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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.