Walesa calls upon workers to By JOHN DANISZEWSKI Associated Press Writer GDANSK, Poland (AP) Solidarity leader Lech Walesa called on Po land’s striking workers last night to settle their local grievances and end the country’s worst labor unrest in seven years. Walesa made the appeal hours af ter meeting with government leaders on the wave of strikes that began Aug. 16 calling for higher wages and the legalization of Solidarity. He said the national issues of guar anteeing trade union pluralism and legalizing his outlawed trade feder ation would be taken up in round table discussions promised by the government in the near future, according to a statement read by an aide, Piotr Konopka. Mandela moved to private clinic; govt, release possible JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Jailed black nationalist Nel son Mandela has been moved from a hospital to a private clinic while he recuperates from tuberculosis, the government said yesterday. The move sets the stage for a possible release from government custody. Mandela, 70, was transferred on Aug. 12 from Pollsmoor Prison, to nearby Tygerberg Hospital, where he was diagnosed with the disease. Mandela, leader of the outlawed African National Congress, has been in prison for 26 years. He has been making a speedy re covery from his illness, his doctors have said, and was moved late Wednesday night to the Constantia berg Clinic in Cape Town, a spokes man for the prison service, Danie Shields employees to return By KELLY KRESS Collegian Staff Writer Shields Building employees who were moved out of their offices after becoming ill with flu-like symptoms will return to their offices within the week, the University’s Office of Pub lic Information said yesterday. A completely new ventilation sys tem has been installed in the offices, said Vicki Fong, University Public Information officer. About 25 people working in three rooms on the third floor of Shields had to be moved to temporary work sta tions Aug. 3 after complaining of va rious symptoms including nausea, headaches, and watery eyes. The University determined the most likely cause of the problem was poor ventilation, Fong said. Sigma Nu rush poster offends some groups By ANNE KAROLYI Collegian Staff Writer Sigma Nu fraternity rush posters depicting a semi-nude woman have attracted criticism from many wom en’s groups across campus, but the fraternity president contends the ad vertisements are neither offensive nor degrading. Sigma Nu, 340 N. Burrowes Road, posted the advertisements across campus earlier this week to promote their fall rush. With black print on a bright yellow background, the post ers show, on one side, a drawing of a woman wearing only a G-string and the fraternity’s letters as earrings, looking over her shoulder, with her arms crossed over her chest. The words ‘Sigma Nu, Check it Out’ are written down the other side of the advertisement. Sigma Nu President Terence Cole man said the posters are not sexist, degrading, immoral or oppressive. “The poster was designed to attract attention,” Coleman said. “We chose a design we believe to be tasteful. Even the ads run in the Collegian like the one for electrolysis —show a side view of a naked woman.” But some women on campus say the poster is offensive. Lynne Good stein, cßrector of Women’s Studies Program, said the posters are not only offensive to women, but also Walesa said he raised the impor tance of Solidarity in his three-hour meeting with Poland’s interior min ister, Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak his first with government leaders in six years. “The participants in the discussion recognize that all affairs related to trade union movement would be dis cussed by the round-table,” Walesa said. “I propose therefore that we sus pend the current strikes. I accepted further talks with central authorities and turn to the strike committes for the actual ending of the negotiation of other postulates and the suspension of the strikes,” Walesa’s statement said. After giving the Walesa statement, Konopka added: “I hope that it will appear as a historical day.” Immelman, told the independent South African Press Association. “Nelson Mandela’s condition has improved to such an extent that his further treatment in the Tygerberg Hospital was no longer necessary,” Immelman was quoted as saying. The spokesman gave no indication of how long would be in the clinic or what the conditions of his stay would be like. The move appears to confirm wide spread speculation that Mandela would be placed in a private' clinic and gradually reintroduced to the South African public before the gov ernment decides whether to release him outright. Under this widely accepted scenar io, Mandela is expected to have ac- Please see MANDELA, Page 12 “The ventilationis being improved and as a result of that, people will be moving back in,” said H.O. Triebold, assistant director of the Department of University Safety. Employees had been moved out of the offices one other time during the summer and tests were conducted by the Department of Environmental Health and Safety to determine the problem, Fong said. At that time, carpets were sham pooed, curtains cleaned and window fans installed, but the workers’ symp toms persisted, she added. Fong said employees have