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Suspicious fire
burns fraternity
By MIKE LENIO
Collegian Staff Writer
A fire police are calling suspicious
broke out about 5:15 a.m. yesterday
at Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, 508
Locust Lane.
The fire charred the wall of a
telephone booth on the second floor of
the building and a mattress in a
bedroom across the hall, said Dan
Orazzi (senior-speech communica
tions), a member of the fraternity
and The Daily Collegian business
staff.
No one was injured, police said
Police said they did not know what
might have caused the blaze or how it
could have affected two separate
rooms without damaging any of the
area in between. Orazzi said no out
lets or appliances were near the mat
tress except for a small alarm clock,
and the cord of the clock was not
melted or charred.
Jerry Austin (senior-speech com
munications) was watching tele
vision in a first-floor living room
when he heard the fire alarm.
"At first I figured it was just the
batteries in the smoke alarm," he
said. "Then one of the guys upstairs
woke up and came out in the hallway,
and when I looked up the stairs I saw
smoke above his head."
Austin said they found flames com
ing from under the fixtures behind
the telephone and were able to put
Spying testimony gone
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. A defense
attorney for a Marine embassy guard
accused of espionage said yesterday
a second, previously unidentified wit
ness against his client had withdrawn
a - statement given to investigators
suggesting wrongdoing.
Michael V. Stuhff, in a telephone
interview, identified the witness as a
Cpl. Robert Williams. Stuhff said he
had been notified last week by pros
ecutors that an incriminating
statement given by Williams impli-
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A tricyclist makes his way through an obstacle course of egg•topped pylons
during an event at the Greek Week Block Party yesterday.
Suspected Nazi to be deported to USSR
By RICHARD CAREW
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Karl Linnas, facing a
Soviet death sentence on charges of supervising
Nazi concentration camp executions, was being
deported to the Soviet Union yesterday after the
Supreme Court and the Justice Department turned
down his bids to remain in the United States,
government sources said.
Linnas was taken from his New York jail cell by
federal agents, and government sources, com
menting on condition of anonymity, said he was
being flown to the Soviet Union, after a stopover in
Czechoslovakia.
He was being taken out of the United States
hours after the Supreme Court rejected Linnas'
the
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them out with a fire extinguisher.
"By this time, most people were
up," he said. "That's when someone
saw the flames in the room across the
hall and put out the second fire."
Austin said that at about 3:30 a.m.,
while he was in the kitchen on the
first floor, he had heard the basement
door creak and footsteps going either
up or down the basement steps.
"When I looked I didn't see anyone,
and when I checked downstairs a
basement door that is usually locked
was open. It could be nothing, but it
seemed strange," he said.
Police are continuing the investiga
tion into the cause of the fire. Orazzi
said police officers pulled up floor
boards in the telephone booth and
questioned members of the fraternity
yesterday.
The fraternity had previously re
ceived an anonymous threat of fire
last fall, during a rash of suspicious
fires downtown that took place in
November and December. Orazzi
said someone called the fraternity
one night and said, "Fire your
house is next," and hung up.
Following the threat, members of
the fraternity organized a fire watch,
Orazzi said. The fire watch, which
lasted about three weeks, consisted of
patrols by members of the house and
the surrounding area between mid
night and 6 a.m., he said. The patrols
were made with the cooperation of
State College police, he said.
eating Sgt. Clayton J. Lonetree had
been withdrawn by the Marine.
The lawyer added the notice of
Williams' recanting was "one of
many factors" that led to a defense
decision last Thursglay to seek a delay
in pre-trial hearings for Lonetree
until next month.
Stuhff declined to identify Williams
further, beyond saying he had served
as an embassy guard in Moscow and
Vienna, Austria the two posts
where Lonetree served.
The Marine Corps refused to dis
cuss the matter.
bid to delay his deportation while his lawyers
hunted for another country that would accept him.
Richard Olson, executive assistant at the Metro
politan Correctibnal Center, told reporters that
Linnas left the jail about 4:30 p.m. EDT. He said
he was not told where Linnas was taken.
Agents of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service "were very secretive about the entire
move," he said.
Earlier, just after the Supreme Court decision
was announced, Deborah Corley, staff assistant to
U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani in New York, said,
"There is no legal, impediment to our deporting
him."
In Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meese
111 told reporters a decision on deportation might
be announced before the day was through.
