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The Red and Black • Wednesday. March 7, 1990 • 3
■ JUDICIAL REPORT
Six are guilty of theft
By JOEL GROOVER
Staff Writer
JudidBl Programs took in 13 new cases last week, including five
UUIs and two drug possession complaints.
The cases were reported from Feb. 27 to March 6.
Judicial Programs also received the following complaints during
that period:
• Two students were charged with theft.
• A student was charged with disorderly conduct for throwing
things at a police officer.
• A student was charged with physical assault.
• A student was charged with disorderly conduct for being verbally
abusive to a University employee.
• A student was charged with disorderly conduct for speeding on a
street known for heavy pedestrian traffic
Judicial Programs Counselor Roger Lee said the Student Judiciary
also handed down the following rulings:
• Two students were found guilty of contempt of court. One was
placed on probated suspension for a quarter and the other was sus
pended from the University for a quarter.
• Three students were found innocent of academic dishonesty
charges.
• A student was found guilty of damage to property and suspended
from the University for a quarter.
• Six students were found guilty of theft. Five were given 40 hours
of community service and placed on probated suspension for a quarter.
Another student was placed on probated expulsion from housing.
• A student was found guilty of falsification of records for forging a
doctor’s excuse, placed on probated expulsion and suspended from the
University for a quarter.
A student placed on "probated suspension” for a violation will be
susDended if found guilty of anv other infraction.
Next week, the judiciary will hear five theft cases, two falsification
of records, three disorderly conducts, one academic dishonesty, one
firearmB possession and a contempt of court case.
Lee niso said that Campus Courts, which handles violations that
take place in University housing, took in six complaints last week,
most of them disorderly conducts.
‘New’ Coke gets new
name for test market
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — New Coke, the re
formulated version of Coca-Cola
that inspired a consumer rebellion
before sinking to the bottom tier of
soft drink sales, is trying out a new
name and a different look.
The change, if adopted, would
free the Coca-Cola brand name to
return to the original formula, now
called Coke Classic, industry ob
servers said.
The Coca-Cola Co. said Tuesday
it plans to test market new Coke
under the name Coke II.
Spokesman Randy Donaldson said
Coke II will be sold initially in one
city, which he would not identify,
within the next few months.
The formula of the drink will not
be changed, Donaldson said.
Jesse Meyers, the Greenwich,
Conn., publisher of the industry
newsletter Beverage Digest, said
the Coke II test marks the first big
shot of the 1990s in the cola wars
between Coca-Cola and archrival
Pepsi Cola.
The test of Coke II comes as new
Coke, regarded by some aB one of
the great blunders in marketing
history, nears its fifth anniversary.
Atlanta-based Coca-Cola an
nounced in April 1985 that after
extensive taste tests it was chan
ging the formula of Coke, the
world's best-selling soft drink. Con
sumer reaction was so strong
against the new product that the
company two months later apol
ogized and brought back the orig
inal formula under the name Coca-
Cola Classic.
Coke Classic regained the posi
tion as the No. 1 soft drink. The
Bweeter-tasting new Coke also re
mained, but its market share now
is a relatively tiny 1.4 percent com
pared to Coke Classic’s 20 percent
share.
Donaldson denied that the Coke
II test means the company is run
ning up the white flag on new
Coke.
"After five years, new Coke is no
longer new, though it's still called
new Coke,” he said. “We just want
to make it easier to distinguish be
tween Coke II and Coke Classic.”
And he said there are no plans to
change the name of Coca-Cola
Classic back to Coca-Cola. There
are no plans to change anything
about Coke Classic at all.”
Emanuel Goldman, who follows
the soft drink industry for Paine
Webber Inc. in San Francisco, said
the Coke II label, if adopted, would
remove the perception that new
Coke is a failure.
Coca-Cola is “the premier brand
name in the world,” ne scud.
“You don’t want something
called Coca-Cola that doesn't work,
so you call it Coke II,” Goldman
said. *1 think it’s not such a bad
thing to do. The name of the game
is Coca-Cola.”
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Students finding tax forms confusing;
many use professional filing services
By JEFF WOHL
Contributing Writer
University senior Amy Phillips
has been filing tax returns since
1984, but she hat always had
someone else prepare them
“I've never figured the return
out myseir,” the speech commu
nications major said. “My mother
and I weren't sure how to handle
scholarships.”
Phillips' problem is not unique
among students, according to
Charleen McCollough, Internal
Revenue Service public affairs spe
cialist.
