CAMPUS BRIEFS: Wednesday, September 10, 1997

U. Police arrest man for handgun incident Officers attempted to stop the dark Toyota Cressida after it ran the stop sign at 40th and Locust streets. The driver turned right onto Locust Street and stopped the car right before reaching 41st Street. When police asked him for his registration, the man reached into his glove compartment for what appeared to be a handgun, according to officers from the Philadelphia Police Department. Witnesses said they saw officers take bullets out of the gun after pulling the man out of the car and arresting him. No one was injured in the incident, and the man was taken to the Philadelphia Police Department's Southwest Detectives bureau for processing. -- Ian Rosenblum Male student assaults female Spectaguard A male student assaulted a female Spectaguard officer yesterday afternoon at 1:41 p.m. near the Class of 1920 Commons building. The officer was not injured in the incident, and the student was not arrested or cited, according to University Police. Director of Police Operations Maureen Rush and Detective Commander Tom King said the incident remained under investigation, and would not explain why the student was not cited for his role in the assault. Police were interviewing a Spectaguard supervisor, the female guard and other witnesses last night to piece together exactly what happened in the incident. Rush noted that University Police "depend on Spectaguard to assist the Penn police as our eyes and ears." "They need to have the respect of students just as the police do," she said. "They're not just statues out there." -- Ian Rosenblum Sled killing suspects should get January trial The three suspects charged with murdering University researcher Vladimir Sled last Halloween night should go to trial "sometime after the new year," according to Assistant District Attorney Dick Carroll. Sled, 38, was walking home with his fiancee, Cecelia Hagerhall, when he was stabbed to death on the 4300 block of Larchwood Avenue at about 11 p.m. Eugene "Sultan" Harrison, 33, Yvette Stewart, 29, and Bridget Black, 26, are charged in the biochemist's murder, which shocked the University community. The next pretrial conference is scheduled for September 18 at 9 a.m. in room 604 of the Criminal Justice Center at 13th and Filbert streets. -- Scott Lanman