Eddy case By COLLEEN GALLAGHER ' Daily Collegian Staff Writer University Provost Edward D. Eddy last night released a report detailing the Oct. 5 gun incident and said he considers the matter laid to rest. The gun accidentally fired by an un named campus police officer in his Grange Building office should not have been loaded, but was being handled for a routine "monthly cleaning," according to the report. "All authorized officers had access to sidearms for training and cleaning purposes but not for duty use," it says. The report says Eddy had instructed University Police Services on Sept. 21 to discontinue a previously authorized order for certain officers to carry sidearms. "The departmental practice is to clean the weapons once a month and also after range firing. The accidental discharge that occurred on Oct. 5 was at the time of a monthly cleaning," Eddy reported. As to why the gun was loaded,; the report 'says the officer had cleaned ; the gun while properly unloaded, then reloaded the gun for storage. He then noticed deposits of cleaning fluid remaining on the gun, and."instead Of unloading the weapon to finish the cleaning procedure, the officer proceeded to attempt 'to remove the cleaning fluid while the weapon was still loaded. "In the process, the sidearm was accidentally discharged," it says. The report terms the matter a "freak accident" that "does not have sufficient long-term ramifications to justify ‘, a reversal of the Nov. 6 decision" to arm 33 officers. Safety board formed The University's gun polity has been amended to provide for an "Advisor'y Review Board" on University safety. Approved by University President John W. Oswald on the recommendation of Provost Edward D. Eddy, the board will be composed of a "small group of, faculty members, students and ad•, ministrative officers." , • Eddy announced the new board in hiEl report released last night on the ac•. cidental gun firing by a campus police officer Oct. 5. The additional section 'of the gun In perfect harmony.. . ...The luminous grandeur of this tree at th'e foot of the Mall is perhaps the bor ough's most beautiful reminder of Christn - Ms this year. says gun is closed Eddy said the information in his report was a combination of data from reports by Director of University Safety David E. Stormer and by Otto E. Mueller, retired assistant vice president for housing and food service operations. Eddy said he chose Mueller to make a report because he is "a very highly respected retired official who was able to give full time to it." Details of the accident were obtained from a statement by the officer involved, Eddy said. The provost said he did not know when the officer made the statement. In light of the information he has received, Eddy said he has no reason to believe Stormer was negligent in his duty except for the failure to report the incident promptly. Stormer waited to report the accident until Nov. 30 about three weeks after Eddy decided to allow the officers to carry guns. In the only statement made so far by Stormer as to why he did not report' the incident, the report quotes him as saying: "The incident was one of negligence rather than criminal, im moral or a breach of policy. Appropriate disciplinary action had, or was, being taken." Regarding the likelihood of such an accident happening again, the report says: . "Any use of sidearms presents the possibility of an occurrence of this kind. Any absende of their use presents other dangers. "Better control obviously is essential, along with more strict requirements regarding the handling of the at all times." polidy - ivill 4 be linplemented "as 'soon 'as possible," Eddy's report says. , . The members "drawn froin the University Park community and selected by the appropriate constituent groups" will meet at least once each term and at the call of Robert Patterson, senior vice president for finance and operations, or David E. Stormer, director of University Safety. Eddy said the faculty members would be elected by the University Faculty Senate and the administrators by Oswald. Collegian the daily Sweet dreams For tri-captains Chuck Fusina (14 ), Tom Bradley (25), and Paul Suhey (65), the the New Orleans Superdome for the Jan. 1 showdown with Alabama. See re- Sugar Bowl will be more than a battle for college football supremacy. It will lated stories on pages 6 and 7. be their last game as Penn State football players. They will lead the Lions into Oil may fund China's expansion HONG KONG (UPI) China said yesterday it may need "several tens of billions ‘of U.S: rdollars" for 'moder nization, and hinted revenue from its vast petroleum reserves would be used to pay for the rapid economic expansion. Cheered by the successful agreement to normalize diplomatic relations with the United States, Peking leaders of fered to hold peace talks with Taiwan. They met immediate rejection from Nationalist President Chiang Ching-kuo. The Taiwan government yesterday announced a military buildup which would include manufacture of long range missiles, but did not say if, they \ would be armed with nuclear warheads. Americans visiting China reported continuing. celebrations of the nor malization agreement announced Friday by President Carter and Chinese Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, including a massive red, white and blue fireworks display in Canton. Ethics bill may exclude certain officials By MIKE SILLUP Daily Collegian Staff Writer The recently passed state ethics bill may be amended to exclude local officials making less than $15,000 per year. State College Mayor Arnold Addison was among statewide local officials who testified before the House local government committee. "I believe the bill will be amended," Addison said As it stands now the law requires public employees, and candidates for public office, to disclose their per sonal finances. Many officials have expressed fear that the bill would chase competent people from office. Sam Galagaza (Bth-aerospace engineering) a councilman from Wall, Veteran stereotypes are often demeaning By DENISE LAFFAN Daily Collegian Staff Writer Vietnam veterans have been both the participants and victims of an unpopular war. Even with the war over for six years, Vietnam vets find they are subject to demeaning and undeserved stereotypes. Mike Kusuplos (12th-business logistics) said, "TV stereotypes vets the worse. All of the vets on TV are either psychopaths or drug addicts and all of the criminals wear fatigues." Analysis Lou Paris (9th-individual and family studies) believes this stereotype is held by many University students as well. "They think that we're crazy, always