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sylvania Department of Aging<br />
urged the elderly to use generic<br />
drugs. Voikswagen workers<br />
threatened to strike. Pennsylvania<br />
Gas and Water Company reported<br />
a gas leak in Shamokin Dam. <strong>The</strong><br />
Pennsylvania House voted to<br />
establish a job training council<br />
with the duty of overseeing and<br />
coordinating ail state programs<br />
related to preparing unemployed<br />
or untrained workers for jobs. <strong>The</strong><br />
U.S. Education Department an-<br />
nounced that Pennsylvanians<br />
averaged 893 on the Scholastic<br />
Aptitude Test, ranking Penn-<br />
sylvania as thirteenth overall.<br />
At Buckneli, the University's<br />
new provost, Frances D.<br />
Fergusson, resigned to become<br />
President of Vassar college. Phi<br />
Mu Sorority was closed by its na-<br />
tional chapter. A cartoon from the<br />
Buckneilian referring to AIDS<br />
generated a protest by the<br />
Buckneli gay community and<br />
other student activists. Rush was<br />
extended to three weeks in<br />
February for both men and<br />
women in an effort to curb upper<br />
class influence on freshman. Both<br />
Buckneil's swimming and wresti-<br />
ing teams went to the ECC's.<br />
March<br />
In March, news still focused on<br />
the Marcos' stolen millions. Time<br />
magazine spoke of Mrs. Marcos'<br />
extensive shoe collection (5400<br />
pairs) and the family's numerous<br />
investments in Swiss bank ac-<br />
counts. Former New York Senator<br />
Jacob Javits dies at age 81. Com-<br />
panies began testing their pro-<br />
spective employees for drug use<br />
before hiring them. <strong>The</strong> stock<br />
market goes wild in response to<br />
cheap oil demand. Brown Univer-<br />
sity defended students arrested for<br />
prostitution.<br />
Swathmore College and Bryn<br />
Mawr College each approved con-<br />
ditional divestment from com-<br />
panies doing business n South<br />
Africa. Governor Thornburgh<br />
issued emergency regulations to<br />
deal with the liability insurance<br />
crisis in Pennsylvania. In<br />
Philadelphia, glass fragments<br />
found in a jar of Gerber baby food<br />
was viewed as a case of tamper-<br />
ing, according to the U.S. Food<br />
and Drug Administration.<br />
On Buckneil's campus, Sigma<br />
Alpha Mu fraternity reorganized.<br />
Thomas Rich, associate Professor<br />
of mechanical engineering, was<br />
chosen as dean of engineering.<br />
Buckneil's faculty endorsed the<br />
freshman residential college for<br />
the 1986-87 term.<br />
April<br />
April began with Nicaragua<br />
raiding Contra bases across the<br />
border in Honduras which gave<br />
President Reagan the chance to<br />
win continued aid for the Contras.<br />
A bomb exploded on a TWA jet.<br />
yet another terrorist scandal. <strong>The</strong><br />
Vatican issued a major decree<br />
against Latin America's Liberation
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