Convicts present written demands Columnist negotiates at Graterford By LEE LINDER Associated Press Writer GRATERFORD. (AP) Convicts holding at least six hostages presented 12 hand-written proposals yesterday to a newspaper columnist called in to help, resolve the five-day stalemate at the State Correctional Institution. "It is extremely delicate; I can't tell you how delicate it is. We're dealing with life and death," said Philadelphia Daily News columnist Chuck Stone after a 45-minute meeting with three-time killer Joseph Bowen. Bowen has been identified by authorities as the leader of an aborted escape attempt Wednesday night that led to the taking of 38 hostages in the prison,kitchen. The convicts released 29 other inmates Saturday but kept three guards and three civilian kitchen employees as well as several other inmates who might have been involved in the initial hostage taking, authorities said. Until yesterday,• the only demand made by the convicts was for heat and for medication for the hostages. "We're more optimistic than we've ever been before," said Corrections Bureau spokesman - Kenneth Robinson. 15 selected for presidential search committee • By DINA DEFABO Daily Collegian Staff Writer To help launch the search for a new University president, 15 faculty and staff members, students and alumni have been appointed to the University Presidential Search and Screen Committee. The committee will publicize the search for a new president, and will receive and evaluate applications and nominations for the position, said Quentin E. Wood, president of the University Board of Trustees. In May 1982, the search and screen committee will submit a list of five to 10 applicants to the Trustee Presidential Selection Committee, which is composed of eight members of the University Board .of Trustees. The trustee selection committee will then recommend one presidential candidate to the full board of trustees in November 1982. Both committees were established following University President John W. Oswald's announcement that he will retire on June 30, 1983 Robert S. Friedman, director of the Science Policy Center and professor of political science, Will serve as committee inside • New Jersey voters will pick .a new governor tomorrow Page 6 . • It was just another Halloween until the vampires, werewolves and walking dead came to life and took up residence at the Haunted Crow House this weekend Page 7 • Candidates in tomorrow's elec tions are profiled in today's election section Page 10 The men's soccer team gets a 3-1 win over Fairleigh Dickinson at Jeffrey Field on Friday night • A nuclear war could result be tween nations if a UFO attack was mistaken for an enemy attack, a UFO investigator said during a lec ture Saturday night Page 20 weather After a howling Saturday night and a rather pleasant Sunday, today will feature sunshine dimmed by high and middle cloudiness. High temperatures will be around 64 de grees. Partly cloudy tonight with low temperatures near 45. Variable cloudiness breezy and cooler to morrow with high temperatures in the mid to upper 50s. —by Mark Stunder Officials "absolutely" want Stone included in negotiations on the 12 proposals Monday, said Judy Smith, a corrections spokeswoman in Harrisburg. "We'll be working on the concerns all night,". said Stone, who has arranged for the surrender of suspects to police about 20 times. "All I can say is they're not extravagant. I find them reasonable," Stone said of the proposals. He said the negotiations broke off when the convicts said they thought one of the hostages was ill and they wanted to check on him. Two of the hostages are diabetics and another has a bad heart. At a later news briefing, Robinson said, "We're sure he's OK." Meanwhile, relatives of the hostages and their captors were allowed into the prison complex Sunday, but Correction Bureau spokesman Kirk Wilson said he thought only Bowen's relatives had spoken directly to the inmates in the kitchen and the rest were merely waiting for the standoff to end. Fifteen relatives were escorted from the prison shortly after nightfall, but neither they nor prison officials had any. comment for reliorters. Page 15 - • y• ' : _ 444 1+, 1. • g" /or 14,4 I %-T V LitN. #10" - • • • • - , :.` ..41-410•14,67 Florida folly Nittany Lion fans Zoe Zuest (10th-journalism • .••• and Ralph Tutlane (12th-geography) sit in th #lolloglif, "i j • • as. the Lions posted their first loss of the 198 ••: , . • ' t " • ,•-• - • , miami 17,,pen.n. state 14 . , • ~ • • 3: 11 • the. e lan .4„21 chairman, and Nancy M. Tischler, chairman of the University Faculty Senate and professor of English and humanities at the Capitol Campus, will serve as vice chairwoman. Richard E. Grubb, senior vice president for administration and spokesman for the committees, said the search and screen committee will hold an organizational meeting in the next two weeks. Some of the 15 members of the search and screen committee, such as the officers of the faculty senate and chairman of the Council of Academic Deans, will serve by virtue of the offices they hold. Others, such as the undergraduate student representative, were nominated by various University groups and were ultimately chosen by the trustee selection committee. Search and screen committee members include: Daniel M. Bollag (10th-French literature/biochemistry), president of Colloquy; Carol A. Cartwright, secretary of the University Faculty Senate, professor of education, and acting associate dean for academic affairs in the Commonwealth Educational System; Herbert Cole Jr., professor of plant pathology; Joseph