Rock music soon may be banished from dorm commons and dining hall areas because some students in North and South Halls find its lyrics difficult to stomach. However, the Residence Hall Advisory Board has not taken any action in response to the four complaints it has received.

The rock music played in the commons opposes Judeo-Christian values, said Bob Bowen, president of the American Family Association's local chapter.

Songs about sex out of marriage, drugs and "awful things" launched AFA's combat upon rock music, he said. "The lyrics (of rock songs) are totally against what (Christian) people believe in," he explained.

AFA wants dorm commons to play either classical or Christian music or no music at all, Bowen said. "It actually gives me a stomachache," he said of the commons music.

RHAB received three letters and a telephone call on their RHAB Hotline about 10 days ago from AFA members and other students in North and South Halls, said Susie Williams, RHAB assistant director.

The letters and phone call suggested the commons music offended the students' religious beliefs, she said.

However, RHAB is uncertain whether they will remove the music, Williams added.

AFA, a national Christian organization based in Tupelo, Miss., was founded by Pastor Don Wildmon in the 1970s, Bowen said.

Wildmon instituted the organization in response to the "visual and audio sewage" he found on television. Flipping through channels, he was offended by the sex scenes, profanity and violence evident on every station, Bowen said.

Today, the organization boasts more than 500 local chapters nationwide with the goal of "promoting the values that our country was founded on," he said.

Penn State's chapter was founded in 1988 and currently has about five members, he added.

Bowen described the group's current goals as eliminating rock music in the commons and the removal of pornographic magazines from campus.

In the past, the AFA chapter here has petitioned against the Association of Residence Hall Students' showing of pornographic movies on campus. ARHS stopped showing pornographic movies in 1988, Williams said.

The group of students fighting the films was actually called Students Opposing Pornography, but those students formed AFA, Bowen said. AFA gave Students Opposing Pornography a larger spectrum in which to operate -- besides pornography, members could campaign against other "sewage," like rock music and the promotion of homosexuality, Bowen explained.