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IFC announces candidate endorsements
By VICTORIA PETTIES
Collegian'staff Writer
The Interfraternity Council’s Endorsement
Committee announced last night its decision
to endorse candidates for the state house,
U.S. Senate, and gubernatorial races but
declined to support a candidate for the 23rd
Congressional District
IFC Community Relations Chairman Mike
Schwartz said the committee chose Republi
can Lt. Governor William Scranton 111 in the
gubernatorial race because of the candi
date’s stance on education and his political
experience.
For the 77th District, the committee en
dorsed Democratic State Representative
George Fields, who addresses issues such as
alcohol liability and increased University
state appropriations.
Also endorsed was Incumbent Ruth Rudy
for state representative in the 171st District.
In a press release, the candidate received
IFC endorsement because of her experience
in office and fight to increase University
appropriations.
The race for the U.S. House of Representa
tives in the 23rd District ended in a deadlock.
Schwartz said the committee, composed of
four fraternity presidents and two fraternity
vice presidents, decided not to endorse any
candidate since members supporting each
candidate presented strong arguments.
Education: reform looks to
Editor’s Note: This is the last of three articles
on education by writers who attended an educa
tion symposium last week at the Indiana Univer
sity of Pennsylvania
By WINSLOW M. MASON JR.
and CHRISTINE METZGER
Collegian Staff Writers
The education of America’s youth is receiving
increased attention across the country from a
grassroots reform that has turned a critical eye
toward the public education system and Ameri
can society.
At a symposium on education held at the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania last week,
experts debated the future of education, em
phasizing that reform is necessary to bring more
equal educational opportunities to the people of
the United States.
According to one expert, the “move toward
excellence” reform represents important and
long-lasting change and differs from past re
forms.
“The excellence reform is obsessed with the
outcome and end- results of the education sys
tem,” said Chester Finn, assistant secretary in
the Education for Research and Improvement
division of the U.S. Department of Education.
Finn also said the grassroots reform, which is
a reform starting at a local level, is decentralized
and not led by educators, but by legislators, the
business community and the public.
“Year after year Gallup polls indicate that
American dissatisfaction with the quality of
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With election day drawing ever
closer, The Daily Collegian's
Board of Opinion has begun to
h, make its endorsements. For
what 800 thinks about the
races in the state Senate as well
as the state House seats in the
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Schwartz, orginally scheduled to vote in
case of a tie, said he did not vote because he
“did not want to be the sole vote to decide
which candidate IFC would endorse in the
23rd Congressional race.”
IFC President Pat Conway agreed saying
that “it was too much pressure for one person
to decide this closely contended race.”
The committee is composed of two republi
cans, two democrats and two independents
Schwartz said.
Conway said the endorsement committee
was appointed to come up with a decision that
would represent “the typical fraternity
male’s view.”
All candidates in the races were sent a
questionnaire concerning three areas. The
questionnaire focused on their views about
alcohol liability, insurance and financial aid.
Conway said the IFC’s endorsing candi
dates did not contradict the endorsements of
the Undergraduate Student Government.
“IFC is more autonomous than it use to be
underneath the University’s new student Life
Policy,” Conway said. “IFC is much closer to
the beliefs and values held by average frater
nity members ”
“Greeks rally behind IFC’s decision to
support candidates out of a sense of fraterni
ty,” Conway said.
About 2,000 fraternity members are regis
tered voters, Conway said.
public education continues to be high,” said
Denis Doyle, director of Education Policy Stud
ies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Doyle noted that dissatisfaction is “highest
among inner city minorities who, with no easy
way out of the cities, have the most riding on the
quality of the schools.”
One symposium speaker spoke out for the
problems faced by black students.
“The education system must strive to narrow
the achievement gap between white and black
students, especially in the elementary schools,”
said Barbara Sizemore, an associate professor in
the University of Pittsburgh’s department of
black community, education, research and de
velopment. ~ • :
“Stereotypical beliefs about black children'
have no place in the minds of their teachers,”
Sizemore said, “because for a student to learn a
teacher must believe in the student’s abilities.”
Herbert Gintis, who authored “Schooling in
Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the
Contradiction of Economic Life,” said “inequali
ty in education is a serious issue when people on
the lower economic ends suffer because they
don’t have the resources to become full human
beings.”
He said society discriminates against minori
ties and women and added that last year, only
three percent of the individuals promoted to top
Executive positions in American corporations
were women. •
Reform proponents also stressed the need to
bring a “democratic ideal” into the heart of
American education.
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Conway's involvement questioned
By CAROLYN SORISIO
and VICTORIA PETTIES
Collegian Stall Writers
While the Interfratemity Council’s Cling
er-or-Wachob endorsement ended in a dead
lock last night, some;, members of the
Endorsement Committee claim IFC Presi
dent Pat Conway influenced a decision the
committee made Wednesday night to sup
port Bill Wachob.'
Committee member Pat Carter said the
IFC Endorsement Committee originally
endorsed Democrat Bill Wachob for the
23rd District’s U.S. House of Representa
tives race, but decided to table the decision
at the request of the IFC President.
