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    Opinions
The current draft of the noise ordinance is not music to the ears
Students, borough officials and
neighborhood associations will
again have a chance to debate one
of this town's hottest issues the
noise ordinance.
Tonight's State College Planning
Commission meeting offers a per
fect opportunity for all groups in
volved with revising the State
College Borough noise ordinance to
iron out their differences once
and for all.
But if the results of this meeting
are similar to past meetings with
the Borough Council and the spe
cial noise ordinance task force,
very few people will be pleased.
Throughout the last six months,
various groups have debated the
noise issue. At the first public
meeting of the Borough Council in
October, the noise issue was dis
cussed. Student representatives
and neighborhood groups were un
happy with some of the prelimi
nary decisions made by the
council.
The council then created a task
force comprised of four acoustics
experts. The experts on the task
force allowed anyone interested in
the noise issue to submit recom
mendations.to the task force. Seve
ral groups, including a coalition of
student groups, made written and
Verbal recommendations. The task
force then would submit its recom-
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PROSECUTOR,
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Thursday, April 12, 1984
©1984 Collegian Inc.
Alecia Swasy
Editor
The conscience of a fiscal conservative
•Politics is supposed to be about making
choices and setting priorities. America's
politicians have little taste for these tasks
anymore. And that is the main reason why
the federal government is facing a $lBO
billion deficit this year and for several year§
to come.
Robert J. Samuelson put it best in a recent
column in "Newsweek" when he said that
the "rapidly deteriorating budget outlook
. is a political stalemate masquerading as
an economic dispute."
The federal budget is, above all, a politi
cal document. Beneath the technical lan
guage and the charts, it is a statement about
how power is apportioned in this country.
Efforts to balance the budget-by tinkering
with entitlement formulas here and loophole
closings there will never work for two rea
sons.
First, this approach will inevitably run
afoul of countless constituency groups who
have the political muscle to protect their
share of the national pie. And second, the
deficit problem is simply too large to be
significantly altered by scattered savings in
the low billions of dollars.
What is required, I believe, is a complete
ly new and daring course of action an
Susan M. Melle
Business Manager
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kfracel,
mendations to the planning com
mission and a new noise ordinance
would be drawn up.
Sounds easy, right? It wasn't.
Several problems occurred as
soon as the task force was appoint
ed. First, there was and still is
today a misunderstanding about
what the responsibilities of the spe
cial task force were or should be.
Mark Foley, of the Organization
for Town Independent Students,
said it was his understanding that
the four acoustics experts served
as consultants whose job was to
collect information about decibel
levels and take any recommenda
tions other groups proposed. •He
believed the task force would riot be
responsible for drawing up the final
noise ordinance proposal.
But Mark Henry, the borough's
health officer, said the acoustics
experts were responsible for hear
ing all written and oral testimony
and making a decision as to the
best recommendation to the plan
ning commission.
The second problem occurred
when the task force began to re
view the original draft of the noise
ordinance. Somehow, the wording
of the ordinance was changed with
out any prior notice to council
members, students or neighbor
hood groups.
Before the committee began re-
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across-the-board federal budget freeze that
would remain in effect until revenues finally
catch up with spending.
In order to have any hope of being "sold"
politically, such a freeze would have to
reach down to the cabinet-level depart
ments. For example, allocations for the
Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Edu
cation, etc. would continue to be budgeted at
the same relative levels for the duration of
the budget freeze. Priorities on spending
within each department would be allowed to
fluctuate, subject to necessary congresio
nal approval.
Special legislation freezing the automatic
growth of entitlement programs would be
the hardest part of this package to secure.
However, the overall freeze in federal
spending would help to accomplish this
difficult objective in one vitally important
way. It would help set a different "tone" for
the entire budget debate.
A sense of shared sacrifice would allow
the federal budget to be seen (and dealt
with) as an organic whole rather than just
the sum, of competing parts. And since a
freeze in all major categories of federal
spending would, obviously, prevent de
creases as well as increases, it would serve
one other purpose as well. It would elimi
nate all bona-fide complaints about one
group's favorite program being cut while
another group's is being increased.
