Investigations continue into several recent racial incidents in State College and on campus, but they are yielding few results, authorities said yesterday.

Police said they need assistance from victims to proceed with an investigation into a reported racial incident last Sunday in State College.

Criminal Investigator Thomas Jordan of the State College Bureau of Police Services, who is investigating a reported ethnic intimidation involving 10 white men and five black women on South Garner Street, said he has yet to meet with any of the victims.

"I have not been able to talk to any of them," Jordan said. "We have to know a little bit more before we can help them. We're waiting to hear from them and hope they will agree to meet with us."

The victims talked to State College police only at the time of the original report, Jordan said.

Last Sunday, the women reported they were walking in the 400 to 500 block of South Garner Street when a group of 10 white males verbally abused them with racial epithets and attempted to coerce one of them into a car. None of the women was injured in the incident.

Jordan said one of the women reported one of the men grabbed her and that the other women became involved to aid their companion.

University Police Services Supervisor Clifford Lutz said Jordan is working through a University staff member acting as an adviser to the women, in an attempt to meet with them.

Neither Lutz nor Jordan would identify the University adviser.

Jordan said he has heard the victims will consent to an interview with police soon.

"They are very afraid right now, but we can't help them unless they agree to meet with us," he said. "We would be willing to talk to them anywhere and under their terms. "

Lutz said the women are afraid of possible harassment from the white community. But he said police have nothing to go on in this incident without their help.

"We're stymied right now on this one," Lutz said. "Our only hope is to convince them that we are serious about finding these people, and that they shouldn't be fearful, and we would keep their names out of the investigation until charges are filed."

Investigators report advances in the investigation of a racial incident on campus Sunday in which a black female student was reportedly assaulted by a white male. Three white men were also present during the incident and reportedly uttered racial slurs.

"We have a couple good leads on that one and we're following them up," Lutz said.

Although Lutz would not disclose what the leads were, he said they were made possible by the composite drawing of the suspect that was distributed throughout all campus resident halls.

The distribution of composites is part of a "resident hall crime alert" in which University police inform dorm residents of crime that occurs on campus, Lutz said.

"We started doing that last spring as a response to residents," Lutz said. "It informs them of crime that occurs there and stops rumors."

Jordan said he had no new leads in an investigation involving a racial flyer sent through the mail last Tuesday to Undergraduate Student Government President Seth Williams. He said the evidence in the case has been sent to the "appropriate agencies" for processing and police are awaiting the results.

In another development, State College Police Chief Elwood G. Williams Jr. announced that his officers are investigating two possibly racially-motivated incidents that occurred in the borough this weekend.

In one of the incidents, a white man reported he was harassed Saturday outside 457 E. Fairmount Ave. by two black men who allegedly called him a "white racist."

The other incident involved a man who was attacked in his apartment building at 458 E. College Ave. by two men. Police said Christopher Marshall was beaten by one of his attackers while the other held him. He identified the man who beat him as black. Marshall's eye was badly lacerated in the incident, police said.

State College police have increased manpower on borough streets in an attempt to deter further incidents, Jordan said.