27th black found
Latest Atlanta victim asphyxiated
By NANCY KENNEY
'Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) Another black
:youth was found asphyxiated in a wooded
"area yesterday 17-year-old William
Barrett, who had been missing only a few
hours. Authorities said they hoped, the
speed of the discovery might provide
them with evidence to solve his murder
:and those of 26 other young blacks.
DeKalb County Public Safety Director
Dick Hand said an autopsy showed the
cause of death was asphyxiation "consis
tent with ligature strangulation." Fifteen
of the earlier victims in the string of
slayings also were asphyxiated.
"There was Minimal evidence of a
struggle," Hand said.
Barrett, who had an arrest record that
included burglary and theft, was found
off a highway in suburban DeKalb Coun
ty between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. EDT, about
the same time he was reported missing
by his mother, said DeKalb police
Spokesman Chuck Johnson. Police said
Barrett was last seen late Monday af
ternoon.
Johnson said he expected the case to be
turned over to a special Atlanta police
(ask force investigating the deaths of the
26 other young blacks during the past 22
months. But Atlanta police spokeswo
man Beverly Harvard said Barrett's
name had not been added to the task
force list by yesterday afternoon.
"We feel there are sufficient similari
ties in the case to warrant investigation
. . . however, we do not have sufficient
proof at this time to connect this case
with the other cases," Hand said.
Questioned further, Hand said Bar-
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Crafty kid
Miki Shono, a member of the Fairmont Elementary School's English as a Muraczewski (10th-art education) who assists small, crafty, creative individu-
Second Language class, shows her handmade bead necklace to Leslie als at the HUB Craft Centre.
inside
Council candidates Mary Jane
Hovanec and Joe Intorre talk about
their political views Page 5
• The Boston Celtics take a 3-2
lead in their NBA championship
series with a 109.80 win, and in the
opening game of the Stanley Cup
finals, the New York Islanders
shoot down Minnesota, 6-3... Page 8
• The saga of the shah of Iran,
President Carter and the 52 U.S.
hostages is told again in "Debacle:
The American Failure in Iran"
Page 14
weather
Today will be a nicer day than
yesterday, featuring partly to
mostly sunny skies and tempera
tures in the mid 60s. Partly cloudy
and cool tonight with a low of 48.
Sunshine early tomorrow will be
followed by increasing cloudiness
as it becomes milder with a high if
70. A few showers or thundershow
ers are likely Thursday night and
Friday.
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rett's slaying was "a different type
case," but he would not elaborate except
to say the differences were "evident
iary."
, Hand said Barrett, 5-foot-4-inches and
125 pounds, was fully clothed, "shoes,
socks, everything" unlike the most
recent victims who were clad only in
their undershorts. He also said Barrett
had not been sexually molested.
Officials said Barrett had been re
leased on probation in March and failed
to keep an appointment Monday af
ternoon at a community probation cen
ter,
Hand would not comment on whether
police had a suspect in the case or wheth
er any evidence was recovered with the
body.
The task force is investigating the
slayings of 26 black youths since July
1979. One youth 10-year-old Darron
Glass, who was reported missing last
September remains on the task force
missing list.
Before Barrett's body was found, the
most recent victim had been Jimmy
Payne, a 21-year-old of slight stature
whose body was pulled from the Chatta
hoochee River on April 27. He had been
reported missing four days earlier.
Johnson said Barrett had been dead
about three hours when his body was
found by a motorist near Interstate 20
just outside the Atlanta city limits. Four
of the earlier victims lived or were last
seen within a mile of the area where
Barrett's body was discOvered.
DeKalb authorities said earlier yester
day they questioned the man who found
Barrett's body and a man whose car
ARHS to fund Memorial Day finals bus
By IRIS NAAR
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
After a lengthy discussion, the Association of
Residence Hall Students last night agreed to fund 75
percent of a Centre Area Transportation Authority
shuttle bus to run on Memorial Day.
The shuttle service, which will run from 7 a.m. to
7 p.m., will receive 25 percent of its funding from
the Undergraduate Student Government. CATA
does not usually run buses on the holiday.
ABM President Chris Calkins said he, USG
President Bill Cluck and Organization for Town
Independent Students President Bob Karp will
drive cars after 7 p.m. for people who do not want to
walk home, because some final exams will not be
over then.
Riders will still be charged 50 cents for costs, he
said.
ARHS will allocate about $345 for the bus serv
ice, Calkins said. A major reason for funding the
bus is "very simply we're the only ones who have
any money," he said.
"Any receipts those buses earn will be given
back to USG and split in accordance with the money
we allocate," Calkins said.
Controversy arose over whether ARHS, a resi
dence hall student organization, should fund a bus
that benefits off-campus students.
Rick Lee, president of the East Residence Asso
apparently broke down near the area
where the body was found.
The man who found the body was
released after making a statement, and
police said the second man had been
ruled out as a witness and a suspect.
