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PSU prof tests bomb-carrier model
By TERRY MUTCHLER
Collegian Staff Writer
The head of the University's aerospace
engineering department recently completed
work on a plastic model of a bomb or "a
rocket with the ability to carry an explosive,"
a graduate student and the department head
involved with the project confirmed.
"( ISC Technologies of Lancaster) had
given us a scale model of the bomb, and we
were asked to test the lift and drag forces and
the stability of the model," said M.G. Girid
haran, a graduate student working on the
project.
In the first of two interviews, Giridharan
said the model was an anti-personnel bomb
a device used to kill by spraying shards of
Fraternity appeals
'unfair' hearings,
2-year suspension
By KARL HOKE
Collegian Staff Writer
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity has
filed an appeal with the Student Orga
nizations Appeal Board, saying the
Interfraternity Council conducted un
fair hearings and imposed excessive
sanctions on the fraternity when sus
pending it for two years for an alleged
hazing incident.
Thomas Eakin, assistant vice pres
ident of Student Programs said,
"Those will be the only issues the
(board) will look at."
Alpha Fraternity President Ivory
Johnson would not comment on the
nature of the appeal.
On Sept. 8 the IFC's Board of Con
trol found Alpha Phi Alpha guilty of
pledge hazing and revoked the frater
nity's recognition. The sentence was
upheld by IFC's Board of Appeals.
The incident resulted in sanctions
against three officers in the fraterni
ty by Alpha Phi Alpha's national
chapter. The officers are forbidden to
wear the fraternity's letters or have
any dealings with the national chap
ter for two years.
Eakin said the fraternity has been
informed they may continue to oper
ate until they have exhausted all
appeals.
The board has not reviewed a case
since 1984.
0 rug bust nets 16, including 10 PSU students
By HANS KROGER
Collegian Staff Writer
Early yesterday morning State College Bureau of
Police Services and University Police Services issued
arrest warrants for 17 people after a joint six-month drug
investigation involving more than $lO,OOO worth of drugs.
Yesterday, 16 people, 10 of whom are University stu
dents, were arrested by State College and University
police officers and arraigned before Centre County Dis
trict Magistrate Clifford Yorks.
Lieutenant Jack Orndorf said none of the arrests were
related.
"These people were not connected, it was individual
people that we, through investigation, found were using or
selling drugs," he said.
None of the people charged were arrested because of
information gained from last month's task force arrests
involving nine local, state and federal law enforcement
agencies, Orndorf said.
"This was a totally independent investigation," Orn
dorf said.
Although 10 of the people arrested were University
students, no arrests were made on campus, Orndorf said.
However, University police did make arrests down
town, Clifford Lutz, University police supervior said. The
warrents for arrest allow police to do so because the
offense occured on University property, he added.
Two of those arrested were juveniles, Orndorf said.
The 17 people are charged with a total of 103 charges,
including 68 felony counts and 35 misdemeanor counts.
Those arraigned yesterday before District Magistrate
Yorks were:
• Gerald Biancchi, 19, 228 S. Garner St. Bail set at
8500.
• Bruce D. Allen, 21, 520 N. Allen St. Bail set at $7,500
• Sheryl Henken, 22, 478 E. Beaver Ave. Nominal bail
metal upon detonation. However, yesterday,
he said he was not sure what type of bomb the
plastic model depicted.
"We didn't design it," he said. " ISC Tech
nologies) just wanted some data."
Dennis K. McLaughlin, head of the depart
ment of aerospace engineering and the pro
ject, said he prefers to call the plastic device
a rocket rather than a bomb.
"I call (the model) a rocket, but it will
probably end up carrying an explosive de
vice," he said.
The model called project Rockeye is
two inches in diameter and 13 inches long.
The project took about 16 weeks to complete,
he said. A final report of the experimental
analysis should be sent to ISC Technologies in
the near future, he said.
Eakin said he is responsible for
establishing the board, briefing it on
its responsibilities and ensuring it has
the neccesary materials related to
the appeal.
The board is composed of two Uni
versity administrators, two faculty
members and four students. Eakin
said few cases reach the board be
cause most are settled before the
bodies that originally hear each case.
The two administrators on the
board are appointed by Vice-Presi
dent for Student President William
Asbury, the two faculty members by
the University Faculty Senate and
the four students are selected from
recommendations by the Undergrad
uate Student Government and the
Graduate Student Association.
The board will review relevant
material the IFC used in their hear
ings and decide whether to hold a
hearing if more information about the
case is needed. He expects the board
to conduct the review within two
weeks.
"One of the first decisions the
board has to make is whether or not
to base their review on the record or
whether or not they want to have a
hearing. - Eakin said.
After its review, the board will
determine if the sanctions were ap
propriate. If not, the board would
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• Charles McCormick, 23, 224 S. Barnard St. Bail set at
$2,500.
• Mark McLaughlin, no age given. 225 E. Foster Ave
Bail set at $5,000.
• Tammy Resnick, 18, Mont Alto. Bail set at $lO.OOO.
• Joseph Schonman, 22, no address given. Nominal
bail.
• Christopher Simon, 21. 520 N. Allen St. Bail set at
$2,500.
