One Commonwealth Campus student and another man charged with raping two University women were both ordered to stand trial during preliminary hearings in Centre County Court this week.

James Resseguie, 20, a student at the Hazleton Campus is charged with rape, indecent assault, aggravated indecent assault and unlawful restraint.

Resseguie allegedly raped a 19-year-old woman from Berks Campus. They were both at a party Feb. 22 at 616 E. College Ave.

The Nicholson native was released from Centre County Prison on $25,000 bail and is bound over for a June trial.

A preliminary hearing last week had been delayed because the accuser couldn't appear in court due to midterms, Investigator Bill Wagner said.

Evidence is still being analyzed by the FBI, he said.

Public Defender Deborah Lux, who is handling the case, could not be reached for comment yesterday.

The accuser said during the hearing that she had been drinking and smoking marijuana, Wagner said. The two met at the party for the first time.

According to court records, the woman left the party with Resseguie and went to another apartment where he led her into an unlit bedroom. They began kissing and, as Resseguie said, "fooling around." The accuser said he forced her to have intercourse despite her demands that he stop.

-- Also bound for trial is Michael Powell, 36, of 3207 Plaza Drive, who faces charges of rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, indecent assault, burglary, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, simple assault and terroristic threats.

According to court records, Powell entered the residence of a 21-year-old University woman on Sept. 5, 1991. He allegedly blindfolded her, forced her to perform oral sex on him, raped her twice, and hit her over the head.

The door to the apartment was locked and there were no signs of forced entry, according to records.

Following a description made by the accuser, police looked for a black man who would have had access to the apartment. Powell had been employed as a building janitor with access to the keys, and had a prior record of rape. His last day of employment was nine days before the rape, said Tom Jordan, State College Bureau of Police Services investigator.

He was arrested in December 1982 on charges of rape and was released from the State Correctional Institution at Rockview last May.

The woman told police the man left at 3:33 a.m. An employee of Hardee's restaurant saw Powell there, one block from the apartment, between 3 and 4 in the morning, Jordan said.

Police also base their case on DNA analysis of genetic materials. A report matching samples from Powell's body with evidence from the scene came in Feb. 24.

The evidence against Powell is very sketchy, Public Defender David Crowley said.

"She said she heard a black accent, whatever a black accent is," Crowley said. "She couldn't identify his voice. The only evidence to identify him is this gobbledygook from the FBI lab."

Jordan said the odds of someone possessing the same genetic traits as Powell are one in 34 million.