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U.N.
14-1 vote
condemns
Iraqi trade
By JOCELYN NOVECK
Associated Press Writer
The U.N. Security Council yester
day voted 14-1 to impose an air embar
go against Iraq in retaliation for its
invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
Cuba cast the long dissenting vote in
the special session, which extended
the powers of an earlier U.N. trade
embargo.
It was the ninth resolution pastel by
the Security Council condemning
Baghdad and its leader, Saddam Hus
sein, for its blitzkrieg of Kuwait. The
lightening Kuwaiti takeover, which
took hours to complete, left Iraq in
control of 20 percent of the world's oil
reserves.
World prices of oil have nearly
doubled since the invasion to almost
$4O a barrel, the New York Stock
Exchange has sunk to a 14-month low
and gold has passed $4OO an ounce as
the economic repercussions of the
invasion became apparent.
The Security Council late yesterday
afternoon voted 14-1 to impose an air
embargo against Iraq, cutting off
flights to and from that nation and
occupied Kuwait.
Resolution 670 also calls on all mem
ber states of the United Nations to
deny landing rights to airplanes com
ing from Iraq or Kuwait.
Only flights authorized by the Secu
rity Council's sanctions committee
will be allowed to go to Iraq and
Kuwait, and then only after they have
been inspected to confirm they are
carrying humanitarian cargo food
or medical supplies.
It also calls on all U.N. member
nations to "detain any ships of Iraqi
registry which enter their ports and
which are being or have been used in
violation of Resolution 661," the coun
cil's original trade embargo resolution
passed Aug. 6.
Cuba, which has said it is against
any sanctions, was the only nation to
oppose the resolution.
Secretary of State James A. Bake
r 111 represented the United States at
the council meeting, and Soviet For
eign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze
House comittee votes 20-day delay for spending cuts
By JIM LUTHER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Democrats on the House Appro
priations Committee shouted down President Bush's veto
threat yesterday and voted to delay for 20 days deep spending
cuts that will be triggered unless Congress and the White
House agree on a deficit-reduction plan.
If the $B5 billion in arbitrary spending reductions are allow
ed to take effect as scheduled Oct. 1, Chairman Jamie Whit
ten, D-Miss., told the committee, "it threatens to bring the
economy to its knees. We can't afford the risk."
"A full-blown crisis" may be required to force negotiators
Student
confirmed
as trustee
By ALISA BAUMAN
Collegian. Staff Writer
E.J. Shaffer (junior-fitiance)
will be the University's eighth stu
dent trustee, after winning unan
imous confirmation from the state
Senate yesterday.
Although the Governor's Office
is not required to choose a student
as one of the five gubernatorial
appointeei to the University Board
of Trustees, it has done so since
1971.
"I think it's important that we
have a student voting member to
represent the students' needs in
the long run," Shaffer said. He will
distribute a news release outlining
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imposes air embargo
Jordanians carry a banner of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein during an anti•U.S. demonstration to protest the blockade
against Iraq. Demonstrators yesterday claimed the blockade is keeping food from babies and small children.
took his country's seat and chaired the
meeting.
In another development, President
Saddam said in a message to Ameri
cans broadcast yesterday that Presi
dent Bush was sending Americans to
a war more terrible than Vietnam.
In a 75-minute address taped last
week, Saddam warned that if Bush
were to launch war against Iraq, "It
would not be up to him to end it."
University attempts to minimize
packed classrooms, auditoriums
High student/faculty ratio presents more problems
By ALISA BAUMAN
Collegian Staff Writer
With enrollment growing faster than the University can
build classrooms or hire faculty, many students are packed
into heavily crowded auditoriums.
And as the University builds more auditoriums, some
departments find high faculty to student ratios the norm,
while other departments replace teachers with televisions.
Although courses occupy campus classrooms only 75 per
cent of the time and fill them to 67 percent capacity, the Uni
versity cannot continue to add students, said Richard
Sodergren, enrollment services director.
Ideally, the University would use campus classrooms
50 percent of the time, Sodergren said. This allows classes
to move when bigger rooms are needed, he said. The Univer
sity probably never will reach the 50 percent goal, but it is
at the limit, he added.
The University's 10 auditoriums, which seat more than 200
students each, are filled 93 percent of the time, he added.
"We not only use them heavily, we fill the seats and we are
at a point where we either need to increase the capital budget
the
daily
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Sitting at his desk with an Iraqi flag
at his side, Saddam said he was
addressing his message to the Amer
ican people to explain the truth behind
Iraq's invasion.
The rambling address, peppered
with references to Allah and his teach
ings, repeatedly accused Bush and
Kuwait's rulers of plotting to impov
erish his country and steal its oil.
"Bush, ladies and gentlemen, is
into solving the deficit, said Rep. Silvio Conte of Massachu
setts, the senior Republican on the committee.
At the White House, an angry Bush told reporters: "If there
is no budget agreement with real spending reductions and
real process reform by the end of the week, I will have to veto
it. I do not want to see further delay in kicking this problem
on down the road."
The House is likely to consider the bill later this week.
No deficit agreement was in sight, although top leaders of
Congress and the administration claimed some progress. The
goal is a combination of targeted spending reductions and
tax increases that would cut the deficit by $5O billion during
the 12 months beginning Monday.
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or stop packing students into these rooms," Sodergren said.
