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No special treatment
"...if we really want to get rid of the
problems caused by cruising, then we have
to have a special ordinance.”
Special ordinances seem to be State Col
lege’s cure for all that ails it. In a town
where there is a noise ordinance, open
container law,, and even an ordinance ban
ning area residents from parking their own
cars in their own yards, it isn’t much of a
surprise that we now have an ordinance
that prevents people from driving around
the block too many times.
The law, adopted at the June 2 municipal
council meeting, prohibits driving around
certain areas in downtown State College
three or more times in one hour or six or
more times in three hours betweem 6 p.m.
and 6 a.m. Offenders will pay a $25 fine for
their first violation and a $5O for each
additional one within six months of the first.
Emergency and police vehicles, taxis,
vehicles making business deliveries and
cars driven by downtown residents are
exempt from the new restriction. It’s plain
to see, then, that the cruisers this ordinance
is targeted at are local teen-agers.
Granted, the problems associated with
cruising need to be taken care of, but in case
State College officials haven’t noticed,
there are already a number of ordinances
on the books that will do just that.
Write
Restored.
My encounter with The King:
A true expose on Elvis' rings, Elvis' Bibles and even the jumpsuit he wore in 'Viva Las Vegas'
A shopping mall
filled with prayer rugs and Elvis dolls
And I wonder
Yeah I wonder
Will Elvis take the place of Jesus in a
thousand-years
A thousand years? I think it happened last
weekend at the Nittany Mall, the only
place I know where you can see a real live
cow (courtesy the farm exhibits that were
there Saturday) and buy a bottle of Elvis
Presley “Love Me Tender” Hair Condition
er ($3.95 plus tax) under the same roof.
The crowd of people at the Nittany Mall
last Saturday, though, didn’t seem that
interested in the live goat at the Pennsylva
nia Dairy Goat Association booth or the
milking machine exhibit.
They were at the mall to see Elvis.
It was all there, as advertised in local
newspapers: Elvis’ guns. Elvis’ Bibles.
Elvis’ rings. Elvis’ scarves. The helmet
Elvis wore in Viva Las Vegas. The jumpsuit
he wore in Speedway.
Even one of Elvis’ cars was there a 1977
maroon and grey Cadillac Seville with Ten
nesee plates that said “ELVIS.” Leaning up
against the right front tire was a blown-up
color photo of a bloated Elvis sitting in the
very same Cadillac the day before he died.
It was, like, Elvis’ Death Car.
They also had under glass, of course
the deck of cards that Elvis played with on
his very last vacation in Hawaii. Death
cards, I guess.
The best Elvis artifact ( of all, though —at
Mayor Arnold Addison
Here we are in the heat of the Authors must present letters to the
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—The Dead Kennedys
There is a noise ordinance for loud radios
and car mufflers, speeding and traffic tick
ets for reckless drivers and conduct codes
for crude remarks.
Shall we go on?
Realistically, how is this law going to be
effectively and fairly enforced? We hope
that our police force has better things to do
with its’ time than stand on the corner of
College Avenue and keep track of how many
times each car goes by. Besides, how accu
rate will those counts be on nights when
those areas get very con jested with traffic?
Officials should also keep in mind that
teen-agers are going to cruise despite this
law if not in downtown State College, then
perhaps on country backroads. It would be
much easier to monitor teen-age drivers
downtown and deal with them by already
existing ordinances than to shift it to anoth
er, potentially more dangerous part of
town.
Of course, cruisers can sometimes be
annoying to pedestrians or area residents.
Seeing how loud your engine can “rev up”
or how, fast you can take off at the green
light shows boredom or at least a definite
lack of creativity on the teen-agers’ part.
But creating a special and selective ordi
nance that is unfairly subjective in its’
enforcement is not the answer utilizing
already existing ordinances is.
least for fans of life’s little ironies—was ai
big, shiny Bureau of Narcotics and Danger
ous Drugs badge that President Nixon gave
to Elvis during a White House visit.
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They had a video cassette player set up in
front of Elvis’ Cadillac and a little crowd
had gather around it. I stopped to check it
out. A middle-aged woman was standing
next to me, transfixed by the sight of Elvis
doing his Las Vegas act in front of a Honolu
lu audience. She watched Elvis toss sweaty
scarves to the audience. She sighed and
fingered the gold charm around her neck. It
said ELVIS in block letters.
She looked like she was really enjoying
herself, so I decided to talk to her. I asked
her if she had ever saw Elvis perform. She
never had the chance, she said. I told her
about a friend I have who saw Elvis in the
early ’7os when she was a little kid and
thought it was great.
She told me about how she used to talk
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movie theatre owners into giving her the
posters from Elvis movies when she was
kid. And how her father wouldn’t let her
play “that jungle music” on his record
player.
By that time another Elvis song had
started and her attention drifted. She was
happy watching Elvis, so I wandered on.
As I walked around checking out the
exhibits, watching people take pictures of
Elvis’ Bibles with their Instamatic camer
as, I heard some kid say to his mom: “Boy,
he sure gave a lot of stuff away.” The mom
started into an Elvis the Generous story, but
the kid’s comment made me look again at
the offical-looking certificates in the display
cases.
