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brown and white vol 87 - no j bethlehem pa tuesday decemberjs 1970 jm6-0331 u-city police guides hazy editor's note this is the first of two articles dealing with the problem of law enforcement on campus the second will deal with the powers and problems of the campus police by jeff balsai in the debate about the relative powers of the university and city police forces there is only one thing that everyone is complete ly sure of--and that is that there is a debate there are two general areas t hat everyone agrees on they are a that the bethlehem police department has the same powers on the university campus that they have in the city and b that the campus police have real police powers on campus includ ing the power of arrest and are not private security guards the campus police are con stables of northampton county and therefore officers of the court according to bethlehem city solicitor joseph pongracz the court swears in a constable he said that constable may be defined broadly and included such people as magistrate ser vers and special police pongracz said a campus policeman does not have any more power than the ordinary citizen including any power of arrest when he passes the cam pus borders for example pon gracz said if the campus police would pursue a car off campus and it would be necessarv to speed in order to catch up to it the campus police would be just as guilty of speeding as the driver of the car they were pursuing besides this their powers of arrest off campus are only those of any citizen and a citizen's arrest even made with " good probable cause which is all a regular police man such as a city policeman needs can leave a person open to a false arrest suit if a mis take is made no sanctuary another point was stressed by everyone concerned with the problem including university president w deming lewis vice president and dean preston parr and bethlehem mavor h gordon payrow they all emphatically stated that the university was not is not and will never be a sanctuary for anything including alcohol and drug abuse accord ing to parr " university students live with university regulations the university cannot be a sanc tuary the bethlehem police have full powers of investigation the university has no power to stop and would not want to stop such investigations bethlehem mayor payrow re emphasized parr's words saying that the citv does not consider the campus a sanctuary he added that the city and the uni versity devised the double jeopardy ruling a few years ago to handle cases in which the lawbreaker is a university stu rlont tn ii c ci rn r-1 ao + 7-»-rr fhlc ----- " !-_-__•- _„...., ruling states that if a student is caught in an infraction in town or by town officials town discipline will apply if he is caught in the university by uni versity officials university dis cipline will apply this ruling exists so students are not punish ed twice for the same infraction however as dean preston parr stated there are " no near/either answers in this area chief of bethlehem police john didonnato stated that the police department does not consider th university in " privileged terri tory he added that if someone would initiate a complaint against a houseparty or the like there will be police action he describ ed such a situation whereby a juvenile from town might arrive home intoxicated if his or her parents discovered that their child was drlnkingat a university party and initiated a complaint to city police they would have to act and if a student is drunk and disorderly in town he would be prosecuted the same as any bethlehem resident some kind of agreement capt frank donchez head of the university police force said that legally the city police can come on the campus any time they want to the university is part of the city donchez w deming lewis preston parr b&w ph»t hy camana members of the panel at the symposium on ' liberal learning for the engineer discussed the problem and desirability of presenting a more liberal education h.gordon payrow financial aid applications for financial aid for 1971-72 are now available in the office of admission and financial aid alumni memorial building they should be picked up before the christmas vacation to insure sufficient time for completing and processing by the college scholar ship service by the march 15 deadline this notice applies to all under graduates cur rent ity receiving university assistance and wishing to be considered for continued assistance and all others wishing to be considered by the committee ln its june 1971 meeting questions should be directed to mr standford of the admissions office better pass-fail system needed by donald suss a symposium discussing the topic of " liberal learning for the engineer was held here thursday evening and con sidered among other thing the recommendations presented in the olmsted report on liberal learning for the engineer and its implications at the university the symposium was presented by the university branch of the american society for engineering education the symposium was moderated by president w deming lewis and members of the panel were prof forbes brown mechanical engineering and mechanics prof leon hicks fine arts prof david thomas metallurgy and materials science james kasser 71 prof frank wuest psychology and prof thomas haynes philosophy each of the panelists spoke on the topic and all agreed that some degree of increased liberal learning should be pre sented in engineering curriculums wuest noted especially that the problem is so haverford rejects role as policeman editor's note this the third of four articles dealing with amendments to p l 1546 passed in the state legislature this year examines the constitutionality of these two statutes contained herein is an examination of the suit brought a gainst the state by haverford college by pat hendrick at the base of the haverford suit is the idea that the ind vidua school should not act as a policeman for the state this according to prof frank colon consti tutes an infraction against the principle of individual rights as guaranteed by the first amendment colon the vice president of the uni versity chapter of the american asso ciation of university professors aaup and co-author of that organization's res olution supporting the action brought against the state by haverford said the haverford suit seeks an injunctive release from what it terms an in fringement upon individual rights under the terms of the statutes said colon the state is in effect saying your scholarship is going to be used as a weapon against you if you get out of line according to the regulations set forth by the state each student applying for aid from the state must fill out a group 111 application for financial aid and this form is in turn submitted to the pheaa pennsylvania higher education assistance agency by the office of admis sions from the individual school in question 43 of the group 111 applica tion the pheaa asks has the student applicant ever been convicted of a criminal offense or are charges pending against the student applicant for a criminal offense criminal offense is later explained in a table of instructions for filling out the form it specifies if the student applicant has been charged with or convicted of a criminal act since his see liberal page 10 see campus page 3 see haverford page 4
