European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Group warns of growth in Campus anti semitism Washington apr the anti defamation league suggests that Campus speakers like the nation of islam a Louis Farrakhan Are spurring an increase in racial hatred directed against jews at . Colleges and universities. Reports of Campus anti semitism doubled in the past five years a to 114 incidents at 60 institutions in 1992, a league report said tuesday. The Rise in reported Campus harassment contrasted with an 8 percent drop last year in anti semitic incidents reported across the United states the group said. The drop to 1,730, was the. First reported decline in six years. The jewish organizations Campus report highlighted an episode in which dead cats were stolen from the animal science lab at Queens College in City and dropped in toilets with a warning written on the Wall a a we re going to do to jews what we did to the cats a but College president Shirley Strum Kenny said that the incident basically a boiled Down to two Young men who did no to like each other very much and that Queens 18,000 students generally have a great impatience with anti semitism. As pc Campus speakers in order to a see clearly the Issue of living together peaceably we have to understand the fallacies of hatred a said Kenny who is jewish. A democracy is Messy inefficient and we have to protect it a she added in the Telephone interview. The league said student leaders at Many universities a offer a respectable platform for anti semitic prejudice and ignorance when they invite Farrakhan Leonard Jeffries and other a stridently anti semitic a a significant portion of the future leadership of the Black Community. Repeatedly and enthusiastically support speakers who Are Well known for their jew baiting a the report said. Jeffries is the former chairman of the Black studies department at new Yorkus City College. The report said he gave a 1991 speech a placed with anti semitic conspiracy the report did not urge that certain speakers be barred from campuses. Instead a bad speech ought to be countered by Good speech a said the leagues National chairman Melvin Salburg. He wants students administrators and faculty to demonstrate against anti semitism. Coal mine worker Vernon Mcroberts ties yellow ribbons As a show of Solidarity tuesday at a strikers Camp near Boonville ind. About 300 Union members Are on strike at the Warrick county Peabody Coal mine there. Coal mines remain closed in strike Charleston . Apr. A strike against the nations largest Coal producer idled mines in Appalachia and the Midwest for a second Day wednesday. People a need to know what we re going through standing out Here by a Creekside to press a Point a said Gary Massey picketing along the Coal River near Bald Knob . At other mines men huddled around barrel fires. The United mine workers went on strike tuesday against two subsidiaries of the Peabody holding co. In a dispute Over Job Security. No negotiations were scheduled. Peabody said the strike was limited to 5,000 workers in four states and that it forced the shutdown of 22 mines in West Virginia. Kentucky Indiana and Illinois. The Union said 7,500 miners walked out in five states including Pennsylvania. Resource data International inc., an Industry analyst in Boulder colo., said most of the 12 Power stations that looked to Peabody As a major supplier had stockpiles that could last More than 65 Days a and some for 300 Days. A after two years of mild Winters and relatively Cool Summers we re in pretty Good shape in our stockpiles a said . Smith a spokeswoman for american electric Powers fuel Supply division in Lancaster Ohio. American electric is the nations largest Coal consumer. Peabody said it provides As much As 10 percent of the nations Coal for electricity. A your Guys will stick together. We have for 100 years and i done to see that changing now a said Miner Carlo Tarley. The strike began after talks broke Down with the bituminous Coal operators association on a new contract covering More than 60,000 miners and 150,000 retirees. The association represents 12 of the nations largest producers. The strike is limited to Peabody but could spread. Union president Richard Trumka said. The Union has accused some Coal operators of establishing non Union subsidiaries to compete with their unionized mines. A i did no to want to strike to begin w Ith and neither did our membership. We were left with no options a Trumka said. Peabody Coal co. President George s. Shiflett charged that the Union was trying to bully Coal operators. Peabody Coal and Eastern associated Coal Are the Peabody holding subsidiaries targeted by the a ump. W a a calling a strike against Peabody and. Eastern is like biting the hand that feeds you a Shiflett said. About 2,300 of the strikers Are employed at 10 mines in West in program of student Aid urged from wire reports Washington a a restructured College financial Aid system including direct student Loans and Community service repayment plans is needed to Avert a crisis that could alter the nations a economic and social landscape a a Federal commission says. The National commission on responsibilities for financing pos secondary education also urged Congress to consolidate Many existing financial Aid programs fully fund the Pell Grant program and Issue some Loans without regard to family income. Some recommendations made by the congressionally chartered commission Are Likely to trigger heavy debate. For instance Large universities give More support than smaller schools to direct student Loans in which colleges rather than Banks act As lenders using Federal Money. Small schools done to have the staffs to handle the paperwork. Some programs would be costly. Experts said the government would have to Shell out $15 billion up front to fund a direct student loan program while full funding for Pell Grants would Cost As much As $8 billion. A Pilot program in Community service involving 100,000 students would Cost $2 billion. The commission s report was to be released left alone in bathroom Oak Creek wis. A a woman and her Boyfriend were charged with child neglect after they left her 8-year-old son locked in a bathroom while they went out for seven hours to attend a super bowl party. A the Media Calls cases like this Home alone cases after the movie a court commissioner Anthony j. Machi said As the two were charged monday. A that was a comedy. What happened Here Isnit police said Daniel Bruski was left Home alone locked in the bathroom until the Man and woman returned to their apartment in Oak Creek a Milwaukee suburb at 11 . Sunday and were arrested. The criminal complaint was filed against Dorothea l. Bruski 30, and Chris a. Papelbon 24. The complaint said the boy told authorities that he had not eaten since Friday. It said the cold water had been shut off and the bathroom Light removed leaving the boy in darkness. Two callers reported to police about 5 30 . Sunday that the boy was alone and had been left by himself in the drugs May be deadly North Union a. A drugs stolen from the Fayette county office of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals could kill humans a toxicologist says. The stolen property included an aesthetic a drug used for euthanizing animals some vaccines 100 syringes and two tranquil Izer rifles state police said. The property was stolen sunday from the Spca office in North Union about 50 Miles Southeast of Pittsburgh. Or. Edward Krenzlok director of the Pittsburgh Poison control Center said the two most dangerous drugs taken were Ket aset an aesthetic similar to phencyclidine or pc and fatal plus which is used for euthanizing animals. Ket aset is a toxic substance with no available antidote and Krenzelok said fatal plus is even not running again Pittsburgh a Pittsburgh mayor Sophie Masloff tuesday announced she will not run for reelection. The daughter of immigrant parents Masloff 75, was the first woman to serve As mayor of Pennsylvania a second largest City. A for myself at the end of this year 5x/z years will be enough a she said. Masloff became mayor May 6,1988, when As the president of the City Council she succeeded the Kite Richard Caliguiri. She was elected to a full term in the May 1989 democratic primary when she Defeated four opponents. She had Nohe publican opposition in die fall election
