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More Short Takes entertainment lines He has paid restitu tion for the calls and must pay a $200 fine and $124 in court costs According to court documents, he said he made the calls because of curiosity from TV and magazine advertisements," CABLE SCRAMBLING GETS SCREWED HARRISONBURG, VA -- late night chan nel surfers at James Madison U got a sur prise recently when they came across a pornographic film on a cable station nor malty dead at that hour Earlier in the day, a teleconference was broadcast by satellite Later, the porn flick, which was not effectively scrambled by the broadcaster, was picked up by the satellite and re-broadcast to the JMU cam pus Apparently not everyone on campus was entertained Thomas Bonadeo, director of information technology, said steps will be taken to ensure the satellite is turned off after scheduled broadcasts in the future shorter takes & updates SALVAGED: The draft, after President Clinton gave the nod to continue registra tion, even though the Pentagon has indi cated an end to the draft would not harm national security | U Magazine. October 1993) Citing potential savings up to $29 million a year, some members of Congress have been fighting to end the draft Clinton said the Selective Service System should stay in place until the National Security Council finishes a similar review this spring DASHED Fourteen-year-old Toby Glantzs hopes ol going to college next year Glanu ol Whitefish. Monl, is ready to take the plunge, but he's too young to quality for tmancial aid To quality, a student must have a high school diploma or the equivalent by pass ing a General Educational Development test But a student must be at least 16 to take the test "Why should I wait7" GlanU said "I want to be able to go to college now I want to take control of my life now and not wait tor the state to tell me what to do" SUSPENDED: An electrical engineering student, from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Penn , tor programming his comput er to dial administrators' home phone numbers in the wee hours ot the morning The student complained tor months about an alarm system in his dorm which interrupted his sleep Alter allegedly receiving no response, he decided some one should pay t>l«H cempiled him IlM U Mtarart and TIM Ckrwucto el Htffctf Educe lien Student prostitution ring busted < >ne l ot Vrt /. »na student savs paving hit college was too tough on his meager income •is .1 |>.irt time stripper So he made ends meet the old t.ish toned w av S. iphonion I In mi.is \\ it son and two ot his classmates i an the I litc 1 st ort S, i vice out ot a rented house until police discovered that then business served as a trout tor a prostitution ring. In his statement to police. M atson said hi started t In enterprise to help pav tor school. In March. M atson was sen tenced to '() dais in tail, which he will begin serving at the end ot the scnicstct I le must also pav i S',000 tine, serve 100 hours ot comrnunitv ser vice, pav Slot) to the victim compensation fund and serve three rears supervised proba tion I’olicc hevtan investigating the “escort service" last lulv when thev rcvcived a tip from a man who had applied tor i position there Vccordtng to l)ct. Michael \i osta ot tin l ucson Police Department, the nun was told that the job required having sev with clients M'hcn a female esv ot t, a t< ir iner comntunttv college stu dent, agreed to have sev tor monev with an undercover officer at a li h a I hotel, police -irrcsteil U Jlsirn .1 ml his cohorts, senior Scan l>r! ahums uni sophomore Milo k act a k \one ot the II women working tor the service were arrested In 1 mu.ns, I )clahunt\ and h.uuk pleaded emits to facili tating the services ot .i prosti lute Mthough tiles could have laced ms months ill Mil, Judge John 1 conjoin told the deten slants he had reeeised mans letters on their heh.dt. and he let them otf with a sear ot pro t'.iln m and i S.’ ' tine \n appreciative kaciak told the judge. "I ssill make sure that 1 will never he here it: on," a ml Mel a hunts destnhed the situation as "an incredible learning experi ence." Sharon < h.ulwnk, sue pres idcnt ot the neighhoi hood association where the students ran their business, said she w as disappointed with the sen tenses I hardly think that is the kind ot message sse should be sending as a sot lets, saving it's all right, it sou get caught, nothing will happen "Me don't want |>cople like that m our nrighliorhood," she said Dclahunrx plans to graduate this summer and serve in the Marine turps reserves • ( hidie 11 H. Dais and Jon Hurstrin, trizona Daily If il.hal, l . ot \i i/ona Why the chicken flew the coop \ pedestrian cross* jlk, a U) loot 1 n 11.11 j hie chicken .mil .i Minnesota hoik cv goalie con ncctcil last sen! ester in a bizarre incident that ulti match led to the athlete's arrest Junior Jetties ( allman. starting goalie tor the ( i<iphcrs, u as i>nc Pranksters made off with thu JO loot chicken heed mI three men arrested in connection with the theft and damage n! i S ’.■>(M) inflatable chicken he.nl that was mounted on the root nt .1 restaurant in Mound, Minn ., a suhurh almtit an hour trout campus. I he chicken incident came as the latest de\elopment in a long standing civic battle hi Yin Moy, owner ot I he I louse of Vloy, erected the chicken to protest the Mound ( it\ ( ouncil's decision to remove a pedes trian crosswalk m trout ot tile restaurant \ sign next to the chicken read, "I low did the chicken cross the road' I Ic couldn't. 1 Ic lived in Mound Mods daughter. < >\ Mov, s.ixs the theft was politically inoti sated ■Joseph Hart, I hr Minnr%ota Daily. I • ot Minnesota iruona j Mount Craham projoct hat acttvttti up In arms Telescopes under fire Supporters ot the l cl Vri/ona's Mount ( naham liitrin.itiun.il (Misery atory vis, in soim respects, it will out|R-itunti the I lubblc lelcstnpc But the pro leet s construction in southeastern \m/ihu has ignited heated cultural and envtmntncnt.il controversies \nzona, in conpinction with several international institutions including the \atuan t ibwivator\. h i. already installed two ot the seven planned telescopes at a cost o| SI I milium, the completed observatory will lost an estimated S.’IK) million 1 he telescopes sit atop l)/d m haa si an, as the mountain is called In tile San < arlos \pachc Indians, who consnlei H a hols site I he \pai he Sums al ( oahtion has irp|n iseil the pro leet trorn its inception, saving the mountain holds reh emus significance tor their c ulture Not all loc al Native Americans are opposed to the protect, houev cr the S.m ( arlos \pachc I nhi narrow Is passed a resolution recognizing the projects economic lienetn and resolving to remain neutral on the issue, I iisiromnental activist groups, such as the Student I nvironinent.il Vtion ( oahtnms in Pittsburgh, Past I a using and I m son, have also joined the tray, claim mg the observatory will destroy the habitats ot am nulls liPc the Mevnan spotted owl and the Mount (.ration red squirrel In I'IK", the l S l isli and W ilciiitc Service listed the red squirrel as an cntlan I'crcu s|H i it’s During the dedication ut thr telescopes last tall, 10 people were arrested tor disrupting the eeretnom Some of the protesters him knl .1 mat! In locking their necks to a cattle guard I hough Michigan Stalt l anti the l nt Pittsburgh have yet to decide whether to siip[M>rt the protect, tin mere suggestion ot involvement lias melt cti forceful opposition hv sttulent groups and grass roots activ ists tin hoth campuses. \t Pittsburgh. polite rciuovetl six stmients after t he v occ u pi e. I ( . ha lit e Hot I Dennis t ) ( on not s office tor more than six hours to protest the school's possible involvement in the protect "f fur ultimate goal is to preserve Mount (traham." saxs senior Matt Peters, all anthropnlogv iiiapir ai 1 ’itt “Hut is a first step, wc'tl like the t mveisitx ot Pittsburgh not even involvetl ( harles l.iu, an astronotm gratluate student ai \ri/ona, saxs ot the controvcrsx, “It's all almut mm promise, a lit I we u I teen lining < mr hest to tin so ( Ihserxatorv supporters maintain the sipurrel tnipu latum has inereasctl. and the project will bcnctii the environment, the ecnnomv ol the surrounding area anti science. \ccordmg to Peter St rit t mat ter. director of Steward ()hscrv atorx at Arizona, "M e have no impact, ami I think those that have studied the site ami ire not |mhtkallv motivated would conclude the same ■! isa Raff. I hr Pitt Viter, l of Pittsburgh Kim Peterson ot the Arizona Daily Wildcat contributed to this report
