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Vol. XIII

Autonomy Bill To Become Low
It's officially known a s House Bill
#999, but everyone seems to be calling it
the s t a t e college autonomy bill.
And it is only weeks away from becoming s t a t e law.
Already approved by both h o u s e s of
the s t a t e general assembly; the bill
gives each of the commonwealth's 14
state-owned institutions more local control over their own financial and academic
development, at the same time forming a
coordinatingboard to aid the c o l l e g e s .
T h e bill, which passed the House of
R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s last summer by a vote
of 126-64, was endorsed 32-8 by the
Senate last Monday, Dec. 1.
The autonomy bill has already received the endorsement of several figures
and groups interested in education in the
commonwealth — Gov. Raymond P . Shafer,
leading house and senate l e g i s l a t o r s ,
education groups, and college personnel.

Changes Must Be OK'd
The only hold-up now is that, when the
s e n a t e p a s s e d the bill last week, it included several relatively minor amendments to the original house bill.
T h e s e must first be approved by either
the house leaders or by a joint conference
committee of both houses before the bill
is forwarded to the governor for signing.
The situation of the amendments is
expected to be settled before the general
a s s e m b l y r e c e s s e s for Christmas.
Edward H. Young, LHS a s s i s t a n t to the
president and a long-time supporter of the
autonomy bill, said yesterday the senate
amendments have reduced some of the
local independence in purchasing educa-

"lit will be a significant step forward for Pennsylvania education
when House Bill 999 is delivered
to me for my signature. I look
forward to this event with anticip a t i o n " — Gov Raymond P . Shafer

"iThis bill if enacted into
while not perfect, will go a
way to permit the colleges to
ate as colleges should" ~
President

Richard

T.

law,
long
operLHS

Parsons

tional supplies and equipment. The a p pointment of trustees is still " i n the
hands of p o l i t i c s , " he s a i d .
But " t h e r e is too much good stuff in
this bill for knit-picking," he added,
saying that the colleges would accept the
bill with the senate amendments. T h e s e
can be changed later, he pointed out.

Parsons One of First Backers
One of the original inovators of the
bill, which was begun about six years
ago, is LHS President Richard T . P a r s o n s ,
With two other s t a t e colb ge p r e s i dents — Andrus of Bloomsburg (now retired) and Heiges of Shippensburg — Dr.
Parsons was instrumental in writing the
original draft of the present bill.
He has testified before every coinmittee in the general assembly which has
studied the bill. Dr. Parsons has personally backed it since its beginning.
Writing as president of the Board of
State Colb ge Presidents recently in ASCO
News (the quarterly publication of the
Association of State College Organizations), the LHS president again voiced
his support for the college autonomy bill.

'Will Benefit Colleges'
" T h i s bill if enacted into law. while
not perfect, will go a long way to permit
the colleges to operate a s c o l l e g e s
s h o u l d , " President Parsons wrote.
He continued that " m a n y of us are
quite familiar with both the w e a k n e s s e s
and strengths of our local trustees; this
new legislation would preserve some of
the n e c e s s a r y local responsibility of
trustees and yet establish a coordinating
board which would help to strengthen the
total State College system and assure
that each college would get its rightful

Tues, Dec. 9,1969

LOCK HAVEN STATE COLLEGE

No. 59

share of State concern.
" P e r h a p s the most desirable feature
of the proposed legislation is the one
which enables the college to have more
control over the funds collected from the
students as well as State al propriations.
For many years it has been practically
impossible to use the finances available
for the best interests of the individual
i n s t i t u t i o n s , " Dr. P a r s ens commented.

Faced Several Problems
In its six-year history, the autonomy
bill h a s come up against several problems.
Three of these have been d i s c u s s e d by
Charles C. Keller, chairman of ASCO,
in a recent column in the organization's
publicati en.
"We are always aware of certain fact o r s , " he wrote. T h e " great mystery of
Perm S t a t e ' s identity clouds every effort
at implementing the Master Plan (a fiveyear guideline for s t a t e college develof)ment). Its claim on the ' L i o n ' s Share' of
public higher education dollars h a s traditionally left the s t a t e ' s own colleges
grossly under-financed."
The second problem which has faced
the bill is " t h e regretable but inevitable
tug-of-war between and among the Republicans and D e m o c r a t s , " Keller points out.

lUP Slows Bill's Progress
Indiana State University and its unique
status has been another and perhaps the
biggest problem which House Bill 999
has run up againsi.
Indiana was granted university s t a t u s
by the legislature several years a g o , and
ever since then it has been adament in
its refusal to support legislation which

