In support of rights
Josh Rubenstien (7th-English writing option) testifies before municipal council
last night in favor of a proposal, defeated by a vote of 4 to :i, that would have pro
hibited discrimination for employment on the basis of marital status or sexual
preference. -
House
approves
FEC bill
WASHINGTON (AP) The House
approved and sent to the Senate
yesterday a bill to reconstitute the
Federal Election Commission and get
campaign money flowing again to the
presidential candidates.
, The House voted 291 to 81. The Senate
hoped to act quickly on the measure and
send it to President Ford.
But Ford still has not said Whether he
will veto the bill and even if he doesn’t
he has to nominate six FEC com
missioners and the Senate has to con
firm them before the checks can go put.
Seven Democratic presidential can
’t didates and Ford’s challenger, Ronald
Reagan, have apparently lost their ef
forts to get the courts to break the money
loose for them immediately.
Their applications for $2.4 million in
funds are tied up so far.
The taxpayers’' check-off campaign
money was cut off five weeks ago,
March 22, under a Supreme Court ruling
that the FEC was a congressional
commission and under the Constitution’s
balance of powers' doctrine could not
conduct executive duties like, clearing
the campaign checks.
The .Congress bill solves that problem
by reconstituting the FEC as an
Police chase after
Dorm pot smoking 'no problem'
Editor’s note: This article is part of a
series on drugs.
By PHIL STOREY
Collegian Staff Writer
i Smoke a joint in your dorm room or
apartment and you’ll probably never
have any problems with the police.
Donald Moore, a shift supervisor for
University Police Services, said campus
police don’t patrol dorm hallways
looking for pot. In fact, they don’t go
near the hallways unless they’re called
there.
Robert Abernathy, a special in
vestigations officer for the State College
Police, said the local police aren’t ac
tively trying to arrest people for
possession of marijuana, but are “after
thepilshers.”
Walter Williams, regional strike force
director for the state BUreau of Drug
Control, said the bureau’s priorities
emphasize felony arrests of major
traffickers and dealers. Possession of
small amounts of pot is a misdemeanor. University Police Services is “as active
“What you do in the privacy of your as any police agency in.'drugs and drug
own home is y.our own business,” arrests are part of an officer’s everyday
Williams said. “But'we don’t condone it job.”
(smokingpot).” ' Moore couldn’t give any figures on
On the other hand, a pot-smoking how many students are arrested on
pedestrian can expect some trouble. .. campus for possession in a year, but said
Moore said campus police make most the figures are as high now as they were
of their drug arrests through ob- a few years ago.
servatioris. They observed and arrested Abernathy said the State College
at least one person smoking pot bn the police “aren’t hell-bent on busting every
HUB lawn Gentle Thursday. person” suspected of smoking
» Almost all campus drug arrests are marijuana. In fact, depending on which
for possession, rather than sale, of > officer sees you smoking that joint, you
drugs. Moore said that only one officer might get arrested or just let off with a
“concentrates on drugs,” but added that warning.
Senior accuses fraternity of physical hazing ritual
By LEAH ROZEN
Coliegian Staff Writer
Alan is not the type to stir up trouble. He is a conservative,
quiet, almost passive young man.
But last week, Alan made a formal complaint against his
fraternity, Alpha Kappa Lambda, with the Inter-Fraternity
Council’s Board of Control. '
A twelfth term science major at Penn State, Alan (not his
real name) suffered bruised ribs and other injuries during a
fraternity celebration marking his pre-engagement to his girl
friend after he gave her his fraternity pin.
To Alan, the so-called festivities smacked of physical
hazing, which is expressly forbidden according to the national
organization of Alpha Kappa Lambda.
Tomorrow night, IFC’s Board of Control will hold a hearing
’ in the HUB to discuss the complaints Alan has made against
his fraternity. Alan and representatives of Alpha Kappa
Lambda, along with witnesses for both sides, will meet before
the eight-man board at the closed hearing.
“It’s just going to be me and the brothers,’] Alan said. “I’ll
give my version and they’ll give theirs."
Joe Borrelli, president of Alpha Kappa Lambda, isn’t
Collegian
the
daily
executive commission with the com
missioners appointed by the President.
But it also goes beyond that with 50
pages of changes, most of them
technical, in Congress’ Watergate
inspired 1974 campaign finance control
law.
Republican leaders have said
throughout congressional development
of the bill that Ford might veto it for
several reasons, but primarily because
they said it is a pro-labor bill.
A major change would permit labor
union political committees to get con
tributions from all members while'
corporation political committees could
get contributions only from executives
and their families.
Democratic backers said that change
is only fair since most corporate
executives can contribute large sums to
political committees while labor union
workers contribute only small amounts.
