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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.
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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.
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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
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commercial representatives to the
United States."
Asked how much foreign credit China
would need for modernization, Li said,
"It may reach several tens of billions of
U.S. dollars."
Li said foreign firms can open joint
venture companies and factories in
China. He indicated the maximum
foreign ownership would be about 49
percent, but added the figure is
"probably still a bit flexible at this
moment."
He said the question of whether
foreign ownership would be permanent
or temporary "could be negotiated."
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