European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 24, 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 business Magazine probes inside leaks of influential column new York a a series of suspicious Stock trades just before business week s widely read Wall Street column hit the streets has prompted an investigation by the Magazine s publisher that covers the entire business week spokeswoman mar Mcgeachy said that Mcgraw Hill inc. Was investigating the Magazine s editorial staff As Well As employees in its four printing plants to determine whether Market sensitive information was being leaked in Advance of publication. Mcgeachy said that some. Time Back the company s Legal counsel began tracking stocks mentioned in the inside Wall Street column after noticing unusual rises and heavy trading volume in those stocks on the Day business week was printed but before it reached news said no employees had been sus Pended or fired. Although the cause of the movements has not been determined the probe i reminiscent of a Case involving a Wall Street journal reporter who gave a Stock broker Advance information on columns expected to move Stock prices. All business week employees Are in formed As part of their orientation that they Are obligated to disclose their Stock holdings to the editor in chief and will not report on those companies Mcgeachy Mccue a spokeswoman for the securities and Exchange commission in Washington declined to comment on whether the Agency is investigating the matter. Spokespeople for the new Yor Stock Exchange had left their offices for the Day when called for comment. The presses begin rolling out business week in the Early morning each thurs Day at plants in Connecticut Wisconsin and California which produce the . Edition and in Pennsylvania which produces the International edition. The Magazine which has a circulation of 962,000, is shipped to distributors on thursday and is released to the news Media after the Stock Market closes that said the suspicious Stock movements occurred on several thurs Days. According to a Story from Dow Jones professional investor report on thursday of the 20 stocks mentioned in the last seven inside Wall Street columns eight Rose sharply on heavy vol ume for no apparent reason the Day the Issue was example a week ago Grad co sys tems jumped $1 a share to $9.75 on More than five times its average daily volume. The Stock was mentioned favor ably in the column of the business wee Issue available to the Public the following g. Marcial author of the column told Dow Jones we be been very much aware of when it Mcgeachy said Mcgraw Hill checks the Magazine s Security measures each week and monitors Stock movements Fol lowing publication. Volumes and Stock prices typically move on fridays and mondays she noted but that is after the Magazine is disseminated to the Public. We re very aware of the Impact business week has on the Mcgeachy said it was not unheard offer printing Plant employees and Drivers to be offered Cash for Advance copies of some magazines but she did not include business week in that category. Mcgraw Hill s investigation was no limited to business week s editorial staff she said. It covers the entire operation including the company s printing plants she said. Snow in july up nine year old Jeannine Saady left and this year s festivities the resort cooled its Meredith Elkins get a taste of summer atrium the world s largest to 55 degree Snow during Stouffer Orlando resorts and brought in 30 tons of Snow a group of annual big chill Winter carnival. For ice skaters and live penguins. Students feel rape victim shares guilt study finds Lewisburg a. A nearly two thirds of col lege students presented with mock rape scenarios said they believed the victim was at least in part to blame for the crime a study has found. Eugenia Gerdes a Bucknell University psychology professor tested the opinions of 64 College students told to act As jurors in scenarios in which a College age rapist attacks a fellow student walking alone at night. They clearly think he did something wrong. They also think the Choice of a victim was t random Gerdes said in an interview. Forty one of the students said the woman May have done something to promote the rape she said. Gerdes said that women taking part in the study tended to be More sympathetic with the victim and gave the rapist tougher prison sentences. The 32 women in the study gave the rapist a 22-year prison sentence on average while the men averaged a 15-year sentence Gerdes said. All the students in the study were Given typed stories that they were told were realistic accounts from a col lege newspaper. Accompanying the articles were Pic Tures of the purported rapist and victim. Gerdes gave each student one of two accounts of rape. In one the victim and rapist took a class together and she recognized him. In the other the victim an rapist lived on different sides of Campus and never took a class together. In both cases the rapist is caught in the act. Once people even think the rapist and the victim have been together anyplace before people begin to think what made him do it what might she have done " Gerdes said. Twenty three of the 32 students Given the scenario in which the rapist and victim knew each other said she May have done something to promote the crime according to the study. Just the fact that they Are willing to suggest thing the woman might have done to provoke the rape even when the defendant is clearly guilty shows that people still fail to understand rape As a violent crime. They try to make sense of a random act by viewing it As a sexual encounter she said. Eighteen of the 32 students Given the scenario i which the rapist and victim Are strangers said they thought the woman May have done something to pro Mote the rape Gerdes found. Gerdes said she changed the pictures accompanying the scenarios to give different combinations of attractive and unattractive victims and rapists. Invasion of the ants alarms san Francisco Bay area san Francisco a hordes of thirsty ants driven by drought and heat Are invading Homes throughout the san Francisco Bay area in search of water and residents say no one seems to know How to Stop them. I be never seen anything like it. There Are millions of them said Anita Lowery of Novato. I be almost the ants Are climbing out of Light switches creeping into baby bottles and even making their Way into freezers. Experts say the tiny insects Are Only looking for water for their Bone dry nests but unsympathetic human hosts Are calling exterminators. It is really really bad this year and it s creating hysteria said Kevin Pendergraft of California exterminators in Walnut Creek. More than 150 Calls have come in each Day since last weekend when temperatures soared to record highs he said. The county is going under with All the ants Pendergraft said. People have called in who Haven t had ants for 20 years. They have them All Over the As a scientist Benny Fouche Admire Sants As survivalists but As a Home owner he s being driven crazy by the insects persistence. Fouche a research associate in Urban entomology at the University of califor Nia at Berkeley looks for nests in the Yard of his Al Cerrito Home but admit she s probably wasting his time. Unless you get the Queen i can Al most guarantee that the ants will out per severe you. They la just keep coming he said. The Colony needs food and water. They have thousands of workers who will sacrifice if they weren t so Good at surviving they would t have defied All the Pes control people in the Bay area Fouche called the situation just another result of nature changing and said a similar problem occurred during the 1977 drought. They just have to set up a Happy Home. They need water and a Little food he said. If you have food in you pantry or water in your sinks you re going to have Pendergraft said he could t under stand All the uproar it s really phenom enal. Ants Are very clean. They re always preening each Susan Grippi of Novato did t share his feels like it s been a disaster she said adding that ants had surrounded her Home and invaded an upstairs Bath room. They make me
