Vatican pall bearers carrying the coffin containing the body of Pope John Paul I
arrive in St. Peter’s Square from the St. Peter’s basilica for the funeral
services,
Police prerogative to 'enforce law' disputed
By TOM PEELING
and AMY SMITH
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
University Council, discussing a University proposal
to arm campus police, yesterday questioned whether
University Police Services should be concerned with
law enforcement or just protection of property.
Council member Roy C. Buck told Council ‘‘it was a
mistake” to get into the law enforcement business from
the beginning.
“I'm inclined to take the position that the University
has no business in the law enforcement business,” Buck
said. “I recommend that University officers get out of
the enforcement realm.”
The council was addressed by several members of
various law enforcement agencies, including William
McDaniel, director of public safety at Cornell
University.
“There is no reason for a gun if the University isn’t
going to have a full-time law enforcement agency,”
McDaniel said. “The decision should be, do we have a
law enforcement department on campus or don’t we?”
According to McDaniel, who said Cornell’s crime
problems are basically similar to the University’s,
officers can be “criminally charged” if they don’t react
to a crime.
Weapons use restricted to 'defense of life'
By 808 W„/\RE
Daily Collegian Stall writer
In only one instance could University
i Police Services officers draw weapons if
they were armed, and that is in the
defense of life, Director of University
Police Services David E. Stormer said
Wednesday.
Under this policy, someone retreating
from a crime, regardless of its nature, is
not considered a threat td life, Stormer
Enjoy it now
Go out and enjoy today’s pleasant
mostly sunny weather after some patchy
morning fog and a high of 67. Some high
afternoon clouds though will give way to
cloudy skies and a period of rain tonight
with a low of 51. Friday should be mostly
cloudy, breezy, and cooler with a high of
61.
'Societal values' no
basis for
By 808 WARE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
University investments in com
panies with interests in South Africa
cannot be challenged on the basis of
societal values, Robert A. Patterson,
senior vice president for Finance and
Operations, said Wedensday.
Patterson said at a Student Ad
visory Board meeting the only three
considerations in investments are the
safety, continuation and progress of
the stocks.
The three forms of University in
vestments are the Hershey trust, the
Associated Trust Fund, and group
trusts given to the trustees as in-
vestments, Patterson said.
The University is the successor to
the Hershey trust fund, which serves
the Hershey Medical Center, and this
trust is held under court decree.
The Associated Trust Fund comes
from wills and provides more than
200 scholarships.
The other trusts are given as in-
vestments with the stipulation they
' are to be held for a fixed term or until
the owner decides to take them back.
In all these types of trusts held by
the University, if the University
Board of Trustees use any other
considerations than the safety, and
continuation and progress of them,
the trustees could be challenged,
sued, or released from office, Pat
terson said.
The University owns $22.8 million
in trusts. Of that, $5.8 million is in
vested in firms that have interests or
operations in South Africa. Only $3.6
million of the total $22.8 million is in
“I wouldn’t be involved in law enforcement
responsibilities without firearms,” McDaniel said. “I
absolutely wouldn’t have it any other way. ”
Lt. Frank Panuccio, officer in charge of the Rockview
state police, said an officer should carry a gun only to
protect himself.
“It’s (a gun is) as much a part of law enforcement as
my pen, my report, my initial report or my
automobile,” Panuccio said. “I wouldn’t walk across
the street without my gun. ”
Edward Donovan, a University law enforcement and
corrections professor and former New York City police
officer, said he personally sees nothing wrong with
arming campus police.
But Donovan said he questions “whether or not you
need a gun to fill out a report.” On the other hand, I
wouldn’t like to respond to a shotgun and blow my
whistle.”
Donovan also said in response to a question about the
effectiveness of University officers that they are among
the best trained in the state.
Richard Paternando, a student member of the
University Council, said people don’t take the campus
police seriously.
“People ask, if they were any good, why would they
be on a campus force?” Paternando said. "Why
said at a Student Advisory Board
meeting.
The gun with which 33 officers would
be armed is a .38 caliber Smith and
Weston Model 36, Stormer said. “It’s a
small defensive type weapon,” he said.
