2—The Daily Collegian Thursday, June 23, 1983 • '
Small business grant proposals are due tomorrow
By LORI-MARIE VAIL
Collegian Staff Writer
Tomorrow is the deadline for applicants to submit
proposals for a federal grant designed to promote small
business exports, perhaps for the last time.
The grant, which has gone unnoticed by businesses in
.the Centre Region, may be discontinued after the money
has been allocated to this year’s awardees.
-. The grants are not intended for the sole use of an
individual small business, but rather to provide support
’ services to a number of small businesses, according to a
prepared statement by the United States Department of
.Commerce.
. Local industrial development authorities said they had
.never heard of the grant.
Edward Jepson, director of the Centre County Industrial
•Development Corporation, said not only was he unaware
of the grant, but “it is of no concern to us.”
At the University, Paul Houck of the Pennsylvania
Technical Assistance Program (Penntap) said he was not
aware of the University’s application for the grant.
. “You would almost need a full-time person sitting
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• The Big Spring Boxing Club will
hold registration for amateur boxing
from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday at
.114 W. High St., Bellefonte. For more
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• Joseph Strong, 456 E. Beaver
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• Entries are being, accepted for
summer intramural softball and in
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Call 865-5401 for more information.
• The Krishna Yoga Society will
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lice that an unidentified nonresident
male was showering on the first floor
of Atherton Hall. The man left before
police arrived.
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around logging in all the (grant) possibilities,” Houck
said.
Houck said that if the University had applied for the
grant, he would know about it.
Deborah Graham, press secretary for the Senate Small
Business Committee in Washington, D.C., said the pro
gram was poorly publicized.
“If the program is reinstated next year, publicity will be
improved,” Graham said.
The'lnternational Trade Administration, which admin
isters the program under the Small Business Export
Expansion Act of 1980, will spend $1 million in federal
funds on the program this year.
Last year the ITA distributed $2 million to both public
and private business entities, including Philadelphia, the
University of San Diego, small businesses and state
economic development agencies.
Philadelphia was the only organization or governmental
body within Pennsylvania to receive a grant last year,
obtaining $150,000.
“I think it is a good program. The money helped us
reach a lot of firms that didn’t have the capacity to
export,” said Jim Petkovits, manager of international
• An exhibit of the life and work of
Eubie Blake will be on display in the
Black Studies Room of Pattee
throughout Summer term.
• Central Pennsylvanians Against
Intervention in Central and South
America will be available to discuss
the July 2 demonstration in Washing;
ton, D.C. at the corner of College
Avenue and Allen Street today and
tomorrow.
versity, told University Police that
four flashing yellow warning lights
were taken from barricades on Mif
flin Road between 4 p.m. Tuesday
and 7:30 a.m. yesterday. Police esti
mated the value of the lights at $l4O.
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marketing for the Philadelphia Industrial Development
Corporation.
Petkovits said the money was used to provide technical
assistance to small and meditim-sized firms involved in
exporting and to send firms to trade shows throughout the
world. Firms attended the Hanover Trade Fair in Ger
many the premier industrial trade fair in the world
and the General Trade Fair in Quebec. Firms are sched
uled to attend the Medical Trade Fair in Calgary, Canada
later this year.
Another major use of the money was to help finance a
trading company based in' Philadelphia. The trading
company serves as a,middleman between manufacturers
and buyers.
“The trading company helps manufacturers who don’t
have the knowledge or financing to look for the markets,”
Petkovits said.
The PIDC also allocated a total of slo,tfoo to Bucks,
Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and Montgomery counties to
conduct surveys to assess their needs for a trading
company.
“If the small businesses knew about the program they
Business Administration
raises required GPA
By CHRIS STAMBOULIS
Collegian Staff Writer
Because of increased enrollment and the overcrowding
of departments, the College of Business Administration
has altered its entrance requirements, said Tom Broit
man, assistant director of undergraduate programs.- ,
The College of Business Administration has more than
5,000 students enrolled and only 150 faculty members,
Broitman said.
This ratio is the main reason for the change, he said,
adding that it is easier to limit the number of students
entering the college than it would be to find more faculty.
Students will be required to have a 2.75 grade point
average to declare a major within the college, Broitman
said, while students seeking admittance from other uni
versities must have a 3.0 average.
The change in entrance requirements is an attempt to
balance the problem while ensuring a quality education
for students, he said.
The decision to change the entrance requirements was
made by administrators, faculty and students in the
College of Business Administration, and the University.
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would definitely apply,” Petkovits said,“lt has been very
beneficial to us.”
Petkovits said that Philadelphia was applying for the
grant again this year.
