2—The Daily Collegian Friday, April Al, 1986
More defense dollars worry Clinger
By MICHELLE DENISE VICHNIN
Collegian Staff Writer
Increasing appropriations to de
fense have spurred some legislators,
including U.S. Rep. William F. Cling
er, to curb unneeded costs within the
U.S. Defense Department and to
force reforms of military spending.
President Reagan's request for a
$34 billion increase in defense spend
ing for the 1987 fiscal year a 12
percent increase over last year has
made some congressmen wary of
increasing the defense budget.
"In a period of potentially disas
trous $2OO billion deficits, this sort of
increase is simply not called for,"
Clinger, R-Pa., said. "It flies in the
face of the necessity for all of govern
ment to become frugal and cost-effec
tive."
Clinger said a need exits for a
strong defense to deter aggression,
police log
• Terri Merdes, 561 Easterly
Parkway, reported a 35-millimeter
camera worth $9OO missing at Sunset
Park April 4, State College Bureau of
Police Services said.
• Robert Gatchel, 710 S. Atherton
St., reported a $320 Hewlett-Packard
calculator lost on South Atherton
Street March 24, State College police
said.
• An assistant theater professor
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but added that a $34 billion increase
in the defense budget would not
"make us safer by any significant
amount until the Pentagon adopts
fundamental reforms to ensure that
our investment in the nation's securi
ty is well-spent."
"Without reforms, we may see
much of the increased spending wast
ed on weapons that don't work and
bases we don't need," he added. .
One suggestion is to have inspector
generals in the defense department to
audit the spending and uncover ex
cessive spending. Inspector generals
in the Pentagon found last year that
the government had purchased $4OO
hammers, $BOO toilet seats and $1,700
coffee pots, the congressman said.
"Many reforms have been made,
but we have a lot of work to do. The
Procurement Integrity Act would
make corporate executives personal
ly liable if their businesses defraud
meter worth $219 from a storage area
at the Playhouse Theatre between
Jan. 31 and Wednesday, University
police said.
• Three University keys were re
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campus location Wednesday, Univer
sity police said.
• Julie Parr, 323 Hastings, report
ed a $l5O bicycle missing from out
side, Findlay Dining Hall Tuesday,
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President Reagan formed the
Grace Commission in 1982 to identify
sources of inefficiency in federal
spending and to provide recommen
dations on how to save money and
curtail waste.
"The Grace Commission estimated
that $2.7 billion could be saved by
closing unneeded bases," Clinger
said.
Jim Turner, a spokesman for the
Department of Defense, said, "the
department is working on closing
some military bases; it's a long and
tedious process and the proposals to
shut bases have• to go through the
Congress."
Because the United States now has
a large percentage of officers in its
top ranks, proposals have been made
to reduce the number of high-level
positions in order to reduce costs and
increase efficiency, Clinger said.
• Chris Madaio, of Union Bridge,
Md., reported a $220 camera lens
missing from an event at McCoy
Natatorium March 29, University Po
lice Services said.
• Larry Farkas, 320 E. Beaver
Ave., reported losing a shirt and cash
all worth $9O from the computer lab in
the Business Administration Build
ing, University police said.
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equals power and power equals dignity
Sorority helps bring injured
By JANINE MILLER
Collegian Features Writer
At last, says Derso Benedek, his
prayers have been answered.
Benedek (graduate-comparative
literature) has been trying for
more than a year to find someone
to help him bring a young Filipino
girl to the United States for a
critical eye operation.
Until recently, Benedek had little
success in obtaining financial sup
port for the girl's operation. But
earlier this week, Delta Gamma
sorority presented Benedek with a
$2,000 check to bring the girl, 8-
year-old Leisha Elica, and her
mother to the United States for an
operation.
"Derso was looking all over for
money, and I was really happy to
be able to help him," says Mary
Adams (sophomore-biology), the
sorority's foundations chairwo
man.
Adams heard about Benedek's
problem through a sorority alum
nae, Mary Emma Keith of State
College.
"Keith read about Leisha in an
article in The Centre Daily Times
this past summer," Benedek says.
"She contacted (sorority member)
Sarah Boughton and then I heard
from the sorority about a month
ago that they were interested in
helping me."
Elica, who lives in the Batan
Islands in the Phillipines, was in
jured three years ago when she
walked up behind her brother as he
was swinging a large knife above
his head. The knife caught Elica in
her eye, Benedek says.
Benedek met the young girl while
completing field work on his disser
tation in the Phillipines. Medical
care on the island is poor, and
surgery in the United States is the
only hope for saving Elica's eye
sight, he says.
Benedek started a letter-writing
campaign in hopes of finding some
hospital or clinic, that would be
willing to do the surgery on the
little girl free of charge. He wrote
to more than 200 hospitals, but only
the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and
Throat Hospital in New York City
answered his letter.
Benedek says he needed about
$5,000 to cover the costs of the air
fare, housing and food for Elica
and her mother during Elica's sur
gery and recuperation.
Until recently, Benedek says he
had a difficult time raising the
money. He met with dissapoint
ment everywhere he turned, and it
seemed that no one was very inter
ested in Elica's problem.
"I started a fund (at People's
National Bank) that was a collec
tion for private donations," Ben
edek says. "This fund collected
about $800."
Finally Benedek found an airline
that consented to fly the little girl
to the United States for free.
"Northwestern Airlines was con
tacted through the efforts of the
political science department here
at the University," Benedek says.
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"The political science department
wrote letters to every airline flying
out of the Phillipines, and North- .
western Airlines was kind enough
to agree to fly Leisha and her
mother to the United States."
Benedek's luck finally changed
when Delta Gamma heard about
his problem and offered him the
rest of the money he needed to
bring Elica and her mother to the
United States.
