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Seventeen Utah State Universitystudents, facultyand organizationswere awarded for various aspects of achievement at the 43rd Annua! RobinsAwards Saturday night. The ceremony was held in the Evan N. Stevenson Ballroomin the Taggart Student Center. The awards are named after a former USU student body president "who had the ability to project his own vision and make it the vision of the campus,"accordingto the RobinsAwardsprogram literature. In 1954,BillRobinsand his wife were flyinghome to USUfrom a convention in Denver when their plane crashed leaving no survivors.Members of the Sigma Nu Fraternity,where Robinswas a member, set up a scholarship fund for their orphaned one-year-oldson. Seven years
later their son died from leukemia, according to the RobinsAwardprogram. The RobinsAwardis one of USU'smost coveted honors, accordingto the program literature. Many finalists,their friends and families were in attendance for the event. "Myheart was beating and I didn't even think about what to say,"said Ammi Sue LewisOrton, RobinsAwardwinner for Scholar of the Year. "The neatest thing was the feelings from what I have been able to do with everyone,"said Scott A. Young,winner for Man of the Year."The award tops it off: The names of the finalists for each category were read while their picture was shown on a video projector.The presenters opened the envelope containing the winner's name and he or she came to the podium to accept the award - a three dimensional dear triangle sitting on a base - and give an acceptance speech.
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Ken Bown,recipient of the Gerald R. Sherratt Award.had no knowledgeof his nomination and was at the event working on the light crew Bownemerged from the back room clad in jeans to accept his award before returning to work. The Gerald R.Sherratt Awardgoes to the individual member of the university administration or staff who has displayed superior leadership skillsand abilities,as well as unsurpassed dedication and service to students, accordingto the program literature. Achievementof the Yearwas given to MechanicalAerospaceEngineering's (MAE)Design Build Fly,whose plane carried 104 pounds of water. winning a nationwide competition. Video clips of the Male and Female Athlete of the Year nominees playing their sport were shown before each winner was announced. James Parker,winner of the Male Athlete of the Yearand a member of the USUtrack team, is a three time allAmerican champion. He holds the record at 244 feet for the hammer throw. Christy Denson accepted the Robins Awardfor Female Athlete of the Year for the third consecutiveyear. She has set many of USU'sgymnasticrecords. Talent of the Yearwinner, Aaron McClaskey,performed a piano solo at the ceremony. Young,Man of the Yearaward winner, is a politicalscience major with a 4.0 GPA. Among his many activities,he is on the PublicAffairsBoard,vice president of Pi SigmaAlpha and js USU'srepresentative on the Logan City Neighborhood Council. "[Theaward] makes all those nights he was gone at meetings worth it,"said Young'swife,Julie. "MaybeI'm partial. but Comedian Tim Young entertainsattendee~at tire43rd Annual Robins Awards Saturdayevening.
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NewASUSU officers mustdecidewhowillvoteof Columbine represent students in all areas.· Accordingto Luekenga.two commitSenior Ne-..osWriter tees would be formed,one that would This week when the new Associated vote on legislationand would that would Students of Utah State University handle housekeepingissuesof the ExecutiveCouncilmeets for the first ExecutiveCouncil.This would help to time, they willalready have a controver- clarifyroles of officers. sial issue facingthem - who willremain "Someof the differentroles for each as a votingmember. positionweren't clearlydefined," At the old council'slast meeting they Luekengasaid."Thisnew format identipushed through and passed a recomfieswho is representingwho." mendation that would reduce the numThe programmers,who would be repber of votingmembers on the Executive resented by one vote in the new format, Councilfrom 20 to 10. disagreewith the new format and the Accordingto one of the bill'sspontiming of the legislation. sors,AllysonLuekenga,the recommen"Thiswhole thing happened in one dation was to improvethe representanight" said ASUSUAthleticsVice tion students receiveand to avoid multi- PresidentSam Winward."It is something ple representation. 1 would have liked to have seen handled Accordingto the bill.all of the senadifferently." tors, the programmingchair,the acadeWinwardsaid the new format doesn't mic vicepresident,graduate studies vice solveanything because it stillgivesstupresident and extensionvicepresident dents multiple representation and would be allowedto vote.The majority reduces the diversityof voiceson the of representativeswho would not be council. able to vote are programmers. "If there is a necessityto go to a ·r think it's important in representing strictlystudent government format then students to represent them not only in a senators and only senators should (be) governmentalfunction,but also in every representatives,"Winwardsaid. "Yes,we aspect of student life."said ASUSUPublic could probablydo a whole lot more proRelationsVicePresidentChristina gramming.but at the same time we Domichel."In my opinion, the students bring a lot to the council.My officeis that were just electedwere electedto probablySOpercent legislativeand SO LAURA BELLAMY
percent programming." The recommendationwas passed the last night this year's ExecutiveCouncil had a formal meeting.It did not follow the three-weekformat ASUSUintroduced earlier this year. "I don't think it was great timing,"said ASUSUOrganiz.ations&!TraditionsVice Presi~entJodi Lee."Tomake it a first, second and third reading item and debate it all in one night w.asdifficult" Lee said she understood the arguments for the change.but felt like programmers were specificallybeing attacked. "Ultimately,it's subjugatinga group." Domichelsaid. "Personally.I don't know that it solvesanything.We haven't even identifiedwhat it is we want to solve: Lee said equalityamong the officers was never an issue,but the opportunity to adequately represent all students was. "Ifyou try to say that everyoneis equal then you're wrong becauseevery officehas such differentresponsibilities," Lee said. "Butl think there is such a difference in our personalitytypes and opinions that the new format would make councillack diversityof voice." No specificofficewas targeted,and some officersmay have a hard time discussingnew rolesbecause of their attachment to their office,Luekenga
said. "Peopleare so attached that it's hard to imagine your role changing." Luekel)gasaid. "I don't believeit's created contention in ExecutiveCouncil.I believeit's created healthy discussion about our roles and offices." Accordingto Luekenga,most of the newlyelected officerswere at the meeting and had a chance to hear the pros and cons of the recommendation.Lee said this recommendationputs them in an awkwardposition because they are so new to officeand don't yet fullyunderstand how ExecutiveCouncilfunctions. "Everyperson on campus elected me," Lee said."Everyperson on campus elected the programmers and every person on campus elected the legislators.They didn't know about this when they were elected and now we're expectingthem to handle it." The recommendationwillgo to the newlyelected officerswho must decide if they want to use it or drop the recommendation. If they decide to approve the new format. since the measure wouldbe a change in the ASUSUconstitution,it would be put to a general student vote. "Ihope the new councilwill try the old structure before movingto change anything,"Domichel said.
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USU bookstore apparel not made 1n sweatshops Derek Laventure, a member of SASand a participant in the Staff Writer sit-in. SASis lobbyingfor a code For students at the Universityof Toronto. knowing that says licensees selling clothes to the Universityof where the apparel in their Toronto are not using sweatbookstore comes from is shop labor. important SAS'sgoals are that "the Students Against president immediately pass Sweatshops(SAS)has been the code of conduct including pushing for action by the the requirement that workers administration against sweatproducing U of T merchandise shops. receive a livingwage,"and The group has been involvedin a sit-in in the pres- "governingcouncil ratify the new policy,"according to their ident's office.The campaign has been going on for about Web site. The SASWeb site. two years. www.tao.ca/-genny/sas/index. ·we decided direct action htm, posts updates on the was the best way to go,"said JESSICAWARREN
campaign for a code to be added at the University of Toronto. Lori Cano. clothing and gifts buyer for Utah State University'sbookstore, said although USU doesn't have a policyspecificto the issue. the companies she buys from have their own policies. "Universitieshave made such a stink about it that most of the clothing companies have complied,"Cano said. Companies she buys from such as Champion and JanSport are two of these that have complied by creating their own policies,she said. In a December 1999 press
release from JanSport to Cano, JanSport announced their adoption, through their parent company, VF Corporation. of the World ResponsibleApparel Production (WRAP)code of conduct. WRAPis a development of the American Apparel Manufacturers Associationto organize responsible business practices by setting basic principles. These principles include guidelines for workplace regulations, child labor, forced labor. harassment or abuse, compensation and benefits, hours worked, discrimination. health and safety,freedom of
association,environment, customs compliance and drug interdiction. Another example of compliance by companies is GEAR For Sports, which has a Customs and I Iuman Rights Compliance Administrator. The administrator is responsible for advancing policies, procedures and documentation related to human rights and customs compliance issues, according to a press release from GEARFor Sports. Because of adherence to these policies,Cano said she feels the companies she buys from are in compliance with human rights issues.