Organizations applying for the grant must submit a
proposal for the use of the money and match the amount of
the grant. This year, the maximum grant toll be $lOO,OOO.
“I hope to test and refine the theory that giving match
ing grants to local entities is an effective way of providing
for export promotion,” said Peter Wilson, director of
Small Business Export Development Assistance Program
for the ITA.
Wilson said that those entities who received the grants
last year have administered the funds properly, although
extensive audits to evaluate expenditures have not been
completed.
As of Sept. 30, the ITA will not have the authority to
award any more grants, unless legislation is passed to
reinstate the program.
Graham, of the Senate Small Business Committee, said
Independent Republican Sen. Rudy Boschwitz of Minneso
ta is pushing for an amendment to increase export by
small business.
another college to business,” Broitman said. However, he
emphasized that the change will not affect upperclassmen
who are already enrolled in the college.
Those students will be allowed tq maintain the old
requirement, a 2.3 average.
Students who were in the division of undergraduate
studies with approved classification to be admitted into a
business major will also be able to maintain the old
average.
Changes in the accounting department will be more
stringent than the other departments because of its size,
Broitman said. 1
The accounting department is the most crowded of any
department in any of the 10 colleges, he said, adding that
one-third of all junior and senior business majors are in
accounting. '
Those seeking admittance to the accounting department
will need a 3.0 instead of a 2.75.
The College of Liberal Arts is offering a business minor
for students who want a business background but do not
wish to change majors.
In the,past, he added, many students v switched to
business, because they wanted some sort of business
background.
Senators pressured on Hatch hill
By LORI JERULLI
Collegian Staff Writer
Local pro-life and pro-choice
groups are now pressuring both
Congress and the courts, two arenas
in which the abortion question is
being debated more intensely than
ever.
The Students for Reproductive
Rights group has been active since
Spring Term 1982 and supports legal
abortions. The group has been
working to convince U.S. Sens. John
Heinz, R-Pa., and Arlen Specter, R-
Pa., to filibuster the Hatch Human
Life Federalism Amendment when
it goes to the Senate for a floor vote
at the end of this month.
The amendment, sponsored by
the Judiciary subcommittee on the
Constitution Chairman Orrin G.
Hatch, R-Utah, seeks to reverse the
1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling
which gave women the constitution
al right to have abortions.
Joanne Howes, a legislative rep
resentative of the Planned Paren
thood Federation of America, said
she thiriks backers of the Hatch
Amendment are far from having
the legislative support they need,
but Ed Bikales, a University grad
uate in general arts and sciences,
vote could be close.
Vedam sentenced to 2-5 years on drug charges
By CHRISTINE M. MURRAY
Collegian Staff Writer
Subramanyam Vedam, convicted previous
ly on a murder charge, was sentenced Mon
day to two to five years in prison on a charge
of delivery of a controlled substance.
In February, Vedam was found guilty on a
first degree murder charge. He was charged
with killing his one-time roommate, Thomas
E.P. Kinser of Boalsburg, whose badly de
composed body was found Sept. 27, 1981.
Vedam is still awaiting formal sentencing on
the murder charge.
In addition to the delivery of a controlled
substance charge, Vedam was also arrested
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“Heinz is very crucial to us be
cause he is the swing vote and we
don’t know how he will go,” Bikales
said.
Sen. Hatch’s amendment pre
viously allowed federal and state
governments to “restrict and pro
hibit abortion,” but it was altered
Pro-life, pro-choice organizations
share space: no problems foreseen
By LORI JERULLI
Collegian Staff Writer
They face each other in the streets and in the courts.
And beginning July 1, the forces for and against
abortion in State College will go to work in the same
building.
Birthright Inc. and the Centre County Chapter of
Citizens Concerned for Human Life, two pro-life orga
nizations residing at 108 W. Beaver Ave., will have to
make room for the Students for Reproductive Rights, a
pro-choice organization that plans to move into the
building.
“I can’t wait to see the expressions on their faces
when we start to move in our furniture,” said Ed
Bikales, a graduate of the University in general arts
and sciences and an associate member of the Students
for Reproductive Rights.
March 31,1982 for another count of delivery of
a controlled substance; one count of burglary,
theft and receiving stolen property; and two
counts of receiving stolen property.
Centre County District Attorney Robert
Mix said William P. Tarabek, 351 E.
Fairmount Ave., worked in cooperation with
the Bureau of Narcotics Investigation on
Vedam’s arrest.
Mix said Tarabek bought 100 dosage units of
LSD from Vedam on Nov. 20,1981.
Centre County President Judge Charles C.