A. Dixon, chairman- Yoram Dinstein elect of the University Faculty Senate and professor and head of the department of chemistry; and Edward M. Elias, director of the York Campus. Also, Stuart Forth, chairman of the Council, of Academic Deans and dean of the University libraries; George W. Franz, immediate past chairman of the University Faculty Senate and assistant professor of history at the Delaware County Campus; Steve A. Garban, University controller; and James D. Hammond, professor of business administration. Also, Charles L. Hosler, dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; Lauren Sue Miller (graduate-genetics) ; Fred Rapp, Evan Pugh professor of microbiology, chairman of the microbiology department and director of the Specialized Cancer Research Center at the University's Hershey Medical Center; and Richard A. Zimmerman, president of the Alumni Association. Cartwright said that committee members, while screening applications, should look for qualities that are important to all members of the University community. "We have to be open-minded and sensitive to some of their Diversity evident in Israeli life Tel Aviv University rector discusses the Middle East Editor's Note: Yoram Dinstein, the rector of Tel Aviv University, visited Penn State on Oct. 19 to meet with University Provost Edward D: Eddy and other administrators. They discussed increasing student participation in the foreign studies program at Tel Aviv University. Daily Collegian Staff Writer Karyn Spertzel interviewed Dinstein, and the following has been edited for length and clarity. COLLEGIAN: What kinds of attitudes do the Isracli students have that are different from attitudes that American university students have? DINSTEIN: Well, Israel is a unique country because it is so cosmopolitan; bear in mind that Israel is a country in whose inhabitants have either been born in 17 different countries or have parents who have come from 17 different countries When you walk down the streets of Tel Aviv you can hear - the language of practically every country on earth spoken. You see people from all walks of life, different backgrounds, different countries and all living together. This is a rather unique experience Israel is a very interesting sociological laboratory, perhaps one of the most fascinating in the world. COLLEGIAN: Do the Israelis feel threatened by the Moslem countries that border them, and does it surround them in everyday life? DINSTEIN: Yes and no. That is to say that obviously in many respects Israel is in a state of siege of other Arab countries with the exception of one with which we have peace now, and that is Egypt, but others that include Jordan and Syria are still technically in a state of war. .) le Orange Bowl in disbelief 1 season. Please see story, Page 14 20 4 Monday Nov. 2, 1981 Vol. 82, No. 72 20 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University concerns and some of the characteristics that they're interested in," she said. Some of the search and screen committee members said the new president should have a solid academic background, a good understanding of University operations and an understanding of the state political scene. "The president should be someone with strong managerial capabilities," said Hosler. "We're running a half-billion dollar industry and the president must have some understanding of.thelinancial aspects of the University." Franz said, "The president is the personification of the University. The president has to have a scholarly background and should be someone who has demonstrated administrative skill." Bollag said the new University president should be aware of current issues. "We're going to need a president who is responsive to the times, who is aware of the trends in the United States," he said. "And I particularly will be looking for a president who will be able to relate well to students." On the other hand, you learn to live with such a situation. The ability of the human species to adjust itself to situations of distress and stress is simply unlimited. The people have a tendency to take these things in stride and you hardly notice it. This is perhaps the most surprising effect that tourists notice upon arriving in Israel for the first time. They invariably are certain that the people are constantly worried about terrorist attacks, the armies, hostilities and so forth, and they find that the people read about these things in the newspapers like they do here in the United States. In Tel Aviv we hardly notice it; there is fighting in Lebanon, people read about it in the newspapers, look at a small globe and assume it affects our daily life, but we read it in our papers as you read about it in yours. But life continues. interview COLLEGIAN: With the death of Sadat and the new president Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, will that make any difference in the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks? DINSTEIN: Well, obviously that is the $64 question. That is •to say that what we do not know is whether the assasination is now over and done; (in) the attempt to • bring down the government, it failed in the larger sense, even though it succeeded in killing Sadat. That is possibility No.l if that is the case, then the expectation is that Sadat's successor, the new president, Mubarak, will continue in Sadat's shoes and we will simply go on with his policies and then nothing much will have changed. We have lost an important statesman, but his policies will have remained. Or as some persons are apprehensive Please see DINSTEIN, Page 8
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