—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 1; 1983
Rockview gets state accreditation
Continued from Page 1.
Mazurkiewicz also outlined plans for renova
tions to be instituted at the 7,000 acre facility
within the next six years.
Remodeling cell blocks, installing new cell
lighting and wiring and constructing a new coun
seling facility are a few of the plans, he said.
Rockview, now housing 1,378 inmates, is a
medium security prison with a capacity of a little
more than 1,000 inmates, prison spokesman An
thony C. Biviano said.
In the general population containment area,
about 444 inmates are double-celled in 8-feet by 8-
feet prison rooms.
Other inmates are dispersed into therapeutic
areas and modular housing, Biviano said.
Therapeutic areas offer ongoing professional
and peer counseling to help inmates become
more involved in their environments.
nal training are available to inmates on a volun
tary basis, Biviano said.
NY Times' college guide gets revision
By LEE MITGANG
AP Education Writer
' NW YORK Campuses fumed
a year and a half ago when The New
York Times' education editor pub
lished a college guide that assigned
schools star ratings as if they were
restaurants. A revised edition will
soon appear in book stores, and it
seems designed to soothe at least
some of its many critics.
The second edition of the "Selec
tive Guide to Colleges," by Edward
B. Fiske, (Times Books, $9.95) pro
files 275 of the nation's most selec
tive four-year schools 10 more
than the first edition published in
the winter of 1982. That edition sold
more than 80,000 copies.
The new edition, with a publica
tion date of Sept. 28, changes the
book's controversial star-rating
system, which gave each school
from one to five stars for academic
quality, social life, and quality of
life. The problem was that some
schools —Brown University for one
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added up the stars from all three
categories and touted themselves as
"12-star" or "14-star" schools.
This time, the book hopes to pre
vent that by assigning stars for
academics, telephone-shaped sym
bols for social life, and asterisks for
quality of life.
But equally controversial was the
way Fiske gathered campus infor
mation: primarily from student
questionnaires. Fiske insists there's
nothing wrong with that, despite
criticisms that the method is too
subjective, particularly for a book
that bears the imprimatur and pres
tige of The New York Times.
"Basically we're asking students
to tell us about the schools they go
to. And then we report what they
say," Fiske said in an interview
yesterday.
"I think it's an improved book,"
he said. "But anytime you're mak
ing judgments of this sort, you're
going to have controversy." -
Many colleges complained bitter
ly about their ratings in the first
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Modular housing offers units to 104 men, who
are usually within six to nine months of release,
Biviano said. The men require minimum security
with the living arrangements resembling a dor
mitory or a hospital ward.
"There is self-governing to the extent that is
possible," he said. "The guards are actively
involved rather than overseers in this type of
housing."
Integrity and pride are built through modular
and therapeutic housing and integrated as part of
Rockview's counseling, Biviano said.
The complex, surrounded by a 14-feet nylon
mesh gate topped with razor ribbon, offers in
mates a variety of recreational and educational
facilities.
About 26 of the 7,000 acres are devoted to the
recreational needs of the inmates.
In conjunction with the University, Rockview
offers eligible inmates associate degree college
courses: In addition, basic education and vocatio
edition, and the latest book changes
the ratings for 38 schools nearly
all for the better.
Other schools Dartmouth Col
lege and University of Rhode Is
land, most notably objected to
uncomplimentary language in their
profiles in the first edition. Fiske
changed some of the offending pas
sages in the new edition.
Dartmouth, though given five
stars for academics, was likened to
"Animal House," in the first edi
tion. The reference to the movie
about a drunken, brawling "frat"
school is still there in the latest
edition, but with the qualifier that
"the film was, after all, written by
an alumnus," and that "this is only
part of the picture."
And Fiske's new edition deletes
wisecracks that infuriated Univer
sity of Rhode Island officials. The
first editimi called it a "high school
after high school," and concluded,
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"A lot of inmates need upgrading in educatio
nal and vocational training," he said. "We try to
meet those needs."
When inmates enter the facility, they are
evaluated by prison counselors and told what
facilities Rockview can offer, Biviano said.
"We'll advise, counsel and encourage (the
inmate), but the decision is up to him," he added.
If educational and vocational opportunities do
not interest the inmate, the individual is put to
work in one of the operational areas of the prison.
As a result of overcrowded conditions, the
prison is now 75 to 100 jobs short of the current
demand, Biiiiano said.
Last year, the State Regional Correctional
Facility at Greensburg became' the first facility
to earn accreditation, acting state Correction
Commissioner Glen R. Jeffes said.
"Pennsylvania has been and is, commited to
having all our institutions, facilities, community
centers and the Bureau itself become accred
ited," Jeffes said.
of URI, it won't ask too much of
you." The new profile is far more
sympathetic, and instead upbraids
a "tight-fisted" state legislature
that is strapping the school for
funds.
Among other schools that came
out ahead in this edition:
University of Nebraska and
University of Oklahoma, both given
subpar one-star academic ratings in
the first book, were each boosted to
three stars.
Fiske explained that in both
cases, "the write-ups could have
been improved in the first edition
with more information." The new
edition reflects a second look at
those campuses, he said, and at
least in Nebraska, fresh student
questionnaires were. distributed.
Several colleges were up
graded to the top ranks of schools
with five-star academic ratings:
Reed College, Rice University; Car
leton College, and Duke University.
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USG battles to keep
the pass/fail option
By ANNE McDONOUGH
Collegian Staff Writer
The wheels have been set in motion
by the Undergraduate Student Gov
ernment's Academic Assembly to
combat a University Faculty Senate
committee's recommendation to
eliminate the pass/fail option.
