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By BRYAN BRUMLEY
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. President Reagan
yesterday tried to quell reports that his
administration helped win release of three
hostages held in Lebanon by aiding the trans
fer of defense supplies by Israel to Iran.
Israel, with the blessing of the White
House, shipped Iran spare parts and missiles
for U.S.-made F-4 jet fighters as well as parts
for American-made C-130 planes, radars and
other war supplies, according to The Los
Angeles Times.
Reagan, asked by reporters whether he had
a deal with Iran, said: "No comment, but
could I suggest an appeal to all of you with
regard to this, that the speculation, the com-
Board of Trustees
to convene today
By CAROLYN SORISIO
Collegian Staff Writer
Reports on educational policy and
affirmative action, as well as the
term length of the student trustee,
are some of the issues that will be
discussed at today's University
Board of Trustees meeting, Under
graudate Student Government Presi
dent Matt Baker said.
In addition, new student Trustee
Mary Greeley-Beahm will present a
resolution to the board asking for the
creation of a permanent student
trustee seat on the board, board Pres
ident Obie Snider said.
Baker,' who is a representative to
the board, said he will read resolu
tions from both the USG Senate and
the University Student Executive
Council asking for the board's sup
port for a permanent student trustee
seat.
Among other issues to be dis
cussed:
• Baker said USG is interested in
Exebutive Vice President and Pro
vost William Richardson's report on
educational policy because there is
concern both at the University and at
the national level about the quality of
higher education.
On Saturday, the Carnegie Founda
tion for the Advancement of Teaching
issued a report that sharply criticized
the quality of undergraduate educa
tion.
• Last month, two trustees Mar
ian Coppersmith and Jesse Arnelle
expressed their concern that the Uni
versity's policy of selective divest
ment is moving at too slow a pace.
Both trustees said they hoped to
have a report on the University's
holdings. in South Africa and recom
mendations to divest from companies
that were not meeting the Universi
ty's standards.
However, Donald Rung, who chairs
the Committee on the President's
Response to Apartheid, said the com
mittee will not give its recommenda-
Business manager
named for 1987
By CAROLYN SORISIO
Collegian Staff Writer
Glenn Rougier was named the next
business manager of The Daily Colle
gian after lengthly debate by the
Collegian Board of Directors last
night.
Rougier said although he doesn't
intend to change the "ideals and
thoughts" of the business staff, he
does hope to work on more specific
things, such as communication be
tween the individual Collegian Inc.
staffs.
"I was really happy about both
decisions, the decision to pick me and
the decision to make Chris Raymond
editor last night," he said.
The business division has a 15.8
percent sales increase over last year,
Bill Landis, the current business
manager said.
Rougier said while it will be chal
lenging to increase advertising sales
for The Daily Collegian„ he wants to
work toward increasing sales for
Collegian Magazine and The Weekly
Collegian.
"We've done a good job, but I think
we can always do better," he said.
Rougier added that his goal to
increase the magazine's and weekly's
sales corresponds with the new edi
tor's plans to improve the news con
tent of those publications.
Rougier said although each staff
has different needs and concerns, he
hopes to work with the news division
to improve all of Collegian Inc.
"We really are all working for the
good of Collegian Inc.," he said.
the
daily
menting and all on a story that came out of
the Middle East . . . one that to us has no
foundation, that all of that is making it more
difficult for us in our effort to get the other
hostages free."
Later, White House spokesman Albert Bra
shear refused to specify which story Reagan
meant when he said it had "no foundation,"
"I'm just not going to comment on what he
was referring to, which stories might be
factual and which are not. I just can't do that
right now because it would be dangerous for
me to do so," Brashear said.
Reports of the deal began appearing after
the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ha
shemi Rafsanjani, said in a speech Tuesday
that former White House national security
adviser Robert McFarlane had visited Teh-
tions to University President Bryce
Jordan until the committee receives
the next report on companies and how
they are complying with the Sullivan
Principles. The Sullivan Principles
are a set of employment guidelines
for companies doing business in
South Africa.
Snider said the Rung Committee
will be giving a report to the board
but will hold off on making selective
divestment recommendations until
the next board meeting. '
Because of this, Baker who is a
member of the Rung committee
said it is unlikely that selective di
vestment will be discussed by the
board.