had no recent complaints of any flu-like symptoms, but the University will continue to monitor the situation. “Certainly the health of our em ployees is top priority,” she said. convey the fratenity’s opinion of women. “They were trying to attract atten tion to rush, but what they also did was to convey to the University com munity that they have no respect for 50 or 51 percent of the population,” Goodstein said. Interfraternity Council President Rod Hutter, who initially had no comment, later condemned the post ers, adding that a formal complaint was filed at the IFC and an investiga tion will follow. “The IFC wants to let the Universi ty community know that the female graphic in the Sigma Nu poster was inappropriate and does not accu rately reflect the benefits of the fra ternity community at Penn State. The Interfraternity Council does not in any way promote sexism,” Hutter said. Sabrina Chapman, director of the Center for Women Students, issued a formal statement denouncing the posters: “We strongly object to the blatant sexualization and objectifica tion of women in this poster...lmag ery such as this perpetuates the stereotype of women as sex objects and contributes to the overall climate where sexual exploitation and sexual violence are not only possible, but probable.” The statement also condemned the use of the fraternity’s letters on the Please see POSTER, Page 24 Konopka said Walesa conferred with strikers at the idled Lenin ship yard, where the Solidarity leader still works as an electrician, and the strike there could end very soon. Strikes are in effect at nine other worksites across the country. Walesa also went to the Roman Catholic episcopate in Warsaw where he conferred with advisers and church officials for two hours after his talks with Kiszczak. In Roman Catholic Poland, the church is a pow er rivaling the government. Afterward, he said: “I am an opti mist.” He then stepped into a car that took him and Solidarity adviser Tadeusz Mazowiecki from the capital to the Gdansk shipyard where Walesa founded the union in the labor turmoil of 1980. The twisted wreckage of Delta 727 jetliner lies at the edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport where it crashed shortly after takeoff yesterday morning. Please see a related story on the 727 airplane on page 7. Dallas cause By DAVID PEGO Associated Press Writer GRAPEVINE, Texas —A Delta Air Lines 727 jetliner burst into flames as it crashed on takeoff yesterday, killing 13 people. But 94 survived as passengers, some cra dling infants, scrambled out of the shattered fuselage through “a pit of fire.” At mid-afternoon, six hours after the crash in hazy sunshine at Dal las-Fort Worth Airport, Delta spokesman Bill Berry in Atlanta said 13 fatalities, including an in fant, were confirmed but the num bers of victims could continue to fluctuate. The count was compli cated by the difficulty in determin ing how many babies were aboard, he said. Thirty-four survivors were hospi talized, Berry said. Survivors in cluded the captain and two other pilots, one of whom was working as a flight engineer, he said. “We were just terrified,” said passenger Mona Thomason. “We jumped on the wing, but it looked like we were jumping into a pit of fire.” She reported seeing a woman with two children “she got one of them out, but I’m afraid the other one was caught in the fire.” Investigators had no immediate indication of the cause of the crash, said Michael Benson, a spokesman settle grievances, end strike In Washington, the State Depart ment called the meeting a “welcome and significant step forward.” It ex pressed hope that the communist authorities are prepared to work with Walesa and other leaders “widely admired and trusted by the Polish people.” Meetings between Walesa and ranking Polish officials last occurred during his internment in 1982. Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski’s govern ment imposed martial law in Decem ber 1981 to suppress Solidarity, the first free union in the Soviet bloc, and outlawed it in 1982. The current round of labor trouble began two weeks ago,-and at one point idled 20 plants and mines em ploying 100,000 people. The meeting with Kiszczak took place on the anniversary of the plane crashes, killing 13; of crash not determined for the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington. “Apparently the pilot made an attempt to abort. ... There appar ently was an engine problem,” Fred H. Rollins, Delta’s district manager for marketing in Salt Lake City, where the plane was headed. A 16-member NTSB panel ar rived late yesterday from Wash ington to bolster a three-person team from Fort Worth. Member Lee Dickinson would not speculate on a cause, but said the team would remain at the scene at least five to seven days. NTSB investigator Warren Wan del said the aircraft flight data recorder and cockpit voice record er, the so-called “black boxes,” were found in good shape. The recorders were being taken to Washington for examination in an NTSB laboratory, Dickinson said at a briefing Wednesday night. Spokesmen for Boeing and for Pratt & Whitney, the manufacturer of the plane’s three engines, said they would also send investigators. Fire and rescue crews quickly reached the wreckage in a level field about 1,000 