Evangelist Jed Smock expounds in front of Willard. The normally small
crowd swelled as a bomb threat evacuated the building. There were four
preachers yesterday instead,of the usual two,See page 16 for more photos.
Bomb-scare crowd
attracts evangelists
By MARK HARMON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A two-foot high wall by Willard was
transformed into a podium yesterday
by preachers George "Jed" Smock,
Max Lynch, and Clarence "Bro"
Cope.
The preaching session began about
noon and continued through most of
the afternoon. The crowd swelled to
about 300 after a bomb threat emptied
Willard, but at any point an average
of 150 to 200 people were gathered
around the trio. The crowd started to
diminish about 4:30.
Lynch stressed their theme,
"There's not a church on the face 'of
the earth that can save you. You must
be born again. Jesus said unless you
are born again you cannot get into the
kingdom of , heaven."
Smock • explained his transition
from a "long haired, demon posessed,
hippie sex freak" to a "clean cut,
preacher-man with Jesus." Smock
said he had "seen the light of God"
many times, most notably in North
Africa and in a Burger King in Park
County, Indiana.
. At first the crowd was content to let
the preachers rattle off numerous
religious theories 'and Bible
quotations, and then react to them.
However, around 2:30 the crowd
started challenging.
First to be challenged were
Smock's statements on
homosexuality. Recently Smock
challenged what he called "the
sodomites of Purdue," a group of
homosexuals protesting an Indiana
Anita Bryant rally. Smock continued
yesterday saying, "God' hates
homosexuality. I would never trust a
homosexual. I would never trust them
„ with my children. There's no telling
what they'll do, even murder."
Karen Rath (11th-religious studies)
„ said, "He's stressing the judgement
of God rather than the love of God. I
see in this movement a whole right
„ wing direction. People are using it
, (religion) in order to attack.”
• • Lynch said, "The devil is trying to
kill your body with nicotine, alcohol,
dope, fornication, and rock music."
' The crowd demanded to hear more
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Watch where you
walk in Walker
Just about everyone has noticed the
Eric J. Walker Environmental
Sciences Building., It's a nice new
building on Atherton Street across
from the bus station.
But unless the University does
something fairly soon about the
management in Walker Building, it's
not going to be nice and new very
long.
On the door of the sixth floor men's
room is a sign which reads:
"Bathroom out of order, use floor
below."
Something smells funny about that
deal.
Room for the
Unknown Folder
Did you ever leave your laundry in
the dryer at the laundromat, only to
come back and find your dry clothes
rolled in a ball and piled in a heap on
top of the dryer? •
You really can't blame the person
who needs a dryer and can't wait for
you to come by and pull your dry
clothes out, but a Collegian reporter
recently came across an unusual
remedy for the problem at the
laundry room in Briarwood.
Our hero left his stuff in the dryer,
about rock music. Smock said most
rock music was "satanical,"
specifically mentioning The Moody
Blues, the Beatles, and the Rolling
Stones.
Pressed for an answer, Smock said
his favorite vocalist was Anita
Bryant. Then the preachers and some
supporters broke into a chorus of
"Onward Christian Soldiers"
followed by "When the Saints Go
Marching In."
Smock quoted a scripture which
stated women Should remain silent.
After a few boos and jeers, the
questions continued.
Smock exclaimed he wanted a
return to prohibition and the death
penalty to all
,alcohol distributors.
Lynch . declared that positively
everyone not a Christian was going to
hell. Smock then said that most of the
crowd did not want to be saved. The
crowd roared in agreement.
Smock said, "No, I can't believe
Jesus had long hair," but that
shaving his head "wouldn't be right
either."
When queried on societal rights,
Smock stated, "I don't think anyone
should be forced' to hire a
homosexual." Later he announced
that due to an inability to accept God,
"Penn State is turning out more
queers than Ph. D's." At various
times, Lynch, Smock, and Cope all
Said they were saints.
