European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 a the stars and stripes saturday november 23,1991 from left Kristin Rushforth Jill Thompson and Adriana Valez Lead rally to drum up support for their curfew idea. Brigham Young women urge weekly Campus curfew for men Provo Utah apr a group of Brigham Young University women proposes to curb Campus violence by imposing a nighttime curfew on men once a week. Quot i want to be Able to walk wherever i want whenever i want without being attacked a said Jill Thompson a member of voice Byus committee to promote the status of women. At a rally wednesday that attracted 300 students and faculty members voice leaders proposed a male curfew for thursday evenings. It would heighten men s awareness that women have restricted freedoms and would give women a one night a week to walk across our own Campus unaccompanied and unafraid Quot she said. The group will hold the administration of the mormon Church owned school responsible until something is done said faculty adviser Cecelia Konchar Farr. The group is posting notices across Campus about the curfew. A those men who must travel on or through Campus during curfew hours must be accompanied by two women to demonstrate that they Are not threatening a the notices say. The notices make no reference to the curfew being Only on thursdays. The action follows an attempted attack on a female student last week at 9 . The woman escaped. Her roommates friends and fellow students began writing letters to the student newspaper asking that the administration provide escorts for female students and that Campus Security be improved. It was the first reported attack on Campus this year said by spokesman Paul Richards. The school has 28,650 students roughly half of them women. A attacks on Campus have always been a concern a Richards said. But the proposed curfew is raped store clerk Given $600,000 Cambridge mass. Apr a former night clerk who was raped while working at a convenience store won a $600,000 lawsuit settlement against the company thursday. A a in a Happy with the settlement a said the woman 24. A but they should t get away with what they did by paying me off. They were the settlement ended the trial of her suit which was filed against White Hen pantry inc. After the woman was raped three years ago in fall River. The suit said the company resisted requests for increased Security including surveillance cameras and door locks requiring a key. At the time of the attack the store had a manual lock that allowed her to be trapped inside. Joel f. Pierce an attorney for White Hen pantry said the settlement did not include any admission of guilt or liability by the company based in Elmhurst i. A this settlement was made because of the uncertainties of litigation a Pierce said. A a it a up to the store owners to put cameras in if they want the two men convicted of raping the woman and robbing the store were scheduled to testify on the victims behalf. But they refused at the last minute saying they feared prison reprisals. Jeffrey a. Newman the woman a attorney said the settlement would help his client quit her present Job and go Back to school. The woman testified wednesday that she was the Lone clerk on duty when the two men came into the store shortly after Midnight on Jan. 6, 1988. They returned about 3 . One locked the door from the inside. The other grabbed her around the neck dragged her to a bathroom and raped her. Both Are serving 12 to 20-year terms in a state prison. Teachers reject pay Cut but delay strike los Angeles up1 a teachers in the nations cond largest school District voted by an 88 percent majority to reject a 3 percent pay Cut a but postponed threatened strike Union officials said thursday. Catherine Carey a spokeswoman for United teach is los Angeles said about 30.000 teachers were Eligi be to vote monday and tuesday. The 640,000-student District is the second largest behind new York City. Utla president Helen Bernstein said the timing was rung for a dec. 2 strike. Many schools will be closed of mid december through february because of a new Winter vacation instituted to Cope with overcrowding. Quot it would have been impossible to have a meaningful strike in december a Bernstein said noting a two week strike would have Cost Many teachers three months of pay checks. Carey said the Union has not set a time for taking another strike vote. The school Board voted nov. 4 to impose the first teacher pay Cut in los Angeles since the depression in order to balance the District s $3.9-billion budget. Similar cuts were imposed on other gets 12 years for shooting at Umpire from wire reports Belleville Iii. A a youth baseball coach who shot at a teen age Umpire Over a Call at Home plate was sentenced thursday to 12 years in prison for attempted murder. Curtis Roosevelt fair 32, of East St. Louis was sentenced in St. Clair county circuit court. Judge Michael j. Of Malley agreed to vacate an aggravated assault sentence if fair agreed not to Appeal the Case. Fair had faced 30 years in prison. He was convicted of shooting at Umpire Roderick Fisher jr., 16, during a game in East St. Louis on june 19. Fisher had called out a 9-year-old player on fair s team after the boy crossed Home plate police said. Fisher was not injured in the against golfer fails Albany . A a golfer who hit his Ball onto a nearby Road is guilty of a a poorly hit tee shot a but he can to be sued for the resulting car Accident new Yorkus highest court ruled thursday. The state court of appeals upheld two lower court rulings by throwing out a lawsuit Roberta Rinaldo brought against Arthur Mcgovern now deceased. Rinaldo suffered a Back injury in August 1980 Accident after a Golf Ball from the Springville country club in Buffalo shattered the Windshield of the car in which she was Riding. Lawsuits against another golfer and the county club were settled out of court. Both golfers hit their shots into the Road and officials never could determine which Ball caused the gets life in prison Brockton mass. A a Man was found guilty of first degree murder thursday in the sniper killing of a 14-year-old girl who was Riding a school bus to a basketball game. Scott e. Chipman 24, of Dennis was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Jan. 5 death of Robyn Dabrowski of new Bedford. Another girl Riding the bus was wounded. Defense attorney Joseph Krowski argued that the shooting was a random act committed by someone other than Chipman and that the police investigation was Sloppy. He said he would Appeal. Chipman also was convicted of other charges including assault and Battery assault and Battery by Means of a dangerous weapon unlawful Possession of a firearm and Possession of a firearm without a License. The sentences for those charges were to run concurrently with the life s a Turkey Chicago a Santa be railway which prides itself on running its trains on time has been derailed by its Calendar. The railroads 1991 promotional Calendar shows thanksgiving on thursday nov. 21, instead of thursday nov. 28. Santa be spokeswoman Cathy Westphal blamed a printing error. She said the Kansas firm that printed 70,000 calendars was responsible. Westphal said she thinks the error is a first since the company adopted its current Calendar style in 1907. Quot it weakened our credibility but we will survive a Westphal said. She said the company decided to Send its 1992 calendars Early. The new calendars begin with november 1991 and have thanksgiving on the Correct Date. Cinder Block kills woman Detroit a a cinder Block hurled from a freeway overpass smashed through a pickup truck window killing a woman police said. The woman was a passenger in the truck which was headed East on interstate 94 wednesday evening police said. Her name was not immediately released. Police said the Driver identified Only As a 28-year-old Man stopped at an Onassis Coney Island restaurant where employees called for emergency assistance. The woman said by police to be in her 30s, was pronounced dead on arrival at Detroit receiving Hospital. The Driver was not injured. Police said they had no suspects