" F o r too long we have neglected
the only truly state sector of higher education. House Bill 999 is a
giant step in correcting the neglect
of the p a s t " - Rep. Robert C.
Wise, chairman of house higher
education committee

"House Bill No. 999 has my
strongest endorsement as a bill
that is greatly needed by the State
Colleges and University, both
individually and collectively" ~
Dr. F r e d e r i c K. Miller, c o m m i s s i o n e r for h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n
it viewed as a threat lo its autonomy.
II was only recently that lUP decided
lo back the bill, after it had been rewritten to provide Indiana and any future
state universities with s p e c i a l individual
freedoms which s t a t e colleges do not have.

Backed by ASCO Groups
Every segment of the Association of
State College Organizations — presidents,
t r u s t e e s , faculty, students, and alumni —
has endorsed the autonomy bill.
Dr. P a r s o n s , president of the Board of
State College Presidents, has officially
committed his group to back the bill.
Representing
the
Association
of
T r u s t e e s , Mervin G. Sneath, of West
Chester State College, endorsed the bill.
He said that the bill "fulfills oui' des i r e s , to be a policy-making board aiding
the president in the administration of the
college, and will be of great benefit in
allowing the President to administer the
institution."

Students Endorse Bill
Speaking for the student governments
of the state-owned c o l l e g e s , j . Bracken
Burns, of Indiana University, said the bill
will give " t h e system of state-owned institutions of higher education the structural guidelines necessary t o carry out
the complex and growing t a s k of providing
the citizens of Permsylvania with the
opportunity to receive a quality education
at minimal c o s t . "
Burns is president of the Associatioof Student Governments.
" T h e legislation embodied in HB 9 9 9 . "
noted Young, president of the Cotiicil of
Alumni of the s t a t e c o l l e g e s , " r e p r e s e n t s
the results of much study and the best
thinking of all segments of the state
college community."
The Association of F a c u l t i e s , headed
by Dr. Richard C. Keller ,of MiUersville
State College, has a l s o backed the b i l l .

LHS Student Tourist Considers Russia V e r y Drab Society'
Editor's note: This is the first
of a three-part series on Russia
written
by Paul Hendricks.
A
junior enrolled
in the
biology
curriculum,
he toured
Russia
along with John Bilski and several students
this past
summer.
His impressions and
conclusions
about Russia and what he learned there are
Hendricks'.

"

I consider Russia to be a
very drab society and quite different from what I had expected.
In this very short e s s a y , I will
convey my personal thoughts and
observations on a few of the
main a s p e c t s of the tour that I
feel are important.
Transportation: Public transpoitation in the Soviet Union is
very good. Very few people own
a private car s i n c e the brand
produced c o s t s 7-8,000 r u b l e s ,
the production is slow and there
is a three year waiting list for
them. The typical Soviet worker
can not afford a private car bec a u s e the average income is only
90 rubles a month. There are six
means of public transportation:
b u s , trolly, metro (subway), taxi
c a b , and airplane. The main
s t r e e t s in Moscow, Leningrad, and
Kiev are very wide to accomodate the trollies, b u s e s , and
taxi c a b s . But. while many tfixi
c a b s could be s e e n , it w a s / m possible to flag one of tnem
down. The honor system is employed to pay the bus and trolly

fare. But, from my experiences
in Kiev, this system does not
work. Most people are generally
pushy and rude. They overcrowd
the b u s e s and trollys to the extent that it is dangerous to even
attempt to board one. The subways are ultra-modern and very
c l e a n , s t a t u e s , paintings, and
chandeliers adorn the subway
s t a t i o n s to make them an impressive sight to the American
tourist.
The ride is fast and
smooth, costing only five kop e c k s . B u s e s and trollys cost
three kopecks to ride. The front
coach of the subway and the
front door of the b u s e s and
the trollys are reserved for old
ladies and women with children
s o that they do not have to fight
their way onto the b u s .
' P e o p l e Are R u d e '
The Aeroflot planes are the
most modern means of travel in
the Soviet Union but are no
match for the American airlines.
Here, again the people are very
rude.
They run to the plane,
and shove to get a s e a t (or be
the first one up the s t e p s into
the plane). Hospitality on-board
the craft is very poor and the
non-pressurized j e t s
certainly
do hurt the e a r s .
The airport
terminals are imcomfortable to
the American tourist and here is
the only place that one will see
modern trucks and service equipment. All other trucks are old

