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4 Thursday, September 21,1995 CAMPOS CONNECTIONS Briefs from colleges and universities across the nation Police May See Expanded Role at Some Universities SYRACUSE - Until recently, univer sity security officials were little more than ordinary citizens in uniform. Soon, these officers may be able to carry weapons and make arrests. In August, New York approved a bill that would allow officers at private univer sities to make warrantless arrests, carry batons and noxious materials, and confis cate stolen property. The bill would also allow officers to pursue perpetrators off campus and use physical force to defend themselves or others. Robert Robinson, director of the De partment of Public Safety, said the bill was necessary for officers to perform their du ties effectively. He referred to a situation where an officer confiscated a loaded weapon, illegal on the university campus. However, it was also illegal for the officer to be in possession of the weapon. “In actuality, we were in violation of the law,” Robinson said. “I became a crimi nal.” If the bill is approved by local govern ment, security officers may have a better chance at preserving peace in the univer sity community. Miss Teen USA Leaves University After 1 Week KANSAS STATE - Shannon Faulkner is not the only one to quit school early Miss Teen USA stayed one week before she withdrew. Eighteen-year-old Keylee Sanders was crowned Miss Teen USA on August 15, less than a week before she began her freshman year at Kansas State. Sanders entered Kansas State with hopes of balancing her responsibilities and her class schedule. She did not expect to be come an instant celebrity on campus. With the crown came $90,000 cash, at least $19,500 in gift certificates, a trip to Explore Options for Your Next Move LIFE AFTER CAROLINA Government Business Industry Nonprofit Carolina Career Fair Great Hall • Sept. 28,1995 • 12:30-5:00 p.m. t Computer/Office Systems financial Blackbaud Inc. Bowles Hollowell Conner & Cos. Computer Associates t Dickinson & Cos. IBM *- - First Union Omni Business Machines Great American Insurance Cos. Pitney Bowes Great West Insurance Cos. SAS Institute Life of Georgia Wallace Computer Services John Hancock Services IJ.P. Morgan Consulting Nationsßank Andersen Consulting Norwest Financial Deloitte & Touche Olde Discount Corp. HBO & Cos. Royal Insurance St. Paul Insurance f Consumer Products The Financial Group Black & Decker Trust Company Bank Nestle USA Wachovia Procter & Gamble Revlon i Government/Nonprofit jjfitt, Eckerd Family Youth Alternative Chemical/Health/Pharmaceutical FBI am Clincare 'l, Research Triangle Institute r-n Hoechst Celanese Corp. US Navy Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical Parke-Davis Jjgai Retailing/Grocery/Restaurant Patterson Dental Cos. fIS Belk Stores Services PPG Industries Fergusen Enterprises Rexham ""Ik Gayfers/JB White Cos. Hannaford Brothers Cos. Jh|| Transportation K-Mart DCTO Enterprise Rent-A-Car Wendy’s International c^Ssli Roadway Express Schneider National Other Bell South Advertising Manufacturing Equis VjSa Burlington Industries jy Menasha Unifi * Seniors should bring resumes Westvaco & dress in professional attire. University Career Services Division of Student Affairs l " ITS COMING... m # m Minority Career Fair Wednesday, September 27,1995 • Great Hall • 12:30-5:00 pm All Students - Freshmen thru Graduate Students • All majors welcome Hawaii and the responsibility of attending photo shoots and conferences. On Aug. 28, Sanders withdrew from the university, saying her schedule was too hectic. Her mother, Margaret Sanders, told the Collegian that Sanders has an unpredict able schedule to uphold as Miss Teen USA. She intends to return in the spring semester to pursue her degree in fashion merchan dising. New $25 Student Fee Angers Nittany Lions PENN STATE While students throughout the country face large tuition hikes, some Penn State students are an gered by anew student fee. For the first time in over thirty years, students will be required to pay a student fee. The $25 fee per semester will be used to fund additions on the student union and to lower costs of various student activities. The fee was approved unanimously by the university’s Board of Trustees after debating the issue for thirty minutes. Un dergraduate Student Government Senate President Bill Rothwell and several stu dent organizations opposed the fee. Josh Bokee, a Senate representative, said, “There was a loud vocal minority opposing the fee. I’d say most students approve the fee as long as there are student controls.” Student Leader Runs Into More Trouble With Police NORTHERN ILLINOIS-Controversy seems to follow the Interfratemity Council