• Richard Trinca, 28, Star Route, Rebersburg. Bail set
at $2,500.
• Geoffrey Whitmore. 21. 346 E. Prospect Ave. Bail set
at $15,000.
The preliminary hearing date set by Magistrate Yorks
for those charged is Nov. 5.
The felony counts include: possession with intent to
deliver, delivery of a controlled substance and criminal
conspirancy to commit such acts. The misdemeanor
charges are: possession of a controlled substance and
possession of drug paraphernalia.
A total of eight different controlled substances were
involved in the investigation, including: cocaine, mari
juana, LSD, crack, methamphetamine. methadone. di
azepam and psilocybin (or "mushrooms") The largest
amount of a single drug was cocaine.
Orndorf said informants, undercover officers and State
College criminal investigation officers were used in the
investigation.
The largest single drug buy made by undercover
officers was an ounce of cocaine. purchased for $2.000.
Orndorf said the money used in the drug buys was
supplied by Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar's
office. The District Attorney's office maintains a fund for
drug investigations comprised of cash confiscated in
previous drug cases.
Orndorf said all of the drug buys occurred either on
campus or in the State College borough.
McLaughlin said John Adams, program
engineer for ISC, approached him last May
about the possibility of performing aerodyna
mic testing on the model, adding that he and
ISC have a consulting arrangement.
"(With a consulting arrangement), we act
independently from Penn State." he said.
"Penn State is not liable or responsible for
the research."
However, in a second interview last night
with McLaughlin, and Thomas Seliga, asso
ciate dean of graduate studies and research.
McLaughlin said Penn State would hold some
accountability. He did not say to what extent.
"I do not represent Penn State or speak on
behalf of Penn State ( when interacting with
ISC)," McLaughlin said.
Yesterday afternoon, McLaughlin said he
After being charged in yesterday's drug bust, a suspect leaves the State
College Municipal Building for his arraignment.
had Seliga's approval to do consultation
work. He said the University must be gener
ally aware of all research or work a professor
conducts whether or not it is done for another
corporation.
Seliga said he was aware McLaughlin was
doing consultation work, but said he did know
the work involved a model of a bomb or
rocket.
He added that when a professor consults
with a corporation, the department head and
dean are only informed of generalities such
as who the work is being done for. He said
that is not abnormal procedure.
Consulting research. however, is unusual in
the College of Engineering. he said.
"It's very rare in that college." Seliga said.
"Very rare."
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He added Penn State has nothing to do with
the data results of McLaughlin's work.
Seliga stressed that McLaughlin's work is
separate from the University, adding that
McLaughlin, through ISC, pays for materials
and rental of building space.
Adams refused to comment on the type of
research or work ISC performs and would not
confirm his title.
The Sept. 30, 1985 issue of Aviation Week
and Space Technologies reported that one of
the corporation's projects included devel
oping a new cluster bomb "allowing users to
individually program the detonation of 160
fragmenting submunitions dispensed by the
weapon."
The cluster bomb, according to the article,
Please see PROJECT, Page 14,
Reagan picks
hard-liner to
sit on court
By TERENCE HUNT
AP White House Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D.C. President
Reagan, making good on his promise
to pick another hardline conserva
tive, nominated federal appeals court
Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg to the
Supreme Court yesterday, risking a
second confirmation battle in the
Senate.
Reagan praised Ginsburg as an
advocate of judicial restraint and a
believer in law and order. He said
Ginsburg "will take a tough, clear
eyed view" of the Constitution "while
remaining sensitive to the safety of
our citizens and to the problems fac
ing law enforcement professionals."
Ginsburg sits on the same Washing
ton, D.C. bench as Judge Robert
H. Bork, whose nomination to the
nation's highest court was rejected
by the Senate last Friday. Ginsburg
and Bork are generally viewed as
being ideologically similar. And they
both sport beards.
If confirmed, Ginsburg would be
one of the youngest justices ever to sit
on the court. He is 41. A former
Harvard Law School professor and
head of the Justice Department anti
trust division, he also would be the
first Jew to sit on the high court since
the resignation of Abe Fortas in 1969.
Seeking to head off the lengthy
debate that led to Bork's defeat,
Reagan said, "If these hearings take
more than three weeks to get going,
the American people will know
what's up. -
But opposition was forming. Se
n. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., a
leader of the fight against Bork, said
he was concerned that Attorney Gen
eral Edwin Meese 111 prevailed on
Reagan "to name an ideological
clone of Judge Bork a Judge Bork
without a paper trail instead of a
real conservative who would have
broad support in the Senate."
Ginsburg was reported to have
been Meese's choice while White
House chief of staff Howard H. Baker
Jr. was urging the appointment of
federal appeals court judge Anthony
Kennedy of Sacramento. Calif., who
would have been a less controversial
choice.
On Monday. Baker sounded out five
key Republican senators about 13 or
14 potential nominees and. according
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hiday
weather
This afternoon, partly cloudy
with risk of a shower, high 50.
Tonight, clear. low 34. Tomor
row, mostly sunny and pleasant,
high 55. Saturday night, clear
skies but a chance of a be
witchng breeze; the temperature
will die to 38. Sunday, sunny and
warm, high 65 Ross Dickman
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