B—The Daily Collegian Friday, Nov. 7,198 G / Valker By ERIC SCHMIDT Collegian Staff Writer About 200 University students joined students from 94 other univer sities and colleges across the nation Wednesday night for "An Evening with Alice Walker," via satellite. Walker, the black feminist author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple, was the subject of a two-hour televised interview by Bar bara Christian, profeAor of Afro- American studies at the University of California at Berkeley. At two different times, moderators stopped the program, which origi nated from San Francisco, to allow students from the 95 campuses to call in with questions. Walker's interview, the last pro gram of the Univetsity's Women's Awareness Week, was sponsored by ' s ei ;lose ,best The east wing of Pattee ' may be closed temporarily during the first two weeks of August for asbestos removal, said Dean of Libraries James Neal, but the plans to close the wing will not be confirmed until Jan uary. "There is no current danger," said Maurine Claver, University industri al hygienist. "We have closely mon itored for asbestos leakage since we were aware of the problem in 1979," she said. Claver said there are no problems at the library or other buildings on campus insulated with asbestos. This is the last area in the library that still has the fireproofing insula *Hone Neal said. Exposure to asbestos, widely used until the 19705, has been linked to cancer. If the project is approved, asbestos removal would take place during the first two weeks in August when the library is the least crowded, Neal said. Pattee staff will predict which books of the east wing collection will be most-needed during the two-week tentative closing period, but most of the collection will be inaccessible, he said. Neal, Claver, Nancy Klien assis tant dean of libraries and William Pearce, the facilities planner of the library, met with the library staff to ... • LIZ You'll like it even better from 'ZI FF'S Westerly Parkway Plaza Calder Square ( CC . WY THESIS , • kinkoiss . Great copies. Great people_ 256 E. Beaver Ave. - 238.2679 224 W. College Ave. 237.1317 • . T.V., Stereo, VCR Broken Down? 7- 7 -71 ,:7- 7---- fi r ---- ~:. 1 71-it I ~1 -,----, ----,, 1 L , Our Service is Exceptional! - - ------.,----,--_-- ' -:-''-s-- 1:j .., , _______ L -: = ? ; ---------- EXCEPTIONALLY ' Competent' Fast' Economical We service all brands. ~ 1 . T& R ELECTRONICS :si.,, 225 S. Allen St., State College (next to Centre Hardware) 238-3800 Walker discusses life, writing Pattee's east wing may close in August for asbestos removal several University groups and viewed in Schwab Auditorium. Christian said Walker grew up as a sharecropper's daughter in a small town in Georgia where the family income was only $300.a year. She won a scholarship to Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., but transferred to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. where she graduated in 1966. Walker said her mother, who gave her her first typewriter, was also an important influence in her writing career. "(My goal is) not to repeat my mother's life," Walker said, "I watched her take care of all of us and then to take care of white people's children . . . she did all of this with grace and style, but ! didn't want that life." Walker also said the work of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement and the women's `There is no current danger. We have closely monitored for asbestos leakage since we were aware of the problem in 1979.' Maurine Clever -- University industrial • hygienist inform them of the possible tempo rary shutdown. The staff working in the east wing will probably be relocated to another area of the library, he said. "We do not want to or plan to lay-off anyone" as a result of the possible temporary shut down of the wing, Neal said. If employees are laid off, it will be temporary, he said. Along with the asbestos removal, new wiring for telephones and com puters may simultaneously take place on the fifth floor of Pattee to improve the communication systems for the entire library, he said. —by Megan McKissick movement, both of which she lived through, greatly affected her work. "I really didn't think I could live with all the injustice," Walker said. "I was suicidal. Partly because of that, I could see that I didn't have a chance to grow up unless something happened." Walker said that she was not upset because the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People condemned The Color Purple. "I feel embarrassed to say that I have no reaction," . Walker said. "I was here doing what I was doing and they're there doing what they do." A University student asked Walker about her response to public reaction to a lesbian character in The Color Purple. "I don't do a lot of 'responsing,' " Walker said. "I knew when I wrote the book that a lot of people would be upset." Bell reaches Touches PSU with By CAROLYN SORISIO Collegian Staff Writer Bell of Pennsyvlania has reached out and touched the tele communications program at Penn State. The corporation has donated $1 million to the help build a new Center for Technology at the Wilkes-Barre Campus and also to expand Wilkes-Barre's telecom munication program to Penn State campuses in the Philedelphia and Pittsburg areas, University offi cials announced yesterday. The gift is the largest gift given from an individual corporation to the commonwealth campuses in the $2OO million Campaign for Penn State, Robert Scannell, vice president and dean for the com ,monwealth educational system said. In a prepared press statement ,Gilbert A. Wetzel, president and chief executive officer of Bell of PA said "We see it as an invest ment, one from which we expect to receive a direct return in the form of having an excellent pipeline for potential employees who will be well-trained in the technical field of telecommunications." Scannell said the gift is especial ly signficant to the University With - the dawn comes da t h „Y Collegian Another viewer asked Walker about the difference between a femi nist and a womanist. Walker said she refers to herself as a womanist. "It depends on how feisty you feel," Walker said. "It is a term that I created along with my culture to replace 'black woman feminist,' which always sounded like a fly spray to me." Walker had this advice to give to future writers: "Just write and read. It is just as important to write as to read," Walk er said. "It's just like any other craft the more you do the better you get." The program was sponsored by Colloquy, the College of Liberal Arts, the Center for Women Students, the Undergraduate Student Government Department of Women's Concerns, Panhellenic Council, and other cam- pus organizations. out million bdcause it supports an associate degree training program. The telecommunication pro gram, which began in 1980 at Wilkes-Barre, has been fully de veloped and is ready to expand to other campuses, Scannell said. He said there is a high demand for.the program's graduates, who currently number about 30 per year. Marianne Tucker Puhalla, coor dinator of public information at Wilkes-Barre, said the new center will feature laboratory equipment, an auditorium available for public use and a "resource clearing house' for local industries for world-wide informartion. "The program is right on in terms of the needs of the telephone industry, the cable industry, and the whole computer networking," he said. The Center for Technology at Wilkes-Barre will receive $400,000, and the rest of the gift 'will go towards an endowment to support the program. • • Puhalla said the gift is the larg est that the Wilkes-Barre campus has received from the campaign. The campaign is a five-year fund raising effort designed to enhance the academic quality at the University. **** * * * * • * • A film on aquaintance rape. 4 1 :2411 0 --,• * ' * —lin 3 women will be raped in her lifetime. * —ln over two thirds of reported rapes, the rapist is someone *. the women knows: a family friend, a neighbor, a boyfriend. * Most women who survive an acquaintance rape never report it to the police, don't seek counseling, and tell almost no one. f -- --- 1 L.!_Vj Paul Robeson Cultural Center November 7, 1986 7 p.m. Free Admission ********* * * * * * * * * EYEGLASSES EXTENDED AR " 49 '99" ' COMPLETE! COMPLETE! THAT INCLUDES THAT INCLUDES THE THE EYE EXAM, • HIGH FASHION • CONTACT LENSES, FRAME, LENSES (S.V. 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