Lion victory readies PSU for No. 1 By CHRIS LINDSLEY Collegian Sports Writer By outscoring Cincinnati 17-0 in the second half Saturday at Riverf ront Stadium, the football team (9- 0 ) did more than topple the Bear cats 31-10. It laid claim to unify the top spot in both wire service polls, a position both coach Joe Paterno and players said they could care little about until bowl time comes around. The Lions entered the Cincinnati game with the No. i ranking in the United Press International poll, and with. Florida, the top team in the Associated Press poll, losing 24-3 to Georgia, Penn State will almost certainly be the AP's No. 1 choice as well. Penn State has been No. 1 in the AP poll four times in the last eight years, but has won only one of three games it played with the top spot in hand. In 1978 the Lions became the No. 1 team after defeating North Carolina State 19-10, and held onto that ranking after defeating Pitt two weeks later, only to lose to Alabama 14-7 in the Sugar Bowl. In 1981 Penn State assumed the top spot after beating West Virginia 30-7, but was upset the next week by the University of Miami 17-14. And the only other time the Lions garnered top honors was following their upset win over No. 1 Georgia in the 1983 Sugar Bowl to capture their first ever national championship. Being No. 1 at the end of the season is every coaches dream, but Paterno's squad still has to face Notre Dame and Pitt, two tough tests the Lions cannot overlook. "Nobody's anything until the sea son's over, and that's how I feel about it," Paterno said after the game. And the players reaction is much the same. Some of this year's play ers were on that national championship team, and know what looking ahead can mean, and they seem to be spreading the word to their younger teammates. "It's just a matter of playirig one game at a time and not worrying about it," junior linebacker Trey Bauer said, "because that will all take care of itself anyway." "It's nice to be ranked No. 1," junior quarterback Matt Knizner said, "but you've just got to put it in the right perspective. And I think the players on this team do that." Flyers goaltender left brain dead after accident By CYNTHIA ROBERTS Associated Press Writer STRATFORD, N.J. Pelle' Lind bergh of the Philadelphia Flyers, the top goaltender in the National Hockey League last year, was brain dead yesterday, hours after his sports car failed to make a turn and slammed into a cement wall. The 26-year-old Lindbergh was be ing kept alive by a respirator at the John F. Kennedy Hospital-Sti;atford Division, said Flyers spokesman Rodger Gottlieb. Dr. Edward Viner, the team physi cian, said Lindbergh had been drink ing and that "it is conceivable that alcohol had something to do with this accident." "The hope for recovery is really nil," Viner said. He said Lindbergh suffered "a very serious injury to the brain stem" which controls basic functions, including as breathing. Lindbergh, driving with two pas sengers, slammed his car into a 3- foot-high cement wall in front of a schoolhouse in nearby Somerdale, said police officer Frank Rizzo. The policeman said Lindbergh "failed to negotiate a turn" about 5:41 a.m. Viner said Lindbergh stopped breathing at the time of the accident and did not resume until he was put .....a.„-J -index arts 16 business 3 opinions 8 sports 11 state/nation/world 6 weather Today, overcast with occasional light showers or drizzle. High 56. Tonight, cloudy and mild with still a chance of a shower. Low 48 ' Heidi Sonen the daily • , • '',`: Lion quaterback John Shaffer sits out the end of Saturday's game against Cincinatti after receiving a slight concussion during the second half. Shaffer, a native of Cincinatti, found that playing for his hometown crowd was more difficult than expected, with the Bearcats keeping the game close until the third quarter. on the respirator at the hospital about 15 minutes later. The Swedish-born Lindbergh's fian cee and his mother, Anna Lisa Lind bergh, visiting from Sweden, were at the hospital, Gottlieb said. He said Flyer's coach Mike Keenan was also at the hospital with other team mem bers, but they left for an emergency meeting at their practice rink. "It was felt they should all be together and told what has happened. They're all very shaken. It's a trage dy of the most overwhelming propor tions," Gottlieb said. Viner said Lindbergh's family members "face the possibility" of having to decide whether to discon nect him from life-sustaining machin ery. "We can't do anything about mak ing that kind of decision until they come to grips with this," the doctor said. He said such a decision would come today at the very earliest. Lindbergh, in his fourth year in the National Hockey League, won the Vezina Trophy last year as the league's top goaltender. With a 40-17- 7 regular season record, he was only the third goaltender in Flyers' history to record 40 or more wins. He was a member of the 1980 Swedish Olympic team. one • ian CCSG approves divestment alternatives By W.T. HOLLAND Collegian Staff Writer The Council of Commonwealth Stu dent Governments unanimously passed three resolutions on Saturday representing alternatives the Univer sity could use to total divestment in opposing South Africa's apartheid system. But the council defeated a fourth _measure that would have used divi dends from the University's $6 mil lion in South African-related investments to finance scholarships