president everywhere. The 22-year-old president, Jeff Somberger, iso the Student Association Vice President, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor theft. Police said he was caught with a case of beer, a twelve-pack and a case of Zima from Amnesia, a beer distributor where he had worked for a year and a half. Somberger turned himself in, but he later denied the charges. “This case has little to do with theft. It is about discrediting my name,” Somberger told Northern Star reporter Kay Yadon. This arrest follows several other allega tions against Somberger. Sanctions were filed against him for violating campus elec tion rules by handing out fliers on the day of the spring senate election and misrepre senting himself throughout the campaign. His employer also claimed Somberger had been demoted from his fraternity last year for stealing from other members. COMPILED BY ERIN GUILL STATE & NATIONAL N.C. Women Bring New Ideas From Beijing BY ANDREW PARK STAFF WRITER More than 48 North Carolinians re turned from the United Nations Confer ence on Women in China last week, many of them armed with new strategies for advancing women’s issues at home. The North Carolina delegation emerged Wednesday from nearly two weeks of de bates, discussions, workshopsand speeches designed to mobilize support for goals such as women’s equality, reproductive rights and children ’ s health care. Theconference ended on Friday. Now that she’s home, Duke University senior Anji Malhotra hopes to promote these concerns among young women in America. “Generation X is concerned,” she said. Still, she continued, the confer ence still made her “realize how ignorant so many Americans are.” UNC Professor Patricia Fischer at tended the accompanying Non-Govem mental Organization Forum as a part of a Ruby Ridge Not D.C.’s Fault, Agent Says THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, D.C.—An FBI offi cial testified Wednesday that improper shoot-on-sight rules at the Ruby Ridge siege were approved by people at the scene, not at headquarters. Charles Mathews, who last year con ducted an internal FBI review of the Ruby Ridge operation, rebutted allegations Tues day by the operation’s field commander, Eugene Glenn, that the FBI made him the scapegoat for a decision made in Washing ton. The August 1992 standoff against white separatist Randy Weaver on a northern Idaho mountainside ended in the shooting deaths of Weaver’s wife, their 14-year-old son and a deputy U.S. marshal. Mathews testified at a Senate subcom mittee hearing that the unique order to fire at any armed adult man was approved by the field commander and the chief of the hostage rescue team, who were both in Idaho. “That rule was not approved at the (FBI) headquarters level. That rule was approved on site,” said Mathews, the asso ciate special agent in charge of the bureau’s San Francisco office. In his review of the Ruby Ridge opera separate delegation from the No Limits for Women Project, an international organi zation devoted to the development of women’s liberation. Fischer is also the director of UNC’s Diversity Training Project. Fischer’s group led support groups for women and taught others how to lead their own groups. Fischer also attended work shops, including one on the Middle East that she ended up running herself. When the leaders failed to show up, Fischer and a colleague took over. “It was nice to see we could step in,” said Fischer, who teaches conflict resolu tion. “Women need to find joint solutions to joint problems.” About 30,000 people from over 180 countries attended the conference in Beijing and the NGO Forum in the nearby town of Huairou. First lady Hillary Clinton, Presi dent Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan and leg endary feminist Betty Friedan were among the attendees participating in the largest U.N. conference ever. tion, Mathews found no intentional wrong doing by FBI employees but identified sev eral cases where their “failure to perform at an acceptable level exposed FBI personnel and others to substantial negative conse quences.” As result of that review, Glenn was censured and suspended. In a departure from FBI policy, the rules of engagement were rewritten to say that snipers “could and should” fire at any armed adult male spotted outside the Weav ers’ cabin. The long-standing FBI shooting rale, by contrast, restricts the use of lethal force to protecting oneself or others from imminent harm. Glenn told the subcommittee Tuesday that now-suspended FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts approved the improper shoot on-sight order. Potts denies ever approv ing the plan. He received a light punish ment for his role in the shootout and was promoted earlier this year to be the No. 2 man