MONDAY
June 26, 2000
Vol. 101 No. 1 14 pages
Police ready to handle governor's convention
■ In anticipation of the arrival of
dignitaries such as President
Clinton, state police said their
presence will be similar to other
big events held in State College.
By Matthew D. Wunsche
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Pennsylvania State Police will lead a coor
dinated effort to ensure safety during July's
National Governor's Association annual
meeting in State College .
With the eyes of the nation turned to State
College to watch high-ranking political digni-
Congress
supports
vocational
education
By Claude R. Marx
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON D.C. C-CORNET
will host a group of high school students
next month to get them interested in
working there in a few years.
This is not just a get acquainted ses
sion, but a chance for the State College
based amplifier and telecommunications
company to solve a major problem: hiring
skilled technical workers.
"We have had to do that and go to ever - v
job fair and do training in-house," said
Mary Beahm, vice president of human
resources at the company that employs
2,300 people.
Companies throughout the country are
having similar problems, and Congress is
doing something about it, prompted in
part by Rep. John Peterson, (R-Pa
Peterson, a member of the Appropria
tions Committee, recently persuaded the
House to increase the federal contribution
by $5OO million to $l.l billion to a program
that finances vocational education high
schools and community colleges.
Peterson said he is optimistic that the
Senate will support a similar level of fund
ing.
If that amount stays in the final budget,
Pennsylvania would get $43 million, an
increase from the $4l million in the cur
rent budget.
These funds can be used for teat i ,J,
salaries and equipment and are espec:a:..y
helpful to areas that have not enjoyed the
same level of prosperity as the rest of the
nation.
Peterson's home base in north-central
Pennsylvania is such a place. While it con
tains the booming high technology area in
and around State College, it also has
many rural areas and small industrial
towns that are eager to find new job
sources.
He said expanded vocational training
would help those employers and expand
opportunities for low-income students.
"Not having enough vocational educa
tion opportunities hurts students who are
lower middle class and in the working
poor. These students are not likely to go to
college but need to have the chance to get
the good jobs," Peterson said.
The state is increasing its contribution
as well.
For the fiscal year beginning July 1, the
state will spend $53 million, an increase
from this year's amount of $51.5 million.
Tim Reeves, a spokesman for Gov. Tom
Ridge, said the funding increase and a
wide range of retraining programs for
older workers are the result of conversa
tions Ridge has had with business execu
tives.
Death to penalty
While receiving an honorary doctorate
from the University of Nevada at Reno,
Archbishop of South Africa and Nobel Prize
winner Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition
of the death pentalty following the recent
execution of Gary Graham in Texas. I
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Remembering Korea
Thousands gather to mark the 50th
anniversary of the Korean War in Seoul,
South Korea, as leaders still strive to bring
relations closer between the north and
south. A war memorial is also being con
structed in Kansas. I INTERNATIONAL, Page 5
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Caries such as President Clinton, Gen. Colin
Powell and Federal Reserve Board Chair
man Alan Greenspan, police are carefully
preparing to handle the crowds expected to
flood town July 8 to 11.
The state police are not releasing any fig
ures about how many officers will be in town
for the weekend, Capt. Frank Monaco said.
Police will request a helicopter for the
event, as they would for any other busy week
end. The helicopter would be on hand for
use in case of injuries or other emergencies,
he said.
Steve Shelow, assistant director for Penn
State Police Services, said Penn State police
will be working together with both the State
College Police Department and state police
Volunteers carry the flag of the gay movement down Peachtree Street in Atlanta during the 30th Annual Gay Pride Parade ,day
Nationwide parades mark Gay Pride Day
By Beth J. Harpez
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
NEW YORK Drag queens and digni
taries shared Fifth Avenue in the always-col
orful annual Gay Pride parade known as
much for its politics as its revelry.
Gays also marched yesterday in parades
in San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta.
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and
U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clin
ton marched in yesterday's event in New
York, but Clinton's new Republican rival,
Rep. Rick Lazio, chose to spend the day
campaigning upstate instead.
Political victories were celebrated as
activists pointed to passage of a hate-crimes
bill in Albany and a Vermont law that allows
civil unions between homosexuals.
"It's a tremendously significant year," said
lesbian activist and former White House
aide Virginia Appuzzo, one of the Heritage of
Pride Parade's grand marshals.
"The changes have been dazzling,"
Appuzzo added.
Supporters of Clinton shouted "You look
gorgeous" and "We love you" as the first lady
joined the parade accompanied by state and
local officials.
Clinton marched 20 paces behind a man in
a pink tutu and a Rollerblader wearing noth
ing but a thong.
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Lt. Tom Hart of the State College Police
Department said the police presence for that
weekend will be similar to other big events in
State College, such as football weekends in
the fall or the Central Pennsylvania Festival
of the Arts each July.
Associated Press
A male go-go dancer performs as his float
rides down Fifth Avenue yesterday in New York.
Clinton gave the thumbs-up sign and
clapped her hands to the disco music.
"This year, because of the hate crimes bill
in New York and the civil union law in Ver
mont, it's a year we can look back on and say
there's been some progress," Clinton told
Casey's dilemma raises questions
By Chris Antonacci
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Rashard Casey has waited four years to
become Penn State's starting quarterback,
but after his arrest on aggravated assault
Charges, he might never get the chance.
Casey's status as the expected starting
quarterback might be in jeopardy after he
was arrested for allegedly assaulting an off
duty Hoboken, N.J., police officer outside a
nightclub in the early morning hours of May
14.
Casey. who pleaded n guilty at his
arraignment May 15, was arrested along
with high school teammate Desmond Miller.
