European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday october 23, 1991 the stars and stripes a Page 7 Gulf vet prof fight Over grading Law Newark . Apr a Marine reservist called to the persian Gulf War is battling a College professor who refused to obey a state Law that requires she give him an a Grade. Legislators passed the Law last Spring to help James Lloyd and other students who pulled out of school to go to the persian Gulf. Under the Law Lloyd is entitled to the a he said he had earned in professor Barbara chasing a sociology course at the time he was activated. Chasin said legislators have no business dictating students grades and she has Given Lloyd an incomplete. Once lawmakers Start setting grading policy there s nothing to Stop them from taking away other decisions from academics Chasin said. A Why can t they Tell you what books to use what you can and can t say a she said. A this is a very dangerous Lloyd 22, a Junior majoring in English at Montclair state College in upper Montclair said Chasin is blindly following principles. The Law he said was not passed to give lawmakers Power Over professors. A it was not fair to me that i was plucked out of school two weeks before my final a Lloyd said. The examination was Worth 50 percent of his Grade. The Law says activated students who have completed at least eight weeks of a course can take As their final Grade the Grade they had when they were called up. Students called up earlier can choose to take an incomplete or a pass Tail Grade or withdraw for a tuition refund. Lloyd was taking three other classes when activated. One teacher agreed to give him his interim Grade. Lloyd asked for incomplete in the other two courses to improve his chances of getting into Law school. Before the Law passed Montclair state s president Irvin d. Reid protested to state sen. Daniel j. Dalton that the legislation would jeopardize the integrity of College transcripts. Employers and graduate schools would not be Able to Tell from the transcripts whether a student had completed the course he said. Dalton one of the Laws sponsors said it would be unfair to penalize students Tor responding to the Call up. Chasin said College administrators have told her the grading policy is state Law. The school administration would t say what would happen if Chasin refused to give Lloyd the a. Lloyd has threatened to file a lawsuit if c Hasin does t change his incomplete status. Quot it s a hard transition to get pulled out of College possibly to fight a War. To come Back is also a hard transition a to get Back into life Back into a Job. Back into school he said. A i wanted to make things easier for Chasin said More is at stake than making life easier for Lloyd adding �?o1 think it s unfortunate that he does no to understand the principles River jailed after ramming Hall near Killeen from wire reports a a a. Lilleen Texas a Man rammed t do Quot Cal Klov Hennard had rammed his no kor i from wire reports Killeen Texas a Man rammed his pickup into a veterans Hall after threatening to do violence worse than the Killeen cafeteria massacre authorities said monday. No injuries were reported and the Texas Man was in jail tuesday. Employees at the Hall in Kemper about 20 Miles West of Killeen said that when Daniel Bobb w As asked to leave the place thursday he warned he would come Back and the Killeen massacre a would be Small compared with what he was going to do a sheriff Gordon Morris said. A the got into his pickup truck and attempted to run through a Metal Side Entrance door to the club causing extensive damage to the door door Frame and Metal building supports a the sheriff said. Bobb was arrested at his Home Friday and charged with making terroristic threats and criminal mischief. Twenty three people including gunman George Hennard died in a rampage wednesday at a Lubye a cafeteria that began when he drove his pickup through a plate Glass window. An autopsy showed that Hennard died of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. A report on a weekend autopsy performed on the body of Hennard 35, by the Dallas county medical examiner was read during a monday news conference. The three Killeen police officers who were the first to enter the Lubye a cafeteria also spoke publicly for the first time. The oct. 16 massacre was described As the nations worst shooting spree in terms of the number of people killed in one incident. Patricia Dody holds the Arm of her son Michael As they and other family members attend the funeral of her husband it. Col. Steven c. Dody at fort Hood on monday. Plainclothes investigators Ken Olsen and Charles Longwell said they were about a mile away from the cafeteria and were coming off a drug bust when they received the Call. A group of Texas department of Public safety officers was at a nearby hotel attending a seminar. One of those officers heard people crying for help ran to his car to get his weapon and rushed to the cafeteria on arrival Olsen fired a shot at Hen no a from outside. A a i believe i hit the Man because he flinched a Olsen said. A the seemed to be in control but once i fired that shot it changed him totally. He was in control no longer a you could sense the fear in him Quot Olsen said. Olsen and Longwell said they charged inside through the broken window where Hennard had rammed his pickup. Killeen Auto theft investigator Alex Morris followed and the three took position near the truck. Longwell said he did not fire because he did not have a Clear View of the gunman. Quot the men said Lennard crossed the room and went into an Alcove outside the restrooms. They said he claimed he had hostages in the Alcove but they were certain he was lying. A one of the Dps Guys came up behind me and startled me a Olsen said. Quot i told him to go out to my vehicle and get my bulletproof Vest and More ammunition which he did. He went and did that. 1 really respected him for doing that Quot Olsen said. A we did t have time to think about Lear. We saw those people being Hurt and dead and we had to do something we had to Stop this Man Quot Olsen said. Morris was Able to see into the Alcove and fired emptying his a hum automatic pistol. The Dps officer could see into the Alcove. He told Olsen he saw Hennard drop the Magazine holding his bullets but watched him pick it up and put it Back into his gun. I he officers said it was then that they heard the single gunshot a Hennard apparently killing himself. At fort Hood in Killeen about 350 friends relatives and colleagues of it. Col. Steven. Dody gathered at a Chapel on the army Post for his funeral monday. Red White and Blue carnations adorned the front of the Sanctuary near Dodys Flag draped of spreading aids was hoax started by teen Dallas a �?oc.j.,�?� who jolted the City with her Anonymous claims that she was deliberately infecting men with aids was a hoax created by a teen Ager and copied by up to six other women police said monday. A we want to assure the Community that this purported danger does not exist a said Deputy police chief Ray Hawkins. The hoax began with the letter published in the september Issue of Ebony Magazine. In it a woman who claimed to be infected with the aids virus said she was having sex with men to deliberately spread the virus in retaliation against the Man who had infected her. A woman who claimed to be . Later called Dallas radio and television stations to repeat the claim. But Hawkins said the Mother of a 15-year-old girl told police oct. It that her daughter wrote the letter. The girl who Wasny to infected wanted to raise aids awareness after a family Friend died of the fatal disease he said. There also were six or seven others calling themselves . Who telephoned radio and television says no to plan for Moon Church link Bridgeport Conn. A the University of Bridgeport a Board of trustees monday night unanimously rejected a proposal for the school to become affiliated with an Arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moons unification Church. The Board rejected the $50 million plan from the professors world peace Academy because of its effect on the University a reputation and because there Are other options for income including possible state Aid trustee chairman Colin Gunn said. A i would say that this quite clearly states that we re not going to have anything to do with the peace Academy a a Gunn said after an hour Long meeting. Gunn said he did no to know How Many of the boards 32 members were present in the executive session. University president Janet Greenwood said there was Little discussion during the meeting. Quot it was really pretty Cut and dried a she said. Earlier students faculty and alumn told the Board they adamantly opposed any affiliation with the Academy which receives 90 percent of its funding Froid the unification Church. The Academy based in new York a founded by Moon in 1973 and is funded primarily by Moons International cultural foundation