anniversary SALTLAKECITY (AP)While students in 21 of Utah's 40 school districts will be on spring break. officials are mindful of this weeks one-year anniversary of Colorado's Columbine massacre. " l he timing of our spring break couldn't be better," said Jordan School District spokeswoman Melinda Rock. "There might have been the possibility of students carrying out who knows what on the anniversary of such an awful tragedy." On April 20, 1999, 12 Columbine High School students and a teacher were killed by Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris during a lunchtime rampage that wounded 23 others. In at least one Utah school - North Layton Junior High - a rumor spread that something bad would happen on the anniversary. While there was no direct threat. teachers asked them to report any threats they might hear, said assistant principal Julie Larsen. "for the safety of children, we've been working closely with Layton police, who are investigating that," Larsen said. "We don't take anything lightly,but at this point, I'm not concerned." Police are also aware of the anniversary, but expect it pass quietly. "(Myofficers) will be a little more proactive and a little more high-profile," said Salt Lake County Sheriff's Sgt. Shane Hudson. "But at the same time. you don't want to cause a sense of panic in the school system, either." JumptoCoWMBINLPage3
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.Protesters fail to halt meeting WASHINGTON(AP)Thousands of marchers failed to stop world finance leaders from meeting Sunday,but paraded through the capital in a show of cele·--•bration and anger that provoked one ugly episode - a surging crowd met by a stinging cloud of irritants fired by police. Festivestreet theater with giant puppets coexistedwith pushy confrontations between police and protest1 ers agitating about the plight ,' · of the poor and the "decadence" of the rich. At one point, police in riot gear and on motorcycles charged into a crowd that -'had'surged toward the police line. Policeused pepper spray and what they said were smoke bombs to drive back the protesters,who were convinced they'd been tear-gassed. "Coughing,burning, numbness around the mouth, eyes watering,skin irritated," said John
Hamilton, one of the victims. darkness to pick up world "It was clearlya chemical finance ministers at their irritant." hotels - and using circuitous But unlike the protests routes and U-turns to get that overwhelmed police and them to work. smashed winBut some VIPs dows in rainy were stranded: Seattle at trade 'In Vietnam, some The finance ministers of France, meetings late jumped on the Braziland last year, the weekend were bandwagonto Thailand demonstrations thwarted by the were largely save their own crowdsand sat at nonviolent the Watergate skin. Nobody's Hotel five hours and the sun beamed on after the meetgoing to be ings started, them Sunday. ''I've seen a drafted,so here wondering what whole lot less to do. They it's different.' property dameventually made age than after a it to the spring Bullsgame in meeting of the • 8uRKE• Chicago,"said DEMONSTR<\TOR International Han Shan, a Monetary Fund. protest organiz"I think er from the San Franciscothere is a great misunderbased group Ruckus. standing,"French Finance Policein America'ssecuri- Minister Laurent Fabius said. Police,who estimated as ty-savvycapital accomplished their No. 1 objectivefor many as 10,000protesters Sunday,sending buses under were on the streets, blocked the cover of early morning off about a SO-blockarea of
downtown but let demonstrators largelyhave their way outside the security zone. Shan credited police with being relativelyrestrained, if suffocatingin the size of their force. "Overall,they maintained their composure quite a bit," he said. "They have brutalized a few people without provocation." The atmosphere was less tense than on Saturday, when police raided and closed the protest headquarters during the day and arrested more than 600 people in the evening. Fewer than 20 were arrested Sunday,said Terry Gainer, executiveassistant police chief. He said two police officerswere hospitalized,one with back pain and another from heat exhaustion. In a day that began with a drizzle but turned nice, the protesters chanted, beat on
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discover importance Worldfinanceleaders Demonstrators ·,:· pledgecooperation to of protestlosta generation ago · s~pportglobalgrowth WASHINGTON(AP)- The world's leading financialofficials.hoping to calminvestors jolted by a record plunge in U.S.stock prices. on Saturdaypledgedcooperation to promote globalprosperity, The finance ministersand c.entralbank presidentsof the world'sseven wealthiest ii oountti,es.1lsopromised to keep pushing ~ ~.llicl:i'd'MtWreforfus' ofthe tnterrlational I tlWJnetafy t'und and~WorldBank. •• Btlt,be proposals in thelr joint commuTiiquewere unlikelyto placate throngs of demonstrators on the streets who seeboth institutionsas the embodiment of all that is wrongwith global capitalism. Policearrested hundreds of protestsfor parading without a permit a scant three blocksawayjust as fmance officialswere issuing a 10-pagestatement was being issued at the end of six hours of discussions. The sessionswere led by Treasury Secretary I.:awrenceSummersand FederalReserve Chairman Alan Greenspan with their counterparts from Japan, Germany,France.Britain, Italy and Canada. The group's statement did not specifically mention the huge plW1gein U.S.stock prices _this past week, but they stressedan upbeat ½ew of growthprospectsfor the global economy which they said "continue to brighten.~ The group did encouragethe United States to make greater efforts to boost national savings.while at the same time noting that growth "remains very strong,unemployment low and inflationwell contained:· Summersand PresidentClinton made similar points Saturdayin sayingthey believed
WASHINGTON(AP)- They are students, activists,college professors, laborers, anarchists, high school teachers, retirees - and legions of young people learning the pleasures of protest discovereda generation a~o bv their parents. Their backgrounds. ages and individual causes vary, but what the demonstrators in Washington this weekend have i~ common is a sense that gloOOf capitalism is lelht ' ing too many people behind. ·' 1'Fhe ohe ct:Hnmt:H1ality Isa feeU ing of anti-corporate control." said one of them, BillCarey,a 46-yearold member of United Steelworkers from Gary, Ind. Thousands roamed the streets through the weekend to protest world financial policies- people from all walks of life. Many talked of a growingawareness of financial concepts like "structural adjust-
ment" and "transnational corporations:· They cited examples of global capitalism run amok in far-off places like Bolivia,Indonesia and Lesotho,with the privatization of water resources, building of dams, speculative investment or harsh debt-repayment schedules. Brenda Dolling,a 55-year-old retired teacher from the Toronto area.1said ~he's been upset about "structural adjustment" ever since shelearrred about changes the international financial institutions require of countries to obtain loans. She spent several years as a teacher in Lesotho,a poor, Belgium-sized country of 2.1 million people that is surrounded by South Africa. "In order to pay their debts, countries have to cut funding for things like education. the environment and health care," she said.
APphotographer injuredduringprotest WASHINGTON(AP)- An AssociatedPress photographer was struck in the head and knocked unconscious Sunday when he was caught between clashing police and protesters at a demonstration against the International Monetary Fund. Heesoon Yim, an AP free-lance photographer, was taking pictures of demonstrators linked in a human chain near the White House when the crowd surged toward a line of police and he was
struck on the back of the head. Yim,who was treated at a local hospital for a concussion and a l•-inch cut on his scalp, said he didn't know who hit him. Earlier in the day, RossSimpson, an AP Radio reporter. was clubbed in the back by a police officer in riot gear during a confrontation with demonstrators. Policesaid they used pepper spray and smoke bombs to drive back the protesters. who were convinced they"dbeen tear-gassed.
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> Sevenkilledin gasattackat nightclub LISBON.Portugal (AP)- Two canisters thought to have contained pepper gas were set off inside a crowded nightclub Sunday just as the lights were cut. causing a panicked stampede by hundreds of people that left seven dead. Sixty others were treated at a hospital for breathing dif~ ficulties and minor injuries after the crush to escape the fumes. The attack on the Luanda club came early Sunday morning. As gas billowed across the darkened dance floor, Joaquim Dias, 25. felt his eyes watering and his throat burning. He dipped his sweater in his drink and covered his mouth. "People were running everywhere," he said at a police station. ·'The dance floor suddenly emptied. There were people on the floor, others were being carried out." The club is named after the capital of the African nation of Angola. At least 500 people, mostly Africans. were inside at the time of the attack, witnesses said. No one claimed responsibility for what appeared to be a planned attack. Police opened an investigation. The Institute for Legal Medicine, where the bodies were taken for autopsies, said the victims appeared to have been crushed, according to state television RTP.The autopsy results were due on Monday or Tuesday. An employee at the club who asked that his name not be used told The Associated Press the canisters were set off inside the club, not thrown in from outside. Authorities did not immediately specify what sort of gas was used, but police sources speaking on condition of anonymity said it appeared to be pepper gas. Authorities thought the power was deliberately cut. The dead were a 20-year-old Spanish woman, Ester Ramos Lopez of Madrid, and six Angolans between 20 and 25 years old.
> Latinocharacters leadin newcartoon DALLAS(AP)- Baldo, the subject of a new nationally syndicated comic strip that debuts Monday, is like a lot of teen-agers: He longs to be noticed by the prettiest girl in school. He enjoys a good game of soccer. And he's building his very own car. He's also Latino. And the car he's piecing together is a low-rider. Cartoons depicting mostly Hispanic characters are rare. "There certainly has been a dearth of strips in that area. It is something we have been looking for and when we saw Baldo, we knew it was the one," said Lee Salem. vice president and editor of Universal Press Syndicate, which is launching the strip in English and Spanish versions in nearly 100 newspapers. Only three other Universal Press Syndicate comics have started out with higher numbers, Salem said, "For Better or For Worse," "Calvin & Hobbes" and "The Boondocks." "It's a combination of defined market need and a good strip with characters that have a lot of humor potential," Salem said. The daily cartoon is written by Hector Cantu, an assistant features editor at The Dallas Morning News, and drawn by Carlos Castellanos, a free-lance artist from West Palm Beach, Fla. Cantu said he had wanted to create a cartoon since he began reading Mad magazine as a child. He said he found little that resembled his own Mexican-American heritage in the cartoon books and comic pages. "Latino superheroes have come and gone, but as far as comic strips, there was never a Latino family like this as I was growing up," Cantu said. Cantu knew Castellanos from his contributions to Hispanic Business magazine in Santa Barbara, Calif.. where Cantu once worked. They have never met, but communicate by e-mail and telephone.
> MediamogulMurdoch has cancer LOSANGELES(AP)- Media baron Rupert Murdoch has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is to receive several weeks of radiation treatment. A News Corporation spokesman said that Murdoch, chairman of the News Corporation learned last week that he has prostate cancer after undergoing routine medical tests in Los Angeles. The spokesman said doctors told Murdoch the prognosis for halting the cancer is very good. The Australia native does not plan to change his work schedule during the radiation therapy. News Corporation is a worldwide communications company whose holdings in the United States include the Fox television network, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Post.
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Two scholarships awarded for diversity at Gay Pride Day 2000 VICKY CAMPBELL
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were chosen from over 200 nominations. Those nominated submitted a Continuedfrom Page1 comprehensive biography. and a 15person committee evaluated each I think he deserves it." person·s accomplishments. This year there was a tie between According to the Robins Award Rian Winzeler and Emily Croshaw program literature, the committee for Woman of the Year.Both winincluded a faculty member, an ners were members of 1999-20CO's administrator. two representatives Associated Students of USU Council. from the Provosts office, representaThe last award given was the Bill tives from the Residence Hall Robins Memorial award. This award Student Association, the is given to "the student who reprelnterfraternity Council, Panhellenic sents the best youth has to offer," Council. Student Alumni according to the Robins Award proAssociation, the International gram literature. This year the award, Student Council. and ASUSU. presented by President George H. Finalists and winners were selected Emert, was given to Gary Marlowe, based on their biographies. professor who people describe in one word as and adviser recommendations, and ·genuine," Emert said. information introduced by the com"It was fun to see a lot of my mittee members. friends honored tonight." Marlowe Talent of the Year finalists were said. "The fun part of college is the chosen by the art. music. theatre, friendship , experiences and memoand dance departments and the ries that you can leave with." Athletes of the Year finalists were Milllowe):lasa 1~7 G?ft is rtW sliosro bXth~atpletic dfparpnent. LDSSAprJsident, a~d a me~ber of ~~,i; 1tPci'aua't~~es~ar~h N,sis~an~ the U.~. AirForce ROTC.w~~f~ l;ie,1 1Af w;w.Yladuatf Tepchmg ~ recently was named the nations 'N'o. :Ass1sr'ant 6f1th~~~r wefe vdted on 1 U.S.Air Force pilot selectee. by a selection committee from the The program's master of cereGraduate School, according to the monies was comedian Tim Young, Robins Award program. who had the audience laughing at After the awards. a gala was held jokes about topics ranging from colin the Sunburst lounge with refreshlege life to going to the movies. ments and dancing. Music was proFinalists for the Robins Awards vided by the USUJazz Orchestra.