The assembly set up a six-member
committee, to draw up a proposal
listing reasons why the pass/fail op
tion should remain and offering possi
ble alternatives.
The committee was established in
response to the Faculty Senate Com
mittee on Undergraduate Instruc
tion's abolition recommendation.
The assembly's job is to represent
the students and relay their opinions
to the administration, Assembly
President Frank Pogue said. Mem
bers will gauge student reaction by
meeting with each college's student
council and through talking to the
Local beer supply
threatened by strike
By HARRY R. WEISS
Collegian Staff Writer
Negotiations between striking
Latrobe Brewing Company em
ployees and management "have
taken a step backward," the brew
ery's labor director said yester
day.
"No talks are going on as of the
moment," • said Kenneth Keene.
Neither Keene nor union represen
tatives would comment on work
ers' demands.
The 32-day-old strike has idled
215 Rolling Rock brewers, truck
drivers and bottlers.
Frequenters of State College
drinking establishments can ex
pect supplies of the beer to last at
least until the first home football
students themselves.
The issue.at stake is the role of the
option in obtaining a quality Universi
ty education, Pogue said.
Tom Thompson, Faculty Senate
student representative from the Col
lege of Engineering, said the Senate
committee is determined that the
option be voted on at, the Sept. 13
Senate meeting .
The assembly proposal should in
clude the alternative of opening the
pass/fail option to every college, he_
said.
The Senate committee's reasoning
for the abolition includes: restric
tions by various colleges against the
use of pass/fail to satisfy Basic De
gree Requirements; the low percent
age (1 percent) of grades given each
'year under the option; and the un
availability in many academic pro
grams of free electives eligible for
the option.
weekend, local tavern owners said
John Palm, spokesman for Ze
no's, 100 W. College Ave., said
yesterday that so far he has had no
problems thanks to Sam Nastase's
Distributorship on Perry Alley in
Bellefonte.
He said that Nastase's had
enough foresight to see the strike
coming and built up stock accord
ingly.
JOhn O'Connell, owner of the All
American Rathskeller, 108 S.
Pugh St.; told The Daily Collegian
last month that he is worried
whether his bar, which sells more
Rolling Rock than any other estab
lishment here, can hold out until
the game.
collegian notes
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Office will be open from 9 a.m. to Sunday ,
12:30, and from 2:30 to 5 this af
ternoon in 219 Agricultural Adminis
tration Buildibg
• The Craft Centre will hold regis
tration for its first session of classes • The Undergraduate Entomology
from noon to 3 this afternoon in 312 Association will meet at 7 tonight in
HUB. , 204 Patterson.
~ The student counselors will pre- • Students interested in magazine
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afternoon and every Thursday in 319 323 Sackett. Writers, photographers
HUB. The workshop will cover study and layout people are needed. No
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ment and concentration hints.
• The Men's Fencing Team will Student Council will sponsor a "Meet
meet at 4 this afternoon in 69 Rec the Deans Night" at. 7 tonight in the
Hall. Anyone interested in trying out HUB Gallery Lounge. All liberal arts
should attend. students are welcome and refresh
ments will be served.
• Student counselors are available
for general counseling, information • The Agronomy dub will meet at
and referral. Call 863-2020 from 4to 7:30 tonight in 301 Agricultural Ad- ,
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volunteer ushers can sign up at 4 this
afternoon in Eisenhower Auditorium.
• The College of The Liberal Arts
• The Penn State Outing Club will
present a slide show on the club's
seven divisions at 7 tonight in Schwab
Auditorium.
police log
• The State College Police De
partment reported that three sofa
cushions were missing from 516 E.
College Ave. on Tuesday. The value
of the cushions was not determined,
police said.
• Two broccoli plants were report
ed missing from 433 W. Fifster St.,
State College police said.
• University Police Services re
ported that a bike was missing from
the east side of Willard Building on
Tuesday. The value of the bike is $l6O,
police said.
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Women's center has new director
By LORI•MARIE VAIL
Collegian Staff Writer
The Centre County Women's Resource Center will
continue to offer counseling services to women this
year under the supervision of a new executive director.
Patty Johnstone was appointed to the post by the
center's board of directors this summer.
Johnstone, originally from Sacramento, Calif., re
ceived a bachelor's degree in sociology at the Universi
ty of California at Davis and then went on to receive a
master's degree in counseling at the University of
Wisconsin.
After working as a school counselor for junior and
senior high school students for three years in Wiscon
sin, Johnstone moved to Delaware county, where her
husband, Christopher, worked as a professor at the
Delaware County Campus of Penn State. ,
While living in the Delaware county area, Johnstone
volunteered to work for the Women in Transition
support group, which helps women through the difficul
ties of separation and divorce.
She was also a counselor for the Senior Safety
Project which offers counseling to elderly crime vic
tims. Johnstone was the director of the Senior Safety
Project from 1976 until this summer when she moved to
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State College with her husband, a University professor
of speech communications.
She then obtained the position of executive director of
the Women's Resource Center, 111 Sowers St.
"Our priority right now is to provide quality services
for women," Johnstone said.
She said she
,doesn't plan to institute any major
changes at the center.
The center opened in 1975 and staffed completely by
volunteers. In 1978 the Rape Crisis Group and the Task
Force on Domestic Violence merged to become the
Women's Resource Center.
The center is funded primarily by the Pennsylvania
Coalition against Rape and the Pennsylvania Coalition
against Domestic violence. The center also receives a
community block grant and money from the State
College Food and Shelter Team (FAST).
One feature of the center is the domestic violence
shelter, created for women who are no longer safe in
their living conditions. The shelter can accommodate
two women and an unspecified number of children.
Volunteers also open their homes for women who need
lodging, she said.
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service to aid victims of rape or domestic violence.
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