,Local officials admit drug crimes Editor's Note: This is the second in a three-part series on drug use in State tollege. Tomorrow's final part will deal With trends in drug use over the last decade, predictions for the future and Ph some people's opinions on what to do about drugs in the community By TOM BOYER Daily Collegian Staff Writer Law enforcement officials in the State College area are not sure whether drug use in the State College community is a problem they can solve or a condition with which they must learn to live. "Certainly there has to be far more of ihis kind of activity than we apprehend," said Officer John E. Rideout of ;University Police Services. "We're probably just taking the '`surface off rather than getting down into anything deep," said Cpl. Robert Abernathy, who heads the special in vestigations office of the State College police Department. "I think we're playing catch-up ball and we will continue to play catch-up ball," said Walter F. Williams, director of the State College office of the state Bureau of Drug EnforcemOnt. Williams said one reason drug laws are so hard to enforce is that "we're dealing, with a crime with no com plaining party." While other types of crime, such as robbery and vandalism, involve victims 'who report violations ,to the police, drug traffic has no victims in the same sense. . . -- .. . . . . . .• .. . the „ I . . ,„... , .• ... . a . .. . . . ... . . . . , •. y wid_m.y.l4,fim V01.80,N0.173 24pa 8 es , . .. 15C 'Status of Laurel Glen deposits still unknown By JOYCE VENEZIA major question that remains to be answered is when Daily Collegian Staff. Writer' and where the money will be given to them." HARRISBURG --.` The question of security deposit Rothman said the banks are suffering financially wefunds at Laurel Glen apartments remains unan: because the Laurel Glen situation requires them to keep swered follovving a court hearing yesterday. heavy reserves. But Lloyd Pursun, an attorney The refund problem was postponed by Judge Thomas representing several utilities serving Laurel Glen, said Wood until the former owner of Laurel Glen, Stanley the utilities are entitled to priority and security ahead Melnick, could be present at the next hearing on Mayof the two banks and any other mortgagees. 22. The coualook.legal responsibility lor-Laurel Glen- ••• Melnick • should not have to pay for the security ' "My clients are entitled ,to the rents first,";-Pursun . out' of 'the` haiids of Laurel Glen Inc. and Laurel dePosig, Laurel 'Glen attorney Robert Knupp said. • said. "Our remedy is to curtail service." Properties at yesterday's hearing. • Rhodes his placed all deposits paid after Feb. 4in a The utilities Pursun represents include the Patton- The , president of Property Management, John ' special fund. Ferguson Joint. Authority, the Patton Township Rtfodes, was named as standing trustee in both Mac McCrumb, legal chairman of the Organization Authority and the West Penn Power Company. proceedings. Property Management is currently for Town Independent Students, was present at the Rothman said the current value of the Laurel Glen operating Laurel Glen for the Rochester Savings Bank hearing. property is less than $5 million. Joe McGraw, who and the Home Savings Bank of upstate New York, the"My basic impression of the outcome of the hearing is appraised the value of the complex, said its condition two banks that hold the mortgage on the complex , that it is in the best interest of all involved to return the has deteriorated since he last appraised it four years property. . security deposits to the tenants," McCrumb said. "The ago. Many items need to be replaced, he said, including 4 . carpets, doors, screens and refrigerators. Chrysler elects UAW president to executive board ROCKFORD, 111. (UPI) Chrysler Corp. shareholders elected United Auto Workers President Douglas A. Fraser to the company's Board of Directors Yesterday, setting a precedent Fraser predicted will be copied by other U.S. unions. Fraser becomes the first American labor leader to penetrate top corporate Management. But he skipped his first hard meeting immediately after the voting to return to Detroit for a union Executive Board meeting. The election marked the second time in four days Chrysler made U.S. business history. On Saturday, Chrysler won a life-saving $1.5 billion federal loan Penn State 'made a mistake' with football recruit By TOM VERDUCCI DAily Collegian Sports Writer tklthough Penn State enjoys a national reputation of academic and athletic excellence, a recent incident indicates that the nationwide problem Of coping with academically underqualified athletes has hit University Park. The recruiting and "de-recruiting" of a New Jersey high school All-American football player last summer has been called "highly illegal" by one administrator at Purdue University, while Penn State athletic personnel would rather "let sleeping ghosts lie in the closet." "I don't want any part of it," said Lion coach Joe Paterno when approached about the incident. • Specifically, the ghost is Derrick Taylor, a speedburner