Bank president condemns letter as 'blatant marketing' by Don Chomiak Sludcnl at Large A Bloomsburg bank president said Friday that a marketing device used by another bank on the students of Bloomsburg Univ ersity was "one of the most blatant marketing pieces we have seen. " Edward J. Heal y Jr., president of the Bloomsburg Bank Columbia Trust (BBCT), was commenting on a solicitation letter mailed to the students of Bloomsburg University(BU). The letter was included in envelopes containing the billing statements from the Community Activities Office. Written by an official of the Commonwealth Bank and Trust Company and mailed in June from the university , the letter concerned the availability of a new branch office of Commonwealth Bank , recently installed in the University Store at BU. "We sent the letter to students to make sure they knew about the branch bank. " said Dr. John Trathen , director of student activities and the Kehr Union. Trathen added the Community Activities Office saw no problem in sending the letter with the billing statement. "We are not aware of there being anything wrong with sending the letter , " Trathen said. He added if they knew of anything , they would not have sent it. David A. Hill , comptroller for the Community Activities Office and the Kehr Union , said , "The letters were part of the agreement with the bank for the installation of the branch bank and M.A.C. machine on campus. " Asked if other banks in Bloomsburg were offered a chance to send a solicitation letter . Hill said , "No , because they are not opening a branch office on campus. " He added that bids were sent out to all of the local banks. Commonwealth Bank was the onl y one interested. Hill also said that a listing of all local banks , their services and costs is published by the university and is available at registra- tion or at the information desk in the Kehr Union Building. Steven B. Barth , corporate b a n k i n g officer for Commonwealth Bank and author of the letter , declined to comment. Heal y said the letter suggests "that it is a student 's 'important personal duty* to immediatel y drop any relationshi p with another bank in favor of their relativel y sub-standard offerings. " He added it will have no effect on the relationshi p between the BBCT and the college community . The phrase labeling the Commonwealth Bank's policies 'substandard offerings ' r?fers to the passage in the letter vv ,\ich states for a regular savings account , "A $50 initial deposit is required , " and that a student can "make up to three withdrawals or transfers per month without charge , and $.50 per transaction thereafter. " Heal y added , "The BBCT has served that(college) constituency for many years " and not as "special risks. " You can 't tell, but the one on the left is pink. Frank Michaels and Lynda Fedor hold a new found friend. Bloomsburg pizzeria owner wins reversal of conviction by Maria Libertella Advertising Manager Salvatore Salamone. owner of Sal' s Place pizzeria , Bloomsburg , has 18 years until his 20-year prison sentence and federa l conviction on six gun charges is over. But it looks like he may not be growing old in federal custody. According to the Sept. 12 issue of the ,Press-Enterprise , Salamone won a reversal of his Marc h 1985 conviction. of his validit y The Wilhamsport trial was questioned when a Federa l Appeals Court discovered that the trial jud ge, Malcolm M u i r o f t h o U.S. Mid die District , eliminated six Na tional Rifle Associati on !NRA) members as potential jurors . Muir 's reasoning was that they couldn ' t try the case fairl y because it involved charges relating to an illegal machine gun and false federal gun forms. The appeals court stated that Muir "abused his discretion when he judged the potential Voice photo by H. Kelly Not even Mother Nature, though it's apparent she tried, could stop the Bloomsburg Fair. Shep herd letter clears Robertson by Robert Shogan LA Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON-Television evangelist Pat Robertson released a letter from retired Marine Gen. Lemuel C. Shepherd Thursday saying that Shepherd "has no recollection " of any special request made to hel p Robertson avoid combat when he was a Marine second lieutenant during the Korean War. Shepherd , who was commanding general of the Marine force in the Pacifi c at the time , was responding to a letter from Robertson asking for hel p in rebutting published allegations that Robertson had used the influence of his father, the late Sen. A. Willis Robertson , to avoid combat. Those charges have stirred a controversy about Robertson ' s background as he is soliciting support for a race for the Republican presidentia l nomination. Althoug h Shepherd , now 90 , denied