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the soldiers’ service often goes forgotten, said Kevin Hartman, senior and Reach Out president. “I feel the soldiers are very neglected,” Hartman said. “There are very few events on campus about them.” Jonathan Uhl, sophomore and member of Reach Out, said students often push the war in Iraq to the back of their minds because of the busyness of college life.” “It’s important because college students go through their daily lives and forget that people are fighting overseas,” Uhl said. Chris Gyurnek, sophomore and vice president of Reach Out, said students have to take time to get more informed on the war. “They just need to look deeper than what’s on the news,” Gyurnek said. “Students can just take some time to check
EXCHANGE From Page 1 exchanged her Australian money back to US dollars. This downward trend will persist because there is no momentum to stop it from continuing, Kim said. “Cheaper commodities come from overseas,” Kim said. “Foreigners have the edge when it comes to selling cheap goods” Despite the falling exchange rate both Stefanik and Lahey think students will still continue to study abroad. Not only do students get the chance to experience different cultures hands-on, but they also do the most learning by leading a normal life in a foreign place, Stefanik said. “[Studying abroad] is expensive anyway,” Lahey said. The exchange rate just adds a couple more cents to your expenses,
out a number of different news sources.” Reach Out held a candlelight vigil last year for the fourth anniversary, but got some help this year from the College Democrats. Hartman said the College Democrats really helped with funding, but he was hesitant about holding the event with them because he didn’t want it to become a partisan event. “I was concerned at first because I didn’t want it to become a political issue,” Hartman said. “We have had members of College Republicans that have come by and helped us too.” Mark Ingles, president of College Democrats, wanted to be involved with the vigil because he wants the fallen soldiers to be remembered. “We wanted to do something to remember the start of this tragic event in our history,” Ingles said. “Something respectful.” she said. Lahey recommends students wishing to study abroad but are strapped for cash find study abroad programs sponsored by the University and apply for travel grants. Even though they were in different parts of the world, Lahey and Stefanik both said it was smart to shop around for the best deals. There are some streets that are notorious for being tourist traps, but if you go three streets over you can get the same things for less, Stefanik said of her experience. Unlike her colleague, Lahey spent $14 for Neutrogena face wash instead of bargain hunting. Even though Stefanik couldn’t see everything she wanted and had to budget her money, she thought studying abroad was still worth the trip. “It’s an invaluable, life-changing experience,” Stefanik said. “It’s so totally worth it.”
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SEX From Page 1 “Unfortunately, many of the people who seek public office are flawed people to begin with and the environment in Albany just tends to bring that out,” said Paul Clyne, former district attorney in Albany. Clyne issued a scathing report in 2004 on the internship program at the Capitol, famously saying he would never let his daughter become an intern. The report led to reforms in the program, including an end to fraternization between lawmakers and interns outside the office. “There was a lot hitting on us and boundaries being crossed,” said one young woman lobbyist who was part of that scene for years. In truth, the phenomenon is not new, and it’s not confined to Albany. By all accounts, the same thing goes on at other state capitals, particularly where the statehouse is far from the main population centers and lawmakers stay overnight several times a week. Men and women outside politics are prone to some of the same behavior when they go on business trips. “One of the things about Washington and every state capital is for some people it’s like going to a convention,” said state Assemblyman John McEneny, an Albany Democrat and former Albany County historian. “What happens is you get individuals who would not behave the same way if they had the disapproval of friends and neighbors keeping an eye on them.” In Colorado, state Rep. Michael Garcia resigned this year after a female lobbyist accused him of sexual misconduct at a bar. He said he
“What happens is you get individuals who would not behave the same way if they had the disapproval of friends and neighbors keeping an eye on them.” John McEneny | State Assemblyman engaged in “consensual” but “inappropriate” conduct. Accusations of sex and politics have taken down congressmen and senators, and nearly brought down President Clinton in 1998. A sex scandal was the undoing of New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey in 2004 and derailed Colorado Sen. Gary Hart’s 1988 presidential campaign. “It really is not anything new,” said Tom Fiedler, who covered Hart’s downfall as a reporter with The Miami Herald and is now a visiting lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University “I would have no reason to believe any public officer is any less susceptible to temptations of the flesh than any one who is not in public office.” But the New York state capital — a place of larger-than-life personalities like Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and big ideas like the Erie Canal — seems to have an outsized history of sexual conduct and misconduct. Last week, Spitzer’s career collapsed just days after the 48-year-old married man was identified by federal authorities as Client 9 of a high-priced prostitution ring. Other Albany cases include Michael Boxley, the chief lawyer for the speaker of the Assembly, who was led out of the Capitol in handcuffs in 2003 and later pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct after a
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legislative aide accused him of rape. In 2004, a 19-year-old intern said state Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, a member of a legendary Harlem political family, gave her alcohol and took her to his motel room for sex. Powell, 42 at the time, said the sex was consensual; no charges were filed. And in 1992, New York Chief Judge Sol Wachtler, a potential Republican candidate for governor, was charged with harassing a socialite and GOP fundraiser after she ended their affair. He admitted posing as a private detective to stalk the woman and mailing her menacing letters, including a threat to kidnap her teenage daughter. Wachtler served 13 months in prison. Stories of mistresses followed Govs. Thomas Dewey, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland. In 1961, a photo appeared in the press of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller helping his wife down the roof of the governor’s mansion as firefighters battled a fire. Mary Rockefeller was in robe and nightgown while the governor was smiling, dapper in a suit and rakish scarf. He had reportedly been out for a night on the town before he rushed back for a photo. Some cases quietly lead to resignations and job transfers before they ever reach the Legislative Ethics Committee, which is criticized by good-government groups as too passive.
Woman dies from stingray attack MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A 75pound stingray killed a Michigan woman yesterday when it flew out of the water and struck her face as she rode a boat in the Florida Keys, officials said. Judy Kay Zagorski, of Pigeon, Mich., was sitting in the front seat of a boat going 25 mph when the spotted eagle ray, with a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet, leaped out of the water, said Jorge Pino, spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. The 57-year-old woman’s father was driving the boat on the Atlantic Ocean side of Vaca Key, Pino said. “He had absolutely no warning. It just happened instantaneously,” Pino said. The collision knocked Zagorski backward onto the floor of the boat, Pino said. The impact likely killed the woman, and she did not appear to have puncture wounds from the ray’s barb, Pino said. An autopsy is planned, Pino said. Zagorski’s sister was standing next to her when the stingray appeared but was not injured, Pino said. The stingray landed in the 25foot boat and died from the impact, officials said. Spotted eagle rays can weigh 500 pounds and have a wingspan of up to 10 feet. They are known to occasionally jump out of the water but are not aggressive and use the venomous barb at the end of their tail for defense. The rays are protected in Florida waters and are typically seen swimming on the water’s surface. “Rays jump to escape a predator, give birth and shake off parasites,” said Lynn Gear, supervisor of fishes and reptiles at Theater of the Sea in Islamorada. “They do not attack people.”
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