Stormer disagreed with a suggestion
that the guns be stored in police vehicles.
“I have great reservations about the
security there,” he said.
Also, Stormer said that in general it is
better, to have officers familiar with the
area to be armed than to have others
called into the area in a stressful
situation.
For example, the state police are not
very familiar with campus, nor with the
internal workings of the residence halls,
he said.
The state police station in Milesburg is
a small substation with a high turnover
rate, he said. However, the State College
investment
common stock which can be dealt
with by the trustees.
If the University were to divest its
interests from South Africa, it would
affect 48 percent of the common
stock, Patterson said.
“This (the $22.8 million in
vestments) is relatively small when
compared to the 1 billion that Har
vard has and the 100 million that
Columbia has,” Patterson said.
“All the companies that we have
stock in have agreed to the 1 Sullivan
Agreement,” he said.
The Sullivan Agreement is a list of
12 principles drawn up by the Rev.
Leon Sullivan, who is on the board of
the General Motors Co. In general,
the principles deal with ways to
improve the conditions of blacks in
South Africa, such as increasing
salary, bettering treatment, and
advancing them in leadership
positions.
University Provost Edward D.
Eddy said, “We’re concerned that the
companies recognize the concern for
people that investors have.”
Patterson, speculating why
American companies do business in
South Africa said, “South Africa has
a great deal of t opportunity for
development.”
The companies probably see it as
one of the most attractive third world
countries for development, and also
one of the most stable countries,
Patterson said.
They probably feel too that if they
move out, Russia undoubtedly will
want to get in there, he added.
Pope John
VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope John Paul I, whose
radiant smile and simple humility brought joy to the
Christian world, went to his grave yesterday, his brief
and lonely reign celebrated by hymns of glory and the
prayers of princes of the church.
A gray, damp drizzle fell over the seven hills of Rome
as the Sistine Chapel choir intoned the Gregorian
Requiem for Eternal Repose and 93 cardinals began
filing in sad procession from St. Peter’s Basilica into
the vast colonnaded square.
There were no kings, presidents or royalty for the
simple but emotional funeral of the “little man” from
the Dolomites. But representatives from 104 nations,
including Lillian Carter, mother of the president, joined
the 100,000 faithful in mourning the late pontiff.
John Paul, the 263rd successor to the Throne of Peter,
the^^
daily
Police are known, plus they have a
faster response time. Therefore, the
tendency now is to call in State College in
a situation where guns are needed.
“It would be a much better situation
for whoever handles weapon encounters
to be the same person who handles all
law enforcement,” Stormer said.
“From a community basis, it is
dangerous to depend on others,” he
added.
There has been an increase in en
counters with weapons this year over the
last two years, Stormer said in reference
to questions about the need for guns this
year as compared to previous years.
Also, there is the question of what op
tions are available in a weapons en
counter.
“Penn State is not isolated from the
community,” he said. “We do not
Sports complex will include new ice rink
By KAREN EGOLF
and DAN McKAY
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
The creation of a new indoor sports
complex will temporarily displace local
figure skating and hockey clubs while
giving outdoor varsity teams the indoor
practice room they say they need.
“It’s something that’s been needed,”
track coach Harry R. Groves said, “but
it’s not been done.”
Football coach Joe Paterno agreed.
“We’re way ahead on what we’ve done
for the student body, but we’re way
behind on what we’ve done for the
varsity teams.”
The new fieldhouse, to be converted
from the Ice Pavilion, will service the
track, soccer, field hockey, baseball,
football and both men’s and women’s
lacrosse teams.
A new indoor ice rink, to be built ad
jacent to the fieldhouse, will provide
year-round skating for physical
education skating classes as well as
heated stands for the spectators of
hockey games and figure skating
competitions.
“We’re going to have a great ice
facility,” Paterno said.
A temporary outdoor rink will be
available for recreational skating until
the new indoor rink is completed, but the
hockey club will travel to the Skatium in
Mechanicsburg for its home games.
Some members of the figure skating
clubs will travel to Mechanicsburg to
continue their regular practices.
