• . % • • . --- - 4 4—.74 7 7.411 k 7 —7--=.7.. • sk • ~ eah l •._ . _ am — iimil - ~ ......w ---- - --1 ti I . . • _ • . .. A Century of Penn State Football • . ' • == Alligintli -"""" 11..1•41111'''' . ---- ~............. 111 to .........ar ......2" 111111•11M11111 25s ....-... . _ 011 /1 == Friday, Sept. 5, 1986 ........... •.....m. 101111 I N ...— '. . 21".. 410P 1M. derly Collegian". Vol. 87, No. 38 28 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University COLLEGIAN 100 YEARS ©1986 Collegian Inc. AirillBB7•Aorill9B7 John Shaffer fires a pass over the outstretched arms of Maryland's Sean when the Lions take on the Owls of Temple in this season's opener Scott in last season's opening game. Shaffer has been given the nod to start tomorrow night. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Beaver Stadium. Cars parked in Lot 44 next to Beaver. Stadium must be moved before 6 tonight in preparation for the football game or they will be ticketed and towed. Students can resume parking when normal traffic returns. inside Penn State may join efforts with the state legislature in order to form a new law school in Harrisburg. President Jordan testified to a state House committee about the law school on Tuesday Page 24 index arts opinion sports state/nation/world weather This afternoon will finally see breaks in the clouds. High of 74. Tonight clearing is expected. By morning it will be cool as the temperature drops to 51 degrees. Tomorrow morning sunshine gives way to increasing clouds, high 71. Game Forecast: It will be jacket weather with temperatures in the upper 60s at kickoff. Temperatures will fall, however, throughout the game to the low 60s by the time the Lions beats Temple Heidi Sonen Gunmen seize jet in By IQBAL JAFFERY Associated Press Writer KARACHI, Pakistan Four uniformed men stormed a Pan Am jumbo jet filled with nearly 400 people at Karachi airport early this morning and wounded an airport employee with machine gun fire, officials said. Heavily armed Pakistani soldiers and comman dos surrounded the plane and cordoned off the area of the tarmac where the Boeing 747 parked after arriving from Bombay, India. The plane's three-man cockpit crew managed to escape. Pakistani army generals and top civilian offi cials were directing the security operation from the airport control tower. The 'attackers, who demanded to be flown to Cyprus, fired machine gun bursts into the air when seizing the plane. They later opened fire at airport personnel and wounded a worker of Pakistan's Civil Aviation Administration who was near the plane, officials said. Aviation sources said Pan American World Airways Flight 73 was en route from Bombay to Karachi; Frankfurt, West Germany; and New York. Pan Am officials in Karachi and the U.S. Consulate estimated about 380 passengers on board the plane. Airline spokeswoman Pamela Hanlon had said Collegian Photo/ Dan Oleski earlier in New York that about 280 passengers were on board with 13 flight attendants. Hanlon in New York said Americans were aboard, but she did not know how many. The flight was scheduled to arrive at Kennedy International Airport at 3:25 p.m. EDT today, according to the airline. `The president has been informed and is being kept updated ...' —A White House spokesman Hanlon said that about 5 a.m. today (9 p.m. EDT yesterday) four armed individuals, dressed as security guards, boarded the airplane and de manded they be flown to Cyprus. The plane had landed to take on more passen gers. It was not immediately known whether any new passengers had boarded the plane before it was seized. The attackers told the cockpit crew, who had left the plane, to get back on board and prepare for take off, she said. Season opener Shaffer against By MARK ASHENFELTER Collegian Sports Writer John Shaffer will open at quar terback for the football team when it faces Temple in the season open er tomorrow night at Beaver Sta dium. Head Coach Joe Paterno's an nouncement early yesterday ended months of speculation whether Shaffer would retain the spot or lose it to Matt Knizner. But Paterno indicated that Knizner will see his share of play- Activities 1 00-year By GORDON ZEANICH Collegian Staff Writer It will be more than just a foot ball game when the 1986 Nittany Lions take on the Temple Owls in its 100th season tomorrow night. Besides the game being the first night game played in Beaver Sta dium's history, Lion fans can at tend a number of pre-game activities before the 7 p.m. kickoff. Head Football Coach Joe Pater no said the events commemorat ing a centennial of Penn State Police expecting increased traffic By JAMES A. STEWART Collegian Staff Writer University police expect in creased traffic problems tomor row because of the first night football game against Temple Uni versity, but they say crowd control problems should be about normal. Lt. Jack Orndorf of the State College Bureau of Police Services said borough police expect no se rious problems other than those normally associated • with game days. to start Temple ing time in the contest and that the starter could change again before the team faces Boston College Sept. 20.. "Both Shaffer and Knizner can do the job and do it well," Paterno said. "Knizner will play a lot." Shaffer completed 103 of 228 passes for 1,366 yards last season as the team compiled an 11-0 re cord in the regular season. He threw for eight touchdowns, but was intercepted 10 times. Knizner, who saw limited duty Please see SHAFFER, Page 14 highlight kickoff football should be a memorable experience for anyone who was ever involved with the Penn State football program. "We'd like to have some fun. We want to make it something differ ent. We want to make it a fun night. We scrimmaged under the lights last Friday night and it was kind of fun," said Paterno. The program of special events will get underway at 1 p.m. with a free concert on Jeffrey Field fea turing the music of the Tarnished Please see ACTIVITIES, Page 14. "The only additional problem is having people come in early," Orndorf said. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. "There will be more people in town all day," he said. The addi tional time visitors spend shop ping and sightseeing downtown will increase traffic throughout the day. As with all home football games, University Drive and Park Ave nue will be restricted to one-way traffic patterns before and after Please see POLICE, Page 14. Pakistan The men, wearing blue uniforms, drove out to the parked jet shortly after it landed, airport sources told the Associated Press. The men fired several shots into the air and then rushed up the stairs into the plane, said the sources. One airport source, who like the others de manded anonymity, said the plane's crew man aged to flee the aircraft after hearing the shots, but none of the passengers were able to get off. U.S. Consulate officials said they were in touch with the U.S. State Department in Washington, but could give no other details. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Deborah Cavin said she had no information on the situation. Security forces at the airport went on immediate alert and personnel armed with machine guns and rifles quickly sealed off the area of the tarmac where the plane was parked for refueling. Officials at the airport refused to say if they were in contact with the men in control of the plane, nor would they say if they had any idea who the men were or why they had seized the jet. "We are aware of the reports and are monitor ing the situation," said Peter Roussel, a White House spokesman in California with the vacation ing President Reagan. "The president has been informed and is being kept updated on it by John Poindexter," the White House national security adviser.
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