Reagan says Star Wars
President Reagan, In his first formal news conference at the White House In three months, last night said he would rule
out a summit agreement with the Soviet Union which would block testing of his “Star Wars” space-based missile system.
But the president Indicated he might be willing to negotiate with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev over the deployment of
the mullt-bllllon dollar system.
USG's divestiture
poll delayed again
By DAMON CHAPPIE
Collegian Staff Writer
An opinion poll to determine
what University students think
about the Univerisity’s invest
ments in South African-related
companies has been delayed for a
second time, but an Undergrad
uate Student Government official
said the poll is set for next week.
The survey questioning students
on divestiture of stocks and bonds
from companies doing business in
South Africa is now scheduled for
Sept. 25-26. The poll had been
scheduled to be taken today and
Thursday, but USG Senate Presi
dent David Rishel told the Senate
last night that logistical problems
interfered with the plans.
The poll will ask six questions
concerning divestiture of 300 Uni
versity Park students and 200
Commonwealth campus students,
Rishel said.
The logistical stumbling block,
Rishel said, is that phone numbers
of the Commonwealth campus stu
dents are not easily accessible and
that USG pollsters will have to
look them up in telephone books.
Rishel also said that a main
concern of USG and members of
the Graduate Student Association
is that a thorough job not rushed
be done with the poll.
The opinion poll is the closing
portion of USG’s South African
Education Drive that brought a
number of speakers to address the
wide range of issues on apartheid
and divestiture. It had been origi
nally slated for Sept. 9 and 10 in a
USG press release.
The results of the poll are ex
pected to be taken to the Board of
Trustees who will decide in Jan
uary whether to divest $6.1 million
the
daily
Wilson said if the committee
finds wrong-doing by Rosenblatt,
it could recommend to the full
Senate that McDonald and Barnes
be reinstated. The Senate would
need a two-thirds vote to do so, but
Rosenblatt would still be able to
veto the action.
An override of a veto would
require the agreement of 75 per
cent of the senators, Wilson said,
in stocks and bonds from compa
nies operating in South Africa.
The University currently follows
a policy of partial divestment by
refusing to invest in any company
that does not sign the Sullivan
Principles a set of guidelines
that promotes racial equality in
the workplace.
In other business, a special Sen
ate committee investigating USG
President David Rosenblatt’s dis
missal of two senators from USG
department positions delayed its
findings because more testimony
is needed.
Sue Wilson, chairwoman of the
Senate Appointment Review
Board, said after five and one-half
hours of testimony at a hearing
Monday night the committee could
not reach a decision on whether
Rosenblatt acted properly in firing
Andrew Barnes and Michael Mc-
Donald from the USG Business
Department.
The committee will recall seve
ral people who testified at the
closed hearing, as well as several
others, to another session which
has not yet been scheduled.
Rosenblatt said he fired McDon
ald, head of the Business Depart
ment, and Barnes, head of
Perceptions magazine, this sum
mer because a carpet businees the
pair operated caused them to ne
glect their USG positions.
Collegian
Interest house relocation discussed
By KERRI RUZANIC
Collegian Staff Writer
University residence hail staff met
last night with a concerned group of
interest house and independent resi
dents of the North Hall residence
complex about the conversion of
Beam Hall to administrative pur
poses.
Beam Hall will be converted to
offices for the College of Business
Administration for Fall 1986 and as a
result several interest houses will be
forced to relocate.
Stan Latta, director of Residence
Hall life programs, said the purpose
of the meeting was to discuss the
possibilities for relocation of interest
house students displaced because of
the conversion.
“The purpose is to look at as many
possibilities and accommodate what
we can,” Latta said. “We want to
make the best options available for
everyone involved.”
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deployment negotiable
By MICHAEL PUTZEL
AP White House CoiTespondent
WASHINGTON President Rea
gan on Tuesday night ruled out any
summit agreement with the Soviet
Union that would block testing and
development of his controversial
"Star Wars” missile defense system.
But the president, answering ques
tions at his first formal news confer
ence in three months, indicated he
might be willing to negotiate with
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
over the deployment of the multi-bil
lion dollar system.
With the Reagan-Gorbachev sum
mit set for Nov. 19-20 in Geneva, the
president also defended the recent
test of an American anti-satellite
weapon as “catch-up.” He said the
Soviets have tested such a system,
and added, “We couldn’t stand by and
allow them to have a monopoly on the
ability to shoot down satellites.”
Reagan said he was taking his
prospective summit meeting serious
ly, but abided he doesn’t plan on
giving the Soviet leader “a friendship
ring or anything.”
“It isn’t necessary that we love or
even like each other,” he said, but
that it is important for the two super
powers to negotiate. Even so, his
comments on the Strategic Defense
Initiative termed Star Wars by its
critics appeared to repeat long
held presidential views and thus con
tradict published reports that a
change in policy might be under
consideration.
