University Security Officers Charged with 'Malpractice' Charges of "Illegal Search and and Trunks of Vehicles Towed on Ciety, Pierce O'donnell (Law '72)
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Vol. LII, No. 10 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C. Thursday, November 13, 1969 University Security Officers Charged With 'Malpractice' Charges of "illegal search and and trunks of vehicles towed on ciety, Pierce O'Donnell (Law '72). seizure" have been leveled against Georgetown premises. In addition, O'Donnell stated the University's traffic department, The charges were advanced by that the articles obtained in alleging malpractice for searching the executive director of the searching automobiles are inven all unlocked glove compartments Georgetown Legal Assistance So- toried. Items considered "sus picious or potentially incriminat ing" are forwarded to Capt. Wil liam Fotta, who heads the security police force on campus. Fotta then Report Overruled; determines the disposition of the articles. Sgt. John Barr, coordinator of Gym To Be Used the traffic department, and Capt. Fotta confirmed the existence of McDonough Gymnasium will The marshalling force from the the searching practices. serve as a housing facility for 650 mobilization will be augmented by O'Donnell, in a letter sent to AYS students from different East the leaders of the student govern Dayton P. Morgan, University Coast universities who will par ment, O'Keefe said. vice president for business and fi ticipate in National Mobilization O'Keefe also noted that each nance, under whose jurisdiction Committee activities today, tomor residence hall has aetermined its the traffic department functions, ;S. own policy concerning the hous stated that his investigation into row, and Saturday. :LEASE This decision was announced by ing of students for the weekend. the standing policy of the traffic the Rev. Robert J. Henle, S.J., The Quadrangle has made avail department was precipitated by a Sgt. John Barr, wbo heads the University's traffic department, has President of the University, Mon able facilities that will accommo complaint lodged with the Legal come under sharp fire from tbe Georgetown Legal Assistance Society day after a series of deliberations date "approximately 200 students," Assistance Society by a George for malpractice in searching cars after they have been towed on the with representatives from the according to O'Keefe. town student. The student alleged _campus. (photo by Mike Searles) undergraduate student govern The Women's Residence Hall that his glove compartment had ment, the Georgetown contingent Advisory Committee has stipulated been "entered and searched" of the mobilization committee, and that the guests of residents dur while his automobile was in the the University's Student Person ing the weekend will be limited custody of the traffic department Henle Is 'Saddened' nel Office. "to friends and relatives." following a routine "towing away" Fr. Henle's decision overrules The remammg dormitories, from a "tow-away zone." the Nov. 3 report of the University O'Keefe asserted, will allow the Further, O'Donnell asserted Athletic Board which advised individual resident to determine that "there is no question in our At S.F.S Confusion I against the use of the gymnasium whether to house any students in minds that this practice is for housing participants in the mo his room. patently illegal and an obvious In an effort to clarify his posi sed his interest in the field of in bilization efforts. The board re In accordance with fire regula abuse of the express purpose of tion on matters concerning the ternational affairs. port was endorsed by four of its tions, however, O'Keefe stated towing automobiles." School of Foreign Service, the Rev. Referring to this interest, the members, while three members that under no conditions will O'Donnell noted that the deci Robert J. Henle, S.J., President of President said, "One of the reasons were opposed to it, and one ab visitors be allowed to stay in resi sion of the Legal Assistance So the University, met with SFS stu I was willing, after 26 years at stained from the voting. dence hall corridors. ciety was determined "upon con dents and faculty members in the St. Louis University, to risk a new In addition, student government Jim Clark stated that Fr. Henle's sultation with several attorneys Hall of Nations last Monday night. career here at Georegtown was leaders have announced that they decision was "one based upon stu and law professors." Addressing himself to the topics the existence of this international have extended invitations to uni dent effort, and the participation Sgt. Barr said that the searches of core faculty imprementation, school." versity delegations for housing of Jim O'Keefe in his attempts to are done "only for the protection the progress of the decanal search He went on to say, however, facilities. LeMoyne College and demonstrate that we believe that of the personal property of the committee, and curriculum re that he was "saddened and shock Woodstock Seminary have already this will be peaceful protest." (Continued on Page 10) form, Fr. Henle repeatedly stres- ed that a school with this po applied for housing space, and tential and history today finds it their requests have been granted. self in such a confusing situation." Invitations have also been of fered Boston College, Wheeling Turni"lg first to the subject of Highway Th rea te ns Campus; core faculty, Fr. Henle insisted College, and the University of Buffalo to provide shelter for their that the statement of a recent stu respective delegations, according dent petition, which held that "little action has been taken to to Jim Clark, president of the un 'Top Priority' Action Urged wards implementation," was en dergraduate student government. tirely untrue. He stated, "As far Jim O'Keefe, assistant to the The highway department of the tain will run underground a few give "top priority" to this issue. undergraduate president for facil as I am concerned there will be District of Columbia is planning to yards west of New South could Further, the UniverSity President a core faculty as quickly as is hu ities and services, announced that put a section of road leading from take one to two acres of George has requested that the planning manly possible. We must remem 150 members of the campus mo the controversial Three Sisters town property. committee determine what the ber that we are dealing here with bilization committee will serve as Bridge site through a small corner The Rev. Robert J. Henle, S.J., possible relocation of land on the decisions of human beings." marshals throughout the weekend of the main campus. President of the University, has Canal Road "could mean to the to insure order inside the gym The projected road, which plan asked the recently formed Uni University, and to make recom Concerning the decanal search nasium. ners from the department main- versity Planning Committee to mendations to me concerning this committee, which has been meet question, at the earliest possible ing regularly under the chairman time." ship of the Rev. Edwin A. Quain, S.J., the President stated that he The planning committee was supports complete frankness with given a complete briefing con in the committee, but reminded cerning the proposal for the road all present that total secrecy re and its possible effects upon the garding individual personalities is University last week, according to necessary for the success of the sources close to the Administra committee's work. tion. "There have been rumors," he Fr. Henle has speculated that said, "that the committee is rig over one-half million dollars worth ged, and that I have my own dean of University land may be at stake. waiting in the wings. These stories If the land is sold, however, plans are 100 percent false; the com for gymnasium expansion to the mittee is acti,ng independently." south would be stopped. In addi Discussing curriculum reform, tion, vibration problems and con Fr. Henle emphasized that the edu gestion of traffic during the period cation publicly advertised in the of construction of the proposed school's catalogue consists sub tunnel could cause headaches to stantially of the courses now of the University community. fered in the school. He did admit, however, that there is room for 'One of the problems in saying improvement. anything definite about where roads will go in this city is that The President closed by asking you can't trust what the planners the student body to support him say," claimed Matt Andrea, chair in SFS matters, saying, "I am still I- The Rev. Robert J. Henle, S.J., President of the University, overruled the University Athletic Board's man of the D.C. Students Com- enthusiastic and determined to I ! recommendation that McDonough Gymnasium not be Eastern universities put this schOOl in the forefront of in this weekend's Georgetown University priorities." Page Two THE DOrA. Thursday, November 13,1969 , ~i .. ~-::. --::I :~"": -j ODYSSEY Search' Narrowing Down' by Don Casper For SFS Decanal Position Recommendations for the For Quain stated that the committee scheme prepared by the Commit eign Service School'S new dean will had considered approximately 90 tee concerning desirable qualities ltOAAWV o· CL'\)-&PWltW'\) LOE'\) acr1'EQ probably be advanced to Univer names, and is presently "narrow for the dean. sity President, the Rev. Robert J. ing down" the list of names to In this document, primary em- • ....____________________________ 'HQ t v60v EY'VW Homer, Od. 1.3 Henle,weeks accordingS.J., within to thethe chairmannext six smaller groupings of the "most phasis was given "involvement and promising candidates." deep interest in excellence of of the School'S Decanal Search The search committee chairman undergraduate teaching rather The Vietnam situation, at least in its embryo stage, was Committee, the Rev. Edwin A. stated that interviews for the than in research." The report also essentially a situation comedy.