Dail• Callegian Wednesday Oct. 13, 1980
News briefs
Cuba to free prisoners soon
WASHINGTON ( UPI) The
Cuban government said yesterday it
would be only "a matter of hours"
before all Americans .. , in a Havana
prison are released.
U.S. officials moved quickly to ar
range for the return and to arrest
any among the prisoners who were
jailed in Cuba for airplane hijacking.
Ricardo Escartin, a spokesman for
the Cuban Interests Section in
Washington, said the release, an
nounced Monday, "will come within a
matter of hours.
"I cannot say for sure if it will be
this afternoon or tomorrow morn
ing." he said. "but it will not be in a
couple of days."
Escartin said as soon as Fidel
Ca:;tro officially pardons the
prisoners, "they will be out on the
streets" from Cominado del Este
prison in Havana.
A State Department spokesman,
still lacking official details from
Mafia members' trial begins
LOS ANGELES (UPI} The
racketeering trial of five reputed
Mafia members, expected to reveal
rare secrets of the inner workings of
the mob including underworld kill
ings, began yesterday under hedvy
courtroom security.
The defendants are accused of con-
Tiring to set up the killing of Frank
- The Bomp" Bompensiero, former
head of the mob in San Diego, who
was gunned down in a telephone
booth in February 1977.
They are also accused of trying to
extort money from two prominent
Las Vegas gambling figures and from
several pornographers involved in an
FBI — sting" operation in Los
Newsroom searches curtailed
WASHINGTON ( AP) President
Carter signed a bill yesterday design
ed to prevent surprise police searches
of newsrooms.
The legislation requires, police to
request voluntary cooperation' when
seeking information from news
gathering organizations or usea sub
poena that can be contested in court,
rather than arriving unannounced
with a search warrant.
The exceptions are when there is
reason to believe that the person who
has the material sought by police
committed the crime, when im
mediate seizure is needed to prevent
death or serious injury, when the
material would be destroyed or
altered if advance notice were given
throUgh a subpoena or when further
delay would threaten the interests of.
justice.
The bill stems from a 1978 Supreme
Court decision that upheld a search of
the offices of a Stanford University
Dinosaur may have been seen
WASHINGTON (UPI) Two
American scientists believe a
'mysterious elephant-sized animal
with a long neck and tail seen in the
swampy jungles of western Africa
•may be a dinosaur, it was reported
yesterday.
The magazine Science 80 said a
preliminary investigation by Roy
Nlackal of the University of Chicago
and James Powell. a herpetologist
living in Plainview, Texas, suggests
the creature resembles a bron
tosaurus a dinosaur believed to
have died out 70 million years ago.
Mackal and Powell have not seen
any of the creatures. But they were
Communist dynasty proposed
TOKYO ( UPI) North Korea's
ruling Communist Party laid the
groundwork yesterday for the world's
first Communist dynasty, endorsing
President Kim 11-sung's son, heir ap
parent to his father.
The official ( North) Korean Cen
tral News Agency, in a broadcast
monitored in Tokyo, listed Kim's son,
:19-year-old Kim Jong-il, as ranking
second behind his father in the
10-member secretariat of the Korean
Workers' Party.
Analysts had expected young Kim
to succeed his father as party
secretary-general and president at
the party's five-day general meeting,
Court rules against expulsion
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A
church-run school acted unconstitu
tionally when it expelled a white girl
for her friendship with a black youth,
a federal appeals court ruled
yesterday.
The decision by the 4th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals reversed a lower
court ruling which held that the
Marumsco Christian School in Wood
bridge observed a legitimate
religious doctrine that opposed inter
racial romance.
"The district court was clearly er
roneous in finding that Marumsco
holds a bona fide religious belief con
cerning the prohibition of interracial
relationships," the appeals court
said.
It said the Rev. Aleck Bledsoe,
school principal and pastor of
Marumsco Baptist Church, acted
because of personal beliefs and not
because of church doctrine.
Havana, said the U.S. government
had no immediate plans to chat;ter an
aircraft to actually return the
Americans to the United States, but
was prepared to assist the prisoners'
return.
Neither Escartin nor the State
Department gave the exact number
to be released. A department list dif
fered slightly from one obtained by
UPI. The combined list contained 35
names, including two persons of dual
Cuban-American nationality.
State Department spokesman Jack
Cannon called the release "a positive,
humanitarian step.
,"There are procedures for
repatriating Americans who do not
have the means to return home," he
said, "and we are prepared to
repatriate any of these American
citizens who request assistance.
