Libya strikes Coast Gaurd base
By KEVIN COSTELLOE
Associated Press Writer
TRIPOLI, Libya Libya aimed a hit-and
run blow at a remote U.S. Coast Guard
station in the Mediterranean yesterday and
summoned fellow Arabs to an "hour of re
venge" against America for its predawn air
raid on Libyan cities.
Late yesterday, Tripoli state radio, in a
broadcast monitored in London, said U.S.
warplanes returned in a second-wave attack
on Tripoli, the Libyan capital, and four were
shot down. The report was not immediately
confirmed, although journalists in Tripoli
had reported sporadic anti-aircraft and other
gunfire.
Diplomats here estimated about 100 people
were killed in the attack on Tripoli, and
Libyans inspect the damage to homes and autos caused by U.S. warplanes, which attacked
Tripoli early yesterday.
Dorms' security a problem to which students have the key
By JILL GRAHAM
Collegian Staff Writer
A female student at Lehigh Univer
sity was raped and killed in her
dormitory room April 5 and investi
gators say that her assailant appar
ently entered the building through
doors that were routinely propped
open by students for easy access on
weekends.
Since keys are needed to open the
Staples says Blacks
can benefit from PSU
By NANCY FUNK
Collegian Staff Writer
Victoria Staples remembers what it
feels like to be a black student amidst
a sea of white students. Penn State's
director of minority admissions at
tended the University of Missouri in
the 1960 s when black enrollment was
considerably lower than it is today.
Staples emphasized that "I
wouldn't be here if I didn't believe
Penn State could make a difference in
minority students' lives."
But Staples and Scott Healy, the
director of admissions, said they are
concerned about accusations mem
bers of the Black Student Coalition
Against Racism make that Universi
ty minority recruitment procedures
fail to accurately portray life for
Blacks at Penn State.
"It is essential for the welfare of
black students here that if students
find fault with our recruiting prac
tices, they give us constructive alter
natives and ideas to put into action,"
Healy said.
Last week, BSCAR members met
with black high school students who
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doctors said the dead included Libyan leader
Col. Moammar Khadafy's adopted baby
daughter.
The vengeful Libyans, through their state
radio, called for strikes against American
targets "wherever they may be."
In its first retaliatory attack, Libya
claimed to have destroyed the U.S. maritime
navigation station on Italy's tiny Lampedusa
island, 175 miles north of here. But U.S.
officials said two missiles fired from a ship or
warplane fell short.
American search planes, meanwhile, cris
scrossed the Mediterranean looking for signs
of the two-man crew of an Air Force F-111
bomber that did not return from yesterday's
early-morning attack.
In Washington, White House spokesman
Larry Speakes described the U.S. air assaults
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residence hall doors at night, resi
dents often use old pizza boxes to prop
the doors or they tape them open.
Incidents where security in the
residence halls is questioned, are not
confined only to other universities.
A student here in' Wolf Hall was
raped last Summer Session. During
the investigation, an unidentified stu
dent said that a latch on one of the
doors was broken, making it difficult
to completely close it.
were considering attending the Uni
versity. BSCAR spoke to the students
about the University and picketed
East Halls while the students ate
lunch, saying they were protesting
the University's lack of honesty in
describing the University to prospec
tive students.
Staples and Healy responded Fri
day to those accusations, stressing
that BSCAR members should express
their dissatisfaction with current ad
missions procedures.
"It would be impossible for us to
give these students the whole story
about Penn State when they are only
here for a few days at a time. Our
responsibilty is to open up commu
nication by bringing the kids here and
letting them interact with the stu
dents and faculty,". Healy said.
BSCAR chairman Carlton Water
house said BSCAR was trying to give
the students "the whole story about
Penn State."
Waterhouse told students last week
that their attendance at the Universi
ty means facing racism and seeing
few black faculty and staff.
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on Tripoli and the eastern city of Benghazi as
a successful blow against command centers
for Libyan-sponsored terrorism. "We have
sent the message to Khadafy," he said.
But in Tripoli, where many private homes
were damaged, it was clear the raid also left
civilian casualties.
"Those bloody Americans say they don't
hit civilians," muttered Taher Gubbia, a
U.S.-educated English professor outside the
ruins of his house.
The raid's repercussions rippled through
the Mediterranean and beyond:
• In Moscow, the Soviet Union, condemn
ing the Reagan administration's "aggressive
bandit action," called off the planned meet
ing May 14-16 between U.S. Secretary of State
George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister
Eduard Shevardnadze.
• In Britain, which Prime Minister Mar
garet Thatcher allowed to be used as a base
for the U.S. attack, opposition leaders assail
ed her decision. Anti-American protesters
demonstrated outside U.S. diplomatic mis
sions in West Germany, Greece, Austria and
Cyprus.
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• The Arab world denounced the military
strike. Even U.S.-supported Egypt, generally
hostile to Libya, expressed "alarm and
strong resentment."
• At an OPEC meeting in Geneva, Libya's
Prof: U.S. may have gone too far
By MEGAN O'MATZ
Collegian Staff Writer
Both Pennsylvania senators support Presi
dent Reagan's decision to bomb Libyan mili
tary bases Monday night, but an expert on
international law said the United States may
have gone too far in answering terrorist
attacks.
Behrend College political science professor
John Gamble said America had a right to
take self-defensive measures against Libya,
Other problems, such as discrepan
des in the degree of security at
different residence halls and screens
being removed from windows to gain
access, were also brought up during
that investigation.
David Stormer, director of Univer
sity Safety, said last week that prob
lems with residence hall doors being
jammed open are not uncommon at
the University.