Neither man was identified.
Encouraged by the fact that Barrett's
body was found within a few hours after
he was killed, police imposed a 24-hour
moratorium on releasing details of the
case, Johnson said. Many of the recent
victims had been dead several weeks
when their bodies were found.
"This is the first body we've found this
soon," said DeKalb Police Col. Jimmy
Stanley. "Hopefully, if we can retrace his
steps without people having a chance to
see it on TV or the news it will give us a
better feel for the information.
"We're trying to hold down the publici
ty until we can get out in the field with the
photos," Stanley said. "Hopefully, with
finding the body this quickly, we'll have
some evidence."
Police declined to release a photograph
of the victim, details of when he was last
seen, the identity.of the person who found
the body or what Barrett was wearing
when he was found.
In earlier cases, police have had va
rious and often conflicting reports about
circumstances surrounding the disap
pearances and slayings. Many of those
reports have proved untrue and police
have expressed concern that witnesses
confused what they actually saw with
what they heard in news reports.
See related story on Page 16.
ciation, said "I don't see any way ARHS should pick
up something that affects no residence hall students
at all.
"We should not have to pick up the tab without
having it repaid to us," he said. "We're bailing
organizations out, and they know we have money
and they're coming to us."
Calkins said funding requests must be consid
ered individually, and "you can't be worried about
setting a precedent."
Steve Cummins, ARHS executive vice president,
said the important point is that students would have
transportation problems on Memorial Day, and
"we're thinking too much about bailing USG out."
North Halls President Pam Wheeland said in the
past ARHS has funded projects for students outside
of its constituency, such as the OTIS legal fund.
USG Vice President Ken Reeves, present at the
ARHS meeting, said ARHS and USG are the main
sources of unrestricted funds.
The bus funding "shows that as student organi
zations we can get together and do something," he
said.
Wheeland, who proposed the funding motion,
rejected friendly amendments from Lee, who asked
that USG repay ARHS's allocation when it has more
money, and from Centre Halls representative Lori
Lutzker, who proposed that ARHS receive'all of its
money back before profits are split between ARHS
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Second hunger striker dies
By JEFF BRADLEY
Associated Press Writer
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Francis Hughes,
once Northern Ireland's most-wanted IRA gunman, died in
Maze prison yesterday after 59 days without food, the
second hunger striker to starve to death in a bid to win
political status for Irish nationalist prisoners.
Police vehicles immediately came under a barrage of
stones and firebombs, and within two hours a British army
patrol was fired on near the Divis apartment block, a
notorious flashpoint along the Lower Falls Road.
A police spokesman said the troops fired two rifle shots
and reported hitting a suspect. An hour later a 21-year-old
man was admitted to the Royal Victory Hospital in a
"serious condition" with chest wounds and police were
investigating, the spokesman said.
As news of Hughes' death spread through the Roman
Catholic districts of Belfast, women took to the streets
blowing whistles and banging garbage can lids in a sad and
angry echo of the clamor they raised when 27-year-old
Bobby Sands died last Tuesday in the 66th day of his fast.
Hughes, 25, died at the Maze in the late afternoon with
his family at his bedside.
A brief statement from the Northern Ireland office,
similar to the one issued when Sands died, said: "Francis
Hughes, a prisoner in Her Majesty's prison Maze, died
today at 17:43 p.m. (5:43 p.m. local time and 12:43 p.m.
EDT) He took his own life by refusing food and medical
intervention for 59 days "
It's going to be a long night," one police spokes
man said. Protestant and Roman Catholic militants have
predicted heightened violence if Hughes died.
Hughes, a legendary figure in the IRA, had been
serving a life sentence for killing a British soldier. He was
captured in a shootout with Britain's crack Special Air
Service commandos in March 1978. Security sources
believe he could have been responsible for the deaths of at
least 26 soldiers and policemen.
Oliver Hughes, 31, emerged from the Maze prison 90
minutes after witnessing his brother's death, and was met
with an emotional greeting from supporters of the hunger
strikers.
He told reporters: "Margaret Thatcher has murdered
another Irishman and created another martyr."
and USG
In other business, ARHS discussed University
President John W. Oswald's recent rejection of the
association's coed housing proposal.
Calkins said he thought he received a vote of
confidence, though no vote was taken, to push the
coed housing issue a bit.
"I think we want some more justification than it
(coed housing) doesn't help academics and securi
ty."
Calkins said, however, that "we're never going
to demand from them anything."
It is important to maintain a stand on coed
housing and a relationship with Residential Life, he
said.
"This coed housing battle is going to be a long
time," he said. "It is going to be important for us to
retain our input."
ARHS Vice President Karen Gravlin said coed
housing is not as structured as a theme house, which
plans programs around a certain theme. Also,
interest houses are more structured and strict than
theme houses, she said.
Cummins said theme houses are a "poor ex
cuse" for coed housing.
