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8 Following Arrest -- | -- \ltematives for movies in review, art in the - Union Gallery, a and more........ at. c Coram -tBus Driver Arrested -During Dispute With Officer By Jim Scott he asked the officer why he had to pull over. Macedonio A bus driver for the Coram Bus Co., was arrested by retorted with "because I said so." Calfa stated that he Public Safety over intersession for "illegal was worried about keeping the schedule and not given a imprisonment" of one of their officers. reason for the delay, asked Macedonio to get off the bus Jim Calfa drives one of the four buses which run from or prepare to take a ride to Port Jefferson. Calfa said Port Jefferson to the Smithhaven Mall with stopsat the that Macedonio did not respond, so he began driving University. Calfa said he was driving near the Fine Arts with the officer on board. Macedonio demanded Calfa to Center loop when he noticed a Public Safety patrol car stop the bus, according to Calfa, or he would be arrested turning without using indicator lights. for kidnapping. Calfa claims that he stoppedthe bus and *He said that he stopped his bus when the vehicle offered to let the officer off, but Macedonio insisted parked and yelled out that he thought the car's lights that he pull over. Calfa shut the door and began heading were not working. At this point, according to Calfa, for Port Jefferson. Public Safety officer Domonic Macedonio boarded the bus However, Macedonio claimed that Calfa was abusive, and demanded that Calfa pull the bus over to the side of referring to Public Safety as "Mickey Mouse police" and the road. However, according to Macedonio, when simply taking off with him on board. Calfa tried to inform him of his car problem, he could Macedonio also said that Calfa did not stop the bus not understand his words, and proceeded to ask Calfa to when ordered, driving for almost a mile. Another patrol pull over to clarify himself. Calfa stated that when -Macedonio boarded the bus (continued on page 5) Officer Dismissed 8 Following Arrest By John Buscemi = - A Public Safety officer was arrested earlier this year for violation of probation, criminal impersonation and traffic violations authorities said. Sergeant Muller of the Suffolk County Sheriffs Office said the officer, Michael Tiemeyer of Holtsville, was brought into the Suffolk County Correctional Facility Feb. 3 and was released the next day 'on his own recognizance." Muller refused to comment any further. - Tiemeyer is scheduled to appear before the county Supreme Court on March 9, Ray Sachtleben, a court spokesman said. Reading from a probation report, Arthur Penny, Assistant to the direct attorney said that Tiemeyer pleaded guilty to grand larceny third degree on Nov. 30, 1978, in Westchester, where he lived and NICOLLS ROAD, which passes by the University, will be re-paved and have guard rails installed later this was sentenced to five years probation. semester. Penny also said that the District Court told him Tiemeyer had been arrested for "criminal impersonation and a bunch of traffic charges." Nicolis Road To Get Uplift Tiemeyer failed to meet with probation offiVials from May to December of last year and was ordered in violation of probation on A portion of Nicolls Road which includes three director of the State Department of Transportation Jan. 19, 1981, Penny said. entrances to the University will be re-paved and Resurfacing the road should begin in April. Kenth Sjolin, assistant director of Public Safety, said that have guard rails installed later this semester in Iaccording to an engineer for contractor, Lyon and Tiemeyer was hired two days prior to the arrest, and has since been effort to create safer conditions. I Reboli Paving Contractors. Installing guardrails fired. According to Sjolin, background checks are never performed About $1 million has been allocated for will be done by a subcontractor. on prospective officers. "We do not do criminal screening under our improving the section of Nicholls Road between The section of Nicolls Road that will be own auspices," said University Business Manager Paul Madonna, who Route 25A and Nesconset-Port Jefferson Highway, repaired has been the scene of a number of oversees the Department of Public Safety. "We only do a normal with the federal government paying 75 percent of accidents in recent years. In addition most of the interview and reference screening check." Madonna added that the costs, the state 19 percent and the county six traffic entering the University uses one of the iTiemeyer had a reference from the New York State Police. percent, according Austin Emery, the reginal Nicolls Road entrances. Treasurer s Report Reveals $ 76,000 Surplus By Ellen Lander computer will be investigated, as well as which type of expedient execution of due process," for procrastinating For the first time in four years, the Polity Treasurer's system would best serve the purpose. The computer the elections for the Polity treasurer and freshman Report was presented to the Senate Monday night, and would "increase efficiency and cost effectiveness," representative. included the announcement of the estimated surplus Siegel said. 