European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 06, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 6, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 Kansas City to. A Birds do it. Bees do it. But missourians Aren t allowed to do it according to some interpretations of a new state Law. I Don t know what they were trying to say but i know that what they did say seems to outlaw sex altogether said David Foster director of the writing lab at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Others disagree. One legislator says it legalizes homosexual sex and outlaws Rio consensual sex. Another says it outlaws homosexual sex and no consensual sex. The Law which took effect aug. 28, says a person commits the crime of sexual misconduct in the first degree if he has deviate sexual Intercourse with another person of the same sex or he purposely subjects another person to sexual Contact or engage sin conduct which would constitute sexual Contact except that the touching occurs through the clothing without that person s  the Bill s spor isor democratic state sen. Joe Moseley was out of town Friday and unavailable for comment. Lawyer Dan Viets wrote about the statute in the fall Issue of the Missouri association of criminal defense lawyers newsletter saying it appears to outlaw any purposeful sexual  House speaker Bob Griffin says the Only Way the. Sentence makes sense is if the Reader applies the without that person s consent phrase to All three parts of the sentence. In that Case Gay sex Between consenting adults would be Legal Griffin said. That s the Only Way you can read it he said. It does t make any sense in the scheme iof human nature that it would read  but state sen. Larry Rohrbach a Republican says the Law explicitly prohibits Gay sex. I Don t think there s a problem with the Law As it s written he said. Most missourians need not fear. The Missouri supreme court plans to release new instructions that would make it Clear that the Law applies Only to sex without consent Cole county prosecutor Richard Callahan said. Of jury sitcoms los Angeles a jurors in the . Simpson Case say they need All my children and Home improvement to Lead Normal lives while avoiding the trial s Media juggernaut. Superior court judge Lance Ito suggested the Macneil Lehrer news hour. The jury was thinking More along the lines of soaps and sitcoms. In the end soaps and sitcoms won. Under a proposed plan hammered out by attorneys Friday jurors will be Al Lowed to watch tapes of their favorite to shows and news programs with All references to the Simpson Case edited out. The 12 jurors sworn in thursday had already been ordered to avoid All Media and bookstores. The to proposal which will be completed this week will remain in effect until Ito makes a decision on whether to sequester the jurors. Among the shows jurors want to watch Are two of the top rated sitcoms Rose Anne and Home improvement. The judge solicited lists from the jurors after they were sworn in. He got a pretty Eclectic collection including me Rose place reruns of Star trek All my Chil Dren Martin or 60 minutes seaquest boy 4 saved Indianapolis a a 13-foot pet Python slithered out of its Cage and began wrapping itself around a 4-year-old boy be fore being killed by Rescue workers. After five men were unable to pry it off the boy Friday night rescuers Cut off the Snake s head police spokesman Mike Brown said. The boy suffered a bite to his right leg and was hospitalized in Good condition saturday morning Brown said. The 30-Pound Snake had wrapped it soaps wanted Sisters and living single. Also on the list was the Home shop Ping network. It was t Clear whether that would be live or taped. Jurors May watch live sporting events but nothing on esp the All sports Cable Channel that has covered the Simpson Case said defense attorney Shawn Chap Man ? -. And they will get newspapers prob ably the los Angeles times daily news and Sentinel the City s Black newspaper with Simpson stories clipped out by court staff. The papers will be delivered to jurors a Day late we d like to restore some normalcy to the jurors lives said Chapman said. They be been having a difficult time and we d sort of like to give them More  7 the judge has not ordered a group of about 80 jury prospects from which attorneys will try to find 15 alternates to avoid All Media. He told that group not to watch Simpson coverage. Simpson is charged with murdering his sex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her Friend Ronald Goldman. Opening statements Aren t expected until Early . On self around the boy s Chest and legs and was cutting off the child s circulation said sgt. Dan Eland a Marion county animal control officer. Somehow it got Down to the base ment and the kids were Down there playing Eland said. And apparently one of them stepped on it or kicked it and it started wrapping itself around the 4-year-old." pythons Are not poisonous but kill their prey by asphyxiation fall Guy Little Sean Clayton is Waist deep in autumn leaves As he plays in the crinkling foliage in Kansas City to. But toe 4-year-old apparently decided that a Neasure of Protection was needed to keep Pesky falling leaves from floating Down onto his Noggin. Schools study separating sexes to raise girls math scores Portsmouth  a math teachers who would rather Call on boys than girls at Portsmouth senior High school May have to change their style soon. The school Board has ordered administrators to come up with a program to Divide girls and boys. School Board member Charles Vaughn requested the study because girls fared worse than boys on the math. Sections of standardized tests. Portsmouth is among a growing number of schools nationwide that Are considering whether to Divide girls and boys As a Way to get More attention for female Stu dents and boost their math scores. John Donahue a senior supports single sex classes because he has seen girls get shortchanged in his math courses. I be had male and female math teachers and the math teachers kind of do. Tend to go for the Nales he said. The High school in Presque Isle Maine has separate ninth Grade math classes for girls and boys. The University of Maine has followed the girls Progress and finds that they Are More Likely to go on to take High level math courses. Dick Durost principal at Presque Isle High said Stu dents and parents support the idea because girls Aren t worried about what the boys think of them. But Portsmouth Junior Genevieve Ristaino said she wants her classes to stay the Way they Are. I Don t think segregating boys from girls is a Good idea because if you do it in math class you re going to end up doing it in social studies English. Just like it was years ago with segregating Whites from Blacks she said. If the Board approves the administration s plan the same sex classes could begin in the next school year. Susan Mcgee Bailey executive director of Wellesley College s Center for research on women agreed with Genevieve. Mcgee Bailey co author of How schools Short change girls said boys fare better than girls on Many math and science achievement tests and High level math and science classes tend to have More boys than girls. I d like to see More schools try to do for girls and boys what is happening for girls in the most successful single sex math classes she said