANCAKE COTTAGE Pancakes and Waffles Omelets and egg dishes -- Soup and Salad bar . Steaks, chicken, seafood PANCAKE open daily COTTAGE 6am—lOpm I 805 S. Atherton St. .411 k Next to the Majik Mart 1 0 1 l „, , er will be teaching courses or supervising theses or dissertations. The title would be added on to the researcher's permanent title only during the year he makes the teaching contribution. It would be dropped at the end of that year if such contributions would not be made the next year, the recommendation said. . Many departments benefit greatly from contribu tions by research faculty, especially those in the College of Engineering because of a shortage of faculty, Cunningham said. The policy change would recognize such contribu tions, and is also intended to make teaching more attractive to researchers, he said. The fact that the titles are temporary means they are not governed by PS-23 "leaving no doubt that PS -23 procedures are the only path to a permanent professorial title and the only route to tenure," according to Cunningham's proposal. However, research faculty may progress through the. PS-23 system by starting at the bottom. in El Salvador will solve anything," Escobar said. Among its goals, Escobar said FOCAL wants: • The United States to cut off military aid to the El Salvadoran government. e A negotiated settlement between the El Salvadoran government and the Dem ocratic Revolutionary Front, "to create a truly representative government which the elections will not produce." • The elimination of the El Salvado ran military as a political force. • Self-determination for the people of El Salvador. Rob Consalvo We all love you! it's 3 hotirs of fun IT'S COMMONSPLACE COFFEEHOUSE FRI. MARCH 26 8:00 PM 102 KERN I ® o 0 0 .; • 6 0 0 to 0 -,---....." . TAP ALL COLORS & BLACK PATEN 111111 0 bareff 0.0 t A masterTl blue key card 325 E CALDER WAY • 234 8080 • WEEKNIGHTS TIL 8:30 . ~, -r~.~~ mss. {:~~ ~ # :~3y ~r, William F. Buckley Buckley reviews National Review, By TIMOTHY HARPER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) William F. Buck ley leans back, rolls his eyes and speaks as he so often does with relish. The conversation about the National Review, his conservative journal, is nearly two minutes old and, remarkably, he has not yet mentioned that it is Presi dent Reagan's favorite magazine. Then, on the subject of how the Reagan presidency has changed the magazine, Buckley creates this sentence: "The tone or voice toward the chief executive has got to change if he is somebody whose favorite magazine you are." It was a circuitous route, but Buckley is pleased. His eyes open wide, brightly and briefly, and he licks his lips. Those words, as so many do, taste good in Bill Buckley's mouth. But wider circulation and the assur ance that it is read and revered in the White House have not solved , all the problems of the National Review. As always, it is a shoestring operation in the Silk Stocking District. And as always, Buckley is threatening to close down because of money problems. It is not so far a walk, really, from the area of Manhattan where network and news magazine offices stack up in skys crapers to the East Side apartment house that is home to the National Review. Go down Fifth Avenue to 35th Street, across Madison and Park and Lexington to Number 150. Then, of course, turn right. Entering the reception room is like walking through a door into the Twilight Zone. It is a time warp, as if the clock had AP Laserphoto TO THE BROTHERS OF THETA CHI.. . Thanks for the great social, you hoseheads! But don't "take off" Greek Week is coming! Get Psyched! The Alpha Gams U-154 Reagan's Eighteen thousand new yearly subscriptions —at $26 each will help, especially if most of them renew. But advertising dollars still come hard to opinion journals, even one with a readership that Madison Avenue would regard as enviably "upscale." actually stopped on that day in 1956 when Buckley, then 29, put out the first Nation al Review and said its role was "to stand athwart history, yelling Stop." The floor is cracked linoleum. The furniture is cheap wood and plastic, like the stuff people used when they con verted their bomb shelters into rec rooms. The dull green paint on the walls is cracking, and the plaster under it is cracking, too. Somebody, perhaps the receptionist pulling and plugging at the old-fashioned standup switchboard, has stuffed a paper towel in one crack be neath a window. No matter what the big thinkers upstairs say, that is the draft that matters to her, and she is definitely against it. Upgtairs, the thinkers are working on the next issue of the fortnightly magazine whose circulation of 108,000 up 18,000 since Inauguration Day, 1981 makes it the nation's foremost journal of opinion. But some of the thinkers are talking about the letter Buckley recently sent to subscribers. It went on for five pages, but the gist was this: the magazine is operating at a 20 percent deficit and needs $600,000 in his favorite magazine, faces financial woes donations by April 30 in order to keep publishing. Priscilla Buckley, the managing editor and the editor-in-chief's sister, is not particularly worried, however. "We do this every year," she said, "and We always survive." William Rusher, a longtime Buckley sidekick who operates as publisher and is generally considered the conservative movement's No. 2 spokesman, shrugs off the hoots of derision about a bastion of free enterprise having to go begging. "This is a common way for churches, schools and political parties to raise money," Rusher said, "and we're a little bit of all three." Buckley said the 18,000 new yearly subscriptions at $26 each will help, especially if most of them renew. But advertising dollars still come hard to opinion journals, even one with a read ership that Madison Avenue would re gard as enviably "upscale." The median age is 45, two-thirds have postgraduate degrees, nearly half give public speeches, 87 percent have trav eled outside the United States in the last three years, their average investment portfolio is more than $200,000 and 28 da%Collegian CONTACT LENSES SOFT $9B HARD $65 INCLUDES: • EXAMINATION • CONTACT LENSES o ACCESSORIES s 50% 60-DAY SATISFACTION WARRANTY DR. ANDREW BLENDER OPTOMETRIST 242 Calder Way 234-1515 journal's pasl Wake up with The Daily Collegian Friday, March 26, 1982- percent buy wine by the case. So the National Review continual looks for new sources of money, atm with new targets to write about. With president to kick around like Kennedy Johnson or Carter, or even Nixon Ford, the targets are lower. Not only is the National Review Rona! Reagan's favorite magazine, but Ronal Reagan is the National Review's pol titian. "After all, their specialty is pointin out that the emperor has no clothes, Henry Allen wrote in the Washingto Post after Reagan's election. "No , they've got their own emperor." Buckley and Rusher agree, sort a Rusher even uses the term "mellower to describe the magazine that has alway been associated with acerbic wit. . It is that kind of wit that led th National Review, when the America Academy of Dermatology and Syphilolc gy dropped the last two words of its HUE to observe, "skinicism is only sin deep.' But that kind of shameless punning i rarer now that the National Review ha: the solemn job of running a nation, al though there is still occasional waspish ness like calling Dick Cavett "the Adla Stevenson of television." "I hate to think we're becoming estab lishmentarian," Rusher said. "But per haps that's less a function of winning than of age." Buckley, however, points out that th( magazine has expressed misgiving: about Reaganomics, and has been flatb critical of the president's position or Poland. "We will continue to evaluate and state the paradigm," Buckley said.
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