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U. NEWS
4 U. THE NATIONAL COLLEGE
NEWSPAPER
News Features ■ FEBRUARY 1991
CALIFORNIA
Ethnic requirements approved . . .
Beginning next fall, all U. of
California, Irvine, freshmen will be
required to take two courses in multi
cultural and international studies.
The new requirements are the result
of a two-year study by the Task Force
on General Education, made up of
administrators, faculty and students.
Although the new requirements will be
added to the current genera! studies
courses, task force members said they
should not overburden students
because they also will fulfill other
requirement categories. ■ Jim Ranalli.
New University, U. of California,'
Irvine
ILLINOIS
Armed unrobbery... Joseph Mulcahey, a
first-year law student at the U. of
Illinois, was arrested and put in jail
overnight after trying to withdraw $15
from his bank account. Mulcahey said
he unknowingly used a withdrawal slip
that had a holdup note written on it. The
note said, “Give me $10,000, I have a
gun.” Fifteen minutes later, about 10
police officers arrested Mulcahey for
attempted armed robbery. They hand
cuffed, fingerprinted and photographed
him. and transferred him to the county
jail where he spent the night. He was
released the next day after bank secu
rity officers reviewed a tape of the
“holdup," checked Mulcahey’s back
ground and determined the incident
was a hoax and Mulcahey was innocent.
» Julie M Anthony, The Daily
Northwestern, Northwestern U
INDIANA
Student receives 20-year drug sentence ..
A Northwestern U. junior was sen
tenced to 20 years in prison for dealing
cocaine this fall The student was
charged with two counts of conspiracy
to deal cocaine and one count of dealing
more than three grams of cocaine.
Defense lawyers pointed out his previ
ously clean police record, but Judge
William MaHanna sentenced him to a
total of 60 years in prison. 20 years for
each of the three counts. However,
because of his age and background, he
will be allowed to serve the sentences I
concurrently. MaHanna said. “One '
thing to learn from this is that the
penalty for such crimes is severe." The
student is appealing the sentence. «Rob
Swanson, Purdue Exponent, Purdue U.
Kansas
A secure way home... The lJ of Kansas
offers inebriated or vulnerable stu
dents a way home through a taxi ser
vice, Secure Cab The ride is free with
a student I D and is available from 11
p m. to 2:30 a.m. seven days a week.
On-campus calls receive priority, said
KU Student Coordinator Charles
Bryan. Bryan said the group rakes pre-
cautions to avoid abuse of the program
He said students are asked for an I.D.
number and drop-off address to avoid
abuse. “The purpose of Secure Cab is
to give people who are in tro uble a ride
home,” he said. “We’re there vhenthey
had one beer too many or their friends
left them at a bar or they are r. campus
and think someone is follow ,ng them.
People still need to be responsible for
their own transportation «Beth
Behrens, The University Daily
Kansan, U. of Kansas
KENTUCKY
Who ordered the pizza?... U. of Kentucky
business students standing in the add-
drop line received a surprise when free
pizzas and sodas were delivered.
College of Business Alumni Affairs
Director Ralph Brown ordered lunch
for about 200 students after he realized
how slowly the line was moving “While
it wasn’t our fault, it was our respon-
siblity to take care of the students," be
said. Senior Tracy Hams, who waited
in line four hours, said, “I thought it
was really considerate of them to bring
food and drinks to us. Sometimes cam
pus feels so big, and it made you feel
like someone was thinking about you."
■ Cynthia Lewis, Kentucky Kernel, U.
of Kentucky
North Carolina
Milk crate misdemeanor... As of last I
month. North Carolina students and
residents using plastic crates for stor
age or furniture may be f.ned $300
and/or sentenced to six months in jail.
The unauthorized possessn t of plastic
milk crates from North Carolina
dairies was made illegal after the
Carolina Virginia Dairy Products
Association realized the two -: at es lose
nearly 1 million crates each year at a
cost of about $2 million Executive
Director Barbara Short said the asso
ciation launched a publicity campaign
encouraging students to return the
crates to groceries and darner guar
anteeing amnesty through Pec. 1. *
Julie Gammill, The Daily 7b’ Heel, U.
of North Carolina, Chapel Hi.
PENNSYLVANIA
Police thwart planned flag burning..
.Political protest took the form of sym
bolic art last November at Carnegie
Mellon U. when an art student Jessica
Caplan’s performance art flag homing
ceremony was stopped Caplan
planned to hang kerosene-soaked flags
from 8 countries, including the U.S,
soil them, wash them and burr them
together in a metal basin. Tin ashes
would have been placed together in a
hollow model of the earth Assistant
Dean of Student Affairs Ron Campana
had campus police stop the protest for
safety reasons. Caplan said politics
were the issue. I did disscuss it. depth
with (Facility Safety Analyst for the
university) Bob Anderegg what 1 was
going to do. We discussed my burning
pieces of 100 percent cotton soaked in
an accelerant; he said he’d supply the
extingishers and that it was a ‘go,”’ she
said. “The only thing I left out was
what patterns were on the material.
■ Farron W. Levy, The Daily Tartan,
Carnegie Mellon U.
SMITH
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ACROSS
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6. "You arc you
eat"
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About Nothing"
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tomato
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20. High-tech cas-
•cue tape Abbr
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(individually; 2
wds.
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Landers
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singer
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group
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Street-
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cases
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46 Rock-band equip
ment
47 Garfield comment
48 Brainstorm
50 Escape
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53 Acting part
54 Ken of “thir
tysomething-
56 Little troublemaker
57 Noticed
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