in the mid-day sun.
Balmy Weather Ideal
Capitol Hosts It’s
Annual Spring Concert
By Robin Platts
Staff Writer
The ground literally
strewn with bodies in
various forms of unclothing,
dozens of half kegs of beer,
(as one bystander noted,
“enough to float the
proverbial battleship) the
interminable clicking of 35
mm cameras catching peo
ple in a garden variety of
poses, and a few random
large dogs thrown in for
background color.
The latest Star Art flick?
Not exactly. Saturday at
Capitol Campus was the site
of the Annual Spring Concert
where hundreds of people
Faculty Council
Views Securty
By John E. Stanchak
Assistant Editor
Out of the tulmult arising
from the “Chief Paul
Controversey” and the
plethora of arrests on
campus has come the
inquiring voice of the Capitol
Campus faculty asking,
“What are Chief Paul’s
powers?”
In laborious and aca
demic fashion, the Faculty
Council has conducted an
investigation into that
question, along with several
others pertaining to Campus
Security Chief James Paul’s
conduct during the arrests of
several Capitol students for
marijuana ’manufacture’ and
the one of John Lane for
physical abuse.
The Council, under the
chairpersonship of faculty
member Susan Richman,
instigated the study during
the last month and pre
sented its final findings in an
summer type weather was pi
gathered to listen to the
sounds of seven bands, get
loaded and take in a few
rays.
Organized through long
hours and endless phone
calls by Good People
Productions, and financed
by the Student Government
Association, the Spring
Music Festival was made
possible free of charge to
students and the public.
For those fortunate
enough to attend, they had
the opportunity to join in
with such open air activities
as frisbee, football, lots of
guzzling and assorted other
open meeting on Tuesday,
May 18th in the Main
Building auditorium.
Attended heavily by
S.G.A. members and other
actively concerned students,
the meeting heard the
following conclusion from
Council member Dr. Leonard
E. Brewster
--Chief Paul is a duly
deputized police officer
required to uphold the laws
of Pennsylvania.
-By arresting campus stu
dents for growing marijuana
and charging them with a
felony, Chief Paul was
following the letter of the
law and was technically
correct in doing so.
-To have exercised discre
tion in busting the marijuana
growers, Chief Paul would
have been violating his oath
to uphold the law.
Tlie Faculty Council also
recommends, according to
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fun things associated with
concert going.
One of the highlights of
the day was the chance to
see our own Officer Paul
dressed in full police type
regalia (i.e. riot helment,
walkie-talkie, and shades) on
his shiny motorcycle.
G.P.P. thought of every
thing and to remedy the
munchies McDonalds fur
nished the food (for a mere
nickel price increase). So, to
answer a perennially asked
question at Capitol Campus,
yes it is possible to have a
healthy, good time here and
all for free.
SGA Questions
Paul And South
By John Leierzapf
Staff Writer
James H. Paul, chief of
security here, and Dr. Jerry
South, dean of Student
affairs, appeared at last
week’s S.G.A. meeting to
answer questions from stu
dent senators.
Both men have been
under fire from the Faculty
Council and Student Gov
ernment this term con
cerning campus security
operations.
SGA President Cliff
Eshbach and Vice President
Ray Martin said the indecent
assault case that went
before the hearing board and
the two drug arrests brought
to light possible conflicts of
interests resulting from the
Dean of Student Affairs
functioning as prosecutor,
defense and head of Campus
Security all at the same time.
Martin added: “These
Interns
Speak Out
By John E. Stanchak
Assistant Editor
From January through
March, some Penn State
students served as interns at
the Pennsylvania State Bu
reau of Elections in
Harrisburg, along with other
undergraduates from all over
the Commonwealth.
The purpose of the
internship was to illustrate
the government process to
the students and give them a
working experience with it.
But for Capitol Campus
students like Christine Cox,
Susan Besch, Andrea
Yelverton and Debbie
Hoffman, what they learned
was something infinitely
more practical: ‘To get
along, you have to go along’.
As Andrea Yelverton, a
9th term student, tells her
stoiy this point is vividly
made.
“It was bad from the
beginning,” Andrea said.
“The first thing was, we were
to be paid $BOO for the eight
weeks of the internship.
Then right after we started
we were told that ‘some
thing’ had happened to the
money. They never said just
what that ‘something’ was,
but it did mean that we
would have to take $3OO
instead.”
At that time neither
Andrea nor any other
students complained be
cause they believed they
were still going to get a first
hand look at government in
action.
cases merely put a spotlight
on a problem which has
existed since September
and, if changes are not
made, could continue to
exist and get worse for
sometine to come.”
S.G.A. President Cliff
Eshbach established the
rules of questioning at the
meeting and Vice President
Ray Martin began the
questions with Chief Paul.
Martin: “Are all of your
Security Police officers
sworn police officers in the
state of Pennsylvania as well
a s University employees?”
Paul: “Yes sir, they are.”
Martin: Does your job
describtion call for the
impartial enforcement of
University rules and regula
tions, as well as state laws?”
Paul: “Yes, it does.”
Martin: “Is the Security
Police connected, in any
What they got, however,
was, “One hell of a snow
job,” said Andrea, “because
we weren’t two weeks into
the term when we found out
that some students were
receiving $lOO a week, every
week.”
Andrea speculated that
the reason some students
were paid in full while others
were not was because they
(the full paid students) came
from districts controlled by
powerful legislators who in
turn controlled the purse
strings for important pro
grams. We were, however,
unable to prove this.
Andrea and the others
kept up their work though,
because then things began
to get interesting.
They all worked in the
department known as Peti
tion Filing where, especially
in a Presidential election
year, many national candi
dates come to file their
petitions to run for office.
The idea of working there
and brushing elbows with
the powerful and those near
the seats of power, ac
cording to Andrea, should
have been exhilirating. In
stead, it became viciously,
painfully educational.
Andrea said, “We stuffed
envelopes and made routine
telephone calls. And on one
day they (the supervisors)
took us down into the
basement and had us walk
around a table stapling
booklets together page by
page. Very routine, but
when the petitions started
coming in and I couldn’t
believe it.”
What Andrea found hard
to believe was the blatant
favoritism and inconsisten
cies in official policy.
Andrea said, “Larry
Hochendoner (Dem.) is a
candidate for state repre
sentative. On the first day
Dr. Robert Graham to take
the reins from Dr. Tischler
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