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Controversy
rocks USG
Elections commissioners
appointed after squabble
By KATHRYN BRAZEL
and KRISTI HIBSHMAN
Collegian Staff Writers
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment President Chris Saunders
unexpectedly appointed a USG
Elections Commission late last
night after remarks made by a
resigning senator.
Mike Devine resigned in disgust
because of what he called the USG
Senate's lack of effectiveness
but what others called a politically
motivated endorsement of USG
Academic Assembly President
Erich May.
Devine formally resigned his
position as East Halls senator and
USG Senate liaison to Academic
Assembly, saying he was disap
pointed with the leadership of
USG. He specifically named Saun
ders and Senate President Mike
King as examples.
Devine said Saunders controlled
USG Senate, grilling and habitual
ly talking down to its members.
Devine charged King with using
the Senate to further his political
career at the University.
"As Senate president, Mike is
using his power to climb to the top
rung of the USG political ladder:
Coaches'
group
plans to boycott
basketball games
By DOUG TUCKER
AP Sports Writer
SAN ANTONIO The head of
the Black Coaches Association,
upset over the NCAA's decision to
cut scholarships, said yesterday he
expects his group to boycott men's
college basketball games, possibly
for the rest of the season.
The boycott, which would
include coaches and players, could
begin as early as Saturday, Martin
Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
"In all likelihood there will be a
boycott but I am reluctant to give
you a time and date," said Rudy
Washington, head of the BCA and
basketball coach at Drake. "Play
ers and coaches are expected to
participate. And they're talking
about the rest of the season, like
the baseball strike."
On Monday, the NCAA voted
down a proposal to restore a 14th
basketball scholarship two years
after it voted to cut scholarships
from 15 to 13. The BCA says
minorities are particularly hurt by
cutting scholarships.
The Presidents Commission cit
ed costs and the need to hold firm
on reform measures. The presi-
Democrats: Special counsel needed
By JOHN KING
AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. A grow
ing number of Democrats say a
special counsel should investigate
President Clinton's investment in a
controversial Arkansas devel
opment, dashing White House
hopes of calling Republican
demands for such a review politi
cally motivated.
"Whether it is reality or not
doesn't matter the perception is
that the White House is withhold-
Mg information," Democratic Sen.
Bob Kerrey of Nebraska said in an
interview yesterday. "This one is
not going away so the way to get it
off the table is to get someone
independent to take a look at it."
Yeltsin calls for
parliament to
compromise
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the presidency of USG," he said,
"Above all, Mike King says that he
acts on behalf of the Penn State
student body, but he really does
everything for himself his
image, his ambition and his
future."
Saunders said that in light of the
events that transpired last night,
he appointed an elections commis
sion "to make sure this campaign
stays in the election period and as
clean and related to the issues as
possible. I figured the sooner the
better."
The commission isn't usually
appointed until later in the semes
ter. The commissioners must be
confirmed by the Senate Appoint
ment Review Board and the Sen
ate.
King said he has encouraged
members of the Senate to come to
him with criticisms and some
senators did but not Devine.
"Sometimes I feel like I'm
walking around with a bull's eye on
my back and I'm tired of pulling
knives from it," King said.
Saunders said Devine made the
comments in support of May's
possible campaign for USG presi
dent. "He was taking political pot
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reaction
dents also indicated to the BCA the
scholarship could be added next
year if savings could be found
elsewhere.
NCAA executive director Cedric
Dempsey declined to say whether
he believes there will be a boycott.
"If there's to be a boycott, how
long a boycott?" he said at a news
conference following the NCAA
convention. "We could play specu
lative games related to that. I don't
see that it would be profitable."
It is not clear how many coaches
would participate in a boycott. The
BCA has some 3,000 members, but
that number includes head coaches
and assistants from all divisions in
men's and women's programs, as
well as high school coaches.
Dempsey and Joseph Crowley,
the NCAA president, both said
they had talked with BCA rep
resentatives twice in the previous
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Kerrey was the fifth Democratic
senator in the past three days to
suggest an independent investiga
tion.
Separately, Republicans com
plained anew yesterday that the
Justice Department was dragging
its feet in investigating the White
water Development Corp. and an
Arkansas savings and loan run by
the Clintons' partner.
Eight GOP lawmakers, including
the Senate and House Republican
leaders, said in a letter to Attorney
General Janet Reno that the stat
ute of limitations for any civil
wrongdoing that could have
occurred in Whitewater and Mad
ison Guaranty Savings & Loan
would expire as early as this
March.
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Wednesday, Jan. 12, 1994
Clay-mazing
Beth Reitmeyer (senior-art) checks out Andrea Stanislav's maze titled "Sea of Possibilities" at the
Clay National Exhibit in Zoller Gallery yesterday.
OPP takes
By COURTNEY CAIRNS
Collegian Staff Writer
Walkways remained slick as
another day slipped by, leaving
behind busy workers from the
Office of Physical Plant and irri
tated students.