"They are so frequent and happen
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PSU faculty helps choose space journalist
By JAMES A. STEWART
Collegian Staff Writer
Four University journalism instructors will help
select eight members of the news media profes
sion best able to keep their feet planted firmly on
the ground while traveling through space on the
shuttle.
Nine journalists will meet and judge 20 of the
nation's most prominent media figures here May 1
and 2 to select the eight regional finalists for the
NASA Journalist-in-Space Project.
The panel was chosen to represent all areas of
the communications media and a cross-section of
minority groups, said University Associate Pro
fessor of Journalism Donald L. Smith, who is
chairman of the panel. Smith said he tried to
create a majority of "working journalists" in
choosing the panel.
University faculty members on the panel in
clude R. Thomas Berner, associate professor of
with such a recurring frequency that checked only by night receptionists,
there are no reports of any kind he explained.
submitted on it. The blockage is Kent Jute, president of the Assos
merely removed and the door is • ciation of Residence Hall Students,
closed," Stormer said. said the current night receptionist
Stormer added that a team of police security system is not meeting the
officers, who are assigned to check needs of University students.
the residence halls, help the night "At the present time, the night
receptionists check and remove any receptionist system we are using is
props from the doors in Pollock, costing the University somewhere
Centre, South and East Halls. around $BO,OOO. We think it is very
But West and North Halls are inadequate," he said, adding that he
.journalism and chairman of the major; Leola A.
Johnson, instructor of journalism; Frederic A.
Moritz, associate professor of journalism; and
Smith.
Other panel members include Ralph Brem,
associate editor, Pittsburgh Press; Robert C.
Cowen, natural science editor, Christian Science
Monitor; Nancy L. Goodspeed, a graduate student
in journalism at the University; Jayne E. Miller,
senior reporter, WBAL-TV, Baltimore; and Ste
phen D. Solomon, senior editor, Inc. magazine.
Eight regional finalists will be chosen from a
group of 20 semi-finalists to be named in late April.
The panelists will consider writing samples, hon
ors and awards, letters of recommendation, and
an essay explaining why each candidate wants to
travel on the space shuttle, said Smith.
In addition, each candidate will submit a vit. i
tape and answer questions about his application in
a face-to-face interview, Smith said.
Smith said the perfect candidate for the journal-
in 'hour of revenge'
petroleum minister called for an oil embargo
against the United States.
At 8:55 p.m. yesterday and again a half
hour later, salvoes of anti-aircraft fire echoed
over the Libyan capital, but there was no
sound of warplanes or other immediate indi
cations of a new U.S. attack. Occasional dull
explosions and repeated bursts of apparent
machine-gun fire could be heard from va
rious quarters of the capital.
Earlier in the day, Tripoli state radio said
Libyan forces had destroyed a U.S. facility on
hilly, seven-mile-long Lampedusa, where 30
Coast Guard and Navy personnel run a LO
RAN-C electronic navigation station.
Coast Guard spokesman Nicholas Sandifer
in Washington indicated that two missiles
were seen "landing in the water" near the
shore. He said there were no casualties on the
island, which has a population of 4,000. In
Rome, Italian officials said a motor launch
fired on the facility from four miles away.
President Reagan said he ordered the yes
terday morning bombardment of Libya after
irrefutable evidence was collected that Kha
dafy's government had plotted the April 5
bombing at a West Berlin discotheque in
which a U.S. soldier and Turkish woman
were killed and 230 others were wounded,
many of them Gls.
The U.S. government for years has accused
but international law states that these mea
sures should be proportionate to the act that
inspired them.
"It seems we were a little bit heavy hand
ed," Gamble said. "We did bomb some civil
ian targets, although I don't think we did it on
purpose."
Gamble likened America's actions to hit
ting a fly with a sledgehammer instead of a
flyswatter, saying it is questionable that the
bombing was justified.
U.S. warplanes attacked five targets near
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Khadafy of providing money, arms and safe
haven for Palestinian and other terrorists.
Speaking to a business group yesterday,
Reagmi said, "We would prefer not to have to
repeat the events of last night," but it would
depend on Khadafy's actions.
After Tuesday's American strike, the Li
byan radio declared that "the hour of unity
and revenge has struck" and called on Arabs
in neighboring states to attack American and
European targets and interests in the region.
Libyan officials said Khadafy himself had
not been hurt.
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Tripoli and Benghazi Monday night in re
sponse to "irrefutable" evidence that the
Libyan regime was behind recent terrorist
attacks. These attacks included last week's
bombing of a West German nightclub that
killed an American Army Sergeant.
In prepared statements, both U.S. Sen.
John Heinz, R-Pa.,and U.S. Sent Arlen Spec
ter, R-Pa., deemd the action necessary in
light of Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy's
support of terrorism.
ist-in-space program would be "someone who is an
excellent communicator in both the written and
spoken word, a person who could accurately
convey to laymen the excitement and uniqueness
of space flight and travel."
Goodspeed said she was excited about the nomi
nation to the panel. "It's especially exciting be
cause our region encompasses New York and
Washington, D.C. There's a possibility of getting
some big names in."
"We're looking for the person who could go into
space and best bring the message back to the
American people about what it's like to be an
astronaut," Goodspeed said.
Berner said "the perfect candidate is someone
who can go into space and come back withi the
accurate story. I'm looking for the complete
reporter "
Johnson said having the selection here would be
good for the University, adding that she expected
much work in choosing the finalists.
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thinks receptionists aren't trained as
well as they should be.
Jute said that ARHS's security
committee is currently looking into
two other types of security systems.
One approach would be to give
residents keys that would open their
room and the front door to their
residence hall. Another possibility
would be to utilize the magnetic strip
on the new identification cards in
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