Leaders agree to
take missiles off
targets
Vol. 94, No. 111 28 Pages 01994 Collegian Inc
Student
By KATHRYN BRAZEL
and KRISTI HIBSHMAN
Collegian Staff Writers
Top Undergraduate Student
Government officers withdrew
their positions from the Executive
Student Action Council last night
after a motion to dissolve ESAC
was struck down.
USG President Chris Saunders,
USG Senate President Mike King,
USG Vice President Heather Shore
and USG Academic Assembly
President Erich May resigned
their office's position on ESAC
after the motion was defeated by a
vote of 10 to nine.
The motion was brought forward
after a Wednesday night meeting
Football team
gets around
housing code
By JULIET GREER
Collegian Sports Writer
Sophomore football players are
being allowed to live in Nittany
Apartments which is reserved
for juniors, seniors and graduate
students and all football players
can bypass a lottery for assign
ment in the residences, despite the
University housing policy applying
to other students.
The terms, conditions and regu
lations of the housing and food
service contract for Nittany
Apartments specifically state that
juniors and seniors only shall be
eligible to enter a lottery, which
provides students the chance to be
selected to reside in the on-campus
dwelling.
But at least 10 sophomores, all of
whom play football, are listed in
the University student directory as
residing in Nittany Apartments.
They are Chris Campbell, Jason
Collins, Gerald Filardi, Andrew
Joyner, Terry Killens, Brian Mill
er, Wally Richardson, Freddie
Scott, Mark Tate and Jon Witman.
Last year, 22 sophomore football
players including Ki-Jana Car
ter, Todd Atkins and Michael
Archie lived in Nittany Apart
ments.
Associate Athletic Director Ellen
Perry, Housing Assignment Office
Manager Lynn Dußois and Assis
tant Director of Housing Fred
Fotis all said that the junior
standing housing policy for Nitta
ny Apartments applied to student
athletes as well.
"You need to be at least a
junior," Fotis originally said. When
asked if that policy applied to stu
dent-athletes as well, Fotis said, "I
believe that it does. Yes."
Dußois added that "no excep-
PSU allocates funds
for black students
By COURTNEY CAIRNS
and NAINA NARAYANA
Collegian Staff Writers
A drop in black student enroll
ment this year has prompted the
University to set aside about half a
million dollars in scholarships for
the 1994-95 school year a move
unique to the University among
the other Big Ten schools.
University President Joab
Thomas decided to allocate more
money for black students' schol
arships after a 3 percent drop in
black student enrollment, said
James Stewart, vice provost for
educational equity.
The $500,000 allotted for the
scholarships comes from state
money in the University budget.
The University will divide all the
state money among different
areas, including faculty salaries
and scholarships, said Executive
Aspin moves to
open combat to
women
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leaders
between members of USG, OTIS
and the Association of Residence
Hall Students. Other ESAC mem
bers received advance notice of
the action later that evening.
ESAC was formed last year to
identify student concerns and take
action regarding these concerns.
Prior to last night, it consisted of
20 different student leaders from
15 different student organizations.
The Organization for Town
Independent Students President
Lynette Mason also withdrew her
office, but has now reconsidered
and will seek to regain the seat.
"While I can vote however I
choose, it's my job to sit on ESAC,"
Mason said, "I did not think it
through far enough."
tions are ever made" to the policy.
But after learning of the 10
sophomore football players resid
ing in Nittany Apartments, Fotis
said, "1 stand corrected."
He added that dorm space in
Nittany Apartments is not being
taken away from general students
because these apartments are
already allotted to football players
before other students can apply
for the lottery.
Debbie Lauder, a staff assistant
for the assignment office, said 461
general-student undergraduates
198 men and 263 women went
through the lottery system last
spring for a fall 1993 apartment,
and 140 were accepted 50 men
and 90 women.
Laurie Wortham, assistant man
ager for the assignment office,
said there are currently 13 two
bedroom, four-person apartments
allotted for football players. That
is 52 of the 316 undergraduate
spaces that general students can't
occupy.
Lauder said another 20 football
players, mostly sophomores, live
in Nittany Hall, a dorm at the
south end of the Nittany complex.
General students must also win a
lottery to live in Nittany Hall
suites, while football players do
not.
"There isn't a lottery for ath
letes," Wortham said. "They have
reserved space on campus.
They've requested it. Some years
they ask for certain amounts, and
some years they ask for others."
She added that all teams can
reserve double rooms, but football
is the only one of Penn State's 28
teams that reserves rooms in Nit
tany Apartments or Nittany Hall
suites.
Please see FOOTBALL, Page 12
Vice President and Provost John
Brighton.
"As we approve the budget,
we're adding some more money to
scholarships in this case
oriented to needy students," he
said.
Although Brighton said the
scholarships were for needy stu
dents and minorities, Stewart said
the money this year was targeted
at black students. Right now, the
University does not plan to give
the money to any other minority
students next year, Stewart added.
Latino Caucus Co-Vice President
Aileen Martinez said any Univer
sity effort to increase diversity is
good, but should provide for all
diverse groups.
Comparisons with other Big Ten
schools reveal that Penn State is
the only university to set aside
more money for merit-based
Please see MONEY, Page 9.
