Discovery returns today minus ice
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. With one
flick of the wrist on their giant robot arm,
Discovery's astronauts brushed a
bothersome block of ice off the side of the
space shuttle yesterday and packed up to
come home, their shakedown flight a huge
success
"It worked like a charm," said
commander Henry W. Hartsfield after he
gingerly guided the end of the ship's 50-foot
Mountain ho!
Lion Ambassador Jane Brockman (senior•music) points out Mt. Nittany to students on Old Main's bell tower. A trip to the tower was included
in tours of Old Main given by Lion Ambassadors yesterday. Please see related story on Page 3.
Funding request:
PSU tries to prevent
another tuition. hike
By BILL FERRELL
Collegian Staff Writer
For the second consecutive which is expected to be approved
year, the University will ask the by the trustees Friday includes
state for enough funding to increases for the College of
prevent a tuition increase. Engineering and the areas of
For 1985-86, the . University's biotechnology and biological
requested increase is slightly sciences, the source said. The
more than half the 20 percent proposed budget also includes a
increase requested for 1984-85, significant increase over this
according to a source who asked year's $1 million allocation for
not to be named. The University minority student aid.
received a 6.97 percent increase in The proposed budget and state
its state general appropriation last appropriation request will be
year and the University raised made public at the trustees
tuition 10.8 percent. meeting tomorrow.
The University budget for 1984- The University must submit its
85, as approved by the request to the state by Sept. 17.
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important issues facing state legislators' today, said Charles "Chuck"
Witmer, Republican candidate for state Representive in the 171 th legis
lative district Page 4
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landslide victory over Liberal Prime Minister John Turner in yesterday's
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Juniors with semester standing of five or six may obtain ID stickers
from ,9 a.m. to 9 p.m. today in 301 HUB.
weather
Variable cloudiness today with a slight breeze. It will be cool with a high
of 66. Clear and chilly tonight with some patchy fog forming. Sunny
tomorrow but still on the cool side with a high near 70 by Andy Sekura
the
daily
crane over the ice that had blocked two
waste water vents just behind the cabin on
Discovery's port side.
Television pictures, taken by a camera
attached to the arm, showed that only a
five-inch, carrot-shaped icicle remained.
Six hours later, astronaut Judy Resnik used
the camera again and reported:
"We have some good news for you; we
took another look at the nozzle and there is
no ice."
Relieved flight controllers sent "our
special thanks to the ice-busters," and told
University's Board of Trustees in
July, is $683.8 million.
Next year's proposed budget
olle • ian
the astronauts 'later: "the motto down here
is, we make it, you break it."
NASA had worried that the unwelcome
hanger-on, estimated'to weigh up to 30
pounds, might break loose and damage the
ship's tail during Discovery's violent plunge
through the atmosphere today. Such a
collision would probably not have
endangered the astronauts, but might have
required costly and time-consuming repairs
before the next flight.
The third ship in NASA's shuttle fleet is to
end its inaugural voyage with a desert
University to establish biotech institute
By BILL FERRELL and
LESLIE THOMAS
Collegian Staff Writers
Gov. Dick Thornburgh and
University President Bryce Jordan
will be sharing a podium
tommorrow to announce the
establishment of a new
Biotechnology Institute at Penn
Long lines plague sticker hand out
By KRISTINE SORCHILLA
Collegian Staff Writer
During the first distribution of identification
stickers yesterday, several students were
dissatisfied with waiting in yet another set of
long University lines.
Students lined up according to the first letter of
their last names. Nelson Beam (senior-animal
production) said although some lines were short,
he waited about 25 minutes in the A-F line, which
extended across 301 HUB.
The system would be more efficient if the
University would distribute the stickers more
evenly and quickly, Beam said.
Edward DuMond, service clerk in the
Registrar's office, said the number of students
who waited for stickers varied, with the longest
lines occuring after class periods ended.
At first, one person distributed the stickers at
each of the, four tables, but another person was
added to accelerate the process, DuMond said.
Personnel from the Registrar's office
distributed the stickers, he said. Each distributor
was equipped with a list of student names and
checked the number of credits the student has for
Fall Semester and the student's local address
against the list.
The distribution process went well overall,
especially when the second distributor and
student list were added to alleviate the long lines,
DuMond said.
Ed Barr (senior-electrical engineering) said
he waited about 15 minutes for a sticker.
"I don't see why they couldn't have (handed
out stickers) in the first place," Barr said. "But I
can't think of any other way (to distribute the
stickers) since they've gone this far."
