THURSDAY
April 27, 2000
Vol. 100 No. 178 26 pages
Court looks at sides of scout case
Former Eagle Scout James Dale talks to the
press at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
Students to
share films
at CAN fest
By Jena Heinold
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The Student Film Organization will
present the 2000 CAN Film Festival at 7:30
tonight in Schwab Auditorium.
The festival will include the highest
ranked 150 minutes of film from the more
than 40 student films submitted.
Films entered in the festival range from
20 seconds to 25 minutes in length, and
included individual, as well as group, film
projects from students in their sopho
more, junior and senior years, said Brad
Robinson, director of CAN.
Judging for the festival took place Sat
urday and Sunday.
The films from four categories narra
tive, documentary, animation and experi
mental were judged by a panel of pro
fessionals outside of the College of Com
munications.
In this year's festival, there is a wide
range of films from all four categories.
"From a spectator's standpoint, it is a
really good program," Robinson said.
"There are three documentaries, three
narratives, a computer animation and
more. I'm looking forward to it."
One of the films featured in CAN 2000 is
a documentary titled On-On. The docu
mentary, which follows a group of social
runners, known as the Hash House Harri
ers, took two semesters to film.
The filmmakers followed the Harriers
on seven different runs, which not only
serve as exercise but also as a social
event.
Along the running trail, the runners
stop at stations that have beer, and at the
end of the run there is a party. Through
out the run, the runners chant, "On-On"
thus the name of the documentary.
Michael Krapf (senior-film and video
communications), director and producer
of On-On, said CAN is a great opportunity
for filmmakers to gain exposure.
"When you work really hard doing a
project, and you make something you're
proud of, you want to show it." Krapf said.
"It (the festival) is a good opportunity to
show your work to a large audience."
The SFO will also have After CAN at
7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Carnegie Cine
ma. After CAN is free, and will include
some of the films that were not featured in
the CAN Film F e stival.
The festival is sponsored by SFO, Uni
versity Park Allocations Committee and
The Revolution 101.1.
Tickets for CAN are available at the
Eisenhower box office.
A maximum of two tickets will be hand
ed out per person.
Inside
Running wild
Penn State's career-hits leader Michael
Campo stands a modest 5-foot-10, similar
to the small yet mighty Pete Rose and
Lenny Dykstra. And the way he plays con
jures up images of when the two legends
were in their prime. I SPORTS, Page 15
Columbine tapes released
To the horror of the Columbine victims'
families, law enforcement authorities
released a video yesterday of the dead and
the dying within the school, with some of
the footage set eerily to a pop music
soundtrack 1 NAIIONAL, Page 5
Hostages still In custody
A Philippine rebel commander is sus
pected of kidnapping 21 people from a pop
ular Malaysian diving resort and is holding
the hostages on unknown islands at the
Minims' southern tip, officials said yes
terday. I 114113 NATIONAL, Page 10
By Laurie Asseo
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON, D.C. Supreme Court
justices struggled yesterday over whether to
let the Boy Scouts bar homosexuals from
serving as troop leaders, role models in an
organization that teaches its members to be
"morally straight."
Without saying how they will ultimately
vote, several justices voiced skepticism
about how far the court could go to force
open admissions upon private organizations.
"In your view, a Catholic organization has
to admit Jews" and "a Jewish organization
has to admit Catholics," Justice Stephen G.
Breyer told Evan Wolfson, the lawyer for
James Dale of New Jersey, a former assis
tant scoutmaster ousted when the organiza
tion learned he is gay. Dale subsequently
filed suit against the Scouts.
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David
H. Souter followed Breyer's line of question
Independent bookstore closes
■ After 17 years of business,
Svoboda's Books prepares to
close its doors due to
competition from chain
bookstores and other financial
difficulties.
By Amy Leaking
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
After Svoboda's Books, a State College
downtown fixture for almost 17 years, closes
its doors next month, professors like Nan
Woodruff will be forced to send their stu
dents elsewhere for textbooks.
Nan Woodruff, associate professor of his
tory, said she told her graduate and honors
students to purchase books for their semi
nar classes at Svoboda's Books, 227 W.
Beaver Ave.
"Svoboda's was an independent book
store, and they have different goals than a
big corporation like Barnes & Noble,"
Woodruff said. "It gave me a chance to sup
port Svoboda's."