“I feel sorry about that,” field hockey
defenseman Jody Field said, “but I'
guess somebody’s got to suffer. I know if
it was our team (being displaced tem
porarily), I’d feel really down, like they
don’t care about us. ”
Although the construction schedule
may slow the progress of skaters and
hockey players, the new fieldhouse will
benefit the outdoor varsity teams.'
wouldn’t they go to a ‘real’ police force?”
Buck said the uniforms campus police wear make
them “look like cheerleaders.”
“Maybe they could be more effective if they looked
like storm troopers,” Buck said.
Many crimes on campus are committed by people
from outside the local community, Robert J. Scannell,
chairman of the Council, said.
“Of the criminal arrests on campus, over 50 percent
are people who have no realtion to the University,”
Scannell said.
The arming of 33 police officers would “not involve
arming student patrol or. . . the people we see ticketing
our cars,” Scannell said.
Campus police were armed this past summer
following three incidents on campus including a rob
bery, an attempted rape and a prison escapee who was
heading toward the University.
Council will hold a public hearing on Oct. 12 to hear
opinion on the arming of campus police. The council,
which is an advisory committee to the University
president, will make a recommendation to Provost
Edward D. Eddy on Oct. 19 concerning the issue. Eddy
is acting president during a two month leave of absence
for medical reasons by University President John W.
Oswald.
necessarily encounter just students and
faculty.”
In a fact sheet handed out by Stormer,
one paragraph states, “Of those persons
arrested on the University Park Cam
pus, approximately 50 percent have no
relationship with the University.”
“We’ve been trying to operate for the
last five years with full law enforcement
without guns,” he said. “But this is not a
real solution to the community.”
Bob Tripepi, vice president of the
Graduate Student Association, said that
in a few years students will get more
accustomed to the idea.
“I was at Ohio State for four years.
The officers there carried guns and the
students weren’t afraid to talk to them,”
he said.
“They (the police) were proud of being
able to wrestle a drunk down instead of
using a gun,” he said.
“For many a year, we’ve been
practicing in the old Ice Pavilion star
ting in February,” baseball coach
Charles Medlar siad. “It hasn’t been
ideal; it’s been cold.”
Medlar said better conditions in the
new fieldhouse will be to the team’s
advantage.
“It’s also going
hopefully," he said.
The warmer temperatures will help
the football team as well, co-captain
Paul Suhey said.
“I think it will help us later on in our
season when we get some inclement
weather,” he said. “Sometimes it’s hard
to get through a practice with the in-
Paul I laid to rest
died at the age of 65 last Thursday night after suffering
an heart attack while reading in bed.
Pope John Paul’s body, in a stark cypress casket,
closed and unadorned except for a black cross and large
Bible opened upon it, rested in the rain on a rich Persian
carpet on the steps of St. Peter’s, the largest church in
Christendom in which John Paul never had a chance to
say a mass in his 34-day reign.
Draped around the pope’s shoulders inside the coffin
was the plain white woolen palium adorned with six
black crosses which John Paul chose to wear as a mark
of his investiture instead of the usual gold and silver
bejeweled crown.
A large Paschal candle flickered beside the casket.
Behind the casket was a large altar, covered by white
linen.
Cardinal Carlo Confalonieri, 85-year-old dean of the
mhl Thursday, October 5,1978
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warmer,
Guns nothing new
for campus police
By TOM PEELING
and AMY SMITH
Daily Collegian Staff Writers
Carrying guns is nothing new to
University Police Services.
Before April 1956, campus police
were authorized to carry guns while
on duty, according 1 to Robert J.
Scannell, Dean of the College of
Health, Physical Education and
Recreation and chairman of the
University Council.
At that time, even student mem
bers of police services were allowed
to carry guns at certain times. In
addition, some of the full-time of
ficers had worked their way up to
those jobs from janitorial and other
maintenance positions, and received
only three days of on-the-job training
before being issued guns and sent out
on their own, Scannell said.
During that period, police services
operated under regulations instituted
by then University President Ralph
D. Hetzel in 1930, according to
Scannell. These regulations
stipulated that campus police only
protect property and not involve
themselves with student conduct.
From 1956 to 1970, campus police
were not authorized to investigate
crimes on campus, Scannell said.
