. . . 2, := , - COLLEGIAN 100 YEARS April 1887 •April 1987 • • t„, „„:7 00 4 ,14 - Members of the current Daily Collegian staff throw newspapers on the steps of Carnegie Building, headquarters of The Daily Collegian, to commemmo• Tollegian rdtbrates lilll gars By JAMES A. STEWART Collegian Staff Writer • Protests sweep campus over the Universi ty's investments in companies with ties to South Africa, with students challenging the administra tion's priority of "fiduciary responsibility." • Students stage a sit-in and pass out leaflets objecting to the arrival of a top-level government official and his policies. • Friends of Penn State are shocked when the Common . wealth appropriates only one-fifth of its expected state funding, a sum far below those allotted in other states for university funding. • Penn State students are upset because State &llege residents want to take away their beer and ban drinking from the community. ere these Collegian stories from the 1986-87 school year? No, they ap peared in 1978, 1969, 1923 and 1935, respectively This month, The Daily Collegian celebrates its 100th anniversary as a forum for student opinion and news in the Penn State community. Former Tutu the first black American ambassador to South Africa last November. The ambassadors of Canada, Swe- CAPE TOWN, South Africa den and Austria also attended the Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other ecumenical service dedicated to peo clergymen urged people at a- special ple detained withotit charge under a prayer service yesterday to defy new nationwide state of 'emergency the limits on speech and assembly. The white government imposed 10 months' U.S. ambassador was among 700 peo- ago. ple in the congregation. Regulations issued Saturday by' Ambassador Edward Perkins is- Police Commissioner Johan Coetzee 'sued a statement saying: "It is sad make it a crime to call for release of that a government which claims to detaineesin writing or by word or uphold the values of human dignity, action. Gatherings in support of de and which portrays itself as secure tainees also are banned. Penalties for and strong, should be so intimidated breaking the rules range up to a fine by the peaceful protestations of its of 20,000 rand ($10,000) or 10 years in citizens that it declares those protes- prison. tations to be illegal." Tutu, the black prelate who is An- Perkins' attendance and his glican archbishop of southern Africa, statement represented one of his organized the service. He was joined most vivid gestures since he became at St. George's Cathedral by Jewish,• By LAURINDA KEYS Associated Press Writer ," , • * hi • 441741aleiitY implores S. Africans to defy new laws the daily Collegian staffers will return to Happy Valley to remember old times and look ahead to the issues and accomplishments to come. A source of continual news in the past decade, the divestment movement on campus was first sparked in 1978 by the divestment of $39 million in South African stocks at Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., after students occupied its administration building. The top-level government official being pro tested wasn't Donald Regan, but then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. William Westmoreland. About 75 members of Students for a Democratic Society objected to Westmoreland's presence at the Penn State-Army game, calling him a "mass murderer" and charging the University with "sympathizing with the military" for its part in ROTC training and Navy research. In 1923, the news that Penn State was to receive less than one-fifth of the $lO million it requested "came as a great surpise [sic] and shock to the campus, alumni and friends of the college," according to an article in The Penn State Colle gian. Complaints from College President John M olle • lan rate the paper's 100th anniversary as Penn State's student newspaper. The paper started in 1887 as The Free Lance and became the Collegian in 1904. Dutch Reformed and Roman Catholic clergymen in defying the regulations. Although Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok said prayer services at churches were not prohibited, Tutu and his colleagues openly violated a section of the rules making it a crime to urge other people to support detai nees. Tutu said he would make similar statements inside or outside church. "I will continue to urge, as I do, the authorities to release all detainees or bring them to court, and I hope you support me in such a call," he said, apparently leaving himself open to incitement ,charges. Members of the St. George's con gregation, sitting on wooden chairs and on the floor among Palm Sunday branches in the stone cathedral, _„ o e ..40v Thomas centered around the need for a larger faculty, the deteriorating condition of the physi cal plant and the "generous state support" given to other schools such as the University of Wiscon sin and the University of Michigan. Today, the Penn State Caucus, made up of legislators with ties to the University, has been petitioning Harrisburg for "catch-up" funding to bring state appropriations in line with those of other state universities across the country. Another recurring issue, alcohol, came to a head in 1935 when the Women's Christian Tem perance Union asked for the removal of beer, saying that "the people of State College owe it to the state of Pennsylvania to see that the boys and girls have a safe place to go to school." Whether or not beer sales should be allowed in State College came up for a vote that November. The Collegian was a fierce supporter of legal ized beer in the 19305, even though its predeces sor, The Free Lance, had called for Prohibition in 1887. The Lance claimed that the action would "protect the boys and youth of our land from being victimized by the gay allurements of Please see COLLEGIAN, page 2 shouted "Yes!" in response and ap plauded. Coetzee, the police commissioner, issued a statement Monday saying the regulations did not bar prayers for detainees at "bonafide religious gatherings" or prohibit political can didates from addressing the deten tion issue in speeches. "The notice prohibits the making of a statement in which members of the public are incited to participate in a campaign which is aimed at the re lease of security detainees," it said. The Rev. Allan Boesak, a mixed race minister who heads the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, told the crowd: "My plea today, quite openly Mr. Minister (Vlok) and quite openly Mr. President (P.W. Botha) . . . is for South Africa's people to rise up and revolt against this ban." Collegian Photo / Cristy