Woodruff said she also liked the bookstore
because students could browse and stimu
late themselves intellectually through the
store's different types of books.
Jaime Martinez (junior-history), who pur
chased books at Svoboda's Books for a class,
said while she likes Svoboda's Books, she
also buys books at large chain bookstores.
However, Martinez is not alone in her
shopping trips to larger bookstores.
In fact, Brian Zimmerman, assistant man
ager of Svoboda's Books, said the downfall of
Svoboda's Books stems from competition
from other book dealers.
Because most downtown stores exclusive
ly sell textbooks, they did not pose much of a
threat.
But large bookstore chains, like Barnes &
Noble, 365 Benner Pike, and online busi
nesses such as Amazon.com affected Svobo
da's Books' sales, he said.
"I think it's more competition with Ama
zon," said Zimmerman, adding the business
had been difficult because it has become
very unpredictable. 'When Barnes & Noble
moved in, we had a 10 percent loss of book
sales."
Despite the bigger selection offered by
other book companies, Martinez said she
enjoys the atmosphere of a smaller, inde
pendent bookstore.
She added one of the main reasons she
likes the store is because of its employees.
"The people who worked there were help
ful and friendly,"Martinez said. "They (larg
er stores) generally have more, but the own
ers of Svoboda's are usually there."
While Svoboda's Books has not set an offi
cial closing date, the tentative date is May
10, Zimmerman said.
Because the business has several debts to
pay off, Zimmerman said the store needs to
sell more books before it doses for good.
This week, Svoboda's Books is offering a
40 percent discount on its books, and next
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ing, asking Wolfson whether his argument
meant the Scouts could be required to admit
Justice Antonin Scalia voiced his reserva
tions another way.
"They think that homosexuality is
immoral," he said, asking why the Scouts
must accept as a leader "someone who
embodies a contradiction of their message?"
Fbunded in 1910, the Scouts have an oath
and law that long have required members to
promise to be "clean" and "morally straight."
But no written rule specifically addresses
homosexuality.
Wolfson said the Scouts are not primarily
an "anti-gay organization" and therefore
Dale's presence did not burden the group's
message.
Dale did not seek to use his leadership
position to advocate homosexuality Wolfson
added.
New Jersey's highest court ruled that the
Boy Scouts' ban on gay troop leaders violat-
Robin Brumbaugh of State College shops in Svoboda's Books, 227 W. Beaver Ave., last month
week it plans to sell its books at 50 percent
off the normal prices.
Svoboda's Books first opened downtown in
1983. Penn State alumnus Michael Svoboda
launched the store exclusively as a scholarly
bookstore, Zimmerman said.
"There was a huge demand for scholarly
type books," he said.
Since it opened its doors, Svoboda's Books
has grown in size and selection some
Warehouse attracts students, community
Among abandoned bikes, old dressers,
chairs and computers, employees of the Sal
vage and Surplus Warehouse, located past
the flower gardens, spent yesterday sorting
through items that will be auctioned starting
at 9 a.m. today.
By Heather Cook
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The yearly auction will be held to clean
out merchandise the store has been gather
ing since last spring's sale, including all the
items donated from various university
departments.
"We've got just about everything in here,"
said Willard Gallaher, who operates the
store. "We take dressers, old nightstands
and wardrobes. We have lots of old comput
ers too."
The store sells items the university can no
longer use or has replaced at prices that
give students, or anybody else who shops at
Salvage and Surplus, a chance to pick up
useable items at bargain prices, Gallaher
said.
PENN STATE
ed a state prohibition on discrimination in
public accommodations. But the Scouts say
the state law violates the organization's
rights of free speech and free association
under the Constitution's First Amendment.
Some justices also had pointed questions
for the Scouts' lawyer, George Davidson.
Justice John Paul Stevens asked whether
a homosexual could be excluded if he did not
publicly declare his sexual orientation but it
was discovered against his wishes.
Yes, said Davidson, arguing that the
organization had a right "to choose the
moral leaders for the children in the pro
gram."
"Boy Scouting is so closely identified with
traditional moral values that the phrase
`He's a real Boy Scout' has entered the lan
guage," Davidson said. The Scouts believe
homosexuality does not fit that moral code,
he said.