• Also on the agenda is a report on
freshmen and minority enrollment
figures, said William Asbury, acting
vice president for student services.
Earlier this week, the University
Announced that minority enrollment
had increased by 7.1 percent but that
black enrollment had dropped by a
tenth of a percent. No additional
figures were released.
Baker said he hopes to tell the
board about USG's concern that the
trustees are too far removed from the
students at the University.
The trustees' only source of infor
mation about students is the adminis
tration, said Baker.
In an effort to change this, Baker
said, he intends to invite trustees to
spend a day at the University as
students and will also ask to establish
an informational report about student
concerns at each meeting.
Baker plans to present the board
with resolutions fiona both USG and
USEC, which expressed concern over
the length of Greeley-Beahm's term.
Earlier this month, Greeley-Beahm
discovered her term as a trustee is
for eight months instead of the three
year term she had expected.
The.meeting will be held at 9:30 this
morning in 402 Keller Conference
Center and is open to the public.
Glenn Rougier
Rougier's strong experience and
ability to work well with all types of
people will help him in his new job,
Landis said.
Choosing among the three candi
dates was "gut-wrenching,". Landis
added.
Rougier is currently the assistant
sales manager and a member of the
Board of Managers. His past posi
tions with the Collegian include: ma
jor account representative, sales
representative and sales trainee.
Collegian
ran, had been confined to his hotel room and
then expelled. McFarlane carried a message
from Reagan, said Rafsanjani.
The White House has declined to comment
on Rafsanjani's remarks, and McFarlane
told reporters in Cleveland yesterday that he
could not offer any specifics.
According to reports published yesterday
in the Los Angeles Times and the Washington
Post, administration officials began working
with Israeli authorities 18 months ago to
arrange top-secret deliveries to Tehran of
U.S. arms desperately needed by Iran in its
see-saw war with Iraq.
The shipments, made with the personal
approval of Reagan, began last year and led
to the release of three American hostages,
most recently David Jacobsen, who was
Workers leave a General Motors Corp. assembly plant in Pontiac, Mich., yesterday afternoon. Earlier, GM announced the shutdown of 11 plants
GM to close 11 plants in 4 states
By JANET BRAUNSTEIN
Associated Press Writer
DETROIT General Motors Corp. will close
11 plants employing more than 29,000 workers
over the next three years to reduce overcapacity
and cut losses at the No. 1 U.S. automaker, the
company said yesterday.
Closing the' three stamping, one body and
seven final assembly plants in Michigan, Illinois,
Ohio and Missouri will reduce GM's fixed costs
by $5OO million a year, Chairman Roger Smith
said in a long-awaited announcement.
GM and United Auto Workers officials had no
estimate of how many workers will lose their
jobs, saying it will be months before they know
how many workers will be able to transfer to
other plants and how many will be retrained for
new jobs at GM.
The closings were part of the first phase of a
reorganization and modernization at GM. Other
assembly, stamping, engine and component
plants are being studied, said GM President
James McDonald.
"These actions are absolutely necessary to
maintain our marketplace leadership and en-
East precinct only temporary
By SUSAN KEARNEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Student voter turnout in Tuesday's
election for the East Halls temporary
polling place was probably not
enough to establish a permanent poll
ing precinct for future elections, said
Board of Elections Member John
Saylor.
To accommodate students living in
Stuart, Stone, Hastings and Snyder
residence halls, the temporary poll
ing place was set up for last Tues
day's election in the Findlay
Recreation Hall.
Students from those residence halls
complained that the distance of the
actual polling area, the Centre Coun
ty Municipal Building, was inconve-
nient and discouraged them from
. voting. The distance is about one
mile.
hance the job security of the greater bulk of our
workforce," McDonald said.
GM suffered third-quarter operating losses of
about $338 million.
"It's a very constructive move on GM's part. I
think as we go forward there will be further
closings," said industry analyst Gary Glaser of
First Boston Corp. in New York.
Glaser said the closings would benefit the U.S.
auto industry by helping balance the ratio be
tween capacity and demand.
The 11 plants are older facilities. Most had
been scheduled for shutdown for years as GM
invested in newer, more efficient plants and
renovated others.
