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Life sentence for ex-union boss
ii ' MEDIA, Pa! (AP) Vainly protesting his innocence,
~ W. A. Boyie, known as “Tough Tony” when he headed
the powerful United Mine Workers, was sentenced to
life imprisonment; yesterday for hiring killers to
assassinate a union rival, j
“I am innocent of the crimes of which I have been
convicted and I want everyone to know that,” Boyle
insisted in a seven-page typewritten statement read in
i i court, claiming he had remained silent for too long.
" The 78-year-old Boyle, who once was a frequent White
! House guest as boss of the 400,000-member union, was
; twice convicted of arranging the murders of Joseph
s“ Jock-” SYablonski, : and Yablonski’s wife and daughter.
iThey were killed Dec. 31,1969 by three assassins as they
.slept in their Clarksville home in the heart of the soft
coal fields of westerrt Pennsylvania.
" v Yablonski failed in a bitter fight to topple Boyle from
the union pesidency only two months before he was
i killed. The state claimed the assassination contract was
• given to prevent any legal challenge to the election
} result. . , • _
T The first jury verdict was set aside by the Penn
.Jsylvania Supreme Court in 1977, and Boyle was found
guilty a second time 20 months ago.
■ President Judge Francis Catania, who presided at
both trials, imposed the same sentence as the first time
'— three consecutive life terms and $3OO in fines and
gave Boyle 30 days to file a new appeal.
J “l;intend to do that,” Boyle told the judge, as soon as
; he g6ts a new lawyer appointed by the court. _
Boyle, wearing the same blue-striped suit he sported
at his 'second trial, with his gray hair now tinted light
brown, read his statement slowly but in a firm voice as
a scowling judge followed the text word for word. ;
.ARHS to plan seating revisions
By CINDY COX
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Association of Residence Hall
Students has formed a committee to
work with football ticket manager
William Meredith to study the seating
problem at home football games.
Meredith and FrancisKennawell(4th
engineering), committee head, will
attend tomorrow’s game to observe the
seating procedure and work out any
problems. ? '
Among the alternatives the committee
* has proposed are:
Using the player entrance at the
; ‘south side of the stadium as a" student
entrance., ' . i ,
Having one season ticket, perhaps
in the form off a sticker* on student ID
'cards, to prevent non-students from
itt purchasing student tickets.
“ _ placing ushers high in the stands to
tell other, ulhers whether seats are
available. r
Reinforcing rails in the stadium to
prevent students from moving from the
section in which they are supposed to sit
*" to other, over-crowded sections.
The committee is open to suggestions
from students and is still in the planning
stages, Kennawell said. “It’s in the very
first stegds; nothing specific- has. been
planned,’ 1 he said. - '
Sports Information Director Dave
Baker said one alternative to over
crowding! would be to have reserved
seating for students.
A different system is needed because
of crowding caused by extra students
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East Halls golfers puttering around
The weather thus far this fall has
been bad enough to discourage most
golfing enthusiasts, but the men of
Norristown House (7th and Bth floor
Sproul), have q:pme Up with a solution to
the soggy problem an 18-hole indoor
golf course. ~
George Hrenko (lst-liberal arts), a
member of the; Norristown House Golf
League board of directors, said a
couple of guys were hitting golf balls
around on the floor and they decided to
set up a course.
One thing led to another, and the
league was born.
So far this year, the league has held
two tournaments, The Desert Classic,
in which the participants dressed for
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getting in on one ticket and non-students
sitting in the student section, Baker said.
“The easiest way to solve the problem
is to have reserved seats,” Baker said.
“If every person holding a ticket came
there would be an extra 700 student
seats. The whole section is undersold by
700 tickets.
"Obviously, a lot of people are getting
in on one ticket,” he said. “Reserved
seating causes a few problems, but it
certainly is a possibility.” . ,
Under current ticket policy, 60,000
ticket applications are sent each year to
returning .studepts - at all - campuses,.,
Tickets are sold oh a first come-fifst '
served basis, Baker said.
A maximum of 16,000 tickets are sold
to returning students and 4,000 tickets to
incoming freshmen and , transfer
students.
