Shamir, Peres to
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share premiership
By The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel Prime Minister
Yitzhak Shamir and his designated
successor, Shimon Peres, have reached
agreement on a bipartisan government in
which they will alternate as premier, Israel
Radio reported yesterday.
The radio report came after midnight and
could not be confirmed with party officials
involved in the government negotiations.
The radio did not say who confirmed the
agreement and party officials called by The
Associated Press did not answer their
telephones.
Israel Radio said the government is to be
established for four years and two months
with Labor Party leader Peres serving as
prime minister for the first half and Likud
leader Shamir as his deputy and foreign
minister. They will switch roles in the
second half, said the radio, which is state
owned but operates as an independent
corporation,
Labor and Likud have been negotiating
for more than three weeks on a way to join
Israel’s two major political blocs in a
national unity government, following July
23 elections which gave neither a majority
in the Parliament.
The radio said Yitzhak Rabin, prime
minister in the last Labor government, will
Drop/add extended
By KRISTINE SORCHILLA
Collegian Staff Writer
academic services, said University officals
decided last night to extend the deadline
The deadline for the free drop/add period because many students are still dropping
has been extended until 5 p.m. Tuesday, a and adding courses,
public information spokesman said last The extension was not necesserily ;
night. because of problems created by the new
. Bill Mahon, speaking for the Office of the
Vice President for Academic Services, said
the deadline was extended “as a service to
students who need additional time to N
complete drop/add transactions..
If the deadline had not been extended,
students would be required to pay a $6 fee
per transaction beginning today, Mahon
said. The fee will be reinstated Wednesday
Discovery aloft
The space shuttle Discovery yester
day became the third such vehicle to
reach space after three failed at
tempts.
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -
Space shuttle Discovery finally got
off the ground yesterday,
beautifully and flawlessly, and its
crew launched a communications
satellite attached to the same kind
of rocket motor that sent two
earlier satellites into useless
orbits.
This time it worked. Mission
control sent word to the shuttle and
astronaut Steve Hawley
responded, “That’s real good news,
we’re up here celebrating.”
The 87-second firing of the solid
propellant motor sped the $35
million satellite toward an
elliptical orbit 22,300 miles by 184
miles around the Earth. Another
“burn” is to circularize the orbit at
its high point tommorrow.
Satellite Business Systems,
which paid NASA $lO million for
the launch, was delighted.
“All data indicates a healthy
satellite,” said Stephen B.
Schwartz, president of the private
communications firm. “We got
apple pie performance.”
After three postponements,
Discovery’s crew had to endure yet
another wait yesterday for liftoff —
seven minutes this time because
a private plane was circling
offshore for a close, but hazardous,
view of the launch. It was chased
out of the area by an Air Force
plane, and the Federal Aviation
Administration said it would take
action against the pilot.
“We are happy the orbiter and its
crew finally left town,” said launch
director Bob Sieck. “The launch
team is ecstatic. The only way to
get over an abort and two
postponements is to have a
successful launch.”
Commander Henry W.
Hartsfield, 50, and pilot Michael
Coats, 38, began checking out the
new ship’s systems as soon as they
reached orbit, 184 miles above
Earth.
AP Laserpholo
Eight hours after liftoff, mission
specialists Hawley and Richard
Mullane sent the. commands that
the
daily
be defense minister for the entire life of the
new government, and a Likud candidate yet
to be named will be finance minister.
There will be 24 Cabinet ministers, 12
from each party, the report said.
Peres and Shamir hap said after a
meeting Wednesday that they expected
negotiations on a joint government to be
finished by next week. They were scheduled
to meet again today.
From the beginning, the major obstacle to
a joint government was the question of who
would lead it.
President Chaim Herzog named Peres
prime minister-designate and asked him to
form a new government because Labor won
43 seats in the election to Likud’s 41. But
Herzog also asked him to try to unite with
Likud rather than putting together a
coalition with some of the 13 smaller parties
that won seats in the 120-member Knesset.
Shamir’s backers had said they would
demand the premiership, and Peres said at
the start that it was not negotiable.
It said they agreed that new Jewish
settlements in the occupied West Bank of
the Jordan River would be approved by a
simple majority in the joint Cabinet. Labor
had demanded a two-thirds majority for
such decisions, in hopes of keeping
campaign promises to freeze settlement
building.
Robert E. Dunham, vice president for'
computerized drop/add system, Dunham
said.
“It’s not necessarily long lines (that
caused the deadline extension). Whenever
you have a new system, peculiar difficulties
are uncovered,” Dunham said. “We wanted
to make sure we weren’t penalizing
students who are still making
transactions.”
Collegian
finally
“We got apple pie
performance.”
—Stephen B. Schwartz,
president of Satellite
Business Systems
started the satellite on its way. The
rocket was timed to ignite 45
minutes after the satellite,
spinning at 48 rpm for stability,
was ejected with springs from
Discovery’s cargo bay.
The firing was supposed to be 86
seconds long; it was 87.
“That burn was within one
second of perfect,” said Mission
Control’s Brian Welch.
The shuttle was over the equator,
southeast of Hawaii at the time the
satellite was ejected. Until the
firing over the Indian Ocean
anxious controllers on the ground
did not know whether the launch
was successful this time.
It was the first shuttle
deployment since February when
two communications payloads
went into low orbits because their
rocket stages, called PAMs for
Payload Assist Modules, failed.
The two fiascoes have caused
NASA’s customers great concern,
raised their insurance rates, and
caused one satellite launch delay.