However, some students, depending on the
first letter of their last name or the time of day
they waited for a sticker, did not have to stand in
long lines. Phil Winiarski (senior-marketing)
said he only waited one minute for a sticker
State.
The institute will be the first of its
kind in the state, said a
spokeswoman from Jordan's office.
The news conference will be held
tommorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. in
the Penn State room of the Nittany
Lion Inn, she said.
Although the source of the
funding for the institute has not
"There aren't so many (names ending in S-Z) Stickers were distributed to seniors in 301 HUB
as there are any others. From my point of view and graduate students in the HUB reading room.
it's fine, but for (students in line) A-F, it doesn't Graduate students may get stickers again today
look so good," Winiarski said. in the HUB reading room from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Although Pat Ryan (graduate-educational Stickers will be distributed today to juniors,
theory and policy) said she waited only four semester classification of five and six, from 9
minutes for her ID sticker in the HUB reading a.m. to 9 p.m. in 301 HUB. Sophomores may
room, she added that the sticker ordeal could obtain stickers tomorrow in 301 HUB and
have been avoided in the first place. freshman may obtain them on Friday in the HUB
"It's a shame (the University) couldn't be reading room.
more organized. They had to have this additional Students who do not obtain a sticker on their
process, but they're making the best out of an assigned dates may report to 112 Shields after
absurd situation," Ryan said. Sept. 10 to get a sticker.
Kevin Stepinski (senior•mechanical engineering) receives his identification sticker at the HUB while
Mark Shost (senior•mechanical engineering) and Joe Zwetolitz (senior•mechanical engineering) wait.
landing at Edwards Air Force Base in
California at 6:38 a.m. PDT, 11 minutes
after sunrise. It will have 2.5 million miles
on its odometer for the six day flight whose
start was postponed during three
countdowns.
Vice President George Bush, visiting
Mission Control as the astronauts were
stowing their gear in onboard lockers,
asked how things were going and told the
crew that "it's read well from down here
ever since you got your plumbing problems
fixed."
Racial violence flares
in South African cities
By JAMES F. SMITH
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP)
Police firing rubber bullets and tear gas
yesterday drove off crowds of looters and
arsonists plundering wrecked shops in three
black townships where rioting the day
before killed 29 people.
More buildings were burned, but the
townships were comparatively quiet
yesterday, and no new casualties were
reported. As many as 300 injured had been
reported during the riots Monday, the worst
black violence in South Africa since the 1976
Soweto uprising.
Police Commissioner Gen. Johan Coetzee
told the South African Press Association
there was "strong evidence" the unrest was
being brought under control, although
sporadic stone throwing, looting and arson
continued.
Police said 15 more bodies were found in
burned-out buildings in Sharpeville,
Sebokeng and Evaton townships, 45 miles
south of Johannesburg. Fourteen bodies
were recovered earlier.
The Star newspaper in Johannesburg
quoted sources at Sebokeng Hospital, which
serves the black townships, on the number
of wounded.
Lt. Henry Beck of Pretoria police
been publicly stated, The Daily
Collegian has learned that the
University's 1985-86 state
appropriation requests include
funding for biotechnology.
An anonymous source said that
through the institute, the University
may cooperate with a number of
corporations that would benefit
from using biological processes,
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The space shuttle Discovery's crew yester-
day knocked a chunk of ice (above) from the
craft's exterior.
heidquarters said yesterday that 14 more
buildings were set ablaze by rioters during
the day, including shops, a post office and a
clinic.
The immediate cause of the rampage
appeared to be rent increases announced by
the local black council last week. Rioters
killed three members of the council,
hacking and burning one of them to death,
national radio said.
But black opponents of the white-minority
government said underlying the unrest was
anguish over the most severe recession
since the 1930 s and the continued denial of
political rights to the black majority of 22
million.
"As long as the black man is excluded
from the places where decisions are made,
he is going to vote, he is going to speak with
the petrol bomb," Soweto community
leader Dr. Nthato Motlana said in an
interview
Motlana, leader of one of many black
civic groups formed to oppose official
community councils, said campaigns
against rent hikes were "the cutting edge in
the black man's struggle for basic human
rights."
He said the local councils were imposed
on blacks without their consent and ordered
to raise their own funds through rental
income for township houses.
particularly in the pharmaceutical,
chemical and agricultural
industries
Following the news conference,
Thornburgh and Jordan will tour
advanced research laboratories in
Mueller Laboratory and Electrical
Engineering West, a spokeswoman
from the governor's office said.
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