3. '~ • 4, • J tt , Ak. I • Dive for 6 Protests summer dismissal RAs' letter backs gay By KATHY O'TOOLE discriminated against on the basis of his sexual Collegian Staff Writer ' orientation, Horn said that Carozza was dismissed Several Resident Assistants who worked - with an RA' because he - was - an incompetent RA. ~' ' who was dismissed after he admitted his homosexuality The RAs who signed the letter wrote: have written a letter protesting his dismissal, according "It is our unanimous opinion that' Tony has received to a member of the Residential Life staff unfair professional assessment of his job performance • The source, who preferred not to be identified, said and personal mistreatment from both his immediate the RAs who worked with Lyons Hall RA Tony Carozza supervisor, Carol Butler, and the area coordinator, 'sent the letter to M. Lee Uperaft, director of Residential Chris Horn. Furthermore, Tony's absence from the Life. - South Hall's staff for the 1976-77 academic year would South Halls Coorainator Chris Korn told Carozza in be organizationally dysfunctional to staff unity and May that Carozza was not the kind of person they morale. wanted on their staff. Three days before before, Carozza hdd admitted his homosexuality to Horn. When Carozza appealed to Uperaft that he had been RAs tell tailgaters of policy A group of Resident Assistants made an effort to publicize the op position to the new alcohol en forcement policy by distributing leaflets at the tailgate parties before Saturday's football game. The RAs distributed flyers which explained the student view of the policy and pointed out that tailgate parties were in violation of a University regulation. Reactions to the effort were mixed; the RA s said. "I have mixed emotions about the whole thing because of the mixed reactions we got," one RA said. "At least we made an attempt, but I don't know whether or not it will have an effect." Reactions to the effort ranged from sympathy to hostility, the RAs said. "Most people were understanding and willing to listen." an RA said. "But one man told me 'Fuck you. I had to wait, so you have to wait'." The RAs said their purpose was not to intimidate the tailgaters, but only to bring the policy to their attention. Their efforts were hampered, how ever, by the lack of camous police available to help enforce the regulation. What's Inside Letters Arts Comix Sports Political page ... Mondale's brothel Weather Summertime weather should continue through tomorpow under clear skies. The high temperature today and tomor row will be near 85, and the low tonight 55. the daily •r~ ~^, %4` . J r, : / • I: , , . Junior Steve Geise (29) climbs over the Stanford defense in Penn State's first goal of the football season. Stanford was defeated 15-12 in a game viewed by a record breaking number of fans. See more sports action on pages 9-12. "It seems to me that once the plan got out, the University took action to make sure that things didn't change around Beaver Stadium," one RA said. "Many people told us that if they couldn't party before the games that they wouldn't come. I think the Plot to kill Kennedy fails; 3 arrested in Springfield .. page 2 . page 14 . . page 5 page 9-12 . . page 4 . . page 3 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. ( AP) One of three persons charged with conspiring to murder Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said yesterday he was offered $30,000 to kill the sole surviving Kennedy brother. An official police spokesman said, meanwhile, that it was unclear whether the alleged plot was "idle boasting or really serious." • - Robert E. White,42, listed as a resident of the Salvation Army's Rehabilitation Center here,' was held in lieu of $50,000 bail at the city jail. Sandra R. Rondeau, 37, of West field,and David, J. King, 31, of Springfield, were released on personal recognizance Saturday by a District Court clerk. Earlier, their bail had been set at $50,000 each. Collegian "In light of our perception of need, we are also for mally requesting that you, in your capacity as the Director of Residential Life Programs, issue a policy ck a „ tarK CZE! r University realizes this." "The overall effect of the operation was crippled without the help of the campus police," another RA said. "Unitl the personal rights of those people are infringed, any effort we make will be useless." King quoted White saying, "You can make $30,000 altogether. All you have to do is kill U.S. Sen. Kennedy ... You get $5,000 down and after the job you get $25,000. Mrs. Rondeau, who had worked as a waitress at a hotel where Kennedy appeared, "was supposed to serve breakfast and Mr. White was supposed to walk in right behind her. He was going to shoot Kennedy while he had break fast," King said. . "I wasn't to do the killing. He was to do "I wasn't to do the killing. He was to do the killing. All I was supposed to do was keep the freight elevator ready for him and make sure all the other elevators were not working," King said. co-worker directive that discriminatory job,related practices based on race, • color, creed, religion, sex OR AF FECTIONAL — OR SEXUAL PREFERENCE be prohibited within the office of Residential .Life; specifically mandating that no resident assistant be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation. Additionally, we deem it appropriate that specific grievance procedures be specified." Carozza said he will continue to fight Uperaft's decision. The local branch of the American Civil Liberties Union has expressed an interest in Carozza's case,'and may be meeting with him later this week to discuss a possible course of redress. USG prepares alcohol • Both the selection of members for the Undergraduate Student Government investigative committee on the alcohol policy and the format for Wednesday's public hearing have been announced. Sitting on the committee will be Grant R. Ackerman, director of the USG Department of Communications; Rich Cartwright, vice president of ARHS; Judy Johnson, USG Senate president pro tempore; and Pam Mayer, USG senator from East Halls. USG Vice President Dave Hickton, chairman of the committee, said in choosing committee members he looked for open-minded, responsive and responsible people. *,''' t : „.. -' ..1 71 V 1114' 0 ,0 2. .. ~...