in the letter that influence had been used to keep Robertson out of combat , he did not shed any li ght on the question of whether Robertson actuall y served in combat , as he publicl y claims. Department of Defense officials have said that Robertson 's military record s reflect his duty in Korea but do not show actual combat service. Shepherd 's letter was released to the Los Angeles Times by Americans for Robertson , the evangelist 's exp loratory campaign organization , in response to Los Angeles Times stories that reported that serveral of Robertson 's Marines colleagues believed he had used political influence in 195 1 to keep off the front lines. One of the former servicemen , John Gearhart , a Los Angeles manufacture r 's representative , told the Los Angeles Times that he was with Robertson when Robertson called his parents fro m a military post in Japan shortl y before they were to be shipped to Korea. Subsequentl y, he said , they wre reassigned to duty in Japan , and he thought that Robertson 's father had intervened on his behalf. Another former Marine , Rep. Paul N. "Pete " McCloskey Jr. , R-Calif. , said that Robertson spoke frankl y about asking his father to help keep him out of combat. The charges about the use of influence were first aired earlier this month in a syndicated column by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak that quoted from a letter by McClosey about Robertson ' s service career. Robertson , in his Sept. 6 letter fo Shepherd , said , "The attack ... is obviously a slander against the United States Marine Corps , against my distinguished father , A. Willis Robertson , and against me. " In his reply of Sept. 11 , Shepherd confirmed that Robertson ' s first assignment in the Far East was to a rehabilitation center at Camp Otsu , Japan , an assignment that Shepherd characterized as not unusual. see page 3 jurors soley on their NRA membershi p. Rig ht or wrong, the recent ruling has made Salamone , who is currentl y on trial in New York for drug-related charges, very happy . His wife , Vencenza Salamone . who has been runninu the pizzeria in between her tri ps to New York , says the ruling is "absolutel y wonderful. " "I just hope he gets home soon. He ' s already been there too long. " Mrs . Salamone added that the good news didn 't surprise her. "1 knew the facts would change things sooner or later. I' ve always beleived in mv husband ' s innocence. According to Mrs. Salamone . bail has to be set in both states before Sal , the father of her four children , can be released from federal custody. "It has alread y been set in New York ," she says. "Now we ' re waiting for them to set in in Pennsy lvania. " i ' osecutoi in me New York 1-vucial Courtroom are charg ing Salamone with involvement in an Daniloff remains crisis situation try by next Wednesday , althoug h Moscow can rep lace them proLA Times-Washington Post Service vided the total staff remains United Nations-Secretary of below a revised ceiling of 218 State George P. Shultz and Soviet di plomats. The continuing dispute over the Forei gn Minister Eduard A. U.N. mission Shevardnadze held an unschedul- Soviet demonstrated that negotiators reed meeting Thursday ni ght to continue try ing to solve the super- main far apart in their search for power crisis over the arrest of a way to end the bitter superU.S. j o u r n a l i s t Nicholas power controversies about Soviet esp ionage charges against Daniloff. Shortl y after the meeting ' Daniloff , Moscow correspondent began. State Department of U.S. News & World Report . Nevertheless , Shultz said that spokesman Bernard Kalb confirmed that it was under way but both countries were negotiating in would not provide any details. good faith . "My sense is that M r . Less than an hour bfore he and Shevardnadze began their huddle Shevardnadze is also try ing to get it done , " Shultz said. "That at the headquarters of the U.S. doesn t mean we are going to sucmision to the United Nations , Shultz told a group of reporters ceed in doing it , but I think there that he hoped to meet Shevard - is a genuine effort on both sides. " A few hours before Shultz ' nadze again but would not say press conference , soviet Foreign when. "Just where this will go, I Ministry spokesman Gennady don 't know , " Shultz said of the Gerasimov listed the Daniloff negotiations. "I don 't think it is case, the U.S. expulsion order hel pful for me to speculate about against the U.N. diplomats and the U.S. esp ionage charges it. However , in his comments to against Gennady Zakharov , a reporters. Shultz rejected a key Soviet citizen employed by the Soviet demand for settling the United Nations , as three obstacles Daniloff case, ruling out any to a summit meeting between