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Tim Nuttle and Maure Smith were each awarded $1,000 during Friday's Gay Pride Day 2000. The Gay and Lesbian Diversity Scholarship was awarded for exhibiting leadership skills and providing a safe meeting place for the gay and lesbian community at Utah State University, according to Jay Anderson. Pride! Alliance adviser. Anderson said he hopes the scholarships will spawn controversy similar to what has been happening at Weber State University with the Matthew Shepard Scholarship fund. He said as a result of the uproar, "the endowment for the scholarship has more than doubled in amount.· In addition, the controversy caused the university to turn all private scholarships over to an independent foundation in order to distance itself from scholarships ·that may become a polarizing and divisive political issue in the community." according to an Associated Press article. Gay Pride Day was sponsored by USU's Journalism and Communication; Sociology, Social Work and
Anthropology and History departments as well as the Women and Gender Research Institute . In addition, many local businesses and organizations sponsored the event. As part of the celebration, Courtney Moser, one of the the Alliance's advisers and this year's recipient of the President's Diversity Award for Lead Adviser, spoke about the importance of the organization. Moser is the manager of the HUB Food Court. "Eleven years ago when I was coming out and I was near suicide and had nowhere else to turn, Pride! Alliance was there for me ." he said. Another guest speaker. Gary Kiger. Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology department head, said the goal should not be to change people's attitudes , but their behavior. He said if the focus is on that, attitude changes will follow. ·1 don't think it's fair to leave the fighting up to the Pride! Alliance ," he said. "Everyone needs to stand up: He said the university already has a noridiscrimination policy. and that policy should be used to its capacity to send a strong , consistent message when confronting issues of discrimination.
Renotemplesees40,000visitorslastweek RENO, Nev. (AP)- A new SS million Mormon temple perched on a hill over Reno was the hottest attraction in this gambling city last week. About 40,000 visitors admired the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' 81st temple worldwide during a weeklong open house that ended Saturday. Only Mormons now will be allowed inside . "I think people viewed it as a once-ina-lifetime opportunity to see a temple," church spokesman Wayne Abbott said. "We wanted the public to see that it's a sacred place, not a secretive place." Used for certain ceremonies such as marriage and baptism , the 10,700square-foot temple features white walls trimmed in gold, white carpeting, crystal chandeliers and mirrors . The temple's exterior is made of granite from a quarry in Sharon, Vt., the birthplace of church founder Joseph Smith . Its spire is topped by a seven-foot, gold-painted statue of the Angel Moroni. Ohurch officials ~ajj:1m..orethan half of the visitors were non-Mormons, and
CoLUMBINE Continuedfrom Page1 Some Utah students and teachers say they feel safer at school now than a year ago. In the wake of Columbine, schools took long looks at safety plans. A new state law requires districts to draft blueprints coordinating emergency response with police and update them each year. Violence hotlines in Granite and Jordan school districts, plus a statewide line set up following Columbine, also have helped police clamp down on potential problems. Of 122 calls to the Granite hotline. 76 were investigated by police leading to the recovery of 17 weapons and fake
the tour drew residents of Nevada . California and Utah. During the week, a man passed out brochures to visitors condemning Mormon temples as an attack on biblical Christianity . He said he belonged to group called Freedom in Truth Outreach . "I guess we have experienced that kind of thing all along ," Abbott said. "We find out most of the time that these brochures are printed with on ly partial truths or untruths. Other than this, the public response to the temple was very. very positive." The church worked to resolve neighbors' concerns over the temple's outside lighting. The Reno temple was built to spare local church members a 200-mile drive to the nearest temple in Oakland , Calif. The new temple will serve 26,500 members from eight church stakes or wards from Winnemucca to Lake Tahoe and from Hawthorne to Susanville, Calif. The Mormon temple is Nevada's sec~ onp. hn 8.000-quare-foot temple opened in Las Vegas in 1989.
weapons. Three potential bomb threats also were averted. Salt Lake, Alpine, Nebo. Murray, Granite and Jordan districts have put security cameras in some high schools. Pine View High School also plans to install some. Brigham Young University communications professor Richard Long plans to survey 1,000 randomly selected districts nationwide this year to find out what plans they have in place and where schools are vulnerable . "Even when well-prepared, you're at the risk of a student who wakes up and decides to make headlines ," said Long. While emergency personnel focus on preparation. teachers say prevention hinges on building positive relationships
with students and communicating with schools, police and state agencies. ''I've really come more to feel the need for us as a community to understand this is a concern for all of society," said Curt Hansen, Granite's assistant director of school safety. "We are in this together." Scott Wilson , Nebo's student services director, believes schools are safe havens . He points to a report by the National Safe Kids Campaign showing that 90 percent of child deaths happen at home . And a study by the Justice Policy Institute says only about 3 percent of U.S. murders involve juveniles killing one another. and children face a one-in -a-million chance of being killed at school
PoliceeLoTTER Informationdetailedin this sectionis a Statesman staff re~ortobtainedfrom USU Policeincident reports.
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Wednesday,April 12 • USUpoliceresponded to the TSCon a reportof wordspainted on thewiudowsandon the ground.
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> Mangets40 daysforGHB case PROVO, Utah (AP)- A 23-year-old Orem man has been sentenced to 40 days in jail for using the daterape drug GHB to sexually assault a 19-year-old woman. Felipe Telona Jr. admitted to assaulting the woman who had ingested the health drink ReGenerize. Police said others at the Oct. 12, 1999. party told the woman GHB,a depressant , would allow her to feel the effects of being drunk without consuming alcohol. But the drug also can incapacitate a user. Telona purportedly carried the helpless and · immobile woman to a bedroom , where he undressed her and performed a sex act on her. Charged with firstdegree felony forcible sodomy, Telona pleaded no contest to the lesser crime of third-degree felony aggravated assault Fourth District Judge Donald Eyre fined the defendant $925 and ordered him to pay $400 restitution for the victim's counseling.
> Taxreturns stillupforgrabs SALTLAKE CITY (AP)Utah congressional candidate Donald Dunn wants to alert 280 Utah residents to $41,783 in tax returns that weren't delivered last year because of bad addresses or other problems. Dunn , a 28-year-old Democrat trying to unseat Republican Rep. Chris Car.non in Utah's 3rd District, is posting a list of those who are owed money from their 1998 taxes on his Web site. Taxpayers can also call the Internal Revenue Service at 1-800-829-loto. "It's kind of like Utah's version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"' Dunn said. "But it's Uncle Sam giving the money away instead of RegisPhilbin." Now, if money is returned to the IRS.the agency holds it. Dunn said if he were in Congress, he would sponsor legislation requiring the IRSto post unclaimed refunds on the Internet.
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Being from a famous family might bring with it some stigmas and expectations, but having a famous father does not make a person any different from his peers, at least for one of the sons of Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt. Taylor Leavitt was 15years-old when his dad took office as the governor. That was seven years ago. Today. Taylor is a sophomore at Utah State University . Having his dad fill a political office and not having to move was good for Taylor, he said , because people did not treat him differently than before his dad became governor. ·r think everybody knew me before, so it wasn't any sort of label change. It was just 'Hey look what happened to Taylor's family,'" he said . Taylor was born in Cedar City, Utah October 18, 1977. When he was a year old his family moved into their current home in Salt Lake City where he attended East High School. When the Leavitts moved into the Governor's Mansion . it did not change the high school Taylor attended . "It was just a normal life with my family. I appreciated
my parents making it as normal as possible." Taylor said . "My mom is quite the stalwart. She's always home, trying to raise the family the best she can." Taylor 's parents are very busy. but he said they always find time to be with their children . "They are busy, but it is not impossible for them to find time to go to a baseball game or football game for my brothers." Taylor said. "My dad always finds time to spend with the family and we enjoy being with him." Living in the Govenor·s Mansion was like living in a hotel because there were always tours going through, Taylor said. ·sometimes I would come home from school and just run up the stairs while the guide yelled at me ·you can't go up there," he said. "Being in high school you tend to have a little fun with it. On occasion we would just do things like throwing water balloons across the street and throwing a dummy off the roof just to scare the security guard." ·we also respected the house." Taylor said. "My dad is cool and let us invite friends over to hang out." Taylor's family is currently living in their personal home while the Governor's
Mansion is being renovated. Some of Taylor's most memorable experiences. he said, included meeting with the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and going to see the NATO treaty signed. Taylor is studying Business Administration and Economics at USU and is looking to graduate with a double major. After he goes to graduate school. he said he would like to find a job on the top of a corporate triangle. "If you strive hard enough you can achieve what you really want." Taylor said. Although he is proud of his family and the name he carries, he said he does not look to the name to help him achieve the goals in his life. Taylor said he is ambitious and believes that if one wants to shoot for something they will be able to make it to the desired level in their endeavors. He is currently a member of the President's Leadership Council (PLC) at USU. On a tour of the campus with some younger children, he was forced to plead the Fifth Amendment when some of the visitors asked if he was a True Aggie. Taylor was recently elected Business Senator for ASUSU.
Above : Taylor Leavitt, son of Gov. Mike Leavitt, is a sophomore al USU.
Far Left: Leavitthas already beg1111 his preparalions lo lake office as the 2000-2001 b11i sness se111t or 011 the AS USU llOard. Left: Taylor (center) with f riends Curtis Koch (left) 1111d Nale Crane have a laugh ·whih· relaxingf rom their busy schedules.
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Broken arms, torn ACL's, ruptured disks, sprained ankles and torn ligaments are just a few injuries that Alpine Orthopedics Specialists treat on a daily basis . Formerly known as Western Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Center. Alpine Orthopedics specializes in back and spine care. sports medicine and both urgent and primary care. The group known as Western Orthopedic and Sports Medicine was established as a private practice in 1988 by doctors including Marlow Gobal, James Malouf and Brad Larson. Since its establishment, they have had the responsibility of provid ing both primary and surgical care for Utah State University athletes . Although the center has changed names, the function is to continue to offer the same service and care from specialized doctors Ken Lester , an administrator, said . Dr. Harold Vonk , a rheumatologist from Ogden. recently joined the Alpine Orthopedi cs group . Vonk will be working from Brigham City. Alpine is also bringing another doctor to Logan to specialize in arthritis and bone and joint diseases
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"We'reon your team Lester said. Along with the changes in its organization , Alpine Orthopedics plans to implement a program which encourages awareness of safety and health issues in community recreation he said . They want to start the program because 25,000 Cache Valley residents are estimated to participate in organized sports, based on the number of teams and leagues sponsored by various recreational departments and USU intramurals . The first meeting of this new program will be a clinic for local coaches on April 29 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Coppermill Restaurant Lester said . Alpine Orthopedics will work in conjunction with community recreation programs, community business sponsors and USU to accomplish their goal of "(promot -
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Theart department is giving senior art majors a chance to display the work they spent many hours creating. The Art Show willbe exhibiting the pieces in the Tippets Gallery in the Chase Fine Arts Center from April 17 through May 6 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.Monday through Friday "The Bachelor's of Fine Art Show is for stu_,,,,. dents who are serious and plan to be professional artists." Tom Toone. graduate coordinator for the art depa1tment. said. Every year the art department puts on an art show for the graduating seniors who are leaving Utah State. Toonesaid. This year 70 students from different areas of the art department are presenting their work. Toone said. The students pick a fewof their best pieces to show. This is not a show where the pieces are judged but rather admired by peers and faculty,he said. There will be a variety of designs to include many areas of art such as illustration, paint. art education, computer graphics. drawing. sculpting, print making and advertising. "Everyone show's their emphasis area." said Shonoa Gardiner , a senior presenting at the show. "It is a chance for all of the students to display their work."
