Fraternity party donations questioned
By LORI MUSSER
Collegian Staff Writer
Several fraternities have accepted donations at recent
parties despite Interfraternity Council and the
Pennsylvania Liquor Control BoaM rules that prohibit
fraternities from taking any money except for
philanthropies.
According to IFC President Adam Levinson,
fraternities who accept donations for parties could be
subject to a fine in excess of $3OO.
“It is a statute of the commonwealth that unless you
have a liquor license you cannot charge admission or
take donations at a fraternity party,” said Melvyn Klein,
director of Student Activities.
Levinson,said the IFC is “100 percent against
fraternities charging admission to parties. It is illegal
according to the LCB and Penn State laws: Fraternities
can only offer beer to people as guests of the house.”
Levinson said he Was under the impression that as long
as the donations are voluntary, fraternities could accept
money.
“But,” Levinson said, “it is illegal and there’s no
loophole; no way around this rule. Fraternities cannot
sell cups at parties either.”
Craig Tate, former member of the IFC Board of
Va. mine explosion kills 7, injures 3
By TOM EBLEN
Associated Press Writer
McCLURE, Va. The bodies of
seven coal miners, including a
woman and a foreman three days
from retirement, were pulled from
a 460-foot-deep mine shaft
yesterday after an explosion that
marked Virginia’s worst mine
accident in 25 years.
Three other miners were'injured
in the explosion at Clinchfield Coal
Co.’s.McClure No. 1 mine in
Dickenson County. An additional 74
miners escaped without injury, a
company spokeswoman said.
“We didn’t hear no boom or
anything like that,” said Jerry
Jenkins, who was working in
another part of the mine when the
accident occurred. “It was a
change in air pressure.
“Our ears popped and hurt and
we felt a big rush of air,” he said.
•“It was like a big wind, and then
there was a lot of dust.”
The cause of the explosion, at
10:15 p.m. Tuesday, whs under
Kidd, Thomas newly elected to Board of Trustees
By PHIL GUTIS
Collegian Staff Writer
The University’s top governing body now
includes two new members, following the
recent election to fill seven spots on the
University Board of Trustees.
University alumni selected one new
member, while delegates from agricultural
societies elected the other new member.
Five incumbents were returned to the
board. '
From a field of seven candidates, the
alumni elected Nancy Van Tries Kidd of
Glendale, Ariz., a psychologist and family
counselor who graduated from the
University in 1955 with a bachelor’s degree.
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Control, said fraternities cannot accept donations for
their own cause.
“Fraternities are only allowed to accept money for
philanthropies, not for their own use,” Tate said.
Stuart Turetsky, social chairman at Tau Epsilon Phi
fraternity, 328 E. Foster Ave., said, “We wish we had
enough money to finance a lot of parties. The only way
we can perpetuate parties is to charge.”
Turetsky said his fraternity ask?d for donations. He
said there were signs posted at the door saying that
without donations, the fraternity could not continue to
hold parties throughout the summer term. Turetsky also
said the fraternity was willing to admit anyone who
refused to make a donation.
“We weren’t out to make a profit,” Turetsky said. “We
just wanted enough money to break even and have
another party.”
Mike Capitosti of Zeta Psi fraternity, 225 E. Foster
Ave., said the IFC rule prohibiting charging at parties
“doesn’t make sense.”
“There’s not enough brotherhood in the fraternity
during the summer to finance all its own parties. We
don’t have enough money to have a party,” Capitosti
said.
Capitosti said his fraternity has not charged
admittance to any parties this summer. However,
the
daily
investigation, said Clinchfield Coal
spokeswoman Susan Copeland.
“We’re speculating it was
methane, but we don’t know why it
exploded,” she said. x
“This mine liberates a lot of
methane,” a flammable gas
commonly in coal seams,
said John Kennedy, president of
District 28 of the United Mine
Workers of America. “It’s a mine
that has dry coal, and there’s a lot
of dust with the c0a1...”
Coal dust is potentially
explosive.
Kennedy said there were four
previous fatalities at the four-year
old mine, none due to explosions.
The mine has about 300 employees,
he said.
Copeland identified the dead as
F.C. Riner, 58, a section foreman/
of Diinte; Ernest A. Hall, 30, a
foreman, from Castlewood; J.
Covey French, 45, of Clintwood;
Luther McCoy, 37, of Nora; Dale
Stamper Jr., 56, of Lebanon;
Eugene W. Meade, 26, of Coeburn;
and Mary K. Counts, 51, of Nora.
Reno Thomas, former menlber of the
state House of Representatives, was
selected by the agricultural societies.
Kidd, a former resident of State College,
said she hopes to ask questions about the
“broader issues and educational goals” at
the trustees meetings to “get things out on
the table.”
“My style will be participatory,” Kidd
said in an interview yesterday. “I hope to be
able to sense the pulse of the students and
faculty and be in touch with what is really
going on.”
A member of the Academy of Family
Mediators, Kidd will serve on the board’s
educational policy committee. She has also
been appointed to the board’s Special
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Committee on Affirmative Action.
When asked about the role of a trustee,
Kidd said many people, once appointed to a
governing board, tend to take on the
personality of the entire board.
“I fear for an institution where a board is
more of a ratifying board. I am conscious of
that,” she said. “I want to keep a sense of
self.”