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abandon ESAC
Saunders said ESAC should be
dissolved because it is seen by the
University administration as the
main student governing body, but
it is not. "ESAC exists in a vacu
um," he said. "It's completely
illogical that it exists."
May said ESAC members' atti
tudes had a lot to do with its fail
ure. "I have had it with the self
seriousness and the pain that I
associate with ESAC," he added.
ESAC's purpose was challenged
during the meeting. Many mem
bers were worried that ESAC does
not serve students and those pro
posing dissolution favored another
group taking its place.
King said a new group would
encompass all ESAC organizations,
A little bit off the top
Kathy Smith of Wappingers Falls, N.Y. takes to the roof of her Plymouth station wagon to shovel
off the snow stuck in the roof rack yesterday.
I Big Ten minority financial aid
Here is a look at the policies of Big Ten universities concerning
financial aid
Penn State The university plans to provide $500,000 more
for African-American students, including more scholarships
based on need or merit because of a decrease in minority en
rollment.
University of Illinois Financial aid is based on need and
merit, not race, some additional need-based scholarships are
available for underrepresented minority students.
University of Wisconsin Financial aid is based on need
and merit. The university plans to increase minority
scholarship funds for next year.
Northwestern University Financial aid is based on need,
not merit or race. The university provides financial aid for 60%
of its students.
University of Michigan Financial aid is based on need
and nice, although more money is allotted for minority
students.
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Ohio State Financial aid is based on need arid race
Purdue University, University oil lowa, University of Minne
sota, Indiana University, Michigan State University Uni
versities where financial aid is based on need and merit, not
race.
Source:Big Ten universities
Friday, Jan. 14, 1994
but would have more legislative
power and be more efficient.
ESAC chair Paul Kaspar first
voted against the dissolution. After
a miscount was discovered, his
vote was disregarded.
Craig Millar, associate vice
president of student services, said
the administration will continue to
work with student leaders, but the
future of relations with ESAC is
unsure.
"We're prepared to work with
whatever student organization
wants to work with us," Millar
said.
Many ESAC members agreed
that ESAC functions well as a USG President Chris Saunders argues that the Executive Student
Please see USG, Page 9. Action Council should be dissolved at yesterday's meeting.
Collegian GraphieNemon Taylor
Movie Schindler's fate unclear
By MICHAEL KLINE
Collegian Arts Writer
Schindler's List is not yet in
State College. No arrival date has
been formally set, and local mer
chant Greg Gabbard is not happy
about it.
Gabbard, the owner of City
Lights Records, 316 E. College
Ave., decided to take action, put
ting up a poster in City Lights
urging public support of the film.
The poster reads, "Did you know
that Schindler's List, possibly the
best film of the year, is not
scheduled to play in State College?
Ask questions."
But Cinema World Inc. President
Jeff Lewine said last night that the
Steven Spielberg film will come to
State College when a print
becomes available.
"The picture is not open in lots
of major cities," he said.
Janet Jackson, senior film buyer
for Cinema World, said last night
that Universal Pictures released
the film on a limited basis, making
it difficult to acquire.
Published independently by students at Penn State
Two men
arrested
for attack
on skater
By DAVID FOSTER
Associated Press Writer
PORTLAND, Ore. Tonya Har
ding's bodyguard and another man
were arrested yesterday and
charged with conspiracy in the
attack on Olympic figure skating
rival Nancy Kerrigan.
Bodyguard Shawn Eric Eckardt,
26, and Derrick Brian Smith, 29,
were arrested in Portland, said
Michael Schrunk, Multnomah
County district attorney.
Smith, a former resident of
Portland, moved to Phoenix about
five months ago, Schrunk said. It
was not clear what role Smith
played in the alleged plot. The two
men were expected to be booked
yesterday night, and one official
said more arrests were expected.
The arrests were announced
after two days of confusion and
speculation over the role of Har
ding and her ex-husband, Jeff Gil
looly, in the Jan. 6 attack that left
Kerrigan unable to compete in last
week's U.S. Figure Skating
Championships.
Harding won the championships,
qualifying for the Olympic team.
Kerrigan was also named to the
team even though her injury
forced her to withdraw from the
competition.
Eckardt told authorities that
Gillooly, from whom Harding was
divorced last year, asked him to
arrange the attack, The Oregonian
newspaper reported yesterday in a
copyright story, citing unidentified
law enforcement sources.
There was no indication that
Harding was involved in planning
the attack, authorities said, despite
a report by Boston TV station
WCVB that a sealed warrant con
tained her name.
AP Photo
Eckardt, handcuffed and wear-
Please see KERRIGAN, Page 9.
Jackson said the film will be
opening as soon as a print is
available, probably around Jan. 28
or Feb. 4.
"It's one of the most important
films of the year," Jackson said.
But earlier yesterday, Carol
Lamaide of Cinema World's main
office in Pittsburgh said she was
not at liberty to say whether or not
the movie would be coming. She
later said it was not being released
to the State College area at this
time but said it was not the com
pany's decision.
"Schindler's List is not going to
your area not because it is three
hours long, but because at this
time, it is not available (from Uni
versal Pictures)," she said.
Lamaide added that while the
film will be released next week in
the Pittsburgh area, there are no
current plans for a release to State
College in the near future.
Gabbard said he thinks he has a
different answer for why the
movie hasn't been shown in State
College.
Please see UST, Page 12