Most of the Elvis artifacts weren’t owned
by Elvis when he died. For example, there
was this gold watch given to Elvis by Gen.
Omar Bradley and his wife. (The Bradleys
gave it to Elvis for Christmas a couple.of
days after The King showed up on their
doorstep with some antique guns for the
general.) Elvis gave the watch, which the
Bradleys had inscribed to Elvis, to his
secretary. She later let Jimmy Velvet have
it for his museum.
(In case you didn’t know, Jimmy Velvet is
the guy who owns the Elvis Presley Mu
seum On Tour. But I guess you did know,
that, since the Jimmy Velvet Elvis Presley
Museum On Tour is advertised as being
world-famous.)
In seems that Jimmy Velvet and his
friends are quite serious in their devotion to
Elvis. On display was a copy of Inside Elvis
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Besides the actual Elvis artifacts, the
museum (of course) had things for sale.
Black t-shirts with Elvis Presley Museum
On Tour written on them in silver glitter
letters. Books about Elvis. (One was written
by his maid and a woman who was a fan. It
was called A Maid, A Man, And A Fan,
which is a classic title if there ever was one.
I love the way it implies Elvis was A Man.)
There were “I visited Graceland”
patches. Elvis records with stickers on
them bragging about Elvis “Love Me Ten
der” milk bath.
There were also what looked like Elvis
garbage cans with pictures of a sweating
Las Vegas Elvis on them. The price tag said
$12.95.
I just had to talk to the woman behind the
counter about that.
“Do people really buy Elvis garbage
cans?” I asked.
She smiled at the question. I got the
feeling the woman had a pretty good per
spective on her job. No satin Elvis pillows
for her. She probably has the records and
has seen all the movies, but she probably
doesn’t even have an “I Love Elvis” bump
ersticker on her car.
“Well, no one’s bought one while we’ve
been here,” she said. She picked one up and
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inscribed by the author. “To Jimmy,” it
said. “May we jointly perpetuate Elvis’
name and reputation in the True Light of
Christ.” (Oh boy. It looks like the Dead
Kennedys knew what they were singing
about. Do you think Jello Biafra ever met
Jimmy Velvet?)
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looked inside. “Actually, I think it’s sup
posed to be an umbrella stand.”
The weirdest part of this whole Elvis
artifacts thing is that I think Elvis really
would have loved it. He gave away all that
stuff his rings and guns and clothes
because he thought it was valuable aind that
people wanted it.
I guess people do want it there were
more people at the Nittany Mall that Satur
day than I’d ever seen, except for
Christmas shopping time. Elvis would have
been flattered to see people dragging their
kids to see his junk, strange and morbid as
that may be.
By the way, if you need a job, the Jimmy
Velvet Elvis Presley Museum on Tour has
some openings. I saw this note written on a
paper bag and propped up by an Elvis doll,
“Wanted to tour with the Elvis Presley
Museum: Two females. Permanent or sum
mer job. Good hours. Good pay.”
One of the museum employees told me
they’re going to Miami soon. If you hurry,
you can catch up with them.
Anita Yesho is a senior majoring in jour
nalism and news editor for The Daily Colle
gian. She fully realizes that damn near
every Collegian column begins with a song
quote, but she did it anyway.
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State's proposed anti-hazing bill
is a good thing, IFC president says
By WINSLOW M. MASON JR
Collegian Staff Writer
The most important part of a proposed bill to make
hazing a misdemeanor in Pennsylvania is that it may
deter fraternity members from using the harsh initia
tion ritual, Interfraternity Council President Pat Con
way said this week.
The state House of Representatives recently passed
the bill that would make hazing harsh initiation
rituals in which pledges prove their loyalty and endur
ance a third-degree misdemeanor punishable by $2,-
500 fine and one year in prison.
But the chairman of IFC’s Board of Control, an arm
of the organization which handles all disciplinary
matters, said the board only finds out about hazing acts
if a complaint is filed.
Any BOC member who sees an act of hazing is
obligated to report the acts, said Ben Siegel, who has
chaired the BOC since March.
If someone within the IFC violates fraternity bylaws,
that person must go before the board and action will be
taken, Conway said.
Although no one from Penn State’s IFC lobbied in
support of the bill, hazing is an issue that needs to be
addressed, he said.
“It’s in the best interest of the fraternities,” Conway
said, adding that the problem still exists because
hazing bylaws are difficult to enforce.
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dates a misdemeanor charge for practices such as
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“I think it’s a positive thing,” Conway said.“l’m sure
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that the fraternity will then be observed closely.
Also, the fraternity may be put on probation, which
Conway explains to mean “they can’t have parties or
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Third, Conway said, “They may be thrown out of the
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recognized as a frat.”
The particular sanction applied to the fraternity in
violation depends on the severity of the incident,
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critical because Penn State fraternities with national
chapters are only recognized by the nationals if they
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• The Interlandia Folk Dancers
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from 8 to 10:30 tonight in 133 White
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