for South African Blacks and people of mixed race. CCSG Coordinator Lynn Duffner told the council that administrators were consulted on the feasibility of the proposals. She said Steve A. Gar ban, the University's senior vice president of finance and operations, and other administrators indicated they would accept the resolution with little revision. However, Garban would not com ment on whether the resolutions would be readily accepted, adding that the decision rests with the Uni versity Board of Trustees, which is expected to make a decision in Jan uary on South African investments. Garban said he had discussed the proposals with CCSG but he has not seen the final draft. Russ Taylor (graduate-aerospace engineering), CCSG liaison to the Undergraduate Student Government and author of the legislation, pro posed similar resolutions to the Grad uate Student Association, which will vote on them tomorrow night. The resolutions focus on what Uni versity students can do to oppose apartheid and is not limited to a decision for or against divestment, Taylor said. Taylor added that the USG exec utives' Oct. 10 decision to call for divestment appeared to have been made without any goals in mind. "I think divesting is washing your hands of the issue," Taylor said. "(USG) just did something because they thought that had to be the issue." Taylor said the first resolution is the most important because it states , 1 , ..,.,.., . ft . t• . . '..: ..: . : , ; ( iii4t,,;:,.' . : ..,......,,,:. 5:',...1.*:% ~ , A e l .' i.j.t.'1.,:.....:i::',.,...."::;.!.: .:•1'4,.... I 1[.2;.,:: '. • . " . • • • '' ..~~~ irog ~ ' .;ini,•~'~s CCSG's purpose and sets the basis for addressing apartheid. Included in the resolution are several assumptions: o Most people at the University oppose apartheid. o The elimination of apartheid is a long-term proposition. o Past sanctions have had a neg ative effect on relationships between countries. • The University has limited fi nancial and educational resources to effect any significant change. Taylor added that . he believes the resolutions take a positive approach, giving the University, corporations and the South African government another chance to cooperate. But he added that had the schol arship resolution passed, it would have done the most to help the situa tion. The scholarship would have includ- GSA considers option to divestment By CELESTE McCAULEY Collegian Staff Writer The Graduate Student Association will decide tomor row night what advice to give the University Board of Trustees on the issue of apartheid in South Africa, the president of GSA said. "Divestment is not the issue we're looking at," Brian Del Buono said. "The issue is the stand the University is taking on apartheid in South Africa, and divestment is one of the options they could take." A resolution on the University's current position on South Africa subscribing to the Sullivan Principles will be introduced and voted on at 7 p.m. in 101 Kern, Del Buono said. The Sullivan Principles are a set of guidelines seeking racial equality in the workplace. The resolution would state that GSA supports "appro priate University action having a positive constructive long-term, effect toward the abolition of apartheid." GSA Academic Division head Russ Taylor (graduate aerospace engineering), who wrote the resolution, said, "The resolution . . . offers different alternatives to divest ment, trying to work within the Sullivan principles." Del Buono agreed that divestment may not be the only solution to the problem of apartheid. "There are alternatives that can make an even strong er statement against apartheid rather than what (the University is) currently stating," he said. Del Buono said the resolution is accompanied by three proposals to deal with apartheid, including: Monday, Nov. 11, 1985 Vol. 86, No. 87 20 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University ©1985 Collegian Inc. University's mission: balancing the roles of teaching, research By COLLEEN BARRY Collegian Staff Writer A comment at Encampment by a dean who said if students wanted teaching to be their professors' top priority, they should have gone to another college, has charged a debate on what the University's mission should be. According to the dean's comment, research is the University's priority. A professor later told the Faculty Senate in September that the Univer sity should place more emphasis on undergraduate instruction. Paul Shellenberger, professor of dairy science, asked the senate: "Should Penn State strive to become an excellent research institution, or should Penn State strive to become an excellent comprehensive public land-grant institution that has many missions as we outlined earlier? We are soliciting your support to obtain the latter." Tomorrow, the senate will vote whether it, as a representative body of the faculty, should endorse the comments. An endorsment will show the sen ate's desire to see the University move in the direction of a multi-func tion public institution, Shellenberger said. However, Charles Hosier, vice president for research and graduate studies, said it would be nonproduc tive for the senate to endorse Shellen berger's statement. While the comments made at En campment may seem to have pitted the two missions against each other, Hosier said, "It is disgusting and unacademic to pit research against undergraduate instruction. They are complementary activities, and are in no