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In victory, he reached out to his remaining rivals and said it was time to “put our ideas together” to beat President Clinton. “Today, the American people in seven states chose the conservative they want to lead America, chose the conservative they want in the White House,” Dole told a vic tory rally in Washington. With House Speaker Newt Gingrich at his side, Dole stood under a banner that said “Changing America Together” and said, “We’re going to move this country forward . . . get Bill Clinton out of the way and we will get the job done.” Second teen held in murder attempt By ANNE SAVANICK Collegian Staff Writer The second person arrested in connection with the attempted murder of Laura Schneider is in Centre County Prison today in lieu of $lOO,OOO bail. Bobby James Huss, 18, of Altoona is charged with conspiracy to commit each of the following crimes: Criminal attempt homicide, aggravated assault, simple assault, robbery, burglary, criminal tres pass, theft and receiving stolen property, according to the criminal complaint. Schneider, of 22 Nittany View Circle, suffered injuries in an assault last month that caused her to lose her left eye, numerous teeth and part of her jawbone in addition to causing numerous fractures of her skull, according to the com plaint. The first suspect in connection with the assault is a 17-year-old Altoona-area boy. He remains in the Centre County Juvenile Deten tion Center. Huss had a preliminary arraign ment in front of District Justice Bradley P. Lunsford yesterday and will have a preliminary hearing Mar. 20. The Ferguson Township Police Department accuses Huss of providing the juvenile with “trans portation from Altoona to the State College area for the purpose of committing burglaries” at RD#l Box 348, Port Matilda in Patton Township and 22 Nittany View Cir- Special prosecutor approved by USG By JULIE M. RANDALL Collegian Staff Writer The Undergraduate Student Government Senate voted last night at a Senate meeting to approve the USG Elections Commission and Senate Appointments and Review Board choice for special prose cutor for the 1996 USG elec tions. Jim Staggers (senior-adminis tration of justice and political science) will serve as special prosecutor, the position SARB Chairman and Town Senator Mark Sosnowsky termed a liai son between the elections com mission and the USG Elections Court. Staggers, who has held posi tions in the Office of Public Defense in Pittsburgh and the Executive Office for the United States Attorneys, said his expe rience has helped him develop insight into regulations. “I’m a big stickler for proce dure and I will enforce what is in the Elections Code,” said Dole was defeating Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes by more than 2-to-l margins in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Mississippi. The Senate majority leader also was handily beating Buchanan in Louisiana, where Buchanan’s caucus victory in February triggered a surge of support for the conservative commentator. Dole predicted Oregon would deliver him a seven-state “Super Tuesday” sweep and leave him with roughly three-quarters of the delegates needed to clinch the nomina tion. “This is now a race between Bob Dole cle, Schneider’s home, according to the complaint. He is also accused of aiding the juvenile “in his escape and the attempt to destroy or hide incriminating evidence,” according to the complaint. The juvenile was arrested by Ferguson Township police Friday, and implicated Huss in his state ment to police, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. When Huss was interviewed by police, he said he was in State Col lege on Feb. 23 with the juvenile and two other people to sell candy for an organization, according to the affidavit. Huss said the juve nile told him the night before that he wanted to burglarize a house the next day where he sold candy the week before, according to the affi davit. Huss told the police that before the Schneider attack he dropped off the juvenile near the old inter section of West College Avenue and Science Park Road, according to the affidavit. He then told the police that the juvenile said he would “rob another house if no one was home and it looked clean,” according to the affidavit. Huss said he sold some candy and picked up the juvenile near Ferguson Square on West College Avenue. After the juvenile got into the vehicle, he told Huss that he “broke into a house and the lady came home and he hit her with a hammer several times ... he thought the lady was dead,” according to the affidavit. Staggers, the USG Legal Affairs Legal Adviser for Students. If a candidate violates the USG Elections Code, the elec tions commission submits the violation to the elections court, said Head Elections Commis sioner Darren Patz. He said Staggers’ role as special prose cutor would be to argue the elections commission’s case before the elections court. Staggers said that because he has no connections to any cam paigns during this election and has had no connections to any past campaigns, he is a good choice for the position. “I bring a neutral view as an outsider,” he said. Senate President Bill Roth well said he was pleased with Staggers approval. Wednesday, March 13,1996 and Bill Clinton,” Dole told The Associated Press. Looking ahead, he said he had thought only “in a loose way” about pick ing a running mate. He made a conciliatory gesture to Forbes and