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Change, change, everywhere change INMvWoRID/ HeatherFredrickson I
honestly dread this lim~ of year. No, it's not the fear of impending finals or the oh-so-steamy Utah summer temperatures, though I don't look forward to those with glee either. Springtime signals the end. And the beginning. Overall, it's the changes looming before me that I despise. Granted, not much in my own life will change in the next few weeks. I may have a brain aneurysm from the stress induced by professors at this late date with final projects, quizzes and exams. For the most part, though, my routine won't be radicafly different. The worst part is how the people change. Two girls who have become my surrogate sisters are getting married this spring, both in early June. I know I'll still see them, keep in touch and all that jazz, but it won't be the same. One of them has been my roommate for four years, and the other for two. There's a history there that just can't be shoved aside in the name of change. What I want to know is, how do you just let go of that? No more late night chats, no ice cream fights, no pro/con lists, no shoulder to cry on. So those non-sentimentalists out there would say there's always someone else to lean on. I'll find new roommates just like the old that I'll sob to and revel in chocolate with. But I don't believe it. Who else is leaving? My Trivial Pursuit rival is headed for graduate school at the
University of Texas in Austin. OK, so it's been forever since I've seen him, but it's always been a comfort to know he was right there, across town. Now, he'll be across the country. Not that I'm any stranger to long distance relationships. I grew up in Canada and so left behind many dear friends that I still keep in touch with. It's not easy, but so rewarding to go back, hang out and realize nothing has changed; the friendship is as easy and relaxed as its ever been. But birthdays, Friday nights and bowling just isn't the same without them. Move on, already! I'm trying, I'm trying. Plenty of friends haven't changed. Three current roommates will be there next year. A couple more will have returned from their missions and the ice cream fights will begin again. It's the meantime that I don't want to think about. Summer is the time when things in Logan slow down for a bit. The city stops alo_ng the trai I to take a breather and refuel. It's a good time for reflection and getting to know the area and its people better. No lines at Hastings (or at least reduced ones, anyway) or Smith's at midnight. No scheduled rush on the LTD. Ahhhhhhh ... It's very relaxing. Personal changes? Well, the Statesman doesn't run during the summer, so I'm out of a job. Don't worry, I'll be housesitting most of the time so I'm not too worried, although I would like to get another job to pay for the car insurance. But that's another story.
writing while I'm at it. Who knows? I probably won't be taking any classes, so I don't need to worry about homework. That's the biggest change of all. Like I said before, I'm not graduating anytime soon, and I've already been here four years. I can see the rose petals opening up, but I can't see the center. That was supposed to be a metaphor. I' m not good at making up new ones, if you couldn't tell. Anyway, I figure change, in a general sense, is a good thing, but I don't want it to happen to my more sacred aspects of Iife, Iike friends and family. You know how it goes. It's like breaking out the shorts for summer. Put away the trusted long-sleeve , navy sweater and sweatpants. I'm done with them for now. I might peek in on them every once in a while to make sure the bugs haven'"! eaten through them yet. Then bust out the shorts and T-shirts, the sandals and sunglasses and head down to Adams Park. Hmmmm ... I'm still pastywhite. Give me back the sweats. I'll join you later.
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According to national statistics, over 68,000 people are on waiting lists for organ donations. Of those waiting. 13 to 14 will die each day because no donor can be found. State statistics indicate that in the four medical centers in Utah that perform donor transplants. 243 people are waiting for organs. 41 of those individuals are under the age of 18. Nationally, there are 52 centers that arrange and procure donor organs for those on the lists, one such center in located in Slat Lake City. Intermountain Organ Recovery Systems (IORS) operates for the support of Utah, southeastern Idaho and western Wyoming. This week is National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week. Don Hooper, Public Education Coordinator for IORS said volunteers from Utah State University's nursing program will be handing out information on Wednesday in the TSC from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The information will provide answers to common questions as well as clear up some of the misconceptions people have about being donors he said. lORS is a federally designed nonprofit organization that works to provide donor organs as well educate in the school systems and communities a press release said. The center was established in the mid 1960's in cooperation with the University of Utah Medical Center. In 1984, they became a full fledged center serving LDS Hospital. VA Medical Center and Primary Children's Medical Center as well according a press release. In 1998. the center was ranked third out of 53 by an Associated Press study. Many people have heard rumors and myths surrounding organ donation. "There are a lot of miscon ceptions about what it is all about: Hooper said An IORS release dispelled some of those. One common myth cen-
ters on black-market kidney recovery Often it is said that a man is drugged and wakes up in a tub of ice with a note telling the victim to call 911. According to the release, no medical facilities, emergency personnel or police departments have received any legitimate reports of this kind in the last ten years. Another urbane legend floating around claims that babies and children are brought into the United States and then killed for their organs. The release said these are myths created out of mistrust. Agencies for both adoption and donation are far to complex for such things to happen. Individuals have often expressed concern over donation based on illness they have themselves. Some include those who have asthma. According to the release, even those who suffer from such things can still donate organs. Diseases like asthma are not actual problems with the lungs. but the person's immune system. According to Hooper another misconception deals with becoming a donor. "One (myth) is that they (donors) tell the Driver License people that they want to be a donor - but it is the family that makes the decision: he said . Many people feel that all they need to do is have a donor sticker on their license. but that only indicates a willingness to donate Hooper said. Pennsylvania is the only state that allows donor to put their name on a registry to donate without their family's consent. With so many people in need of donations. new laws have been passed to help them. ·something that people don·t realize is that it is a federal law that any person that dies in a hospital - their family is going to be asked if they are going to be a donor because there is such a demand for the tissues and organs," Hooper said. Those who are interested or want more information can contact IORS at 1-8008815 or visit their web page at www.iors.org.
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The women wanted the qualitystuff.Their contact had told them where and how to get it So a fewdays before Christmas,an 18-year-old,her mother and two girlfriends drove nearly an hour from suburban Orange County into the heart of downtownLosAngeles. At the prescribedaddress on Santee Alley,they located the · dealer.They showedhim they were serious customersby the accessoriesthey wore and their stated intent to buy in volume. The women inspectedwhat he brought them, paid in cash and took off with their illicitprizes: $45 Kate Spade handbags. Not real Kate Spades,of course.The bags are part of a growingblack market in counterfeit fashion accessories appealingto label-conscious young women eager for designer looks at bargain prices. At the moment, Kate Spade fakes- simplenylon or faux fur-coveredrectangular handbags that retail for $165 to $500 in upscalestores- are among the newest,hottest items on the market LosAngeles,already a hub for counterfeit imports,has become an international center for manufacturingfakes, accordingto Los Angeles Deputy DistrictAttorney Bill Clark.Althoughit is impossible to measure the scope of the black market, Clark said he believesmost counterfeitsin the nation, and most bootleggedproducts sold south of the border,are manufactured in sweatshopsin downtownLos Angelesand in suburban industrial parks throughout Southern California. "There'sa whole new mentality about paying a high price for something,"said KristineCleary,a designersrepresentativeat the California Mart in LosAngeles."It'scom-
Shoppers browse amoung shops in 1-osAngeles's Santee Alley, where counterfeitfasllionitems can be purchased.
pletelyopposite from 10years ago. Everybodyis proud to say they got an off-pricedeal or a knockoff.It's like they're beating the system." "Wealwaystry to break it gently."Wheat said, noting that most of the women had no idea their bags were counterfeit. "'We'resorry.'we say,'but Kate didn't make that bag."' Counterfeiterstry various tricks to avoiddetection.With handbags.some counterfeiters ship the fakesin pieces,separately from labels,and have them assembledlocally.Some deliberatelymisspella label as "kade spade"or "kadespate."for instance.Ted Max,attorney for Kate Spade in New York, expectsthe company to take action soon against that type of counterfeiter. The simplicityand popularity of Kate Spade bags has made them the most recent target of counterfeiterswho follow trends with radar-likeaccuracy. The companywas founded in 1993by Kate Spade,a former Mademoiselleaccessorieseditor. and her husband, Andy Spade.In seven years. the young New York-basedcompany has created a handbag line that lifestyledoyenne Martha Stewarthas called "the bag everyonewants to carry." When counterfeit bags start-
ed showingup in Florida last year, ·we were shocked."said ElyceCox.a partner in the company,which was recently acquired by Neiman Marcus. ·we thought somebody'sselling old handbags like in a garage sale.We found out they were made in Canada. Then they showed up in NewYorkand LosAngeles." Since then, the companyhas fought back with an unusually aggressiveapproach. It hired a team of attorneys and investigators who, relyingon tipsters, ferret out manufacturers.distributors ang vendors,make controlledbuys to determine if the products are fakes.and report them to police.They also train policeand customsofficers in how to spot counterfeits. Kate Spade is upset,but not . too worried that her products willbe permanently harmed by the boom in counterfeits,her partner Cox said. So far,sales for the brand are strong:this year. the company willearn $50 miliion to $60 million and is expandingbeyond handbags into shoes, fragrance,eye wear, and a new line.Jack Spade,for men. The true Kate Spade customer knows the difference and, the designerstrust, would prefer to pay full price for an original.
