s . y;xl , They're free Grapplers Att advance 8; hold itO r 4) 'Birmingham Six' UMW I I out after 17 years __ s , 4 3rd at NCAAs `i.! Page 9 m , Page 17 • to daily Collegian Police pursue new By MARK E. JONES and TOM SMITHYMAN Collegian Staff Writers Detectives in the State College Bureau of Police Services are pursuing a new lead in the four-year-long investigation of the murder of Dana Bailey, a University student who was stabbed to death in her State College apartment. Tom Jordan, a State College police investiga tor, said an anonymous tipster provided infor mation about a possible suspect during the last two weeks. The suspect worked for a heating contractor at the time of the killing and would have been Ole" Mark Molzer (junior-envionnental resource management) puts the finishing touches on the head of a snowman. Molzer was out in the snow yesterday to build the figure, which stands at Sigma Kappa Nu fraternity, 215 S. Pugh St. Green beer, parties blur St. Patrick's Day intent By ALISA BAUMAN Collegian Staff Writer During a St. Patrick's Day party last year, Susan Morris gazed into her emerald-colored beer and imagined the Wizard of Oz's emerald palace. As she thought about Dorothy, Toto and the Tin Man, she suddenly remem bered how the Scarecrow swerved along the Yellow Brick Road. "He must have been drinking emer ald-colored beer," she thought. Soon Morris convinced a friend that the Wizard of Oz cast were a bunch of green-beer-guzzling thespians. Even though she woke the next day with green lips and aching intestines, Morris (sophomore-political science) said she looks forward to another beer drinking weekend. But this time, she hopes she doesn't relate the experience to the Wizard of Oz. Like Morris, other University stu dents have pledged to drag their already bloated and hung-over bodies out of bed and back to the keg Sunday, which marks the annual feast day for St. Patrick. And for many of them, the holiday's original significance has faded behind a drunken and green facade. "Because of our society, (St. Pa- familiar with rooftops near Bailey's apartment, according to the tip. The informant, who did not reveal his identity, would not phone the police because he said he is wanted by police. Instead he gave the tip to a third party, who forwarded it to police. The suspect is described as a 5-foot-10-inch white male with curly, dark hair. He drove a gold or bronze Pontiac Trans Am with stripes. Jordan said the police are following the lead because of this and other similarities between this tip and FBI composites. Police found Bailey's body on March 5, 1987, at her apartment, 132 1 / 2 S. Allen St., above Crab tree Jewelers. She sustained six or seven stab trick's Day) has dripped over to people who don't believe in saints," said Father Leopold Crowe, a pastor at the Catholic Center in Eisenhower Chaple. "It's tak en on a worldly aspect." According to the New Catholic Ency clopedia, tales of St. Patrick banishing the poisonous snakes from Ireland and using a three-pronged shamrock to tea ch the holy Trinity come from ancient legend. Other feats of this saint include divine visions and the having his pray ers answered. The St. Patrick's Day festivities, which originated in Ireland where the apostle preached gospel, migrated to the United States with Irish immi grants, Crowe said. Though many peo ple of Irish decent celebrate the holiday by attending a memorial celebration and eating ethnic foods like Irish stew, some non-Irish people focus on green beer drinking, Crowe said. The holiday's beer-drinking aspect may result from a stereotyped belief in Irish drunkeness, he added. While some students plan to drink from the end of class Friday to sunset Sunday, others will give the holiday the religious reverance it holds in Ireland. Nick Voron, who has spent time in Ireland and has a brother who lives Please see GREEN, Page 7. tip in student murder case wounds to the heart and lungs. Bailey was 21. Before the informant came forward, police had already suspected that Bailey's killer stalked her from an abandoned apartment above Graham's Newsstand, 124 S. Allen St., and entered her room through an unlocked' kitchen window. Police have asked that the informant contact them with more information about the suspect. They are asking him to call either Centre County Crime Stoppers (1-800-352-7463) or Operation Crimetap (234-0909). The informant contacted a guest on a tele vision show titled "Getting Away with Murder." The show, produced by WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Collegian PhotolDan Gleiter Undergraduate Student Government president and vice president candidates (l-r): Roger Czulewicz, Michael LaFlam, Leslie Osborn, Kim Thorsen and Jim Van Horn Merry! Werber, Mark Stewart, Saul Trieman, Courtney