4—The Daily Collegian Friday, March 12, 1982 Sentencing: 5-year terms to be mandatory for some violent crimes By RENAE HARDOBY Collegian Staff Writer Five-year minimum sentences will become mandatory for certain violent crimes as a result of a law signed this week by Gov. Dick Thornburgh, the assistant press secretary to the gover nor. Kirk Wilson said thelaw provides a mandatory five-year sentence for: • Violent crimes involving the use of a gun in the act of committing such a crime. e Any repeat violent crimes by one offender. • Crimes committed on or near public transit facilities. Changes were also made in sentenc ing for second- and third-degree mur der, Wilson said. "A person found guilty of second or third degree murder will automatical ly receive life imprisonment as a sentence," he said. Wilson also noted that the sentence for first-degree murder automatic life imprisonment will not change. The law will take . effect• June 8, he said. 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"t - ;- di:x:o.l MARCH 24 , • Applications Available Deadline in 203 HUB March 26th The Daily Collegian once in the morning does it U-0268 __..... ...... - v• - T : •:•:••'::••:•::::. :." .-z ••"•• .•-- 1i15 . ..*•,..... v. • •,, . ..'" 4.:•••:••••:••:••• 'Yk• - •. ,, , t_,..k" , ::•,•<:" 'x .. <:::::;::::: : •• • s$•*":;E:•:i:,;s•I:t :* •;z::•:.,.:••••::::. W.0:::'.1,...: . • .y. , ::': ,. ...:•.::::•:::•..: zo \t,•••: : „.. :....... ::::::::::::*::::::::::::x*K...: . :::::::::::::•:::::::::::::::::: • ' ............................. • . tas Save s2oonlOkt. id, $3O on 14kt. gold, or $l5 on Lustrium rings for men & women. A $5.00 deposit is all it takes. AND LIONS PRIDE "The package was based on what he (Thornburgh) saw as a demand by Pennsylvania's citizenry to crack down on violent crime," he said. Two parts of the four-part plan have been signed into law, Wilson said. One section provides funding for more than 2,000 additional prison cells across the state. The other section is the one on mandatory minimum sen tencing, he said. The two remaining sections that have not yet been passed involve parole reform and changing a bureau to a cabinet-level department, Wilson said. Wilson said the proposed section on parole reform calls for two changes in the present parole system. Under the proposal, a judge would set a minimum and maximum time to be served by a criminal after the judge has sentenced the criminal. The person sentenced would have to serve the minimum sentence before being eligible for early release, or parole, according to this section. Now, a criminal is eligible for pa role when half the minimum sentence is served; if that person was sen tenced 10 to 20 years, he or, she would be up for parole after five years. Should this part of the anti-crime package pass, a person sentenced 10 to 20 years would have to serve at riti++~ti }. OnThe College Ring Of Your Choice •• . • • . . *.:.. OFFICAL PENN STATE CLASS RING least 10 years before becoming eligi ble for early release. The second part of the parole re form section gives the judge passing a sentence more discretion. Pennsylva nia law now provides that a minimum sentence cannot be set at more than half the maximum; this reform sec tion would allow judges to set the minimum at any number, even if that number exceeds half the maximum sentence, Wilson said. For example, if this section passes, judges could assign sentences up to nine to 10 years for convictions of crimes for which they previously could assign only five to 10 years. The final section of the package would call for elevating the Pennsyl vania Bureau of Corrections to a full cabinet-level department called the Pennsylvania Department of Correc tions, Wilson said. A campaign of television, radio and billboard advertising will be launched to make the public more aware of the stricter sentencing law, Wilson said. No cost will be involved because the majority of the advertising will be done through public service announc ments, he said. The development of the overall campaign will be done through the Pennsylvania Commission .on Crime and Delinquency, Wilson said. - 5 ,: - V „:„..:,......,.....:, INR- itC ..:.::,..:.:.. .., ..,,.....!!::!:!E . : . !Aisifa ik YOUR ONE HUNDRED EAST COLLEGE AVENUE OPPOSITE OLD MAIN Coping with weather can be fashionable Fashionable ways of coping with the various temperatures in University buildings and a home insulation model were two of the many features of Energy Conservation Day, held Feb. 22 in the HUB. Energy Conservation Day, sponsored by the Executive Energy Conservation Committee with the Hetzel Union Board and Eco-Action, was one in a series of events the committee is sponsoring to increase the awareness of the need to conserve energy. The event consisted of exhibits open to the public in the HUB browsing gallery and an energy fashion show. The exhibits, contributed