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Volume 65, Number 12 WEST LIBERTY STATE COLLEGE
Borrow To Speak On Violence In Sports At Lecture Tonight In a game between the New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders, Darryl Stingley, wide receiver for the Patriots, was running a slant-in-pattern against the Raiders. He was tackled by Jack Tatum with what Tatum called a “calculated hit.” That “calculated hit,” which broke Stingley’s neck, has paralyzed him and confined him to a wheel chair for the past two years.
Attorney Richard Borrow, tonight’s guest speaker at the Hughes Lecture Series, authored the Sports Violence Act of 1980, which was meant to discourage, and even punish by criminal sentences, excessive violence evident in today’s professional sports. The definition for exces sive physical force in sports is “force that has no reasonable relationship to the competitive
National News Briefs .........The "new boldness" of coyotes, generally regarded as "soli tary creatures," has resulted in a growing number of attacks on small children in hillside communities around Los Angeles. Kelly Keen, 3, was sitting on the curb outside her home in Glendale, Calif., waiting to be taken swimming. But when her father Robert Keen went to look for her, he found only her rubber sandals. Keen spotted a "doglike" animal with the girl in its jaws, and he chased it until the animal "relea sed its prey." Kelly died four hours later of a broken neck and severe internal injuries. Residents of that area have been asked not to feed the animals because they "plunder in garbage cans, attack small anim als, and kill humans." Fines for feeding coyotes may extend up to
$100,
.........The Freedom of information Act, which allows citizens to be aware of the "workings of their government," may experience some changes under the Reagan Administration. "The toughest provision" of the plan gives the Attorney General authority to withhold all files concerning "investigation of terrorism, organized crime, counter intelligence, and information that could endanger government inform ants." To prevent industrial scandal, the act allows agencies "to refuse to disclose any information that may impair legitimate competitive, financial or business interests." ............The Wheeling Supension Bridge, built in 1849, will be totally renovated as a result of a $2.5 million contract, according to Governor Rockefeller. This bridge, which was designed by the famous bridge engineer Charles Ellet, is also being considered by the U.S. Department of the Interior to be listed on the World Heritage List. The list is com prised of historical landmarks in the United States and in 58 countries abroad. . j , . .Cleve Mendenhall had a hard time convincing the tire repair man that a dog bit his tire and flattened it. "I'm just glad it wasn’t my leg," said Mendenhall, who was driving through the yard at Ogden Welding Supply when a watch dog ran after his car and bit the tire. The next thing he heard was the leaking of air from the tire. "I think my dog bit your tire," a welding yard employee told Mendenhall. .... .More American couples are living together without being mar ried and are marrying later in life. Even so, the divorce rate has doubled in the past 10 years, according to the Census Bureau. The bureau report stated that the recent trend is to stay single, therefore dissolving marriage through divorce. From 1970 to 1980 the number of un married couples rose from 523,000 to 1,560,000, triple that of the decade before. The higher numbers only represented a small per centage of U.S. households. The March 1980 Census Bureau report also found that 23 percent of the 65,000 nationwide households were occupied by a single tenant. One person households were registered at 17.8 million just last year. The number of divorced persons compar ed to married persons living with their spouses went from 47 per 1,000 to 100 per 1,000. That means that for every 10 persons in 1980 who were in a stable marriage there was one person who was divorced and not yet remarried. Normal male age for the first marriage climbed from 23.2 to 24.6 and the female age climbed from 20.8 to 22.1. At the ages of 20-24, half the female population and two-thirds of the male population who did not marry in 1980 rose from 36 percent female and 55 percent male in 1970. One of every five children (increased by 4 million in the past decadel li|ved with only one parent, and 90 percent of that 12.2 million lived with their mothers, who were either seperated or divorced. The report said that two-thirds of the unmarried popul ation was under 35 years old. The number of unmarried couples who had no children increased almost 250 percent since 1970. There are approximately 116,000 unmarried couples over the age of 65; this has only increased by 1,000 since 1970. They account for only 7.4 percent of all unmarried couples, which is down from 22 percent 10 years ago. Being widowed represents only 7.3 million of the 17.8 million single dwellers. The Census Bureau report states that most of the increase in persons living alone is mostly related to divorced or never-married people under the age of 35. Eleven million of those living alone were women.