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Kinshasa airportdeathtollrisesto IOI KINSHASA,Congo (AP)-The death toll from a string of airport blasts rose to 101, the government said Sunday, as most rescuers ended the search for bodies in the wreckage of a hangar that collapsed in the explosions. Kinshasa Gov. Theophile Bemba Fundu announced the new c.asualty figures, while religious dirges played on state radio and the president called a period of national mourning after Friday's blasts at Kinshasa's N'Djili international airport. Hospital authorities said 216 people were injured. About 80 of these remained in critical condition on Sunday, Fundu said. By the afternoon, all but a handful of Red Cross workers and other rescue volunteers were giving up the search
FINANCE Continuedfrom Page2 fundamentals of the U.S. economy remained strong even after a week in which nearly $2 trillion of wealth evaporated on Wall Street. The Group of Seven statement urged Japan to keep interest rates as low as necessary to make sure the world's second largest economy is
PROTEST Continuedfrom Page2 plastic buckets and wore big papier-mache puppet heads cast in the likeness of the leaders they hold in contempt. It was all meant to disrupt the World Bank and IMF meetings being held Sunday and Monday. But the anger sprang from a bazaar of causes, everything from human rights atrocities in Ethiopia to the "prison industrial complex" and biotechnology in food. "Keep your genes out of our beans," said one T-shirt. "In all your decadence people die," said a SJgn. Protesters were united in accusing the World Bank and IMFof burdening poor countries with crushing debt payments, unsafe food, environmental destruction and sweatshops. They said the institutions let wealthy countries set an agenda that "saps the poor to fatten the rich," as Jobs with Justice put it. Responded Michael Moore, director general of the World Trade Organization: "Blaming the World Bank for poverty is a bit like blaming the Red Cross for starting World Wars I and II." Moore, an observer at these meetings, had witnessed far more destructive behavior in Seattle late last year, when bands of demonstrators trashed property and tens of thousands of marchers overwhelmed police. While protesters linked arms to block intersections near the World Bank and IMF buildings. they mainly
many people were still missing Sunday evening. The reasons for the blast remained murky. Explanations ranged from a short circuit to a soldier dropping ammunition while unloading a plane full of weapons. The explosions of fuel and army munitions shattered windows, toppled buildings and flung deadly debris several miles away into residential neighborhoods. Some friends and family members of those still missing persisted in the search Sunday. Mvuezolo Nsimb, an airport porter , vowed to carry on digging. A small cluster of female family members hoping for news about missing loved ones looked on worriedly. "Some of my friends are missing. I c;mnot abandon them." Nsimb said.
through the collapsed hangar, used by customs and tax officials to handle incoming cargo from Europe. The rescue workers said they were hampered by lack of tools, water and food. One man was rescued late Saturday evening after being buried ahve beneath the hangar for more than 30 hours, a Red Cross worker, Jean-Jacques Malutama said. The man had broken ribs and legs and could not speak, he said. "I don't know if there is anyone else alive inside;· Malutama said. "It is difficult work. We are pulling out rubble by hand and we did not eat yesterday so it would be difficult to continue this evening." Rescue officials had said Saturday that they feared 100 people were still trapped in the wreckage. It was not known how
able to mount a sustained economic recovery following its worst recessionary period since the end of World War II Clinton, who was spending the weekend in California away from the demonstrations, also expressed confidence in the strength of the U.S.economy, sayir1gthat financial markets "go up and they'll go down but I think long-term trends are positive."
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anniversary of Earth Day, grazing and other agricultural Clinton walked on a carpet of uses, Frampton said. pine needles to inspect the Clinton's protective order massive reddish trunks in an could force the closing of a area called the Trail of One family-owned logging company Hundred Giants. He marveled in the small town of Terra at the resilience of a partially Bella and cost up to 150 jobs, charred tree that had been said George Frampton, chairstruck by lightning 30 or 40 man of the president's Council years ago. "Look how deep the on Environmental Quality. The burn goes," he said. order allows a transition periIt was a clear, chilly day od of 2-2• years for timber with pockets of fresh fallen sales already under contract snow on the ground. Clumps before a complete ban on of ice fell from branches overcommercial logging. hanging Clinton's lectern. Critics say fire dangers will The sequoia, some of which increase with a logging ban. are more than 3,000 years old Frampton said noncommercial and measure 100 feet around cutting and prescribed burning the base, once were scattered would be permitted for ecologacross western North America ical reasons. but now grow only in about 70 The president issued his groves on the western slopes order under the 1906 of the Sierra Nevada Antiquities Act, which allows Mountains in central him to safeguard objects of California. historic or scientific interest About half of the remaining without going to Congress. groves already are protected Republicans. in particular, because they lie within the have been incensed by Sequoia. Kings Canyon and Clinton's use of the law. Yosemite National Parks. However, the White House Clinton's declaration applies to said the same law has been 34 groves outside those invoked to designate more boundaries and within the than 100 monuments in 24 borders of Sequoia National states and the Virgin Islclnds. Forest. protecting about 70 million The trees protected within acres. Since Theodore the Giant Sequoia National Roosevelt, only three presiMonument already are temdents have failed to exercise porarily protected from logthe law: Richard Nixon, Ronald ging. The monument designaReagan and George Bush. tion makes protection permaFormer Sierra Club nent and creates a buffer zone President Joe Fontaine said around the trees where comClinton was leaving a "pricemercial logging of other less, irreplaceable gift to future species would be banned along generations of Americans." with some forms of recreation Thomas Kiernan. president of and development, Frampton the National Parks said. Conservation Association, said No roads would be closed, Clinton's action ensures the and the area will remain open sequoia "willstill inspire visito hikers, sightseers and for tors in the year Y3K."
Women appear to be adjusting fine at Virginia Military Institute LEXINGTON, Va. (AP)Erin Claunch is proof that women can do what men earl do - sometimes even better. Three years after she and a handful of other women broke gender barriers at Virginia Military Institute, Claunch has risen to battalion commander - the secondhighest student military post. "I just wanted to blend in and be a good cadet," said Claunch, 20, who will lead half of the 1,200-member cadet corps during her senior year this fall. lhe assimilation of women, who first enrolled at VMI in 1997 after the U.S Supreme Court ruled the school's allmale policy unconstitutional. appears to be going smoothly. Last month, a federal judge said he's inclined to close the 10-year-old case that forced V\.11to admit women. On her way up the ranks, the 5-foot-4, 125-pound Claunch even outperformed men on the school's stringent physical fitness requirements. "Not a day goes by that you don't read something about how there should be changes in certain standards for men and women," VMI
Superintendent Josiah Bunting said. "But this youhg wofn~n ~nd the others in her class said .. 'Judge us as cadets and recognize u·s if we achieve on your system.' And she has." Under an agreement between VMI and the U.S. Justice Department, the school would file more extensive reports on its transition to coeducation through May 2001, after which U.S. District Judge Jackson Kiser would dismiss the case. Today, there are 53 women among the 1,200 cadets at VMI - less than 5 percent of the student body. All four of the school's classes will be coeducational for the first time this fall. Ebony McElroy, of San Diego, Calif., who entered VMI with Claunch, said she was surprised a woman climbed the ranks so quickly. But she wasn't surprised it was Claunch. "She's an all-around nice person. who's not opposed to helping out if anybody needs it," McElroy said. There have been a few problems. including instances in which male and female
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actually thought about- like how to are free) in advance. engrave leaf images on sun-baked The great Acapellq-ooza concert (featuring singing without lots of terra cotta pots. Tuesday-At 7:30 p.m. there is a music) is tonight. It was PACKED last flute ensemble concert by flutists year when I went so get your tickets (pronounced flout-ists). It's at the early- cheaper with ID at the ticket Tippets gallery in the FAY building office. Starts at 7:30 p.m. and if you (lots of free parking). like singing (especially men singing) According to my calendar today is this is the social event for you. also a full moon. So grab your current Friday- Today is the official Akissing partner (wanna make it offi- day. Also the school is trying to again cial this time Josh?)and head to the A set the record for the number of peoat midnight. Be aware however that ple kissing on the A at any one time. Friday is A-day and also an official So grab a partner and show up and kissing day (have you noticed the help make USU number one at kissmany opportunities for kissing this ing (if nothing else). Due to start around midnight. week? Wow - maybe it is a sign). Go and look at the stars (a very Wednesday - Another concert, jazz this time at 7:30 p.m. at the Kent. compatible date with the above menSee, all the music students have been tioned activity). Or get some Aggie practicing all semester and don't ice cream and walk about campus have to give concerts during finals telling stories about your life. Or go week so they have concerts this week see a movie. Go look at new Easter and we benefit. Thanks music depart- clothes and get a new dress/tie for Sunday. ment! Utah Senator Bob Bennett will be Saturday- Easterconcert at the on campus and speaking at 3 p.m. in Tabernacle at 7 p.m. Supposedto be the Eccles Conference Center. See good. what Washington (D.C.)'s famous Sunday- EasterSunday for the Christians among us. Celebrates the person has to say. Also Passoverstarts today at sun- resurrection of Jesus Christ. Don't down. Jewscelebrate the deliverance you feel religiously informed this of the Children of Israel from week? Well go out and celebrate Pharaoh. During the Passover, your religion in this seasonof rebirth according to the story, the Jews and renewal. obeyed religious instruction and stayed safe while the first-born of all Ann Bluemlein is very much looking forward to her mom the Egyptiansdied.
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liable for tolerating sexually suggestive jokes - even ones that refer equally to men and women. In 1998, many employment experts in fact cautioned employers that allowing Clinton/Lewinsky jokes could lead to lawsuits. One headline in a prominent business newspaper has put the current state of the law well - "Watch What You Say, or Be Ready to Pay." From hostile work environment law, the speech restriction campaign spread to "hostile educational
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a nation mad for stock investing the chance to buy highly regarded stocks at moreaffordable prices. Bargainhunting investors were largely responsible for lifting the market out of steep corrections in 1997 and 1998. But last week, buyers were hard to find. The utter lack of enthusiasm left some analysts pessimistic about the market's chances tome Monday. "It's not a funeral. But it is a crisis," said Jim Griffin. chief investment strategist at Aeltus Investment Management in Hartford, Conn. The market faces several potential roadblocks to a Monday morning advance . For one thing. margin calls, which contributed to the steep declines of the past two weeks, could draw more money from the market. In recent sessions, brokerages have been calling clients to demand cash to cover accounts that were pumped up with borrowed money. In many cases, the stocks bought on margin are the ones that have been tanking , and traders can't find buyers for those shares to raise the needed cash. Some traders said margin calls may have peaked last week, as brokerages targeted clients that had relatively
large margin positions. Meanwhile. investment advisers are hoping that the market's rout has taught clients the danger of buying stocks on credit. "Margin is only for those with a long-term investing horizon who can afford to lose money if the market moves decidedly against them," said Gregory R. Spear. editor of The Spear Report published in West Hartford, Conn . Financial markets have a four-day week. closing for the observance of Good Friday. In those four days, a large number of companies will report their first-quarter earnings. and signs of strong earnings growth could at least help stabilize the market, analysts said. But it's a quiet week for government economic reports, and that could make it difficult for stocks to advance sharply. Last Thursday and Friday. signs of inflation that emerged in the government's Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index sparked heavy selling. With those two reports still fresh in investors· minds , many won't want to take a chance on jumping back into the market , some analysts believe.
step to outlawing "hostile public accommodations environments." The government has gotten used to ordering speech codes in private workplaces. It thinks it's fine to order speech codes in universities . Next step: Government-imposed speech codes for bars. Or country clubs. A few months ago, a Maryland county commissioner concluded that such a club had to create a speech code for its members, and to take down a supposedly sexually offensive print hanging in its clubhouse; that case is now on appeal. Or Internet service providers . Late last year, a Vermont agency held that a service provider 's failure to s~op sexually offensive speech
could create an illegal "hostile public accommodation environment" for a subscriber the provider there (a small college) decided to settle rather than appeal. Such is the path of censorship crusades-the slippery slope is a real risk, in a legal system based on analogy and precedent. Fortunately, some courts and administrative agen.cies have begun to see the danger here, but too many have not. Which is why instead of "no law abridging the freedom of speech" we now have "W atch What You Say, or Be Ready to Pay."
