USG Senate to keep election committee
By PAMELA WEIERS
Collegian Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student Government
Senate narrowly defeated a proposal to
terminate the newly formed USG endorsement
committee during last night's meeting. In
another matter, the senate upheld the USG
Election Code's guidelines for determining town
and fraternity senatorial representation.
The Senate voted 12-11, with five senators
abstaining, against the resolution to end the
endorsement committee. The endorsememt
committee is composed of seven USG members
who will make official USG endorsements of
political candidates.
The validity of the committee is also being
challenged by one of the resolution's sponsors,
Town Senator Kendall Houk, in another forum,
the USG Supreme Court.
The complaint filed by Houk asked the court to
review the legality of the endorsement
committee on the premise that an endorsement
constitutes law and thus violates the USG
Constitution. The constitution states that USG
law may not be established by a joint committee.
The USG endorsement committee meets the
definition of a joint committee because it was
established by both legislative houses, the Senate
and Academic Assembly, and signed into law by
USG President Todd Sloan.
Mike Sosnowski, chief justice of the court, said,
"The issue is whether or not an endorsement
constitutes law in the sense that USG propogates
law."
"Considering the high visibility of an
endorsement in relation to most Senate business,
I think it is undoubtedly law since . . . the
endorsement act says the endorsement is final
and official,"said Town Senator Kendall Houk in
his appeal to the court.
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The endorsement committee is slated to
announce its endorsements for the State College
Borough Council and county commissioner races
Nov. 1, two days prior to Election Day.
East Halls Senator Steve Pugliese said he
thought the purpose of having a seven-member
endorsement committee was because a small
group is better able to thoroughly research
candidates and make a decision than a large,
more cumbersome group.
"Given the small amount of time (the
committee has) I now wonder whether this is
possible," he said.
Town Senator Betsie Polo said if the
endorsement committee is declared
unconstitutional after endorsements are made it
would make USG look bad.
The endorsement committee has a week to
submit a statement to the court responding to
Houk's complaint and may choose not to submit
a statement until after Election Day.
A public hearing deciding the issue cannot be
held until the court receives statements from
both sides.
"If a decision is not rendered in time to be
effective this year, the legislation would be a
guiding precedent in future years for this type of
committee," said Sosnowski.
In other business, the senate defeated by a two
thirds majority, a resolution to redefine
residency requirements for town and fraternity
senators.
The resolution would have changed the code to
require fraternity senators to be fraternity
members living in fraternity housing and
allowed non-fraternity members residing in a
fraternity house to represent town constituents.
Currently the code states that USG senators
must reside in the areas they represent.
Town Senator Bruce Fox, a non-fraternity
member who boards at Zeta Psi Fraternity, 225
E. Foster Ave., sponsored the legislation with
four other senators.
The Supreme Court is currently reviewing the
legality of Fox representing town constituents
while living in a fraternity after receiving a
formal complaint from Senate President Joe
Scoboria last week.
Scoboria said in his complaint, "Senate
representation is currently based on an area or
precinct system, and I think that an exception to
this would weaken the process for ow student
government representation."
Fox said during floor discussion on the
proposal that he would resign if the resolution
passed. The legality of Fox's position is currently
under review by the USG Supreme Court. The
court must receive statements from both sides of
the Fox case before deciding the constitutionality
of Fox's senatorial term at a public hearing.
The court has not yet received statements from
either party.
After the senate meeting Fox said he was
suprised the resolution failed.
"I think (Fox) is a wonderful senator," said
Pugliese. "He puts a lot of time in, but we can't
just change the elections code or not follow it
when it is comfortable for us."
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is slated to announce its
endorsements for the State
College Borough Council and
county commissioner races
Nov. 1, two days prior to
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Stock market crash
takes emotional toll
By LISA LEVITT RYCKNIAN
Associmscl Press Miter
NEW YORK Reeling from sud
den financial losses, some investors
have begun placing blame and strug
gling with the question of how they
are going to pay the emotional price
of their roller coaster ride on Wall
Street.
"People develop a guilty hindsight,
saying 'I should have known,"' said
David Spiegel, director of the Stan
ford University Medical Center adult
psychiatric outpatient clinic. "People
are much more likely to blame them
selves when they've lost money than
they are to pat themselves on the
back for making it in the first place."
Vernon K. Lamberg blamed him
self. The 58-year-old retired business
man of Appleton, Wis., was found in a
motel room Friday, dead of asphyxia
tion. Lamberg, who apparently broke
a fuel line leading to a heater, report
edly was despondent over ;500,000
lost in last week's crash.
Arthur Kane apparently blamed his
broker. The 53-year-old federal bu
reaucrat, who reportedly lost mil
lions in the market last week, walked
into a Merrill Lynch office on Monday
in Miami, pulled a handgun out of a
briefcase and wounded his broker
and killed the brokerage manager
before turning the gun on himself.
It was revealed yesterday that
Kane was disbarred Missouri lawyer
Arthur H. Katz, who had relocated to
Florida through the federal witness
protection program. He became a
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government witness after being con
victed in Kansas of insurance fraud in
1978.
"Right now, we have a crisis of
future expectations," said George
Sternlieb, the former director of the
Rutgers University Center for Urban
Policy Research.
"Everybody wants it to be like (the
television show) 'Dallas,' where you
wake up the next season and Bobby
Ewing is still alive," said Keith Vass,
a broker at E.F. Hutton & Co. in
Cherry Hill, N.J.
While there are no statistics to
show that the market's plunge has
caused a surge in violence or pleas
for professional help, the few ex
treme reactions appear to be tied to
extreme loss, specialists agree. The
little guys often invest for the long
haul, and the market's daily or week
ly fluctuations, regardless of how
wild, have little impact on them.
"The truth of the matter is, more
people felt bad that the Cardinals lost
the World Series than felt hurt be
cause of the stock market," said
Richard Ross, executive director of
the Chicago-based Center for the Stu
dy of Investor Behavior.
"People seem to be taking this in
stride," said psychologist Harry Le
vinson of the Levinson Institute in
Belmont, Mass., a management con
sultancy. "Some very few specific
people ... will be pushed over the
edge."
For others, the market's ups and
downs might spark a subtle reassess
ment of their life's priorities.
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