But some Republican leaders, who
long predicted the possibility of a veto,
such as Senate Republican'Leader Hugh
Scott, were saying -last week the final
version put to Congress might not risk
the veto.
The bill would not change the most
familiar campaign finance limitations
imposed by the 1974 law.
Weather
The weather is expected to improve
with springlike today and
warmer tomorrow. Brilliant sunshine
under clear blue skies today'with less
wind' High .60. Clear and not as cold
tonight. Low 40. Dramatically warmer
under partly sunny skies tomorrow
High 72
P
ushers
talking. ‘‘ I really want to talk to you, ’ ’ he said when contacted,
“but I can’t until after the hearing, which is closed.”
Roger Beck, chairman of the IFC Board of Control, said,
“The investigation is more or less confidential, so I can’t
really divulge anything I’ve found out.” He did say that he and
members of the board were trying to check out rumors and
reports they’ve heard.
According to Alan’s version, the Penn State chapter of
Alpha Kappa Lambda traditionally has included three major
elements in its post-pinning ceremony, which “the national
knows nothing about.” The three elements included
“watenbagging,” where the pledges held the brother down
while other brothers pelted him with bags full of water and
emptied buckets; dunking in a creek near the fraternity’s
cabin at Whipple Dam; and a .two-mile run down Tussey
Mountain.
“I’ve been to these before,” Alan said. “There were parts I
didn’t like; For the most part, though, nobody ever,really got
hurt. You might bruise a knee or something, but nothing big.”
- Although Alan’s celebration contained these three standard
Penn State events, it was wilder and more severe, he said.
He arrived jat' the Alpha Kappa Lambda house, 339
Anti-discrimination proposal killed
By JEFF HAWKES
Collegian Staff Writer
After lengthy debate among coun
cilmen and area residents in packed
council chambers, State College
Municipal Council last night defeated 4-
3, a resolution to prohibit job
discrimination in borough hiring
because of marital status or sexual
preference.
The Human Services Committee,
chaired by councilman Dean Phillips,
recommended the resolution after
Mayor Jo Hays reported last month that
he received no official complaints of
discrimination after a year of soliciting
such complaints.
The rejected resolution was to
“prehibit discrimination against race,
color, religious creed, ancestry,, age,
sex, national origin, marital status and
sexual preference” for any individual
seeking employment with the borough.
The resolution also would have
restricted borough transactions with
businesses that practice job
discrimination. Furthermore, it
proposed encouragement of. State
USG schedules anti-tuition rally
for Old Main lawn tomorrow
ByDAVESEDORE
Collegian Staff Writer
An anti-tuition hike rally scheduled for tomorrow on
Old Main Lawn was approved last night by the
Undergraduate Student Government Senate.
According to Senate spokesmen, the purpose of the
rally is' to find out why tuition has been increasing
constantly. Scheduled speakers include Board of
Trustees member Helen Wise, student Trustee Dion
Stewart and USG Senators Jim Scarantino and Tom
Heitzenrater.-
Wise’s appearance at the rally will be the first time
any trustee has spoken at a tuition rally at the Univer
sity, Stewart said. Other administration and Board
members invited to speak, including University
President John Oswald, have so far refused to appear,
USG Vice President Dave Hickton said.
‘‘The iadministration in: a word has been un
cooperative,” Hickton said. Hickton indicated that head
football coach Joe Paterno’, who has voiced support for
the rally, may speak at the rally if he can find time.
. “I think there are going to be some good points made
at the rally," USG President W.T. Williams said
“They (tuition rallies) don’t stop tuition increases but
at the same time they publicize them,” Williams said.
“It’s a moral commitment that students share these
days.
“As long as students show up and show that they care,
something Will get done, ” Williams said.
The real danger lays in selling pot or
other drugs.
The Bureau of Drug Control enforces
the state drug laws more actively than
any other law enforcement agency in the
area.
Williams’ strike force (one of eight
statewide) made more than 100 arrests
last year in the 12-county region it
covers, including Centre County.
According to Williams, the main office
of his strike force is located in State
College, not because it is the drug center
of the region, but the geographic center.
In fact, the biggest arrest the strike
force made last year was in Williams-
College citizens, tirms and organizations
to “adopt similar policies concerning
discrimination practices.”
The resolution met defeat after more
than an hour of pro and con discussion
among councilmen and area residents.
Eleven residents testified . against
adoption of the resolution and four asked
Support for it.
Several residents opposed the
resolution declaring it would condone
homosexual activities outlawed in
Pennsylvania and subject offenders to
penalties for a second degree
misdemeanor. Other residents were
concerned about hiring homosexuals as
police officers. ‘‘How could a
homosexual policeman enforce laws
they themselves violate?” one man
asked. “They should be of the very
highest moral character.”
