Card Conspiracy
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
hereby submits a number of pos
sible reasons for the recent Uni
versity decision to provide us all
with new, improved and fortified
niatric cards, effective Summer
Term.
—The FBI needed a new, up
to-date photo file on students. On
the old cards, they could not tell
which students were the long
haired hippie radicals.
—Downtown bar owners were
complaining about the old fresh
man year photos on the old cards.
They tried too hard to throw out
underage students, and lost too
much business.
—Students were complaining and the new cards will reflect this
because, thanks to the old photos, change. Apparently, it is a move to
no bar owner would believe they make the school colors inoffensive
were 21. to everyone.
—REGISTRATION HAD be- —THE MOVE IS PURELY
Deny demonstrators basic legal guarantees
Washington police make indiscriminate arrests
By JOHN WEAGRAFF
Collegian Senior Reporter
While the protestors participating in the
Mayday demonstrations last week may not
have succeeded in halting the government,
they did force the Washington, D.C. police
into making numerable illegal and indis
criminate arrests.
According to Donald Sassoon, who was
working with the Central Pennsylvania Legal
Defense Committee (CPLDC) in Washington,
police often disregarded the proper proce
dures for making arrests. He said the police
pursued the tactic of indiscriminate arrests
with such vigor that the courts were swamped
with an "unbelievable load" of cases which
could not be legally tried due to insufficient
evidence.
Case Dismissed
The insufficient evidence stemmed from
the police's failure to fill out the necessary
forms stating the charges, the arresting offi
cer's name, and other pertinent information.
When the cases were brought before a judge,
individuals found themselves dismissed be
cause the prosecuting lawyers could produce
no evidence, he said.
Dave Dankovic, who was arrested in
Washington. said that in one instance prose
cuting attorneys were given a list of ten
police officers and ordered to fill in the name
of the arresting officer on the necessary
papers regardless of whether the policeman
named had actually made the arrest.
Also, because no charges were filed
against many of those arrested, the lawyers
were told to supply on the forms whatever
charge was decided upon. It is apparent that
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come almost bearable, and the Uni
versity had to find, something new
to complicate matters again. Be
sides, they could establish another
administrative office to deal with
matric card problems.
—The old cards will be ground
up and used in the dining halls to
give some flavor to the food. This
is only a remote possibility, for it
might destroy the tradition of
savory University chow.
—An anonymous member of
the Board of Trustees or the Uni
versity administration just bought
stock in a matric card company.
—The school colors are being
changed quietly to beige on beige,
due to the illegal arresting procedures em
ployed by the police, the courts were faced
with cases that could not have been and
should not have been tried under a legal
pretense.
Broken Rules
Sassoon noted that the Coliseum, where
people were taken when the city jails were
filled, was "the place where all the rules
were broken." None of the people there had
been charged, or for that matter told that
they were under arrest. They were simply
brought to the site in buses and unloaded.
Thousands of demonstrators waited in
the Coliseum with no means to contact law
yers, no bathroom facilities and no food. At
this point it was decided that if the demon
strators would put up $lO collateral, they
would be set free and would not be required
to stand trial unless they requested it.
The fact that none of these demonstra
tors were ever charged, but simply were
photographed, finger printed and charged $lO
is a grim comment on the judicial bungling
that took place in Washington.
Sassoon also said that when the defense
committee tried to find out who had been
arrested. the police department refused to
supply any of the necessary information,
simply because no one really knew who was
arrested.
Police Control
Jim Huber, who also was working for
the CPLDC, said that the judicial system
became subject to the control of the police
force which continually pursued the policy
of arresting people without charging them
and without following the necessary pro-
bureaucratic, to keep people in
matric card factories busy.
—The new model is stronger,
for easier and quicker lockpicking
by enterprising students.
—University computers refused
to work with the old cards, and
demanded something better.
—The University intends to
sell attachments which will inflate
into pillows, for use in all boring
courses. Rumor has it that the re
ceipts will be used to build three to
four new campus buildings.
—A hollow space inside the
card will be useful for storing any
thing one wishes to stash there.
WHATEVER THE rationale,
the move seems to be a good one.
It will make everything a lot
simpler, and we are grateful for
this small but worthwhile blessing.
cedures in order to present the cases in a
normal court of law.
The result was that the courts in Wash
ington did not function as the laws of this
country dictate. In a desperate effort to clear
the streets of Washington, both police and
the courts followed unprecedented proce
dures.
Reports from Washington to this point
have neglected to emphasize these instances
of illegal arresting procedure. They also have
failed to mention unnumbered cases where
police arrested people without legal cause,
and often used unnecessary physical force
to do so.
Nick Brink, another participant in the
demonstrations who was arrested in the
May 1 clog-the-traffic activities, noted that
police simply walked up to groups of people
who were doing nothing and herded them in
to buses without ever telling them they were
under arrest. He also said instances were
not uncommon of police using gas or mace
on people aboard the police buses or people
who simply were standing around. He cited
one instance at the Redskins Stadium, where
demonstrators were taken after being herded
onto buses, when students pressed too close
to the fence and police began gassing them
rather heavily. He noted many other in
stances of indiscriminate gassing on the part
of the police in an effort to subdue the
demonstrators who, for the most part, con
tented themselves with chanting and danc
ing.
