New alcohol curbs proposed
By ALAN J. CRAVER
Collegian Staff Writer
The structure of fraternity and
residence hall parties will change
if the University strengthens its
alcohol policies as recommended
by the President’s Task Force on
Alcohol, which released its report
yesterday.
Some of the changes would im
pose limits on the length of parties,
the number of guests and the num
ber of kegs tapped at one time, task
force Co-chairman M. Lee Upcraft
said.
“There’s going to be a lot of
controversy,” Upcraft said, “and
the task force will be right in the
middle of it.”
The 56 task force recommenda
tions will be presented to Universi
ty President Bryce Jordan on Oct.
15.
Upcraft, also division director of
counseling and health services,
said the most debated aspects of
the recommendation concern
greek organizations, while consen
sus was found for most of the other
recommendations.
However, Upcraft said he ex
pects changes to be made to these
preliminary recommendations af
ter the task force meets with stu
dents and administrators through
next month.
Upcraft said fraternities are not
satisfied with the task force’s rec
ommendations because the task
force went far beyond what is al
ready in practice
“To put it mildly,” Upcraft said,
“(the fraternities’ representa
tives) didn’t seem too thrilled by
the recommendations.” .
Under the recommendations, if
they are accepted:
• Open fraternity parties will be
prohibited and an invitation list
will be required for both men and
women.
• Identification to determine
the age of each brother, sister and
guest will have to be checked. The
21-year-old guests will have their
hands stamped, but the fraternity
will decide who will be served if a
guest is younger than 21.
Alcohol task force seeks input
nic Council, 6:30 Monday night in the HUB Gallery
Lounge; the Organization of Town Independent Stu
dents, 7 Monday night in 307 HUB; Interfraternity
Now that the University President’s Task Force on Council, 7 : 30 Monday night at Kappa Sigma fraternity,
Alcohol has completed preliminary recommendations, 225 Highland Drive; and the Association of Residence
the next step will be to gain input from students, Hall Students, 6:30 p.m. Sept. 30 in 225 HUB.
organizations and administrators, a co-chairman of Open hearings for residence hall students are sched
the task force said. uled for: North Halls, 7 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Warnock
M. Lee Upcraft, division director of counseling and Union Building; West Halls, 7 p.m. Sept. 24 m the
health services, said the task force began revising Hamilton Lounge; Pollock-Nittany-Center, 7 p.m.
University policies concerning alcohol use last Feb- Sept. 26 in the Piano Lounge; South Halls, 7 p.m. Sept,
ruary to control student problemscaused by alcohol 30 in Haller Lounge; East Halls, 7 p.m. Oct. 2in the G.
abuse, such as declining grades, and to reduce the Clark Lounge, Upcraft said. .
risks of liability The task force also will hold an open hearing for
Upcraft said meetings have been scheduled through students living off campus and anyone else interested
the beginning of October to learn students’ opinions on P ' ' P '.
changed. He said the community members of the task force
Upcraft said it is important for students to attend wm be responsi bi e for scheduling meetings with orga
these meetings because the recommendations direct- in towll) such as t he State College Chamber of
ly affect the student s social life. Commerce and the State College area schools.
Undergraduate Student Government President Da- Tbe force ' will hold a f u n meeting Oct. 10 to
vid Rosenblatt, co-chairman of the task force, said the consider the information collected during the meetings
meetings are essential because students will have a an(J hearings and w jn finalize their report, which will
chance to give iput to the final document. be giyen to university President Bryce Jordan by Oct.
By ALAN J. CRAVER
Collegian Staff Writer
This is an issue in which students will have a chance 15, Upcraft said,
to make a difference for future students, Rosenblatt Upcraft said anyone who may have comments or
sa id. questions concerning the recommendation can write to
The task force is scheduled to meet with the follow- him or Rosenblatt. Upcraft can be reached at Counsel
ing organizations: the University Student Executive ing and Health Services, 135 Boucke, and Rosenblatt at
Council, 6:30 Thursday night in 227 HUB; thePanhelle- the USG office, 203 HUB.
Pattern of study
Janet Wlesgerber (freshman-french-buslness) enjoys the afternoon sun and shadows while studying In the alcove
outside of Walker Building.
the
daily
• The number of guests at each
fraternity function will be deter
mined by the Centre Region Code
Enforcement regulations.
• Only bartenders who have
completed the bartender-server
liability workshop offered by the
Total Alcohol Awareness Program
will be allowed to serve alcoholic
beverages. The bartenders will not
be allowed to drink alcohol before
or during bartending.
• Chapter presidents and social
chairmen also will have to com
plete the five-hour server liability
course.
• Drinking games and contests
that encourage drinking will be
forbidden and only one drink will
be allowed to be served to a person
at a time.
