:ush outlines $7.9 billion plan to fight drugs President Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine as he poses for photographers in the Oval Office of the White House after cloth/wing his first nationally televised speech. Yesterday, Bush outlined his $7.9 billion plan for the war on drugs in an attempt to tackle one of the nation's toughest problems. Bush emphasized harsher penalties for users and more money for prisons, treatment and education. Democrats greeted the plan with restraint. Faculty Senate holds forums for students By JOE ATKINSON Collegian Staff Writer As part of an effort to address the issue of adding cultural diversity requirements to the curriculum, the University Faculty Senate will offer the floor to University students and faculty at its Sept. 12 and Oct. 10 meetings. George Bugyi, Senate executive sec retary, said they will grant this priv ilege so members of the University community can express their thoughts on the issue. Individuals interested in addressing the Senate can submit written requests to the Chair of the Committee on Stu dent Life, in care of the Senate Office in Birch Cottage on campus. Requests must be received no later than Friday for the Sept. 12 meeting and Oct. 6 for the Oct. 10 meeting. "Cultural diversity is exceedingly important," Bugyi said, adding that stu dent and faculty inplit will help the Sen ate formulate any upcoming changes in University curriculum requirements in the area of diversity. After student and faculty requests for mandatory black and women's studies courses, the Faculty Senate will inves tigate the possibilities of a mandatory cultural diversity course as part of the general education requirements. The University hopes to mandate cul tural diversity courses for all under graduates by the year 1990. Students would be required to take a three-credit course which focuses on the culture of a racial, gender, ethnic or international group. Social scientists who analyzed the campus racial atmosphere last spring also recommended the addition of cul tural diversity courses in a June report. The proposal was made by the Uni versity's Subcommittee on Diversity. The September meeting will give Sen ate members a better understanding of the climate at the University in relation to cultural diversity, Bugyi said. No legislative action will be taken during either meeting, he said, as the meetings will be strictly devoted to open discussion. Although there are presently no pro posals before the Senate to add diversity requirements to the curriculum, possi ble additions will be considered during the Senate meeting in October, Bugyi said. Graduate Student Association Pres ident Ken Martin, who will address the Senate Sept. 12, said cultural diversity is an important issue at the University. Martin said although the University has addressed the basic needs of its cultu rally-diverse community, Penn State must make greater strides toward inte grating all students and faculty mem bers. He did not anticipate any legislative action by the Senate presently. Joe Pa's book hits shelves By CHINO WILSON Collegian Sports Writer Among the latest items for diehard Penn State football fanatics, "Pater no: By the Book" has arrived just in time for this weekend's season opener against Virginia. The book's regular edition a col laboration betweerrCoach Joe Pater no and University Associate English Professor Bernard Asbell first graced the windows of stores down town and on campus Friday and since then sales have varied. The regular edition costs $18.95 while the limited edition, which is signed by Paterno and has special binding, costs $lOO. The limited edi tions will arrive in a few weeks. Most of the estimated 1,500 advanced copies have already been sold, said Fiizabeth Wilson, merchan dise supervisor of the Penn State Bookstore. "I think (sales have) been good but of course the book came in every where in town so it's really hard to tell," Wilson said. "Our advance sales were very good. We've had a very good response." University students, however, are not among the book's biggest fans. "Based on the what I've seen, the majority of the buyers are towns people and faculty rather than stu- Please see PATERNO, Page 14. Attorney By ISABEL MOLINA Collegian Staff Writer Sarah Weddington is not just another woman con cerned about reproductive rights. In 1973, she was the lawyer who defended "Jane Roe," in the historical U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. She will speak at 8 tonight in Eisen hower Auditorium on the constitutional implications of the 1973 abortion ruling. In July's Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services, the Supreme Court did not overturn Roe vs. Wade but ruled that states may impose signifigant restrictions on abortion. "She is the only one with her perspective. And her perspective is totally different," said Carrie Bowmas ter (senior-history), a member of the Undergraduate Student Government's Department