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Students to
By VICTORIA PETTIES
Collegian Staff Writer
Though student leaders contend that community
relations could improve by electing a student to
the State College Municipal Council in
November, they said "the fight ahead will be an
uphill battle."
University student leaders have formed an
informal task force to examine the feasibility of
a student running for a borough council position.
Undergraduate Student Government Senate
President Joieph Scoboria said if enough
interest is generated, a voter registration drive
will be launched this fall to increase student
voting strength in the borough elections.
Dean R. Phillips, who left the post in 1977, was
the last student to sit on the borough council.
Ddvid Rosenblatt, a member of the Planning
Commission, and Michelle Pinkerton, a member
of the Community Development Block Grant
Citizen Advisory Committee, are the only two
student representatives on the authorities,
boards and commission committees which make
recommendations to the borough council.
According to the 1985 report of the Centre
Region Comprehensive Plan, people aged 18-24
make up 26,340 of the total 36,130 State College
population. This statistic includes University
Council claims business tax
By KARL HOKE
Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Municipal
Council last night approved the
controversial business privilege tax
ordinance.
After five months of sometimes
contentious debate with some local
business people', council approved
the ordinance by a vote of 6-1.
Council member Dan Chaffee cast
the sole dissenting vote.
The ordinance imposes a tax of
1:5 mills, or .015 percent, on the
gross receipts of persons doing
business in the borough to make up
for a $775,000 shortfall in its pro
Grad dean: teachers getting scarce
By LISA NURNBERGER
Collegian Staff Writer
In less than 10 years, the United
States could face a drought of educa
tional standards, including a very
lean selection of professors much
like many Third World nations, said
the vice president for research and
dean of the Graduate School.
Traditionally, white men have got
ten the highest percentage of engi
neering and scientific degrees in the
United States. But because of de
clining birth rates, the number of
these students will decline steadily in
upcoming years, Charles L. Hosier
said.
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Because of low birth rates in the
United States, the number of 22-year
old Americans will fall steadily from
now until 2000.
This "baby-bust" will reduce the
pool from which college students are
drawn by one million potential stu
dents.
And the fastest growing pool of
college-age people is made up of
racial and ethnic groups whose par
ticipation rate in college has been
historically low, who have the highest
drop-out rate from high school, and
who are least likely to study math or
science.
By the year 2020, 30 percent of the
population is predicted to be be black
or Hispanic, Hosler said.
Cultural and economic barriers
block many minorities and women
from obtaining technical degrees,
and unless solutions are found to
combat this problem, the United
States will be short 600,000 scientists
and engineers by. 1995.
However, the rate at which those
minorities get science and engi
neering Bachelor of Science degrees
is 13 per thousand, while the rate for
whites and Asians is 56 per thousand,
Hosler said.
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posed 1988 budget. Wholesale, retail
and service sector businesses are
subject to the tax. Rental income
from apartment and other sources
are also taxed.
"The tax is the only broadbased
tax available to us that will give us
what we need to balance the bud
get," said council member Dan
Winand.
Council members have said that
raising the earned income or the
real estate taxes further would re
quire taxpayers to shoulder too
much of the tax burden.
They argued that levying a tax on
businesses would allow for a more
"To stay even at the 1984 produc
tion rate of scientists and engineers
will require that 'we quadruple the
rate of participation of blacks and
Hispanics from 14 to 56 per thousand,
or double the rate of female partici
pation from 28 to 57 per thousand,"
Hosler said.
But sociological studies indicate
that it will take a generation or two to
bring minority groups into higher
education, he said, adding that efforts
in the past have not produced any
results.
"We're spending millions of dollars
a year on (minority) programs . . .
and throwing money in areas that
have no impact" because they don't
deal with cultural and economic
forces, Hosler said, referring to home
and community attitudes.
Although the United States will feel
the repercussions of the baby-bust,
Hosler said attempts have been made
to attract minority students who don't
traditionally enter science.
The federal government is working
with local industries to create "mag
net schools" where corporations in
vest in building science facilities in
primary and secondary schools that
are predominately black.
Also, 44 states' school boards have
turned around lenient scheduling pol
icies to require course work in the
sciences to stimulate interest and
equip students with the background
needed to enter those fields.
So far, Hosler said, foreign grad
uates who receive 55 percent of all
engineering doctorates and 20 to 40
percent of doctorates in other areas
of science and math are "saving us
now."
But still, only about 40 percent of
international students stay in the
country after graduating, he said.
