European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday May 31,1990 naval Academy May expel middies who abuse plebes by the Baltimore Sun Annapolis my. Midshipmen found guilty of physically or mentally abusing first year students will now face expulsion . Naval Academy officials said tuesday. Officials have stiffened penalties following disclosures of a number of incidents. Rear . Virgil l. Hill jr., the Academy superintendent issued new orders including a new program of sensitivity training for midshipmen after weeks of intense Media scrutiny. It began when a former midshipman Gwen m. Dreyer of Encinitas calif., reported she was dragged from her dormitory room handcuffed to a pipe Over a men s room urinal and photographed and taunted by other middies. She resigned at the end of the school year. Reports of her resignation prompted other plebes first year Academy students to disclose hazing Inci dents. Those reports combined with concerns about academic standards have led to a congressional investigation a review by the general accounting office two internal probes and an inquiry by the Navy s in Spector general. Navy Secretary h. Lawrence Garrett Iii ordered the review by rear . Ming e. Chang the inspector general after a meeting last week with Hill . Car Lisle . Trost the chief of naval operations and other Academy officials. The general order that went into effect tuesday clears up any Gray areas that May have existed for midshipmen explained it. Cdr. Mark Van Dyke an Academy spokesman. We re drawing the line very clearly now he said. Yesterday an upperclassman May have received a punishment less than dismissal for some incidents depending on the circumstances. But under the Admi ral s order if an upperclassman touches a plebe other than for safety reasons or in an athletic contest he can be subject to  this is not to say he added that what is known at the Academy As indoctrination of plebes requiring them for example to memorize and recite regulations and facts about the Fleet walk briskly through their dorm or eat sitting on the edges of their chairs would end. But in some areas that have been brought into question under the recent allegations we be made it Clear what s appropriate and what s inappropriate he said. The indoctrination is a valid activity designed to create a pressure packed environment in which kids Are forced to produce it. Cmdr. Van Dyke said. The new orders which reaffirm some penalties and establish new programs stemmed from a continuing internal review and not from later investigations that were launched after the Gwen incident he said. They set up the sensitivity training program for midshipmen that will focus on sexual harassment and equal Opportunity. Incoming freshmen will be the first to participate next summer and the remainder of the Academy s faculty staff and upper class midshipmen will be involved in the program when the academic year resumes in september. The orders also prohibit horseplay Between mid Shipmen without the consent of the students involved and establishes a communications network that allows midshipmen to report abuse anonymously. Stateside la outlaws ammo sales in weeks before holidays los Angeles a the City Council passed a measure outlawing ammunition sales during the weeks before the fourth of july and new year s eve holi Days when thousands of bullets Are fired into the air by  people were wounded last new year s by slugs that fell Back to the Earth hitting the ground at near muzzle  spokesman for a gun owners group said the prob Lem should be addressed through education not legis  ammunition sales is like trying to solve the problem of accidents at Rush hour by prohibiting the Sale of gasoline Between 3 and 6 p.m.," said . Johnson. It s going to be an inconvenience for the persons who love to stand in line just before new year s eve or the fourth of july to buy ammunition for the purpose of discharging their weapons said councilman Rich Ard Alatorre who sponsored the measure. Fire in Chicago apartment kills 4 children 1 adult Chicago up four children and an adult were killed Early wednesday and another child was critically injured in a fire at a Southwest Side apart ment authorities said. The fire began about 1 . On a mattress in the living room on the second floor of the two Story apart ment building said first District chief William Nolan. The fire was confined to the one room where All six victims were found. All the people appeared to die from Burns Nolan said. There were no smoke detectors in the apartment he added. The injured child was taken to Cook county Hospi Tal and was listed in extremely critical  Blaze at Woolworth s a Miami firefighter sprays water from seven firefighters suffered minor injun atop an Aerial ladder into the Wool Ries tuesday while putting out the Worth building in downtown Miami Blaze at the department store. Louisiana House oks Bill Banning Job quotas Baton Rouge la. A the Louisiana House tuesday passed a Bill Banning affirmative action programs. The Bill was sponsored by state rep. David Duke a former grand wizard of the Kun flux Kjan. The 66-28 vote crossed party lines 13 people abstained. The Bill was sent to the Senate. Some Are going to Call this Bill racist said Duke a Republican. This Bill simply prohibits racial discrimination in hiring promotion scholarships. It prohibits affirmative action pro Grams that discriminate on the basis of race. There is no justification to discriminate against someone who works hard who is qualified for a  Duke said his Bill would outlaw the use of racial quotas in promotions or Hir ing. I d love to see the Day that everybody is treated fairly. That s not what is going on said democratic rep. Diana Bajoie. Many of you see me As a Black woman before you see me As a member of  she went on you would think we never had discrimination. We have tried to right some wrongs perpetrated on our people for 100, 200 years since they entered this country. It s too Early to Stop that. It s Only been 25 years since we passed the civil rights  Duke countered you Don t eradicate discrimination by putting in a policy of discrimination. Young people coming up were not part of past discriminatory  democratic rep. . Jones warned such a Law would be unconstitutional. You can camouflage things but racism is racism said Jones who is Black. What we just passed is an attempt to try to set Black people in this state Back one third of the population in this state. You still must understand that we live in the United states and Federal Law takes precedence Over the Louisiana legis lature and thank god for  Duke left the Kkt in 1980, accused of trying to sell a membership list to a rival faction and formed the National association for the advancement of White people. Elected to the Louisiana House from a nearly All White District in 1989, he says his racism and nazi sympathy were Youthful errors. Now Duke 39, is running for the . Senate although the state gop has endorsed another candidate. Missouri aids columnist tossed through window Columbia to. A a Man who writes a newspaper column about his daily struggles with aids was thrown through a restaurant window police said. Clifford Moyers who writes a living with aids column in the Columbia Tribune each sunday was hospitalized in stable condition police said. Moyers said he was discussing Gay rights with friends at a restaurant Early sunday when men at a neighbouring table started making Faggot remarks against us. He was thrown through a plate Glass window in the foyer police said. Two men were arrested and released on Bond. A hearing was scheduled to de cide whether to charge them said Boone county prosecutor Joe Moseley