: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.
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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