Malveaux, Janine Salomone, The candidates spoke at a debate last night in the HUB. USG candidates differ on sexual orientation clause By JESSICA HARTSHORN Collegian Staff Writer Undergraduate Student Government presidential candidates disagree on whether the University should include the words "sexual orientation" in its non-discrimination policy, but they agree that USG should concentrate on providing services to students. At the first of three debates leading up to March 27's USG presidential election, Roger Czulewicz (senior-political sci ence) last night called supporting the addition of such a clause a "nice, ideal istic stance," but said he does not sup port the clause's inclusion because it would threaten ROTC's existence on campus. U.S. Defense Department pol icy prohibits gay men and lesbians from participating in the military. After the debate, Courtney Malveaux (senior-sociology) also said he does not Baker: More hope for end to Arab-Israeli problems By BARRY SCHWEID AP Diplomatic Writer MOSCOW At the windup of a five nation Mideast tour, Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 said yesterday chances of settling the Arab-Israeli dis pute "the most intractable problem that there is" were better than ever before. Baker arrived in Moscow from Syria to consult with Soviet leaders on their nation's own turmoil as well as contri butions the Soviet Union might make to a lasting Mideast peace. During a three day visit, he also planned to talk to lead ers of the growing opposition to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gerbachev. The United States has promised the Soviets a postwar role in the peace proc ess, but has not said what that role should be. The Soviets supported the United Nations resolutions demanding that their former client, Iraq, give up Kuwait, but they declined to send troops for the international coalition that drove Iraq out. During a two-hour meeting yester day, Baker gave Soviet Foreign Min ister Alexander Bessmertnykh a Afrocentric movement rises, focuses on culture, tradition By CARMEN LIVINGSTON Collegian Staff Writer Molefi Asante, author of "Afrocentricity" and a leader in James Stewart, Penn State's vice provost for underrepre the Afrocentric movement, said his publisher just told him sented groups, said the movement includes many schools of the book, released in 1980, is one of the most widely read thought, including cultural nationalism and classical African books among African-American university students. civilizationism. Cultural nationalists believe people of African Asante said he and other African-American theorists who descent should center their lives around African culture, rewrite history are spreading their messages across the while Classical African Civilizationists believe ancient Afri nation as African-American scholarship resurges. A can civilizations should serve as model societies for people movement of such proportions has not been seen since the of African descent. 19605, he said. Although some scholars fear that Afrocentrism will die out "The movement today is much broader and based on more like previous movements that promoted unity among people substance, scholarship," Asante said. of African descent such as the Harlem Renaissance in the Asante, who also heads the African and African-American Please see AFROCENTRISM, Page 7. believe the University should add a clause to its non-discrimination policy. Jim Van Horn (junior-history), Leslie Osborn (senior-advertising) and Mark Stewart (junior-English) said the clause should be included. "Somehow ROTC has become the people we feel sorry for, instead of the people who are being discriminated against," said Mike LaFlam ( senior human development and family stud ies), Osborn's running mate. Czulewicz said early in the debate that he wanted "equality in every sense of the word," but later said he has not seen a need for the clause. Malveaux said USG must concentrate more on serving students than on polit ical issues. The others agreed that stu dent services are important, and Stewart emphasized the need for "tan gible goals." The candidates also presented plans aired in February and provided brief summa ries of five unsolved murders in the station's viewing area. Before the show ended, the infor mant called one of the guests that had been interviewed regarding Bailey's murder. The informant told the guest he could not call the police, but would like to make his informa tion known to them. The guest then phoned police with a description of the suspect. Jordan said he was not in a position to grant immunity to the informant, but that the phone lines provide anonymity. Police are contacting heating contractors in Centre, Huntingdon and Clearfield counties and asking the companies to retrieve work