“Discrimination is a basic right every
person has,” another resident testified.
“If a homosexual turns from his per
version and becomes a respectable
citizen, then lie could be hired.”
An organized group of about 40
students and residents applauded ap
proval of statements by individuals
Stewart said at the meeting that he may vote in favor
of a tuition increase if it is in the best interests of the
University. While the increase would be against the
interests of current students, failure to increase tuition
could be a detriment to future students, Stewart said.
Increased student activism is needed if students are
to have a say in University policy, Steward said. The
tuition rally is one way that students can voice their
opinions, he said.
In other business last night, the Senate approved a bill
which would appropriate $l5O to the Penn State
Veterans Club for its lobbying efforts in Washington to
increase G.I. bill benefits.
According to Vets Club spokesman Dwayne Fagan,
the money will be used to get club members to par
ticipate in “Impact Day,” a nationwide demonstration
in Washington, D.C. The main concern of the demon
stration is to prevent the reduction of the cut-off date for
completion of benefits from 10 years from date of
discharge to eight years, Fagan said.
Fagan said many veterans, especially those
discharged between 1966 to 1971 did not have the op
portunity to go back" to school after they were
discharged because of the low benefits offered to them
then. When benefits were increased in 1972 they were
not able to take advantage of them because they did not
have enough time left before their cut-off date.
The veterans would like to see the cut-off, or
delimiting time, extended through 1982 or the end of the
port, Williams said, where almost 50
arrest warrants were issued in one drug
bust.
Williams said, however, that arrest
figures are misleading.
He said that although Williamsport
had the highest number of drug arrests
last year, another city will have the
highest number this year.
“It all depends on where our in
vestigations lead us,’’ Williams said.
“Centre County has as many drugs as
anywhere else.”
Harder drugs heroin, cocaine,
methamphetamines, LSD and bar
biturates are what the strike force
puts most of its time and energy into
investigating, according to Williams.
“Marijuana is near the bottom of the
list,” he said. “Our priorities are where
the dangers lie.
“Suppose someone is selling a ton of
marijuana and someone else is selling a
pound of heroin; we’ll go after the heroin
before the marijuana,” he said.
Williams said 1 that in the last five
years de’aling in drugs has gone “from a
helter-skelter hit-or-miss operation to a
more organized business level.
“As law enforcement gets better,
there is more sophisticated breaking of
the law,” Williams said.
Williams wouldn’t talk about the
methods the strike force used to catch
dealers but said that the bureau had a
more than 90 per cent conviction rate on
its arrests.
“When a crime is committed, we take
the appropriate action,” Williams said.
Fraternity Row; between 10 and 11 that Monday night. He was
led to the back of the house where the pledges tied his hands
and feet. Then, the brothers started “shelling” him with left
overs, eggs, grease and other garbage, he said.
“Any fraternity guy who reads this is gonna laugh,” Alan
said. “Because this happens all the time at fraternities.”
According to Alan, he wriggled out of the ropes confining his
hands and started to escape. At this point, he was tackled by
the pledges on cement.-
“I think that’s what hurt my ribs," he said.
The events which followed that night are, according to Alan,
“my word against theirs.”
He said he and another brother who had also pinned a girl
friend, showered some of the garbage off while still dressed,
and then were hustled into cars and driven out to Whipple’s
Dam, where the fraternity’s cabin is located.
"I was literally freezing,” Alan claims. “The car windows
were up and the heater was on, but I was still cold.”
Upon arriving at the creek, which had been dammed up so
that it was two or three feet deep, Alan was stripped and
dunked by the pledges, he said. '
“I was goinginto shock, I think,” Alan said. “I heard voices
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ibllshed by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
testifying against the proposal. Many in
the group identified themselves as
members of the University Campus
Crusade for Christ. Several individuals
quoted the Bible as reference against the
resolution.
One of the four residents asking ap
proval for the resolution, Josh Ruben
stein (7th-English) admitted his
homosexuality. “I lived in State College
all my life,” he said. “I never tried to
harm anybody or disrespect someone’s
body.”
Councilman Arnold Addison voted
against the resolution declaring it
"unnecessary legislation aimed at
forcing our police force to accept
homosexuals.” He added that borough
and state laws already prohibit
discrimination, with the exception of
marital status and sexual preference.
Addison also said the community is
opposed to the resolution and he feared
passage of a broader human rights
ordinance in the future if the resolution
were adopted.
Council member Richard Kummer
disapproved of the resolution saying
discrimination is not evident in State
Reagan asks help
from Indiana Demos
Ronald Reagan, driving for three
more victories over President Ford,
urged Democrats yesterday to join
his crusade for the Republican
presidential nomination and help him
win the pivotal Indiana primary.