and look like World War II
models.
In Leningrad, truck
drivers hand crank their vehicles
to start them. (I would presume
this is true all through R u s s i a . )
The trains that I saw seem to
be in worse condition than those
in the United S t a t e s . But, the
terminals are housed in fairly
modern buildings.
Drivers in R u s s i a could use a
good course in defensive driving.
On narrow, two lane r o a d s , drivers make three and four lanes
out of them.
They p a s s other
vehicles at the wrong place and
time, just making it back into
the correct lane before being hit
by an oncoming c a r .
Consumer Goods:
During my
s t a y in Kiev I took my second,
but most memorable, shopping
excursion. I went to the largest
department store that was five
stories high and one block long.
I priced many items here and all
I could think a b o u t was that the
average Russian only makes
ninety rubles a month. All ItJXury items and some n e c e s s i t y
items were quite expensive. 1
will list some of the items and
their costs that I can remember.
R u b l e Is A b o u t

$1.11

Motorcycle - 1200 rubles
Black and white television 400-700 rubles
Portable washer (very small
capacity) - 127 rubles
Man's coat - 70-96 rubles

Shoes - 50-60 rubles
Pocketbooks - 53 rubles
White shirt - 40-60 rubles
Sox - 3 rubles
Toiletries were very expensive.
From the apparent cost of items
such as these, it is easy to see
that the average R u s s i a n can not
afford many of the goods offered
to him in the s t o r e . It is most
evident on the s t r e e t s where
people carry only food in their
nylon or plastic net bag.
The
stores are only to look at, to
see the Soviet progress, and to
work hard and long hours so they
may someday be able to buy
these items that we Americans
take for granted.
There are no supermarkets in
the Soviet Union. Little shops
s p e c i a l i z e in certain food prod u c t s . T h i s presents a problem
to the average shopper. To buy
a bottle of wine, a pack of
c h e e s e , and two loaves of bread,
it took three of us one hour and
one-half after shopping in three
stores.
I t takes time to shop
and s i n c e refrigeration is still
in the embryonic s t a g e s , most
Russians must shop for perishable foods each dav.
Milk is
transported in flat-bed trucks.
The wine that we bought had a
very sour and vinegar t a s t e .
So, from this I must conclude
that they do not pasturize all
of their w of pasturizing is very poor.

C o n s t r u c t i o n and H o u s i n g
Construction and Housing: The
construction sites in Russia are
very interesting to the tourist.
I-beams are seldom used. They
have no plywood.
So, their
scaffolding and temporary floors
are lumber of all shapes and
s i z e s . In place of I-beams are
pre-fabricated cement " l o g s . "
All of the new buildings are
made of cement and stone derivit i v e s . The up-keep of all buildings is very limited and due to
the poor quality of the cement
and other building materials,
buildings literally decay witljin
a short span ot time.
At the
Moscow International
Airport,
which is only a few years old,
tile floors are warped and in
some places pealed off the floor.
Cement is chipped off of s t e p s
and p a t i o s . At the Hotel Sovietska in Lenningrad, the g l a s s
plated windows were all d i s torted.
The painted signs are
fading due to the sun and running
off the painted area due to the
rain.
T h e s e are only a few
examples.
Temperatures from plus 260
degrees to minus 280 degrees
Fahrenheit a r e created by the
Space Environment Simulation
Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Manned Spacecraft Center
in Houston.

Ask Clarification
O n Miller Charges
The faculty at Lock Haven State CoUege last night disagreed
with the d i s m i s s a l of Harry I. Miller on the grounds of "immorality
and possible a c t s in violation of l a w . " The following is the
text
of the resolution which they p a s s e d :
1. The f a c u l t y of the L o c k Haven State College agrees w i t h
Dr. David H. Kurtzman, P e n n s y l v a n i a ' s Secretary of Education,
that the charge of immorality should not have been the grounds
for Harry I. M i l l e r ' s d i s m i s s a l from the f a c u l t y and requests
that the Board of Trustees formally d i s m i s s that charge.
YES
61
NO
37
ABSTAINED
5
2. The Lock Hoven State College f a c u l t y
Board of Trustees properly implement its
thct Mr
Harry I. M i l l e r was not removed
because of " p o s s i b l e acts in v i o l a t i o n of
d i s m i s s i n g that charge.

YES

72

NO

30

requests that the
public statement
from the f a c u l t y
l a w " by formally

ABSTAINED

2

See tomorrow's issue for the complete story on the faculty's a c t i o n s .