Scholarships and grants are tax-
Kohl backs
on respect
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany —Chan
cellor Helmut Kohl dropped his de
mand for Polish concessions on a
border treaty and moved closer
Tuesday to guaranteeing a united
Germany would not claim land
ceded to Poland after World War
II.
His government proposed a par
liamentary resolution, to be intro
duced Thursday, saying a united
Germany should sign a treaty with
Poland declaring that the right of
Poles “to live in secure borders will
not now or in the future be ques
tioned by us Germans.”
After a Cabinet meeting, at
which ministers discussed 'dis
agreements over the chancellor’s
handling of the border issue, Kohl
said: ‘The things that burdened us
are cleared away.”
Kohl had been criticized for his
reluctance to state clearly, presu
mably in an effort to preserve the
conservative vote in December
elections, that a reunified Ger
many would not question Poland’s
western border.
He had insisted repeatedly that
only the leadership of a united Ger
many could make such a promise
about Polish territory, roughly one-
third of which was part of Ger
many before the war.
The chancellor’s pronounce
ments caused unease in Poland,
the Soviet Union, United States
and elsewhere as Kohl sought in
ternational support for bringing
East and West Germany together
into a single nation.
His statements also created
trouble at home. The Free Demo
crats, his coalition partners, joined
the oppoeition Social Democrats in
saying his position jeopardized the
chances of unification.
On Friday, he exacerbated the
problem by demanding that any
treaty recognizing Poland’s current
borders be linked to pledges by the
able income unless they are used
as a qualified scholarship,she said.
This means candidates for degree
may exclude amount* for tuition,
fees, books and supplies from their
taxable income, McCollough said.
Money used for other expenses
like room, board or fees are treated
as taxable income.
One change for the 1989 forme is
that a student may not be claimed
as a deduction on a parent’s return
if he or Rhe iB more than 24 years
old, McCollough said.
Students who claim themselves
may have a problem if their par
ents also claim them as a deduc
tion, according to Bruce Clements.
resolution
for border
Poles to honor a 1953 decision to
waive anv war reparations, and to
a renewal of Poland’s 1989 promise
to guarantee the rights of its
German minority.
Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich
Genscher and his Free Democrats
agreed with Poland that Kohl must
clarify his position on the sensitive
border issue.
After a meeting Tuesday be
tween Kohl and Genscher, their
second in two days, Free Democrat
official Torsten Wolfgramm said
the chancellor had abandoned his
demand that Polish assurances ac
company a border treaty.
“It is completely clear," he said.
“A treaty would contain only the
border question.”
Silesia and East Prussia were
awarded to Poland and the Soviet
Union, respectively, at the
Potsdam conference 01 1945. That
led to the expulsion of 12 million
Germans, and at least 2 million
died in the process.
Genscher was born in what now
is East Germany. The foreign min
ister has made clear he and his
party are willing, in return for reu
nification, to give up all claims to
the territory lost to Poland.
Seiters said the parliamentary
resolution would recommend dec
larations of respect for Poland’s
western border by the parliaments
of both Germanys, to be made after
the East German elections March
18.
Once Germany was united, he
said, the government would make
a treaty with Poland guaranteeing
its borders.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev
of the Soviet Union warned against
any attempt by a reunited Ger
many to change the borders drawn
at the end of World War II.
'To use German reunification to
reanimate revanchist plans would
be to pursue an irresponsible policy
fraught with very serious conse
quences,” he said in Moscow.
a certified public accountant and
assistant professor in the College
of Business Administration.
Mary UU, owner of National Tax
and Business Service Incorporated
on 1015 Baxter St., said confusion
about who claims the student is
one of the most common problems
her tax preparation service sees.
Another common problem is
when people don’t transfer the
proper amounts of salary and with
olding from the W-2 form, Clem
ents said. Since the government
also has a copy of the W 2 filed by
the employer, an alarm is triggered
if the figures do not coincide.
McCollough said many students
call the IRS about money from the
University- She said taxable
sources of income include work
study money and salaries for tea
ching, including graduate tea
ching.
Those who file early and are eli
gible for refunds tend to receive
checks early. The average wait for
a refund check is now six weeks,
McCollough said
Tax forms are available in the
Government Depository on the
second floor on the main library
and at the University Bookstore
Tax questions may be answered by
calling 1-800-424-1040. The dead
line for filing is April 16.
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