way in opposition or competition." He said the dean, who remains unnamed, in no way degrades teach ing. The concern is not, Shellenberger said, that the quality of undergrad uate instruction will decline, but that there is not more emphasis on teach ing and advising. As a land grant institution, the University is committed to three mis sions: service, undergraduate in struction and research, Shellenberger said. Little administrative comment on ed paid tuition, room and board, books and work-study opportunities. Scholarships would have been guar anteed for a number of positions for Blacks and mixed-race students to study for undergraduate degrees. The number of scholarships would depend on the amount of dividends paid annually. In addition to using dividends, com panies based in the United States which have a South African-based subsidiary would have been sought for additional endowments. The com panies would also have worked with the University to secure the students jobs in South Africa after graduation. Garban said it is difficult to deter mine how returns on South African stocks would grow annually, but added he would favor a program that would devote earnings from South African stocks toward academic ini instruction has raised the question of the University's priorities. Shellenberger said that under Uni versity President Bryce Jordan's ad ministration, there is a push for the University to become a top research institution. The mission statement of the Uni versity as outlined in the revised Faculty Handbook may show a re search bias in the University, said Leonard Berkowitz, assistant profes sor of philosophy at the York Cam pus. The new statement defines the University as a research institution that is engaged in undergraduate instruction as well as service. Berkowitz points out that in earlier versions, the emphasis between the three missions were weighted more equally. However, Wilbur Meier, dean of the College of Engineering, said that "if we've shorted anything, we have shorted research. "More resources have been put into undergraduate instruction than into research in terms of faculty and program support.— certainly in engi neering," Meier said. Hosier added, "I think that Penn State for 100 years has been an under graduate university with research on the side. We need to strengthen our research. "We are cheating our undergrad uates if our faculty are not working on the frontiers." However, Berkowitz said the ad ministration has not made the impor tance of undergraduate instruction as clear as it could have, adding that many administrators do not view teaching as important at all. "(Research) has been interpreted by many as an emphasis that over shadows our other missions. "It is important for the senate as a representative of the faculty to em phasize the importance of teaching," added Berkowitz, who motioned for the senate endorsement. "We want to hear that undergrad uate instruction is not being put on the back burner. We've already got ten some action," Shellenberger said, referring to Jordan's rebuttle to his remarks. Jordan said in the September sen ate meeting, "We have a keen sense of our responsibility to our under graduate students, a point which Please see MISSION, Page 20 tiatives for South African Blacks. Duffner told the council that Penn State would not be the only university to initiate such a program, citing a similar program in place at the Uni versity of Colorado. One of the approved measures calls for selective divestiture from compa nies that do not improve their compli ance with the Sullivan Principles, which promotes racial equality in the workplace. Compliance would be measured according to a system de vised by the Arthur D. Little Compa ny, which monitors the performance of the principles' signers. In 1978 the trustees decided not to invest in companies that have not signed the principles. Garban said almost all the South African compa nies in which the University holds stock are ranked in Category One, Please see CCSG, Page 20 • The creation of University scholarships for black South Africans. • The selective liquidation of holdings in companies not making good progress in complying with the Sullivan Principles. e The creation of a board to review the performance of all companies in which the University has holdings, to ensure that human and civil rights are upheld. Each proposal will be voted on as a separate item, he said. The resolution will come under new business, and a debate period will follow. Unlike the alternatives the resolution proposes, divest ment is the course of action GSA should recommend to the University, a member of the Committee for Justice in South Africa said he will tell GSA tomorrow. _ Todd May (graduate-philosophy) said, "We're going to ask the GSA to recommend University divestment from companies that invest in South Africa." May said he advocates University divestment to groups like GSA because "divestment is right, whether or not the Board of Trustees support it. We will work until the University does divest." The trustees will decide in January whether to divest its $6 million in stocks and bonds from companies operating in South Africa. Charles Hosier, dean of the Graduate School and vice president for research and graduate studies, will speak to GSA about his plans for graduate advising and courses, said GSA Vice President Lee Carpenter.
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