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FullText | brown and white vol 87 - no j bethlehem pa tuesday decemberjs 1970 jm6-0331 u-city police guides hazy editor's note this is the first of two articles dealing with the problem of law enforcement on campus the second will deal with the powers and problems of the campus police by jeff balsai in the debate about the relative powers of the university and city police forces there is only one thing that everyone is complete ly sure of--and that is that there is a debate there are two general areas t hat everyone agrees on they are a that the bethlehem police department has the same powers on the university campus that they have in the city and b that the campus police have real police powers on campus includ ing the power of arrest and are not private security guards the campus police are con stables of northampton county and therefore officers of the court according to bethlehem city solicitor joseph pongracz the court swears in a constable he said that constable may be defined broadly and included such people as magistrate ser vers and special police pongracz said a campus policeman does not have any more power than the ordinary citizen including any power of arrest when he passes the cam pus borders for example pon gracz said if the campus police would pursue a car off campus and it would be necessarv to speed in order to catch up to it the campus police would be just as guilty of speeding as the driver of the car they were pursuing besides this their powers of arrest off campus are only those of any citizen and a citizen's arrest even made with " good probable cause which is all a regular police man such as a city policeman needs can leave a person open to a false arrest suit if a mis take is made no sanctuary another point was stressed by everyone concerned with the problem including university president w deming lewis vice president and dean preston parr and bethlehem mavor h gordon payrow they all emphatically stated that the university was not is not and will never be a sanctuary for anything including alcohol and drug abuse accord ing to parr " university students live with university regulations the university cannot be a sanc tuary the bethlehem police have full powers of investigation the university has no power to stop and would not want to stop such investigations bethlehem mayor payrow re emphasized parr's words saying that the citv does not consider the campus a sanctuary he added that the city and the uni versity devised the double jeopardy ruling a few years ago to handle cases in which the lawbreaker is a university stu rlont tn ii c ci rn r-1 ao + 7-»-rr fhlc ----- " !-_-__•- _„...., ruling states that if a student is caught in an infraction in town or by town officials town discipline will apply if he is caught in the university by uni versity officials university dis cipline will apply this ruling exists so students are not punish ed twice for the same infraction however as dean preston parr stated there are " no near/either answers in this area chief of bethlehem police john didonnato stated that the police department does not consider th university in " privileged terri tory he added that if someone would initiate a complaint against a houseparty or the like there will be police action he describ ed such a situation whereby a juvenile from town might arrive home intoxicated if his or her parents discovered that their child was drlnkingat a university party and initiated a complaint to city police they would have to act and if a student is drunk and disorderly in town he would be prosecuted the same as any bethlehem resident some kind of agreement capt frank donchez head of the university police force said that legally the city police can come on the campus any time they want to the university is part of the city donchez w deming lewis preston parr b&w ph»t hy camana members of the panel at the symposium on ' liberal learning for the engineer discussed the problem and desirability of presenting a more liberal education h.gordon payrow financial aid applications for financial aid for 1971-72 are now available in the office of admission and financial aid alumni memorial building they should be picked up before the christmas vacation to insure sufficient time for completing and processing by the college scholar ship service by the march 15 deadline this notice applies to all under graduates cur rent ity receiving university assistance and wishing to be considered for continued assistance and all others wishing to be considered by the committee ln its june 1971 meeting questions should be directed to mr standford of the admissions office better pass-fail system needed by donald suss a symposium discussing the topic of " liberal learning for the engineer was held here thursday evening and con sidered among other thing the recommendations presented in the olmsted report on liberal learning for the engineer and its implications at the university the symposium was presented by the university branch of the american society for engineering education the symposium was moderated by president w deming lewis and members of the panel were prof forbes brown mechanical engineering and mechanics prof leon hicks fine arts prof david thomas metallurgy and materials science james kasser 71 prof frank wuest psychology and prof thomas haynes philosophy each of the panelists spoke on the topic and all agreed that some degree of increased liberal learning should be pre sented in engineering curriculums wuest noted especially that the problem is so haverford rejects role as policeman editor's note this the third of four articles dealing with amendments to p l 1546 passed in the state legislature this year examines the constitutionality of these two statutes contained herein is an examination of the suit brought a gainst the state by haverford college by pat hendrick at the base of the haverford suit is the idea that the ind vidua school should not act as a policeman for the state this according to prof frank colon consti tutes an infraction against the principle of individual rights as guaranteed by the first amendment colon the vice president of the uni versity chapter of the american asso ciation of university professors aaup and co-author of that organization's res olution supporting the action brought against the state by haverford said the haverford suit seeks an injunctive release from what it terms an in fringement upon individual rights under the terms of the statutes said colon the state is in effect saying your scholarship is going to be used as a weapon against you if you get out of line according to the regulations set forth by the state each student applying for aid from the state must fill out a group 111 application for financial aid and this form is in turn submitted to the pheaa pennsylvania higher education assistance agency by the office of admis sions from the individual school in question 43 of the group 111 applica tion the pheaa asks has the student applicant ever been convicted of a criminal offense or are charges pending against the student applicant for a criminal offense criminal offense is later explained in a table of instructions for filling out the form it specifies if the student applicant has been charged with or convicted of a criminal act since his see liberal page 10 see campus page 3 see haverford page 4 |
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