Athletes Are Favored for Aid, Heine Man Tells ASG Council; Denied by Past, Present Directors
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CAMPUS Vol. 95, No. 7 Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. Tuesday, April 27, 1971 Athletes are favored for aid, Heine man tells ASG Council; denied by past, present directors Hair dispute Le Sueur, Cothie, again raised deny preference By DALE RADCLIFFE By KEVIN HART Answers :o cl,), -ges made at The Student Life committee is last Sunday's ASG meeting came considering an investigation of the firing back from both members Athletic Department, after Exec- of the athletic department and the utive Coordinator Rick Heineman college office of financial aid. HUNDREDS of thousands of demonstrators march up Pennsylvania told . ASG Council Sunday night Mrs. Virginia LeSueur, former Avenue in Washington to the Capitol for the biggest peach march in financial aid director, denied the that the college's former financial American history. More than 300,000 people participated Saturday. aid officer had said athletes were claim of ASG Executive Co-ordin- given preferential treatment in ator Rick Heineman that she had the allotment of aid funds. revealed to him that it was college (The former aid director, Mrs. policy to give preferential treat- D.C. demonstrators Virginia LeSueur, denied making ment to athletes in awarding fin- the statement and Heineman mod- ancial aid. "All cases were gov- ified his statement. See accom- erned by financial need. We tried hard to be more than mechanical diverse and peaceful panying story.) RICK HEINEMAN The Athletic Department came with each case, but we did treat It was a beautiful, balmy day in Representative David Kettle under fire on other issues at one case just like another," she By JAMES COWDEN Washington as the marchers as- questioned the Athletic Depart- said, Sunday's ASG meeting. Off-cam- sembled on the behind ment's hiring practices and pay pus representative Alan Kurzweil See FINANCIAL AID, P. 6 The massive demonstration for the White House amid blossoming scale at the Mellon Building. Ket- ignited the debate by asking what an immediate end to the Indochina trees and colorful beds of early tle said that workers at the buil- the fate was of athletes with long war and improved social condi- spring flowers. A festival mood ding are reportedly paid $1.90 per hair, and asking if ASG had issued tions in this country held in prevailed as hawkers peddled bal- hour, and that employment is of- a statement on the subject. Washington last Saturday was loons, peace buttons and over- fered only to athletes. Representative Richard Mart- marked by a larger, more diverse priced Coca-Colas and ice cream in, an All-Presidents/ Athletic It was at that point in the and more peaceful crowd than bars to the demonstrators. Conference soccer player, told meeting that Heineman passed on any previous peace demonstra- Except for one incident when a what he said was Mrs. LeSueur's tion. council that hair length was a small group of American Na zi matter left to the discretion of comment on preferential aid treat- More than 300,000 people pa- Party members tried to disrupt the individual coach, and ASG ment for athletes, stressing that cked the area west of the Capitol the marchers on Pennsylvania president Frank Tadley said that he disagreed with such a policy. and Pennsylvania Avenue in what Avenue,. there was no violence. a letter had been sent to the The motion to initiate an ASG Washington police called the Only 12 arrests were made Sat- Athletic Committee during the investigation of the Athletic De- "largest peace demonstration" in urday, eight of which in connection first term. partment came from representa- American history, with the Nazi incident. tive Valerie Ettinger. It was re- Thousands of young people lined Kurzweil then introduced a mo- The march followed a week of ferred to the Student Life com- major highways into the capital tion stating that ASG should peti- demonstrations by the Vietnam mittee and there was talk of an before and after the almost five- tion for the removal of any facu- Veterans Against the War. Their ad hoc committee being formed, hour rally, and the streets running lty member who practices discri- protest, called , 1Dorrey Canyon past the mile-long mall from the mination in any form, including a- ", named after two U,S, search Capitol to the Washington Monu- gainst long-haired people. See ASG, p. 8 MRS. VIRGINIA LeSUEUR and destroy missions in Vietnam, ment were parked solid with char- were climaxed with a demonstra- ter busses. tion Friday on the steps of the Capitol during which veterans turned the medals they had won in Vietnam back to the government. New food committee formed At that time, hundreds of me- ; dals, including