The senior section is not really over
sold, Baker said. “Theoretically seniors
can sit anywhere in the student section.
There are more seniors this year. It
varies on a year to year basis,” he said.
An addition of 6,000 seats to the
stadium, to be finished by next year,
should alleviate some of the seating
problems, Baker said.
Division of these seats will be derided
early this winter and will be based on the
ticket demand, he said.
Student seating policies are not
decided by the athletic department
alone, Baker said.
“Ticket policy was worked out with
-USG. It’s not like the athletic depart
ment is just setting down guidelines. We
try to find the fairest way to do things,”
desert play, "and Wednesday’s
Norristown House Open.
Hrenko said the league is equipped
with the works a pro shop, a resident
pro and a pro shop bar.
Mike Chaundy :(lst-health, physical
education and recreation) runs the pro
shop and won the Norristown House
Open. ■, , . L
Chaundy said the trick to winning the
tournament is to stay around par.
“You have to stay out of trouble,
because when you get into trouble on a
course like this, that’s it,” he said.
One of the holes involves hitting a ball
into ah elevator, through Fisher Hall
and into Brumbaugh.
“It was tough getting media
coverage, competing with the World
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Former United Mine Worker’s President W. A. "Tony”
Boyle (center) is led to a Media, Pa. courtroom to be
sentenced to three consecutive life terms.
“In handling my case from the beginning, Judge
Catania had formed an opinion about this case and had
expressed the same upon my first conviction,’ Boyle
said.
He also alleged the judge refused to withdraw “and
repeated the same errors in the second trial,” and
denied Boyle a chance to present a total defense.
"To suggest in either my first trial or second trial that
I received the benefit of a fair and unbiased judge is
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he said. “It has worked pretty well.
Apparently it’s not working now
One way that students can help
alleviate the seating problem is to take
up only one seat, Baker said. The ushers
help to try to find spaces whlpre extra
room is being taken up by one student,
he said.
An usher’s duty is to find seats for all
ticket-holding students, head usher
Larry Riley said.
“Our first requisite is that every
student who has purchased a ticket gets
a seat where they have a right to sit,” he
said. , /..
- -To ensure seats for air students, the
.ushers, will become more stringent,
Riley said.
“Students, or those posing as students,
are undoubtedly beating Us,”, he said.
“We are going to have to be a lot stric
ter.” •
Stricter policies will involve checking
students’ ID cards before they go into
the student section, he said.
Also, the system of pass-out checks
may be changed. “I’m seriously con
sidering not giving pass-out checks until
the section is closed,” Riley said.
Riley also said he believes reserved
seating would help remedy the over
crowded student sections. Another
suggestion for students is to arrive
early , he said.
“We would ask that especially the
students in the freshman and sophomore
sections get to the game as early as
possible. They open the gates at 11; 45,’
he said.
Series,” Chaundy said, “PBS said
they’d be there, but they weren’t. I
guess they didn’t have the equipment to
give good coverage.”
Rumors that the administration plans
to close the course to everyone except
varsity athletes for indoor practice
have hot been confirmed.
The salad bar is
strictly American
A man by the name of J. Scott G has
written an article entitled “The New
Ten Commandments of Social
Behavior” for a magazine specializing
in “verbal aggresion.”
G (the writer’s real name) advocates
“The creation of ariational moronic
aptitude test to determine who is a
down-scale achiever;”
He also favors practicing euthanasia
on adults who equate rock lyrics with
poetry. .
G says of the United States: “One has
the right to be suspicious of a nation
whose only contributions to culture
have been musical-comedy theater and
the salad bar.”
Bigler women offer
warprith to Geary
It’s no secret that the weather has
been unseasonably cold, and it’s no
surprise that the University is cutting
back on heat to conserve fuel.
The men living bn sth floor Geary are
upset about the cold temperatures in
their rooms. They’ve spelled out across
their windows, “We want heat."
The women in nearby Bigler have a
solution. They’ve spelled out in their
windows, “We’ll keep you warm.’
simply contrary to the facts, and is a sorry record to be
seen by anyfair-minded person,” Boyle said.
