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Vigil:
200 students participate
By VICTORIA PETTIES
Collegian Stall Writer
About 200 people marched onto the
the steps of Old Main last night in a
vigil commemorating the eighth an
niversary of the death of Steve Biko,
known as father of the Black Con
sciousness Movement.
Steve Biko was killed in 1977 by
South African Security Police while
in prison. Biko is known as the father
of the movement, a non-violent
movement to end apartheid and es
tablish a non-racial, egalitarian so
ciety in South Africa. Black
Consciousness organizations were
banned soon after Biko’s death.
The vigil was sponsored by the
Committee for Justice in South Afri
ca, a University student-based group,
and the South African subcommittee
of the Central Pennnsylvania Citizens
for Survival (CPCS), a community
based organization
The director of the University’s
Black Studies Program, James Stew
art, said the University has a moral
responsibility to respond to students’
concerns. Stewart said the role of the
University is to teach students to be
citizens of the world, which includes
responding to the needs of students.
The vigil also commemorated the
death of other South African political
leaders. Among those honored were:
Solomon Mahlangu, an activist
hanged for his involvement in the
apartheid struggle; Neil Aggett, a
trade unionist who died under police
security; and Victoria and Griffiths
Mxenge, lawyers of the United Demo
cratic Front murdered by the police.
As the 200 students marched from
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African activist Steve Blko. The vigil, beginning at the University gates on College Avenue and Allen ’
Old Main was sponsored by the Committee for Justice In South Africa and the Central Pennsylvania Citizens for Survival.
the front gates of the Mall to Old
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French rocket
KOUROU, French Guiana (AP)
Space Center officials blew up the
European Space Agency’s Ariane
rocket less than 10 minutes after
liftoff late yesterday when it moved
off course and began falling, threat
ening inhabited areas, officials here
said.
The order to destroy was given
immediately after the rocket, carry
ing two communications satellites,
left its prescribed trajectory and lost
altitude, the officials said.
The failure was Ariane’s third in 15
launches.
French President Francois Mitter
rand, on a stopover here on his way to
French Polynesia, watched the failed
launch of the European rocket, which
was made to compete with the Ameri
can Space Shuttle in the billion-dollar
satellite launching business.
“It’s obviously a great disappoint
ment,” said Frederic d’AUest, presi
dent of Arianespace, the European
Space Agency’s commercial arm.
The Ariane was reported on course
during the first minutes of its ascen
sion before suddenly veering off
course and losing altitude.
D’Allest attributed the failure to a
problem with the third-stage engine.
The destroyed Ariane was to put
into orbit the third of the European
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Liftoff at this space center on the
northeast shoulder of South America
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The rocket was destroyed nine min
utes after liftoff, the officials said.
College women can
By PATTI CAPARELLA
Collegian Stall Writer
College women can play an im
portant part in the fight for passage
of the Equal Rights Amendment by
participating in a march on Wash
ington this spring, writing to legis
lators and running for local
government offices, a spokeswo
man for the National Organization
for Women said.
Alice Cohan said because college
women are the next generation of
feminists, it is critical for them to
become involved with the ERA
now.
“We tried very hard to get the
Equal Rights Amendment passed,”
said Jean Guertler, president of the
State College chapter of NOW. “We
must try again. We have new aims.
It took a long time for women to get
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the right to vote so we’ll just keep
trying.”
NOW,'under the new leadership
of Eleanor C. Smeal, is planning a
massive march . next spring in
Washington, D.C. to support repro
ductive freedom, Cohan said.
“We would hope that Penn State
women would become involved and
organize a bus to Washington to
support us,” Cohan said.
NOW members are also fighting
for passage of the Civil Rights Re
storation Act, which would prohibit
discrimination based on sex and
race and against the elderly and
handicapped, Cohan said.
“It will restore our civil rights to
the pre-Reagan era,” Cohan said,
adding that women should “write
letters to their congressmen, start
petitions, hold rallies and do any
thing to help the act, which is now
pending in Congress.”
Task force studying alcohol abuse
By ALAN J. CRAVER
Collegian Staff Writer
The main objective of the Universi
ty President’s Task Force on Alco
hol’s Subcommittee on Alcohol
Awareness and Treatment is to find
ways to educate students and in
crease their awareness of alcohol
abuse, the subcommittee chairman
said.