of Women's Con cerns. Tammy Foust, co-director of the USG department, said Weddington will provide new insights as to how she saw abortion and decided to approach the issue. "She bas a completely unique perspective in the world. She is the person that argued and won Roe vs. Wade," she said. Ray Watson (graduate-comparative literature) pages through Joe Paterno's By the Book at the Penn State Bookstore. The books went on sale Friday in area bookstores with most advance orders selling out. Booksellers said only about 2 percent of the book's buyers are students. The majority are town residents and University faculty. in Roe case to address abortion issues Roe vs. Wade was Weddington's first contested case, and her victory made her the youngest woman to win a case before the Supreme Court. Today, she is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas and a distinguished lecturer at Texas Women's University. Weddington is currently working on a book entitled Some Lecders are Born Women and stills practices law in Austin, Texas. Lynne Goodstein, director of the Women's Studies Program said the program decided to co-sponsor Wed dington because of her involvement with the Supreme Court's 1973 ruling. "That decision had ramifications for all women in this country," Goodstein said. "She is an important figure in women studies from a historical and socio logical perspective . . . clearly the legalization of abor tion was an important historical event for women." Weddington's speech is being sponsored by Colloquy and co-sponsored by the Center for Women Students and the Women's Studies program. Sabrina Chapman, director of the Center for Women Students said in a written statement, "Sarah Wedding ton is a dynamic speaker, who is memorable to hear under any circumstances. By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. President Bush, calling drugs "the gravest domestic threat facing our nation," last night proposed a $7.9 billion war on nar cotics emphasizing harsher penalties for users and more money for prisons, treatment and education. Bush warned Latin-American drug lords that "the rules have changed" and for the first time pledged U.S. military help to any government that requests it in an all-out assault against drugs. "Drugs are sapping our strength as a nation," the president said in his first nationally televised address from the Oval Office. He punctuated his speech by displaying a plastic bag of crack cocaine seized across the street from the White House. To attack cocaine at its source, Bush proposed a four-fold increase in the amount of military and law enforce ment aid for Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, to $261.2 million in 1990. He called it the downpayment on a $2 billion, five year program for the Andean region, with more aid contingent on progress in eradicating drugs. At home, Bush called for a battle fought "neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, child by child," and sought a crackdown against those who use drugs. Even casual users would pay, by losing their driving privileges or spending time in military-style boot camps. Collegian Phot "There's no question but that drugs are (the) quicksand of our entire society. They're suffocating individuals and families and institutions as well . . . And all Americans must pull together to solve this problem." To help offset the cost of his program, Bush proposed diverting $751 million from other programs, including juve nile justice, housing, immigration and economic development. "We can pay for this fight against drugs without raising taxes or adding to the budget deficit," he said. On Capitol Hill, Democrats greeted Bush's plan with restraint. House Speaker Thomas Foley, D-Wash., said Bush was not seeking enough money to mount a long-term assault, and said the program will increase pressure for a tax increase. With cocaine and crack dealing cre ating violence and record homicide rates across the country, Americans appear ready for a new assault against drugs. Hurricane Gabrielle heads for Bermuda By DAN SEWELL Associated Press Writer MIAMI Giant Hurricane Gabrielle, its tail winds swamping homes and businesses as far south as Barbados, may have reached peak force as its swirling clouds spread further over the Atlantic, forecasters said late yester day. Experts, however, said it was too ear ly to draw conclusions from U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane readings of rising barometric pressure and a slightly expanding eye in the hurricane, which brushed by the U.S. Caribbean islands before turning its 135 mph winds northward. Hurricane forecasters said Gabrielle appeared to be heading toward the Brit ish island of Bermuda in the Atlantic, but was still at least three days away and on an uncertain course that seemed to be moving from a northwesterly course to northward. "The biggest threat now is for Bermu da . . . Anybody on the East Coast should watch this