14—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Oct. 28, 1986 Oil industry aids Clinger By JAMES A. STEWART Collegian Staff Writer A survey on campaign contribu tions from oil and gas industry politi cal action committees released yesterday by the Pennsylvania Pub lic Interest Coalition said Republican incumbent William F. Clinger has received more oil PAC money than all but one Congressional candidate in non-oil areas. A 75 percent approval rating on Clinger's votes on oil-related issues by the Petroleum Producers’ Asso ciation of America and an analysis of five key issues by local groups show that Clinger leans toward the oil companies, said Ed Rothschild, asso ciate director of the Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, Penn PlC’s parent organization. “I believe oil and gds companies have made these contributions know ing they have a friend in Congress,” Rothschild said. Jim Clark, campaign manager for Clinger, said contributions from oil Mudslinging Continued from Page 1 Although it is difficult to assess whether the amount of discussion of issues as opposed to personal atacks is greater this year than the past, Eisenstein said “it’s my suspicion that this year is not very different from other years when there are competitive campaigns.” In 1982, he said, when there was “virtually no serious opposition” to U.S. Rep. William Clinger, his cam paign was almost invisible. But because Clinger’s opponent this year in the central Pennsylvania race, William Wachob, came within almost 6,000 votes of defeating the Republican congressman in 1984, the €' . ..&ji.'S; : . tf I | lnterested in being Greek? But don't uuont to BUSH. s The Sisters of Gamma Phi Beta ore g * intervieming uuomen for its newest *%*■ JL pledge doss. X a fc Vou and Pour friends con enjoy the l t benefits of pledging o social sorority 2 together. 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Of Congressmen outside major oil-producing states, only Sam Gibbons, a Florida Democrat, has received more in PAC money, Stollsteimer said. “It’s important because this money comes from a single source instead of being spread out over individual con tributors,” Rothschild said. “It has an enormous effect; you can see it in his voting. “There’s a clear correlation be tween money received from oil and gas contributions and votes in Con gress,” Rothschild said. Clinger has received the majority of his campaign funds from individu al contributors, Clark said. “Those congressman has initiated a much publicized campaign complete with mudslinging on both sides. Wachob, former Democratic state representative, accused Clinger of being bought by big oil companies, while Clinger charged that Wachob is “soft on child molesters.” But there seems to be some recog nition on the part of the gubernatorial candidates that this political mudslinging may have gone too far. Last week Scranton, declaring that the gubernatorial race had turned into a “back-alley brawl,” vowed to stop running negative campaign com mercials. “I am convinced that such tactics are the people we really work for.” The group compiled a list of Cling er’s votes on “key” oil- and gas-re lated issues. The list said Clinger opposed a tax reform bill that would have elimi nated oil industry tax breaks, sup ported an exemption for oil companies to the windfall profits tax and opposed a Superfund-toxic-waste bill amendment that “would have made oil.. . companies pay their fair share.” Clark said Clinger’s decisions were “geared toward independent and small producers” an 9 a means of keeping district people working. One vote, allowing advance con sumer billing as a means of paying for construction on the Alaska pipe line, was later deemed a mistake, Clark said. But it was overwhelming ly supported at the time because of “concern at the time over depen dence on foreign oil,” he said. Clark said he was not surprised by the poor rating given Clinger by Penn PIC. “We don’t agree with Penn PIC very often.” serve no public purpose,” Scranton said. “There is too much at stake to decide this election on the basis of who can more cleverly or deceptively detract from their opponent.” But Redenius, saying it’s a ploy, is skeptical of Scranton’s commitment to detailing the issues. “Scranton is now saying he’s going to rise above the mere political na ture of the contest and adopt a states man-like view of what politicans should be about,” Redenius said. “He says he’s going to stop the mudslinging and talk about the is sues, but two weeks before the elec tion is hardly the time to begin discussing the issues.” Legislation sponsored by state Hep. Lynn B. Herman that would ma * years has received final apj Herman At id now awaits the governor's sifi l _ _ . 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Galapagos is a madcap trip through time 1 million years in the future. The remnants of humanity on the small island of Galapagos have de-evolved from “big brains” who make bombs to helpless crea tures with flippers and beaks. The book is a wry look at the very island that Charles Darwin visited in 1835 to develop his theory of natural selection. Vonnegut’s own evolution as a writer began in Indianapolis, Ind., where he was editor of his high school’s daily paper, The Echo. “I wrote for the thugs in the high school I went to,” Vonnegut said. “They let me know when what I had written was dumb or whatev er, so I got immediate feedback from a general audience.” Later, he found his high school background made it a “cinch to join the Cornell Sun,” Cornell Uni versity’s daily morning paper. s governo Kurt Vonnegut After studying biochemistry at Cornell for three years, he joined the U.S. Army in 1942 and was captured by the Germans two years later. He narrowly escaped the bombing of Dresden by both American and Allied planes. Ironi cally, Vonnegut survived the larg est single massacre in European history by being locked in a meat cooler with his six guards and dozens of meat carcasses. Herman tospeak to senior citizens State Hep. Lynn B. Herman, R- Philipsburg, will address a group of senior citizens at a luncheon meet* Small Business Plays Key Role Life experiences such as Dres den have spurred many a Vonnegut novel. Although it took him almost 25 years, Vonnegut was finally able to translate his haunting memories of Dresden into his best selling novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. The book and subsequent movie, ex panded the audience he won with his 1959 novel, Sirens of Titan (which sold 200,000 copies) and his 1963 work Cat’s Cradle. Vonnegut’s first novel, Piano Player (1952), was inspired by his work as public relations man for General Electric. The book was about the coming of technology and its threat to humanity. “I wanted to tell the story of automation,” Vonnegut said. “I took the standard plot of 1984, of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It was an ideal plot to use for a failed utopia.” As a writer, he got his start creating short stories for Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Jour nal and other magazines. Sixteen books later, he’s able to give lectures on “How To Get A Job Like Mine.” “Every speech I ever gave was called that and I talk about whatev er I want anyway and no one ever complains,” he said jokingly. Vonnegut expressed a few ideas about up-and-coming authors. “There are no precocious writers or very damn few of them because experience matters,” he said. “No matter how marvelous a person may be with the language, a person has to feel. He’s got to gather more information about love and fighting and all that.” After 35 years of writing, Vonne gut should know. PSU gets Citizens for Lynn Herman Committee
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