many purple he- arts and some bronze and silver stars, along with honorable dis- to be 'liason' with students charges citations, plastic M-16/s, which the new committee is de- already included several unusual and remnants of military service, By MARY SUE SWEENEY signed to solve- McGregor said the dishes. And students are respon- were hurled over a six-foot tern- To better communication be- new service has had "no major ding to the new menus; servers porary fence erected on the Cap- tween students and the new Saga problems" in adapting to Alle- say that an amazing number of itol steps at a statue of Chief food service, a permanent food gheny. people will try uncommon dishes Justice John Marshall. Several committee was organized last Because of a good kitchen staff for the first time. Increasedpor- Congressmen and many march leaders called the Veterans' dem- night, in cooperation with Food and the cooperation of the stu- tions and the option to have "se- onstrations the most effective Service director Venley McGre- dents, he said Saga has had no conds" are welcomed innovati- gor. antiwar Protests so far. major problems adjusting to the ons. The duty now falls on the John Kerry, the articulate for- The eight students on the com- Allegheny kitchens; and with the student to get or not to get a mer lieutenant junior grade who mittee-half of whom work in the recent installation of the soft "balanced meal." dining halls will function as a led the group, was the last of drink machines, McGregor says, One practice that Saga has not nearly 1000 veterans who re- liason between students and the a full Saga program is now in continued is to post the tradi- linquished their medals. Most of service, and represent the stu- operation. The only remaining tional weekly menu, from which the men had served in the Army. dent cafeteria workers. addition will be new uniforms for students usually decided which Some came on crutches and in The committee will investigate female workers. meals were worth attending. Me- wheel chairs. the possibility of providing an McGregor's progress report Gregor says that it is very often option to the students next year, is confirmed by student reaction. necessary to make last-minute Many of the nearly 50 speakers possibly the choice of eating and Students have been enthusiasti- changes which a stated menu and entertainers at the Saturday rally paid tribute to the veterans. paying for only fourteen meals cally eating in the cafeterias would restrict. Instead Saga will a weeks The audience always answered to be served in the this term. Perhaps more than post menu-boards above the food cafeteria in the new College U- back with loud applause and shouts anyone, the women who work in lines so that students will know nion-Fire Arts Center. Director the cafeteria have noticed the what is in front of them without of "right on" as many demon- strators raised their hands in McGregor told the group Saga change in attitude toward the food having to ask the servers. A pre- would allow students to vote on that they serve three times a day. posted menu would increase the peace signs or clenched fists. what option to adopt. There is now a greater variety disparity in attendance at meals, Except for a "feedback" pro- of food, which is well-prepared See MARCH, p. 5 VENLEY McGREGOR blem from the student workers- and more colorful. Menus have See SAGA, p. 8 Page 2 CAMPUS Tuesday, April 27, 1971 Peaceful revolution For,s0„ and raffled a doctor had to be Just as the early movement against the Vietnam war incorporated coned and her stand-in earlier civil-rights and anti-bomb groups, recent welcomed a Jose Ferrer at the 37th St. , demonstrations in over — and the lady wants Jimmy hasW Hideaway swore he'll produce, Washington indicate that the peace movement is now only one part 0 M dwy. role after such- a trick- previous -ma direct and star in the ``C34-ano" of a growing movement towards a peaceful "revolution" like the one . Beverly Hillbluti musical, with score by Bob ....nt of I– 4h predicted by Charles Reich in The Greening of America. fractured her George Forrest At Saturday 's massive demonstrations youthful anti-war protest- t Wipingtrip over 1 ors were joined by Americans of all stations and life-styles, repre- her FaIm Spzi e senting a broad spectrum of causes, from Women's Liberation to Gig Young's s columnist writes Welfare Rights to environmental action. In Washington and at simi- lovely Poly /calor TN- fie– rGilman) made Phil and ins Morrison:oricA wed to lar demonstrations in San Francisco, well-dressed business leaders, a- a Biddle Betty grandparents . Again Totie Fielas um a free gig for verage "Middle Americans" and union men in hard hats joined the . Barbara Bel Geddes of is 1By MICHAEL McGOUGH the D.A.R.