USG insurance hearings continue Mientus claims bribe By JIM KUHNHENN and sheila McCauley Collegian Staff Writers Undergraduate Student Government Vice President Marian Mientus last night denied having knowledge of the student health insurance program before May 18 or 19. Mientus told the USG in surance hearings she was on •‘bad terms” with USG President George Cemusca in the Spring and as a result he did not keep her informed of the insurance situation. She said a bad illness and personal problems prevented her from being active in USG. Doctors at Ritenour Health Center could not find any in capacitating illness. That discrepancy created the hostility between Cernusca and herself, she said. Wnat YOU can do to help prevent theft: record all serial numbers, engrave all valuables, lock all doors, and if theft should occur report it im mediately by calling 865-5458. 153 5. OJLSLam. St for ALL WOMEN —Help make it happen! Tues. 7:30 165 Willard Mientus said the hostility between the two USG executives was such that when she asked Cemusca about the plans he did not answer and at times left the room. Mientus also said her inac tion in the insurance matter was not.nonfeasance, since it was caused by her ill health. She said she would have con sidered it insubordination to ignore Cernusca’s wishes that she remain uninvolved in the insuranceplan. The committee : also questioned Mientus about Cer nusca’s statement Thursday night that he had told her about Byran C. Hondru’s alleged bribe. Hondru is the representative for the Hall and Co. insurance firm. Mientus said Cernusca’s statement, first heard in court 6§W3V-33/Y this summer, was inaccurate. She said Cemusca told her nothing about insurance until May 18 oif 19, when he men tioned he was under pressure to award the insurance con tract. The alleged bribe at tempt occurred May l.i ac cording to Cemusca. j Cernusca said in court testimony that he told Mientus immediately, of Hondru’s alleged bribe. Cernusca said Thursday-he had not sworn any of those people to secrecy about the incident. ’ [ But Mientus said last night Cernusca,did not informjhef about the incident until May ft or 19, and requested the mat ter be kept secret. James Newton, Cernusca’s executive assistant,' claimed UNIVERSITY CALENDAR Monday, September 23 (SPECIAL EVENT Coed Flag Football p.m., East Halls Field. Genetics, 3:55 p.m., Room ill Tyson. Paul Grun, professor of cytology and "Cytogenetics, on “The Cytoplasmic Genetica of Vertebrae Cancers.” Biochemistry, 11 a.m., Room 101 Althouse. Dr. Elliott S. Vesell, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, oh “Isozymes.” Plant Pathology, 9:45 aim., Room 213 Buckhout. Eric Fritz on “The Use of Satellite Data to Detect Altered and damaged Vegetation Caused by Pollutants.” Lecture on Ancient Rhetoric, j 12:45 p.m., Room 124 Sparks. Professor Eric A. Havelock will present a lecture dealing with Plato’s view of justice and right in relation to rhetoric. i . 1 OTIS, 6:30 p.m., Room 203 HUB. Education Student Cotpcil, 7 p.m., Room 111 Chambers Future Farmers of America, 7 p.'mJ, Room 112 Armsby. Vista. j ; i j Preregistration for Winter Term File for Repeat Course] Museum of Art Manayunk and Other Places: Francis Speight’s paintings and drawings, Galleries A and C. Selections from the permanent collection, Gallery B. Sackett Gall Cry “Light,” a show of architecture student work. Chambers Gallery Pennsylvania jGuild of Craftsmen, crafts. Kern Gallery Ralph Kaleshefski, sculpture, and Mary Martha Proud, paintings. Pedgie Lawson, pottery. k Hammond Gallery Architectural Engineering Student [Projects Exhibition. Pattee Library Central foyer, memorabilia of George Gilbert Pond. ignorance the court testimony showed Cernusca said in his next statement he told 40 people about the bribe a month and a half before the court hearing. : That would place the date in question at around May 18 since the court hearings were held July 3. Gary Potter, Cernusca’s campaign manager, was also questioned by the committee. Committee member Joan Mc- Carthy asked Potter if he was aware of a friendship between Eric Richardson, Cemusca’s former executive assistant, and Franco Harris, former Penn State football player. Harris is reportedly a stockholder in the insurance firm of Higham, Nielson, Whitridge & Reid, to whom SEMINARS LECTURE j MEETINGS j OFFICIAL EXHIBITS Cernusca awarded the in surance contract on May 23. Potter said he was aware of the friendship. McCarthy asked if Harris was in State College at any time during Cernusca’s deliberations on the insurance situation. Potter said he knew Harris had been in State College during the USG elections Spring Term, but did not know whether Harris had been present at any other time. Controversy arose over the date on which Cernusca discussed Hondru’s bribe offer with Potter. According to Pot ter, he spoke with Cernusca on Sunday, May 19. But ac cording to court testimony, Cernusca was in Philadelphia at that time. Talk on Peace Corps and Israel expects Soviet influx HAIFA, Israel (UPI) Israey expects general, told newsmen, an influx ol 5,000 Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union monthly once the Soviet Union relaxes emigration rights in ex change for-U.S. trade benefits, the direc tor-general of the Jewish Agency said yesterday. “We are standing before a great im migration wave from the Soviet Union and the assessment is that more than 5,000 souls will reach Israel from the Soviet Union,” -Moshe Rivlin, the director- CHEAP JEANS at Cheap Thrills 115-6. 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