We're prepared to offer any repatria
tion assistance that we can."
Angeles.
Before hearing opening arguments,
U.S. District Judge Terry hatter Jr.
denied a defense motion to, exclude
FBI testimony, the content of which
was not revealed.
Hatter cleared the courtroom of
news media and spectators while
defense attorney Howard Weitzman
argued a motion for his client, Louis
Dragna, seeking to suppress evidence
to be presented by an FBI agent.
The motion was not publicly filed,
but a source close to the trial said it
involved testimony about statements
made by one of the defendants. The
evidence was not thought to be highly
significant, the source said.
student newspaper by police with a
search warrant.
In addition to news organizations,
the bill also applies to scholars and
others engaged in activities protected
by the First Amendment guarantee of
freedom of speech and the press.
The bill applies only to those engag
ed in writing and newsgathering, and
requires the Justice Department to
formulate guidelines regarding con
duct of surprise searches by federal
authorities.
In a written statement, Carter said
the Supreme Court decision "could
have a chilling effect on the ability of
reporters to develop sources and pur
sue stories. Ever since the court's
clecision, my administration has been
working with Congress to prevent this
result by, enactMg,legislation.','
He said the bill "provides impor
tant civil liberties protections without
hampering legitimate law enforce
ment investigations."
quoted as saying that natives of a
largely unexplored region of the Con
go say the animals have smooth,
brownish-gray skin, a long flexible
neck, a very long tail and three
clawed feet as big as frying pans.
Natives call the animals "Mokele-
Mbembe."
Science 80 said the strongest
evidence is a 1959 report of an animal
that was killed because it disturbed
natives fishing on Lake Tele.
The scientists said natives reported
that the task of cutting up the animal
was difficult because the creature
had such a long neck and tail.
but the 68-year-old leader who has
ruled the nation since its founding in
1945 was re-elected to those posts.
In a new listing of the politburo, the
news agency ranked Kim Jong-il
fourth, behind his father, Vice Presi
dent Kim II and Defense Minister 0
Jin-u. The younger Kim held the
same rank on a newly formed five
man standing committee of the
politburo.
Analysts said the vice president
and the defense minister, long-time
comrades of North Korea's president,
were not in the line of succession and
that' Kim's son had clearly emerged
as the future leader.
"The evidence is overwhelmingly
against the district court's findings
that Bledsoe's personal beliefs are
the church's beliefs,"the appeals
court said.
It said church writings, bylaws,
and statements of faith "do not ad
dress the subject of interracial
romantic relations nor do they men
tion race relations at all."
Bledsoe had cited such a doctrine in
defending his expulsion last year of a
white girl, Lisa Fiedler, who he
believed was romantically involved
with a black student.
The school argued that its religious
practices were protected by the U.S.
Constitution, claiming U.S. District
Judge Oren R. Lewis was correct in
finding that the girl, who was then 14,
had no constitutional right to attend a
church school when her personal ac
tions violated church doctrine.
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- Honors program called success by most involved
By ANNE CONNERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The University Scholars Program, a special
curriculum for academically gifted students, has
been termed a success so far, according to most
people involved.
The University Faculty Senate passed the pro
gram last spring to attract academically
superior students to the University by providing
'smaller classes, different courses and greater
academic challenges.
This term 325 fresh Men and sophomores are
enrolled in the program and within the next two
years 650 to 700 students will be participating,
Paul Axt, director of the program, said.
Students in the program say it helps expand
• their horizons. .
"The honors program offers me a lot of oppor
tunities, it creates a small-university at
mosphere and I think I get better instructors,"
Term change to be discussed
By DAVID AIEDZERIAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Academic effects of the proposed change in the University
calendar from terms to semesters will be discussed at a
workshop at 7 tonight in the HUB main lounge.
The program, sponsored by the Undergraduate Student
Government's Academic Assembly, will feature several
University faculty members and administrators discussing
the effects of the proposed change.
"That's the only thing we will be covering at the meeting,"
said Ted Szklenski, Academic Assembly president.
"We've invited faculty members and administration to
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inake 5 to 10 minute presentations on what they think are the
most important effects of the semester change," he said. The
program will he opened to questions after the individual
presentations, Szklenski said.
"We tried to get a fully balanced panel of those who are in
favor of the change and those who are against it," he said.
Included on the panel will be: Rosemary Schraer, assistant
pPovost; James B. Bartoo. dean of the graduate school; .
