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Vol. 96, No. 147 22 Pages ©1996 Collegian Inc.
Dole sweeps seven in Super Tuesday
By JOHN KING
AP Political Writer
Sen. Bob Dole easily won contests in
Oregon, Texas, Florida and four other
Southern states yesterday to gain a virtual
lock on the Republican presidential nomi
nation. 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.