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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
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high temperature near 40. Clear and
cold tonight, low of 18. Tomorrow, sun
ny skies and milder with a high temper
ature of 44.
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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.
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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