orders "thorough briefing" on his talks this week in the Middle East, U.S. officials said. Arms control experts were called in briefly and will report back today, when Baker and Bessmertnykh are scheduled to discuss arms control, the situation in the Baltics and the Soviet economy, they said. Earlier, in Damascus, a senior U.S. official on the Baker trip said that Syria for the first time was considering "gen uine peace" with Israel rather than sim ply a cessation of armed conflict. "The Syrians told us they have changed their position," said the offi cial, who spoke on condition of anonym ity. On the other hand, Baker and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa con firmed that dozens of Scud-C missiles and missile launchers, capable of reach ing virtually all of Israel, had been delivered to Syria. Other sources said Wednesday in Jerusalem the weapons had arrived on a ship from North Korea and may be capable of carrying chemical weapons. Sharaa said Syria was still in a state of war with Israel, which has "so many for improving relations between stu dents and the administration, and for increasing student representation on University policy-making boards. Stewart said he would like represen tatives of the Graduate Student Associa tion, Commonwealth Campus Student Government and USG to have perma nent seats on the University Board of Trustees. Malveaux suggested randomly choos ing undergraduate students to take the USG president's seat on the Undergrad uate Student Advisory Board to present administrators with various student views. Van Horn suggested restructuring USG by combining USG Senate, USAB and Academic Assembly to commu nicate as one unit with the administra tion. Also, candidates disagreed on charg ing students a fee to fund improvements Weather Today, partly sunny and mild with a high temperature near 40. Clear and cold tonight, low of 18. Tomorrow, sun ny skies and milder with a high temper ature of 44. Friday, March 15, 1991 Vol. 91, No. 148 32 pages University Park, Pa. 16801 Published independently by students at Penn State ©1991 Collegian Inc. that could help identify possible suspects. At the outset of the investigation in 19g7, police mistakenly released a photograph to the local news media that depicted a woman who was not the victim. Police quickly found and released a photograph of Bailey. In subsequent weeks, rumors circulated among University students that a second stab bing victim had been found. In April 1987 police announced that a $15,000 reward was being offered to anyone providing information leading to the conviction of Bailey's murderer. An informant is still eligible to receive that reward, Jordan said. Please see BAILEY, Page 7. weapons of mass destruction." On another topic, the long detention in Lebanon of six American hostages by the fundamentalist Hezbollah group, Sharaa said that "the issue has to be resolved" and that Syria would exert maximum effort to secure their release. "We are not pessimistic that this will happen," Sharaa said. Privately, U.S. officials said that they welcomed Syria's help but that Iran, which backs Hezbollah, holds the key to the hostages' fate. The secretary of state said he had "sensed a very serious intent on the part of the Syrian government to pursue ail active peace process." Moreover, Baker said he had detected an attitude in Israel that the allied vic tory over Iraq opened "a window of opportunity" to move ahead on the basis of two U.N. Security Council resolutions adopted at the end of the 1967 and 1973 Mideast wars. The resolutions imply the acceptance of Israel by other Mideast nations, with out saying so directly, and call for with drawal from occupied territories, without specifying how much land Israel should relinquish. Studies Department at Temple University in Philadelphia, defines Afrocentricity as "the views on phenomenon through the eyes of African people as subjects rather than as objects." to the Paul Robeson Cultural Center and the HUB. Stewart said state and University funding should be balanced, but that students must also play a role. "These are our buildings," Stewart said. Malveaux and Czulewicz suggested students hold fundraisers, and Van Horn said a student fee would be the fairest way to raise money. But LaFlam said the University should pay for a new cultural center because it agreed to it when students staged a sit-in at the Telecommunica tions Building in 1988. He said a student fee is "unthinkable." All candidates said they would push for improved health care on campus. The candidates will meet again March 19 at 7 p.m. in Findlay Rec Room in a debate focusing on the role of stu dent groups at the University. Bob Tschantz Collegian PhotolAnn Brucklacher
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