U. NEWS
CALIFORNIA
Sell-defense class subsidized . . Associated
Students at U California, Davis allocated
$4< )0 to .subsidize students attending a self
defense class offered by the UC 1 fans Rajs
Prevention and Education Program
iRPEP: 'Die class for female faculty, stu
dents and staff provides an opportunity for
women to deal with the psychological
aspects of rape, said RPF.P assistant Elaine
Fingerett. She said the class has had an
enrollment of 35 to 40 students each quar
ter, although it was split into two sections
spring quarter when about 60 students
signed up The subsidy shows explicit sup
[xirt for RPEP and is very important to the
Davis campus in light of recent rapes that
have occurred, said the bill’s author,
Councilmember Dave Birdsall ASl ( !) is
currently the only organization that subsi
dizes the program, although there are
plans to incorporate the class into the uni
versity’s physical education department so
it is free to students, Fingerettsaid ■Emily
(lest. The California Aggie, U California,
Davis
CONNECTICUT
Vegetanan dining .. This fall, (’onnecticutt
college students wall choose between vege
tanan fare and regular food sans veal. The
trial meal plans wen- initiated after a ques
tionnaire indicating one in three CC stu
dents prefered a vegetanan menu The reg
ular dining hall will not serve veal liecause
of st udents’ objections to the inhumane way
in which calves are primed for consump
tion Students should not think they an'
saving the Lives of calves, said Director of
Food Services Matt Fay "They are only
delaying death aixiut 12 weeks. If they’re
eating steak or chicken and pat themselves
on the back for not eating veal there’s a cer
tain amount of hypocrisy involved.” ■
Shelley Pannill, The College Voice,
Connecticut College
FLORIDA
Gripeline . . . The 1: of Miami Student
Government uses boxes to collect student
concerns, comments and complaints and
airs them with responses from administra
tors on a weekly radio program The stu
dent opinmas are screened by Irwin Raij,
secretary of student services of the SG
Cabinet, and his committal "I’m sort of an
ombudsman 1 try to work things out by
consulting school policy and doing other
research,* Rat) said ■Robert S Marshall
Hurricane, U. of Miami
ILLINOIS
Assault rifle found in dorm ... A Southern
Illinois U. student was scheduled to appear
at a preliminary hearing April f> on charges
of battery and unauthorized possession of
an AK-47 assault rifle, according to the SIC
News Service. A head resident spotted the
rifle while investigating a party in a dormi
tory room. After a search, police arrested
an 18-year old student and charged him
with unauthorized possession of the nfle
and batten- for knocking down the resi
dent Police allegedly found three' 30-round
magazines, 18 rounds of live ammunition
and drug paraphernalia Police said the
student did not own an Illinois Firearms
Identification card The student told police
he did not own the nfle, and was holding it
for a friend in the Navy stationed in San
Diego ■ Richard Nunez. Daily Egyptian.
S, Illinois U., Carbondale
INDIANA
Paint job . .. Several buildings at Indiana
State U. were partially renovated, not by
a crew of workmen but by a flock of birds
Bird droppings have necessitated up to
three cleanings a week on campus. The sci
ence department has resorted to playing
wild bird call tapes over speakers, in addi
tion to using rubber snakes, inflatable owls
and strobe lights in attempts to scare the
birds away. Professor of life science George
Bakken said the soil near the buildings will
be replaced, because the accumulated
droppings mixed with soil may cause lung
infections after several years. Danelle
Kieffner. Indiana Statesman. Indiana
State U
KANSAS
Vietnam remembered ...A memorial to the 41
students killed or missing in action in the
Vietnam War is lieing built at Kansas State
U It was designed by KSU graduate stu
dent Scott Enns, and will include a flagpole.
New U. editors start fellowships
Three new college graduates and a col
lege senior will edit U The National
College Newspaper during the 1989-90
academic year In keeping with U.'s goal
to present college life from a student per
spective, the fellows will alternate edit
ing different sections of the paper They
began their nine-month fellowships on
July 5
Chuck Hahn, Northeasternl'., will ini
tially edit the Life and Arts section. In
college, Chuck served as arts editor, news
editor, managing editor and editor-in
chief of the Northeastern News. He also
worked as a stringer for the Boston Globe
and as an intern for Dole publishing.
Chuck played guitar for a year with the
post punk band Volcano Suns, including
a 5-week U S. tour After his June grad
uation with a bachelor’s degree in jour
nalism, he spent two weeks in France
Indore starting work at U The National
College Newspaper. He eventually wants
to work as a news reporter for a
metropolitan daily newspaper.
Jacki Hampton, Dollars and Sense edi
tor. graduated from James Madison U in
Virginia in May. In college, the 22-year
old worked for The Breeze and edited
Curio, a feature magazine distributed in
the Shenandoah Valley. She also wrote
business features for an engineering firm
and interned as a feature writer for a
Baltimore Sun supplement The
Annapolis resident won 1st and 2nd place
awards for feature writing in the Society
for Collegiate Journalists’ national com
petition and a 3rd place award in the
Society of Professional Journalists’
regional competition. Jacki majored in
communications and minored in psychol
ogy, and is interested in a career with a
Christian magazine
Student Body and Opinion editor
Kathleen Kobemik is a senior at Western
Michigan U Last year Kathleen was edi
tor-in-chief of the Western Herald, super
vising a stafT of more than 75. A tnple
major in English, German and political
science, the 21-year-old from Detroit
earned 2nd place for news writing in a
contest judged by the Detroit Free Press
and the Kalamazoo Gazette A highlight
of her journalism career was coverage of
the 1989 Democratic National
Convention in Atlanta Kathleen plans to
work as a newspaper reporter covering
politics.
