European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 21, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday a Larch 21,1991 the stars and stripes Page 7 panel hears judge s View on Blacks bitten by dogs Lansdown a Gary Isaacs 32, of new York City performs at the Massachusetts Institute or technology in Cambridge. As a masters degree in engineering from Mit and was once a rocket scientist urged students not to let go of their dreams. He later become a Wall Street trader before pursuing his childhood dream of attending Ringling Brothers Clown College in Florida. By the los Angeles times Washington a a controversial Federal judge surprised a Senate committee tuesday by asserting that Young Blacks who were attacked by police dogs Mav have benefited from the experience Quot judge Kenneth l. Ryskamp president Bush a nominee to move up to a Federal appeals court said that the mauling of several Young Black men by police attack dogs May have provided a it a negative reinforcement against their committing future crimes. Ryskamp said it was this rationale that prompted him in 1987 to throw out a jury s verdict against officers West Pitem Beach Fla police department. The officers Weic accused of civil rights violations in a civil lawsuit filed by four Black men. A a of their Only remembrance of the crime was the pain a of. Being bitten by a dog that May be a negative reinforcement and they May never steal again Quot Ryskamp said. A i was thinking of their own welfare. And that a painful experience might be a  the comments came in the opening minutes of a contentious hearing before the Senate judiciary committee. Civil rights groups have targeted Ryskamp for defeat because of a series of rulings against Blacks latinos women and the elderly. The Senate judiciary committee appears closely i Yiu cd on the Ryskamp nomination. After a second Day of hearings wednesday the panel was to recess. A committee vote is planned in Early april. In the 1987 Gase Ryskamp presided Over a police brutality trial that grew out of the police departments routine use of German shepherds to attack and subdue suspects. In 50 percent of the incidents Over the pre Vious six years the dogs had bitten the suspects while subduing them.1 to of the four Young men who brought the lawsuit suffered severe bites and were not accused of any crime. One a 15-year old. Was attacked in a City Park and bitten badly on his Arm and upper thighs. A second was lying drunk in his front Yard when he was attacked by a dog. Alter hearing the evidence the jury handed Down a verdict in favor of the Young men. However Ryskamp a 1986 appointee of president Reagan threw out the verdict and Ryskamp dismissed the complaint. A i think of countries where if you arc guilty of a Rob by. They Cut off your hand As a vivid reminder that this is forbidden a Ryskamp had told the lawyers in 1987. A it might not be inappropriate to carry around a few scars to remind you of your wrongdoing in the  a Federal appeals court in Atlanta later overturned Ryskamp a decision and reinstated the jury verdict. The Case was sent Back to Ryskamp but a settlement was reached Between the plaintiffs and the City before the judge could assess damages. A Security projects for embassies bogged Down Washington t a. Quot. A a a / a a Washington apr five years after the state department announced an ambitious program to increase Security at foreign diplomatic posts few construction projects have been completed and most of the rest Are delayed and Over budget according to a congressional study. A events in the Middle East demonstrate that the threat of terrorism against american diplomatic facilities will Only increase a said the report by the Senate budget committee a it is essential to get this High priority program on  a continuing delays in Security construction projects come at a particularly dangerous time for american diplomats serving abroad a said committee chairman James Sasser d-tenn., in a letter to Secretary of state James a. Baker Iii. After the . Embassy Annex in Beirut Lebanon was bombed by terrorists in 1984, the department appointed an advisory panel headed by retired adm. Bobby Ray Inman to recommend Security improvements. The panel called for a series of changes including a revamping of the state departments Security program and the building or renovation of 126 buildings at a projected Cost of $3.5 billion. The project was expected to take seven years to Complete. The number of projects was later pared Back to 57, and Congress authorized $2.1 billion for the buildings. By late last year just seven of those had been completed All behind schedule and Emory forms review Council after kissing teacher scandal All but one Over budget the committee report said. Five projects Are under construction and another is out for construction bids that group of projects averages 14 months behind schedule and 48 percent Over budget the panel said. Another 16 projects Are in the design or site acquisition stages and the majority of those also Are behind schedule and More expensive than planned the committee report said. Twenty eight projects Are on hold or have been cancelled it said. A state department official speaking on condition of anonymity said the department miscalculated earlier projections of the time required to Complete the Security work. Security standards have evolved since the first Inman recommendations the official said and site acquisition has been More complicated than expected. For example the department needs a 10-acre site in Kuwait to meet Security re quire Nientsu there Bur has been unable to locate such a site he isaid. A the department now projects it can com plate Only two to three embassies a year because of budget constraints and the entire Inman project will take 15 to 20 years to finish he said. Of the 57 originally proposed projects Only one has been completed on schedule and within budget the embassy in Mogadishu Somalia. That embassy has been vacant since the staff was evacuated during the somalian civil War. Atlanta apr Emory University agreed to form a committee to review faculty disciplinary procedures after a professor accused of kissing women students without their consent was cleared of sexual harassment. About 200 Law students boycotted class tuesday and packed a University auditorium to protest the decision not to discipline Law professor Abraham Ordover. President James t. Laney told the students the University would comply with a student government request to form a committee to review the manner in which hearings of alleged misconduct by faculty members Are conducted. At least 13 women have filed informal complaints with the University against Ordover. The most serious allegation was that he violated a Law school policy that guarantees students anonymity on exams. Two women also alleged Ordover kissed them without their consent. A Law Dean Howard Hunter said a three member committee of professors found that Ordover engaged in a inappropriate conduct but did not violate the schools sexual harassment policy. Hunter said Ordover was reprimanded. The reprimand bars Ordover from touching or extending social invitations to students. He is also barred from talking to women students in his office with his door closed after school hours and he must seek counselling. Ordover denied the allegations calling some of them trivial. He also criticized the student protest. A students who did not prevail want to change by mob action the Legal process which they engaged in a Ordover said. A i think that is highly inappropriate and very very  Laney said the review committee will include students and faculty and will report by the end of the semester. Jeff Straus a third year Law school student said he. Made a formal complaint to the University after listening Quot to a number of women who were upset and teary eyed As they recounted their experiences with Ordover. Straus called the University a response a totally  boy with tumor improves by the Washington Post Charlottesville a a for months English Schoolboy Craig Shergold has lived with one certainty a that he was dying from an inoperable brain tumor a and one goal to collect More get Well cards than anyone in the world Craig 11, reached his goal. His tale touched More than 33 million people who sent him cards and Craig earned a listing in the guinness Book of world records for the first 16 million. But in an unexpected turn of his health a a Miracle says his Mother a the tumor is mostly gone. A Virginia billionaire John Kluge after being asked to Send Craig a card instead brought the youth and his family to the University of Virginia for an operation this month that saved his life. Once listless and in pain Craig now an outpatient at Kluge children a rehabilitation Center on the University Campus works furiously during his intervenes physical therapy. Meanwhile Craig and his parents who have been in the United states since feb. 27, on saturday will for the first time meet Kluge 76, who is listed in Forbes Magazine As the richest Man in America and one of the richest in the world. Kluge the she golds said is paying for nearly everything Asso dated with the visit. Kluge a Charlottesville businessman had asked Neal Kassell the neurosurgeon who operated on Craig to Contact the family in England. On March 1, Kassell removed about 90 percent of a Teratola a rare Type of tumor that develops during the pm. Bryo stage Kassell said. Contrary to what. British doctors said Kassell said that Craig did no to have cancer. A based on the diagnosis that the doctors in England had that it w As a malignant tumor they Felt that further treatment was not warranted a Kassell said