•
Ao •
0 ff . 411.0"--t.
. 0 4 :
_ •
_
33E__ .
.•
•„.
.•
k
eol WAY
4 r Ait 04 P:
gf l ir
tiallY .34,8
.. z .e r tft4orti t -
AV.
-.411
Volume XXT—No. 24
8 Arrested In Old
Unrest Remains
Reprinted from the Daily Collegian
by Jim Wiggins
Collegian Staff Writer
Six students and two non-students - were arrested yesterday af
ter about 175 State Police surrounded Old Main in a, move to en
force last week's - court injunction barring disruption of University
activities.
Former student Mark Pachtrnan and Alan (Commander Ali)
Cunningham. (3rd-science -Philadelphia) were arrested under a war
rant stemming from last Wednesday's disturance at Old Main_ The
six others were arrested for throwing rocks at police vehicles as they
withdraw from Old Main en route to Beaver Stadium.
Five busloads of police arrived at Old Main at 5 p.m. and pro
ceeded to surround the building. Witneq-setks at Old Main said that
when the police arrived no students remained in the building.
A group of about 50 students, coming from a rally held earlier
in front of Willard, went into the Administration building earlier in
the day in an attempt to talk to University administrators.
The students milled in the hallways and gathered in the office
of University President Eric A. Walker. According to Walker's sec
retary, the president was not in the building at the time.
At about 4:40 pm., Jeff Sill, one of the students inside Old
Main, called for a discussion of those present to decide whether to
leave or violate the injunction and remain.
The decision was made to leave, but those inside agreed that
little had been accomplished during the day, "Communication is at
an absolute zero," Sill said. "It's worse than it was a week ago."
At Sill's suggestion, tile .students in the building declared Old
Main "strike headquarters," and agreed to, return every day until
they considered communication channels with administrators suf
ficiently. open. At about 4:58 p.m. they filed out of the building.
As the students left the building five busloads of state police
equipped with riot helmets and clubs arrived at the back of Old
Main and proceeded to surround the building.
At the sight of police, a crowd of angry students began to gath
er-by- the-rou.ses, which were surrounded by a chain of troopers. Many
SGA Announces Proposed Schedule
Ed. Note: This is the third in a
series of articles directed at in
forming the student body on aims
and activities of the Student Gov
vernment lisiociation here at
Belirend.
CUB Staff Writer
Gather in Prexy Office
It's no big secret that one of
the weakest 1 - nks in the chain of
university scheduling has been the
Way Penn State handles holidays.
Every Thanksgiving, mater, and
Memorial Day, - countless Penn
State students find themselves
forced to skip classes in order to
aud.r...; BEHREND CAMPUS OP I:J:LN_: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Main Confrontation
At University Park
students began chants of "Pigs Off Campus" and "Power to the
People."
At 5:20 pm., police grabbed Pachtman and Cunningham from
the crowd and put them aboard one of the buses. According to po
lice sources, the two were arrested for Tnnlicious mischief and de
struction of property - under a warrant issued last Wednesday.
Shortly after the arrests, a group of student leaders including
Undergraduate Student Government President Ted Thompson con
fronted Director of Campus Security William C. Pelton in an at
tempt to find out why the arrests had taken place.
Thompson said Pelton told him he did not know, and would
have to consult Robert H. Barnes, head of Security's Investigative
Division, for the answer.
Shortly afterward a student in the crowd threw a rock at the
bus into which Pachtman and Cunningham were taken. He was
As the procession passed Schwab another student, "who had
earlier •thrown a rock, was grabbed by •police and put aboard the
chased by the police, subdued and also put aboard the bus.
The five arrested for rock throwing were Haldon Sutton, be
lieved to be a former student, Gordon P. Svec (3rd liberal arts-
Monessen), Joseph Schneller (10th-political science-Philadelphia),
Richard A. Parkany (Bth-computer science-Sharpsville) and Thom
as Willenbecher (6th-English-Allentown).
Students To Be Arraigned
A spokecinan for the State Police said the rock throwing stu
dents will be arraigned before a Justice of the Peace today. Pacht
man and Cunningham will be charged with contempt of court be
fore Centre County Judge R. Paul Campbell.
According to police, all students arrested yesterday were held.
overnight at Centre County jail.
After the third arrest, the buses headed west from Old Main
on Curtin Road. They were led by a squad car and surrounded by
lines of police who marched alongside.
The crowd, now about 2,000 strong, followed the buses. They
(Contiuned on Page 3)
spend the holidays at home with
family or friends.
- Well, after years of frustration,
the University Senate has finally
attacked the problem and come
up with a new schedule for all
term... . •
Accor(ll4:4 . . to this revised sched-
Sansone Explains His
Reasons For Resigning
"I resigned because they asked me to" was Frank Sansone's re
ply to the question posed by the CUB last week—Why did Cohen
Sansone, and Spie'mann resign? When asked for the official reasi
ons behind his choice to resign, Sansone said the administration of
fered . . . "`no objective" reasons, they didn't criticize his "profes
sional or academic" integrity, but merely stated that they thought
he should go back to school to get his Ph.D.
Going back to November, it is a fact that the Assistant Direc•
tor, John Claridge, checked with Sansone to affirm his return here
next fall. But in February Director Irving H. Kochel asked San
sone his plans for the future, he replied that he was planning on
being here next year, but attending graduate school in 1971.
Then Kochel informed him that he must resign or be released.
It is a general policy at other institutions to inform instructors of
their release in Deceniber, but Kochel insisted that he had let San
sone know of his release as soon as was possible.
When •asked, if he had had other "run-ins" with the administra
tion the sociology instructor brought up the famous "Bitch-in" held
in Perry Hall last year, where faculty, administration and students
pulled out all stops and criticized, analyzed and offered solutions to
Need To Consult Barnes
Another Student Grabbed
ule orientation begins Sunday,
September 20, with Registration
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Sept. 24-25-26. Class begins Mon
day, September 28. It gives
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
Nov. 26-27-28, off for Thanksgiv
(Continued on Page 2)
by Randy S. Kinkead
problems such as men-women,
d o u ilz 1 e-standards, concerning
hours and vistation, and com
plained about instructors and ad
ministration. Sansone, it turned
out, sided generally with the stn..*
dents.
"The most objective thing that
we don't fit into the Sehrend was ,
of life,' " said Sansone. "The ad
ministration takes any criticism
. . . as a personal affront. . . He
describes his reaction to being
asked to resign, "It's like your
parents asking you to get a hair...
cut."
Reflecting on Behrend, Sansone
said that he's had over 350 stu
dents in his classes this Year,
when last year he had 30 to 40 in
each class which, too, was too
large.
He believes that a small group
of interested students would do
more good than a large group of
persons. As it stands now ". . .
What's education for—to employ
teachers, administrators . . . It's
certainly not to educate the stu-
dents."
He feels students should be
more involved, have a say in wh6
gets hired. They have become
". . . passive, receptive, TV audi
ences and I'm supposed to enter
tain." "Students complain Fra
being too lazy and lackasdical,
but don't understand I expect
them to perform."
"All students aren't like this
though there are those whose sole
Purpose is to get an education
(not to degrade others who have
afferent purposes). Turning his
attention toward the administra
tion, he commented "We have an
administration that reflects the
student bodY."
Sansone is satisfied with the
reasons for his resignation as pre
sented in this article. "I don't fit
into the image . . . Behrend
should be projecting," he said in
reference to the administration.
April 24, 1970