opinions O' lit ri il ini n Overregulation blues The tone of this editorial will not exceed spent the money training officers tp enforce 55 decibels. We wouldn’t want to violate it. At least you could enforce the law. State College’s noise ordinance. But wait! Not the law that is easiest to enforce, but What noise ordinance? What 55 decibels? IF the law that applies to the specific violation. WE GOT LOUD, WE’D BE ARRESTED Now why don’t they enforce the noise ordi- FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT. What’s nance instead of using the all-purpose disor going on? derly conduct, which is much more Seventeen months after this community subjective in its enforcement? was blanketed by a noise ordinance that Police Chief Elwood Williams says “it’s limited parties to 55 decibels, only six noise less of a hassle,” because officers don’t citations have been issued. But it’s still know how to use the noise-measuring equip pretty loud out there: at least 90 percent of ment. And they don’t have that much equip the 867 citations issued for disorderly con- ment, only two measuring devices, duct have been for noise violations, accord- So why did council agree to the ordinance ing to State College District Justice Clifford if it’s just a hassle? Yorks, Perhaps council members put on their The noise ordinance, nine months in the regulator gas masks that make them go making, met loud approval from non-stu- regulation slap-happy. Why not a noise dent residents and equally loud opposition ordinance when there’s an open-container from fraternities and independent students. j aW) we ed ordinance, cruising ordinance It made any amplified sound at any time a an( j an ordinance banning residents from violation if a neighbor complained. It even parking their own cars in their own yards? prtrnnlained'" 8 d ° gS Hlegal “ 3 nelghb ° r « * dear council and the police depart- The State College Municipal Council m ® nt h eve the obligation to enforce the hailed the ordinance as a panacea for an I.nance asntis wi If they don t unavoidable problem in a college town. ,ntend t 0 use 14 slM >dd be repealed. Council member R. Thomas Berner said it And the next time council plans to further “will make everyone responsible for getting regulate the life of this college town, it along with their neighbor.” should remember the difference between Well, borough council, you passed the loud but meaningless rhetoric and the law. You spent the time passing it and you “hassles” of everyday life. _ 11 Pennsylvania State University. .be signed by no more than two people. 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Participation: Look beyond obvious forms of protests while searching for solutions to the world's problems Is there no end to the atrocities that this University will sponsor? Not content with the South African dealings, there is yet another area in which the University has dealings with a situation of dubious ethical clarity. It is a little known fact that Penn State has numerous holdings in a small area in Ant arctica. Isolation in a forgotten corner of the world has enabled this company to avoid public scrutiny and ultimate exposure of what it really is: a sordid little operation headed by a greedy, fat old man who bla tantly exploits his workers and mistreats animals. Penn State must cease funding of this atrocity. This miserable old codger, growing liter ally by the day as a result of your tuition, employs hundreds of laborers for nothing more than food and lodging. Beyond this abomination, he refuses to employ nothing but extremely short fat white men whom he degradingly refers to as elves. You should feel real guilty about this. These serfs labor throughout the year on useless trinkets while their master reaps . :.k ' • • r- J3S the ultimate benefits of fame and overall adulation by working merely one day a year and eating stale cookies the other 364. He refuses these poor workers unemploy ment benefits, health insurance and it is rumored that a worker who misplaces so little as a tinkertoy becomes polar bear bait. If you are not ready to take your own life because of your pounding guilt over this, you have all the conscience of a garish lawn ornament. This man is a Stalinistic-type communist who has never been seen garbed in anything reader opinion Remembrance Penn State and the Department of Electrical Engineering lost a great friend on Oct. 10 when Professor Clif ford Holt died. Until a few weeks ago, he was teaching in the department without pay, as he has done for the 13 years since he retired. He did it because he loved to teach and he loved Penn State. By doing so, he enabled young professors to have a lighter teaching load so they could get their careers