-t -t. ) ~ , . ) 1 •,, '., , : ioi -• ' • 1; k i k ' e:. , f A : :. r ., YI . . 4.,4';'''' r:fc It ',',i" . Ve 'You've got a friend' James Taylor puts his heart into yet another song as he performs before a near•sellout crowd of 4,500 fans in Rec Hall last night. Please see the concert review on Page 14. I _ .= _, - .... ti ey Centre County residents must register today to vote in the Nov. 5 elections. Students who are not Centre County residents may register to vote here or vote in their home counties by absentee bal lot. Applications for absentee ballots are due Oct. 29 and bal lots must be submitted by Nov. 1. Students have until 4 p.m. today to register to vote in 203 HUB. inside • Move over "Girls of Penn State" calendar the "1986 Men of Happy Valley Plus" is here' Page 2 6 Former Pittsburgh Steeler and Nittany Lion running back Franco Harris returned to the University yesterday to host the annual Sickle Cell Anemia Games Day Page 3 • A little bit of England will come to the University this week when five actors from the Lon don stage arrive for a weeklong series of performances.. Page 15 • Newspapers may be a thing of the past if a new computer service from Pittsburgh, which provides shopping, sports and news information instantly, at tracts consumers' attention. index arts comics opinions sports state/nation/world weather Today, breezy with a mixture of sun and clouds. High 65. To night, becoming mostly clear. Low near 40 Heidi Sonen New demands set for Soviets' release By RODAINA KENAAN Associated Press Writer BEIRUT, Lebanon A caller say- Frenchmen hostages. It claimed that ing he represented the extremist a sixth kidnapped American, diplo group holding three kidnapped Soviet mat William Buckley, had been "exe- Embassy personnel said yesterday cuted" in retaliation for Israel's air they would not be freed until the raid Tuesday against the Palestine Soviet Union and America end Leb- Liberation Organization headquar anon's 10-year-old civil war. ters in Tunisia. The anonymous caller told , a West- There has been no confirmation of ern news agency that the group that Buckley's death. kidnapped the Soviets, the Islamic The caller said all Soviet, Ameri- Liberation Organization, also ap- can and European hostages in Leb pealed to another terrorist organiza- anon should not be released unless tion not to free the American and President Reagan and Soviet leader French hostages it holds. Mikhail Gorbachev agree on "termi- Guerrillas of the Islamic Liberation nating the Lebanese tragedy and the Organization, a Moslem fundamen- sufferings of the Lebanese people." talist group, kidnapped three Soviet He noted Reagan and Gorbachev diplomats and a Soviet Embassy doc- are scheduled to hold a summit meet tor on Monday and the body of one, ing in Geneva, Switzerland, next Cultural Attache Arcady Katkov, was month. found Wednesday in a west Beirut The other American histages held suburb. He had been shot in the head. by Islamic Jihad are Terry Anderson, In its initial report of the abduc- the Associated Press' chief Middle tions, the Islamic Liberation Organi- East correspondent; American Uni zation threated to kill all four Soviet versity of Beirut librarian Peter Kil hostages unless Syrian-backed mili- burn; a Roman Catholic priest, the tias halted their offensive against the Rev. Lawrence Jenco; American Moslem fundamentalist Tawheed mi- University Hospital Director David litia in the northern port city of Tripo- Jacobsen, and the American Univer li. • sity dean of agriculture, Thomas Su- But the caller said the Islamic therland. Liberation Organization would not Islamaic Jihad also claims it is free the Soviets even though a cease- holding French Embassy Vice Consul fire took effect yesterday in Tripoli, Marcel Fontaine; Protocol Officer with Syrian troops moving into the Marcel Carton; Michel Seurat, a re city and disarming the rival mili- aseacher at the French Center for tiamen after three weeks of fierce Studies and Reasearch of the Con fighting. temporary Middle East, and journal " The heretics think they can invent ist Jean-Paul Kauffmann. this truce to deceive us into releasing Islamic Jihad is a Shiite Moslem the hostages," the caller said in Arab- group with close links to Iran's funda ic. "We emphasize that this (kidnap) mentalist Islamic government. operation will not end that easily and Iran helped arrange the Tripoli it will not be the last. We shall not ceasefire, with Syria agreeing to send release the hostages. some of its troops stationed in north " Therefore, we appeal to our broth- ern and eastern Lebanon into the ers and comrades of Islamic Jihad embattled city. Syria, the Soviet (Islamic Holy War) to intensify oper- Union's main ally in the Middle East, ations against the Soviets and Ameri- has supported Persian Iran in its war cans alike and plead with them not to with Arab Iraq. Page 18 the daily Collegian release the hostages they hold." Islamic Jihad is believed to hold at least five Americans and • four University debates replacement for BDRs By COLLEEN BARRY Collegian Staff Writer By Fall Semester 1988, the Univer sity's baccalaureate degree require ments will be replaced with an updated concept of general educa tion. However, exactly how the Universi ty will approach improving general education remains uncertain. "We have a vaccuum that needs to be filled. Our fear is that it will be filled in too quickly," student Faculty Senator Tracy Brant said. Under the present general educa- tion program the BDRs it is possible for undergraduate students to graduate without a coherent over view of their culture, said Judd Ar nold, chairman of the Faculty Senate's Undergraduate Studies Committee. An aim of general educa tion is to provide a general frame work into which students can fit their knowledge. Promoting a new general education program, University President Bryce Jordan has pointed out that the na tional trend is toward more coher ence and fewer choices in general education programs. But Brant questioned whether watching trends is a valid concern for the University. "Integration is a good thing to provide a base of knowledge, but does Riots explode By The Associated Press LONDON More than 500 youths, most of them Blacks and a few firing shotguns, ~ b attted—police_ in_ fierce street fighting last night in North London. Officials said one policeman was stabbed to death and more than 80 people were injured. Scotland Yard said 40 policemen were •among the wounded and that two policemen and three reporters were struck by shotgun pellets. It said one officer was seriously injured when he was