by the Penn State Cooperative Extension Service, the Central Pennsylvania Solar Energy Cooperative and the Pennsylvania Energy Center, demon strated energy tips such as effective ways to insulate homes and techniques to save water. A solar collector was also police log • An unidentified woman was seriously injured in a two-car Button received burns on his chest and stomach, police said. accident Wednesday afternoon and was taken to Centre Corn- Dathage to Button's car is estimated at $2,000 and damage to munity Hospital. Her head was bleeding, the State College Smith's car at $3,000, police said. Police Department said. James E. Yoho, Pine Grove Mills, told police that while he was trying to avoid a truck that had turned into his path in the intersection of South Atherton Street and West Beaver Avenue, he collided with the victim's car, which had been behind the tuck. Damage to Yoho's car is estimated at $2,000, police said. An investigation of the accident is continuing, police said • A truck driven by Terry R. Smith, Centre Hall, collided with a car driven by Michael R. Button of Lemont at the , intersection of South Atherton Street and University Drive on Wednesday, State College police said. The accident occurred when Button's car went across the southbound lanes of South Atherton Street, police said. featured In addition to the exhibits, the organizations provided pamph lets with ideas on cutting home heating costs, passive solar heating methods and other energy-related topics. Information on energy seminars was also available. The fashion show, "Fahrenheit Fashions," showed a number of ways to dress for the environnment in different University buildings. Models wore athletic wear that could double as casual wear, as well as miniskirts and layered outfits. The versatility of layered outfits was stressed, because they allow the wearer to adapt to a variety of temperature conditions. Local clothing merchants provided the fashions. Gary Abdullah, coordinator of the fashion show, said the show went well and plans for a show next year will be made. • John Best, 953 Robin Road, told State College. police Wednesday that some sterling silverware was missing from his home some time between Dec. 1 and March 9. The silverware is valued at about $B5O, police said. • Charlene Mullen, 340 E. Beaver Ave., told State College . police that two rings and $5 in change were missing from her apartment some time between Feb. 28 and March 7. The rings are valued at about $450, police said. • Martin Gillespie, 313 Porter, told University Police Serv ices that a car stereo was missing from his car which had been parked south of Porter Hall. • The car stereo is valued at about $450, police said. —by Jacquelyn Goss —by Paula Domlzlo Citizens and agencies discuss fund allocation By KAREN KONSKI Collegian Staff Writer The State College Municipal Council received help last night in deciding how to allocate community development block grant funds as more than 15 private citizens and representatives of agencies presented proposals for use of the funds. Centre s County became eligible for $705,000 in block grant funds because an increase in population as recorded in the 1980 census designated the county a stan dard metropolitan statistical area. Director of Community Development Henry Lawlor said at the public hearing on funds distribution, four categories of activities are eligible for funds: housing improvement projects, economic devel opment programs, human services and "'I neighborhood improvement programs. Lawlor said a program must either benefit low to moderate income house holds, help in the elimination of slums or blight or meet an urgent community need to receive funds. He said projects under consideration '.q by the council include programs for the handicapped, street repairs, historic preservation and a job program. Among those who presented proposals for use of the funds was Iran Mohsenin, financial and grants manager of the Women's Resource Center, 110 Sowers St. She said her group is requesting $lO,- 000 for one year's rental and utilities for a house for i battereck women and their children. ' Mohsenin said the resource center treated 165 women last year who were battered by their husbands. She said most of these women had to return to The Official Class Ring from the Official their homes because the center has no permanant shelters and these women had nowhere else to go. "What we do now is put a band-aid on," Mohsenin said. "We stop the bleeding figuratively and literally, but only for a little while because it is a transient situation." Another request for funds came from Nancy L. Kulcyckis in behalf of the Easter Seals, 1300 S. Allen St. She requested $63,000 to build an addi tion to the Easter Seals Clinic in State College. The money represents 70 per cent of the funds needed to build the addition. Two organizations