I stipulate "bona-fide" complaints be-'
cause, in budget parlance, the word "cut" is'
frequently used in a misleading (and some
times demagogic) way. A 'cut in spending
should properly refer to an actual reduction
in spending (e.g., from $lOO million to $9O
million). However, the word "cut" is often
used, improperly, to refer simply to a lower
q reader opinion
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good points about student government but I must disagre
on several.
I aria a Penn State Student now studying abroad in West Speaking from years of experience, The Undergraduate;
• ermany for the 1984 Spring Semester. It was an opportu- Student Government does have problems but they do noti
\ s\ nity I had, so I jumped at it, but I naturally had to give up a extend from too many campaign promises unkept. While:,
`\ \\\ \ few things in order to do it. the students aware of USG are disapointed, when candi-i
1994 \\\\• The single event that I have missed so far, or will miss dates' promises do not materialize, the normal student':
• before the semester is over, that almost kept me from does not remember what was promised last year.
s\ • ,
jot . ,\\\ going was the IFC Dance Marathon. I have danced in it the When I was vice president of USG in 1981-82, we did not.
: \ last two years and hope to again next year, but this year I "attack outside enemies." We worked with administra- 1
!dal!" 1--. 1 2 ..•..-1, \ ,
vant ::::::: ! w e ! N was not able to do so -- much to my regret. tors, alumni and student organizations to help benefit the
MAI JUNE 41.0 PUG A friend of mine sent me The Daily Collegian headlines University. '
- j -- t. ".."1 :•-•-= IBM ; . and pictures of the marathon from Monday, Feb. 29 and :
Students organized against financial aid reduction,:
" ti ' " nt ' 1 " 1 " 4 \‘'` ' once again I realized that I had missed something special
' '`' \ to SOFAR, became one of the most successful group effort&
me.
tt - iiii iLtii mini s \ \at the University in years. We did not expect to eliminate;
It's too late now, and I wouldn't have changed my
all financial aid cuts but we had to dent them as much as;
• decision to go to Europe anyway but I wanted to write
possible to insure some students could return to school. i
the people who danced it, and especially those who :
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\\ \ organized it and made it happen, to let them know they are Not all of our platform projects worked out as well as
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\\\ appreciated even from this far away. SOFAR•but at least we tried to do everything we outlined.!
Some of the projects failed because students showed an;
I hope they all felt the unity, the good will, and the
• determination I felt and now realize that if it hadn't been unanticipated lack of confidence in their government.
so trying, it wouldn't be such an accomplishment. The Finally, Mr. Klinger points out that policy making' :
- sum of $130,000 is unbelievable and it's going to a wonder- "belongs in the hands of competent administrators." I!
ful cause. I wish I had been there to help. strongly disagree.
Congratulations to everyone! Competent administrators still make mistakes and:
sometimes cannot anticipate problems such as the moving
Rich Melsheimer, junior -molecular and cell biology of the Credit Union. Students input can improve these
April 10 decisions. Dr. Jordan has shown openness to change and+.
new policies which only makes it easier for student]
government to accomplish its goals. ,
Active student government
Kenneth Reeves, graduate-meteorology
David Klinger's column of March 20 brought up some March 26 1
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view of ‘ the technical aspects of the
ordinance, two conditions had to be
met in order to charge someone
with noise violations. The ordi
nance read that in order for a group
to be charged with a noise viola
tion, the noise had to be "declared
to be excessive noise or annoying to
a person of ordinary sensibilities."
In the original ordinance the two
clauses were connected by the
word "and" to denote that both
conditions had to be met.
But under the new draft, the
word "or" was inserted between
the two clauses. Although it seems
like a technicality, that word
changes the meaning of the ordi
nance. With an "or," police need
only one condition to charge some
one with a noise violation.