from Hackensack High School who was a last-minute recruit by Fenn State and who six months later three weeks before th` start of the fall season was told to take his athletic talents elsewhere because of academic deficiencies. "The whole deal with me I didn't think was fair," said Taylor, who now is pushing for a starting wide-out spot at Purdue. "My mother always said, 'Don't let the green grass fool you.' Well, I don't think the green grass fooled me but they tricked 44 me a little." The recruiting of Taylor began after the 5-11, 185-pounder established himself as one of the top players in the Garden State if not the country as an offensive and defensive back. "I could have gone to any school in the nation," Taylor said. - to It was while Taylor was displaying his all-county basketball lalents that Penn State's interest perked up. "As basketball season went on I got more letters and then (assistant coach) Franny Ganter came to visit me," Taylor said. "Then I knew they were interested in me." , But as much as Penn State was interested in Taylor's football talents, it was also 'concerned about his academic weaknesses. .`Derrick got lost somewhere along the way," said Joe DeFalco, Taylor's high school coach. "He's a good kid and he's always worked at it. Somewhere along the way, probably before middle school, reading became BINDERY; 2Q2 PATTEE Neither dealers nor users of drugs have an interest in telling the police aboUt what they're doing, he said. Williams' office, has to compensate by getting information about trafficking through informants, he said. Some in formants are paid for their services and , some are drug dealers who are "under . the gun," having made agreements with police to give information in exchange for lighter sentences.' Many of the bureau's informants are people unconnected with the police who merely report drug offenses when they see them, Williams said. Rideout • said part of the problem in enforcing drug laws comes from con stitutional guarantees of privacy. Police officers cannot raid anyone's private room without having "probable cause," he said. Probable cause could include telephone tips or visible evidence of drug activity in the place to be raided, he said. Abernathy said he has a list of places in State College where marijuana plants are visible from outside. "Anybody that's growing a (marijuana) plant in a window is manufacturing, and that's a felony," he said. "Quite a few of the people I've talked to don't seem aware of the law." However, Abernathy said he did not know of anyone ever arrested for growing marijuana. Williams 'said , his office sets its priorities for drug enforcement operations by the following four criteria: guarantee in the nation's largest cor porate rescue. At a news conference just before Chrysler's annual stockholders meeting, Fraser said the UAW would demand representation on the boards of General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. during 1982 contract talks. • "It's not enough for a union to go to the bargaining table and argue about decisions that are already made," Fraser said. Responding to charges he will not adequately represent all Chrysler shareholders, Fraser said workers "have mare at stake than any officer of COPIES Security deposits paid at Laurel Glen before Feb. 4 should have been placed in trust accounts and were not, said Ed Rothman, the attorney representing the banks. The deposits were used for other purposes in violation of Pennsylvania law, he said. Melnick should pay for the deposits, Rothman said, rather taking the money from the $300,000 escrow fund being held in the Harrisburg Federal Bankruptcy Court. his major problem. He had the native ability; he just had difficulty in reading. "It's a shame because he was a bright kid. He's as good a kid as any other course." When Taylor's transcript arrived in University Park, Ganter and athletic academic adviser Frank Downing advised Paterno to drop Taylor from his most-wanted list. "We recruit to graduate," Downing said. "If we don't think a player will graduate, we will not recruit him. When Franny Ganter came back with his transcript, we dropped him." 'Joe Paterno is so honest it's scary. In this situation he just got panicky. Joe was probably too frustrated. It's hard to keep sanity in an 84,000-seat stadium and before a national television audience.' —Frank Downing, athletic academic adviser So Derrick Taylor was forgotten at least until the national letter of intent signing day, when the pressures of building a winner intensified. Paterno needed a split end, and he felt sure that Tony Hunter, a 6-5, 210-pound prodigy from Cincinnati Moeller High School, would fill the void. Unfortunately, the fish got away and the fisherman suddenly had nothing at the end of his line. "We lost the kid Hunter to Notre Dame," Downing said, "and Joe says, ',We gotta get Taylor, we gotta get a super.' The tutors said no way. But Paterno said yes. "Joe Paterno is so honest it's scary. In this situation he just got panicky," Downing said. "Joe was probably too frustrated. It's hard to keep sanity