'Prior to the request for the condemnation, Fuccio, in generated for this year, $76,000. his motion, also included the request for the removal of include d oexpetationso siegetoa nport did notElection Board Co-Chairmen, Steven Schoenfeld and Polity Treasurer Larry Siegel proposed that the excess include dCrsson of additional aut fo 0 Jaci Lachow on grounds of "not providing an election ftnds be used for lowering the Activities fee from $80 to 0f Ambulanr e porh A plan to allocate about $22,000 within a reasonable amount of time after the one held $75, allocating an additional $1 or $2 per resident for toward the purchase of a new ambulance or $3,000 to last fall was invalidated." The elections have been held -eah dormitory, and computerizing the bookkeeping in $4,000 toward repairs of the existing ambulances, was up ince October because of the unavailability of voting Polity. These p als, a stated in the report," would not included in the treasureres reportmachines. benefit the undergraduate student body and still leave o i n io n sa i d i s t h a t t h e Election money for We special projects-" Epretion"M p ," Fuccio, ' ,ter on in the^ m t a_ motion was brought.byBoard is guilty of incompetence" for the unnecessary Siegl then made a motion to set aside money for the lbi~terotidn th amoeF "amoionwas brough by delay of the eletions. As their replacments, Fuccio o t ne d t o n o na t e P ra k ash M i s ra an d R o be rt eomputer. The motion paed, money was appropratd condemn the Polity Council as well a Polity President m io gni h and, according to SieVe, the feibuity of having a Rich Zuckeman on grounds of failing to insure the (continued on page 3) -Budgetla Chief. i-e Predicts-I Cuts said, that he rose by a seasonally adjusted Federal Budget Director unpopular, Reagan he would be "hung in $1.62 billion in Dec. It was the David Stockman says the budget predicted fifth straight monthly increase. cutting ax wielded by the effigy." budget cuts, While consumers paidoff old Reagan administration will fall Along with the be sending to loans quicker in Dec. than they on big business and Reagan will to tax cuts. did in Nov., they also borrowed upper-income people - as well ,congress a package include the -money at a faster rate. as on social programs such as That package will cut in Energy Secretary medicaid and food stamps. three-year, 30 percent James that Edwards admitted yesterday Seven social service programs -- personal income tax rates in his campaign that he may have misled including medicare and social Reagan pledged comsumers when he predicted seurity -- will not be cut. But speeches. Treasury Secretary that gas prices would rise only the budgets for unemployment Donald Regan says the three to five cents agallon after and synthetic fuel development Administration is also looking at oil prices were decontrolled. will be reduced. possible reductions on tax rates Industry analysts say wholesale Presdient Ronald Reagan has on dividends, interest and other gasoline priceshave risen about promised to send his proposed unearned income. budget cuts- expected to total Meanwhile, the federal reserve 10 hikes after Reagan $50 billion - to the hill next board says Americans' announced decontrol last Wednesday. The cuts will be so outstanding installment debt month. -NEWS DIGEST - International San Salvador, El Salvador - The government in voters came early. .El Salvc dor &a3; police arrested 21 officials of the Elections officials say the balloting is going University of El Salvador yesterday, as they smothly and predicted the numbers will pick up as gathered for a meeting in a Roman Catholic High the day wears on. School. The president of the country's ruling President Chun Doo Hwan was one of the first Junta said police made the raid under the voters in a polling place near the Blue House, the impression that it was a meeting of the democratic President's official residence in Seoul. Chun, the CABARET revolutionary frond -an umbrella organization or nominee of the democratic justice party - is left wing groups seeking to topple the government. E S expected to be named president without .. M I SOR ,,,,, -The front comprises the government's main difficulty. 412 MAIN STREE ~]FPORT JEFFERSON opposition. It has not been declared illegal, but I under El Salvador's state of siege, the government Sources in Daubai say the flight that was -- VARELA- may arrest anyone without giving reasons.
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