In the past decade, the number of
foreign students attending the Uni
versity has tripled, climbing from 1,-
Linnas' daughter, according to family attorney
Larry Schilling, hoped to make a personal appeal
to Meese for more time to find another country
willing to accept Linnas
Linnas fell two votes short in his court effort as
the justices refused, 6-3, to extend an order that
had blocked deportation.
The court's action came on the heels of Justice
Department efforts to find some country other
than the Soviet Union to which Linnas could be
sent.
After the ruling, Linnas' attorneys immediately
sought a temporary restraining order from U.S.
District Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington.
Hogan rejected the request, but William Hemsley
Jr., one of Linnas' attorneys, said he would seek to
appeal Hogan's decision,
fight for council seat
students who live in the borough and University
Park.
Student leaders, including members of the
USG and the University Student Executive
Council, formed a task force to improve
communications with the borough council on
decisions affecting students.
Student leaders said they realize that a
University student candidate running for a
council position will have to hurdle more
obstacles than town candidates.
Community relations between University
students and the borough are hindered because
"there is no constant, institutionalized student
input," Scobbria said.
He added that most of the student concerns are
communicated to the borough council through
student government liaisons and at the Mayor's
Advisory Board meetings once a month.
Echoing Scoboria's concern, Rosenblatt said
that sometimes students feel "locked out of the
policy making." Though USEC forwarded
recommedations to the borough council at the
time, of the amending of the noise ordinance,
some students felt that their input was ignored.
Council Member R. Thomas Berner said
concerns of all local residents are given equal
consideration in borough council decisions.
Berner added that students should view
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equitable distribution.
Local merchants, the State Col
lege Area Chamber of Commerce
and the Downtown Business Asso
ciation argued that the tax would
affect some businesses much more
than others. They claim the tax is
unfair because high volume low
profit businesses would pay more
tax tharf those businesses with a low
volume but high profits.
Chaffee, a local real estate sales
manager, has said he has been
unhappy with the way council
pushed through the tax ordinance.
He has also said he was unhappy
that council did not wait for the
Shortfall of natural science and engineering
baccalaureates with different minority rates
Cumulative shortfall (thousands) from 1983 degree level
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176 to 3,324. They now make up 23
percent of all graduate students.
But the number of black graduates
has remained relatively constant at
2.4 percent, bucking the national
trend, in which enrollment has
dropped 6 percent in the past year.
Byron Wiley, assistant to the dean
of the Graduate School for minority
affairs, said the University has man
aged to "buck trends because of an
administrational commitment, which
is reinforced by mandates from the
Commonwealth that Penn State in
crease minority enrollment."
Besides each college having a des
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themselves as permanent residents of the
community by increasing involvement with local
government such as being appointed to borough
committees' and attending council meetings.
But Rosenblatt said that "often State College
residents perceive students are naive to some
processes of the world," adding that students
view "the borough as a cold, unchanging body."
A student candidate should also focus' on
community relations issues such as
strengthening University students' credibility
and the reinstituting students' trust of the
borough council.
Rosenblatt explained that the undercover sting
operation that ended with the State College
Bureau of Police Services charging 16
fraternities with underage drinking was
perceived by University students as a breach of
trust.
"It is important that a student in the decision
level committee," Rosenblatt said, "comes to
the council with a student perspective and votes
for the benefit of the community."
Council President John Dombroski said the
obstacle to students running is that their main
purpose is to get an education. He added that he
would view a student council candidate as a
regular council member but not as a special
interest representative
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conclusions of local accountants
who will study the effects of the tax.
That study was requested by the
two butiness groups and is to be
completed in June.
Council member James Bartoo
offered an amendment that would
lower the tax from 1.5 to 1 mill. He
said some tax increases in the past
have resulted in greater revenue
for the borough than originally an
ticipated.
"In 1981, we increased the earned
income tax 5 mills or $750,000,"
Bartoo said. "In 1986, we increased
the earned income tax 3 mills. We
expected to get $450,000 but actually
got $588,000."
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ignated coordinator for minority en
rollment purposes, University
recruiting officials attend predomi
nantly black undergraduate universi
ties' graduate school fairs to sell
Penn State to minorities, he said.
The University "essentially tries to
use any recruiting method that reach
es minority groups," Wiley said.
"For example this week two doctoral
students are going out to Albur, New
Mexico for the 'Gathering of the
Nations,' " a program geared to
wards presenting opportunities of
fered to native Americans in higher
education.