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