established. He served as an inspiration to pro fessors who met his students rejoic ing in the memory of his compassion, dedication and sense of humor. He will long be remembered by his students, his friends and through the scholarship fund that has been estab lished in his name. but the color red. Well, gosh darned it, he makes me see red as well. University support of Santa Claus must be stamped out. It must be gutted, shouted down, blown up and sent on a long hike without the proper footware. I, as the moralistic voice of universal integrity, announce the presence of a group called: Students Against the Parasitic San ta, or SAPS. We have already had hundreds of rallys at Old Main. Unfortunately, only me and about 20 peo ple with very strange haircuts showed up, so I felt ridiculous and instead went down town and played video games where I got to shoot at large, unfeeling aliens. I summoned up the courage to stay at the the next one I attended. We chanted dumb slogans and tried to pretend no one was really staring at us. The Russian Bear has four paws that’s four more votes for Santa Claus! Dr. Jordan, listen to us, while we act like children and fuss and cuss! We all felt quite sheepish when we found out that Jordan was out playing golf with Gerald Ford and did not hear our wailing j\/ \S V V John S. Nisbet professor of electrical engineering Nearsighted The only thing all parties agree upon in reviewing the recent Iceland “mini-summit” is that advancements were made and that they broke down over the Strategic Defense Initita tive. Consider these facts: • SDI research has been going on for at least 20 years; Reagan didn’t even learn of it until 1983. • If a defense which is not cheaper than the counter measures against it, the defense is not feasible. The Soviets already possess tech nology to alter their present nuclear missiles (by shortening the boost phase or having them rotate during the boost phase) which would effecti vely nulify the best of our present high-tech space goodies. They may also launch dozens of small space mines in a single rocket payload and maneuver them into position near SDI devices. These min es could be exploded at will from the ground in time of war. • Reagan totes SDI as a non-nucle ar progarm, yet the most potent and promising weapon in the SDI arsenal is the x-ray laser, a weapon powered by a hydrogen bomb. • The Soviets have been research ing similiar weapons for years. So what do they gain in confining SDI testing to the lab? As long as the United States doesn’t test these weap ons in space, the Soviets are relieved of the rather expensive burden of financing similar tests. Besides, no one particularly likes the thought of dozens of satellites, some with nuclear bombs at their core, floating about space in their development phase. There is also the time her daughter visited me at Penn fear that space weapons escalation State one day long ago. would result. Some of our activities included This is not saying SDI is hopeless. The vision of a space-based, non-nu clear “peace shield” implemented and maintained by the world’s major powers to ensure against third-party attack as well as arms escalation, is achievable as well as admirable. It’s likely to become feasible some- Drinking some beer while under day, but for Reagan to hinge U.S.- age is against the law, if caught, but Soviet arms reductions talks on the you know, no way in the world could in-space testing of a system that her parents ever be held responsible, cannot possibly be effective in the much less accountable, for the ac next 20 years is irresponsible and tions of their own under age child, nearsighted. Nope. The blame has to fall some- Preying on the misinformation of where else, the citizens of this nation to gain That’s why the rest of her family support for what is at best a vain has, in vain, been trying to win their political issue is unjust. Doing so at lawsuits against the company that the expense of promising arms reduc- manufactured the aluminum from tions proposals is inexcusable. which the beer can she drank out of Todd G. Fitch that night was made, the construction junior-information systems company (since they were the one’s l ■ u'l’j. “> who built McKean Hall in the first Liability . place) and, of course, the car man ufacturer for building the very same My sister-in-law’s mother’s broth- car which was used for the site-seeing er’s aunt’s pet dog’s former owner’s tour. I mean, they had to start some third niece’s step cousin’s under-21- w j ierei right? year-old daughter came to visit me well, to wrap all this up,'to this when I was a freshman living in (OH ver y day j make sure I never involve MY GOD!) M-c-K-e-a-n Hall. That myself irf the deadly combination