Souter told Davidson, "Mr. Dale is not ask-
See SCOUT, Page 14.
thing Zimmerman has appreciated.
Working at Svoboda's Books has been an
educating experience for Zimmerman, but
the best part about working there, he said,
has been the people at the store both co
workers and customers.
"How can you beat working in a place
where there's stimulating conversation, and
everyone knows the value of a book?" Zim
merman said.
Though the spring auction attracts a
crowd, plenty of students and community
members frequent the store year round,
searching for just the right chair to put in
their apartments, or a good bike that some
one left locked to a rack on campus.
"I personally have bought a couple of
things there," said Sandra Harpster, assis
tant director for housing services. "Chairs,
coat trees, little odds and ends like that"
They even accept university vehicles that
have been replaced, including those from
Penn State Police Services.
Housing typically gives the warehouse a
lot of furniture, Harpster said. There is no
specific time for them to send the items, but
they give the warehouse a lot during the
summer and after they have cleaned, he
said
The policy on donating items is to call Sal
vage and Surplus and list the items that can
be donated, and the warehouse will decide
what, if anything, they cannot accept.
The university must call the warehouse
before they send anything to the landfill so
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Coalition
addresses
Initiatives
on alcohol
■ The PLCB and PACU have
joined together to combat the
dangerous effects of drinking
at universities and their
surrounding communities.
The meeting between the Pennsylvania
Liquor Control Board and the Pennsylva
nia Association of Colleges and Universi
ties yesterday marked the new partner
ship's first effort to battle dangerous
drinking in college communities across
the state.
The meeting at the
Penn Stater Confer
ence Center Hotel was
the first for the new
coalition, which aims
to change attitudes
and environment in
colleges and universi-
ties that lead to under-
age and dangerous
drinking, said Ken
Healy, alcohol education specialist for the
PLCB.
The PLCB started working with local
colleges several years ago to start local
campus-community coalitions for the
same purpose, Healy said.
From the success of those coalitions.
Healy said a need arose for an organiza
tion at the statewide level in order to sup
port the local effort.
Penn State President Graham Spanier
spoke to the partnership yesterday about
affecting change with leadership.
"This is an area where I believe leader
ship makes a difference," Spanier said,
adding he believes the efforts made at
Penn State to control dangerous drinking
have made a difference.
Spanier said people who might be
inclined to give up on the issue should go
back in time and look at how social norms
have changed.
The way society views tobacco products
and drunken driving has changed consid
erably over the years, he said.
Spanier ended his comments by thank
ing the partnership for taking an active
role in the battle against dangerous drink
ing.
"What you are doing is part of that lead
ership," he said.
Healy said the Higher Education Cen
ter for Alcohol and Other Drug Preven
tion developed the following five areas of
strategic intervention to change the cam
pus-community environment:
■ Providing alcohol-free options;
■ Creating a health-promoting social
academic and residential normative envi
ronment;
■ Limiting the availability of alcohol on
and off campus;
■ Restricting marketing and promotion
of alcohol on and off campus;
■ Developing increased enforcement of
campus policies, federal, state, and local
laws.
Peter Balcziunas, executive director of
PACU, said the partnership's initiative is
different from others' because of the
direction it wants to take to fight under
age drinking.
"The initiative is exemplary in its
understanding that alcohol use and abuse
are determined by greater social and
regional contexts," he said.
Balcziunas said the partnership under
stands change will not occur overnight
and added the purpose of the group is not
to stop the consumption of alcohol, but to
make it safer.
nothing that can be reused will be wasted.,
About 500 to 600 people register for the
sale event each year, Gallaher said, though
the average going price for each piece of
merchandise varies from year to year.
"It depends on the crowd size and the
weather," he said.
A percentage of the money each item
earns goes back to the university depart
ment or office that donated it.
The store will accept just about anything,
except old beds, Gallaher said, but only if the
items come from the university.
Students and faculty cannot make person
al donations.
And the policy on abandoned bicycles
leaves students time after they're contacted
about the bike to pick it up if they still want
it, said Thomas Harmon, director of Penn
State Police.
The biggest problem with the bicycles, he
added, is many students leave them on cam
pus during the summer without a renewed
registration, and then Penn State police has
to pick them up.
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COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER