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COLLEGIAN 100 YEARS
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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happy birthday
A special anniversary section
commemorating our 100th year
appears after page 20.
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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
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