Brown Jr. on Monday denied the withdrawal
of a no contest plea submitted by Vedam.
Brown said he saw no need to permit the
withdrawal, saying the court is satisfied that
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Working on the other side of the
issue is Citizens Concerned for Hu
man Life, whose philosophy is “life
begins at conception.” The group
has been lobbying for legislative
Although Bikales predicts some surprised faces from
the pro-life groups, he feels fairly peaceful about the
situation.
“I think it will give us and them a better understand
ing of each other,” said Beth Putnam, president of the
reproductive rights group.
Beth Knievel, president of the Citizens Concerned for
Human Life group, said she was unaware of the pro
choice group’s new location but commented that she
did not see any problem.
“I don’t 1 see that it would bother me one way or the
other,” Knievel said.
When asked if he felt uneasy about the three groups
sharing the same building, landlord Harold Griffith
said that he was not going to get caught in the middle
but if the groups give him trouble, “I’ll kick them out.”
.To keep rent expenses down, the pro-choice group
will be sharing office space with the Centre County
Consumer Party.
Vedam knew what he was doing when he
entered the plea.
Vedam’s attorney, Amos Goodall, said the
no contest plea was filed against his advice.
The plea means the facts of the charge, as
alleged by the commonwealth, are true,
Goodall explained.
For purposes of sentencing, the no contest
plea is the same as a guilty plea, Mix said.
The court also denied Goodall’s petition to
withdraw as counsel for Vedam on other
charges. Brown said Goodall can properly
and adequately represent Vedam because he
knows Vedam, his family and the case so
well.
Goodall said Vedam has a number of things
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support of the Hatch Amendment.
“We are for any amendment that
would stop abortion,” said Beth
Knievel, president of the pro-life
organization.
Knievel’s organization is also try
ing to get Heinz to work with them
in support of the Hatch amendment.
New police phones
offer 24-hoUr help
phones are chosen based on the num
ber of calls for service received in one
area. They are also located in places
The Department of University from which police services has re-
Safety has installed two more direct ceived calls after hours,
lines to the police dispatcher on cam- Reports of fights occurring along
pus, the director of University Safety the wall on College Avenue in the
said yesterday. early morning hours prompted the
Director David Stormer said the installation of the police phone at
installation of the two police phones, College Avenue and Allen Street,
one at the bottom of the mall at Stormer.said.
College Avenue and Allen Street, the The Allen Street phone is also used
other at Shortlidge Road and College to report vandalism or for people who
Avenue, will bring the total number need assistance, such as a person
of emergency phones on campus to with a disabled vehicle, he said,
eight. The phone at Shortlidge Road and
A police phone can be identified by College Avenue was installed because
the blue light suspended above the of the significant amount of pedestri
booth. Users need only to lift the an traffic to and from campus,
telephone receiver and a dispatcher Stormer said,
will answer, Stormer said. “Fortunately, they aren’t heavily
The other six phones were installed used and fortunately, they aren’t
in 1976 and all but one are located on abused,” Stormer said,
most of the information booths When more funds become avail
around campus, Stormer said. Also, able, Stormer said he hopes to install
one free standing phone booth is more phones on campus,
located in Parking Lot 83 north, he The cost of installation for the two
said. new phones is $6,000, which was rea-
By CHRISTINE M. MURRAY
Collegian Staff Writer
All of the phones are a direct line to sonable because of the extensive
campus' police services except the work involved, Stormer added,
phone at the parking lot, which is a Additional expenses included
dial phone, he said. weatherproofing the booths and dig-
Stormer said the locations for the ging trenches for the wiring, he said.
he wants to tell the court and he thinks Vedam
should have an attorney he can trust.
“He and I disagree on a choice of action. I
don’t enjoy his confidence in me,” Goodall
said.
Brown said that before Goodall can with
draw as council, another attorney must be
retained for Vedam. Because it may take a
few weeks before another attorney can be
retained, Goodall cannot withdraw at this
time, Brown said.
The court is also considering Goodall’s
request for a free copy of the transcript of the
murder trial.
“The court has ordered that the transcript
be prepared and we can’t pay for it,” Goodall.
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Mix said, “The record shows that there was
money around but it is a question of what the
defense wants to spend it on.”
Mix said he does not think the defense has
shown that it does not have the money.
Brown said Vedam’s balance due on the
transcript is $4,713.55. Goodall paid for two
days of the transcript.
Vedam testified that his father got money
from family and friends to pay his legal
expenses.
“I feel a moral obligation (to my parents)
to pay the money back,” he said.
Mix said the defense did not satisfy the
court that Vedam tried to get money for the
transcript.
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