12 / PSH NEWS CAPITAL TIMM
November 23, 1992
LIBRARY, from page 1
out items in the new system, and they can
take out up to 50 items.
Community borrower cards will be
available to anyone outside the Penn State
Harrisburg community, and will be
temporarily available to students stranded
without their identification cards.
Borrowing privileges will be limited to
eight items on the community borrower
card, Shill said.
Library assistants will run the card
through a scanner similar to one found at
the grocery store. The scanner reads the
information on the magnetic stripe--
information from a card filled out by
students and registered in the automated
HATE CRIMES, from page 7
of humanity.
Why? People who exhibit pathological
hatred against different races and
nationalities, handicapped and
homosexuals would never be satisfied,
even if they were able to dispose of all
"undesirables." They feel anger and need
to release it.
They may target anyone in their path.
These people are sociopaths. They maim
and kill without conscience...like robots.
They never feel that they are at fault.
They feel victimized, so they must
impose sanctions on those they
abhor...people who are dissimilar to
themselves.
World War II and the Holocaust, by
most people's standards, are considered to
be over. Well, I have news for you. They
aren't. They are alive and thriving all
over the world. Yes, even in
Pennsylvania. Some Ku Klux Klan
(KKK) members and neo-nazi skinhead
groups reside in the area. In the past, the
skinheads have vandalized and desecrated
synagogues. They've painted swastikas on
tombstones in Jewish cemetaries. They
mock the Holocaust and say it never
happened. Their attitudes are Hideresque.
They've had cross burnings, as they did in
the Chambers Hill area when a black
family purchased a home. They taunt and
loathe the handicapped. After all, there is
no room for imperfection in an Aryan
race.
To these people, a healthy, white race
means superiority. Women (although they
have their own KKK for females) are still
inferior to the men. Yet it is imperative
that they keep breeding healthy, supremist
babies. The babies are even dressed in the
traditional Klan garb.
It is pitiful that these children will
grow up under the influence and
conditioning of their families-despising
other people-people who, like everyone,
bleed red and need oxygen to breathe.
These children will not be taught to
believe in the human race; they will be
instructed how to hate, and that they are
part of the superior race...the white race.
KERN, from page 6
world practice experience I gained as a
intern with Mr. Kern's practice.
This firm has employeed 28 PSH
graduates, either as interns or full time
professionals, over the last 12 years. As a
future managing partner, I can not say
with certainty that this relationship will
continue.
Here's our chance to make our voice known:
The Student Government Association would like
to hear
out the
system
The assistants also scan the bar code
found on the book, and the system
combines the student information with the
book information. The book bar code
contains information about the book, such
as author, tide, bibliographic data and call
number.
Calling the new system "homegrown,"
Shill said it was created in 1979 at
University Park especially for the Penn
State system. Penn State Harrisburg is the
first campus in the system to get the
"homegrown" brand of automation, he
added.
"It has some rigid features, but we had
a choice," Shill said. The choice was
either to take advantage of automation
Neo-nazi skinheads are usually
recruited at a young, vulnerable
age...teenage years. Harmless looking
literature circulates in schools. A couple
years ago, HACC, even had a neo-nazi
pamphlet on one of their bulletin boards.
Someone evidently had put it there, but
when administration found out, it was
hastily removed. Approximately at the
time that incident occurred, racist
literature was circulated and distributed in
a Middletown school.
The Harrisburg vicinity, like so many
others, also has neo-nazis. These young
boys have nothing better to do with their
spare time. Maybe more youth programs
should be instituted to alleviate their
boredom. Anyway, many of these youths
live on the West shore, but come to the
East shore to cause problems. They target
the localities that possess the most
minorities. (Do they learn this from their
parents? Maybe their families have no
time for them?) And they are s o
courageous.
In Harrisburg many times homosexual
men are attacked around 2 a.m. after the
bars close. The perfect victim is
intoxicated and alone. Four or five of
these disturbed, young men can quickly
exit their vehicles to attack and pummel a
solitary, intoxicated person. Oh, this is an
arduous task...five on 0ne...50 brave too.
Cowards! In recent years, homosexual
men have been attacked by neo-nazi
skinheads wielding two by four boards and
baseball bats. Some of the perpetrators
were caught. They were juveniles from
wealthy homes who didn't quite fit the
stereotypical hoodlum. They were filled
with anger and aggression. Too young to
legally drink alcohol and too old to play
games at the arcades, they decided to have
a "fag bash."
Many people, wrongly, blame
homosexuals for AIDS. Nobody is
immune to this horrendous disease. In
fact, statistics show that more and more
high school and college students are
contracting this illness. Yet, some people
use AIDS as a rationalization to focus
their hatred on gays.