The University’s rising levels of-tuition,
its image nationally, and minority
recruitment are among the topics Kidd said
she would like to examine as a trustee.
On tuition, Kidd said she thinks the
University’s increasing costs may be
“forcing a cutoff for very able students.”
“It seems to me that some very bright,
several people who attended a party at Zeta Psi said
donations were accepted.
Three other fraternities that have accepted voluntary
donations are: Kappa Delta Rho, 420 E. Prospect Ave.;
Phi Delta Theta, 240 N. Burrowes Road; and Acacia, 234
Locust Lane.
John Berrettini, house manager at Kappa Delta Rho,
said, “During the summer the only way to cover the cost
of a party is to charge at least something.”
“I don’t see anything wrong with it because there
aren’t as many brothers living at the house during the
summer and we can’t afford it ourselves,” Berrettini
said.
Anyone who refused to make a donation at Kappa
Delta Rho was still allowed into the party.
Bruce Rowley, social chairman at Phi Delta Theta
fraternity, said, “I think we have to get some money
back from a party. Otherwise, the brothers are throwing
their money away.”
Rowley said his fraternity plans to accept voluntary
donations at their parties this summer. However, he
said, donations will be optional.
Members of the Acacia fraternity refused to comment.
Tate said in past summer terms IFC has let this policy
“slide.”
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qualified and motivated students are so
concerned about how to survive financially
that they are prolonging their stays here
working so many hours to pay educational
expenses,” she said. “I don’t want Penn
State to lose those qualified students.”
And on the issue of national reputation,
Kidd said she thinks the University’s faculty
members and their research need to be
better publicized. Also, she said the
University must better recognize its
outstanding faculty members by providing
incentives both financial and non-
financial
On the issue of minority recruitment,
Kidd said she will be looking for actions that
provide results. While administrators can
Shuttle might not
land in Canaveral
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla
shuttle astronauts played a
celestial game of tag with a
satellite yesterday, releasing and
plucking it back from orbit in a
rehearsal for future repair
missions. On the ground, bad
weather put a Florida landing in
doubt and President Reagan
canceled plans to attend.
NASA officials said a decision
would be made today on whether
to allow Challenger to land as
scheduled the tomorrow and
whether such a landing would be
at Cape Canaveral or at Edwards
Air Force Base in California, the
backup site.
If clouds and thunderstorms
persist in Florida, Challenger
could remain aloft an extra day or
two. It’s been done before.
“Our guidelines say if the
weather is projected bad for a few
days we like to come in to
summer. This rule has not really been enforced. Up until
this last year they’ve let it slide pretty much,” Tate said.
Terry Milani, associate director of Student Activities
at the University of Pittsburgh, said Pitt also prohibits
fraternities from charging admittance to parties.
Tom Forsberg, Director of Student Activities and
Organizations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
said lUP has no policy regarding charging fees for
parties off campus and all fraternities at lUP are located
off campus
Levinson said IFC “has no choice but to take action
against fraternities who violate this rule.”
“The first thing we would consider is the past record of
the fraternity involved. There could be a fine in excess of
$3OO to $4OO or social probation when the fraternity is
not allowed to hold parties for a certain amount of time,”
he said.
“It’s a pretty stiff punishment. But if IFC hears of it,
we take action against it. You have to be able to get beer
for free,” Levinson said.
Levinson urges any student who feels he has been
taken advantage of by paying to get into a fraternity
party to contact him at the IFC office, 203-B HUB.
“Any kind of money transaction for beer is illegal,”
Levinson said.
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spend many hours working on plans of
action for increasing minority recruitment
and retention, Kidd said she will look for
results.
And growing out of that issue, Kidd said,
is her “deep concern for the status of women
at this University.”
The University needs to have more
women in higher management positions and
in academic positions higher than
instructor, she said. Also, Kidd said she
would like to examine the issue of sexual
harrassment at the University.
Thomas, the other newly elected trustee,
served as a Republican state representative
from Snyder County
Pope meets
Communist
Party head
By KENNETH JAUTZ
Associated Press Writer
KRAKOW, Poland - In a
surprise climax to his tumultuous
Polish homecoming, Pope John
Paul II met last night with
Communist Party chief Gen.
Wojciech Jaruzelski. Lech Walesa
waited in the wings for his own
audience with the pontiff.
Earlier, tens of thousands
chanting “Long live the pope!”
streamed through this ancient
city’s streets in a march
supporting Walesa’s banned
Solidarity union.
That demonstration was
brought to a peaceful halt by
police.
The meeting between John Paul
and Jaruzelski began shortly after
9 p.m. and lasted two hours. There
was no immediate word on what
was discussed.
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Edwards,” said flight director
John Cox. “That’s probably the
way the flight control team
recommendation will be made.”
-The
In a day-long aerial ballet at
17,400 mph, astronauts John
Fabian, Sally Ride and Norman
Thagard used the shuttle’s 50-foot
long arm to release the satellite
into space and grab it again five
times, before restowing it for the
flight home.
Never before has a satellite been
retrieved by a spaceship. The
ability to snatch an object from
orbit will be crucial when shuttles
are sent aloft for satellite
servicing and repair missions.
Such a flight is scheduled next
year.
“We’re delighted about what
happened today,” said lead flight
director Tommy Holloway.
“Today has been a significant '
milestone in the overall operation
of the shuttle. . . Everything went
exceptionally well.”