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3 women assaulted while sleeping in d
A male resident of Snyder Hall has been identified as a
suspect and has moved out of the dorm, officials said.
By Lily Henning
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Thirteen women were assaulted while
sleeping in their unlocked dorm rooms in
Snyder Hall early Sunday morning, Penn
State Police Services said.
A male Penn State student, a former resi
dent of Snyder Hall, has been identified as a
suspect, police said.
Republican
commercial
eliminated
A GOP ad was removed
for an alleged subliminal
message about Al Gore.
By Laura Mackbr
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON, D.C. A GOP com
mercial that subtly flashes the word
"RATS" across the screen is coming off
the air amid allegations the Republicans
were trying to send a subliminal message
about Al Gore.
George W. Bush called the notion
"bizarre and weird," and his campaign
made light of it all. The GOP ad-maker
said he was just trying to make the spot
visually interesting.
But Gore's campaign and experts in
political advertising
said the word choice
as an announcer was
denouncing Gore's
Medicare plan could
hardly have been an
accident.
"I've never seen any
thing like it," the vice
president said yester
day in Middletown,
Ohio. Running mate
Joseph Lieberman called the ad "very
disappointing and strange."
"I'm sure the public will be puzzled by it
as we are and want an explanation,"
Lieberman said.
Bush noted that the word appears only
fleetingly for a tiny fraction of a second.
Played at full speed, it's barely noticeable,
particularly if the viewer isn't looking for
the word.
"One frame out of 900 hardly in my
judgment makes a conspiracy," Bush said
yesterday in Orlando, Fla. "I am con
vinced this is not intentional. You don't
need to play, you know, cute politics."
Gore aides reveled in the story, which
they leaked to the press after being alert
ed by a careful viewer in Seattle.
"Ad graphics don't pop up out of thin air.
Someone sits down at a computer and
creates them," said Gore spokesman
Doug Hallway.
The ad, which has been running in sev
eral states for more than two weeks, touts
Bush's plan for adding prescription drugs
to Medicare, arguing that senior citizens
will have more control over their health
care under Bush's proposal. Gore's plan,
the ad says, will be run by bureaucrats.
Words flash on the screen to echo the
announcer's message: "The Gore pre
scription plan: Bureaucrats decide." But
just as the announcer says "bureaucrats
decide," the word "RATS," in large, white
capital letters, fills the black screen.
through due process before the case is dis
cussed further, Cummings said. Neither
Cummings nor police would discuss the
specifics of the assaults.
"Residence Life is not making any judg-
After a request of Residence Life staff ment on guilt or innocence; that is a criminal
Monday, the suspect moved out of the build- issue and one for Judicial Affairs as well,"
ing, said Alison Cummings, assistant director she said.
for Residence Life.
"His presence was not conducive to the
comfort of the involved students. We
approached him on that, and he did leave
and is not returning without our staff pres
ent," Cummings said.
But it is important that the suspect goes
AN APPLE A DAY: Emily Way of Stormstown organizes her apples at a farmers
market at the Pennsylvania Military Market in Boalsburg yesterday.
Taro students, who live in Snyder Hall and
know the suspect, went to police last night to
testify about the assaults.
The students would not comment on what
their testimony was about.
Charges of indecent assault, aggravated
indecent assault and criminal trespass are
pending, according to Penn State police.
Police expect the charges to be filed by
tomorrow or Friday, investigating supervisor
Stewart Neff said. "We have no idea if there
are more people out there who haven't come
forth yet, if there is anyone, they should con
tact us immediately," Neff said.
Main entrances in all of the dorms are ened after the recent assaults.
locked at 8 p.m. on weeknights. Other female Snyder Hall residents, like
They also are locked between 8 p.m. Fri- Jen Edwards (freshman-computer engineer
day and 7 a.m. Sunday on football weekends. ing), echoed Cakouros' opinion.
However each resident is responsible for "I'm not afraid; I think it is an isolated
locking individual room doors. thing," Edwards said.
Caitlin Cakouros (freshman-division of "I don't think one incident makes State
undergraduate studies), who lives in Snyder College an unsafe place."
Lawyers ask Spanier
to ban Napster use
Penn State is unsure of
what its response will be
to Dr. Dre and Metellica.
By Heather Cook
and Daryl Lang
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS
Dr. Dre and Metallica are not happy with
Penn State.
