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FBI Investigating Sabotaged Train Incident
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HYDER, Ariz.—Sabotaged tracks and
a note from “Sons of Gestapo" brought a
swarm of federal agents Tuesday to an
isolated patch of desert where a train de
railed off a 30-foot high bridge, killing one
person and injuring at least 78.
FBI agents, special evidence teams and
Justice Department investigators joined
safety agencies at the scene within hours of
Monday’s wreck, which left four cars from
Amtrak’s Sunset Limited lying in a dry
stream bed 55 miles southwest ofPhoenix.
Construction crews today worked on
upgrading a road to the crash site so cranes
could be brought in to hoist away the cars.
The site is inaccessible to most vehicles,
and the rescue of 248 passengers and 20
crew was carried out almost entirely by
helicopter.
Five bulldozers and four cranes stood
tty at a staging area six miles from the crash
site. Mike Martino, the lead investigator
for the National Transportation Safety
Board, said it wasn’t clear when the FBI
would allow the cars to be moved.
“Once everyone is satisfied with the
Reports of Bargaining With Financial Aid Reftited
BY CANDICE TROUTMAN
STAFF WRITER
Financial aid directors of several Ivy
League schools have refuted claims that
financial aid bargaining goes on at their
institutions.
The process of financial aid distribution
has received attention since reports sur
faced last year about a few colleges chang
ing financial aid packages to compete with
offers made to students by other schools.
But Robin Mascato, associate director
of financial aid at Princeton University,
said, “We provide aid on the basis of need.
If they need aid, we give it.” She said that
if students were offered better packages by
comparable schools, they could appeal the
Defendant in Janies Jordan
Case Says He Lied to Police
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LUMBERTON A defendant in the
slaying ofMichael Jordan’s father testified
Tuesday that he repeatedly asked for an
attorney when police began questioning
him about the case.
Daniel Andre Green also admitted ly
ing repeatedly during his initial interroga
tion. Tuesday was the sixth day of a hear
ing to determine if the jury that eventually
tries Green will hear his statement to au
thorities and leam that he led police to
where Jordan’s NBA championship ring
was buried. Green and Larry Martin
Demery are charged with first-degree mur
der and robbery in the July 1993 death of
James Jordan, whose body was found in a
South Carolina swamp.
Demery pleaded guilty in April and
agreed to testify against Green.
Green, 20, who has legally changed his
name to Lord D As-saddiq Al-amin Sa
laam U’allah, has pleaded innocent.
On cross-examination by District At
torney Johnson Britt, Green said none of
the stories he told authorities was true.
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But, if you want to know what the Tar Heels will
be like and just who will be wearing Carolina
Blue this winter, then we have the answer. The
4th annual Tar Heel Tip-Off will be held on
October 14th at 11:00pm In the Smith Center.
Admission is FREE to all.
Hosted by Woody Durham.
“ Only cowards would set
something like this up to inflict
the maximum damage , to kill
as many people as possible. ”
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Governor of Arizona
information they have, we’ll start clearing
away the wreckage,” Martino said.
Investigators also were interviewing
crew members and looking into their back
ground and training, though they weren’t
being held responsible for the accident, he
said.
Saboteurs removed a 3-foot, 18-pound
steel bar that holds sections of rail together
and bridged the gap with a wire to disable
an electronic system designed to warn train
crews ofbreaks in the track, Amtrak Presi
dent Thomas M. Downs said.
Twenty-nine of the spikes that hold the
rail to the wooden crossties on a 19-foot
section oftrackhad been removed, accord
financial aid office’s decision.
“We recognize that when an appeal is
made, the other school probably had some
additional information and had adjusted
the offer accordingly,” she said. “This is
not what the public usually sees as ‘bar
gaining’ for students. Colleges are simply
using financial aid programs as a way to
compete for the best students.”
Mascato said the admissions and finan
cial aid departments at Princeton were
completely separate. She also said finan
cial aid workers do not have information
about the student’s academic or sports
records when reviewing the student’s ap
plication for financial aid.
Bob Rowe, associate director of finan
cial aid at Cornell University, said, “We
Green told police at least six or seven
versions and ineachhedidnotkillJ ordan’s
father.
“How many times did you lie to them
that night?” Britt asked.
“Almost as many as they lied to me,”
Green answered.
“How many tunes have you lied in
court today?” Britt asked.
“None,” Green said. lAju
Officers said earlier they never heard
Green ask for an attorney until he was read
his rights against self-incrimination hours
after the interrogation started.
“I said, listen, can I have a lawyer?”
Green testified. He said a detective told
him “you don’t really need one because
you’re not under arrest.” “I said I’d be
more comfortable with one here and he
said, ‘lt’s late at night. We just can’t call
one. They’re hard to get.’”