• The keg will have to be
checked one hour before the end of
the event and if half a keg remains,
the hosts will not be allowed to tap
another keg.
Upcraft said the task force also
recommends that IFC develops
and implements a “dry rush” pro
gram.
The fraternities are running a
great risk of being held liable for
the actions of those served alcohol
at their parties, Upcraft said, add
ing that fraternities should accept
further regulations because they
are partly responsible for the in
crease of alcohol abuse at the Uni
versity.
“This is an attempt to say to
fraternities that they are in a very
risky and dangerous situation that
implicates the University,” Up
craft said. “The University can’t
sit by and see the fraternities put
them at risk.”
The University is now in court for
two liability cases one that oc
curred on campus and another in
town, Upcraft said last week. He
said three other cases also may go
to court, including one involving a
high school student who was killed
in an automobile accident after two
University students served him
alcohol.
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment President David Rosenblatt
said not only fraternities but the
Collegian
entire University needs to accept
the responsibilities of drinking. Be
cause the courts are cracking down
on liability cases, there is a greater
need for the awareness of laws
concerning alcohol use, he said.
The recommendations dictate
that all groups or clubs that use
University facilities for their func
tions must follow most of the rec
ommendations for fraternities and
sororities, Upcraft said.
Upcraft said the task force does
not yet have recommendations
concerning tailgating, but the poli
cy and rules subcommittee will
report soon.
The recommendations also in
clude:
• All fraternity and residence
hall activities must specify begin
ning and ending times, but no func
tion will be allowed to last later
than 1 a.m. A non-alcoholic bever
age other than water and snacks
must be served at all functions
when alcohol is served. Only one
keg will be allowed to be tapped at
a time.
• Residence hall students will
be required to report all parties
where alcohol will be served to the
coordinator’s office two days be
fore the party. The host will have to
provide proof of the roommate’s
consent and indicate the time,
date, location and the number of
guests expected at the party.
• Upcraft said hosts will not be
allowed to charge guests before or
during the party and no parties will
be allowed during final examina
tion week.
• The resident assistant will re
mind students of the regulations
and inform students that a staff,
member will visit the party. If a
party is discovered in progress
where the regulations are not being
followed, the party will be termi
nated.
Parties in both fraternities and
residence halls must also follow
state laws, under which alcohol
cannot be purchased, consumed,
possessed or transported by any
one under 21 years of age.
Collegian Photo (Julia McCulloch
Trade deficit:
U.S. net debtor for first time since 1914
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The na
tion’s broadest measure of foreign
trade soared to a near-record $31.8
billion deficit from April through
June, pushing the United States into
the status of a net debtor for the first
time in 71 years, the government said
yesterday.
Simply put, that means Americans
now owe more to foreigners than
foreigners owe to Americans, a posi
tion the country has not been in since
1914.
The Commerce Department report
said the $31.8 billion deficit in the
current account during the second
quarter was 4.9 percent higher than
the $30.3 billion current account defi
cit incurred during the first three
months of the year.
The current account measures not
only trade in merchandise but also in
services, mainly investments flowing
between the United States and other
countries.
The report showed that foreign
assets in the United States grew by
$39.5 billion during the first six
months of the year while U.S. invest
ment abroad was growing by only
$3.2 billion.
That would mean a deterioration in
the country’s investment position of
$36.3 billion during the first six
months of the year enough to wipe
out the $28.2 billion investment sur
plus held by the United States as the
year began
By the end of the 1985, economists
predict, the country could be in debt
to foreigners by as much as $lOO
billion, making the United States the
world’s largest debtor country, sub
stantially ahead of the previous lead
ers, Brazil and Mexico.
However, economists are split on
how serious a threat this situation
poses for the United States.
Some economists say there is no
parallel with debt-plagued devel
oping countries because the Ameri
can ' debt represents a smaller
percentage of the overall U.S. econ
omy, the biggest in the world.
But other economists warn that,
now that the United States has
slipped into the status of net debtor,
the debt is likely to grow at astro
nomical levels in the coming years,
Need for paramedics discussed
By TOM SCHAFFNER
Collegian Staff Writer
The ongoing dilemma between expanding medical
services and controlling health care costs has hit home in
State College.
About 30 emergency medical technicians from ambu
lance services across Centre County gathered at Centre
Community Hospital last week to discuss. starting an
advanced life-support system that would bring full-time
paramedics to the area.
Dr. Thomas Bern, head of emergency services at the
hospital, said a paramedic service would cost at least
$250,000 to $300,000 and take up to two years to initiate in
Centre County.
Bern said if the hospital can find appropriate funding
measures, the estimates would be practical. The mone
tary estimate included only equipment and supplies, not
the expenses for paramedics, he added.