Tri Huynh (9th-journalism) said,
"Most of the things he has listed are
based on his own standards. It seems
so irrelevant." '
Throughout the day, the preachers
were, questioned by Christians, Jews,
atheists, and even Moonies, Hare
Krishna's and Zorastrians ;
Many were pleased when Lynch
said many of the women on campus
need to be freed from a spirit of lust.
Many were angered by Smock's
statements and his fire-and
brimstone forcefulness. But a great
many agreed with Mindy Fineberg,
who noted, ."They make you listen.
It's new entertainment for Willard."
Today is the last day for trio en
tertainment. Cope will remain but
Lynch and Smock hit the road again.
and then became involved in his
studies and forgot to get the clothes
out until long after the cycle had
finished. He ran to the laundry room,
fearing the worst.
Instead, he found his things neatly
folded and stacked on top of the
dryer.
When he got over the initial shock,
he picked up his stuff and left,
neglecting to leave a note of thanks.
He passed it on to this column,
which hereby awards Briarwood's
Unknown Folder with the Nice Guy of
the Week Award.
A rose by any
other name...
If you're a university president, you
really have to look out for your
image. What you wear and how you
speak become immensely important
to your lifestyle.
Penn State's own University
President John W. Oswald, recently
participated in two horticulture panel
discussions that might seriously
damage his image.
The panels were sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
The problems with the panels were
not the sponsor, however. Nor did
they have anything to do with Oswald.
(Oswald is a very competent botanist:
He even discovered his own plant
disease, the barley yellow dwarf.)
Photo by Chip Comte
the
daily
Stewart, Addison air their views
Candidates differ on halting rape
By CHUCK SHEARER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Gregory Stewart and Arnold Addison,
Democratic and Republican candidates
for mayor of State College, disagreed on
rape prevention, housing code en
forcement the general duties of mayor
under home rule charter and other local
issues during last night's candidates'
night held in Simmons Lounge.
Stewart said the answer to the assault
problem is a proper mix of better
lighting, improved mass transit during
the evenings and proper community
education.
"We have to attack the problem with
all three of these approaches," Stewart
said. "Just using one will not do one bit
of good."
"There is money to light the tennis
courts so we should be able to get federal
and state funds to improve street
lighting."
Addison said he favored an assault
prevention system used in Allentown.
Called the Checkmate Program, it
equips trained volunteers with citizen
band radios and has them cruise high
crime areas. .
"The poeple in these programs are not
vigilantes,' Addison said, "but people
selected and trained by the police to give
extra protection to the communities.'
Addison said plans for better lighting
run into a dilemma.
Lighting fixtures have been budgeted
but the lights are blocked by trees which
people do not want cut down under any
circumstances, Addison said.
Stewart said he did not like the idea of
a Checkmate Program for State College.
"I have given the foundation for a good
rape prevention program and we do not
need people running around with CB
radios," he said.
Stewart said the reason housing code
enforcements were not being enforced is
a lack of resources. There are only four
people on the county level to keep a
check on code enforcements, which is
not nearly enough, he said. •
"The problem can be solved by using:
qualified University students as code
enforcement officers," Stewart said.
The borough does not have the resources
to hire more people, he said, so it should
hire students. It would give them
Hijacker
ATLANTA (UPI) Bank robbery suspect Thomas
Michael Hannan hijacked an airliner then released his
hostages unharmed and committed suicide rather than
surrender.
Hannan hijacked the plane in an attempt to free from
jail another suspect said to be his homosexual lover.
Hannan, 29, ignored the pleas of his attorney, who
went aboard the Frontier Airlines plane after the
passengers left, and shot himself once in the chest.
"He was in the back of the plane sitting down in one of
the seats," said James Dunn, agent in charge of the
Atlanta FBI office. "There was no scuffle at all. He just
sat down and pulled the trigger."