"I think .we should continue to support coed
housing as an entity unto itself and not as a cheap
name for something else," he said.
Calkins said, "It's my personal opinion that
Apt. deposits:
Where they go
Editor's Note: This is the last article in a
three-part series examining landlord
tenant relationships in State College.
Today's article discusses security depos
its.
By MARK FEATHERSTONE
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
"Resident agrees to surrender said
premises in like order and condition as
When received : ."
That clause or a clause similar to it
gives the landlord the power to deduct
money from a tenant's security deposit.
Though most landlords are honest in
their deductions, year, after year some
students find money has been deducted
that should not have been.
• Mike, a University student, thought
the amount of labor charged for cleaning
an apartment he thought was already
clean seven hours at $8 per hour -- was
quite high.
He learned from a friend who worked
for the apartment complex that summer
that it was; the friend said he had
cleaned the apartment for three hours
at $3.25 an hour.
Armed with the friend's timecard, Bill
took the case to the district magistrate
and was awarded $53.25 plus court costs
for the overcharge.
o Glenn, another University student,
rented a rug shampooer to clean his rug
before he moved out.
Before leaving State College for the
summer, he dropped off his key and the
receipt for the rug shampoo rental. A
month later, he got back his security
deposit and found a deduction for the
rental of a rug shampooer. He asked for
the money back, but the landlord re
fused.
When Glenn returned to State College
in the fall, he showed the landlord the
canceled check; the landlord then re
turned the rest of the security deposit
and said he had "misplaced" the receipt.
University students renting apart
ments have a larger amount of money
deducted from their security deposits
than do tenants renting in other areas,
Francis Hughes
In London, informed official sources said Thatcher, the
British prime minister, privately expressed regret at what
she considered a "futile death and a waste of life," but
repeated that Britain would never yield to hunger strikers'
demands for special privileges. Three more prisoners are
on hunger strike at the Maze.
' In the 'Republic of Irefand, Prime Minister Charles
Haughey said he had again expressed grave anxiety to
Britain about the "present terrible situation . .. No Irish
government can be indifferent to the prospect of these
deaths continuing."
The IRA, outlawed in the Irish Republic as it is here, is
fighting to end British rule in this mostly Protestant
province and unite the six counties with predominantly
Roman Catholic republic.
Joseph Wysocki, a University housing
specialist, said.
The larger deduction is caused by both
the student-tenant's lack of awareness of
what the deposit is for and by the picki
ness of area apartment owners, Wysocki
said.
"When you have a security deposit,
you have to know what it is for"," he said.
Most security deposits in the State
College area are a conibination of a
damage deposit and a cleaning deposit,
he said.
The damage part of the deposit covers
any physical damage beyond normal
wear and tear which the tenant
causes. ,However, Wysocki said because
"normal wear and tear" is difficult to
define, landlords can usually charge the
tenant almost any amount they want to.
"They don't take into consideration
normal wear and tear," he said. "They
try to get as much money as they legally
can."
The cleaning deposit is to cover any
expense the landlord must incur to clean
or paint the apartment after a tenant
moves out. Students often forget to clean
ovens and refrigerators and get charged
as a result. Also, a student may damage
the appliance while he.is cleaning it and
therefore become liable for that damage.
For example, Wysocki said, a student
who is not used to defrosting a refrigera
tor might severely scratch or otherwise
damage it and have to pay for a new one.
Wysocki said he used to be a landlord and
every year tenants would damage about
five refrigerators while defrosting them.
Bob Karp, president of OTIS, said
though some students do not have any
deductions from their security deposits,
"the majority of time people lose mon
ey."
However, one advantage an apartment
dweller has over someone living in a
residence hall is that damage to the
common areas of the building such as
the elevator are not charged against
the security deposits of the residents
unless it. can be proved a particular
resident caused the damage, Karp said.
Continued on Page 18.
theme houses are not the way to go at this campus."
Jonathan Mount, West Halls representative, said
a lack of coed housing denies students learning
opportunities.
"We also learn from those people around us, ana
I think we're being cheated from our opportunity to
learn," he said.
Calkins also asked the association for opinions on
whether the ARHS office should be moved from the
ground floor to the second floor next year. HUB
renovations are a year ahead of schedule, he said,
and ARHS, OTIS and Black Caucus have been asked
to move to make way for more seating.
Calkins said the three organizations have decid
ed to stay or move together.
Advantages to the move include closer proximity
to executive council organizations, he said. Disad
vantages include a reshuffling and education as to
where the office is located, and "getting people to
climb two flights of steps," he said.
Lee said that because ARHS has been asked to
move to the first floor in two years, it is ridiculous to
re-educate people twice as to the office's location.
ARHS also rejected a motion to rescind past
approval of a $5O-a-term stipend for the associa
tion's president.
Calkins, who said he did not want to accept his
stipend, said he never became president with the
intention to be paid.
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