News
May 1,1997
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Citadel Institutes “Diversity Awareness Day”
CHARLESTON, N.C. (CPS)—The 1,700 cadets at The Citadel spent a day attending sensitivity training classes stressing the importance of women.
Hje Citadel^ which is still recovering frdm allegations it turned a blind eye to the harassment of female cadets last fall, required cadets to attend its “Diversity Awareness Day,”
held April 22.
Classes were canceled for the day^ as cadets listened to a group of speakers talk about sexual harassment, demeaning language and the future of women on campus. Students
also broke into groups to discuss such issues as the women’s safety in the barracks and school policies governing clothing and sunbathing.
"It’s no longerthat men are the bosses and the women follow orders," Faye Crosby, one of the lecturers and a professor at all-female Smith College in Northampton, Mass, told
cadets, ’'You need to learn how to work with people who don^t look exactly like you.'^
In January, two of the fourfemale cadets attending the formerly all*male military college quit, saying they had been hazed for most of the first semester. Cadets Jeanie Mentavlos
and Kim Messer accused male cadets of lighting thdr sweatshirts afire while they were wearing them, among other incidents.
As a result, one cadet was dismissed and three others resigned. Ten more were punished.
The Citadel turned co-educational last August after the Supreme Court ruled state-funded military colleges could not discriminate the admission of women.
More than 30 women have accepted admission to The Citadel for the coming academic year.
Book Thief Swipes String Of Criminaljustice Texts
MINNEAPOLIS (CPS) — Apparently, crime is a fayorite subject of a book thief at the University of Minnesota,
University of Minnesota campus police say they^re trying to nab the person who has stolen copies of books from the sociology department’s mailboxes during the past three
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Tite stolen books all have been about the same subject—criminal justice and deviance, said Gwendolyn Gmeinder, an associate administrator in the UM’s Department of
Sociology.
’’Professors are expecting these books,'’ she told The Minnesota Daily, the schooTs student newspaper.
"They’ve ordered them, and they’ve paid for them, and they’re not getting them/'
Gmeinder estimates the loss at about $300, She said she is not sure what kind of person would steal books about the criminal justice system. ’'It does make one wonder," she
told The Daily.
Two Brown U. Students FaU From Window
PROVIDENCE, RJ. (CPS) — Two Brown University studente felt out of a window while one was giving the other a birthday hug.
According to Associated Press reports, the student celebrating her 22nd birthday died from the injiiries.
The other student was critically injured-
The two students were sitting on a dresser and leaned back when the single pane of glass behind them broke and they fell to the driveway below, according to Captain John Ryan
of the Providence Police Dep^ment.
Senior Timory Hyde was pronounced dead on arrival to an area hospital. Elliot Winard, also a senior, was critically injured in the fall.
ITie fall occurred shortly after midnight on April 19> at an apartment where students were attending a campus party.
According to Ryan, building inspectors who examined the apartment the next day said that the area around the window was structurally sound, and that the glass had simply
given way under pressure.
'’There is no investigation to conduct,” Ryan told the Brown Daily Herald, the student newspaper. '’This was just a very, very tragic accident."
Hyde, a music major* volunteered working at a camp for children with muscular dysfa-ophy during her summer months and was a member of the Brown University Chorus said
the Herald.
Hyde’s father was quoted by AP as saying it was horrible but "perfect," too, because his daughter died from a hug.
Student Lalinches Cyber-Petition For Apple Loyalists
MILLERSBURO, Pa. (CPS)«-Map fanatics are flocking to a World Wide Web site created by Millersburg University student Tim McCleary, who created the site in an effort
to save the ailxng Apple Computer Inc. from being gobbled up by Oracle Corp.
In March, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison turned to the Internet to drum up support for his scheme to save Apple computer. He said he was assembling an investor group and
was considering bidding on Apple.
McCleary, 20, said he set up the “Fight Back for the Mac!” web site to make sure Ellison gets a loud-and-clear message from Macintosh users to stay away from Apple. In
less than a week, the site,had collected more than 1,800 signatures on a petition to stop Ellison.
“1 was pmtty upset* because (Ellison) Just basically acted as though he could take over Apple, and the Mac community would have no say,” McCleary said in an interview with
the San Jose Mercury News.
Angry that Ellison may use the Apple name as a tool to popularize network computers, an inexpensive alternative to a PC, McCleary said he built the site *'to make the Macintosh
comoi^wty aware of what Larry Ellison is trying to do."
The petition begins, "We, the Macintosh comirjunity .. " and ends with a plea that Ellison not “risk the life of this company and the passion of millions. Please,"
registered the domain name Saveapple.com, which will become the home of the petition, mail and other activities to try to aid Apple.
The “Fight Back’’ site is http://www.millersv,edu/(tilde)tam84877/. .
Top French AIDS Researcher to Open NY Center
NEW YORK — The co-dis
coverer of the virus that causes
AIDS is moving much of his re
search base from the famous Pasteur
Institute in Paris to a publicly run
New York City college, officials
said Friday.
A spokesperson for Queens
College, part of the City University
of New York, confirmed that Luc
Montagnier would begin running a
new AIDS research center in Octo
ber.
He said the college, which does
not have a medical school, would
construct new buildings and labo
ratories on the Flushing campus in
the borough of Queens.
“Professor Montagnier’s re
search will focus on developing a
vaccine with the aim of eliminating
the AIDS epidemic,” said Ron
Cannava, director of college rela
tions.
"He will lead AIDS research
and other viral research, specifi
cally toward developing new com
binations of medications to reduce
the multiplication of the virus that
causes AIDS but that would render
the virus harmless although still
inside the body."
Scientists are searching for
vaccines and simpler treatments for
the usually fatal disease that would
not require patients to take medica
tions for life.
The current "cocktails" of drug
combinations are expensive and out
of reachfor sufferers in developing
countries and many in the United
States and Europe.
Montagnier, 64, will still run a
laboratory at the Pasteur Institute
and will continue as president of
the World Foundation for AIDS
research and Prevention, a nonprofit
group with centers in France and
the Ivory Coast.
The New York Times Friday
quoted Montagnier as saying the
foundation had long wanted to open
a research program in North
America. "New York is the center
of the disease,” he told the paper,
referring to the city’s high rates of
people infected with the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV),
which causes Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
"There are already many
skilled scientists working there and
also so many patients. I am very
glad that Queens College has al
lowed me to start this in New York,
which ha^ the highest incidence of
AIDS in the United States.”
The new facility will be called
the Center of Molecular and Cellu
lar Biology and is the brainchild of
David Salick, a doctor turned busi
nessman who donated $4.5 million
to the project.
The college will raise $ 15 mil
lion from private companies, mostly
pharmaceutical manufacturers, and
$ 15 million in matching funds from
New York state, the spokesman
said.