Hannan had hijacked the Boeing 737 twin-engine jet at
Grand Island, Neb., his hometown, early yesterday
morning and demanded the release from an Atlanta jail
of George David Stewart, 29, along with $3 million and
two parachutes, apparently to be used in some sort of
in-flight escape.
Stewart was being held on charges of robbing a
National Bank of Georgia branch with Hannan, who had
been released on bond. Sgt. James Gill of Mobile, Ala.,
police department said the two men had traveled the
country together and "both admitted to having
homosexual relations."
The plane initially carried 30 passengers and a crew
of four, but Hannan released all of the women and
The problem was the titles of the
panels. The first was called "Whither
Horticulture?" ( thither?) How can
you respect a man who comments on
whither horiculture? You respect a
man who comments on Direction of
Horticulture: A Look Ahead.
Then, Oswald spoke at a panel
entitled, "Meanwhile, What About
Now?" We don't know, what?
The rumors about Oswald's next
panel discussion have already started
to fly. The most popular title as of
now is, "Budget Blues: Appropria
tions Yea Verily!"
North puts more
in more often
Well, the figures are in on this
week's newspaper recycling drive.
Eco-Action informs us that North
Halls in this week's big winner. North
had the highest percentage of resi
dents turn in their Daily Collegians
for recycling. East came in second,
and South Halls took third.
Penn State: Unsafe
at any speed
We know who Ralph Nader is, but
why is he saying these terrible things
about us?
Two years ago, P‘nn State was
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Mayoral candidates Arnold Addison (left) and Greg Stewart express their views at last night's candidates' night .
practical experience and save the cost of
hiring additional personnel, Stewart
said.
Addison disagreed with Stewart on the
use of students as code enforcement
officers.
"There is more to code enforcment
than just having students look at
buildings. There are codes and in
formation that students could not en
force without considerable training," he
said.
"We would have to have a strong
taining program even before we could
even consider using students in this
capacity," Addison said.
Stewart argued with Addison, saying
that qualified students could perform the
functions of a code enforcement officers.
"You don't need to be an expert to see
wires hanging out of ceilings to know
there is a problem," Stewart said.
problem," Stewart said.
Addison said it is dangerous to
oversimplify the situation and stressed
the need for qualified personnel.
The two candidates had strong dif-
shoots self, ends ordeal
hearing a lot about Ralph Nader. The
popular consumer advocate was
backing the formation of a group
called PennPIRG, a consumer
protection organizatoin that would
have been run and financed by
students.
The program ran into a snag at
Penn State. The method proposed to
collect student money was a
"negative check-off" system. If a
student didn't want to contribute $2 to
the PennPIRG fund, he would have
had to indicate such on his tuition
payment.
Objections to this proposal tangled
PennPIRG in the red tape of Penn
State's bureaucracy, and it died a
slow death by strangulation.
Recently, Ralph Nader has been
working with MassPIRG, University
of Massachusetts' equivalent of
PennPIRG. In a speech Nader gave
at UMass on Oct. 6, he made a passing
reference• to his struggle with the
Penn State bureaucracy.
Nader called the Penn State
campus "stupid, ignorant, and
authoritarian," "run just like a
business," and "the pinball capital of
the world."
And just think. All he was trying to
do was set up a consumer group.
Imagine his reaction if he would have
tried to register.
Stories collected by Mark Van Dine.
Contributing writers Bob Frick,
Dave Skidmore.
children, as well as two men, one a heart patient, when
the craft stopped to refuel in Kansas City. .
He released stewardesses Diane Lord and Bobbie
Karr after the plane had been parked on an Atlanta
runway about six hours. At that time "he inferred he
was ready to kill the hostageg," Dunn said.
But, after a plea from Stewart, who was flown by
helicopter to the airport, and the personal effort of his
attorney, J. Roger Thompson, who went aboard the
plane, Hannan released the remaining 11 passengers
unharmed.
The pilot and copilot remained on board while
Thompson, who represented Hannan and Stewart in the
bank robbery case, tried to talk Hannan into surren
dering.