Buchanan perhaps hoping he could convince them to quit, or in Buchanan’s case at least tone down his attacks. “We’ve listened and we’ve heard strong messages,” Dole said of his rivals, echoing Forbes’ theme of economic growth and Buchanan’s emphasis on middle-class eco nomic anxiety. “It is time to come together now and put our ideas together and build a strong agenda for November.” His dismal night had Forbes talking of quitting. The millionaire publisher said he needed “a win or something akin to a win” in next week’s Midwest primaries. “Obviously, we can’t go to California without a break Guy walks into a bar. . . Scott Spadafora (junior-hotel, restaurant and institutional enjoy cold beer and warm sunshine outside Cafe 210 West, 210 W. management), right, and Nick Delatorre (senior-sociology), left, College Ave. The weather yesterday brought many people outside. Students left out of tourney Universities offer tickets to students By MICHAEL PALM Collegian Sports Writer Eight men’s basketball teams, including the Lions, are in the upper half of the East bracket. Each receives 350 tickets for the NCAA basketball tournament. That’s not many seats for the schools. Regardless, No. 1 Massa chusetts (31-1) made 60 available for students. “We feel it’s important that our students get a fair shake,” said Pre ston Robinson, UMass’ assistant ticket manager. But Penn State students didn’t get the chance. Of the 350 tickets, none were open to Penn State stu dents or the general public. Thirty go to the Blue Band, scholarship players receive four each (48) as do the walk-ons (16), 25 go to the Nittany Lion Club and the Penn State Basketball Club gets 40 to 44 for a bus trip. The rest were given to coaches and University and ath letic administrators. The schools involved in the tour nament get a very limited share of the tickets available in the 12,931- seat Providence Civic Center in Providence, R.I. The rest of the tickets were put up for sale to the general public on Nov. 1 of last year, said center ticket manager Finishing school in two months, Bill Furlong. The tickets, sold for Auerbach had plans ready for a $9O for six games, were gone by trip —no matter where the Lions the end of the day. would play. That left no opportunity for Penn “We were going to get a U-Haul State students to buy tickets truck and throw some mattresses because the site of the Lion games in the back,” he said. “I was going was still undetermined as of last to go anywhere.” Sunday night. . This trip was almost his gradua- Glenn Auerbach (senior-account- t ion gift from his mother ing) is one of those left with little chance of seeing Penn State play Arkansas at 7:40 p.m. tomorrow through,” Forbes said of the March 26 con test. In Florida Dole was getting 55 percent to 21 percent for Forbes and 19 percent for Buchanan. In Texas, it was 55 percent for Dole, 21 percent for Buchanan and 12 per cent for Forbes. Dole had 61 percent in Mississippi, Buchanan 27 percent and Forbes just 7 percent. Likewise, Oklahoma showed Dole with 59 percent, 22 percent for Buchanan and 14 percent for Forbes. Dole had 51 percent in Tennessee, to 26 percent for Buchanan. Forbes was fourth behind former Gov. Lamar Alexander, who quit the race last week. Leading GOP officials and activists tried to help Dole clear the field during the pri maries. “Now is the time to unite behind our can didate because we are going to have a tough election in November,” said Jeb “It’s not that I want to go but Published independently by students at Penn State Collegian Graphic/Lori Kunkle Please see TICKETS, Page 10. Bush, son of former president George Bush and a prominent Florida Republican. “Bob Dole is going to be the nominee,” said Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed. Dole’s victories were lopsided and he clearly hoped Buchanan and Forbes would get the voters’ message. Dole had at least 669 of the 996 dele gates needed to clinch nomination, and he predicted he would go over the top next Tuesday after primary elections in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. Forbes had 73 delegates and Buchanan 63. Dole’s satisfaction at the election results came in the face of three new national sur veys showing Clinton with double-digit leads in head-to-head match-ups. They also showed Dole would suffer if Ross Perot mounted another independent candidacy. Collegian Photo/Tracy Senycz Big dance not big chance for students By USA HAARLANDER Collegian Staff Writer If Penn State students want to go to the NCAA basketball tourna ment, they will have a hard time finding tickets. None of the 350 tickets the Uni versity was allotted will be avail able to students or the general pub lic. But Athletic Director Tim Cur ley said if the Undergraduate Stu dent Government or any other group of students had approached him, he would have evaluated the allocation of the 350 tickets and found a way to get some for stu dents. About 200 tickets went to the team, coaches and administrators. The remaining 150 tickets were split among various organizations such as the Blue Band, the Penn State Basketball Club and the Nit tany Lion Club. “We didn’t have a request for a student bus trip,” he said. “It would have been hard to make it available to students otherwise.” Last year, former USG President Mike King made 400 Rose Bowl trip packages available to students by contacting the athletic depart ment. Please see USG, Page 10.
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