feet beyond the end of the runway. It was at the opposite end of the airport from the site of the crash of a Delta Lock heed L-1011 on Aug. 2, 1985, in which 137 people died. Gdansk agreements of Aug. 31,1980, in which the government recognized the Independent Self-Governing Tra de Union Solidarity. Poland’s current labor unrest is the worst since that summer. Attending the meeting in a Warsaw villa, a location kept secret until the talks ended, were Walesa, Kiszczak, Bishop Jerzy Dabrowski of Warsaw and Stanislaw Ciosek, an official of the national unity organization PRON. PAP, the official news agency, car ried only a brief report. It listed the participants and said they discussed “the premises for organizing a ‘round-table’ meeting and the proce dure of holding it.” A statement from the episcopate that was approved by all involved - V;**- 4 * v :»v v S4T« a “We didn’t make it 50 feet in the air. We skidded and then the engine exploded,” said passenger Jim Hammock of Garland. “There was pandemonium. People were jump ing on the plane’s wing and burning themselves on it because it was so red hot. We got out of the way fast because we thought it was going to explode. “You could see the fuel running down the window and down the wing, and I wasn’t going to get burned,” said Hammock, whose right sleeve was streaked with jet fuel. Penn Waugh, a Dallas attorney who was on the flight, told report ers the plane “never got in the air.” “You heard the thing crumple so you knew you were going to crash the whole time,” said Waugh, who was uninjured. “You were just looking for a way to get out of the plane. You’re hoping you weren’t going to die.” Most of those hospitalized suf fered burns, cuts or broken bones. Bill Whitman, a spokesman for Harris Methodist-H.E.B. Hospital in Bedford, said 64 survivors were brought to the hospital, of whom 19 were admitted. All those admitted were in satis factory to stable condition, and the Please see DELTA, Page 12 said Walesa raised the issue of union pluralism and the role of Solidarity. “The partners (in the discussion) stated that all problems connected with union movement will be dis cussed at the round table,” it said. “There are no taboo subjects.” Kiszczak proposed on Friday that officials hold a round-table meeting with worker representatives to dis cuss labor grievances, and the Com munist Party’s ruling Politburo endorsed it Tuesday. Government spokesman Jerzy Ur ban said Tuesday such a meeting could be held as soon as the strikes ended. Andrzej Stelmachowski, a lawyer and senior adviser of Solidarity, said Walesa agreed to the idea of round- Please see POLAND, Page 12 Quiet hours implemented campus-wide By LAURA VIANI Collegian Staff Writer Students are not keeping quiet about the new University-wide quiet hours, and student leaders have is sued complaints about the restric tions, said North Halls president Kirsten Martz. The new dorm quiet hours extend from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and midnight to 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday. The new policy was implemented on a pilot basis this summer after University housing officials received complaints from parents and stu dents about the study atmosphere in dorms, Gail Hurley, director of Resi dence Hall Programs, said. University officials and student leaders held conferences last fall to discuss the problem, she said, and the new quiet hours were one suggested solution. Other suggested solutions included posters alerting students to the noise problems and physical changes, such as carpeting floors and changing ceilings, which are still being considered, she added. Before this summer, residents of some dorm floors voted to establish their own quiet hours, while other dorm floors had pre-set rules. Hurley said the new quiet hours continue this fall because they were successful over the summer. “I did not receive any negative feedback (from students),” she said. But this semester, student leaders have complained about the policy. Martz said she understands having the weekday hours, but the weekend hours are unfair. “I think it’s being a bit ridiculous and a bit unfair. I understand that our primary purpose here is to learn . . . but if that’s the case why isn’t Pattee open later on the weekends?” she said. Martz also said the hours have caused problems with residence hall sponsored programs. She cited last Friday’s dance at North Halls as an example. The dance’s hours were changed from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. to 9 to midnight in order to cooperate with the Universi ty’s policy but, Martz said, students did not come to the dance until about 11 p.m., and an hour later the dance had to be shut down. “People were really upset,” she said. Hurley said housing officials are willing to discuss student’s concerns about the quiet hours, and Stan Latta, associate director of Residence Hall Programs, said he is “personally open to considering other ideas.” “I can understand (student’s) con cerns . .. and am certainly not saying Please see QUIET, Page 24 WEATHER Summer warmth continues ... sunny today, high 81. Clear tonight, low 59. Tomorrow, sun ny with a few afternoon clouds, and a high up to 85. Ross Dickman
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