"The foundation of Delta Gam
ma as a sorority is for Sight Con
servation and Aid to the Blind,"
says Boughton (senior-microbiolo
gy), chairwoman of the sorority's
annual Anchor Splash. "We raise
money for this through the Anchor
Splash, which,was held Nov. 10."
The money Delta Gamma raises
through the event is distributed to
local charities and to the national
chapter of the sorority, where it is
also used to aid the blind and visu
ally impaired.
"This year we were able to give
$2,000 to the Sight Loss Support
Group right here in State College."
Boughton adds. "This is for those
people who aren't considered legal
ly blind, but they need aid in the
form of canes and seeing eye
dogs."
Delta Gamma was able to dis
pense $2,000 to the Sight Loss Sup
port Group, $2,000 to their national
chapter and $2,000 to Benedek.
The operation will probably take
place in late July of this year,
Benedek says.
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By VICTORIA PETTIES
Collegian Staff Writer
The Black Graduate Student Asso
ciation met Wednesday night to dis
cuss the Graduate Student
Association's decision to give tempo
rary status to newly-formed organi
zations.
Pat Stith, GSA chairwoman of the
women and minorities committee
and BGSA member, said GSA's deci
sion, made at Tuesday's meeting,
was enacted because BGSA's consti
tution was approved.
Stith said she was upset because
the discussion surrounding the for
mation of the black graduate organi
zation before the constitution was
approved was not discussed at the
assembly meeting.
Ray McCoy, coordinator of minori
ty programs in the College of the
Liberal Arts, works on minority re
tention. He supervised the group with
the paperwork and other details of
organization.
The telephone conversations be
tween McCoy and BGSA Judiciary
Chairwoman Dorothy Matthews were
Few area banks react to
By DAVE SCOLLAN
Collegian Business Writer
The federal government last week
removed the 5.5 percent rate ceiling
for passbook accounts also known
as day-to-day savings accounts but
few State College banks have in
creased their passbook rates thus far.
The lifting of the federal law April 1
that limited passbook rates ended a
period of regulation begun during the
Depression, said Barry Ickes, assis
tant professor of economics. The fed
eral government believed bank
regulation would prevent another
banking crisis like those which oc
curred in the 19305.
However, it became apparent in the
19705, a decade with high inflation,
that those who had put money in
passbook accounts were being hurt,
Ickes said. The inflation rate out
stripped the rate available in
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group discusses provisional status
not revealed to the other GSA dele
gates the night of the assembly meet
ing, Stith said.
Matthews explained at the meeting
that provisional status meant that the
group would have all the benefits of
other organizations, such as funding,
but would be reviewed by the judicia
ry committee in 15 weeks.
Lee Carpenter, GSA vice president,
said the judiciary committee uses the
provisional status only to eliminate
some of the paperwork for committee
members if a student organization
becomes inactive later.
The committee will not base its
decisions on whether it likes or dis
likes an organization's programs, but
on whether the group stays active,
Carpenter added.
McCoy said when he spoke to Mat
thews before the constitution was
approved, she said that the commit
tee did not like the name "BGSA"be
cause it implied segregation.
McCoy said Matthews stated later
that incoming graduate students
might be confused about the organi
zation's name.
McCoy said Matthews also ex-
passbook accounts, so all who had
money in them "were in effect subsi
dizing the banks," Ickes said.
The government , responded to this
problem in 1980 by setting the date for
deregulation of passbook accounts,
which would allow passbook rates to
rise with the inflation rate, he said.
United Federal Savings Bank has
responded to the deregulation by in
troducing passbook accounts with
tiered rates, said Russ Brooks, vice
president/administrative services
and marketing for the bank. The
rates increase as the amount invested
in the account increases, he said.
Landmark Savings on Jan. 1 intro
duced a money market account in a
passbook format also with tiered
rates, said James Caliendo, senior
vice president of Landmark. He said
the account was introduced prior to
deregulation to get a jump on compe
tition.
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Venus Young (freshmen• Masters In Business Administration), standing, makes
a point during Wednesday's Black Graduate Student Association meeting.
plained to him that GSA serves the,
same purpose as BGSA.
Luke Taiclet, graduate council liai
son and former judiciary committee
chairman, said the committee had
been considering offering provisional
status to new groups for awhile.
passbook deregulation
However, he added, few compet
itors introduced new passbook ac
counts following deregulation.
Competiton came mostly from other
banks which had introduced
passbook-money market hybrid ac
counts like Landmark's early in the
year, Caliendo said.
United Federal and Landmark are
the only State College banks that
have responded to deregulation. Sev
eral local bank executives have
called the deregulation a "non
event."
Pat Kindlin, vice president and
director of marketing for Peoples
Savings, said his bank does not ex
pect to react to deregulation in the
near future because "nobody else is
doing that much."
Dean McKnight, vice president of
Mid-State Bank, said, "I don't expect
any big changes due to the new poli
cy."
BGSA member Lennox Jackson
said BGSA does not intend to be an
organization exclusively for black
graduate students but for other mi
norities as well.
BGSA will hold officer elections
Wednesday.
McKnight added that while Mid-
State does not expect to offer higher
rates soon, banks are just - learning
how to "play the free enterprise
game" because of deregulation, so
rates may increase later.
Current low interest rates will keep
passbook rates down, he said.
If deregulation had occurred a year
ago, however, everyone would have
expected rates to increase, said Dean
Croushore, an expert in monetary
theory and policy and a University
assistant professor of economics.
Croushore added that another period
of inflation would cause interest rates
to increase, and consequently
passbook rates would increase.
Croushore also said some banks
may offer increased rates as a mar
keting gimmick to entice new cus
tomers. These banks will probably
not offer those higher rates in the long
run, he said.
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