Grapplers Return to Action
Coming off a 22-12 defeat at
the hands of Lehigh, the Bald
Eagle grapplers return to action
tonight when they travel to Shippensburg State C o l l e g e .
Three wrestlers who started
the Lehigh match will not see
action for the E a g l e s . Craig Sholl
is out with a sore shoulder and
Gene T a x i s pulled a pectal muscle in his encounter Saturday
evening. Jim B a t e s k e y will move
in at 177 l b s . for John Connelly.
With Sholl and T a x i s out with
injuries the E a g l e s will move
four men up a weight c l a s s . Jim
Rupp or John Mapes will wrestle
at 118 l b s . with the next four
wrestlers moving up a weight
c l a s s and Bob Ambrose filling
in for the injured T a x i s .
The Red Raiders boast six returning lettermen from a squad
that posted an 11-6 record l a s t
season.
Heading the list of lettermen
are Ken Warner and John Helter
who finished fourth in the conference tourney last year. Another top returnee is Glenn Miller
who finished last s e a s o n with an
11-1 record.
Shippensburg has never beaten
the Eagles although they have recorded one tie during the s e r i e s .
LHS belted the Red Raiders last
year, 40-2, with Helter scoring
their only points with an 8-8 deadlock at 160 l b s . with Ambrose.
Commenting on the 1969-70
s e a s o n Raider coach Bill Corman
s a i d , " L a s t year, lack of depth
was our main problem. This s e a son, however, we have the n e c e s sary depth and 1 am anticipating
a very succes sful s e a s o n . "
LHS head mentor Gray Simons
s t a t e d , " 1 definitely think they're
better than last year. They're
always much tougher down there
than when we wrestle them up
here."
The Raiders opened their s e a s o n

with a 38-0 rout of Baltimore last
Friday night. Their probable lineups for tonight's match are as
follows:
118—Jim Rupp or John Mapes
(LHS) v s . Glenn Miller
126-Don Fay (LHS) v s . Bill
Corman
134-Shane Foley (LHS) v s . Tony
Kuhns
142—Larry Rippey (LHS) v s .
Rick Lentz
1 5 0 - P a u l Brodmerkel (LHS)
v s . Ken Warner
158—Bob Ambrose (LHS) v s . John
Corman
1 6 7 - B i U Rhodes (LHS) v s . John
Helter
177-Jim Batesky (LHS) v s . Paul
Reed
190—Hank Hawkins (LHS) v s .
Dwight Webster
Hwt-Scott Brooks (LHS) v s .
Roger Burkeheimer

To Start Season
LHS's junior varsity grapplers
open their s e a s o n today al Shippensburg College. Coach Gray
Simons has several outstanding
wrestlers on his junior varsity
squad that he feels could fill in
on the varsity team in c a s e of
injury or i l l n e s s . Jim Rupp,
normally a j-v wrestler has already wrestled on the varsity
squad
against
Lehigh.
John
Mapes and Mark Kuntz, conference champions last year, hold
positions on the squad. Heavyweight Jeff Knarr, a freshman,
was a regional champion last
year
in high school. Coach
Simons feels he will be in a
better position to say who his
outstanding wrestlers are after
tonight's match as he has not
s e e n most of his team w r e s t l e in
a match.

Junior class meeting w i l l be
held tonight at 7:00 pm in
Smith Hall Lounge. Topic of
discussion w i l l be the weekend of a c t i v i t i e s to be sponsored in February.
The
Geography
Club
will
present a program of c o l o r
slides on the geography and
geology of Western A n g l o America today at 7:15 pm in
Ulmer 102.

STAFF
MEETING
this means
YOU
W e d . at 6:30pni

EAGLE
EYE
. opinion

To the editor:
To Miss Maloney
Those who are supposed to be
doing something and are doing
nothing are infinitely worse than
those who try to do nothing and
succeed.
Submitted by
Larry G. Green
Member of the •'left-out" group
of Sophomores.
T o the editor
A special presentation will
be held tomorrow evening by a
nationaUy recognized expert on
United States foreign policy. Dr.
Wesley M. Bagby, professor of
history at West Virginia Univers i . y , will deliver an a d d r e s s at
8 pm in the planetarium.
The Student Organization for
P e a c e , which is sponsoring Dr.
Bagby's presentation, w i s h e s to
invite every member of the Lock
Haven State community. A q u e s tion-answer s e s s i o n will follow
the lecture, "Why We Should Get
Out of Vietnam."
For the anti-war ' d o v e s , ' Dr.
Bagby's s p e e c h should be highly
enlightening from an educational
standpoint.
One of the many
charges leveled against those
opposed to the war (and in some
c a s e s , with a certain degree of
justification) is that you are not
equipped with 'the facts) — that
you do not know what you are
talking about. This is a c h a n c e
to get some of those f a c t s .
For the pro-war ' h a w k s , ' this
is a good opportunity to hear the
other side, a chance to try out
your arguments with a man who
has been criticizing the war for
almost 20 y e a r s .
For the middle-of-the-roaders,
on the Vietnam question, tomorrow evening's program might help
you make up your mind one way
or the other. At the very l e a s t ,
it will equip you with additional
information on the s u b j e c t .
For everyone, "Why We Should
Get Out of V i e t n a m " will make
you stop and think, perhaps to
ask questions about your own
attitudes and opinions.
STOP! h a s sent personal invitations to the college trustee^
and administrators and a l s o to
city and county officials in the
community.
There is always •
room for one more.
Ron Smith, president
Student Organization for P e a c e
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I knew this pledge paddle would come in handy some day !