Jimmy Carter, moving toward the
Democratic presidential nomination,
was sure to swell his' string of
primary victories and his delegate
totals but said he was taking nothing
for granted.
Reagan was heavily favored to
continue his march through the South
with victories in Georgia and
Alabama today, but needed a victory
in Indiana to prove he can stop Ford
in a northern industrial state.
Carter, a former governor of
Georgia, was certain to sweep his
native state along with Indiana. He
also was given a chance to cut into
George Wallace’s Alabama
stronghold and to pick up delegates in
the District of Columbia where he
was matched against two warring
factions of uncommitted Democrats.
Shut out in the Texas primary
where Democrats voted in the
Republican primaries in droves
Ford launched a last-minute cam
paign to hold his edge in Indiana and
cut into Reagan’s heavy margins in
Alabama and Georgia.
Reagan, campaigning in Indiana,
regular 10-year period, whichever is longer, Fagan
said. The Washington rally is scheduled for May 28.
The Senate also passed a resolution which would give
the Penn State Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws (PSORML) $96.40 for lobbying in the
state legislature for the decriminalization of marijuana
possession.
Several senators doubted the effectiveness of the
lobbying effort.
“This is a very conservative state,” Senator Jeff
Goldsmith said. The state this past summer failed to
pass legislation that would permit the sale of wine and
beer to 19-ycar-olds, he said. “I don't think we should
spend close tosloo on a losing cause.”
Senator Mike Tingue said he did not think that
decriminalization would pass the stage legislature
during an election year.
A PSORML spokesman said that Oregon, the first
state to decriminalize marijuana, still limits the sale of
alcohol to those'2l and older. Two states have passed
decriminalization laws this year, he said.
The Senatealso passed:
An appropriation of $1239.80 for Commonwealth
Campus programs;
—58,213.70 in appropriations for USG operations; and
the appointment of Rick Glazier and A 1 Leard as
co-directors of the USG Department of Budget and
Financial Aid.
are 139 delegates at stake 54 in
- Indiana, 48 in Georgia and 37 in
Alabama. GOP leaders in the District
of Columbia have already chosen 14
Ford delegates.
but I don’t remember seeing a thing. All I heard was ‘Dunk
him. Dunk him. Dunk him.’ '
“I remember going down three times. The first time it was
really cold. The second time it seemed hot, and the third time
it felt like I wasn’t coming up.”
Afterwards, Alan said he and the other brother, were driven
to the top of nearby Tussey Mountain, with a car in front of
them and another in back, they were told to make the two-mile
run down the mountain, he said.
Alan said he made it to the bottom but added “I don’t
remember anything.” His fraternity brothers packed him into
a car and everybody headed back for State College and the
fraternity, he said.
There was a party but Alan said he felt ‘‘as if I didn’t belong
there.” He tried to drink a glass of beer, but couldn’t get more
than half of it down.
He left the fraternity and spent the rest of the night at a
friend’s house where he slept under “every blanket they had
and still shook" he said.
The next day Alan had his ribs X-rayed at Ritenour.
College, and Council member James
McClure called the resolution “a piece of
mischief.” McClure said homosexuality
is evident in nature and was not invented
by man but that he could not foresee the
resolution “working positively.”
Phillips defended the resolution
despite strong opposition by most of the
testifying residents. “I don’t believe the
community is dead set against it,” he
said. "It isn’t irrevocable. If a majority
is against it, it can be changed later.”
During a recess tollowing defeat of the
resolution, Phillips said he was shocked
to find such a large part of society op
posed to granting protection against
discrimination.
In other business, council last night
tabled action on an amendment to the
Building and Housing Codes to provide
for stronger locks and larger elevators
in borough apartment complexes.
Council also tabled consideration until
the June meeting of a proposal to
establish occupancy limits in borough
bars. Councilmen expressed concern
about enforcing the proposal if ap
proved.
said he was closing the gap on Ford,
who once held an imposing lead in the
Hoosier state possibly the most
conservative in the Midwestern in
dustrial tier.
“I started very definitely as an
underdog. The polls indicated this,”
Reagan said at a news conference in
Fort Wayne.“ They also indicate that
the gap is closing."
But Ford said in Indianapolis, “We
think Indiana will do very well by us.
In the other two states, we certainly
are underdogs.”
Carter said that while he expects to
win the Democratic nomination on
the first ballot, “The worst thing I
could do at this point is to assume an
attitude of overconfidence or
arrogance or to take a voter for
granted or.to take a state for
granted.”
Ford predicted that he will have the
nomination locked up before the GOP
National Convention begins in August
but conceded, “We think the situation
is critical and we’re making a
maximum effort in Indiana.”
For the Republicans today, there
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