"I want to say that Mr. Thompson did a heck of a job
in this whole thing," said Dunn. "He was mainly
responsible for getting those poeple out of the plane."
Thompson, however, was unsuccessful in getting
Hannan to put down his gun'
"Mr. Thompson was talking with the subject aboard
the plane, trying to talk him off the aircraft. He was
unsuccessful. The subject shot himself one time in the
chest and is dead,"Punn said.
An ambulance rushed Hannan• to Grady Hospital,
where a doctor pronounced him dead on arrival.
The tension at the Atlanta airport extended to Kansas
W 202 PATTEE
ferences of opinion on the use of the veto
in local government.
"The veto is the most important power
of the mayor," Addison said. If was
given to the mayor so he could work as
part of the check and balance system in
local government, he said.
Addison said if the mayor will not use
the veto, he becomes a rubber stamp for
the council and is not needed.
"I will follow the model of Jo Hays and
only use the veto_ in good conscience,"
Addison said.
Stewart said a mayor does not need
veto power in order to be a good mayor.
"If the mayor sets up an air of co
operation with council and voices his
objections at the beginning of the
legislative process, the veto is un
necessary and the mayor will not be a
rubber stamp," Stewart said. He said,
however, in case of strong
disagreement,'he would use the veto.
Both candidates agreed on the need to
involve more students in local govern
ment but disagreed on how this should
be accomplished.
Addison said he would form a mayor's
It's the next best thing to being there
Program! Program! You can't tell
your evangelists apart without a
program!
After watching the various
evangelists expound on their various
beliefs over the past couple weeks, we
thought we'd supply our readers with
a list of just who you're talking to and
or heckling at.
Bro Cope and Steve Michaels are
our resident evangelists. They're the
ones who usually stand on the mall
and preach to the Willard steps. They
both have beards; Bro's is black and
Steve's is brown.
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City, where relatives of the remaining hostages awaited
anxiously for news in a motel.
FBI agent Ken Teetzen took the word they all were
waiting for.
"The hostages have been released," he yelled, and a
Frontier Airline official ran down the motel hallway,
pounding on doors to announce the news.
The hijacking began around 7:30 a.m. CDT yesterday
at Grand Island, Neb.
Officials said Hannan pulled a sawed-off shotgun
from a bag during a security check and commandeered
the jet.
Lyle Wurtz, a high school friend of Hannan who was
aboard, talked Hannan into releasing the women and
children after the plane refueled at Kansas City.
Mostly sunny and pleasant today, high 65. Mostly clear
tonight, low 45. Considerable cloudiness tomorrow with
a chance of a few showers in the afternoon and at night
but most of the time should be rain-free. The high to
morrow will be 63. Considerable cloudiness Sunday
morning, but partly sunny in the afternoon and a little
cooler.
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The well-dressed preachers who
have turned up just recently are Jed
Smock and Max Lynch. This visit
marks the third (not second) coming
of Jed and Max to Penn State, their
last having been about two years ago.
Max is the one with the dark glasses.
You'll find these two standing on the
small wall by Willard.
So if you don't make it to church
Sunday, don't worry. You can still
make it to your third period class at
Willard Monday and get the same
thing.
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commission on students affairs. The;
commission would try to start a one-to
one relationship with student
organizations and try to get more
students on boards and commissions.
Stewart said that the borough did not
need a special commission to deal with
students.
"The mayor should be the com
munication link between students and
the borough," he said. Stewart is also in
favor of students stitting in on local
boards and commissions.
Addison said the borough is faced with
the possibility, of having to increase
taxes in order to keep up with the ser
vices people demand.
"We cannot have the best of both
worlds," Addison said. If the public
demands projects like bike paths, it will
have to be willing to pay for them, he
said.
Stewart said that with regional co
operation, new programs can be paid for
and overhead among the different
townships can be cut.
"We can extend social and human
services," Stewart said.
Great day
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