!—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Oct. 22. 1986
Human rights stressed today
By SUSAN KEARNEY
Collegian Staff Writer
The International Student Coun
cil, in conjunction with 13 other
student organizations, is sponsor
ing a Human Rights Day in the
HUB Ballroom today from 9 a.m.
to 10 p.m.
“The purpose is to increase the
level of awareness on the urgency
of human rights issues,” said Cha
quir Achahbar, vice president of
the International Student Council
and chairman of the committee for
Human Rights Day.
The day will be highlighted by
speakers, films, folk singers, slide
shows and live performers, Achah
bar said.
Dawood Zwink, an international
human rights representative who
has worked with several relief or
ganizations, will speak at noon on
“Human Rights in Islam, Chris
tianity, and Judaism.” A second
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please contact the Political Science Department in
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speaker, Fouaz Turki, author of
The Disinherited, will lecture on
human rights in Palestine.
Performers will include the
Earthtones, The Thrown Bodies,
Tommy Warham, Michael Dennis,
John Cunningham, and Scary
Facts.
Achahbar said there will be ta
bles of literature representing hu
man rights issues in Peru,
Nicaragua, Chile, Cyprus, South
Africa, Palestine, Afghanistan and
the Ukraine.
Achahbar said the day will also
serve as a platform for human
rights groups on campus including
Amnesty International and the
Committee for Justice in South
Africa.
The culminating event of the day
will take place at 7 p.m. when a
panel of speakers will discuss a
variety of human rights issues,
Achahbar said.
Following the panel, there will be
a live concert with Scary Facts,
Achabhar said.
Darryl King, president of Black
Caucus, said Human Rights Day
will make students aware of hu
man-rights issues.
“More than any group, college
students can really do something
about these issues,” King said. “A
lot of movements start at the col
lege level becuase students have a
lot of force.”
Organizations co-sponsoring the
day include: the Undergraduate
Student Government, *the Muslim
Student Association, the Graduate
Student Association, the Arab Stu
dents’ Association, the Black Cau
cus, the Committee for Justice in
South Africa, the African Students’
Association, the Student Associa
tion for Palestine, the Hispanic
Students Association, the Pakistan
Forum, Amnesty International, the
Hellenistic Society and Human
Concern International.
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Students may get voting precinct
By SUSAN KEARNEY
Collegian Stall Writer
University students from four East
Halls residence halls may not have to
leave campus to vote this year pen
ding a Centre County Board of Elec- 1
tions decision to open a new polling
precinct on campus.
John Saylor, Centre County com
missioner and board member,' said
the decision to open a new precinct
may be made at a meeting tomorrow.
Saylor said the four residence halls
affected Stuart, Stone, Hastings
and Snyder are in College Town
ship!
“Their polling place is at the Col
lege Township Municipal Building,”
said Jeff Bower, chairman of the
Centre County Board of Elections.
All other on-campus students live in
State College and are therefore able
to vote in one of four polling places at
the University, Bower said.
Bower said the College Township
Municipal Building is about a mile
from East Halls. But he said the
distance is small compared with
Fiday, October 24th
12 Noon to 2 PM
some areas where voters have to
travel 14 miles to polling places.
Bower said that in the past, the four
residence halls did not generate
enough voters to justify the cost of a
new voting precinct.
USG East Halls Senator Kenneth
Hong said in April that USG sub
mitted a petition for a new election
precinct to the Centre County Board
of Elections. Hong said the petition
was signed by 160 registered voters
from the four residence halls.
Bower said USG’s request and peti
tion should have an impact on the
decision to open a polling precinct.
“That precinct will be looked at
more carefully,” Bower said.
But, he added, for the past seven or
eight years, students have submitted
a similar request.
Hong said many of the students who
signed the petition have since moved
from those residence halls.
But, Hong said, "If they want an
other petition, I’m willing to get an
other one of at least 100 voters.”
Saylor said the board will make a
final study of voting records in those
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residence halls and will also address
the problem of staffing the new poll
ing precinct before a decision is
made.
It is sometimes difficult to find
enough people to staff a precinct,
Saylor said. To run an election pre
cinct, he said, people are needed to
fill five positions: judge of elections,
minority party inspector, majority
party inspector, and one clerk for
each inspector.
Saylor said board members must
live in the precinct. Staff members
must be able to work from 6:30 a.m.
until the polls close around 8 p.m., he
said, adding that it is illegal for staff
members to work the precinct in
shifts.
He said that in the past, USG has
successfully found students to staff
the other four precincts.
“It’s very important to run an
election properly,” Saylor said.
Joe Scoboria, USG Senate presi
dent, said USG will probably organize
a carpool for the students if a new
precinct is not opened.
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Trustees give BAAD rating
By CAROLYN SORISIO
Collegian Staff Writer
Members of the University-
Board of Trustees called the plans
of the Black Alumni Advocating
Divestment “counterproductive,”
but varied in further interpreta
tions of the group’s actions.
After a meeting with University
President Bryce Jordan on Friday,
BAAD announced its intentions to
obstruct minority recruitment and
start a letter-writing campaign to
persuade alumni not to donate
money to Penn State. The decision
came in response to the adminis
tration’s decision not to support
divestment of the $8.7 million in
vested in firms doing business in
South Africa.
The University is under a federal
court order to increase its minority
population to 5 percent by 1987.
Currently, the minority population
is 3.7 percent.
Jesse Arnelle, a member of the
board, said the group’s plans
“can’t help but have some negative
impact upon (potential minority
students’) enthusiasm for the Uni
versity.”
USG to hold one-day elections
The Undergraduate Student Gov
ernment Senate last night unani
mously passed a revised' elections
code that shortens the length of the
USG elections from two days to one.
Pat Devlin, West Halls senator and
chairman of the Senate Appropria
tions Committee, said a one-day elec
tion will save USG about $2,200.
Some senators expressed a concern
that fewer students would vote in a
one-day election.
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‘lt doesn’t make sense to me that an
organization that is working to be heard should
be encouraging others, to support their views
not to come to Penn State.’
Board member Marian Coppers
mith added, “In a strange sort of
way, (BAAD’s actions) give the
University and the administration
an excuse for not reaching its
goals.”
Arnelle said although he believes
BAAD’s plans are counterproduc
tive, he can understand why the
group is taking the actions.
Blacks and other Americans
have strong feelings against apart
heid and these feelings often result
in a sense of frustration, he said.
Obie Snider, president of the
board, said the group’s plans are a
“very inappropriate response. It
doesn’t make sense to me that an
organization that is working to be
heard should be encouraging oth
ers, to support their views not to
come to Penn State.
“If I disagree, I’m not going to
seek to deter that person’s pro
gress just because I don’t ap
prove,” he said.
“I’m not totally surprised by the
action at all because it is a very
deeply felt issue and people are
struggling desperately to come to
grips with it,” he said.
Kenneth Hong, East Halls senator,
said that since a one-day election
saves money, USG should consider
spending extra money on advertising
the election.
In other news:
• Student Trustee Mary Greeley-
Beahm spoke to the Senate regarding
her term on the Board of Trustees.
Greely-Beahm said she was under the
impression her term would last three
years, but was informed last week it
Obie Snider
Coppersmith said, “We don’t ac
complish anything by either side
developing a totally polarized posi
tion,” but added, “I can under
stand the reactions by the Black
Student Coalition Against Racism
and the alumni group.. . that one’s
anger can be expressed in this
manner”
Arnelle said he was not encour
aged by the pace of the Universi
ty’s response to apartheid.
“I have deep concern and some
very serious resolutions about the
progress that is being made with
the selective divestment policy at
this point,” he said.
In January, the board decided
not to divest its holdings in compa
nies doing business in South Africa,
but called for a review of the Uni
versity’s financial portfolio.
Arnelle said that to the best of his
knowledge, the board has not re
ceived a recommendation from the
University to divest from any cor
poration.
Coppersmith said she would per
sonally like to see the University at
least partially divest, and is hoping
for a report on selective divest
ment at the Nov. 6 board meeting.
would last eight months,
• The USG Senate will hold their
next meeting Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. in
the mailroom of McElwain. All stu
dents are welcome.
• The East Halls Residence Asso
ciation is accepting applications for a
new East Halls senator.
• The USG is holding an open
house next Wednesday from 1 p.m. to
4 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend.
—by Susan Kearney
IF PENN STATE received the same
BIG STATE APPROPRIATION AS Pin WE WOULD
HAVE AN ADDITIONAL 38 MILLION DOLLARS, THIS
YEAR TO SPEND ON UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS
Lynn Herman says he is proud of the 22% increase that Penn State
BUT, Pitt and Temple received more % increase 1983-1987 Budget.
Lynn Herman claims with pride that student aid appropriations have
increased by 21% in his four years
But PENN STATE has been force to increase tuition by 30%
You have to realize that there is a problem before you can begin to
solve the problem GEORGE FIELD understands these problems as a
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