On slushy, icy, snow-coated
sidewalks, students hiked to a
second day of classes yesterday
and searched for traction as their
shoes threatened to slide out from
under them.
Heather Pleier (senior-advertis
ing) called the situation ridiculous.
"They're (OPP) not going to do
anything till someone gets hurt,"
she said.
The eight Republicans said they
had no evidence of wrongdoing.
But they nonetheless urged Reno
to seek waivers from the statute of
limitations for the president, first
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, her
former law firm, Clinton invest
ment partner James McDougal and
several others involved with the
bank.
"These agreements will allow
time for a complete and indepen
dent investigation," the Republi
cans said in the letter.
Reno spokesman Carl Stern said
the Resolution Trust Corp., the
savings and loan bailout agency,
was responsible for any civil cases
that would be subject to the five
year statute of limitations cited by
the Republicans.
heat over
But David Martin, manager of
janitorial and landscape services,
said OPP has salted and plowed all
major walkways the walkway by
Pollock Road and the ones running
north, south, east and west.
The diagonal secondary walk
ways were salted once the major
paths had been cleared. "By now
everything has been done at least
once, maybe twice," Martin said.
But during the night the melted
snow re-freezes, resulting in
another mess and more work for
OPP. The problems students have
noticed result from this cycle,
Martin said.
"It may take us several days to
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focus of investment controversy
slippery sidewalks
get all the ice off the sidewalks,"
he said, adding that each day the
walkways improve slightly.
The Office of Housing and Food
Service Operations also works
with OPP to clear off snow within
10 feet of dorms, sometimes hiring
students to shovel it, said Sandy
Harpster, assistant director for
housing operations.
"There's so much to do on cam
pus that the physical plant couldn't
possibly do it all," she said.
OPP is also in the process of
resolving problems encountered
after employees complained that
they were treated unfairly during
the blizzard last March. Martin
Students return from uprising
By NICOLE RADZJEVICH
Collegian Staff Writer
A University student finally left
the confusion, death and instability
of southern Mexico when she was
greeted by her parents at the air
port 7 p.m. Monday night.
In the past 12 days, Kimi Eisele
(senior-English and geography),
Libby Wentz (graduate-geography)
and Karen O'Brien (graduate
geography) witnessed the first
peasant uprising in 20 years at
Chiapas, a Mexican state, while
working on O'Brien's doctoral dis
sertation on deforestation in San
Cristobal de las Casas.
While the threesome returned
from celebrating the new year, the
Zapatista National Liberation
Army invaded the city. They did
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NATO
warns
Serbs
West may strike
if strife continues
By SALLY JACOBSEN
Associated Press Writer
BRUSSELS, Belgium After
months of empty threats, Presi
dent Clinton and his NATO allies
warned Serb forces yesterday of a
new determination to launch air
strikes if needed to relieve
embattled Muslim enclaves in
Bosnia. "My resolve is there,"
Clinton said.
At the end of a two-day summit,
the 16 Western leaders announced
their willingness to order bombing
raids if Bosnian Serbs continue to
prevent the opening of a major
airport for aid supplies or the
rotation of encircled peace keep
ers.
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"Whether they occur or not
depends upon the behavior of the
Bosnian Serbs from this moment
forward," Clinton told reporters at
the end of the meeting of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion.
The first reaction from the Serb
forces was negative. Their chief of
staff, Manojlo Milovanovic,
warned U.N. troops would also
suffer in any air campaign because
his forces would stay close to
peacekeepers. "They cannot strike
at us without also hitting U.N.
forces," he said.
Clinton and other leaders
insisted there was a new mood
among the allies to carry out the
threats first issued last June to use
their formidable air power.
"There is a very real determin
ation" to carry out the warnings,
said British Prime Minister John
Major. He had in the past opposed
air strikes for fear of reprisals
against his country's 2,200 peace
keepers in Bosnia.
"I made it clear that for our part
we were prepared to follow
through," Clinton said.
said the complaints had no effect
on the work the crew did to clear
the walkways this time.
And Patrick Connelly (senior
broadcast cable) said he had
noticed an improvement on the
main walks, but some of the oth
ers, especially around Willard
Building, seemed untreated.
"They're still real slippery,"
Connelly said.
Jack Bush (junior-mechanical
engineering) estimated that he had
slipped about 15 times while walk
ing home.
"You're walking home, you're
trying to look all cool, and then you
slip and fall," he said.
not hear about the rebellion, which
eventually cut short their project,
until the next morning.
"We couldn't get a news report,"
Eisele said. "All we could watch
was Penn State football."
While Eisele was out visiting
friends last night, her father Fred
Eisele described her as healthy
and in good spirits.
Eisele said she did not see any of
the bloodshed, but did see the
rebels.
The rebels, comprised of young
men, women and some children,
made an "attempt of a uniform,"
Eisele said. They sported new
green pants, red bandannas and
wooden rifles. Th9se in command
wore face masks. tut many of the
tourists were not scared.
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