Rickard Engineers upset despite meeting By CHRISTINE NICHOLAS Collegian Staff Writer Sophomore engineers vented frus tration yesterday after a meeting with a University administrator, say ing officials will not budge to help them get the majors they lost because of early evalution. The students expected to have a full four semesters to earn the grades required for entrance into their engi neering majors, but College of Engi neering officials evaluated them midway through the fourth semester. Seven students and three Under graduate Student Government offi cers met for more than an hour yesterday with Carol Cartwright, dean for undergraduate studies and associate provost, hoping she would revoke the policy change that allowed their early evaluation. Michele Burnat (sophomore-engi neering) initiated the meeting last week. Sophomore engineering students at the meeting including Mike A. Miller, John Hricko, and Burnat were disappointed with Cartwright's response that administrators are hearing students' complaints and are doing all they can, and that students should work in the meantime to im prove their grades for reevaluation at the end of the semester. Prospective engineers who didn't get their majors may be reconsidered for any spots that arise in their de sired majors. "To a student who is in limbo, that's not all that satisfying," Miller said. At the end of the meeting, Burnat whose grade-point average missed the cut-off for mechanincal engi neering by 0.01 point handed Car twright a petition bearing more than 150 student signatures. . . The petition stated that the Univer sity's recent evaluation policy "greatly hinders our educational pur suits and violates our right to partici pate in the implementation of academic policy." Burnat said Cartwright accepted the petition, but did not say anything. Both Joe Scoboria, president of the USG senate, and Melissa Lutzko, president of USG's academic assem bly, said after the meeting that USG will help engineering students. They will work toward clearer communica tion in the future and the possible introduction of legislation in the aca- Casey unsure on trustee term length By CHRISTINE NICHOLAS Collegian Staff Writer As three candidates to replace stu dent trustee Mary Greeley-Beahm approach the final stages of their evaluation, a spokesman for Gov. Ro bert P. Casey said it is too soon to know if the governor will specify the length of the new student's term. Controversy about the length of Greeley-Beahm's term on the Univer sity Board of Trustees peaked last year when former Gov. Richard Thornburgh granted her an eight month term instead of the three year term she had expected. As a result, Greeley-Beahm re quested at the November trustees' meeting that the board support mak ing a three-year student seat a per manent part of the board in the future. Also, the University Student Executive Council wrote Gov. Robert P. Casey, urging him to• continue the 16-year tradition of a student seat. :~ ~ . ~~ ~ § ƒ~ ~ % ~~ ~ \ ƒ~: / , • .7„,..4.- ; , -- • -,.., ': . et..h '•- ,-, o'"? Edward Perkins Tuesday April 14, 1987 ' Vol. 87, No. 168 44 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University 1987 Collegian Inc. demic assembly to provide a short term solution for sophomores who currently have not gotten their ma jors. Also, Scoboria and Lutzko agreed that the problem did not arise from the University's enrollment control policy, but from the lack of commu nication about its interpretation. At the meeting, Cartwright dis cussed the need for enrollment con trols in the College of Engineering. But the three students said Cartw right told them facts they already knew when they were expecting "a meeting of specifics." She also addressedthe options engi neering students have if •they do not get their first choice major. Some colleges such as Earth and Mineral Science offer majors compatible to a career in engineering, and some engi neering majors offer students the same range or job possibilities, Car twright explained. Burnat, however, said if she does not get her major, she will seriously consider dropping out of Penn State, working for a year, and going to another university to get the degree she wants. Other students have said they would follow her lead. Cartwright also suggested that the students do not talk to Carl Wolge muth, dean of the College of Engi neering, until she could brief him on the meeting. USG officers and the engineering students said they will continue pur suing the issue with administrators and Wolgemuth. Scoboria said he Will call them after the April 15 deadline for engi neering students to accept or reject the University's offer of an engi neering major. He said he hopes administrators will have an idea then about how much space will be left for students on the reconsideration list. However, Cartwright said "I can't begin to speculate on that." Also, the students plan in the next few days to unify all unsatisfied soph-, omore engineers rather than working in small groups. "A lot of people think the Universi ty is too big and we're not going to get anything accomplished. You can push one student away, but you can't push 800 students away," Burnat said. Miller said, "I wonder what else you can do at this point other than legal action. We just have to hope that (Cartwright) works for us." "I'm not giving up yet," he added. However, the board of trustees has not addressed the issue since the meeting, board president Obie Snider said yesterday. "It's out of our hands. It's a govern ment appointment," he said. Tim Potts, Casey's spokesman, said the governor has not addressed the length of the term but will do so soon. Last year, Greeley-Beahm thought she was replacing former student trustee Patricia Walsch for a full three-year term. Instead, the three year seat went to Trustee William Schreyer, chairman and chief exec utive officer of Merrill Lynch and chairman of the Campaign for Penn State. After the trustees' March meeting, Greeley-Beahm said a three-year term is essential for a student trustee to meet and become comfortable with the more than 30 trustees, and added that a year of bimonthly meetings Please see STUDENT, page 10 Ik 0 " . "1 1 61 y happy birthday A special anniversary section commemorating our 100th year appears after page 20. inside • An early morning fire leaves as many as 10 University stu dents homeless Page 2 weather Today, partly sunny and warm, high of 73. Tonight fair, low 40. Wednesday increasing clou i ness with a chance of a fe afternoon showers. High 68. Ross Dickman AP Laser:photo
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