Lawyers for the rapper and the rock band
FedEx-ed a stern letter this week to Penn
State President Graham Spanier asking
him to ban the popular Napster program
from the university's computer network.
The lawyer who signed the letter, Howard
Kmg, said he sent it to 20 universities that
still allow Napster, including Penn State.
Dr. Dre and the members of Metallica say
the Napster software encourages people to
steal copies of their music, something that
violates their copyright and drains money
from their album sales. King's law firm,
King Putrich, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner,
LLF: is fighting Napster in court.
Penn State's lawyers are reviewing the
letter and the 73 pages of legal materials
sent with it, said Steve MacCarthy, universi
ty spokesman. Penn State is still unsure of
how they will respond.
"There will be an examination of the
material that was sent and we'll have dis
cussion about the response, but right now
it's difficult to say," MacCarthy said.
USG extends
Director of Judicial Affairs
By Heather Cook
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRffER
Rising concern about the judicial affairs
system at Penn State prompted the Under
graduate Student Government Senate to
officially invite Penn State's Director of
Judicial Affairs, Joseph Puzycki, to next
week's meeting.
He will be asked to field questions about
the university's Code of Conduct and Office
of Judicial Affairs procedures.
The only debate about the issue at last
night's USG meeting occurred over wording
that some senators believed implied intent
to take actions regardless of what Puzycki
might say.
"Before we have Puzycki come in here
and hear what he has to say, we shouldn't
make any mention of it (action)," said Town
Senator Mike Byrne, who supported the ini
tiative.
USG hopes that Puzycki will be able to
provide basic information about judicial
processes at the university before the sen-
Inside
Slammin' it
Penn State women's volleyball traveled to
Philadelphia last night to take on Villanova.
Lady Lions came back with a win, but not
without struggles on the court as the team
aims for another title. I SPORTS, Page 13
Grooving
A Penn State ballroom dance class,
ESACT 2978, requires students to learn
both the male and female steps to several
types of dances. Students in the class learn
the fox trot, waltz, salsa among other social
dances. I LOCAL & STATE, Page 4
Record breaking
Amtrak registered the most successful
summer in its 29-year history, carrying
more than 6.1 million riders during the
summer months. Amtrak anticipates
breaking the all-time yearly record of 22.2
million passengers the company set in
1990. I NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL, Page 9
Hall, said students were told by Residence
Life staff as soon as they moved in that they
should keep their doors locked
"It was standard at the first meeting," Cak
ouros said.
Cakouros said she locks her dorm room
door every night and so does not feel threat-
Recently, Penn State began requiring stu
dents to sign a copyright agreement before
using the university's network. The agree
ment mentions Napster in the first sen
tence.
"Computer programs such as Napster
and computer networks have made posses
sion of copyrighted material such as com
puter programs, music files and videos eas
ier than ever," the policy states. "In many
cases, this is in violation of state and federal
laws, and University policy. The University
takes such violations very seriously"
Students who are caught violating the
policy could lose their Internet access, said
Kathy Kimball, university computing net
work and security officer.
"I don't believe in banning technology but
infringement is absolutely wrong. We take
action against it," Kimball said. "The legal
requirement is that if a student is infringing,
we take action to block material."
Students yesterday reported that Napster
was still working on the Penn State net
work
A survey done by Gartner Group Inc.
released last month found that 34 percent of
colleges surveyed have banned Napster on
their networks.
According to the letter, Dr. Dre and
Metallica's lawyers specifically named
three universities in their lawsuit against
Napster this summer.
The three universities, University of
Southern California, Yale University and
See NAPSTER, Page 12.
invitation to
ate reaches any conclusions about the
department.
"We wanted to take this a little slow and
look at it piece by piece," said Mike Fedor,
town senator. "We thought the first step was
probably to bring judicial affairs here."
The bill also encourages cooperation and
communication between the Department of
Legal Affairs and the USG Senate.
"Legal affairs is the best resource we
have. Saying we want to up the lines of com
munication with them is the best way to get
Puzycki here," said Erik Ives, South Halls
senator.
The letter will be sent tomorrow said
Mike Fazio, USG Senate president, and
because Puzycki has already shown interest
in speaking to USG members he is almost
guaranteed to accept the invitation.
Senators were asked not to turn the ses
sion into a "witch-hunt" if Puzycki attends
the next meeting. Fazio also instructed the
senators to look through a packet of infor
mation Legal Affairs is putting together
See USG, Page 12.
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