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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
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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