in an 84,000-seat stadium and before a national television audience." "I really liked Penn State and coach (Booker) Brooks, but I guess I always wanted to come here (Notre Dame)," said Hunter, whose 26.0 yards-per-catch average last year as a freshman set the all-time Notre Dame record. "I decided on Notre Dame about two weeks before the national letter of intent signing day, which my year was Feb. 15. • Type of drug. Williams said his office is most concerned with narcotics, then strong hallucinogens, then am phetamines. He said marijuana and marijuana derivitives are of very low priority in this respect. • Quantity of drug involved. The bureau would rather arrest big dealers than small ones, he said, but will use small ones to get information about larger operations. z ^ \l ~ ' ~ ~ L~ ~ k/~ • Ease of bringing charges. "We take targets of opportunity," Williams said. He said his office cannot waste too much time on cases where there is not quite enough evidence to get a conviction. • Type of distribution system. Williams said his office would prefer to arrest manufacturers or importers of drugs rather than local dealers. Sam Hargrave, director of On Drugs the company, any shareholder and any union representative." Fraser has pledged to bow out of board discussions on contract talks with the UAW and Chrysler Chairman Lee A. lacocca said he sees no conflict of in terest in Fraser's election to the board. "On the other hand, I do see a great benefit to the corporation because of his experience, his strength of character and his breadth Of vision about the future of this industry," lacocca said. "Finally, I want it to be known that I like Doug Fraser as a person. We get along well and we can work together." Fraser was nominated to the board last fall in exchange for union wage-and never gave us any trouble, never failed a Inc., said local law enforcement officials are not interested in arresting a lot of people on drug charges because officials do not want to damage the area's reputation. "In terms of personal use, they're not out to get people," Hargrave said. "You don't get a lot of pats on the back for busting people for marijuana." Abernathy agreed that officers do not focus their efforts on arresting people who possess only small amounts of marijuana. "I'm not out to arrest every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes down the pike and has an ounce," he said. Hargrave said law enforcement of ficials are primarily after the largest operations because "that's where the big money is. "It's better to bust one big dealer than University Park, Pa. 18802 Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University benefit concessions that will save Chrysler about $430 million over the next three years. Those union concessions were demanded by Congress as a con dition for federal loan guarantees. The corporation did not release specific vote totals on Fraser's election but Chrysler executives said he received less than one half of one percent fewer votes than the average received by the other 19 directors elected. Fraser 'acknowledged that con troversy in the UAW and other American unions as to whether the traditional adversary union management relationship • was com promised by his election to the board. "I didn't make any oral commitment but they thought I would come to Penn State because I showed a lot of interest," he said. So Paterno, in need of a "super," gave Taylor a call. "They told me I would start in the defensive backfield," Taylor said. "But that's just a highlight to get you to come; just a gig to get you there. It's just like any other school." But while Taylor expected the attention, his coach did not expect Penn State to be knocking on the door. "I was surprised they took him in the first place," DeFalco said. "In fact, I was surprised they even considered him. "Yes, naturally it was a gamble. I can't lie. If he could make it, they would help him get a good education and he could play for a big-time college football team. If he was sent to another area that didn't care about him getting an education he'd be lost. It was worth the chance." But gambling on a player of Taylor's uncertain academic potential raised another question about Penn State "a special place with a tradition of academic and athletic ex cellence," according to Downing "I think Penn State is in a downward trend to get better athletically," DeFalco said. "They're lowering their high standards just a little bit." Taylor said he came to the University "two or three weeks after school ended; it was around July 4th. "I'm not a hot dog or anything but I just happen to wear my baseball cap backwards and my glasses are dark-tinted. They thought they were shades so at first they thought I,was some sort of cool guy. They told me to wear my cap straight but I told them my glasses were prescription so that was OK." With Taylor now in their backyard, Penn State athletic of ficials had to decide what to do with him. Illustration by Elizabeth Hulawn difficult lots of individual users," he said. "We're after large dealers, distributors