24—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct,
Power cut
will affect
east campus
Electricity will be turned off in
several buildings on the east side of
campus for two one-hour periods next
week while an old power line is re
moved, the director of maintenance
and operations said.
George Schimmel said, “We’re
turning the power off so we can
disconnect an overhead line that is no
longer used.”
The electrical interruptions are
scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Mon
day and Thursday.
The power outage will affect a
number of lab and research build
ings, utility plants and traffic signals
on the east side of campus as well as
Graduate Circle, Schimmel said.
People affected by the interruption
have been notified, Schimmel said.
“All the people involved have to
agree to the times,” he said. “This is
not something we can casually go out
and do without notifying anybody.”
Among the buildings affected are
the Meats Lab, the Waste Water
Treatment Plant, the Porter Road
Sewage Pumping Station, the Forest
ry Research Lab and the Academic
Activities Bqilding. The traffic signal
at University Drive and Hastings
Road will also be affected.
—by Gregg Bortz
Specter will
host forum
in Kern Building
Students will have the opportunity
to discuss issues ranging from Penn
sylvania’s economic problems to
world peace during a public forum
Monday sponsored by U.S. Sen. Arlen
Specter.
Specter, R-Pa, will meet at 2 p.m.
in the Kern Graduate Center Audito
rium and will address any topic ol
concern to his constituents.
"As your United States Senator, my
greatest priority is keeping abreast of
yoUr needs and concerns knowing
your feelings about the issues that
most immediately represent you in
our nation’s capitol,” Specter said in
a press release, —by Jeanette Krebs
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Vietnam vets found
homecoming difficult
They were fighting an "invisible ene
my" because of the increased use of
guerrilla warfare. Pendorf said this
Vietnam veterans experienced put the men under constant anxiety
more problems adjusting to civilian and stress.
life than soldiers who fought in World In other wars, Pendorf said, men
War II or the Korean War because of stayed with the same group of sol :
differences in the wars and in the diers throughout training and corn
veterans' homecomings, said a for- bat, but Vietnam was a very mobile
mer Vietnam soldier who specializes war because of increased aircraft
in treating the problems of Vietnam technology. Soldiers were often split
veterans. U P and flown to fight in different
By JILL GRAHAM
Collegian Staff Writer
Jed Pendorf, head of the Readjust
ment Counseling for Vietnam Veter
ans in Centre County, spoke to an
audience last night about his work in
treating Vietnam Delayed Stress Syn
drome in an informal workshop spon
sored by the Office of Student
Activities.
Statistics show many Vietnam vet
erans have serious problems adjust
ing to normal life in society, Pendorf
said, adding that more Vietnam vet
erans have committed suicide to date
than were actually killed in the war.
Between 30 and 40 percent of all
people in jail today are Vietnam
veterans and of those that were mar
ried, 38 percent were divorced within
six months of returning home, he
said. Veterans also have alarmingly
high rates of alcoholism, drug addic
tion and unemployment.
Pendorf said many of these prob
lems are characteristics of Vietnam
Delayed Stress Syndrome, or post
raumatic stress disorder. The disor
der results from traumatic
experiences such as combat that are
outside the normal range of human
experience, and involves ongoing
chronic anxiety and feelings of anger,
depression, alienation and repres-
sion, he said.
The main cause of this problem,
Pendorf said, was differences be
tween Vietnam and previous wars.
Because of changes in draft laws,
the soldiers were younger than ever
before the average age was about
19, he said. At that age, people’s
personality and identity are just be
ginning to crystalize and they are ill
equipped to deal with the high levels
of stress associated with combat.
Once in Vietnam, they fought a
highly controversial war for a pur
pose they knew very little about.
areas almost daily, resulting in very
low morale, he said.
During World War 11, it usually
took the soldiers between 30 and 50
days to get home by steamer ship.
This time provided a needed period of
transition for the men to get close and
diffuse their feelings.
In Vietnam, Pendorf said, the jet
made it possible for a soldier to be
home in 16 hours.
“So 48 hours after a soldier was in
an ambush, he could be back home
eating dinner with Mom and Dad,”
Pendorf said.
When the veterans came home,
Pendorf said, they faced a country
that was strongly divided over the
war. Previously, veterans were cele
brated war heroes, but people now
saw the veteran as either a killer or a
loser.
Veterans also had to deal with the
negative publicity from the press.
“This was the first war Americans
could watch while eating supper,”
Pendorf said.
Although delayed stress syndrome
is very far-reaching and complex,
Pendorf said it can be treated. Pen
dorf said he experienced all the
symptoms of the disorder.
Pendorf said he believes group
discussions where veterans talk to
veterans is the best treatment of the
disorder because the men trust each
other and are more willing to confide
in each other.
He said the high incidence of offi
cers being killed by their own troops
shows that these men would not be
very responsive to an authority figure
in therapy.
He also stressed that the therapy
takes time, adding that one of his
patients has been in his discussion
group for two years.