in the FBI. He was later demoted. Five of Glenn’s bosses, including Potts, were suspended with pay this summer and are subjects of a federal criminal investiga tion to determine whether they obstructed justice. Another witness at Wednesday’s hear AT&T Back Into Local Phone Service THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK AT&T Corp. is split ting into three companies in a stunning move that could help it get back into local phone service, the business it was forced to give up in the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell. The telecommunications giant is also junking its personal-computer manufac turing business, acknowledgingthat its 1991 merger with NCR Corp. was a disaster. “AT&T is reinventing itself once again, ” chairman Robert Allen said Wednesday. AT&T will break into companies that will focus on communications services, communications equipment manufactur ing and manufacturing of large computers. GREENWAY FROM PAGE 3 the most. At these spots bicyclists might have to stop riding and actually guide their bikes through the trail. Webster also said the trail will close again for a small period of time in roughly three to four weeks, so the parks and recre ation department can fully finish repairing the damages. Career Fairs ■ September 27 & 28, 1995 I OLDE, Americas Full Service Discount Bioker SM , is looking for motivated people to establish a career in the stock brokerage business. OLDE offers: 4-12 month paid training program Potential six-figure income Excellent benefits If you possess excellent communication skills, general market knowledge and the desire to excel, see us at the Career Fair on September 27 & 28, 1995. If you are unable to attend the Career Fair call: 1 800 937-0606 or send resume to: OLDE Discount Stockbrokers National Recruiting 751 Griswold Street Detroit, MI 48226 I aPOLDE DISCOUNT STOCKBROKERS ■ Member NYSE and SIPC Equal Opportunity Employer The high-profile speakers highlighted women’s straggles for human rights world wide, especially in the host country of China. Still, Malhotra said women’s con cerns in the United States are just as diffi cult and pressing as they are in other coun tries. The diversity of voices provided more than a hearing of the many problems women face worldwide. “We had a chance to look to other countries as models for reform,” Malhotra said. Malhotra participated in the writing of the 150-page Platform for Action, a docu ment that outlined the viewpoints expressed at the conference. She worked on the inclu sion of consumer awareness and business standards clauses in the document. “I felt like I was an active, active participant, ” she said. “The conference made me aware how critical it is that we be socially conscious in our economic decisions. We have to think about who is being exploited to make the shirts we’re wearing,” she said. ing, ex-Green Beret James “Bo” Gritz, called Glenn a hero. “He is the only one in authority that I met at Ruby Ridge who genuinely seemed to want the siege to end without violence,” testified Gritz, who acted as a negotiator between Weaver and the federal agents. Gritz, a populist presidential candidate in 1992, said Glenn has been “persecuted for his moral courage.” Sen. Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin, the subcommittee’s senior Democrat, asked Mathews whether he believed it made sense for the FBI to investigate itself in cases such as Ruby Ridge. “Integrity in the FBI is far more impor tant than any personal association,” Mathews replied. He said there was no conflict of interest involved in his review. An FBI sharpshooter, Lon Horiuchi, fired the shot that killed Weaver’s wife, Vicki, on Aug. 22, 1992, as she stood behind the door of the cabin, hours after FBI approval of the unique shoot-on-sight order. A day earlier, Weaver’s son and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan died in a gunfight that broke out as federal agents checked out Weaver’s property in anticipation of arresting him on a weapons charge. Shareholders will get a stake in each new company. The move which by some measures is bigger even than the 1984 breakup of AT&T—stunned Wall Street, which has seen one colossal merger after another in the telecommunications and entertainment industries. Founded as Bell Telephone in 1877 by Alexander Graham Bell, AT&T has built itself into a giant whose stock is the most widely owned in the nation. In 1984, facing a government antitrust suit, AT&T agreed to split into seven re gional Baby Bell phone companies in a settlement that spawned the era of global telephone competition. The trail is expected to reopen for full use by mid-October, he said. Webster said once the parks and recre ation department finishes the present trail they