storm," said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurri cane Center in suburban Coral Gables. Gabrielle, already this season's big gest hurricane, was upgraded yester day evening to a Category 4 hurricane with 5 being the strongest. Forecasters said it rivaled last year's record-setting Hurricane Gilbert at the same stage, but was on a path more like 1905's powerful Hurricane Gloria, which did $9OO million in damage as it raced up the East Coast and into New England. Sheets said Gabrielle was unlikely to come near South Florida. "At this particular historical moment, that is more true than ever, given her key role in legal decisions pertaining to personal choice and reproductive rights," Chapman continued . Goodstein said she would like students to understand the significance that the decision to have or not to have an abortion had for women. "I think she would be better able to get that across to most people because she was around when abortion was not legal," she said. Foust said the purpose of Weddington's speech is not to argue a pro-choice or pro-life stance but to relate her perspective on the Supreme Court decision as "Jane Roe's" lawyer Foust said she hopes Weddington's speech will increase interest on campus about reproductive-rights issues. "Anytime there is debate and information put out, that is gobd," she said LoraNace (senior-physics) said she hopes Wedding ton is able to arouse the consciousness of people on campus. "Make people more aware of how monumental this decision is and as to how we as students need to be aware of that," Nace added. - GEORGE BUSH, president A Gallup Poll released at the White House last month said a record 27 per cent of Americans consider drugs the most important problem facing the nation, above poverty, the economy, the environment and fear of war. "All of us agree that the gravest domestic threat facing our nation today is drugs," Bush said. Bush held up the bag of cocaine, and said it was as "innocent looking as can dy." But the president added, "If we fight this war as a divided nation, then the war is lost. But if we face this evil as a nation united, this will be nothing but a handful of useless chemicals." Although overall cocaine use is down, frequent use has almost doubled in recent years. "Roughly 8 million people have used cocaine in the last year," the president said. Almost I million of them used the drug at least once a week. Even before the speech, Bush's pro gram was praised by the head of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Charles D. Reynolds, who said in a statement that "the criminal justice recommendations of this report are responsive to critical needs." However, Rep. Don Edwards, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's civil rights sub committee, said the plan "proposes more of almost everything that hasn't worked more arrests, more prisons, tougher sentences." Delivering the Democratic response to Bush's address, Senate Judiciary Please see BUSH, Page 14. Gabrielle, with storm winds in a 500- mile-long band, caused storm swells as far as 1,000 miles from its center, fore casters said. Sheets compared Gabrielle to Gilbert of 1988, saying Gabrielle's size was sim ilar to Gilbert, which became "the storm of the century" and devastated the island of Jamaica. Both were the seventh named storms of their Atlantic season, as was Gloria. While Gilbert stayed on a westerly course across the upper Caribbean and made landfall in Mexico, Gabrielle was moving out of the Caribbean and head ed up into the Atlantic. As of 10:30 p.m. EDT, Gabrielle was centered near 22.6 north latitude and 58.5 west longitude, about 775 miles south-southeast of Bermuda. It was moving northwest at 12 mph. The governments of the Leeward Islands countries urged small craft to stay in port and issued heavy surf warn ings as Gabrielle pushed 74 mph ( hurri cane-force) winds as far as 100 miles away from its center. Henry Laskosky, a National Weather Service forecaster in San Juan, pre dicted rough seas for the island. In Barbados, the easternmost Carib bean island 550 miles southeast of Puer to Rico, Gabrielle's tail caused 10-foot waves and rough seas on the island's east coast Monday. Some beachfront homes and businesses in the capital of Bridgetown were flooded Tuesday. No injuries or serious damages were reported. The weather in Barbados and Lee ward islands yesterday was sunny and clear. 7 1: -± -= = = - = :47 -,- 2 7. .g = = Burrowes Road will be closed for two weeks from south of the Rec Hall parking lot to the north entrance of Waring Hall. From Sept. 7 to 21, the University will be installing new steam lines for the campus heating system. Traffic heading for points south of the closing can detour around the con struction via Park Avenue and Ath erton Street to Pollock Road. WEATHER Partly cloudy today and tonight, high 75. Low tonight 59. Mostly cloudy tomorrow, high again near 75. Ross Dickman
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