Carter, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said
yesterday that after the committee finished
deliberating and reached a decision
Wednesday night, Conway entered the
room, looked at the decision and announced
that the committee should take more time
in deciding which candidate to endorse in
the 23rd District’s congressional race.
However, Conway said that no decision
excellence
“Education can and should contribute to a
genuinely pluralist and democratic society,”
said Stanley Aronowitz, professor of sociology at
the City University of New York.
The “equity agenda” of the new reform, Finn
said,. demands that schools which provide a
lower quality of education “should be compelled
to keep up with the better schools.”
Unfortunately, qualities inherent in the better
schools, such as teachers and administrators
committed to high quality education, plus a
concerned public, cannot be mandated by law,
Finn said.
“You can’t expect to wave a policy wand and
get good results,” he said. .
Gintis said despite effective reforms over the
last 50 years aimed at improving equality in
education “there’s still a hierarchichal system in
our society” which maintains an order of author
ity.” •
To get a job in this society, one must not only
have the skills, but must assimilate, through
dress and mannerisms, into the dominant class
within American society.
Such practices must be attacked, Gintis said,
because for most groups, like blacks, hispanics
and other minorities who may have problems
with this assimilation process, education alone
may not reward them with a job.
“I propose the next major step of modern free
society is the democratization of society where
educational rights based on race, sex and wealth
are replaced by personal characteristics,” he
said.
was reached Wednesday, and added “I was
not involved with the process at all. It was
the committee decision not to vote.”
Conway added that he felt the final deci
sion of the committee better represented
fraternities’ view since all six members of
the committee were not present to vote on
the candidates at Wednesday’s meeting.
Earl Good, the president of Acacia frater
nity, was not at Wednesday’s endorsement
meeting.
Silverman said, “Everyone wanted to
hear Earl Good’s input and I think the
the endorsement was handled beautifully
I have no complaints.”
* The committee did not endorse anyone for
the 23rd Congressional race.
Two other members of the committee
"Marc Silverman, president of Sigma Alpha
Mu fraternity, and John Mattillio, president
of Alpha Zeta fraternity also confirmed
that Conway did first read the decision and
then recommended that the committee
should wait in announcing a decision.
. Conway, however, said he did not read the
decisions of the committee Wednesday
College. And, with strange goings-on the norm in Happy Valley this weekend, be
wary of things that go bump in the night.
Friday, Oct. 31,1986
Vol. 87, No. 78 24 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
©1986 Collegian Inc.
Feminist's speech begins
sisterhood conference
By ERIC SCHMIDT
Collegian Staff Writer
There are no political or social
issues in the world that are not wom
en’s issues, said a feminist author
and activist last night in a keynote
speech to kickoff the “Sisterhood is
Global” conference scheduled for
Saturday.
Robin Morgan, playwright, jour
nalist, and author, spoke on interna
tional feminism. She is best know for
her work on Sisterhood is Global, an
anthology of feminist writers from
around the world and for which Satur
day’s conference is named.
Morgan said the women’s
movement in the United States is not
the most important nor the only
movement for women; however, it is
unique because its membership pro
vides such a cross section of race and
color.
“We are a microcosm of the inter
national women’s movement,” Mor
gan said, “so we have a certain
responsibility.”
Women’s issues on a global scale
include those problems unique to
each country, Morgan said, but they
are basically the same worldwide.
“The plot is the same it’s par
triarchial power,” Morgan said.
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night and that the committee itself voted to
delay its decision until last night.;
Mike Schwartz, head of the Endorsement
Committee, agreed with Conway s saying
that the committee first voted to delay the
decision.
Carter said that after Conway read the
committee’s results Wednesday night, Con
way wanted to disregard 'the committee’s
decision to endorse Democrat Bill Wachob.
Then, after some discussion,'the commit
tee voted to wait until all the members of
the committee were present, Carter said.
“Pat originally wanted to thrpw out the
results from the Wachob/Clinger race,”
Carter said. “But everyone became, upset
... finally we all agreed to wait to hear
Earl’s input.”
Silverman said though Conway did look at
the decision then announce the committee
should wait until the next day, “everyone
decided it would be better to have the input
from Earl Good.”
Conway confirmed that he held a summer
intern position at the Clinger campaign
headquarters in State College.
“The plot is the same, but the cos
tumes change ”
Some of the issues women face
include suffrage, freedom of sexuali
ty and of access to contraception,
agism and religious fundamentalists.
The religion may change, Morgan
said, but the arguments raised by
leaders remain basically the same.
“A fun parlor game is to take the
names of quotes from Jerry Falwell,
Pat Robertson, the Pope, and the
Ayatollah Khomeini,” Morgan said,
‘‘and each player gets to guess what
each one said.” ~
Women own less that 1 percent of
the land in the world, yet they provide
two-thirds of all working hours, Mor
gan said. Women also provide 50
percent of the world’s food, she
added.
Two of three women in the world
are illiterate, Morgan said, and while
the general worldwide illiteracy rate
has declined, the rate for women has
increased.
In the industrialized world, Morgan
said, one-half to three-quarters of
women have been “ghettoized” in
cities and still remain the last hired
and the first fired.
One billion people suffer from mal
nutrition, Morgan said, the majority
being women and children.
Please see MORGAN, Page 12.
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