“Disrespect for the law in our judicial system simply
erodes our confidence in the fair administration of
justice that no man is above the law, and no man can
knowingly violate another person’s constitutional rights
and not be called to account
“If our system can disregard constitutional rights,
then we have no system at all. That is what has hap
pened in my case.”
After sentencing, while being led out of the cour
thouse by five sheriff’s deputies, Boyle told reporters,
“if I’m given a fair trial before a fair judge I think I can
prove my innocence.”
Boyle has been in custody, in the prison ward of the
nearby Eastern State Correctional Institution since his
second conviction when $250,000 bail was revoked. He
suffers from a heart ailment and also has stomach
problems as a result of a drug overdose in a 1973 suicide
attempt in his Washington, D.C., home before he was
arrested on the murder charges.
Catania ordered him to serve the three life sentences
in the same penitentiary. -
Boyle’s lawyer, A. Charles Peruto, who had won
reversal of the first verdict, withdrew as counsel. He
told Catania he hadn’t been paid for his recent legal
work.
Boyle said he is without funds and the judge said he
would appoint a lawyer to represent him.
Neither Boyle’s wife, Ethel, reported in poor health,
nor his daughter, Antoinnette, a Montana lawyer, were
in the courtroom fo the sentencing. They had attended
the trials, which were moved here on a change of venue
from Washington County :
Campus ready for Homecoming
festivities prepared by students
By VICKI GEHRING
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The air is cool and crisp, leaves are
fluttering to the ground and an ex
cited crowd is entering Beaver
Stadium. For many people, the
autumn day and busy crowd are
gentle reminders of a season, good
times and people who will never be
forgotteirt.' ' '
It is Homecoming time again in
Happy Valley.
“Penn State: We Call It Home” is
the theme for this year’s
Homecoming celebration. The
festivities begin at 6 tonjght with the
traditional Homecoming parade
featuring ■ the Blue Band, colorful
floats and crazy bands.
Carol Gaynes, Homecoming
committee co-chairman, said more
effort was made this year to involve
everybody independents as well as
Greeks —with Homecoming.
Gaynes said the committee worked
with the Association of Residence
Hall Students in planning all-night
movies, and with the Undergraduate
Student Government and Colloquy in
planning the Gil Eagles show.
“We really tried to get a lot of
people involved this year,” co
chairman Joe Markovich said.
Let’s keep all
the gates open
Journalism scholars have often
called journalists “gatekeepers ”
because they decide what information
gets passed on to the public.
Although writing In Edition is as far
away from being a big-time newsman
as East Halls is from Hammond
Building at 8 on a cold morning, I guess
I am a gatekeeper of sorts.
And depending on you, the readers,
for most of my stories, also makes you
a gatekeeper.
Therefore, it is our responsibility to
get the story to the public.
By now you should be feeling
obligated to society. So obligated, in
fact, that the next time you see
something worthy of appearing here,
you’ll waste no time getting to the
nearest phone and calling me, Mike
Sillup, at The Daily Collegian (865-1828)
or at home (865-7330).
Vending machine
fights back —wins
The next time you get upset at a
University vending machine for riot
coming across with the goods after you
put in the money, beware.
According to a United Press In
ternational story, when a stubborn
vending machine in Miami failed to
come across with a candy bar or return
his money, security guard Ralph
Wagner performed in the American
tradition —he kicked it.
But the machine struck back the
glass shattered and sliced Wagner’s leg
to the bone.
But Wagner struck again. He hired
So good!
The jazz sounds of Chuck Mangione and his band resounded last night through
Eisenhower Auditorium, and an enthralled audience gave Mangione and his
flugel horn a standing ovation. See related story and photos on Page 14.
He said he was pleased with the
response from independents. A few
fraternities planned their
Homecoming events with women’s
dormitory floors.
Joe Eck, a brother at Kappa Delta
Rho, said his fraternity thought it
would be a good idea to participate in
Honiecbmiiig. with dorm residents
because nobody has ever done it
before.
After the parade, the Penn State
Glee Club will sing at a candlelight
ceremony on the steps of Old Main.