Defense lawyers contend that Green’s
statement and the disputed evidence
weren’tobtained voluntarily andthat Green
should have been provided with an attor
ney.
STATE & NATIONAL
ing to a source familiar with the investiga
tion, who spoke on condition of anonym
ity.
“Someone obviously intended to drop
the train off the trestle into the ravine,”
Downs told a Washington news confer
ence.
The sabotage would have taken about
10 minutes for someone with a basic knowl
edge of railways, he said.
The White House today stressed that it
was too early to be sure terrorism was
involved, but President Clinton expressed
outrage.
“We will do everything we can within
the federal government to catch whoever is
responsible,” Clinton said. “I am deter
mined that we will make sure in the United
States that we will have the tools, the
means we need to keep the American people
safe.”
A note or notes found outside the train
referred to the federal sieges at Waco, Texas
and Ruby Ridge, Idaho rallying points
for anti-government extremists
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.
He said the letter, signed “Sons of Ge
hear from families that have been made
better offers, and it’s not so much that we
are trying to match offers. When you hear
about it, you try and think whether there is
an area where you could have been more
generous.”
Harvard University’s financial aid deci
sions are all based on need, said David
Illingworth, associate director of financial
aid. “All of our admissions decisions are
‘need-blind’, meaning that whether the
applicant can afford Harvard is not consid
ered,” he said.
A great deal of the financial aid that is
given at Harvard comes from institutional
funds, Illingworth said. “The majority of
the funds we give are need-based scholar
ships,” he said.
CAMPUS
CONNECTIONS
Briefs from colleges and universities
across site nation
Virginia Chili Cookoff
Spices Up Fund Raiser
UNTV. of VIRGINIA No matter
what the secret ingredients were—whether
it was the beer, the jalapenos or the choco
late the results were breathtaking.
Six Charlottesville groups displayed
their creativity last week when they en
tered their chili concoctions in the Last of
the Red Hot Fun Chili Cookoff. The cooks
came with their spicy chili and flashy logos
to attract tasters.
Students and local residents who at
tended the affair were haunted by five
renditions of Elvis at the “Flaming Elvi”
booth, lab rats at “Sally’s Radioactive Lab
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stapo,” also referred to “the sheriff” and to
state police. He gave no details.
The FBI refused any comment on the
note, and Arpaio, a former agent of the
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire
arms, stopped talking to reporters about it
after a private briefing with FBI and other
federal officials.
“Only cowards would set something
like this up to inflict the maximum dam
age, to kill as many people as possible,”
said Gov. Fife Symington, who toured the
site.
A train employee said he passed on to
deputies an anti-govemment note that a
passenger gave him, but it was unclear if
that was the same note Arpaio described.
An electronic database search of U.S.
newspapers found no mention of “Sons of
Gestapo,” nor did a search of about six
months’ worth of Internet discussion
groups and World Wide Web pages.
Klanwatch, an organization that tracks
hate groups as part of the Southern Poverty
Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., has
never heard of “Sons of Gestapo,” said Joe
Roy, Klanwatch director.
Eleanor Morris, director of financial aid
atUNC, said the financial aid workers first
tried to identify students with financial
need. “Then we have to pick the students
with the best academic records for certain
scholarship programs,” she said.
“Wehave defined packaging processes,”
she said. Morris said a standard formula
was used to find the difference between
what the student and family could pay and
what the cost is. She said that once the
figure is calculated, the office decided what
kind of aid is available for that situation.
“We do not bargain,” she said.
Illingworth said, “(At Harvard), gener
ally, any changes we make in a student’s
financial aid package are all because of
getting more information.
Rat Chili” booth and old jazz music at
“Sam and Ella’s Chili” booth.
Bernard Dukes, one of “Sally's” cooks
andagraduatestudentatUVa., said, “Our
chili has a little bit of extra punch to it, a
little extra pepper. People are walking away
from our booth with a glow.”
Another chef, Charlie Haag, announced
his booth with the words “One Way Out
Chili” and a self-explanatory picture of a
man using the bathroom. Haag's chili fea
tured nine different peppers. The cookoff
wassponsoredbyWCYK, a Charlottesville
country radio station, to raise money and
support for the rebuilding of a local park.
Wristbands Used to Weed
OutUndMp DrinitfrS
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY
Drunken fans will be a rare sight at
Bucknell’s Homecoming this year, accord
ing to a decision made by the office of
Alumni Relations.
Past Homecomings were plagued with
open drinking by many underage students
despitetheuniversity’salcoholpolicy. This
year, however, a wristband identifying le
gal drinkers, will be required for alcohol
consumption. In addition to the wristbands,
alcohol will be restricted to designated
drinking areas .Alumni Relations originally
wanted a dry Homecoming but accepted
the wristband policy after consulting vari
UNC
BALL
Supreme Court Refuses
To Hear Faulkner Case;
Mellette Won’t Be Added
■ The Citadel will remain
one of the nation’s two all
male public colleges.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Su
preme Court today turned down an appeal
by Shannon Faulkner, who waged a long
legal battle to end The Citadel’s 153-year
ban on women before dropping out in
August after less than a week as a cadet
The court, without comment, refused to
hear an appeal filed in Faulkner’s behalf
that argued The Citadel must admit fe
males as cadets. The brief court order said
the appeal was “dismissed as moot.”
The court also rejected an attempt to
substitute Faulkner with Nancy Mellette,
another young woman who has voiced an
interest in attending The Citadel. Mellette
attends school at Oak Ridge Military Acad
emy in North Carolina.
But the justices took no action on a still
pending appeal by South Carolina that
says the military school can remain all
male even without the separate state pro
gram for women begun this fall.
The Citadel and Virginia Military Insti
tute are the nation’s only all-male, state
supported military colleges.
The nation’s highest court already has
agreed to decide whether VMI may keep
women out because Virginia created a sepa
rate “women’s VMl.’’
The Citadel, founded in Charleston,
S.C., in 1842, was ordered by a federal
appeals court last April to admit Faulkner
as a cadet if the state did not establish a
comparable program for women at an
other school.
Faulkner joined the cadet corps in Au
ous student groups.
Under the new policy, organizations
that plan to tailgate at Bucknell’s Home
coming must sign a contract agreeing to
the policy and pay a SIOO deposit. Alumni
Relations said the deposit is to pay for
additional Public Safety Officers to super
vise the drinking area.
One student, Ken Rulen, who responded
to the new policy in the Bucknellian, said,
“I understand the need for wristbands, but
I can’t see that costing SIOO from every
group. I think that they’re just trying to
suck more money out of us.”
UC-Berkeley Professor
Discovers Black Hole
UNIV. ofCALIFORNIA-BERKELEY
Fourteen thousand light years from
earth lies an object nearly five times more
massive than the sun —a black hole.
Alex Filippenko, a Berkeley astronomy
professor, discovered the second black hole
known to exist in the Milky Way Galaxy
after several months of research and obser
vation of the night sky. According to
Filippenko, the black hole, which was
found in the constellation Vulpecula, is
probably the result of a collapsed
star.Filippenko was joinedby graduate stu
dents Aaron Barth and Thomas Matheson
on July 22 in Hawaii. There on the 14,000-
foot Mauna Kea volcano Filippenko and
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gust but soon dropped out, citing severe
stress.
Lawyers for The Citadel argued that her
appeal was moot. So did the Clinton ad
ministration, which has sued in an effort to
open The Citadel to women.
Faulkner’s lawyers had contended her
appeal was not moot because she still wants
to attend the Citadel if other women are
admitteH
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
had relied on its ruling in the VMI case
when it said the Citadel could keep women
out only if a similar program were offered
to women.
This fall, a state-financed women’s lead
ership program was opened at Converse
College, a private women’s college at
Spartanburg, S.C. A trial has been sched
uled for November on whether the pro
gram is an acceptable alternative to admit
ting women to the Citadel.
Faulkner’s lawyers told the Supreme
Court the Citadel cannot keep women out
by offering a “separate but unequal pro
gram for women that lacks the prestige or
reputation of the Citadel.” Excluding
women violates the Constitution’s equal
protection guarantee, they said.
The Clinton administration, in addition
to arguing that Faulkner ‘ s appeal was moot,
also said her Supreme Court appeal was
premature because lower courts have not
yet ruled on the Converse College pro
gram.
South Carolina’s appeal said the 4th
Circuit court lacked authority to require
creation of a separate program for women
in exchange for keeping them out of the
Citadel.
Neither Faulkner nor the Clinton ad
ministration sought such a program, they
said.
his assistants used the Keck Telescope to
gather information vital to the discovery of
the black hole and calculations of its mini
mum mass.
The existence of the black hole was first
suspected in 1988 by Berkeley researchers,
but full identification was delayed until
technology could catch up with scientific
speculation. It did in 1993 with the devel
opment of the 10-meter Keck Telescope.
Filippenko’s research now turns to cal
culating the black hole’s maximum mass.
Purdue Students Get Free
Psychological Screenings
semester’s academic chaos, students at
Purdue evaluated their depression.
As part of National Depression Screen
ing Day, developed by Douglas Jacobs, a
Harvard psychiatrist, Purdue’s Counsel
ing and Psychological Services offered free
screening for students on Oct. 5.
The three-part screening lasted about 30
minutes and consisted of a written self test,
a professional interview and an educa
tional presentation. The screening was
designed to provide information about the
causes, symptoms and treatments of de
pression, an illness that affects more than
17 million Americans each year.
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