requested funds to build State College satellites of existing agencies. Jean Valence of Family Health Serv ices Inc., Bellefonte, requested $30,706 to help expand the agency which provides gynecological care, help for patients with'• sexually transmitted diseases and child screening programs. She said of the 6,000 clients the service helps, 3,000 live in State College. • Raymond Rife, director of Counseling Services Inc., Bellefonte, also requested funds to expand his agency, which pro vides counseling for people on a low income with emotional problems. He asked for $7,200 in funds for office space and $7,500 for partial staffing of the project. Ray Boyle, program coordinator for On Drugs Inc., proposed $17,000 in funds be given to the 24-hour drug and alcohol crisis hotline and drop-in center for an office computer, equipment and funds for two additional staff positions. Grad students may face huge debts By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (1W) Lori Froeling, a University of lowa senior, assumed that "the biggest hurdle" in her academic career "would be to get accepted to law school." But now that the prestigious University of Chicago Law School has admitted the 23-year-old Keokuk, lowa, native, Froeling says she is facing an even bigger obstacle: how to pay the $7,100-a-year tuition. When Bob Harrington graduates from Tufts Uni versity Dental School in Boston, he will carry a debt of $60,000 into his new career. The monthly payments of $l,OOO on student loans will consume half the $25,- 000 that the average dentist makes starting out in practice. Carla Walters, 25, a third-year medical student at Howard University and a single mother of 8-year-old twin girls, expects to be $50,000 in debt by the time she graduates next year. She fears the rapidly escalating costs of medical school, coupled with deep student aid cuts sought by the Reagan administration, will "knock completely out . . . this myth called the American dream." President Reagan's proposals to bar graduate students from the Guaranteed Student Loan program and to slash $1.5 billion from other student aid, loans and job subsidies now costing $3.3 billion have brought howls of protest from hundreds of American campuses. The cuts face stiff resistance from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Alice M. Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, told a House panel Wednesday that overall federal aid to college students would be sliced nearly in half by 1984 under cuts Reagan has already pushed through Congress or is now seeking. The aid peaked in 1981 at $14.7 billion and would drop to $7.7 billion two years from now, she said. With the average tuition at private medical schools nearing $lO,OOO, future physicians routinely take on debts the size of a home mortgage. Students such as Harrington and Walters already on the verge of their careers may have gotten off easy. 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Rivlin Our 43rd Year NBC Radio's Young Adult Network AP Laserphoto THE DELI HIPPO ROOM t ~ . ~ ~~ .. i ~~ - The Daily Collegian Friday, March 12, 1982 due to aid cuts pay back $25,260 over 15 years if the interest rate is 18.5 percent. A student who borrows $20,000 a year for four years "is going to have to face paying back $450,000 to $500,000," said Carl, who took this year off from his studies to lobby for the American Medical Student Association. Some 3.5 million students borrowed $7.7 billion through the Guaranteed Student Loan program in 1981 at a cost to the federal treasury of $2.7 billion. Some 600,000 to 700,000 of those borrowers were graduate students. They pay no interest until after leaving school and then pay only 7 percent to 9 percent, with the government absorbing the rest of the loans' cost. Reagan wants to shift graduate students into a 14 percent loan program that charges interest from the first day of the loan. Only 14 states and the District of Columbia actually have made loans under this program, which was created two years ago for students' parents. Reagan would allow graduate students to borrow up to $90,000 instead of $25,000 in the so-called Auxiliary Loans to Assist Students. White House budget director David Stockman told a House Budget task force on Feb. 26, "I think it is fundamentally wrong to ask a steelworker who works all day for $25,000 a year to pay taxes to subsidize a graduate student in metallurgy or petroleum engi neering who is going to . . (earn) $50,000 a year within two or three years of graduation." U.S. Rep. Paul Simon, D-111., who heads the Budget Committee's task force on entitlements and chairs the House subcommittee on post-secondary educa tion, rejoined, "That steelworker is going to end up being out of a job if we don't produce the people who renew the technology of this nation." Raymond B. 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