hit by a a piece of concrete dropped from a balcony. It was the first police fatality and the first gunfire reported in the rash of recent violence including riots that hit the south London district of Brix ton last weekend and the industrial cities of Liverpool and Birmingham last month. Clive Appleby, administrator of North Middlesex Hospital, said a policeman died shortly after being admitted with a stab wound in the neck. Press Association, Britain's do mestic news agency, reported earlier that three policemen were shot dur ing the fighting in Tottenham district, and quoted one officer as saying, "They are now using shotguns." • The trouble began a day after a black woman died while police were searching her home. Police said the woman apparently suffered a heart attack, but her family disputed that. About 200 youths, most of whom were Blacks and some wearing masks, hurled bottles and stones at the Tottenham police station yester day afternoon, and then sat in the street. They blocked traffic for about an hour before dispersing, and no one was injured At about 7 p.m., gangs of black youths started throwing objects at patrolling officers, and riot police in helme,ts and carrying shields con verged on the area, a racially mixed neighborhood with mostly low-in come housing. The violence escalated quickly, and reporters at the scene estimated more than 500 youths had taken to the streets. Demonstrators overturned cars and set them on fire and set ablaze at least one house, Scotland Yard re ported. Authorities dispatched four fire engines but police advised them not to go into the area. Scotland Yard spokeswoman Gil lian Humphrey said the situation was "pretty volatile," but the rioting and looting appeared to be tapering off around midnight. Police from all over London were sent into the area and came under repeated attack. Each time police charged the demonstrators showered them with bricks, stones and bottles, some containing burning gasoline. Television coverage showed police in running battles with youths amid the flames`kpd smoke of fires started by firebombs. Police reinforcements were equipped with tear gas but it was not used immediately. On Saturday, Cynthia Jarrett, 49, Monday, Oct. 7, 1985 Vol. 86, No. 62 18 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University ©1985 Collegian Inc. it necessarily fill our needs?" she said. The many issues related to general education and the variety of ap proaches to forming a new program complicate the planning. "Everyone feels they have the right idea, but everyone can't be right. That's why it is taking so long," said Laurie Dieffenbach, assistant vice president of the Undergraduate Stu dent Government's Academic As sembly. Some people are satisfied with the current general education system while others want it totally restruc tured, she added. One criticism of BDRs is that stu dents do not make connections be tween the many courses they can choose from, Brant said. Also, faculty and students ap proach BDRs as courses that must be taken to satisfy requirements, result ing in problems with attitude, said Jerry Covert, chairman of the senate Curricular Affairs Committee. "We don't want that atmosphere. We want something that would bene fit students in their personal lives and in their professional lives," said Co vert, associate professor of biology at the University's Hazleton Campus. The senate took its first step toward improving general eductation last Spring Semester by passing a defi nition of general education that looks at it as a program enabling students to grow intellectually. collapsed while police were searching her house for stolen goods following the arrest of one of her sons, Floyd. He had been arrested in an investiga tion involving a stolen car. • - A police statement said Cynthia Jarrett was very cooperative "but towards the end of the search another of her sons arrived home and began strongly objecting to the police pres ence." "She collapsed and the officers were physically shoved out of the house," it said. "Eventually they persuaded the occupants to let them back in and one of the officers trained in first aid administered mouth-to mouth resuscitation, but without suc cess." Jarrett's daughter, Cynthia, 23, claimed a policemen pushed her A police officer, carrying a truncheon, leads away a youth in Tottenham, North London, last night. Officials said one policeman was stabbed to death and 80 people were injured in clashes between riot police and more than 500 youths. It was the first police fatality reported as a result of the violence that has hit England recently, including riots in the London district of Brixton last weekend and the industrial cities of Liverpool and Birmingham last month. Two senate committees will use the approved definition and present cred it requirements while studying possi bilities for a new curriculum, said Arnold, also an associate professor of English. In addition, information from deans' offices, departments, the sen ate and students will be used to get a workable solution, he said. One possibilty is to trim down the number of available courses, but Covert said, "We don't know that's the only route." Brant said general education should be a place where students can explore disciplines. "Less choice means less advising. They are saying that we don't have enough qualified advisers, so they want to take our choices," Brant said. "As a student, I like my choices, but a lot of students don't know their needs and don't know how to make choic es." She added that general education at the University could be better with improved advising. However, there is pressure to change the present "smorgasbord" of required classes. Last spring, the senate rejected "Linkage" an attempt to force integration by requiring that a sub ject is studied from several points of view or that courses are taken in a specified order. The proposal was supported by Jordan. London mother and caused her to fall. "My mother weighed 20-odd stone (280 pounds) and she lost her balance, • stumbled and fell to the floor. She was - gasping for breath," the. daughter said. The family called an ambulance, but less than 15 minutes later she was dead. The independent Police Complaints Authority ordered an investigation of the death. Floyd Jarrett demanded a public inquiry. Riots broke out in Brixton last weekend when police shot a black woman, Cherry Groce, 37, after en tering her home in search of her son. Cherry Groce was paralyzed from the waist down: Police called the shooting "a tragic accident."
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