m _ m cording to Lynda Joyce, SWP
*>/1 campaign spokesman. “You
# can either vote for the lesser
**" * 0 { f WO evils, or for the
socialist alternative.”
The SWP party ticket also
|M includes several congres
f ##i #■ MK 3 sional candidates and is on
the Nov. 2 ballot in Pennsyl
vania and a number of other
states.
rtjyfrt //■ « Camejo, 36, has been a
t\f member of SWP since 1959
W - # and was a founding member
of the YSA organization in
1960. He has been active in
m civil rights movements and is
# # /fIC fTAr IX a member of the NAACP. His
" If running mate, Reid, 37,
previously has run for mayor
of Chicago and is a member of
various organizations, in
cluding ' the National
Organization for Women
(NOW).
‘‘Camejo and Reid
represent issues in a
program. They have answers
to burning issues,” Joyce
said. “We are not pushing for
their individual careers. If
you work for Carter or Ford,
you are working .for in
dividual’s political careers.”
The SWP platform is an
eight-point “Bill of Rights for
Working People.” The Bill
guarantees everyone the
right to a job, adequate in
come protected against in
flation, free education, free
medical care, secure
retirement, the right of op
pressed minorities to control
their own affairs and the right
to know the truth about and
decide political, economic
and social policies.
Camejo and Reid also call
for the opening of all secret
FBI and .CIA political files.
They say they are both
supporters of women’s rights
and expanded child-care
services.
The ultimate goal of SWP,
. according to pamphlets, is to
have the working class gain
control of government.
ByGREG VELLNER
Collegian Staff Writer
The Young Socialists
Alliance (YSA), in
preparation for the
November presidential
election, will hold a rally
tomorrow night in support of
the Socialist Workers Party
(SWP).
Osborne Hart, a member of
the National Committee of the
YSA and an activist in the
Black Liberation Movemeht,
will speak at the rally on
“Why Students Should Vote
Socialist Workers Party in
1976.” The rally will be a 8
p.m. in the HUB Assembly
Room.
Hart is now touring the east
coast rallying support for the
SWP presidential and vice
presidential candidates,
Peter Camejo and Willie Mae
Reid.
Currently an. SWP can
didate for Congress in
Georgia, Hart has been in
volved with the National
Black Political Convention
and the NAACP. He will also
discuss “The Fight Against
Racism” at 7 p.m. Wednes
day in the Paul Robeson
Cultural Center.
SWP is an “alternative” to
the Republican and'
Democratic parties, ac-
Yorks says students no different
Justice equal opportunity sentencer
By PETE BARNES
Collegian Staff Writer
A crime is a crime and a student is a student and never shall
the latter interfere with prosecution for the former, or so
District Justice Clifford H. Yorks would have it.
. Yorks said in an interview that some 67 per cent of those
who appear before him are between the ages of 17 and 24,
including repeat offenders.
“To me, if somebody commits a crime, I will not treat him
any different because he is this, that or the other thing,” said
Yorks. “Because you’re a college student, that doesn’t set you
aside any different from anybody else. ’ ’
Yorks revealed that his court handles first to third degree
felonies, civil suits involving up to $2,000, and 28 types of third
degree misdemeanors.
He elaborated by saying that of the 2,700 to 3,500 cases he
hears each month, 55 to 58 cases involve drug and alcohol
offenses and about 120 cases concerning landlord-tenant dis
putes. '
“I really receive about 70 per cent tenants, 30 per cent
landlords,” said Yorks in reference to which group starts the
majority of lawsuits.
Yorks also disclaimed a rumor that there is a shortage of
available apartments in State College. “We still have lots of
vacancies. I have many acquaintances who have apartment
complexes...and they’ll start telling me how many vacancies
Butz' remarks hang over Ford campaign
WASHINGTON (AP)
President Ford yesterday
prepared for his second
debate with Jimmy Carter
while faced with the thorny
problem of how to deal with
the latest controversy in
volving Secretary of
Agriculture Earl Butz.-
A furor has arisen over
derogatory . racial remarks
attributed to Butz in a
national magazine, and
Democrats have called for
the secretary to resign or for
Ford to fire him.
An aide to the cabinet of
ficial said Butz, in a con
versation Saturday with an
unnamed White House aide,
had mentioned the possibility
of resigning and offered to do
so, but then decided to “sleep
on it.” '
Butz earlier had been
summoned to the White
House, where he was severely
reprimanded by Ford and
apologized, ' saying he
regretted his choice of
language.