George J. McMurtry, former chairman of the Faculty Senate;
Frank Mallette, chairman of the FaCulty Senate's academic
planning subcomittee; James Dungan, special assistant to the
director of planning and budget; John J. Romano, assistant
dean for the College of The Liberal Arts; John Wyckoff, assis
tant director for the Division of Undergraduate Studies; and
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John Tanzosh (4th-engineering) said.
"I'm really glad to be in the program it's
one of the reasons I came to Penn State," Susan
Morgan (Ist-business administration) said.
Students are invited to participate' in the pro
gram if they have Scholastic Aptitude Test
scores of 1300 or above, or if their grade point
average is 3.35 (science) or 3.5 (non-science). To
stay in the honors program, students must take 3
honors courses per year and maintain a 3.2
average.
Freshmen with 3.6 averages at the end of the
year, are automatically invited to participate in
the program, and juniors may enter if they have
a 3.8 average in their major, Axt said.
"The Honors Program provides academically
superior students' with a special opportunity to
make full use of their ability and realize their
academic potential," Axt said.
"Good students are really looking for
Horst Von Dorpowski, assistant to the dean of Undergraduate
Studies and Commonwealth campuses.
In addition to tonight's workshop, two non-academic
workshops are scheduled for next week, said Mark Berg,
chairman of the USG Executive Council's Committee for
Credible Student Input.
"The workshops are an effort by this committee to educate
ourselves and the students in general about the intended calen
dar change," he said.
Berg said the committee plans to conduct a telephone survey
of student opinion after the workshops. He said the survey
would be more effective in presenting student opinion if "the
survey is of informed students."
The telephone survey is tentatively scheduled for the week of
Oct. 20, a few days after the last workshop, Berg said. The
survey will be included in the committee's report on the calen
dar change to University President John W. Oswald.
USG President Joe Healey said the workshop is an impor
tant step in informing Oswald about student opinion concern
ing the calendar change.
"With this event, we have an opportunity to give input,"
Healey said. "The administration and President Oswald want
our input and will listen to it."
Healey said the workshops are necessary for student input to
be "as effective as possible.
"Students should take this opportunity to become educated
on this important_ matter," he said.
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Ted Szklenski, president of the Academic
Assembly, said he thinks the program is a good
idea.
"We'll have to wait and see if it brings more
kids into the school," he said.
Honors courses cover subject material in
greater depth, but do not assign more work,
students and faculty said.
"I assign the same amount of reading
material, but it's the difference between reading
a fifth-grade reader and the New York Times,"
Paul R. Cornwell, professor of psychology said.
Raymond G. Ayoub, professor of
mathematics, said he tries to give the honors
students more theory in the classroom.
"I think the students are a little overpowered
by the material, but their reaction has been very
positive," Ayoub said.
Morgan said "I think the honors courses re-
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• The Ukranian Club will meet at 8
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• Mortar Board will meet at 7
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• The WDFM news staff will meet
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• The Archery Club will meet at 7
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quire more preparation on (the student's) part."
Some professors said the courses are more en
joyable to teach, but they require more work.
"I think the downfall of the University
Scholars Program would be if the administration
expects us to teach it as just another course
without a reduced course load,".Cornwell said.
Cornwell says class format is changed for
honor students. "Instead of a lecture, for
Psychology 2, the honors students are divided in
to discussion sections with eight students led by a
professor." The honors students also use a more
sophisticated text, Cornwell said.
Honors program assistants in the dorm areas
organize dinner seminars with visiting scholars,
artists and people in public life to help honor,
students learn outside the classroom.
"The honors program gives you a good chance
to get involved in activities the average kids
can't do," Chris Loewen (Ist-liberal arts) said.
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Beginners are welcome.
• The Justice Action Group will
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. • The honors students have toured the Garfield-
Thomas Water Tunnel and the State Applied
Research Lab. Tomorrow the honors students
will lunch with former Sen. Eugene McCarthy,
D-Minn.The program does not discriminate
against the average student, Axt said.
"If all the University was doing was gearing to
the average student, it would be neglecting the
needs of students who have special talents," he
said.
Szklenski said "It (the honors program) does
discriminate, but not to the point of being
ridiculous."
Most students said being in the honors pro
gram does not make them feel any different
from anyone else or cut down on their time •
"I enjoy the academic atmosphere offered by
the honors program, but I don't feel any different
from any other kids at Penn State," Bob Davis
Ist-engineering science) said.
• Western New England School of
Law will hold pre-law interviews
from 10 a.m, until noon today in 114
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sign up in 107 Burrowes.
• The Earth and Mineral Sciences
Student Council will meet at 6:30
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