relaxation of the expulsion order President Reagan and Soviet against 25 Soviet diplomats at the leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Althoug h Gerasimov said that United Nations. He said that the diplomats nam- the three cases must be resolved ed in the deportation order earlier separately, he made it clear that this month must leave the counsee page 3 alleged $1.65 billion organized crime consp iracy to smugg le herion and collect drug profits under the cover of p izza parlors in several states. The trial is in its 12th month. "He may have to stay in New York during the week for the trial but he w i l l be h o m e on weekends ." said Mrs. Salamone. When the six gun charges were dismissed more than two weeks ago . Salamone ' s federal prosecutors were given two weeks to either appeal the ruling or to ask lor a new trial. According to the Septembei 20th issue of t h e PressEnterprise , the government is now asking for 30 more days to make a decision. Salamones ' s defense attorney . Robert C. Fogelnest. was quoted as say ing. "The government would like to keep Sal in jail even thouuh his conviction was revers" ed. " Fogelnest also stated that he would be g lad to have the chance to prove that Salamone is noi guilty in a retrial of the gun charge. Weather & Index by Norman Kempster Kenny Rogers performed the last night of the 1986 Fair. Bloomsburg Bloomsburg Fair Board President Fred Trump was a little apprehensive as to whether or not Rogers would show for the concert because of bad weather. With the recent surge of attention on drug testing and the questions it evokes , The Voice wants to gather the attitudes on this issue of the Bloomsburg University community. Answer the survey on page 3 and return it to The Voice . Today 's forecast: Cloud y early in the morning, clearing to partl y sunny skies , hi gh 77. Tuesday: Partl y cloudy, warm and humid, with a chance of a showers , hi gh 80 Commentary Classifieds Comics Crossword Sports page page page page page 2 6 6 6 8 m — Drug testing: a q uestio n of p rivacy and accuracy Editorial Much attention has been placed on drug testing recently. To some, testing is the onl y way to insure compentcncy and to others it is a violation of privacy. Questions arise as to who should be tested , when testing should occur and whether or not testing should be voluntary or involuntary . In the Sept. 29 issue of Newsweek , California drugp r e v e n t i o n consultant Ted Schramm questions what will come from the test results . "There 's an incredible amount ol recreational drug use. What makes us think that by anal yzing somebody 's urine we ' re going to change the culture? " he asks. Althoug h there seems to be no clear direction to take when it comes to the test results , there is a definite growth in the anal ysis end of the drug testing surge. And with that comes the question of reliability and accuracy. Accord ins? to the Newsweek article , used correctly , urinalysis can reliabl y i d e n t i f y trace elements of specifi c narcotics. But used carelessl y , urinal ysis can produce false results—both positively and negatively . One widel y used screening test can produce a positive finding for marijuana when the urine samp le contains ibuprofen , which is the advertised anti-flammatory ingre dient in pain relievers such as Advil and Nuprin. It is also theoreticall y possible that someone who is tested after drinking a g in and tonic can be identified as a heroin - addict. This being that quinine , a main ingredient in the tonic water used for the drink , is also used to cut heroin. For toxiolog ists . quinine is an indicator of heroin use. These examp les prove the fact that the reliabilit y and validity ol any drug test depends heavil y on the skill and knowledge of the technician who interprets it. According to Newsweek . Richard Hawks , chief of researc h technology at the National Institute of Drug Abuse , is very concerned thai there should be controls on the validity and accuracy of the tests that are being made. "This is a powerfu l technolog ical device for drug prevention , but it has to be used correctl y. If it is not—if a lot ol error creeps in — then t h e [urinalysis! method will net a bad name tor itself very quickl y. " Now , not onl y are there questions as to the constitutionality of the drug tests themselves , the question of accurate results also comes into play . Some drugs stay in a person ' s system longer than others-if this is the case , is it fair to punish a person for not passing a drug test wncn the indicated drugs could be from a few weeks prior to the test? And it seems extremel y unfair to punish someone who "fails " a drug test because of an analvsis mistake. The theory of drug testing in