Making his first prime-time tele
vision appearance since undergoing
cancer surgery July 13, the 74-year
old president sported his usual ruddy
cheeks and walked gracefully, show
ing no sign of the stiffness that was
“Beam is no longer an option.
Somebody has to move,” Latta said.
Michelle Armstrong, president of
North Halls Association of Students,
said “the committee wanted to for
mulate concrete options” before
bringing it to students for their input.
Many interest house residents ex
pressed a desire to make all of North
Halls into interest houses, denying
access to independents. However, -
University officials expressed a con
cern about that possibility.
“We need to look at it from an
independent’s perspective,” William
Mullburger, manager of the assign
ment office, said.
“In each area there is an indepen
dent area but still specialized interest
areas,” Armstrong said.
“By making all of North Halls
interest houses, we’ve lost the indi
vuality of living as independents,”
she said.
An outline of options was distrib
uted to everyone who attended the
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quite apparent in the days following
the operation.
Although he spent less time than
usual preparing for the session,
which ran a few minutes longer than
the scheduled half hour, Reagan was
ready for most questions with facts
and figures close at hand.
He said there was “re-evaluating”
going on in the United States and
other countries as a result of recent
defections of intelligence officials in
West Germany.
And asked if he would permit a
school-aged child of his own to attend
school with a victim of AIDS, the
deadly disease of the immune sys
tem, he outlined arguments on both
sides of the issue. “I’m glad I’m not
faced with that problem,” he said..
Reagan strode down a red carpet to
his podium in the East Room of the
White House and opened the session
with a call for “free and fair trade for
all.” He cautioned that a “mindless
stampede toward protectionism will
be a one-way trip toward economic
disaster.”
With numerous bills pending in
Congress to slap restrictions on
American trading partners, the presi
dent said free trade can lead to a
“decade of growth” and the creation
of 10 million new jobs in this country.
At the same time, he said that if other
nations take advantage of the United
States “we’re going to take action on
those items.”
“Opportunity is our engine of pro
gress,” said Reagan, who called for
enactment of his tax overhaul plan
and claimed that his economic poli
cies have produced “33 straight
months of growth and more than
eight million new jobs.”
The U.S. trade deficit is expected to
be in the $l5O billion range this year,
meeting. Options listed as “What’s
Out”were:
• Atherton: cannot be used for
interest housing because of its very
limited handicap accessibility and
structural limitations for interest
house uses.
• Centre Halls: is inadequate be
cause of its extremely poor handicap
accessibility and its structural limita
tions, which are not conducive to co
ed housing; also, because of its popu
larity, reassignment is high.
• West Halls: is unsuitable be
cause of its high reassignment, lim
ited handicap accessibiltiy, and the
large number of “ athletic rooms”
involved.
The committee established a list of
feasible possibilties for the relocation
of interest houses including:
• Beaver (in Pollock): because it
is suitable for co-ed housing, and
lounges are available and are of
suitable capacity.
• East Halls: because it can ac
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prompting calls for protection for
numerous American industries.
Reagan said imposing restrictions
against this country’s trading part
ners could produce countermeasures
against American industry and agri
culture.
‘‘Protectionist tariffs could invite
retaliation,” Reagan said, recalling
the Smoot Hawley protectionist legis
lation that Congress enacted a half
century ago and the international
trade wars that followed.
The president never used the word
veto in an opening statement that
asked Congress to work with him on
the volatile trade issue. But with
literally hundreds of protectionist
bills pending in the House and Senate,
his message was unmistakeable.
Reagan also defended his policies
toward South Africa’s white-ruled
government, saying, “I think that
when you’re standing up against a
cellophane wall and you’re getting
shot at from both sides you must be
doing something right. If it had all
come from one direction, I would
looked again and said, ‘Well, did I
miss something here.”’
Reagan said he “must be pretty
near the middle” if some critics say
he should do more while others say he
has done too much toward ending the
apartheid system in South Africa.
The president, in an abrupt reversal
last week, imposed economic sanc
tions against Pretoria.
Asked if he would rule out in ad
vance any negotiated agreement on
testing and development of the Strat
egic Defense Initiative, Reagan said
research is not in violation of any
treaty, and added, “It’s going to
continue.”
commodate interest houses with the
fewest amount of displacements and
it would offer a new living option in
the East flails area.
Under particular consideration are
Brumbaugh, Tener, Pinchot and
Sproul, which would be best suited for
interest houses because their facili
ties are most comparable to those in
North. Halls.
Interest house residents at the
meeting expressed a concern for
safety factors in those residence
halls, the loss of studios in the North
Halls areas, and damages to interest
house property.
“Many people are terrified of mov
ing to another area,” Cory Wagner
(junior-English) said. “Here (in
North Halls) people are accepted.”
Barry Kur, faculty associate for the
Arts and Architechture interest
house, said their biggest concern is
the loss of their studio.
“We have strong reasons to stay in
North Halls,” Kur said.