Keeon Walker, another high school team
mate and Syracuse football player, was pres
ent at the incident but not charged.
Casey was released from Hudson County
Jail on $5,000 bail after he was picked up at a
McDonald's restaurant, and should go
before a grand jury between three and five
months, his attorney, Dennis McAlevy, said.
to provide security
for the weekend
event.
State police will
have primary
responsibility for
coordinating the
efforts of officers
of the different
police organiza
tions.
Monaco said state police conduct training
twice a year for handling large crowds.
"We're at the forefront of crowd control,"
Monaco said.
"Crowd control and handling governors
and other dignitaries is a lot different than
responding to domestic violence calls," he
added.
To get advice about how to handle crowds
and how to deal with problems they might
encounter, state police talked to officials in
cities such as Seattle and Washington, D.C.,
Monaco said.
Although they've learned from mishaps in
other states and from the Beaver Avenue riot
two years ago during the Central Pennsylva
nia Festival of the Arts, Monaco said there
reporters during a press conference.
"I'm pleased to be here on behalf of equal
rights for gays and lesbians." the first lady
added.
The parade, which commemorates the
1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn credited
with sparking the modern gay rights move
ment, was led by Stonewall veterans in drag
riding behind a rainbow of balloons
stretched across Fifth Avenue.
There were gay "Star Trek - fans. AIDS
activists and church groups singing gospel
music.
There also were scattered protesters.
including Joseph Garber of Brooklyn, who
held a sign that said, "Sodomy is a crime."
In Chicago, thousands of revelers lined
the streets of the city's North Side for the
31st annual Gay Pride parade.
The parade attracted more than 200
entries, including floats. bands and
marchers representing local businesses and
civic groups.
In San Francisco, what began in 1970 as a
meager procession followed by a low-key
- gay-in" at Golden Gate Park has become
one of California's biggest events, and one of
the world's best-known celebrations of gay
pride.
. _
The 30th annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Pride Parade was to be fol
lowed by a seven-hour party at city hall.
Should the grand jury indict the 22-year-old
Hoboken native, he might not have trial
until January. Casey could spend up to five
years in prison.
Hoboken police Chief Carmen Laßruno
said the incident occurred at about 2:40 a.m
outside River Street, a nightclub. The three
men had words with th i.tim, Patrick
Fitzsimmons, who was ai companied by an
African-American woman. arid then Casey
and Miller allegedly struck the off-duty
police officer.
The 34-year-old \ ictim, who is white,
teaches tolerance training as part of the
Hoboken Police Department's efforts to cur
tail bias crimes. He was admitted to St.
Mary's Hospital in Hoboken and released
with facial and head injuries.
"Rashard has not been a discipline prob
lem during his time at Penn State and the
conduct alleged in the charges is inconsis
tent with the personality he's demonstrated
to me and the members of the coaching
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has not been any major philosophical
in the way police will handle the expecl!
crowds.
"Most of crowd control is res,pwali!ll
a lot of people right away
"They must be appropriately
important to be fair with every :too
the appropriate steps when prob:; , n - ,;,. ; 1; 1-
Monaco said. The extra police ,•.Iqlid ho,
necessary in a city with a iarL,
ment but in a smaller iOV.
lege, the extra police offic;_nt
manage the event, he added
Monaco said although staie t
n charge of organizing
ould not try to usurp the cal:
ocal police organizations
Senator
suggests
suspension
of gas tax
WASHINGTON D.O Ser
Hutchison, a Republican h'-m oil
Texas and an ally of tiOl'
candidate George W. Bush. yesterri
Congress should suspend 1! - , 1 4
per gallon federal gasoline la , bec•lsl•
increasing pump prices.
A smaller temporary tax
in the Senate in April when t 1 ,.,
prices slowed and oil-produi
agreed to increase their outr ,, •
"I think part of n
should put forward in Cong - rf!-;;z -
term fixes like relief from
until we stabilize these pnr
some longer term fixes. -
on "Fox News Sunday.'
In the Midwest. gas
gallon in some spots. Intliwi“
O'Bannon has suspended !1 ,, ' f•'‘Oi
tax on gasoline for tyj dais
Legislature will meet in
this week to discuss repeal inL('
ing the state's 5 percent sal—, t 3 ,.
Legislation introduced ir;
Tier this year would have r li. d
cents of the 18.4-cent fedi!
rest of the year and suspor , i•l
tax if and when average pr'(l
$2 a gallon
ss , c 3te:/ Press
The issue lost momentum
price rise slowed in the snrin , ,i
during nations in the Midd
to U.S. pressure to increase tip, ail
Since then, prices have
affecting summer travelers iuid
an issue in the presidential Ca;,ti,i.
"I think everyone thirk- t
going to stabilize by the f. , 1;.
go through the summer
taking their vacations. I trios
do that," Hutchinson said
A spokosman f
Leader Tront Lott t
would be open to her I , ror,),:
ers to eliminate taxes.
"We took a vote in April
very similar to that and wi
cutting back tax on the
never count us out," '
John Czwartacki.
Hutchison also coot( rl'cl that iho ~
of cleaner-burning ruth , lool;rtsd
was adding as much as p, r
lon.
Bush and other Republican
Environmental Protection \lency
requiring the areas of the county
the worst smog problems u , e eit - in,'
blended gas. Clinton adnittu.snotlo.l
ics also say the White House
enough to persuade the 11 member ttr:
nization of the Petroleum ; , col TP•
Countries to raise production ic, :•ts
PSU quarterback Rashard Casey, rigs t.
stands with his attorney, McAle.\,
during his arraignment in Superior Court
Jersey City.
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