itself is good, but there are too many questions and problems to be answered and solved before a mass drug test takes place. With all this attention on drug testing. Joe Pugnatti , a senior elementary education major , wrote a survey to gather the attitudes on drug testin g on Bloomsburg University 's campus. All respones are anonymous and the survey results will be run in The Voice next week. The survey will be run again in the October 2 issue of The Voice. See the survey on page 3. Senate should use time more wisely The senate has a full plate and only two weeks left to comp lete leg islative business before final adjournment. Members are under great pressure to produce a drug bill in response to House passage of a narcotics control measure and an administration initiative along the same lines. Debate could begin at any time, but as late as Thursday evening, senators did not yet have written cop ies of the actual bill that will be considered. Moreover , a number of senators have announced intentions to load up the bill with amendments of dubious wisdom and constitutionality on the theory that in this atmosphere if a proposal is labeled "antidrug " it will fl y. Serious leg islators know , however, that the only way narcotics leg islation will get throug h the Senate in this period is if these controversial amendments are put To the Editor aside or considered separatel y. A fi ght on cap ital punishment , for examp le , would provoke a filibuster that could hamstring the leaders ' ability to move any bill in time for the Senate to complete other work and go home by mid-October. And cap ital punishment is nol the onl y stumbling block. Some senators want to use this bill to weaken the exclusionary rule , restrict the right to file habeas corpus p e t i t i o n s , l i m i t the Freedom of Information Act and require mandatory drug testing in a wide range of occupations both public and private. Every one of these amendments will be—and should be— foug ht tooth and nail. Not one of them is a necessary component of a strong and effective narcotics program. There is much to be debated in any drug bill without even considering tangential amendments . How much should be sent in the fight on illegal drugs? Where will the money come from? Which programs have worked in the past and which—like long mandatory prison sentences—have been tried and failed? How much should the federal government help the states with basic law enforcement? Would a reorganized federal bureaucracy do a better job? And what are the forei gn policy ramifications of various sanctions against producer countries? The House spent only two day s discussing the exclusionary rule and death penalty . The Senate should use its limited time to discuss the details of a sensible narcotics control program and leave important civil liberties questions for debate under less frenzied conditions. { Editor 's note: The above editorial appeared in the Sept. 25 Washington P ost.) Misunderstanding was honest Dear Editor. Out of fairness to President Ausprich , I would like to reply to your editorial of September 25. In his first year as president. Ausprich worked tirelessl y with various constituencies on behalf of the university. Much of our success in attracting significant gifts to the university can be directl y attributed to his leadershi p and the relation- shi ps he has initiated and/or nurtured. The Alumni Association was quite p leased when Ausprich volunteered to devote a day or more of his 1 8-day vacation in with Florida to m e e t i n g Bloomsburg University alumni who live there . The misunderstanding over what out-of-pocket expenses would be reimbursed by the Alumni Association was just that-an honest misunderstandin g which was quickl y clarified. From time to time , we are all confronted by misunderstanding in our personal and professional lives in this not-so-perfect world in which we live. To exploit these misunderstandings and make an issue of them is a disservice to peop le who work very hard to resolve them in a constructive way. To the editor . As a student who works in the library, I see all too well the need for a new facility. There have been many times when we must shift material from shelf to shelf to make room for incoming materials such as books , microfilm , microfiche, current periodicals , and other publications. A library must meet the needs and of students , faculty townspeop le. If it runs out ot room and is not able to keep up with present and current information then it has failed. Within a coup le of years there will be no more room for such inis E x p an s i o n formation. necessary and very needed. A concerned worker Sincerel y, Doug Hi ppcnstiel '68 Director of Alumni Affairs Expansion is necessary