of was a couple years ago. drinking beer out of aluminum cans Two months ago, her mother died in McKean Hall and taking site-see from acute emphysema (she smoked j n g tours of fraternities in one of that four packs of cigarettes a day for 35 company’s cars. I think one can un years). It’s easy to figure out the derstandwhy circumstances which led to her death, however. It all goes back to the What do you think? The Daily Collegian welcomes let- ticians who overlook issues and con fers from students, faculty, staff arid centrate on slighting their opponent? area residents concerning issues and Authors must present letters to the topics of interest to the Collegian’s editor (no more than IM* pages, readership. With the semester at the double-spaced) or forums (up to half-way point, many important is- three typed pages, double-spaced) to sues confront the University. The the Collegian in 126 Carnegie Building Collegian wants to know what you during office hours, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 think about: p.m. • State College Municipal Bo- Students’ letters should include the rough’s noise ordinance. After 17 semester and major of each writer, months, only six citations have been Letters from alumni should include issued under the ordinance. Do you the author’s major and year of grad think a special ordinance is needed to uation. reduce noise in the State College All writers should provide their area? Or do you think this ordinance address, phone number and social is just another case of overregula- security number for verification of tion? • Political candidates who use no more than two people, mudsliriging to gain the advantage The opinion editors reserves the over their opponent. Granted, right to edit letters for length and to mudslinging has been around nearly reject letters if they are libelous or do as long as there have been politicians, not conform to standards of good What do you think about these poli- taste. and grinding of teeth. Nevertheless, it did have quite the im pact. Really, it’s true. I tried to find other ways to help the elves. I discovered they often suffered from chap ped lips because of their diet which consis ted mainly of broken candy canes. So I pursuaded my fraternity to have a slam-a thon with a sorority to lick chapped lips. It was a success. We raised much money. Members repeatedly bashed themselves over the head with large, thick clubs with larger donations for more powerful and lengthy self-bludgeoning. The group with the largest number of comatose members at the end won the Marquis de Sade “Pain is not So Bad” award as well as free trauma care at Center Community Hospital. Unfortunately, after expending all this effort on each of these endeavors I felt quite empty. I had attempted to give my boring, collegiate life meaning by attaching myself to causes rather than just going out and meeting girls instead. I didn’t'solve my problems or anyone elses by throwing group tantrums on Old Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1986 Main Lawn. Rather, we sounded like a bunch of infants with diaper rash. Maybe instead of storming around screaming or bashing myself over the head like an idiot to raise money, I could have instead helped some very real people who were around me and could be helped much more than someone a continent away. In my community there are the elderly, the orphaned, the sick and the handicapped. They just didn’t seem as exciting as a lot of other people who appeared on the evening news every night. But I could make a difference with them. The Daily Collegian drinking some beer in my room and a site-seeing excursion in her car (the same car her mother was to die in, years later, while having a severe emphysema attack on the way to the hospital) of the several fraternity houses around campus. the letter. Letters should be signed by There is nothing wrong with peaceful protest or charitable events. They certainly do a lot to advance their causes. But the only way to make a difference in something is to actively participate, not merely talk a lot or raise money once a year. Partici pation is the only solution to any problem. Brian Schafer is a senior majoring in health planning administration and a col umnist for The Daily Collegian. His column appears every other Wednesday. Michael Rybacki junior-fuel science Frats join forces to combat crime By VICTORIA PETTIES Collegian Staff Writer University fraternity members and pledges will patrol the streets of State College every weekend as part of the first-ever nationwide fraternity crime watch. Eric Graves, Interfraternity Council community relations chairman, said that last weekend 72 fraternity members patrolled a 16-block area from 10 p.m. Friday to 2 a.m. Saturday. The patrol area stretches from Hetzel Street to South Allen Street and from East Beaver Avenue to East Hamilton Avenue. Fraternity Crime Watch, sponsored by IFC, orginated as a program to deter weekend acts of vandalism and disorderly conduct in neighbor hoods with a large number of fraternities, Graves said. “Vandalism and disorderly acts are not serious problems in the fraternity community, but it is enough of a problem for IFC to address,” Graves said. IFC’s community relations board originated the program last spring “but the program did not get off the ground until this semester,” Graves said. “Participation in the program is overwhelm ing,” Graves added. “Thirty-six of the 52 fraterni ties have signed up to participate in the crime watch.” ‘Penn StatesooK«?tore October 21 - 31 t TONIGHT ON C-SPAN i * * * * Penn State launches series on Cable TV and the Public Interest by joining forces with National Museum of Cable Television and Cable Television Pioneers. * * * * * * Date: -K Time: £ Topic: ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Music SALE... CASSETTES and RECORDS. MAJOR LABELS TOP ARTISTS AFFORDABLE PRICES Something for Everyone Pop, Rock, Folk, Jazz and Classics On Sale for Limited Time Shop Early for Best Selection Letters to the Editor The participating fraternities will take turns patrolling four areas for an hour each starting at 10 p.m. on Fridays. IFC President Pat Conway said the Crime Watch program started on Homecoming weekend because of the high number of people visiting State College throughout the weekend. “Our houses have been victimized enough,” Conway said. “Most of the crimes at the fraterni ties occur Friday and Saturday night after a party when everyone is sleeping.” David Caster, police community relations and ‘The Crime Watch is effective in terms of deterring (crimes) more than anything else.’ crime prevention specialist, said the State College Bureau of Police Services advised Crime Watch fraternity members to act “only as the eyes and ears of the State College police.” Caster said fraternity members are advised to call the police immediately if they observe any crimes. State College police received about six calls, on campus October 22 7:00 p.m. First amendment issues Brian Cousins OKO - Aon - OKO - Aon - OKO • Aon - OKO - Aon - OKO - Aon 1 Dear OKO, = ’ •© < Homecoming Ulith Vou UJos DCUCIOUS! © © Vour Hospitality ujos GR€flT! > OKO - Aon - OKO - Aon - OKO - Aon - <DKO - AOfl - OKO - AOn Mou-Can-Eat ] ilad Buffet lith vmsoS9 Bwyer ■ „ , l All-Yoa-Can-Eat I . All-You-Cm-Eat | q-Lj n u ff e f with • \**B£v‘\*i!!SSV , \ I «» W reasasass»x-* 1| ■ | —PONDEROSA. 1 1630 S. Atherton St. I I [jggg (at University Drive) I 1. rssi AAA . 1 mostly concerning disorderly conduct, from Crime Watch fraternity members last weekend, Caster said. During football weekends, the increase in people visiting the fraternities has helped to cause an increased number of disorderly conducts and acts of vandalism, he said. Four members of Theta Delta Chi fraternity, 305 E. Prospect Ave., said they patrolled the two square block area from East Fairmount Avenue to East Hamilton Avenue. Brian Cousins, member of Theta Delta Chi, said he and four other fraternity members reported no crimes Saturday night. “The Crime Watch is effective in terms of deterring (crimes) more than anything else,” Cousins said. “If people know that the fraternity will be watching the house, it is more likely that they will not cause any problems.” Cousins said his fraternity has not had a major problem with vandalism this year but that several cars in the parking lot have been damaged. Kevin Noble, a member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, 420 E. Prospect Ave., said the Crime Watch is leaving the "State College police free to do other more important things.” Conway said the Crime Watch is the “progres sive step for fraternities that are taking on their own responsiblity in watching our homes and our neighbors.” Be sure to visit us during the Grand Opening of our new Calder Square Store featuring fashions for Campus and Career. Special Grand Opening prices on famous brand items throughout the store. EHEJ MacKintosh 111 Coats and Jackets Jeans $1 999 “Special Prices” |7M Don I pp EBER fashion Wool Casual Un n c Sweaters Coats Reg. *2OO Regular Values to *3B Sale $ 99" $ l9" Sale $ 19" Duo-fold Poly-Cotton Special groups of 100% Cotton Turtlenecks BIG TOPS Turtlenecks Reg. *lB Value (aqq $099 $099 Tiz liz CLAIBORNE PETITES You’ll like it You’ll like it even better even better rxuonDon JiJfog* Winter Jackets Reg. *llO Sale 5 54" Thanks, AOH © c l9B6Ponderosa.lnc. ~. ti . 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