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'Wipeout benefit' held at bar
By DIANE D. DIPIERO
Collegian Arts Writer
The cause might not have been as
important as that of Live-Aid or
Farm-Aid, yet supporters filled the
Scorpion last Tuesday night. They
were there to raise money for an
unofficial pasttime that in their opin
ion had been seriously wronged last
year
That pastime is the West College
Wipeout, an annual concert organized
by students residing on the west side
of State College a territory that
stretches west from Atherton and
north from Beaver Avenue to the
White Golf Course. Every year the
neighbors who, whether by common
soil or common interest treat each
other more like blood relatives chip in
for beer and bands and have a “big
block party,” as fellow resident Sequ
oia described it.
Sequoia said that last spring at the
11th Annual West College Wipeout,
some people didn’t pay until the bash
was underway. Police officers who
had been monitoring the scene as
sumed that the group was selling beer
without a license. Now, another popu
lar story says that the public was
being charged for entertainment and
refreshments, but that is unimpor
tant here. The bottom line is that the
West College gang was slapped with
TA training gets bad grade
By W.T. HOLLAND
Collegian Staff Writer
The problem is not with teacher
assistants, but with TA training, said
the president of the Graduate Student
Association in his report on TAs train
ing to the University Student Exec
utive'Council last night.
Brian Delßuono said GSA is cur
rently working with the Undergrad
uate Student Government’s division
of Academic Assembly to look into
the structure and quality of instruc
tion received by teaching assistants
The two groups are proposing the
formation of a student committee
which will attempt to develop a stan
dard, well-structured program of tea
cher assistance training and to
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fines and court fees totaling $4OO.
Thus the reason for Tuesday’s bene
fit: All proceeds went toward defray
ing the cost of the legal
entanglements.
And so the devotees flocked to the
Scorpion. They wore tie-dyed shirts
and faded blue jeans. Bandanas; were
awkwardly tied around the long
straight hair of men and women.
They danced to every song; their
style was a mindless (and spineless)
combination of those of Jerry Lee
Lewis, Mick Jagger and REM’s Mi
chael Stipe. Heads, arms and hips
moved determinedly to the music.
Certainly the girl sitting next to me at
the bar had to be treated for whiplash
the next‘morning.
To outsiders it seemed kind of fun
ny. A young man sporting a Mack
truck hat took in the scene: “It’s a
regular multi-mania show,” he sai
d. "It’s like a bunch of ’6o’s drop
outs,” another guy at the bar
remarked. Some people just didn’t
know what to make of these self-pro
claimed artsy individuals. But it
didn't matter. Once the entertain
ment started, all the people were
united as lovers of music.
The evening’s success was due in
part to the high-powered bands that
performed.. Some people who had
never been to the West College Wi
peout had come to hear Space Goop
nancial aspects of the issue,” Del
Buono said.
In 1981, the University Faculty Sen
ate passed legislation requiring TAs
to receive training in classroom, lab
oratory and recitation instruction.
In Spring Semester of 1984, GSA
issued a survey to TAs to investigated
the status of teacher assistance train
ing.
Delßuono said the survey, which
received a 38 percent response rate,
found that among graduate teaching
assistants about 72 percent of Univer
sity graduate TAs reported they were
unaware of a program to prepare
them in teacher training.
In additon 65 percent said their
department offers a course (the 602
Supervised Experience in College
Teaching) but only a third of them
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was enthralled with the sounds of
Random Draw. As psychedelic lights
flashed behind the band, the audience
obliviously danced away.
The highlight of the evening,
though, came at the very beginning.
Fliers laying on the bar told of a new
area band: Queen Bee and the Hornet
Band. Why bring an inexperienced
band to a fund-raising performance?
Though this was the group’s first gig
in a bar and in front of an audience, it
did an outstanding job. The crowd
immediately picked up on the band’s
spicy jazz sound; they had fallen in
love with lead singer Tonya Brown’s
sultry voice when she was only half
way through “House of the Rising
Sun.” Queen Bee set the stage for an
evening of non-stop enjoyment.
Sequoia said that the benefit
cleared $5OO. The residents’ dream is
to become a campus-affiliated orga
nization; then, they could advertise
their parties on campus billboards
and draw even bigger crowds at their
shindigs. Yes, a 12th Annual West
College Wipeout is almost guaranteed
for the spring of ’B6. Sequoia said that
if they have to, they’ll make an exo
dus to the top of a mountain as they
did last year. And though they’d
rather it didn’t happen again, they’d
be ready for another benefit concert
next fall.
reported they w4re required by their
department to take it. Of those, 84
percent said the teacher training
allowed them to meet their needs as
graduate teaching assistants.
Del Buono added that at the time,
the University Instructional Devel
opment Program was not publicized
enough. The UID provides instructio
nal assistance for TAs and professors
who desire or are asked to improve
their teaching procedures.
In other USEC action, co-Chairman
of the University’s alcohol task force,
M. Lee Upcraft reported that the
deadline for student feedback will be
extended for two weeks until Oct. 24
in order to give task force members
time to prepare a workable policy
before University President Bryce
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