goal of the sport, is unreasonably violent, and could not be reason ably foreseen or consented to by the person affected.” Borrow, author of the book Violence In Sports, has brought key attention to the excessive vio lence issue. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and serves as chairman for the American Bar Association Task Force on Sports Violence. Responsible for introducing the bill to Congress is U.S. Repre sentative Ronald M. Mottl. “Players, team organizations, fans and the sports we all enjoy would benefit from a statute making it clear that you can play rough and hard, but you cannot play to deliberately or recklessly hurt someone,” Mottl states. Mottl asked Horrow to assist him in drafting the bill because Horrow had. written his law school thesis on sports violence. Both believe that the violence in sports can be regulated without putting a damper on legitimate contact. They have worked with
Richard Horrow the proposal and thoroughly re twenty minutes of sports film searched it. The bill not only clippings. For those taking the affects national rulings, but state Lecture Series for credit, the and local laws as well. follow-up discussion will be held Horrow’s lecture at 8 p.m. in in College Hall tomorrow, Wed College Hall will include about nesday, Nov. 11, at noon.
Use Of Dorm Lounges Discussed Fraternity use of dorm lounges was debated at the Student Gov ernment meeting last Wednesday, Nov. 4. Several fraterrtities, most ly from Beta Hall, have asked per mission to lock their floor lounges for security reasons. One brother said that his fraternity had paint ed the walls, put down carpet, and installed games in their floor
lounge, only to have somebody else enter the unlocked lounge, throw paint on the walls, and de stroy everything. Dean of Students Frank Harrar had discussed the issue with Pres ident Chapman. Harrar said, “The fraternity cannot lock the lounges unless they rent the entire floor.” Several sorority sisters present
said that they lock their lounges and have done so for quite some time. Dr. Lawrence Talley said, “This issue ought to be brought up before the student services Committee.” SG President Phil Schneid said he would bring the
SEE SG, Page 8
Flight Reductions Planned
Postponements, delays and missed connections are a few sit uations that recent air travelers have had to contend with since the Professional Air Traffic (Con trollers Organization strike re duced air traffic by 17 percent. The outlook for air travelers is dim as the Federal Aviation Ad ministration plans to reduce flights another 5 percent at the nation’s 22 busiest airports. According to a recent article in Newsweek, the FAA intends to reduce the burden on tower crews and prepare the system for winter weather. “We’re using delays as a kind of cushion,” said an FAA official in New York. “If you flew into New York before the strike, you probably had another drink while you were in a holding pattern. We’ve said, ‘Stay on the ground and absorb your delay there.’ ” The National Transportation Safety Board has released a criti cal report warning that working 48-hour weeks on the part of the FAA’s 9,000 replacement and non-striking controllers could ulti mately endanger the safety margin in the system. However, the agency had already acted before the release by the NTSB. Increase in private-plane traffic in recent weeks was the reason for concern even though the controllers’ spir its remained good. The agency issued a new control system for
private planes that compels them to reserve take-off slots, which are limited. FAA administrator J. Lynn Helms was urged by the NTSB to emphasize supervision in the towers, establish a program to dis cover and relieve controller fati gue and “limit the towers’ free dom to provide ‘discretionary’ service to light planes flying on visual rules,” according to the Newsweek report. Apparently the FAA’s caution is working. Statistics show only 63 “unconfirmed near midair collisions” during the first nine weeks of the strike. The pre strike average of these collisions was 11.7 a week with the new average comparing with seven a week. “It’s without question as safe if not safer (than before the strike), and the system is working much smoother than at first,” said
American Airlines veteran James Thomas. “At first the controllers were tense; maybe they were questioning themselves. Now they have all the confidence in the world.” Confidence is what the strikers were attempting. The Federal Labor Relations Authority seems unlikely to order any type of par don, and is considering the FAA’s request to decertify their union. According to PA'TCO officials, not many of the 12,000 con trollers who went on strike would return to the FAA, and union lo cals have reported that many of the strikers have found other employment. At this time. Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis was organ izing a plan to award civilian controllers who stayed on.the job raises of 11.4 percent. Interesting ly, that raise figure is approxi mately what PATCO rejected in August.
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