and manufacturers of very dangerous drugs in large quantities," Williams said. "I think we've run across some very large people with national and international connections. "That does not mean that we do not jump into an opportunity with a street dealer with small amounts and work our way up," he said. "We grab a hell of lot more six-pound-a-week dealers than anybody else." One source, who will be called Rick, said police have used a technique called a "controlled buy," which involves using a lower-level dealer who has been caught to implicate an upper-level dealer. For a controlled buy, according to Rick, police provide the cooperating person with money to buy drugs from a supplier. Before the transaction, police search the buyer to legally ensure he has no drugs. Then after the transaction, when the buyer has the drugs, police can search the supplier's house to find the money and make the arrest, he said. Rick, who has been acquainted with drug operations in the area for a long time, said people at the top of the drug hierarchy are the hardest to arrest because they never actually see the operations. These dealers take many precautions against getting caught, Rick said. They have known their connections for years, make the drug transactions in bars and •-, 4/' ;4 14. 0 1k, I •=' , - '• 1, 1 , "" ~ v ' i • ' .44." ,4 7f-,:r:31" • • ;',;—• `471,•„i557 ' Is Burgsr `4l. A i• 43t0 t t • C '• 1 0 0 ,4. „, ,x L:.alstl Photo c,*•,4**l,F "N• •-• 4-V; • f ; tl Nri r •AWaff Tents moment The above structure, entitled 'Moonrise,' won a first prize of $75 in a contest in Architecture 361. Kurt Oravecz (6th-architecture),right and Bill Fisher (6th architecture), right, were part of a group of six students that built 'Moonrise.' It and 11 other "Hands of Steel" were placed throughout the Mall Saturday. They will remain the for a week. See related story on p. 22. to stop restaurants rather than in homes and keep the drugs away from the people who finance the operation, he said. "Anyone who sells over five pounds I've never seen sitting In the county jail," he said. Rick said that undercover agents are further hampered in their efforts to catch drug dealers because the agents cannot keep large amounts of money for drug purchases on hand and must requisition the funds. University Police Services handled 44 marijuana -related offenses from June 1978 to June 1979, Rideout said. Of that number, only 16 of the cases actually resulted in arrests. Nine of the offenders were sent to the Office of Student Affairs for , disciplinary action. Rideout said the arresting officer has discretionary power over whether to press charges against a student caught with drugs or send him through the University's discipline system. Director of University Safety David E. Stormer said his office does not carry on undercover operations to catch illegal drugs users. "They told me I'd have to sit out in the fall and be enrolled in a special interstate educational program," Taylor said. "But I've got too much damn talent for that." Paterno could also opt to apply for a "special exception waiver" where a potential student athlete or not can be admitted to a university despite not meeting the school's en trance requirements. The student is admitted on the basis of having a special talent, whether it be playing football or the oboe. "Joe put off putting in the presidential waiver," Downing said. "(University President John W.) Oswald asks Joe, 'ls the kid gonna graduate?' and Joe has to look him in the eye and say 'yes.' " In essence, nothing was done. They waited and waited and waited. Meanwhile, the tutors were busy working with Taylor. Downing said Taylor went out and got himself a job. Taylor said he worked in the weight room in Rec Hall. Taylor got an apartment with Walker Ashley, another recruit from Jersey City, N.J Taylor started throwing a ball around with Lion quarterback Dayle Tate and working out with other returning Penn Staters. It is illegal to take part in supervised practices during the summer, but Downing said that wasn't the case. "He did not participate in any supervised practices with the coaches," Downing said. "A few times we happened to go by the field where he was running around or throwing a ball around with Dayle." As August rolled around, something had to be done. The athletic administrators still were not sure what to do, but to Taylor there were no questions about the situation. "The impression I got was I'd be going to school at Penn Continued on Page 11. Today will bring us back to spring as we enjoy partly cloudy skies along with less humid air and a high of 67. Tonight will be clear and cool and tomorrow looks to be sunny and beautiful. Tonight's low will be 43 and the high tomorrow will reach 61. Williams said his office's in vestigations do not always, result in arrests. "We can get the greatest information going, with major volumes of drugs involved. . . . You literally bet your life that this is the biggest hit you've ever made, and the thing falls through," he said. Drying out
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