plan on expanding the trail. The trail will be extended to the community center, which is across from the post office. The current trail starts on Airport Road just south of the police station and runs about a mile until it comes out behind Franklin Street on Elizabeth Street. @1)? Saily Ear Herl She credited Duke with helping her and four other students travel to China to at tend the conference. “The university was very supportive,” she said. “They made it possible for us to go.” While the delegates were there, they experienced problems with weather and transportation, and some were harassed by police. However, Fischer said Chinese se curity forces were not as oppressive as the Americanpressledpeopletobelieve. “The Chinese were very hospitable,” she said. Fischer said she was “attacked” when other delegates found out that she was from North Carolina, because of opposi tion to U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. Helms is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where the Conven tion for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women is stalled, Fischer said. “This human rights document has been signed by 180 countries, including every developed country in the world,” she said. “It’s outrageous and embarrassing that the U.S. hasn’t signed it.” ini^ws Top stories from the state, nation and world Earthquake Hits California RIDGECREST, Calif. A powerful earthquake centered beneath this South ern California desert town on Wednesday rocked an area from the Pacific Ocean to Nevada. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage. “The earth bucked. That’s what it felt like, ” said Scott Farwell, managing editor of the Ridgecrest Daily Independent, “It shook for a good long while, maybe as long as 30 to 40 seconds. ” He said he was at a bowling alley when the quake hit at 4:27 p.m., “and all the pins fell down.” The magnitude-5.5 quake was centered lOmilesnorthofßidgecrest, said Jay Aller, a spokesman for California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. A magnitude -5.4 earthquake centered in the same area hit on Aug. 17. Wednesday’s quake was felt in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties, and as far away as Las Vegas. Ridgecrest, population 28,000, is about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. Poll Says Powell's Views Appeal to Republicans LOS ANGELES—Gen. Colin Powell’s moderate views on social issues such as gun control and affirmative action increase his appeal among Republicans, according to a Los Angeles Times poll published Wednesday. Forty-four percent of self-described Re publicans in the poll said Powell’s support of some forms of gun control would make them more likely to vote for him. Twenty three percent said less likely, and 27 per cent said it wouldn’t sway them. Powell’s support for affirmative action without quotas made 34 percent of Repub licans more likely to vote for him, while 17 percent were less likely and 42 percent said it would make no difference. His pro-abortion rights stance hurt him with a third of those who identified them selves as Republicans, but helped him with a quarter and made no difference to 41 percent. The telephone poll of 1,152 adults nationwide, including 937 registered vot ers, was taken Sept. 16-18. The overall margin of sampling error for the entire group was plus or minus 3 percentage points and slightly higher for subgroups such as Republicans. If Powell were running as a Republican in an election now, he would lead Presi dent Clinton 50 percent to 40 percent, the poll found. Self-declared independent vot ers would choose Powell by 2-1, and he would have the support of a third ofblacks. NCSA Sets Up Hotline WINSTON-SALEM - A toll-free hotline has been established to take calls about allegations of sexual misconduct at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Callers will be asked to identify them selves, but that information will be confi dential, school officials said. The information gathered will be used by the commission appointed by the Board of Governors to investigate improper stu dent-faculty relationships at the arts school. The commission last week also sent 3,000 letters explaining its purpose to students who attended the school from 1980 to the present. The letters ask for those who have infor mation about sexual harassment, assaults or consensual relationships between stu dents and teachers to come forward. The hotline number is (800) 820-ARTS (2787). It will operate from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. until Sept. 29. The calls will be handled by administrators with the University of North Carolina system’s Office of Student Affairs. FROM WIRE REPORTS
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