"If a certain department has a class scheduled in
213 Boucke and they find that more students want the class
than space permits, they, try to get a larger classroom but
chances are the larger classrooms are booked at that time,"
he added.
Although the University is trying to correct the classroom
problem by building more auditoriums and classrooms, it
must also conider how the enrollment swell of the past 20
years has increased faculty/student ratios, said Charles Hosi
er, acting University executive vice president and provost.
Since 1970, University-wide enrollment has risen 45.7 per
cent, from 48,065 to 70,031.
Full-time faculty has increased only 12.3 percent, from
3,107 to 3,490, during the same time period.
The rate of increase has slowed down since 1980 as enroll
ment has risen 13.7 percent and full-time faculty 6.2 percent.
Although overall freshmen admissions fell by 4 percent this
year, University Park admissions increased 3 percent.
"We don't expect the enrollment here to increase much
sending your sons to war for no pur
pose save fatal arrogance," Saddam
said.
Saddam spoke in Arabic. His
remarks were translated with English
subtitles supplied by Iraqi authorities.
Shevardnadze's blunt words to the
Soviet Union's former close ally came
as the world community took yet
another step to completely isolating
Iraq.
None of the 13 annual appropriation bills has been enacted
and a new budget year begins in less than a week. For the
first time in several years, federal workers are taking the
threat of furloughs seriously.
"People are literally losing sleep over this," said Tom
Doherty, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration
inspector from Allentown, Pa. "They have kids to feed and
house payments to make, and now they're having the rug
swept out from under them by the system they work for,"
With the Monday deadline in mind, the House panel agreed
by a nearly party-line 32-20 vote to continue spending basical
ly at present levels through Oct. 20 and to block any threat
ened across-the-board spending cuts including those that
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Loan middlemen
cost tax
By TAMARA HENRY
AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Taxpayers
have been cheated out of hundreds of
millions of dollars in student-loan mon
ey by financial middlemen, a Senate
panel was told yesterday.
Chief Investigator David Buckley told
the Senate Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations that some lenders,
guarantee agencies, loan servicers, and
the student loan secondary markets
have abused the system by pocketing
processing fees due the government and
by granting more loans than the law
allows.
"Our investigation has confirmed that
there are enough financial institution
and servicer participants taking short
cuts, misrepresenting themselves, and
engaging in fraud and abuse to cheat
the taxpayer out of hundreds of millions
of dollars and seriously threaten the
reputation and future stability of these
programs," said Buckley, reading from
a staff statement.
These activities occurred with little
attention from the Department of Edu
cation, described in the report as "a
very poor enforcer of federal law and
regulation over program participants,"
the staff report said.
PSU center to help
manage conflicts
By SHANNON KOKOSKA
Collegian Staff Writer
Responding to increased violence
among University students, the Division
of Campus Life has opened a Center for
Conflict Management in 101 Boucke.
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"It seems to us that students are
quicker to come into conflict," said Pat
Peterson, assistant vice president of
campus life, adding that those conflicts
are also likely to escalate into violence.
Between June 1, 1989 and May 31,
1990, the Office of Conduct Standards
handled the following cases: 108 phys
ical abuses, 58 harassments, six sexual
assaults or abuses and one sexual
harassment, said Donald Suit, director
of the office.
The previous year, 96 physical abuses
and four harassments were reported.
During that period, physical abuse
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money
The guaranteed student loan pro
grams have grown at an amazing rate
in the past decade because of increasing
education costs, a shift away from fed
eral educational grants, and the grow
ing number of trade-school students.
The government committed itself to
4.7 million student loans during fiscal
year 1989, representing $12.5 billion of
guaranteed principal. Since the incep
tion of the guaranteed student loan pro
gam in 1966, through Sept. 30, 1989, the
government has committed to guar
antee $lOl billion in principal. Of that
amount $10.5 billion has been paid to
lenders in default claims.
As an example of the problems, Buck
ley and Grace McPhearson of the sub
committee staff, and Christopher
Crissman of the General Accounting
Office pointed to a case study by the
GAO on the First Independent Trust Co.
of Carmichael, Calif.
First Independent was the second
largest originator of student loans until
California's State Banking Department
closed it in May 1989. During the 11
years the trust firm was in the Stafford
program, it made more than $1 billion
in loans that were guaranteed by the
California Student Aid Commission and
the Higher Education Assistance Foun
dation.
included sexual abuse and sexual
harassment fell under harassment, Suit
said. Figures since June 1, 1990 were not
available.
But while the numbers do show an
increase in cases handled by his office,
Suit said the observation that students
are becoming more violent is not based
on statistics alone.
"Most of it has been sort of a clinical
observation of what has been coming
through," he said.
Peterson said the University Office of
Conduct Standards is "one of the best
discipline systems in the country" at
assessing guilt and determining punish
ment. But, she said, it is not designed to
solve underlying problems between two
parties and may even aggravate them.
"Interpersonal conflicts don't lend
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could bring mass furloughs of federal workers before that
date.
In an effort to discourage a veto, the Democratic-controlled
committee attached to the measure $2 billion of money to
support the large-scale deployment of U.S. military forces
in the Persian Gulf.
"This won't protect it," said Rep. Mickey Edwards, R-
Okla. "The president does intend to veto it."
"(Bush's) political advisers are not crazy enough to tell
him to veto this," said Rep. Neal Smith, D-lowa.
Whitten said he had talked to Bush earlier in the day and
"he didn't tell me he was going to veto it."