That, plus three postponements of
Discovery’s first flight, put the
shuttle’s reputation as an orbital
delivery system into serious
question.
Communications satellites must
go into an orbit 22,300 miles over
the equator to remain “stationary”
over one spot of Earth.
Among the crew of six was
America’s second spacewoman,
Judy Resnik.
Flight director Gary Coen said
there were a few first-flight
problems, all minor. A few
instruments didn’t work right, two
recorders were overheating, an
antenna was working only
intermittently or not at all, and one
computer screen was dark.
Barbara Wiedemann (junior foreign service and telecommunications) does some outdoor studying among the trees near the possibly ill'
fated Buckhout Gardens.
Biology labs to replace gardens
By PAT COLLIER
Collegian Staff Writer
A battle is heating up about Buckhout
Gardens, which may be torn down to make
space for new biology labs, the head of the
biology department said yesterday.
“It’s the classic conflict between beauty
and utility,” said Eugene Lindstrom of the
proposed action, which would close the
gardens to make space for a new teaching
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The new lab is needed to house several
biochemistry classes and offices for eight
faculty members currently housed in
Frear and Buckhout labs, Lindstrom said.
The need for the new lab has arisen
because proposed renovations would close
parts of Buckhout and North Frear Build
ings, he said.
“If somebody else can come up with a
better place for the labs, I’m all for it,” he
By KIM AJECK
Collegian Staff Writer
University adminstrators are pleased with the new
priority housing system that ended the first-come-first
served system that left many students out in the cold.
Donald Arndt, director of housing services, said the
system proposed by the Association of Residence Hall
Students last fall is a fair system, and student requests
were honored whenever possible when making room
assignments for Fall Semester.
Under the old room assignment system, students
waited in line for dormitory contracts for as long as
three or four days, Arndt said.
“That spotlighted the need for a change,” he
explained.
Before the priority system, singles, suites and all
area preferences were assigned to students on a first
come, first-served basis, Arndt said. Consequently,
students with special preferences got in line early to
assure their assignment. The early lines panicked
other students and they too began forming lines.
Arndt said the present system is a compromise
between the line system and another alternative: a
lottery selection. With lines, the students’ fate is in
their own hands, while with the lottery there is no
choice. The priority system allows for some choice
without the unreasonable lines, Arndt said.
The new system, initiated in the spring, involves a
two-step process, Arndt said. Students interested in
campus housing submitted a housing contract offer
card from Jan. 10 to March 2. Later, they were
required to fill out another card stating their
preferences, such as roommate, room type or
residence hall area,
Priority was determined first by semester standing
and then by a scrambling system of the last four digits
of student identification numbers, he said. Each year
the numbers are scrambled differently so that no
number has an advantage over another.
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Priority system called success
Administrators happy with new room assignment system
said. “But right now it looks like this is our
only alternative.”
Lindstrom said the labs must be close to
campus so students can arrive at their
classes on time. In addition, the faculty
members’ offices must be close to campus,
he said.
“You can’t just put these people out in
the boonies,” he said.
The fate of the Buckhout gardens will be
decided on Sept. 6, when the University’s
Board of Trustees will be presented with
preliminary plans for the construction of
“temporary facilities in the Buckhout
area,” said Roger Williams, a University
spokesman.
The trustees will decide whether to ap
prove the plans then, Williams said.
“If the Unversity was to eliminate a
garden plot, it would look at relocating that
facility elsewhere to the extent possible,”
he said.
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On the other side of the issue, a number
of concerned State College residents want
to see the proposed action stopped.
Joe Banks, Sierra Club president, is one.
“We’re trying to organize to persuade
the trustees to leave the gardens alone,”
Banks said. “We want to do this because
we feel the gardens belong here for two
reasons. First, that they are beautiful as
well as educational. Second, all of the open
space on campus has disappeared, espe
cially in this area.”
Betsy Wertz, (senior-agricultural sci
ence) also believes the gardens should
stay. In an attempt to influence University
President Bryce Jordan and James Dun
gan, director of facilities information man
agement, on the garden issue she is
eliciting letters from students, town resi
dents
‘I don’t think there is any reason
why we should have a system as
outdated as standing in line.’
—Linda Rovder, ARHS president
Arndt said 100 percent of the contracts were
accepted this fall. He added that in the case of a
shortage of space in the future, students who request
housing last would be denied contracts. They would be
notified by March 30.
Arndt suggests that students who are certain they
want to remain in the residence halls should submit
their offer cards early to better their chances of
contract acceptance.
The non-returnable fee for advance housing
registration under the new system is $lOO rather than
the $45 fee of previous years. Arndt said ARHS
proposed this idea to discourage students from
applying for housing if they were unsure about living
on campus in the fall.
He explained that many students would risk losing
$45 if they decided not to live on campus. They would be
less likley to gamble with $lOO, he said.
Students asking for reassignment to the same room
with the same roommate should have no problem, he
said. Many students who ranked roommate as their
first priority were not assigned to the area they
requested. Arndt explained that these students were
placed together in their requested area if possible, but
if an entire room was not vacant they were assigned
elsewhere.
Dave Pollock (junior-administration of justice), who
lived in West Halls last spring, was suprised that he
and his roommate were assigned to East Halls this
semester.
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weather
Partly to mostly sunny and less
humid today. High of 81 de
grees. Clear and cooler tonight.
Low of 53. Outlook for labor day
weekend is sunny and pleasant
with high in the upper 70s.
Dan Zimmerman