Hector Vargas, U of Georgia, was a
reporting intern for the Miami Herald
last summer. The News and Features
editor worked for The Red and Black as
associate news editor for beats, front
page copy editor, opinion editor, manag
ing editor and editor-in-chief In 1988,
Hector won first place awards in the
Society of Professional -Journalists’
Region 3 Mark of Excellence and Georgia
College Press Association contests for
editorial writing. The 22-year-old from
Miami plans to earn a law degree special
izing in Mass Communications low.
The new editors are responsible for
selecting news, features, opinion, photos,
comics and cartoons from more than 300
newspapers in the American Collegiate
Network They edit copy, write headlines,
lay out and design pages, and write, edit
and direct special reports about signifi
cant student issues.
Hahn, Hampton, Kobernick and
Vargas will work at the newspaper’s
headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif
from July 1989 to March 1990. lT. pro
vides a $200-per-week stipend, free hous
ing and round-trip transportation.
The editors were selected for their
reporting, writing, editing, layout or
design skills. U. editors must have senior
status or a recent bachelor’s degree, a
minimum of two years of college student
newspaper experience, with one year as
ALBERT POOR DAILY BRJIN U Of CAi i^ORNIA
LOS ANGELES
Clockwise from upper left: Kathleen Kobermk.
Jacki Hampton, Hector Vargas, Chuck Hahn.
an editor.
U is currently accepting applications
for the fellowship class scheduled for July
1990 to March 1991. Applications are
available from editors or advisers of ACN
member newspapers or George F. Taylor,
editorial director, U. The National
College Newspaper, 3110 Main St., Santa
Monica, Calif. 90405(2131450-2921. The
application deadline is 5 p.m., Friday,
Jan. 19, 1990
bench, and two semi-circular limesto
walls inscribed with the students' nanv
Private donations, fund-raising actual.;
and a $7,000 allocation from student g<
eminent wall pay for the $21,000 memon
■Cathenne McSwegin, Collegian, Kan.
State U.
MAINE
Plan to circumvent bookstore unveiled... Th.
General Student Senate of the U. of Main*
laid the groundwork in May for a plan wind
would allow students to buy and sell text
books to eachother. Senator Stavrie
Mendros, chairman of the committee n
charge of implementation of the plan, said
books will be bought at 50 percent of what
students paid for them and then .sold at O'
percent of what they paid to cover operatin
expenses. “ItH force the bookstore to evalu
ate the way they're npping off students,
Mendros said The senate has allocated
$5,800 for implementation. Any revenue,
created by the program will be re-allocated
to student government programs and activ
hies. Jonathan Bach, The Daily Main,
Campus, If of Maine
MINNESOTA
60 Minutes correspondent earns B.A.... Harr
Reasoner was not only the speaker at th
U. of Minnesota June commencement, hi
also received his bachelor’s degree Th>
CBS newsman earned a B.A. in journa.
ism 47 years after he left school to worl
at the defunct Minnesota Times “I havi
three honorary Ph.D.s, but it’s nice to hav.
a real degree,” he said Before he lef
school, Reasoner worked for the studei
newspaper. The Minnesota Daily, a
drama critic. “The great thing about
Daily then was the staff thought it wa
professional paper — and it was handle
that way. It was not a college paper
Reasoner earned his degree by completim
six courses He had five A’s and one B oi
his last report card ■ David Czeck, Th,
Minnesota Daily, U of Minnesota. Twu
Cities
PENNSYLVANIA
Moon talk ... Astronauts walk on the moon
dancers moonwalk and rowdy folks moon
but the Penn Suite U. Amateur Radio Clul
“Moonbounces " Members communicate
with persons m other states and countne
by bouncing high-power signals off thi
moon’s surface. “We feel like we art' on top
of the world because of technological achiev
ment.’ club Vice President Kunio Mitsuma
said The experiment, known as EME
i Earth-Moon-Earth) or Moonbounce,
involves transmitting a very high frequency
signal toward the moon and letting it
bounce off the lunar surface. The signal is
picked up by large antennas on the earth s
surface. ■ Dina Ellis, The Daily Collegian.
Pennsylvania State U.
TEXAS
AIDS education ... A Texas Christian U
senior is attempting to organize a nation
wide AIDS Awareness and Education
Network among college campuses. Jim
Werth realized a need for the link between
schools based on feedback from an AIDS
awareness program held atTCU in April,
where five HIV-infected people related
their fears and pain to an audience of400
Students or groups interested in becom
ing involved in the national awareness
network can contact Werth at Box 32279
TCU, Fort Worth, TVxas 76129. ■ Brenda
Wallace, TCU Daily Skiff. Texas
Christian U.