At 8 tonight, the “mysterious realm
of the unknown” will descend upon
Schwab Auditorium when Gil Eagles
presents his show. Eagles is aij ex
pert in the area of extrasensory
perception and hypnosis.
Gaynes said that because the
committee, began planning early, it
was able to bring in a lot of new things
such as the Eagles show and an
alumni brunch.
Two more traditional events a
pep rally and bonfire will be at 10
tonight. The Lion and cheerleaders
will be at the south side of the
stadium.
Later, when the Ola Main bells toll
midnight, the vigil at the Lion will
begin. WQWX will be there with
attorney Mark Krasnow to sue the
vending machine operator, Miami
Tom’s, for $200,000 in damages.
The suit charges that everyone knows
“vending machines perform upon being
gently kicked,” and therefore the firm
should have installed shatterproof glass
to protect customers.
Partnerless sex
in Porter Hall
According to Jed Smock, sex is one of
the biggest sins on college campuses
today, and the men of 6th floor Porter
have come up with a no-sin sex act
one which doesn’t require a partner.
They’ve taken an idea from the
Woody Allen movie, “Sleeper,” and
converted an abandoned phone booth
intoan “Orgasmatron.”
It’s very simple, Brian Johnson (4th
architectural engineering) said, “You
just get in and close the door. ’ ’
After you get in, lights start blinking
and you hear a high-pitchedwhine, he
said.
“A couple of people on the floor, have
tried it,” Johnson said, “but the sen
sations it provides aren’t exceptional.”
—However, they’re working on it.
Hate mail author
zipped by code
This is from the “He who laughs last,
laughs best” department.
On Wednesday, The. Daily Collegian
received a letter post-marked Oct. 4,
the Thursday before last week’s foot
ball game. It was sent from Tampa,
Fla., without a zip code, hence the six
day delivery time.
The letter was addressed to the
"Lion-watching” music.
Highlighting Homecoming
Saturday will be the Penn State-
Army football game. And if you
happen to see colorful objects flying
through the sky, you probably
haven’t spent too much time
tailgating it is only the
Homecoming Committee balloon
launch. , ''
The Penn State Glee Club will
present a concert for alumni at 8
tomorrow night.
The Association of Residence Hall
Students will sponsor free all-night
movies in Pollock Halls quad. The
movies start at 11 tomorrow night.
Homecoming festivities come to a
close on Sunday with the Alumni
Brunch at 9:30 a.m. Students and
alumni are invited.
Other guests will include former
University president Eric A. Walker,
the Nittany Lion and the Penn State
cheerleaders. The Acacia singers will
entertain. Tickets are $3.50 and are
available from the Interfraternity
Council office in 203 HUB.
“Penn State: We Call It Home”
ends officially with the presentation
of the Homecoming awards at 7:30
p.m. Sunday on the third floor of the
HUB.
Sports Editor and it said the football
team was more like “Sad Sack Kittens”
than the Nittany Lions.
The writer said the team “lacks the
following: guts, character, courage,
spirit, desire, resourcefulness and
coaching.”
I doubt that anyone who watched the
Lions’ 27-7 thrashing of Maryland last
week would say the team lacked those
qualities.
However, should the anonymous
author of the letter find out we didn’t
receive it until this week, he will at
least have learned one thing zip
codes really do move the mail.
Johnston Hall gets
formal busboys
Most Friday dinners in Johnston
Dining Hall are not formal occasions,
but two busboys, Mark Radakovich
(Bth-accounting) and Steve McMillan
(lOth-political science) decided to dress
up for work.
The pair came to work last Friday
wearing black tuxedos and sneakers.
“The idea was spur-of-the-moment,”
Radakovich said. “We only thought of it
on Wednesday.”
Who knows? Maybe Food Services
will like the idea and bring the food up
to the quality of the busboys’ dress.
—Written and compiled
by Mike Siilup
A cool comeback
Today will be mostly cloudy and
breezy with evening showers. The high
today will be 55, the low, 40. Saturday
will be a dismal day for football with
cloudy Skies, showers and blustery
winds with a high of 45.