There are many crimes of hate too
Because of my first hand knowledge,
through professional circles as well as my
own student experience, I do not believe I
would be receiving a graduate product
competitive with other local universities. I
will seek other local university
graduates/interns first, I might add that all
of the "Big Six" firms look to Mr. Kern
for current staff need recommendations.
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now or wait three years for an updated
system, and since the old procedure was so
tedious, the answer was clear, he said.
The system will reject any borrowers
who owe the library money until the bill
is paid, Shill said.
Borrowers are limited to two renewals,
and before renewing a book, they must
bring the book back to be re-scanned.
Shill said this includes faculty members,
who in the past could renew a book by
sending a letter. This method encourages
them to return books they're not using, he
said, a problem endemic to the old system.
"We've had a faculty member doing
research in Africa during the summer, and
the books are just sitting in the house,"
Shill said. "We couldn't get to them."
numerous to discuss. There are men who
hate women, so they brutalize them. In
Philadelphia, there were murderous
incidents between whites and Asians over
turf. The L.A. riots will go down in
history as a racial problem gone awry.
The world is full of hatred, and we do
have a First Amendment right to dislike
another no matter what the reason or
prejudice. The Klan had a First
Amendment right to assemble and rally in
Hanover, Pennsylvania, two summers
ago, shortly after racial problems occurred
there. Sure, they chose an area that was
vulnerable, but they were still within
their rights. They have the constitutional
right to express their feelings, and so do
we. This is America .
Ex-Klansman, David Duke, has the
right to run for political office, and in his
home state of Louisianna was in the
legislature and missed election to the
senate by a very small margin. But, we
have the right not to endorse a politician
we know is racist. Duke has a calm
demeanor and a gleaming smile, yet we
are informed about his past and have the
right to say, "No way. Down with Duke!"
We see much prejudice on talk shows.
(Remember when Geraldo's nose was
broken?) Some people think these shows
give prejudiced people an open forum to
recruit more members. But, that is their
right. At the same time, these programs
make the world aware of the ignorance
that exists in our society. You might say
that people who mistakenly thought
prejudiced people to be harmless are
ignorant. We must remain aware.
Prejudice is not harmless. In fact, Tom
Metzker, an ex-klan official, spoke to a
skinhead group. That was legal, but he
overstepped his bounds when he incited
and encouraged them to kill a black man.
He went beyond his constitutional rights.
The murderers were imprisoned, and
Metzker lost a civil suit to the victim's
mother. He lost everything he
owned...except his liberty. When he was
interviewed, he implied that since he lost
pledge card to you for ultimate disposition.
Although the pledge of $lOO is small to
the University, I find that I can not honor
it in good conscience. Instead, I have made
a contribution to Lions Club International
for use in their Sight First Campaign.
In closing, I issue this challenge to all
of your student body, regardless of their
in this edition .
Dr. Harold Schill
all his material wealth, he has nothing
else to lose. He continues to preach his
hatred. The First Amendment protects
freedom of speech, but not speech that
poses an imminent, or clear and present
danger to society. Recently, on the 13th
day of November, a Harrisburg bar was a
target for a new-to-the-area neo-nazi
skinhead group. (Supposedly, this group
existed in Florida and members
came to the are to recruit.) The bar
employees saw that they were creating
havoc, and hodily removed them. That
was the bar's right. The prejudiced
skinheads (And I make the distinction,
'prejudiced,' because there are different
types of skinhead groups. Some are not
prejudiced.) came back around closing
time with the intention of starting a fight.
Soon, there were 12 police cars, two
paddywagons, two ambulances and even
the mayor. Although they should have
been there at the onset, I commend the
rapid actions of the police. Unfortunately,
this was never reported in the local
newspaper.
We must be informed. Ignorance can
be dangerous. Without media coverage,
accounts of malice have no real
legitimacy. They don't seem authentic or
verifiable. We must not be indifferent, for
this can result in the brutalization or
demise of many people. Instead, we
should keep abreast of what's occurring
around us. If all minorities or oppressed
groups worked together instead of against
one another, they would surely be a
dominant force. If all oppressed and
unoppressed people who care about peace
and equality could work together, we
would outnumber hatemongers by such an
immense margin that the loathsome
perpetrators of violence would not be so
audacious. We must band together. There
are many groups and coalitions out there
that serve this purpose. In the words of
John Dickinson, "By uniting we stand,
and by dividing we fall."
Let's decide to stand united
discipline. Take your education back! It's
your money, your time, and your future.
Donald R. Burgard, CPA
Class of 'B5
cc: Dr. Joab Thomas
PSU -•Board of Trustees
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