Ihs .

CAMPUS CASINO

McCartney Is
by Carol Eisenhauer
Is Paul McCartney really dead?
There seems to be a lot of rumors
to this effect sweeping across
the nation. So far, there has been
no positive a s s e r t i o n s by Paul
himself that can convince the
fans that he really is alive.
It is said that Paul actually
died three years ago in an automobile accident. Since then, he
has been impersonated by either
his brother, Mike McOreer, a
friend, Billy Shears, or the winner of a contest held to find
P a u l ' s look alike.
Rumors Rampant
Where
have
these
rumors
originated? The most valuable
source
has
been
from
the
B e a t l e s ' albums. Many claim
that clues are evident throughout
the music. At the end of the song
"Strawberry F i e l d s " one can
hear the line " I buried P a u l . "
In " I am the Walrus" you can
distinctly hear " P a u l is dead''
at the very end of the song.
Someone even went so far as
to plat "Revolution ft9" backwards and insist that they heard
a voice saying, " T u r n me on
dead m a n . " Also heard were car
horns, and someone crying for
"help."
Clues on Albums
The largest assortment of clues
appear on the albums themselves
and each album cover has been
carefully
searched by frantic
fans. The first to be considered
is Sgt. Pepper's Inanely Hearts
Club Band. On the inside of the
cover is a picture of the Beatles.
Paul is wearing a black armband
with O.P.D. written on it. (This
is the English coroner's tem for
"officially
pronounced d e a d . "
On the back cover of this album
a picture ot George Harrison
seemingly has him pointing to
the words Wednesday morning at
5 which is written within the
context of a song. Some say this
is when Paul died.
Sign Reads, " I w a s "
On
the cover of
Magical
Mysti'ry Tour are many clues.
T h e r e ' s a picture of Paul sitting

Dead?

al a desk with a sign reading
" 1 w a s . " There is another picture of Paul that depicts him
sitting and playing h i s guitar.
He has no s h o e s on. (In England,
people are buried with no s h o e s . )
His shoes are beside him covered wilh a substance somewhat
resembling
blood.
On
this
album Paul is also featured as a
walrus which is the Eskimo symbol for death. He is portrayed
in black and the others are in
white.
In one of the s o n g s , " G l a s s
Onion"
John
Lennon s i n g s ,
" H e r e ' s a clue for you all...the
walrus is P a u l . " On another
picture all the Beatles have on
red carnations with the exception
of Paul, who is wearing a black
one. He a l s o holds a spray of
dead, black flowers with three
white ones intermixed. (Could
these symbolize the three remaining Beatles?)
Final Clues
The final clues which may
have brought many more rumors
to light are on the album cover
of .Ihhcy Road. The four Beatles
are seen on the cover walking
out of a cemetary. In accordance
with English funeral procession
tradition, the leader (John), is
in white. The second is the
mortician (Ringo) who is followed by the corpse (Paul) dressed
in a shirt and barefoot. The final
figure is the gravedigger (George)
who is dressed in dirty work
c l o t h e s . In this picture P a u l ' s
e y e s are closed and he is out
of s t e p with the o t h e r s . He is
carrying an unlit cigarette in
his right hand although he is
left handed.
License Plate Number
A license plate has the number
281F on it. Paul would be 28 IF
he was a l i v e .
Perhaps the only way lo prove
that the Paul we s e e is actually
Paul McCartney would be to
have his finger prints checked or
his voice prints.
Editor's
note:
Sources
of
information used for this article
include:
Time Magazine,
Oct.
24, 1969: Daily Kent
Stater,
Kent
State
University,
Ohio:

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