- , .', : \'k ' 4. '4 ' ' .4. ri, - b. • - -'"''''''4V4'''''t, tilt;H''''' 7 , ''''' .. 1- -,.: f'''''''';' ' 1 ''-'4'41:44.2 '' ''''g *II ' -''+'''" ~‘,,,..., :,..:4•P;' ' , .+, 4' . . 'i, '4, nm - - +A,' ',.• 4.4 .:, '.. , r " .. .. , . k i - I o. • I- mr The Stanford University band didn't buy the new enforcement Drinking policy? of the drinking policy, drinking while their team was defeated. During their pregame show, the band formed a martini for the alumni, spelling "No Booze" on the backs of members facing the student stands. ) irf.g. 147 . 44 , 4.4•14!"0- ‘ • . 111110 1"6- '" ..... . terw, 111 WAD ? 1,• do by Chris Nowt um of "° 'n '"''fl'r. W 202 PATTEE 's 'en cents per copy Monday, September 13, 1976 'ol. 77, No . .36 16 pages University Park, Pennsylvania 'ublished by Students of The Pennsylvania State University U.S. hijackers used fake arms in foiled NEW YORK (AP) - The hijackers who took a U.S. jetliner on a 6,000-Mile hopscotch journey to Paris were unarmed and the bombs they threatened to explode turned out to be fakes made of modeling clay and cotton-like fluff, French authorities said yesterday. The 53 hostages were released unhurt at 8 a.m. Paris time (2 a.m. EDT) after the Croatian nationalists yielded to a French ultimatum to surrender. The hijackers were flown to New York to face air piracy and murder charges while most of the freed hostages returned, to Chicago or New York. One passenger, Robert Metzger, recalled in Chicago that as the 30-hour hijacking ended, "one of the hijackers, the one with a moustache, took this thing we thought was a bomb it was like cotton dowels or tubes and he ripped it up. And there was just fluff inside." "Then he turned to us with a big smile and said, 'that's show biz,' " added Metzger, 35, of New York. But the hijackers, while they had control of the Boeing 727, gave authorities instructions that led to a real bomb in a locker at Grand Central Station in New York City. The bomb exploded as officers tried to disarm it, killing one of the policemen and injuring three others. The surprise of the entire episode was the discovery that the hijackers were unarmed. During the hijack, they had been reported armed with handguns and grenades. Two of them were wired with what they claimed were explosives. The body bombs turned out to be modeling clay. The hijackers told their hostages that they brought weapons aboard the plane wrapped in heavy plastic. But French police said and passengers said they had no guns or weapons.-- ~,. - . , .. In New York, a spokesman for the FBI said last night that "To my knowlege there were no gum - recovered." The prisoners, four men and a woman whose propaganda hijack across the Atlantic .championed the cause of Croatian independence from Yugoslavia, arrived in New York under heavy federal and city police security. Before leaving Paris, the hijackers said they had accomplished their pur pose: publicity for their cause. "We are proud of what we did," one added. Hickton said students wishing to voice their opinion at the hearing are asked to register at the USG office in 214 HUB, but anyone who is 'unregistered still may offer testimony at the hearing. He said those testifying should keep their comments to within a five-minute time period. "We want a lot of people to voice opinions;" Hickton, said. "But we're trying not to structure these hearings so far as to influence them." Hickton denied a comment by Director of Residential Life M. Lee Uperaft last week that USG was personalizing the a rcohol 'policy to him. "We're not picking 3 COPIES attempt The prisoners' arrival at Kennedy Airport was preceded by another jet carrying 14 of their freed hostages. Most of the other hostages were flown to Chicago. One of them, the flight engineer of the hijacked Trans World Airlines plane, touched off a scare when he came off the plane carrying a cooking pot authorities said resembled the bomb-in-a-pot device that blew up when police tried to disarm it Friday night shortly after the hijack began. The flight engineer said one of the hijackers gave him the smaller pot as a souvenir. A bomb squad removed the pot, and its contents turned out to be a putty-like substances. "It was a dud," a police spokesman said. The French had given the highjackers the choice of being shipped to Yugoslavia, the target of their campaign for Croatian freedom, or to the United States. The prisoners, who ' were neatly dressed, were taken into custody by the FBI at the airport and driven to the bureau headquarters in Manhattan shortly after 4 p.m. Each was hand.: cuffed behind the back and driven in a separate car. They were identified as Zvonko Busic, 30, of New York City; his wife, Juli ene, 27; Peter Matovic, 31, of New York City; Frane Pesut, 25, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mark Vlasic, 29, no hometown given. Busic, identified by Canadian authorities as the leader of the skyjack, and the other men all were born in Yugoslavia, the FBI said. Mrs. Busic is originally from Eugene, Ore. On the hijackers' orders, four major American newspapers had printed lengthy manifestoes and propaganda leaflets were dropped over five cities Chicago, New York, Montreal, London and Paris. After the death of the officer, New York City Police Commissioner Michael Codd theorized the bomb may have been,/ double rigged, that is fitted with two separate triggering devices. But at the airport yesterday, a police spokesman said that while it had been determined that the bomb contained dynamite, it has not been established whether the explosives were armed to go off. hearing on Uperaft," he said. "We're just con cerned about the students on campus and the new enforcement policy came from his directive." Hickton sugge• ted that Uperaft and David Stormer, director of University Safety attend the hearings. "We want an unbiased hearing and some foundation from which we can act," he said. • Hickton stressed the need for student participation at the hearings. "If we get enough out of the meetings we'll go the University with a plan of action," he said. Wednesday's hearing will be at 7 p.m in 301 HUB. / r • -, .. •tt It • 4 1 ° . . I P7 • -;',- 1 1 1 - 4§, ~ 4., ? ,..- 4- , , c 40 111111111111111b4-. ' , I • 1r t;t,, ulluitiza ~Ci:r Photo by Edward Palsa Jr
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