Carter, who has been
demanding Butz’ ouster from
the Ford cabinet for some
time, termed the remarks
“disgraceful” and said the
Agriculture secretary
“should have been fired long
ago.”
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In discussing bails set in criminal cases, Yorks said, “If you
request a hearing, bail must be posted. In the majority of the
cases where the person knows that he is not guilty, regardless
of what the amount of bail is, he’ll post it to come in here to
prove he is not guilty.”
“Most of the people who don’t want to post bail, don’t want
to post bail... for quite a few reasons, because first of all, they
know they’re guilty, and secondly, all they want to do is harass
whoever has arrested them.”
■ Yorks said harassment begins when the accused sets up a
hearing without posting bail, then fails to show up, forcing the
arresting officer to request a warrant to take the accused into
custody.
“Let’s say that 10 people come in to set up hearings, and
they claim that they don’t have any money (to post bail).
Nine of them are trying to rip you off; one of them really
doesn’t think he’s guilty and he’ll show up.
“Why should he be penalized because he doesn’t have the
money and he knows he’s not guilty? Well, he’s being penalized
... because the system says that we cannot treat him any
different than we can treat somebody else, regardless what he
is, who he is, and so on.”
Yorks added, “This is the old cry that I always get from the
college student: ‘Oh, I am a college student. I don’t have this
remained silent on the sub
ject, there wa’s speculation
the President wanted .to
resolve the problem before
leaving today on a six-day
campaign swing that will
include the debate with
Carter Wednesday in San
Francisco.
The Butz affair hung like a
2loud over the White House as
:He President worked to clear
jp legislation piled on his
lesk by the 94th Congress.
Observers saw Ford’s
iilemma concerning Butz as
presenting a difficult choice
between alienating black
voters, if he stays, or risking
adverse reaction from farm.
states where Butz’s policies
are popular, if he goes.
As Presidential aides tried
to guage the potential da
mage to Ford’s campaign,
Butz himself remained in
seclusion in Washington.
On ABC’s “Issues and
Answers,” Sunday,
Democratic Govs. Michael
Dukakis of Massachusetts
and Hugh Carey of New York
said Butz should be fired,
Carey adding/ that he was
“mystified” why Ford hadn’t
taken such action.
Republican Gov. Robert F.
Bennett of Kansas defended
Butz, saying people in
agriculture appreciated his
The Daily Collegian Monday, October 4,1976 —3
and I don’t have that!’ ”
Yorks argued that a student might not have enough money
to pay a $1 parking ticket, but he can afford to go to Mr. C’s
and pay the $2 entrance fee.
In discussing fines, Yorks said that, as with bails, it is up to
him to determine the amount. “If you’re guilty of an offense,
the fine is supposed to be used as a deterrent.”
Yorks said the highest fine he could ever impose is $2,500 in
a third degree misdemeanor. The highest bail he had ever set
was $40,000. Such high bails, he maintained are set to
discourage suspects from “absconding.”
When asked if there were any alternatives open to defen
dants required to pay large fines, Yorks said they can stretch
payments of the fine over a period of time.
He said defendants could afford to pay smaller fines, but
that in stiffer fines, Yorks orders payments accordingly.
The position of District Justice is held for six years. Yorks’
term in office expires in Janiiary 1978. His constituency is
53,000 and covers about half of Centre County, including State
College, Half Moon, Ferguson and College townships. The
office of the District Justice is on Pugh Street between Beaver
and College Avenues.
work and farmers “have a
great deal of respect for
Butz.” He said he didn’t know
whether Ford would fire him
or not.
A number of Republican
senators and congressmen
are among those who have
called for Blitz’ removal from
the administration.
Ford’s running mate, Sen.
Bob Dole, has not gone that
far but has called the
secretary’s remarks “totally
tasteless ... even if he’s
talking in his sleep he
shouldn’t say things like
that.”
Raffle set
Peopleservice, composed
of the Women’s Resource
Center, the Rape Crisis
Center and On Drugs, will
sponsor a fund-raising
raffle during the month of
October.
First prize is a stereo
system worth $500; second
prize, a bicycle valued at
$150; third prize, a Tiffany
lampshade. Other prizes
with a total Value of $l,OOO
also will be given away.
The drawing for the
prizes will be held on Oct.
29 at a Halloween party at
the Wesley Foundation.
The tickets, selling for $1
each, can be'pbtained from
members of Peopleservice.