The student groups were upset
with this change since it made the
new definition of a noise violation
more stringent. What's more, Fo
ley said he is unhappy because no
one was notified of the change.
And no one can answer how the
change in terminology occurred.
Mark Henry said he "does not
know how it got in there."
"Somehow that 'or' got in there
it was not done purposely."
Henry said. "The task force re
viewed it. It's gone. It's past. I
can't change what happened."
Clearly, if the task force wanted
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level of increase in spending (e.g., a planned
increase from $lOO million to $l2O million
being scaled back to $llO million),
How would the federal budget freeze look
in terms of actual dollars? The chart, re
leased by the federal government's Office of
Management and Budget, provides infor
mation on federal spending, revenues and
the resulting deficits for fiscal years 1980-
1989. (A fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 to
Sept. 30.)
Four of the fiscal years, 1980-83, have been
completed. The current fiscal year runs
'from Oct. 1, 1983 to Sept. 30, 1984. Final
figures for this fiscal year as well as for the
five remaining fiscal years, 1985-89, are
based on OMB projections :
The numbers are sobering, to say the
least. Let us assume that the 1984 deficit
projection holds up when the fiscal year
ends in five and one-half months. That will
mean that during the first half of this
decade, the federal government will have
amassed deficits totaling $607 billion.
Under the current estimates for fiscal
years 1985-89, $Bl2 billion more in federal
deficits are scheduled to be rung up. If these
projections are anywhere near accurate
(and some sources say they are much too
optimistic) that would mean a total of $1.42
trillion in federal deficits for the decade of
the 1980 s. That's $1.42 trillion added to the
national debt more than had been accu
mulated during all of the previous years of
our history.
There is simply no amount of increased
taxation that can even come close to make
up for this staggering revenue shortfall.
Besides, our taxes are already much too
high, at all income levels. The solution must
to change the terminology they
should have made the change
known in advance.
The third problem rests with the
amount of student input allowed in
the debate.
The Interfraternity Council, the
Organization for Town Indepen
dent Students and the Undergrad
uate Student Government
submitted a combined proposal to
the task force. The proposal ad
dresses key issues and problems
with the original noise ordinance
draft and also recommends
changes in the terminology.
Both Foley and Emil Parvensky,
USG president, feel that their pro
posal Was not given enough atten
tion.
"We were under the impression
we were working with the commit
tee all along," Foley said. "The
issue is the way we've been treated
and the way in which we've been
perceived." .
Finally, the student groups be
lieve that the task force should not
have been permitted to be the deci
sion-making body because they are
not qualified to make policy deci
sions. Henry said it was the bo
rough council's original intentions
to give the acoustics experts full
decision-making authority.
Three weeks ago the task force
made its recommendations which
The Federal Budget
Fiscal year Spending Revenues Deficit
1980
1981
1982
1984 (est.)
1985 (est.)
1986 (est.)
1987 (est.)
1988 (est.)
1989 (est.)
(in $ billions)
come on the spending side of the ledger.
A federal spending freeze at the current
level of $854 billion would produce a pro
jected deficit of $lO9 billion in the 1985 fiscal
year as opposed to the current OMB esti
mate of $lBO billion. If the budget freeze was
extended to 1986, the deficit would fall to $39
billion rather than the projected $177 billion.
And, by 1987, the freeze would actually yield
a surplus of $34 billion instead of another
deficit of $lBO billion.
By then, with fiscal sanity restored, the
federal government would again have the
"luxury" of allowing a modest increase in
spending. Perhaps a start could even be
made on paying off the national debt: (When
was the last time you heard anyone raise
that subject?) Even with the budget freeze,
freeze the budget
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Thursday, April 12, 1984
are now to be discussed at tonight's
meeting.
The students believe that none of
their recommendations were
adopted and feel ignored. Mark
Henry said the acoustics experts
baSed their recommendations on
what they believed were the best
parts of all proposals submitted.
