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.
The new law is part of a four-part
"anti-crime package" originally'pro
posed by• Thornburgh in April 1981,
Wilson said.
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"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
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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.
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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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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. Anderson, associate dean of Columbia
University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
derided the auxiliary program program as "a safety
net for the rich." Graduate students could face
monthly interest payments of $466 while still attend
ing school, which Anderson charges "would Virtually
guarantee bankruptcy."
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