William Eck said the subcommittee
hopes to reduce students’ abuse of
alcohol by raising their awareness of
the problems such as declining
grades and a switch to other drugs
created by alcohol.
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The State College NOW chapter
also lobbies legislation at the local
level, Guertler said. The chapter is
now fighting a state auto insurance
bill that permits sexual discrimina
tion.
“Young women are paying more
for insurance than older men,” she
said. “Women can pay up to $16,000,
more than men in a lifetime,” she
said.
NOW is also trying to get employ
ers to pay equal wages for equal
work, regardless of an employees
race or sex.
Each employer’s pay classifica
tions should be based on skill, ef
fort, responsibility, and working
conditions, said Colina Jordan, for
mer president of the State College
NOW chapter.
“This is a male supremacist so
ciety in which males can earn more
money for doing the same amount
to drink,” Eck said. “We’re only
trying to get them to drink responsi
bly.”
Eck said the subcommittee hopes
to reach more students through more
University funding for existing pro
grams.
He said the University’s Total Alco
hol Awareness Program (TAAP),
formed in the late 19705, is one of the
services designed to educate students
on alcohol. He said TAAP offers pro
grams, films and discussion groups to
raise the students’ awareness.
Eck said TAAP offers programs
mainly for the 14,000 residence hall
students, but also works within the
community and with student groups.
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of work as women,” Guertler said.
“It is not always a pro-woman’s
society.”
The lives of battered wives may
also be improved thanks to NOW’s
efforts, Guertler said.
“We are working on a piece of
legislature that would enable police
to .arrest the husband on probable
cause of wife abuse,” said Guertler.
Concerning the recent change of
NOW leadership, Jordan said that
while former NOW President Judy
Goldsmith was more diplomatically
oriented, Smeal is an activist who
wants to go “back to the streets.”
However, “since they were presi
dents at different times, it is diffi
cult to compare their
presidencies,” Guertler said.
Although their approaches are
different, Goldsmith and Smeal are
fighting for the same objective
equal rights for women, she said.
He added that the University’s
Counseling and Psychological Serv
ices and On Drugs Inc., 236 x h. S. Allen
St., also help people with qlcohol-re
lated problems.
He said he hopes the task force will
bring more University funding to
TAAP and other services to expand
their programs.
Eck said it is important that TAAP
and other programs reach as many
people as possible, but without addi
tional funding these programs cannot
expand to effectively reach all stu
dents.
Eck said TAAP has to work to
continuously offer its programs be
cause of the turnover of students.
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By NANCY FUNK
Collegian Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student
Government’s Department of
Women’s Concerns Wednesday
night discussed the possibility of
forming a charter National Orga
nization of Women on campus.
“One advantage of a campus
NOW would be the constant flow of
new blood coming into the organi
zation,” said co-director Carol Gil
more.
Sabrina Chapman, coordinator
of the Center for Women Students,
added that the campus NOW, if
formed, should work closely with
USG Women’s Concerns.
It was decided that if the chap
ter were formed it should include
members of the State College com
munity in addition to University
students.
“We are in a position where we
can do something with our ideas,”
Gilmore said.
In addition, the group discussed
other upcoming projects including
a women’s newspaper, to be titled
“Speak Out,” which this year may
be offered on a monthly basis.
USG Women’s Concerns will
Correction
Due to a reporter’s error, it was incorrectly stated in Tuesday’s Daily
Collegian that an Interfraternity Council proposal requiring all party
guests to present college identification cards would prevent underage
guests from entering fraternity parties. The proposed carding policy,
which was rejected, would have barred only high school students from
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also offer personal defense classes
for women and is considering de
signing a rape educational pro
gram specifically for men.
The meeting also highlighted
upcoming events for women in
cluding a rape awareness / pre
vention program and panel
discussion Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m.
The location will be announced at
a later date.
The newly established Center
for Women Students will also hold
an open house Sept. 20 where Uni
versity President Bryce Jordon
and other key faculty and staff will
speak.
Susan Sturgis, the other co-di
rector of Women’s Concerns, said
input from black women students
is greatly needed in her organiza
tion and added that the group
would like to know the needs of
black University women.
“We want to let it all out and get
moving on the issue of women’s
problems,” Gilmore said.
Gilmore said that in spite of
stereotypes concerning the wom
en’s movement, feminism is pro
human, not anti-men.
Chapman said feminism is a
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