During 1970 and 1971, Scannell said,
several student requests were
received by University President
John W. Oswald to allow University
police to return to full law en
forcement status.“ The feeling was
‘let’s not look to outsiders to protect
ourselves’,” Scannell said.
In 1973, the 43-year-old document
was changed to allow University
police to protect people first and
property second, he added.
Director of University Safety David
E. Stormer has recently asked that
University police be allowed to carry
TO LOCKER ROOM FACILITIES
tensity you need when you’re freezing to
death.”
Suhey said the football team probably
will use it less than any of the other
teams.
“I don’t see us using it a lot,” he said,
“but I do think it will help us later in the
season, especially if we’re lucky enough
to go to a bowl.”
The improved facilities will include a
larger track with four lanes and 10 laps
per mile, track captain Campbell Lovett
said. He estimated that as many as 50
members of the track team use the two
lane track in Rec Hall at one time during
practice.
Groves agreed that Rec HaJl facilities
were not adequate. “You spend more
College of Cardinals, approached the altar behind the
bier bearing John Paul’s body and took the censor to
spread puffs of incense in the purification ritual.
Days after his death, Vatican officials disclosed that
John Paul, who took up the awesome leadership of the
700-million-member church after a life spent in parish
work in service of his flock, had become lonely among
the splendors of the Vatican.
Walled off from the human contacts on which he had
thrived, John Paul had turned for solace to long
telephone calls to his lesser colleagues in the church
priests, mothers superior, and even a studying
seminarian.
As the mourning throng, many of whom wept openly,
waited in the rain, priests read from passages in the
Bible. Many of the crowd huddled in blankets against
the cold, damp breeze.
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firearms again.
Stormer’s request applies only to
the professional sworn police service
officers in the department.
University Police Services is ac
tually divided into three distinct
groups, Scannell said. The sworn
officers have the same police powers
as the State College police or any
other metropolitan police department
in Pennsylvania, and have taken the
480 hours of police training as called
for by state law.
The other two divisions, student
officers and community service of
ficers, basically are involved with
traffic control, Scannell said.
Stormer has requested that 33 of
the 53 sworn officers in the depart
ment be armed, according to Scan
nell.
Of those 33 officers, six are shift
supervisors, 26 are regular officers
and one is an investigator.
Neither student officers nor
community service officers would be
allowed to carry firearms under the
proposal before the University
Council, Scannell said.
Stormer has not requested that he
himself be armed, Scannell added.
University Provost Edward D.
Eddy will make the final decision
concerning the arming of campus
police.
“The Stormer proposal is for the
use of sidearms only in defense of life
or in life-threatening situations,”
Eddy said. “He’s not proposing that
arms be used to shoot parking
violators.”
About five people on campus carry
firearms, but none of them are
connected with the University,
Scannell said. These five people in
clude one naval intelligence officer,
three FBI agents and one undercover
narcotics agent.
time being a traffic cop and not a track
coach.”
The additional space in the new
facility also will help thesoccer team.
“I imagine we’ll be able to play a little
more freely,” forward Jim Stamatis
said. “We won’t have to worry about
breaking as many things.”
The team had been practicing from 9
to 11 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in
Rec Hall with miniature goals. The new
fieldhouse will be equipped with
regulation ones.
To the Penn State Ice Skating Club,
however, the conversion of the Ice
Pavilion is a setback rather than a help.
“We built our club to its highest
point,” club president John Sowers said,
“and then we were let down. They
always said that in order to have the
better facility, we’d have to sacrifice at
one time or another. We’re going to
sacrifice now for what we’ll get in the
future.”
Club member Robert Deak said he is
concerned that if the skaters are without
a good rink for more than a year, the
club will lose its membership in the
United States Figure Skating
Association, a national organization that
tests and grades skaters.
Robert J. Scannell, dean of the College
of Health, Physical. Education and
Recreation, said that was a club af-,
filiation, however, and he is concerned
with the good of the University.
It was incorrectly reported in Wed
nesday’s Daily Collegian that the
Association of Residence Hall Students
vice president, Steve Matt, was the
secretary of the Student Travel
Organization. As of several days ago,
Matt is no longer listed as the travel
organization’s secretary.
Correction