Thursday, April 11, 1991
Sanders transfers to
Mt. Lebo Police Dept.
(continued from page 1)
Almost of equal interest is
Sanders' interest in crime. "I
spend a lot of time working
with other task force groups on
different crimes: satanic, occult
and multiple-murder crimes in
different states."
Crime, he added is
something that Behrend has
plenty of -- more than most
people think.
"Crime is a lot worse than
people here think it is,"
Sanders said. "Drugs are a lot
more prominent; I'd say about
a third have tried, if not seen
cocaine. There are a lot of
assaults and threats as well. I
know of some cases where
people are afraid to walk down
their dorm halls during the
day. That's not right, not
here."
According to Sanders,
there's plenty of blame to go
around for the amount of crime
on campus.
"It's partly Police and
Safety's fault for not finding it,
partly the administration's
fault for not acknowledging
and reporting it and partly
student's fault for not telling
us in the first place."
More than anyone else
though, he had harsh words for
the Behrend administration:
"The administrators at Penn
State treat this place like a
private business; their job is
to sell a product and make it
look as good as possible. A
police department going out
and making arrests doesn't do
much for the product's image,"
he said.
Sanders estimated thefts, if
all of them -- reported or not --
were added up, would range
from $20,000-30,000 a year.
"At one point," he said," I ran
into a fencing operation
running out of the first floor of
Perry. They were fencing boat
motors, car stereos, tv's -- you
name it, they handled it.
Things like this tend not to be
reported because it doesn't do
much for the product's image.
"Still, I think Student
Services and other
administrators tend to shield
crimes to protect the school's
image and not protect students
or staff," he said. "That
shouldn't happen."
But he had a few good
words about Behrend as well.
"It's good that the library is
on it's way, as well as
addressing the parking issue --
something that's plagued
Behrend for a long time.
There's a lot of potential here."
Sanders started his new job
with the Mount Lebanon
Police Department earlier this
week. Mt. Lebanon is one of
only two nationally accredited
police departments in the
state. "It was a tremendous
opportunity for me and I'm
going to miss all of my friends
here, but they knew why I had
to go. Behrend's a good place,
but only as good as students
let it be."
Cisneros...
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have a determining influence
on economic growth.
"Cities (should be) directly
involved in economic
development-becoming masters
of their own destinies, doing
in determined, strategic,
systematic ways those things
that it takes to create jobs,"
Cisneros stated.
While in San Antonio
Cisneros attracted high
technology companies, an
attempt to bolster the
economy. "The fastest rates of
growth in manufacturing are
going to be in technology
sectors. They're going to pull
the economy along and cities
need to have a share," said
Cisneros.
Cisneros thinks a "new
infrastructure" is needed in the
technological economy, based
on "low-density campus
settings that companies with a
research orientation like, the
ability to create venture capital
and the ability to invest in
education at all levels."
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Sigma Theta Chi
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(pledges)," Hacker said
The sorority has been
suspended for the remainder of
this semester and next fall.
Also, Sigma Theta Chi
members holding offices in the
Panhellenic Council will have
to resign their seats. The
sorority's suspension, as well
as officer removal, will start
pending an appeal.
Next spring sorority
members, under the
supervision of the Panhellenic
Council and Student Activities,
will have to revise their pledge
program, conduct a hazing
workshop for the next year
and-a-half and serve a year-and
a-half probation.
Sigma Theta Chi members,
however, contend that the
charges are merely rumors and
their sanctions are
unreasonable.
"I'm so infuriated that we
received too much action," said
Leigh Stanesic, Sigma Theta
Chi president. "All of the
evidence used against us was
secondhand gossip where the
sorority involved was assumed
to be Sigma Theta Chi. Some
of the other witnesses were
even from other sororities,
which isn't exactly good."
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Rachel Eng, Sigma Theta
Chi associate member educator,
said "I know of other Greek
organizations where the Board
had hard, written evidence of
what they've done. There isn't
any evidence in our case. All
of the evidence they (The
Board) used is heresay," she
said.
Stanesic said she felt the
hearing, in some ways, was
unfair.
"The prosecutor -- Maureen
Finn (Coordinator of Student
Organizations and Program
Development -- had
knowledge of the evidence and
time to prepare pages and
pages of questions. We didn't.
We went in blind and weren't
allowed to see any of the
evidence before the hearing,"
she said.
Aside from the disciplinary
action taken against Sigma
Theta Chi, the Hearing Board
"strongly recommended that
they seek national
recognition," said Hacker. "We
felt it was unfair to require
national recognition because
they may not be able to get
it."
Eng maintained that the
sorority was "being picked on
in particular because we're a
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suspended
local sorority. The Board
wants us to get national
recognition, but we want to
stay local."
The sorority has five days
to appeal the Board's decision
and Eng said Sigma Theta Chi
plans to.
"We honestly b(,./eve that
the evidence isn't accurate and
the punishment unfair. Other
Greek organizations have
received one semester
probations for more serious
offenses," she said. "We think
this is happening because
we're local."
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