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Short Takes & Updates FACE IT - I'M OLDER AND I'VE GOT MORE INSURANCE: TALLAHASSEE. FLA — The parking situation at Florida State U got a little hairy this summer, when a tedup protessor was charged with ram ming his car into a student's vehicle According to FSU police, business management professor Paul Wilkens. 51. crashed his Pontiac Grand Am into a 23 year-old student's Nissan after the stu dent pulled into a taculty space the pro tessor wanted Wilkens asked the student to move his car. police say, but the student respond ed that he "didn't care" and wasn't mov ing Then, the protessor allegedly rammed the student's car from behind, pulled around the tront and rammed it again No damage was done to either car. but Wilkens was given a traffic citation tor reckless driving Wilkens denies he rammed the stu dent's car "There was no ramming that took place.” he says He has hired a lawyer and expects to reach an agree ment with the court. I'M BEING REPRESSED: BERKELEY. CALIF — It seems that Berkeley. Calif., is pretty damn tired ot looking at the bare backside of Andrew Martinez, a k a the Naked Guy [U Magazine, Jan./Feb 1993) Martinez, a former student at the U ot California. Berkeley, was arrested Aug 27 for violating the city's new anti nudity law. City Council members passed the ordi nance in response to Martinez's nation wide lame for attending class in the buff, wearing only a backpack and sandals Arrested after walking on the Berkeley campus nude, Martinez reportedly shout ed. Tm a victim! I'm a victim!” as he was being taken away Me was expelled from Berkeley after the school enacted a dress code prohibit ing nudity. DOWN AND ONT IN BEVERLY NILLS: LOS ANGELES — Brenda Walsh: misun derstood sex goddess, or the biggest bitch on prime time? Fans of Beverly Hills, 90210 now have several handy reference materials to help them decide The Beverly Hills, 90210 Guide, to be released this month by New King Publishing, devotes a whole chapter to Brenda and even includes a section titled, Why Hate Brenda?" Also aiding in the decision-making process is Rump's eclectic album Hating Brenda, released in August The CD fea tures songs like the Nirvana-inspired “#1 Alternative College Radio Grunge Hit (Stinks Like Teen Brenda)'' Open letter to Rump: Get a real job Now Love, everyone Briefs compiled from the U network Lost a limb? Try calling lost and found i mi jml found office* .ire like ir.nl*' in the timvcrsitv couch, where an odd assortment of valu aides .leeuimilaie i nder one rush ton m>u might find the expected umbrellas, sunglasses and Lei chains under the next, personal effei ts Imrdcring on the bizarre. 1 ake the lost anil found office at I he ()hto State l In recent sears, the Os l lost and found has receiver! sin It items as an artificial arm and a glass eve Strangelv enough, neithet was ever clatmed I using an artificial arm mav he careless, but someone got even sloppier .it the l of M.isLii, I .urtunks I inplov ci- Dave ( u\ mui rtmu'il .1 U|h; recorder that had .1 tape <>t a drug deal inside li It any of Out itufT yours? If so, call The Ohio State II "It sounded 11Isc- the woman on the t.i|>e w.is .1 smith. < ox s,t\s, 1 he tape ».is turned <«ver ti > seenrtt\ ( ox s.its t .ish and xaluables often turn up as well. I If once turncil in S-1MI he Count I in a toilet. \nd at Brown l . police Sgt. Steve St. Jean salcl\ returned a S5 ,000 necklace and S~'() in lost tuition money. For St. Jean, finding and returning Belongings is a moral imperative. Ills own wedding Band was once turned in to a lost ami found. Now he enioys relum ing the favor. But it isn’t as easv lor cvcrvonc to give Back cold, hard cash. ()nce at the l . of Oregon, an apparent good Samaritan brought in SI0(1 in a wallet, onlv to suffer a crisis m conscience ami return an addi tional SUM) several davs later. I ost and founds gcnerallv hold items Between a month and six months Before donating them to LJl.il ll\ (U .1 IK l lull I 11^ l ML 111 l • l raise funds llinmm . how much ilt» thet get tur .m artificial arm these dais, anvwai? • David Field, Daily I irryreeti' Washington State l . Students wade through a soggy start in the Midwest Normal l\, the Iowa River is .1 gentle waterway th.it ents through (tie l . <>t Inw.i campus, dividing the university in two .is it flows to the Mississippi I ast summer w .isn't normal, though. Fell In a winter of excess snow ami months of reenril rains, the river swelled into a monster, anil In the time the flood waters receded, more than h(M) students hail been dis plated. summer graduation had been cancelled and more than S-t > million in school property had heen devoured. \nd it's not over vet. "It docs hurt to see people left with nothing at all," l I senior Phil Berger, savs "It s not something you can con trol it’s a natural event NN e re helpless in controlling it Iowa was not the onh school affected by the rising rivers, however. !■ looilwaters inundated colleges across the Midwest Here's how other campuses hit hardest In the murky waters dealt with the situation ■ Iowa State l . Ames, Iowa Flooding caused an cstimat cd S”.~ million in damage to the universitv’s east side Hardest hit was Hilton (adiscum, where flash flooding tilled the basketball arena with more than 1' feet of water. ISl senior ( ara leas savs this summer’s flooding was bail, but it could have been worse: "1 lost all my books and notes and things But then vou look at all the people that lost their homes, their cars and even their lives, and my problems don’t seem so bad.” ■ Kansas State l’., Manhattan, Kan Nlthough no campus buildings were hit, flooding inundated other parts of the citv, displacing students and faculty. Hie university set up housing tor some of the flood victims, including main tow nspeople. I he flooding also caused a housing crunch when students returned in the fall. "Nil the apartments are gone,” KSl senior Jarad Savage twn th* dinosaur? war* op to thwr imcU in walar in Iowa tail aummcr s.ivs "It took me over two weeks of constant calling just to get .1 room. 1 hail to miss im first week of classes." • I incoln l’., Jefferson. Mo Water surrounded the school tor almost two weeks, making access to summer classes difficult. "It was |ust a pain in the butt, hut vou just did what vou had to do," I incoln sophomore 1’odd Heflin savs • Drake l . l)cs Moines. Iowa I loodmg knocked out Des Moines' water supple for almost two weeks, forcing Drake offic ials to close the school tor a dav ( lasses had to he relocated because the campus lacked air conditioning, and mam students had to he housed at m atin Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, a 20-minute commute “ I here’s something aliout standing in line with the dean of the law college to go to the porta-|>otn that’s realh level mg," recalls Man Cuhbagc, marketing director for Drake “It made tor one hell of a summer." ajon Yates, The Daily Iowan, L . of Iowa