partying, and that we like to fight." This separation between vets and other students has caused veterans to band more closely together. Paris ex plained, "We had to band together over Chinese Foreign Trade Minister Li Ching said Peking will consider signing long-term agreeMehts' NVith` - ,the United States "if conditions are right," but added, "I think the development of discussions will be a deciding factor." Li welcomed foreign investment in China and invited nations to compete freely with one another. "The Chinese petroleum industry is developing," he said. Energy Secretary James Schlesinger recently estimated China's oil reserves amount • to about 100 billion barrels, roughly 30 times the current U.S. yearly production. _ Li, during a brief stopover in Hong Kong en route from Manila to Peking, said China is entering into joint ventures in oil production, which are necessary "if we want to export petroleum in large quantities." He declined to be more specific, but added, "In the future, China will send Pa., and' ne of the youngest councilmen in the state at 20, said he will not run again, and a few of his fellow councilmen in Wall will not run. He said that in a small-budget town like Wall, coucil consists of regular working men and "There's no way these guys are going to run." Situations such as these probably exist throughout the state, he said. "I'm all for a good ethics bill." Addison said the bill is "objectionable" to certain people. "If you have corruption, that's bad if you don't have good people, that's bad also," he said. The problem is whether to recognize the possibility of corruption or to lose good people. He also said the ability to handle one's personal at Nam and now, after what we've been through together, we can only relate to other vets. We can empathize more with each other." One incident that emphasizes this estrangement occurred in the summer of 1973. Members of the Veterans' College Preparatory Program were living on the first two floors of Hartranft with the top floors occupied by other undergrads. After several incidents of vandalism and one fire, the groups were separated with each blaming the other for the damage and no one sure just who was at fault. Not only do students hold these stereotypes, but, after being discharged, some vets found that many employers were not all that sympathetic to the idea of hiring them. Kusuplos said the first question one employer asked him was, "Are you a head?" Even with the help .of government agencies, these vets found they usually Continued on page 12. 15° Tuesday, Dec. 19, 1978 B INDER Y Vol. 79, No. 95 12 pages University Park, Pa. 181%2202 Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University P A T I RE . .... ~ -,_ ,-...',.•4•",. "—• • ' , • '." 2 ® •ci- $44-41`,u7,4,,,-k 1F,41 - ii4,: - :',- - .: -':,..:.:\-,:', i .`. -,',•.., . . : , f,- 4,,,-,,i:','•,.,-, :''''-',±,,:,-;`',,',c-1;4.1.; -- •:;,'f . ,.;4;;ii - „:;', 4 :!:.•,Y,'= l ..''t: ::,?. • ~ 7- %»\9/ 4: : ~';,:;,•:_,,..„' ‘.`:,,-,;),?,,,;:? 1:4;;.,..'-f,k111,1;f:Ii i.Vt*lf'..,,,'S',,!''...t:: ':,' ', ':;;:''''''' ' t ....I.±''„::::;:_.44.*`lll'L-C:!70k; 5f,' , 4 . ".1-_; • ;; :; ,. 1 .. ;: ,... , ; ,i• . N . ,-!;, e - ,.r ,1;f:• , 1,,, , ,4,. 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Asked if China will trade openly with Taiwan, Li said, "Taiwan is Chinese territory, so why can't China trade with Taiwan?" But the Nationalist government flatly rejected a suggestion that Peking send representatives to Taiwan for peace OPEC jolt financial world ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The decision by OPEC oil ministers meeting here to raise prices 14.5 percent jolted the Western financial world yesterday, driving down the dollar and the Dow Jones stock average and darkening the U.S. economic picture for 1979. Leaders of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries hastily defended the planned 1979 increase, blaming it on the West's failure to stem inflation and contending it would actually help the world economy in the long run. "If the industrialized states fail to control inflation or to stabilize the dollar, then the members of OPEC will not allow their revenues to suffer further losses," the oil minister of Kuwait, Sheik Ali Khalifa, said yesterday. The newly elected OPEC secretary general, Rene Ortiz of Ecuador, told W 2.. 1 2 E-ATTEE finances should show an ability to handle fiscal responsibility. "We need people with fiscal expertise now more than ever before," he said. State College Municipal Manager Carl Fairbanks . said, "I don't think it's an imposition." Addison said the local government committee is not happy because the bill was pushed through the legislature so fast that it was not referred to the com mittee. Galagaza said, "Just because it's tagged an ethics bill doesn't mean it's good. I don't think it's very ef fective as it stands now it's words, not deeds." Addison agreed. "Being against an ethics bill is like being against God, home and mother," he said. increases The dollar, already weakened abroad by U.S. inflation and trade deficits, dropped in value against all major currencies, by as much as 2 percent against the Strong West German mark. Wall Street reeled, the Dow Jones average of 30 in dustrial stocks slipping below 800 for the first time since the end of November. Similar declines were reported in the London, Frankfurt and Montreal stock markets. 4 ' COPIES talks to end nearly 30 years of estrangement. In Peking, two officials who once represented the Nationalists in peace talks after the 1949 Communist takeover of the mainland offered to go to Taipei to try to bring about reconciliation. "We came to Peking then to conduct peace talks on behalf of the Kuomintang (Nationalists)," Peking's official New China News Agency quoted Lie Fei and Li Chunglung as saying. Unexpected delay Our precipitation has been delayed so today will be partly to mostly sunny vbith: some increasing high clouds during the afternoon and a breezy high of 33: Tonight we'll have increasing cloudiness with some snow developing towards dawn and a low of 27. The snow will turn to rain late tomorrow morning and continue into the night with a high of 39. the Emirates News Agency that the increase "is part of the measures to correct the world's economic situation." He said the OPEC governments have "responsibilities" to future generations "toward development of their countries and finding alternative sources of energy." Reverberations from Sunday's decision were felt immediately in financial markets. Photo by Chip Connolly
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