Dave Rosner, Director of the Peace Cen-
Track defended
TO THE EDITOR: This letter is a reply to Terry Nau's
recent comments concerning Penn State track. It is ob
vious that Nau knows very little about the sport, this fact
being revealed in his misleading "analysis". He seems to
feel that the team needs a super star to merit any atten
tion.
Anyone who witnessed ;Greg Frederick's great per
formance in the meet held last weekend would realize
that he is a top athlete. There ig no other athlete on a
Penn State team who has performed better ;this ,:year
than has Greg.
Nau goes on to state how boring track meets can be,
but to anyone with the slightest interest in the sport, the
recent P.S.U. - Navy duel had ,plenty of excitement. The -
meet wasn't- decided until the last race and even' that
event was a ,thrilling• contest that either team could have
won. Granted, many. people have no interest in track,
but certainly the same could be said for other spring
sports, particularly baseball which some would rate
the most boring of sports.,
Track is not always a contest with the clock or tape
measure as Nau. asserts. Often in topflight competition,
strategy and competition psychology are dominant con
cerns. '
In my opinion, the track team draws about as many
spectators as the other spring sports. (except spring foot- ,
ball, naturally). I'm not really overly concerned with the \
paucity of our following, or whether more people should
be interested in track and field what I am concerned
with is a sports writer who denigrates a program, espe
cially when it is apparent that he - has no accurate concept
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Letters to
ter, cited numerous examples of police ar
resting anyone on the street they saw.
Basically, the tactic used by the police was
to sweep the streets of people in any, way
they could, even if it meant arresting 12-
year old boys, 70-year old women out to get
a newspaper, and a couple on their way to
get married, which they did, he said.
Disregard Law
Reports from Washington said the re
straint exhibited by the police had met with
praise by the President. The police did re
strain from seriously injuring anyone but the
fact remains that they arrested people in
discriminately. In many cases they used gas
more than liberally, as reports have stated.
They used it punitively in an unrestrained
fashion simply to quiet chanting demonstra
tors who expressed no tendencies towards
violence. While the police are gloating over
their praise from the President, it cannot
be denied or refuted that they did indeed
make numerous arrests without reason, with
out charges, without regard for the law.
But perhaps most important and most
dangerous of all is the fact that this coun
try's judicial system took the liberty to
transcend the legal court procedures and
proceded to follow their own desperation
procedures. The courts completely denied,
through their actions, all that the concept
of civil liberties means.
It is true that the demonstrations did not
stop the government but, if anything, they
did make a comment on the lengths to which
our government will go to supress this sort
of appeal to" end the war.
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of , what the sport is about. Perhaps Terry Nau should go
back to covering baseball, a sport he obviously has more
affection for. . -
Scott G. Hagy
(13th-gen. arts and science-West Lawn)
Captain— P.S.U. Track team
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Suspension disturbing'
TO THE EDITOR: The suspension of the charter of "Other
Vision, Homophiles of Penn State" is disturbing in several
ways, and causes some questions to be raised.
The Undergraduate Student Government Supreme
Court had agreed that HOPS 'qualified to 'be a chartered
organization under, the Senate Rules and Policies. Now the
legality of the organization comes into question. Where was
the administration when we were trying to get a charter
in the first place? Did they think it was some kind of
gag, that would pass in a week?
It sounds to me. as if the administration were not
taking HOPS seriously or not taking the USG Supreme
Court seriously. There is little point in' having the latter
if its decisions are cooly 'dismissed.
Being taken seriously is a must for there to be any
kind of understanding or communication to develop. Every
one can help: by realizing that the' word "queer" is 'no
nicer than the word "nigger." (Many otherwise en
lightened, reasonable people toss around the word "queer"
with absolutely no thought of offending.) "Gay" is the
generally preferred expression. •
The Collegian has taken a step by giving HOPS
front page coverage and by unofficially announcing our
Colloquy speakers. Two more things are needed: That
the. Collegian publish the times and places of these work
shops, and continue to announce meetings and events
sponsored by the group.
Chernah Coblenti
(3rd-arts and architecture-Souderton)
Barbarism. in Pakistan
TO THE EDITOR: The general body of the Friends of India
Association has passed the following resolution about the
recent happenings in East Bengal (E. Pakistan):
"The FOIA of Penn State University expresses its deep
anguish and grave concern at the recent tragic happenings
in East Bengal (East Pakistan). Instead of acceding to the
popular demand of the majority people there, the Govern
ment of Pakistan has indulged in a systematic and de
liberate massacre of the unarmed and innocent people with
the help of modern military machines; this is unprece
dented in the history of mankind. The anguish for this
unnecessary tragedy is shared by the people all over the
world.
This house calls upon all the civilized people through
out the world to condemn the atrocity unequivocally and
to ask the rulers of Pakistan to stop their barbaric mili
taristic adventure immediately. Also it appeals to all the
nations of the world to mobilize whatever resources they
can to alleviate the human suffering that has been inflicted
upon the people of East Bengal."
H. K. Chatterjee
General Secretary FOIA
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