THE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF INDIANA UN1VERSITV-PURPUE UNIVERSITY AT (THIS WEEK) SAGAMORE q Jan. 18,1988 INDIANAPOLIS v^ - hq-m P Wounded campus officer shoots suspect By STANLEY D. MILLER leave, Mulvey said. when the second shot was dis­ he said. Acting News Editor * ^ p h e officer's life Davis ordered him to stop and charged and Smith was shot. He "As of right now, we find no he did not, and Davis pursued did not immediately cease the improprieties in what the officer A campus police officer shot was in serious him into the parking lot south of struggle at that time," Propst did. We're of the opinion that and seriously wounded a man danger when the gun the Krannert Building (lot 302) said. the officer acted to defend her afUr being shot herself during a Deputy Chief Propst said that "Until he actually fell to the life. scuffle outside the Krannert was turned in to­ when the officer approached ground, he did not cease to “She felt that her life was in Building on the 38th Street Smith in the south end of the struggle." danger and from what I’ve read campus last Tuesday. ward her.’ lot. Smith verbally threatened The officer’s life was in I have to concur with that," The shootings occurred as the her and made threatening ges­ "serious danger" when the gun Propst said. officer was attempting to arrest tures toward her. was turned in toward her, The department has policies Anthony E. Smith, 26. for The incident was the second “She drew her baton, a PR-24 Propst said. Her life was also in regarding drawing and firing trespassing on university prop­ time in the 17-year history of police baton, to attempt to con­ serious danger when Smith erty. the force that an officer has shot trol him at that time because as threatened her with the baton, See SHOOTING, Page 7 Smith, of the 3600 block of ar.J wounded a suspect. of then he was under arrest for Balsam Street, was in serious Last week’s altercation began trespass. Somewhere in that but stable condition at press inside the Krannert Building, time frame she lost control of Conference Center time at Wishard Community according to John Mulvey, chief the baton and dropped it. Hospital. of the Indianapolis Division of “Smith picked the baton up Deputy Chief Larry L. Propst the Indiana University Police and threatened her with the funding uncertain of the campus police said, "1 Department (IUPD). baton, at which time Smith BY MICK McGRATH “The project was sold as one know he underwent surgery Davis, a 10-year veteran of the drew the service revolver and M anaging Editor that could bo financed internal­ (Wednesday) morning. He was police force, had seen Smith in ordered him to drop the baton. ly," said Kobe. "It’s reasonable taken into surgery somewhere the building on several previous He did drop the baton but in the The university’s chances of to expect the university to honor in the time frame of 2 a.m. I had occasions, Mulvey said. same motion he grabbed her ser­ getting the state to pick up the that commitment.” one of our sergeants go over and "He was seen in the building vice revolver,” Propst said. tab for the University Confer­ Included in the 1085 ap­ check on his condition at 6:45, earlier by (the officer). She had “There was a scuffle at that ence Center are not good, ac­ propriations act that gave the and at that time we were told seen him there soma time in the time to see wha was going to be cording to two Republican lead­ university bonding authority to that he was just coming out of past and asked if he had any in control of the revolver. The ers. finance 96 million of the $12 surgery." business there and he appar­ revolver was turned in toward Kenneth V. Kobe, state budgst million needed to build cen­ However, a spokesman for the ently did not. Officer Davis," he said. "She director, and Representative ter was a provision thi^B ond- hospital said iSiday that at no "Then yesterday (Jan. 12) she managed to get the revolver Patrick Kiely (R-Anderson), ing authority will not require time had Smith undergone any saw him again and asked him turned out. She thought she had chairman of the House Ways any fee replacement appropria­ surgical procedures. what he was doing there and he it turned out enough to clear her and Means Committee, both tions in the future." Smith has been charged with apparently didn't have an ans­ body. said that the state is not likely While the provision is not attempted murder, resisting ar­ wer." "She was attempting to get it to provide fee replacement fund­ “statutory," it is “a fairly clear rest with serious bodily iqjury, Davis ordered him to leave away so that in the struggle she ing to pay off bonds sold to fund and direct statement of legisla­ and trespassing. then, and he did so, Mulvey was not going to be shot if it ac­ the construction of the center. tive intent," said Kobe The officer, Sheryl L. Davis, said. cidentally discharged, and that’s “We just don’t build conference Last year the university asked 35, was treated and released Davis saw him in the building when she was shot in the foot. centers," said Kiely. “We haven’t the legislature to reconsider the from Wishard, and is ofT the job again that night. When Smith “The scuffle continued; she done it for anybody else in the while she recovers. saw the officer, he turned to was attempting to pull away state." See FUNDING, Page 11 Research is theme of Bepko's speech By THERESA JOYCE courage sponsored research, Freelance Editor said Bepko The incentive pro­ gram would be achieved through The central theme running a responsibility-centered throughout Vice President budgeting program that I.U. Gerald Bepko’s State of the president Tom Ehrlich has pro­ Campus address was the impor­ posed to begin in July 1988. tance of research to the univer­ "Those who are successful in sity, its faculty and students. attracting outside funding (See related etary, Page 16.) should receive added university In his annual address to the support, with a portion of in­ IUPUI Faculty Council Jan. 7, direct cost recoveries returned Bepko highlighted the rela­ directly for the benefit of the de­ tionship between teaching and partments that generate them," research, with teaching energiz­ said Bepko. ing students and research Research projects that have energizing faculty members. recently received new funding “Of course, different schools include a $6 million grant from and faculties have different op­ the National Institutes of portunity ee for research, but it is Health for AIDS research, and a our sense that all of us could $5 million grant for the study of benefit, at this moment in his­ alcoholism. tory, from a renewed recognition Other projects with new fund­ of the central role of research in ing indude the creation of a the learning process,” said Center on Law and Health; a Bepko. *450,000 grant to the School of By establishing faculty incen­ tives, the university could en­ See CAMPUS. Page 18 Page 21 The S»A«G»A»M»Q«R»E / Jan 18,1968 | NOTICES deadline i$\ Call us at 274-3456 BRIEFLY NOTICES Thursday o f Noon J King observance is today ------------------ TUESDAY------------------- In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the memorative dinner at 7:30 p.m. at the Walker The American Society of Women Accountants will meet IUPUI Forum on Campua Interrelation* is Building. at 6 p.m. in the Porter Room of the Union Building. sponsoring workshops, speeches, music and The all day celebration is aapn to the entire Elizabeth Keenan Hickman, senior consultant at Career dinner today from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Topping the Indianapolis community, IUPUI administra­ Consultants, will speak on "Interviewing from Both Sides night oPT is Dr. Alvin Poussaint, psychiatrist, tion, faculty, staff and students. of the Desk”. Call Melissa Henderson at 638-7912 or author and script consultant to the Bill Cosby Karen Martin at 232-8208 for details. Show. There is no charge to attend the workshops at ♦ ♦ ♦ Poussaint’s address. T he Struggle Con­ the University Conference Center, or Student The Housing Committee of the Student Senate will tinues....Sustaining the Dream,"will occur dur­ Union Building. The dinner at the Walker Building is sold-out. conduct a planning meeting at 7 p.m. in Cavanaugh Hall ing the annua) Black Student Union’s com­ Room 225 to discuss student concerns. All interested students are invited. Call Deb Smith at 274-3907 for more Asbestos suit deadline is extended to March 1 information. The deadline for Indiana University and Indi­ ing a new campus-wide phone system at IUPUI ana Bell Telephone to respond to the suit filed between November 1985 and May 1986. The ---------------- WEDNESDAY----------------- by Bell employees over possible asbestos con­ suit also claims that the employee's spouse tamination was extended to March 1. could have been exposed to asbestos fibers The German Club will meet at 8 p.m. in the Ratskeller of Bell Telephone filed the motion for extension carried home on her husband’s clothes. the Athenaeum, 401 East Michigan Street. Call Robin at which was granted last Friday, the some day Indiana Bell Telephone, Indiana University 894-3538 for details. the defendants were to have replied to the suit.