Paramedics are trained to administer advanced life
support, which includes administering drugs and intrave
nous fluids, reading electrocardiograms and praticing
skills to keep airways open
Under the current system, EMTs are trained to per
form basic life support such as banadaging wounds,
administering oxygen, immobilizing fractures and con
trolling bleeding.
Bern said a paramedic service has not been established
in Centre County because its rural setting does not have a
“hospital every five minutes.”
Because Centre Community is the only hospital in the
area, there is no competition to give the hospital an
incentive to implement an ALS service, which would
include the use of a paramedic unit, he said.
Dr. David Lindstrom, director of the Office of Emer
gency Medical Services at Ritenour Health Center, said it
has been the priority of his office to provide the Universi
ty with a constant advanced life-support system. Para
medic service at the University is inconsistent because it
is only available during home football games, the Arts
Festival, Agricultural Progress Days and the Beta Sigma
Beta-Sy Barash-Beta at Bald Eagle State Park, Linds
trom said.
Because the events draw large crowds, they are “clear
ly high-risk events” that necessitate the hiring of ad
vanced life services, he said. Other than the four events,
fyi
The University Park Airport
Authority announced that the
new airport parking lot will be
closed Sept. 16 to Sept. 30 for
paving and light installation.
Cars may be parked in the lot
next to the former terminal. Any
car found in the new lot by 8 a.m.
Sept. 23 will be towed at the
owner’s expense.
Tuesday, Sept. 17,1985
Vol. 86, No. 48 12 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
©1985 Collegian Inc.
The Deficit For
April-June 1985
Was $31.8 Billion
$86.2
IMPORTS
The current account, the nation's broadest measure of foreign trade, registered
a near-record $31.8 billion deficit from April through June, confirming that the
country has now become a net debtor for the first time in 71 years, the
government reported yesterday.
hitting the one estimate $1 trillion by
1990.
The problem is that the United
States for many years was able to
rely on overseas investment earnings
to cover its perennial merchandise
trade deficits. Now, however, Uie
country will be running a trade deficit
and an investment deficit as dollars
flow abroad to pay interest and divi
dends to foreigners.
This imbalance, some economists
predicted, will result in belt-tighten
ing by Americans as the country tries
to cope with the foreign debt.
“We are simply going to have to
dilute our standard of living to pay off
these debts,” said Roger Brinner, an
economist with Data Resources Inc.,
advanced life services are only available in the emergen
cy department at the hospital, Lindstrom said.
Bern listed four criteria he would establish before
beginning a paramedic system in the area. A paramedic
service would:
• Serve all of Centre County.
• Be supervised by a Centre Community Hospital
physician.
• Have a long-term commitment from system opera-
tors. . t ,
• Complement present EMT services, not replace
them.
Lindstrom said that before a paramedic service could
be started in the area, all ambulance services, hospitals
and local governments involved must approve the sys
tem.
“It’s going to cost money, but what is a human life
worth?,” Lindstrom said.
Permission from the Seven Mountains Emergency
Medical Services Council and the state Department of
Health must also be obtained, he said.
Lindstrom added that besides New Castle, State College
is the only area with a population more than 25,000
without a paramedic service.
According to a 1981 Seattle Heart Watch Study, very
few heart attack victims can be saved unless ALS is
provided to them within eight to 10 minutes, he said.
EMT Dan Baumgardner of the Emergency Medical
Transfer Services of State College said paramedics have
about 700 hours of training.
EMTs have about 120 hours of training, Lindstrom said.
U.S.Forelgn
-n Trade
Deficit
In Billions of Dollars
$53.2
EXPORTS
Source: U.S. Commerce Department
a Lexington, Mass., consulting firm.
He and other economists blamed
the soaring federal budget deficits for
pushing up interest rates in this coun
try and helping to lure foreign invest
ment.
“As long as we overload the finan
cial markets with foreign debt, our
interest rates are going to be higher
than the rest of the world and higher
than we can afford to pay,” Brinner
said.
“Eventually foreigners will decide
they have enough dollars and the
dollar will sink in value, but before
that happens this outflow of dollars
will feed on itself much as the federal
debt does,” he said.
The University’s ambulance service supplies assis
tance to any student within a 10-mile radius of campus,
any employee working at the University or anyone
visiting campus or University property.
Noreen Byers, co-owner of Handy Delivery Services,
901 E. College Ave., a taxi and delivery business, said her
business is interested in beginning a paramedic service in
the area.
Byers said the service would cost about $250,000 to
initiate and would serve no farther than Bellefonte,
Skytop Mountain and Boalsburg.
For the service to be successful, Byers said, Handy
Delivery would need a guarantee from Centre Commu
nity to receive no fewer than 2,000 runs per year.
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