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Police trade four
wheels for two
Ed Paukstis
Capital Times Staff
Penn State police services plans to
become actively involved with students
and faculty this spring when the
department introduces the university's first
bike patrol.
According to Charles Alesky, chief of
police services, the patrol will begin
sometime in early spring when potential
biking hazards like half melted snow, ice,
and scattered cinders have disappeared.
Alesky said the department tried to start
the program in October 1992 but felt that
it was too late in the season.
Two officers will be assigned to patrol
the campus from morning to early
evening, Alesky said.
One officer will ride a bike along the
paths, parking lots and sidewalks around
the university's dorms and Meade Heights.
The other officer will cruise the beat in a
squad car.
"If an emergency does arise and more
vehicles are needed, the officer assigned to
bike duty can radio the car for help,"
Alesky said.
Officers riding a bike, unlike those
driving a squad car, will not carry weapons
but will have portable radios and pouches
for carrying necessary paper work.
The officers will be required to wear
bike helmets and the standard
spring/summer police attire, which
consists of a blue or white button-down
shirt and knee-length shorts.
"The officers will also ob,serve the
rules and regulations of the road while
riding a bike, as if they were driving a
car," Alesky said.
Hopefully, the program will aid i n
crime prevention, Alesky said. More
importantly, he said he believes that it
will help to bring police officers and
people on campus closer together.
"The officers will be able to come
directly into contact with people on
campus," Alesky said. "Officers will be
able to provide useful information that
people might not be able to acquire from
a single police officer in a squad car."
Still, the department realizes the
physical demands that bicycling many
hours a day can exert upon an officer.
"The program is designed to be
voluntary, and some of the officers are
enthusiastic and interested," Alesky said.
Officers will be allowed to use their
own bikes if they do not want to use the
one provided by police services.
"We found the bike on campus almost
two years ago and searched for its owner
for almost a year," Alesky said. "Nobody
claimed it, so we were able to fill out the
necessary paperwork to keep the bike for
the department's use."
This will be the last time you see the PSH basketball team in action. Due to
the proposed budget cuts all varsity sports have been eliminated.
Students are in an uproar protesting the action, but will their voice be
heard?
Forum discusses
budget cuts and
varsity sports
Ruth Leventhal, provost and dean of
PSH, held an open forum in the Gallery
Lounge at 12:30 p.m Thursday, April 8.
Student turn-out was good for the first
time in two semesters.
Leventhal began the forum with a brief
statement of purpose. She expressed her
concern that students were not attending
her office hours which she holds twice a
semester allowing students to visit and
discuss situations on campus.
The questions asked at the forum
ranged from the overcrowding of classes
to budget problems
Students' main concern seems to be the
cutting of varsity sports. A majority of the
questions centered around the program
being cut from the budget.
'The forum was very informative with
lots of feedback from both students and
Death of the Cap Times?
Michael Stone
Capital Times Staff
The Capital Times is dying
Due to a decrease in staff, and with the
upcoming graduation of more than half of
the staff, the Capital Times is faced with
impending doom. And, with its death goes
the 19-year tradition of publishing a
campus newspaper.
Volume 29, Issue 3 April 13, 1993
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: EW
Trev Stair shuns Dante and gives us a
pictorial view of Joe Pa's Inferno 2
The Meade Heights October party bust
saga continues 3
Cheers and jeers for Michele Loeper's last
sassy bombshell 4
The Blizzard of '93 made for an interesting
spring break for the baseball club 7
Photo by Michael Starkey
the provost," said Bill Stoner, a
community psychology graduate student.
Michelle Feingold, a junior accounting
major, found the program unhelpful. "I
didn't find her to be open minded about
athletic concerns," she said.
Ericka Wolter, a junior accounting
major, wasn't pleased with the program
either and said, "She didn't answer things
the way we asked and she didn't have any
intention of answering them."
Leventhal said that the purpose of the
forum was to give students the
opportunity to speak out. She added that
she was prepared for some of the
questions that students asked because the
Student Government Association (SGA)
had provided her with some questions
prior to the forum.
The newspaper, for the last few years,
has been published every three weeks,
usually producing five issues per
semester. Although it has employed quite
a few people, it has turned into an
organization run by a small nucleus of
communications students.
However, with a larger staff, the
See CAPS, page 2