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turned the dinosaurs, via a process called photosynthesis, into oil; this oil was then gradually covered with a layer of sand, which in turn was gradually covered by a layer of ar we going to do about it? Step one, of people who hate each other, and thus the CL irse, is to file a class-action lawsuit against Middle East was formed. the cigarette companies. They have nothing For many years, the Middle East was conto do with gasoline, but juries really hate tent to supply the United States with as much them, so we'd probably win several hundred oil as we wanted at fair constitutional prices. billion dollars. But then the major oil-producing nations But that is a short-term answer. To truly Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Texas solve this problem, we must understand how got all snotty and formed an organization the oil business works. Like most Americans, called OPEC, which stands for "North Atlantic you probably think that gasoline comes from Treaty Organization." In the 1970s, OPEC the pump at the gas station. Ha ha! What an decided to raise prices, and soon the United idiot. In fact, the gasoline comes from tanks States was caught up in a serious crisis: The located UNDER the gas station. These tanks Disco Era. It was horrible. You couldn't go to are connected to underground pipelines, a bar or wedding reception without being which carry large oil tankers filled with oil ordered onto the dance floor to learn "The from the Middle East. Hustle." But how did the oil get in the Middle East At the same time, we also had an oil crisis, in the first place? To answer that question, we which was caused by the fact that every must go back millions of years, to an era that motorist in the United States was determined geologists call the Voracious Period, when to keep his or her automobile gas tank comgiant dinosaurs roamed the Earth, eating pletely filled at all times. As soon as your gas everything that stood in their path, except for gauge dropped from "Full" to "Fifteen-sixbroccoli, which they hated. And then, one teenths," you'd rush to a gas station and get in fateful day (Oct. 8), a runaway asteroid, a huge line with hundreds of other motorists believed by scientists to be nearly twice the who also had nearly full tanks. Also a lot of diameter of the late Orson Welles, slammed people, including me, saved on heating oil by into the Earth and killed the dinosaurs, who buying kerosene space heaters, which by sheer bad luck all happened to be stand- enabled us to transform a cold, dank room ing right where it landed. rhe massive impact into a cold, dank room filled with kerosene
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USU wins 3-game series against Cal Poly MR.ON MORTON
"She's getting balls other players wouldn't get."head coach Pam McCreesh said. Curtis combined with right fielder Aimee Johnson as the relay-thrower to gun out Nicole Dansby at third for the final out of game three. USU now looks lo second-place Long Beach State University when they go on the road Friday and Saturday.
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The Aggieswon their first Big West Conference series Sunday as they tripped up California Polytechnic State University 1-0, winning the three-game series 2-1. USU got that monkey off their back behind strong pitching and team defense. The Mustangs (1-14 BWC. 13-28 overall) only scored three runs on the weekend, all in their game two victory. 3-2. The Aggies took the first game 2-0. Sunday's win leaves Utah State (S7, 17-27)in the middle of the pack with a chance at a run for post-season play. "It was really important for us to win this game," Kristin Hommel said of the victory Sunday afternoon at LaRee and LeGrand Johnson Field. Hommel pitched two shutouts she has had four shutouts in her last five outings - in two complete game wins for the Aggies.She pitched a one-hitter in game one and scattered seven hits in game three for the wins. But she said she is getting a lot of help from her friends. "It comes from good defense," Hommel said. "Our team chemistry is amazing.路 The USU defense. led by Heather Curtis, only committed three errors on the weekend - none of them leading to runs. Shortstop Curtis was a human vacuum, tacking up 20 assists on the weekend, indud1ng 11 in game one.
GAME I: lJSU2. UL POLY0 Hommel dominated the Mustangs in the opener, allowing only shortstop Natalie Carrillo to reach base on a hit. Hommel's dominance held the 20 Aggie lead that they established on Sandy Taylor's two-run homer. In the third inning, center fielder Tiffany Pugmire's infield single allowed her to score when Taylor sent a check-swing shot over the right center field fence. "It was (a) golf swing."Taylor said. She later hit a full-swinging bomb to the fence wall in game two. USU dodged a big bullet in the second inning when a double and two walks loaded the bases with two outs for Cal Poly.Luckily,Carrie USUsecondbaseman Danielle Rodriguez(4) fields a throw to first during the Aggies threegame seriesagainstCal Poly this weekend. Schubert grounded out to end the inning. After leading 2-0 for nearly the batter. but the damage was done and Vasarhely was tagged out at home It was a pitcher battle the rest of entire game. Cal Poly scratched their the Aggies could only manage one twice. The first one ended the first the way. as both Tarra Blankenbccle way back for the 3-2 win. breaking up base runner in the final inning. inning after the Aggies had already and Hommel completed the game. the Utah State sweep. "It's a let down because we should put up two runs. Taylor doubled in combining for 11 strikeouts. In the With the bases loaded in the top have won that game," first baseman Pugmire and then later scored when last four innings. only one base runof the seventh inning, USU pitcher Taylor said. Vasarhely hit a double. ner on either team reached further Kelly Warner walked Schubert and Utah State wasn't short on opporLater in the sixth inning, with the than first base. brought in the game winning run. tunities. GAME 2:UL POLY3, lJSU2 Warner struck out the next Mustang Third baseman Stephanie Jumpto Saurs. Page14
Blue team wins in annual Blue-White game Friday night -WADEDENNISTON
SeniorSports Writer It was another typical annual Blue-White spring game at Romney Stadium Friday night: cold and rainy. But that didn't stop the Utah State University football team from lacing it up. And after all was said and done, the Blue team had clawed its way back from a 13-0 deficit to defeat the White squad. 21-13. More important than the score. though, was the way each player performed on both squads. "Overall, we were looking for progress primarily." first-year Utah
State head coach Mick Dennehy said. 路r think we've seen some." One aspect of the game Dennehy seemed to be pleased about was the fact that Aggies on both teams didn't make as many mental mistakes as they did at the start of spring ball. "It doesn't take much to make me happy." Dennehy said
things USU did in the game, such as not jumping offsides. 9/2 ... at Texas Tech 9/9 ... SOUTHERN UTAH 路1 thought we showed pretty good 9/23 ... at Arizona St. discipline in that 9/30 ... U of UTAH area. and I thought 10/6 ... at BYU some guys made 10/14 ... at North Texas some plays." 10/21 ... IDAHO* Yes they did. 10/28 ... ARKANSASST.* 11/4 ... at New Mexico St.* beginning with the White's defense in 11/11 ... at Boise St.* the opening quarter. 11/18 ... IDAHO ST. * indicatesconferencegames.Home gamesin With junior quar caps. terback Jeff Crosbie leading the firstof the little team Blue squad on its opening drive
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of the game. beginning at its own 10yard line. it took just one play for the White defense to get on the board. Crosbie's first pass attempt of the night on a first down was ruled a latera! after the ball bounced off intended wide receiver David Fiefia. rolling back into the end zone. Defensive end Tyler Olsen pounced on the ball to give his White mates a 6-0 lead. "(The) offense usually takes a little longer to develop into the machine it needs to be," said linebacker Brent Passey, who had three tackles. two sacks and a pass breakup in the game. "The defensive line is stepping
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The Utah State University track team earned several first place finishes at the Mark Faldmo Open Track meet on Saturday as the Aggies paid tribute to fallen teammate Brooks Gibbons. Before the men's 110-high hurdles, there was a moment of silence in memory of Gibbons. and lane four was left empty in his honor. Kristi Connors. Danielle Kot, and Sandra Reategui took first. second and third in the 400-meter race. Melissa Jensen placed first in the 800-meter race with a time of 2:10.56. and Rebekah Thornley placed first in the 1500-meter with a time of 4:32.63. Rebekah Thornley. Holly Brimhall and Beka Leffler placed first, second and third in the women's 3000meter race. With a time of 1:01.81,Kristen Hillman placed first in the 400-meter hurdles. The women's 4x400 team won first place with a time of 3:48.68. Tatyana Hovhannisyan placed second in the women's triple jump competition with 39-feet. 2-inches. Charlotte Wahlin won first place in the women's hammer throw with 190-feet. 10-inches. In the men's events. Brick Bergenson placed second
up. They're playing good. "We've made great steps as far as the defense goes." The defense set up the White team's next score as well. With the Blue team taking the ball over on its next possession at its own 18-yard line. quarterback Jose Fuentes led it to midfield in 10 plays before the White defense finally dug in and stopped the drive. On fourthand-15 from the 50. the snap sailed over punter Steve Mullins' head, before finally coming to rest at the 18-yard line.
You remember the old jingle about Bobby Knight don't you? You know the 路 one: Come to Bobby Knight's furniture store, buy a dinning room table and he'll throw in the chair. Well. as it turns out, Knight's chair tossing might be some of the more mild tactics he's used over the years. Apparently he is a regular Latrell Sprewell. Knight. the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers. has been accused of choking former player Neil Reed during practice in 1997. A videotape of the incident was inconclusive, though it did show Knight approach Reed and extend his arm towards the player's throat. Whether or not Knight choked him, slapped him or scratched the peach-fuzz on his chinny-chin-chin remains a question. However, that's not the question we here in the Statesman sports department want answered. Assume Knight did choke Reed (for all of you law stu-
dents out there, we're going to throw that "innocent until proven guilty" stuff right out the window on this one. I've got $50 bucks that not only says he did it but did it more than once.). What should be his punishment? Be creative (but not vulgar). This is your chance to sentence one of college basketball's most hated (and beloved) coaches. If you think he should be banned from college basketball then say it. If you think he should be required to coach in a clown outfit then tell us. This is your chance. so take advantage of it. E-mail us here in the sports department at sports@statesman.usu.edu and let us know what you think. The winner will have his sentence published in Friday's paper. (Please e-mail full name, address and day-time phone number.) All entries must be received by noon on Thursday. Personally. I think Knight should have to coach Sprewell until the two finally choke it out in a special edition of Celebrity Death Match. Those two deserve each other.
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USU'sBrettGuymontook secondplacein the 110-highhurdle; on Saturday in Logan with a time of 14.58.
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in the 800-meter race. Jason Jones placed second in the 5000meter race with 15:18.14. Brett Guymon won first place in the 400-meter hurdles with 50:81. and took second in the 110-high hurdles. Lance Thurston won first place in the men's high jump with a clearance of 6-feet, 10-inches. Bruce McCannel won first place in the long jump with 22-feet. 2-inches, and Paul Walker took second. James Parker won first place in all three of his events. In the shot put, he threw 57-feet, 10.5-inches. In the discus throw. he threw 183-feet, 9-inches, and in the hammer throw, he threw 228-feet, 8-inches. The other universities who competed were Idaho State, Weber State, Ricks College, the University of Utah. Utah Valley State College and Southern Idaho.
SERIES Continuedfrom Page13 score at 2-2, Vasarhely walked to open the inning. After Breanne Nickle advanced her to second on a sacrifice bunt, Eva DeJarnette hit a single up the middle to center field. Kristal Nessa bobbled the ball, giving Vasarhely a chance to score, but McCreesh had already stopped her at third
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GAME 3: USUI, OJ. POLY0 Hommel out-dueled Mustang hurler Blankenbecle as the Aggie defense proved
stronger. Blankenbede had a better game statistically, allowing only four hits. She struckout five, and Hommel allowed seven hits, striking out only two. The only USU run was unearned. In the fifth inning, Markean Neal stretched a single into a double, capitalizing on an error by Cal Poly's right fielder. Danielle Rodriguez's sacrifice bunt moved her to third and Johnson brought Neal in on a sacrifice fly. "That's textbook." McCreesh said. The best scoring opportunity the Mustangs could manage was runners at the corners with two outs in the top of the fifth inning. Hommel then struck out Nessa and got Holly Ballard to ground out to her for the final out
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Roberts after the game. "John hasn't missed a practice,"he said "As Continuedfrom Page13 a coach, you grow to admire things like that in young men." Under the direction of Brian Benza, it took The Blue team added a late score when the White team just one play to hit pay dirt as junior quarterback Logan Galli found Fiefia for the senior quarterback found wide receiver a 23-yard touchdown. Jerron Tatum for the 18-yard touchdown. Jones led all receivers in the game with 91 But then the Blue offense finally woke up as yards on four catches, but the play of White at Crosbie led it on a four-play,70-yard scoring wideout. rather than at running back, is what drive. The final play was a 57-yard bomb to could help the Aggiesthe most this fall. senior wide receiver Aaron Jones who hauled it "Emmett is a fantastic running back."said in after having the ball tipped by sophomore Dennehy, who also mentioned White could quarterback Terrance Arnold. help the Aggiesmost as parl of the receiving "It was an exciting night to watch some contingent. football,"said junior running back John But it doesn't matter to White where he Roberts. lines up as long as he's on the field. And Roberts was the reason the Blue came "It's just really nice to be on the field.· said out on top, despite having to play with a broWhite. who had eight carries for 61 yards, as ken hand. well as four receptions for 34 yards. "I'd prefer The native of San Diego, Calif.. capped a 15- to play running back, but I just really want to play, 84-yard drive with a 9-yard run up the be on the field." middle for the go-ahead touchdown. The Crosbie led all six quarterbacks that saw touchdown was Roberts' only play from the action as he threw for 78 yards on 4-of-6 scrimmage during the drive as junior wide attempts. with one touchdown. receiver Emmett White and Crosbie provided "He has been very steady,"Dennehy said of most of the offense. his signal caller from Hyrum. Roberts,who has not missed a day of pracStill,Dennehy mentioned he was disaptice since breaking his left hand two weeks ago pointed in all the quarterbacks' progress this - and will undergo surgery sometime this spring, though he said they are getting better. week - finished the game with 50 yards on However,the coach is happy with the way five carries, as well as catching two passes. his team has gotten better since the first day in "I'venever missed a game or practice in my camp. life,"Roberts said. "There was no need to start "Allin all,"Dennehy said, "the impressions I this week." have ... lhe progress from day one to day 15 Dennehy showed his appreciation for have been really significant."
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videotape broadcastTuesday night shows Indiana University basketballcoach Bob Knight grabbingplayer Neil Reedby the neck during a practiceat AssemblyHall. The incident lasts a few seconds, with Reed pushing Knight'shand away.Indiana officials,already investigating Reed'sclaim that he was choked by Knight in 1997.will use the tape in their review,a universityspokesman said Tuesday night. Reed has since left the university. The tape, aired on CNN, shows Knightat midcourt reaching out and grabbing • Reedby the neck. The player'shead snaps back and he tries to backpedal. Reed'sclaimwas first revealed March 14 by CNN/Sports Illustrated.Nine days later, IU PresidentMyles Brand announced that two universitytrustees would look into that allegationand other chargesabout Knight'sconduct made on the nationallybroadcast report. The two trustees,John Waldaand FrederickF. EichhornJr.,along with two Ill. administrators,flew to the cable network'sAtlanta headquarters Tuesday to viewthe tape. "It is clear;it is an important piece of information that does shed light on the incident between coach Knightand Neil Reed,"IU VicePresident for PublicAffairsChristopher Simpsontold The Indianapolis Star. Reedsaid the altercation occurredduring a 1997practice.Simpsonsaid school officialsdo not doubt the tape's authenticity. Basketballpracticesare taped routinelyby student managers.What the trustees learn from the tape willbe used along with accounts from eyewitnessesin the university report, which is due in midJune. The tape does not affect Knight'sstatus as head coach, Simpsonsaid. Knight,like all universitypersonnel.has been
asked not to comment on the case until the investigation ends, the administrator said. Knighthas said he did not choke Reed,but that he does put hands on playersto position them during practices. Reedleft the team in 1997 when Knighttold he had no future with the program. Reed claimedthen that he faced physicaland mental abuse, but he did not offer details until the March 14 broadcast. Universityofficialsand teammates said they doubted the chokingclaimsbecause they were not made publicfor three years. The March report included claimsthat Knightordered the IU president out of one practice and that the coach used soiled toilet tissue to motivate playersin the lockerroom. Brand said he never was ordered out of a practice by Knight.and the coach said he did not recallwavingsoiled tissue at his players. The week started with a burst of support for the 59year-oldcoach. Hundreds of IU fans rallied Sundayoutside AssemblyHall in Bloomington,praising Knightfor his winning record and for running a clean program.The fans criticizedthe news media for reports that were harsh toward Knight. A poll conducted for The IndianapolisStar and WlliR (Channel 13) after Reed'sallegations in March showedwidespread support for Knightin Indiana. More than 55 percent of respondents said Knight should continue as coach. But a greater majority.71 percent, felt Knight should be disciplinedfor his conduct or the investigationshould continue. That poll was conducted beforeThe Star reported that Knightordered his boss. AthleticsDirectorClarence Doninger,out of the locker room area after a Feb. 19 home loss to Ohio State. Knight erupted after Doninger offered a supportivecomment. A knowledgeablesource said Doninger felt threatened by
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'Keeping faith':answerto filmgoers' prayers onciliation and forgiveness returns to New York. Again, and love of community far Norton is displaying his more than love of other bod- equanimity. Elfman 's Anna Though its heroes are cleries or the self. may be the only businessperics, the faith being kept in So here's a movie that not son in American movies in Edward Norton's · · Keeping only has a heart, but wears it two decades who isn't a the Faith" isn't really relion its sleeve. It may be the greed-head corporate wreckgious. It's secular and most ruggedly decent film to er , despoiler and waster of humanistic- a faith in peocome along in a couple of the environment; she's ple, and their ability to get decades and , although it's a extremely good at her job along . mite slow (it could lose half but clearly hasn't surrenThat should be no suran hou_r easily), it's surprisdered her humanity. In her prise, for it's the same faith ingly delightful. It's a good radiant presence , more that underlies the dream of boy on his best behavior; it things than old memories the director's famous grandprobably represents the true stir. Anna is an El Greco porfather and led him to reinheart of Edward Norton. trait of a long tall beach gal. vent the American city in the Norton himself plays a but with Elfman's post-riot '?Os, in such places priest named Brian Finn indomitable wit, sparkle and as Columbia. Md .. and who finds himself in an erotic power . To see her is to Summerlin , Nev. oddly configured love trianlove her. and in their own Norton obviously listened gle involving his two best ways both Jake and Brian when his granddad, the friends, Rabbi flip. visionary James Rouse, spoke. 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His own role is the he 'd tamed in his commitoutlets, which allows up to most diminished of the three ment to faith are beginning three computers to operate the and the least convincingly to heat up. Internet at a time, without dramatized- and, truth be You see where this is interferingwith the phoneline. told, the least interesting. going, and yes, it would be In other word~· Stiller's Jake is really the nice if it got there a little • NO DIAL-UP REQUIRED fulcrum, and his issue is the faster. The whole thing blows • No modem required - it's central one of American up in everybody's face and much faster than a modem Judaism and maybe, by halfway through hour num384Kbps metaphoric extension, of ber two, nobody's speaking • Don't wait to connect - it's America itself. That is: How to anyone else. Love has instant Jewish am I? And how been corroded by jealousy, • Just tum on your computer American? 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lasts only as long as your Literature, or All the Movies last hit. You Need to Know to Know Two decades ago, he was the Movies: sitting on top of the world. While many screenwriters Between 1973 and 1978, have ventured into directing, Goldman wrote three novels Goldman said being a direc("The Princess Bride," tor holds no interest for him. "Marathon Man· and "By the time I finish a "Magic")and six movies script, going over it 9nd over ("The Great Waldo Pepper." it, I almost know it by heart," "The Stepford Wives," "All he said. "The idea of then the President's Men." spending another year on it "Marathon Man," "A Bridge never appealed to me." Too Far" and "Magic"). Then the phone stopped ringing. The failure to get For All Your In suranc N e eeds · several movie projects off 1ncluding. St udent Health the ground left him ostra1nsurance cized in Hollywood. From 1980 to 1985, no one called with anything resembling a job offer. In the book, he calls these "The Leper Years." Slouching on a couch in the theater's green room and staring at the ceiling, 'i Goldman said he was just glad that he lived in New 1 1 ~ York City during that bleak " ' v. u ~ period and not Los Angeles. l/S 2 9. 95 ~ "Oh. my God, to come to the Writers Guild Theater , \\ Fred's Flowers and have people turn away ••, ' 41 North Main 11 -I would have become a 1\ · ~ 752 6242 -~ total hermit!" he said. "This . .. 11 is a very tough town, this is a very insecure town, and a 1 very insecure business. I Spend at least $25 in tokens and 111 .::j because we don't know what I • QD/ will work. I don't believe I /0 FILM GOLDMAN: Screenwriter Wmiam Goldman has had a very successful Oscar-winning career people in the insurance I writing for Hollywond while tweaking it at the same time. He's at it again. business are nervous. I think I people in the movie busiI ness are nervous because we're just all on a crap1 ===:....-.....;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;...;.;. 1 shoot." Goldman continues to I write regularly. He co-wrote I rth 1200 E 8 By Robert W. Welkos upon Goldman as his writing one to know that he did not last year's John Travolta mentor. ·unlike most people repeat not@ -write the 1997 Los Angeles Times movie "The General's in Hollywood. he is not bitter. film "Good Will Hunting." Daughter." and other recent HOLLYWOOD -With his "That one drives me mad," He is only saying what we all writing credits include friend John Cleese of · · Monty wish we had the guts to say: he said. "People can't believe Eastwood's "Absolute Power· Wasatch Property Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Python" fame seated at his Frank said that Goldman is and the Stephen King side on stage at the Writers wrote · Good Will Hunting.' one of the few screenwriters Management thriller "Misery· (Goldman Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, who understands both cineand it's on the Net that I wrote wanted the victim's feet it. I've written over and over, I William Goldman looked out matic storytelling and telling a lopped off by Kathy Bates' did not write it.@ I met with on hundreds of fellow screenstory from character. "One of character, as King wrote it, writers one recent evening and the things that Bill is known them for one day. Their script but he was overruled by the had such wonderful stuff in it." producers and now admits had a confession to make. for is that he constantly surGoldman, who won At 68, Goldman says it prises you -not only within the revision made for a betAcademy Awards for writing the narrative, but within the shouldn't surprise anyone that ter movie). · · Butch Cassidy and the scene: he still works in Hollywood While he still remains a Sundance Kid11 and · · All the Yes, Goldman will venture while dishing dirt about the much sought-after ·script President's Men." said he had out of New York (he loves his movies. doctor· -those hired guns skipped seventh grade. Knicks) to take meetings at the "I was at Cannes a couple who are paid fabulous sums · 'which is the grade we learn usual L.A.watering holes, but of years ago and I was doing to rescue a screenplay or grammar: if you blink twice, you might interviews with the European give it a final polish - · Now you know why I miss him. press and they asked me. Goldman recently finished a write mostly dialogue," he "I don't come to L.A.ofren, ' How can you say the things screenplay adaptation for quipped, as laughter rippled and I don't stay long," he said. you say and stay in the busiCastle Rock Entertainment through the audience. "I get very edgy out here . I'm ness?' • Goldman recalled. based on the King novel Goldman's appearance "And, I said, 'I'm a screenedgy anyway. Usually. if the "Hearts in Atlantis." marked the end of a hectic 12- meeting is in the morning. I writer. You don't know how Meanwhile, he has also writhour publicity blitz through come out the day before. If it's low that is.' • ten 75 pages on a sequel to Los Angeles to hype his chatty in the afternoon, I'll come out Hollywood has changed his novel "The Princess new book about Hollywood the morning of and I usually dramatically since Goldman Bride," and has plans to and the movies titled · · Which am gone the ·next day.... Here's wrote "Adventures in the come out with a large picLie Did I Tell?: More the deal. I'm the only living Screen Trade." When that ture book titled "The Basic Adventures in the Screen American male who admits to book came out, he noted, the -SPECIALS WITH SIGN-UP Trade" (Pantheon Boo~s. being a terrible driver . I hate biggest movie stars were Bill -CLOSE TO CAMPUS $26.95). to drive. I have no sense of Murray, Eddie Murphy and The book takes its title direction whatsoever and it's Sylvester Stallone. from a comment made to hateful, so I just don't do it." "They were the Cruise, Goldman one day in a Las In his new book, Goldman Carrey and Hanks of their •• Vegas !:i.otelroom by a day," he said. "It passed . Eddie offers not only a primer for • blowhard producer who was Murphy made it back, would-be screenwriters. on the phone promoting his including an original screenStallone's trying to, and Bill latest projects, - -spouting play he wrote for the book Murray, I don't know if he is inaccurate grosses, potential that he allows some of today's interested." star castings, stuff like that.· top screenwriters to analyze, Like everyone in Suddenly, Goldman writes. the Hollywood, Goldman is doctor or destroy-but also producer put his hand over sprinkles the book with amusshocked that the average cost Utah State University the mouthpiece and said, ing, if sometimes pointless, tid- of producing a studio film . -Bill -Bill -Which lie did I today soars above $50 million, bits he has collected over the DTJ'OBMATIOl\1' '!'ABLES: tell?" years. such as, with major stars pulling down Stop by a Peace Corps 9 a.m. 4 p.m. In 1983, Goldman had $20 million a picture, plus • Jumping into the pool at April 17th & April 18th · Tinseltown buzzing when his the Hotel du Cap during the lucrative perks . 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·'Sierra Leone's child soldier~ try to recover stolen youth BYDoucLAS FARAH The WashingtonPost KENEMA.Sierra Leone When Revolutionary United Front rebels abducted 10-yearold Ernest Vanboi from his home three years ago and burned his house to the ground, they used razors to carve the initials RUF into his thin chest. Then they gave him an AK47 rifle and forced him to join them on raids. first against his own village and family. later wreaking havoc in other parts of the country. He was given cocaine. amphetamines and other drugs to prepare him for combat. The carving ensured he could not run away without the likelihood of being killed by government troops. Since demobilizing in December as part of a tenuous peace accord that ended Sierra Leone's eight-year civil war. Vanboi and thousands of other children who were forced to become killers are emerging as one of the nation's most tragic and potentially dangerous legacies. The civil war. begun in 1991, was one of modern Africa's most brutal. While the use of child combatants was well known. only now is the scope of the phenomenon and the range of the brutality inflicted on children as young as 7 beginning to emerge . A peace agreement was signed July 7, granting the RUF a share of power in the government and amnesty for all atrocities it committed in exchange for disarming. Although the U.N. Children's Fund estimates that
some 250,000 children under 18 are engaged in combat in 16 conflicts around the world. in few places have children faced the level of abuse or committed such a large number of atrocities as here. according to humanitarian aid workers. Human rights groups now estimate that the rebels forcibly abducted 4,500 to 10,000 children under 16 during the war. In Sierra Leone. said social workers and the child combatants. taking drugs -especially amphetamines and cocaine was a regular part of ·military training." Human Rights Watch found in a 1999 report that "child combatants armed with pistols. rifles and machetes actively participated in killings and massacres. (and) severed the arms of other children .. .. Often under the influence of drugs. they were known and feared for their impetuosity, lack of control and brutality." Because the children often attacked their own villages. many communities and families don't want them back. Many children cannot find any surviving relatives . And no one knows how deep the psychological scars run in children who no longer have any sense of what a family is or how to survive in a world without war and drugs. The International Rescue Committee (IRC)and a handful of other organizations are working with the demobilized children. Because of funding limitations. most children receive only 30 to 90 days of rehabilitation before they are forced to find jobs and fend for themselves.
"The question is how do we effectively reintegrate the children," said Kelly MacDonald. the Rescue Committee's director for Sierra Leone. "If not in their home communities. what is the alternative and what does that mean? Those are the questions we are wrestling with now." So far 1,504 children have turned in their weapons at U.N.-supervised demobilization camps, and most of the children who have come out of the camps say the RUF is preventing many more from demobilizing. The immediate demobilization of children was part of the peace agreement. But so far the RUF and other armed groups have missed numerous disarmament deadlines. According to government figures, only about 4.000 of the RUF's estimated 16,000 fighters have demobilized. Of the estimated 8,000 Armed Forces Revolutionary Council combatants, 4,000 have turned in their weapons . Relief workers and psychologists say that because most of the children have demobilized in the past two months, it is much too early to assess the war's longterm impact on them accurately. ·rt is not the fault of the children. A child is a child," said Musu Burah. who runs a community-based child-care center here that has taken in child combatants. "But whoever led the children astray is responsible and is a monster ." Psychologists and relief workers said child combatants are always traumatized by war and often suffer nightmares, alienation. outbursts of anger
working with them. The children's accounts paint a chilling picture of how the RUF and its AFRCallies systematically abducted children. became the children 's surrogate family and forced them . under threat of death, to wreak havoc. Often the children, mostly boys, have scars on their temples where, they said. cocaine and gunpowder were inserted in cuts that were then covered with plaster or adhesive tape. The children also talked of being given small blue pills and drug injections. The effect. they said. was that they could go on murderous binges for days. 'That is what they would do when they wanted us to have mayhem days. so when we got up we could go for up to three days without stopping, just to kill," said Siamba, 16. who was abducted in 1992 and is now learning how to be a tailor. "The commander told me when I was captured , 'Your father is gone. Now I am ~ your father.' ln the bush we :S committed a lot of atrocities. We did many evil things." Many children said they saw other children executed for balking at killing their own relatives or village friends. "After you are captured you canno t think about your family. that is out ." said Sahr Jimmy II. a 15-year-old abdu cted three years ago. sitting on a rusty tool chest at a garage. where he is learning mechani cs. ·sometimes, when I was by myself, I would think about them . But when you are captured you have to change or you are a dead man ." The interviews were conducted at !RC-run homes for the childr en in this city of 165,000, 175 miles east of Freetown. So far, 75 children have passed through these homes and another 30 are undergoing counseling and vocationa l trainini . While the families of some of the children have been traced . many do not even know their real names . And many have lost all knowledge of what a family is. At the home for younger children. a social worker used a chalkboard to outline family relationships . explaining that the father's sister is ·auntie. " and that his brother is ·uncle." "They have these terrible feelings that they did horrible things," said Samue l Kamanda , 32, an IRC program supervisor. "They tell each other God cannot forgive them for what they did." Mohamed Nyalay, 17, fought for seven years. ·1 want to see my family, that is what l dream of," he said. ·1 did many. many bad things , but God let me go. There was a whole lot of fighting. But life is different now. We are not doing evil. We want to go home ."
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and the inability to function socially. Here, they said, the trauma was probably even greater. "Deliberately or not. witnessing at least once such events as torture, execution, amputations, people being burnt in their houses and public rape often results in traumatic stress or even posttraumatic stress disorder ," Doctors Without Borders said in a report issued in January .
RUF leader Foday Sankoh. now in the government . has publicly apologized for some of the abuses committed by his troops . But diplomats and U.N. officials who deal with him say that he denies the RUFabdu cted minors or is holding any children now. Those statements contradict the testimony of more than a dozen child combatants as well as social workers who have spen t months
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