"We naturally regret this decision. We will
make absolutely sure that all of our people at
every location receive all of the assistance and
every negotiated benefit they are entitled to,"
UAW Vice President Donald Ephlin said.
"Over many years of negotiations, we have
created a fairly extensive safety net for our
people," Ephlin said.
About 3,000 of the total affected are salaried
employees, McDonald said.
GM has spent about $lO billion building new
plants and renovating some old ones to increase
Unlike other University residence
halls, these residence halls are in the
West College voting precinct of Col
lege Township, so - students living
there had to vote off campus in past
elections, Saylor said.
Mary Corman, clerk of the Elec
tions and Records Office, said only
about 11 percent of the 620 students
registered in the four residence halls
voted in this election.
However, Saylor said this percent
age is inaccurate because students
remain on the voter lists for two
years from their last vote.
Because most of the students living
in those residence halls are fresh
men, registration records are mis
leading, Saylor said. This year about
160 students registered from those
halls.
Saylor said the results of this year's
election warrant the establishment of
freed last Sunday by Lebanese Shi'ite Mos
lem extremists with ties to Iran, according to
the reports.
Earlier shipments led to the release of two
other American hostages, the Rev. Benjamin
Weir in September 1985 and the Rev. Law
rence Jenco last July, the reports said.
The Times reported that the deal with Iran
was worked out by McFarlane before he
stepped down as Reagan's national security
adviser earlier this year.
McFarlane traveled to Iran several times
with a top aide, Lt. Col. Oliver North, the
National Security Council's deputy director
for political and military affairs, the Times
reported.
The operation was run almost entirely by
a temporary polling place at least for
the future gubernatorial and presi
dential election years.
"More students vote in a statewide
election," he said, adding, "(the poll
ing area) worked this time."
But, he said, a temporary polling
place may not be granted for next
year's municipal election or primary
because students don't tend to vote
during the off-year elections.
"History has shown that the inter
est is less during those elections,"
Saylor said.
The numbers will have to be re
searched closely before considering a
permanent voting place, he said. In
the past, the expense of a precinct has
outweighed the convenience benefit
for students.
The board will have to examine the
records before making a decision, he
added.
Friday, Nov. 7, 1986
Vol. 87, No. 83 28 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
©1986 Collegian Inc.
the White House and was kept secret from
officials in the State, Defense and Treasury
departments until several months ago, when
word began to circulate, the Times reported.
News reports of the alleged arrangement
blossomed after Rafsanjani's disclosures,
and White House officials say they fear that
the disclosures may have dashed hopes for
the release of two Americans, Associated
Press correspondent Terry Anderson and
educator Thomas Sutherland, believed held
by the same Lebanese radicals.
In Cleveland, McFarlane said, "I'm in the
awkward position of being unable to com
ment about reports of very fanciful, largely
fictitious issues that I would be very pleased
to comlltent (on), and I welcome the time
when a comment would be appropriate."
efficiency and reduce costs, creating an overlap,
of capacity and personnel, Smith said.
Plants to be closed are:
• The aging Fleetwood body and Clark Street
assembly plants in Detroit, with 6,600 workers, to
be closed by the end of 1987.
• The Flint Body plant and its companion
assembly plant in Pontiac, with 4,500 workers
making Chevrolets, Buicks and Oldsmobiles, to
be closed by the end of 1987 when GM replaces
the rear-wheel drive midsize cars with front
wheel drive ones.
• The 4,000-worker Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada
group plant that produces Chevrolet Camaros
and Pontiac Firebirds in Norwood, Ohio, near
Cincinnati, to be closed in mid-1988 when produc
tion is consolidated at a Van Nuys, Calif., plant.
• A 2,200-worker GM Truck & Bus Group plant
St. Louis, to be closed by mid-1987 when produc
tion is shifted to other plants in Janesville, Wis.,
Wentzville, Mo., Bowling Green, Ky., and Fort
Wayne, Ind.
• A heavy-duty truck and bus plant in Pon
tiac, with 2,200 employees, to be closed by August
1988 once GM sells its RTS transit bus business
and firms up its joint-venture heavy-duty truck
agreement with Volvo.
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