The debate goes on. Whether the
task force should be allowed to
make policy decisions no longer
matters.
What does matter is tonight's
meeting. Parvensky said the stu
dent groups face a more difficult
task in trying to convince the plan
ning commission to , add the
changes for which the students are
fighting. Henry said the commis
sion will hear any changes that any
group wishes to make in the ordi
nance.
Both the planning commission
and the student groups should be
urged to put past differences be
hind and concentrate on drafting a
noise ordinance that will please the
most people.
The new noise ordinance will not
be able to satisfy each State Col
lege resident. But with mutual re
spect and cooperation, all groups
endeavoring to change the ordi
nance can make State College
more harmonious.
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however, these decisions would be three
years down the road.
A nation's economic strength is as impor
tant a component of its national security as
is its military strength. The current deficit
projections are a loaded pistol pointed at
America's future prosperity and her ability
to meet commitments at home and abroad.
We have all heard a ;great deal of talk
during the last couple of years about the
need for a nuclear weapons freeze. But the
freeze that America needs the most right
now involves the Department of the Trea
sury, not the Department of Defense.
John R. Nordell, Jr. is a graduate student in
American history and a columnist for The
Daily Collegian.
When you bomb a test, break things to release that tension
So you stayed up all last night studying.
You did all the homework, read all the
material and feel so confident that in the
waning moments before the exam you calm
ly read the paper instead of frantically
jamming information into your head.
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As the exam is passed out, you retain the
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After snatching a paper off the top of the
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In the back of the room a couple of people
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let out of a mailbox, but this does little to
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Getting back to the test you try to deci
pher what appears to be the wrong exam
and desperately ask yourself, "Am I in the
right room?" Another quick glance around ,
dispels that rash notion. "Get a grip!" you
demand of yourself. After a deep, quavering
breath you look it over carefully one more
time and spend the remaining 15 minutes
scribbling down answers that seem to be
related to what is being asked.
After the test is over the confusion fades
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inflicted injury to others. In addition, an act
such as repeatedly banging your head
against the wall could cause aesthetic or
even structural damage to your room.
This in turn could result in increased
dorm damage or loss of a much needed
security deposit. In any case this type of
action does little to make you feel better. It
is therefore wise to avoid this route altogeth
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this turbulent wrath. Practically speaking,
it's about as effective as taking a bath in the
Hudson River.
On the other hand, verbally abusing all
people within earshot can be infinitely more
satisfying. Beating up your roommate
would be an option if you felt that a pizza
and a coke would mend the rift.
However, victimizing other people will
evoke repercussions that in turn will further
prolong the agony. It's entirely likely that
they will get you back either immediately or
or in the near future. Once again the prob
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way to go. Specifically, you must abuse or
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One of my personal favorites is the de
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immensely gratifying. If you are especially
mad, kicking it around repeatedly should
also be included.
For the inhumanely obsessed, death by
slow torture is a good idea. One word of
caution however. These books may cost a
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fortune but they cannot take even the slight
est abuse without permanent damage. Be
prepared to fix them later.
Textbooks aren't the only objects that are
available for this mission of destruction.
One of the best qualities of this method is the
infinite supply of victims. However some
items make for better outlets than others.
Look for items that break easily. Nothing
is more frustrating than viciously throwing
something against the wall only to have it
come up unscathed. A tremendous feeling of
impotence could result, only compounding
the problem.
Conversely, the whole concept is to devel
op a feeling of dominating power and signifi
cance. You want to instill fear in others and
demonstrate that you're not going to take
this crap. In this respect, destroying large
fragile items offers the greatest pleasure
and often total release of this raging anger.
Ultimately it may take a lamp through the
television to do the trick.
Whatever the means, one thing is sure.
After you complete this ritual you will feel
much better. The pressure has been totally
released through furious rebellion and you
suddenly feel suprisingly calm. Now you
can go out and party with a clear mind.
Gary Talbot is a junior majoring in civil
engineering and a columnist for The Daily
Collegian.
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