KU LIFE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 31, 1993
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Lead Story
In the series of stock-picking contests run by The Wall Street Journal, in which professional stock analysts match wits with Journal employees who throw darts at company names on the stock market tables, the dart throwers trail, 18 to 15. Results of the latest contest, announced March 4, saw the dart-throwers' "portfolio" gain 15 percent, while the professional analysts' stocks fell by 26 percent.
Unclear on the Concept
School officials in Suffolk, Va., suspended an 11-year-old boy in January after he broke the school's rule against carrying weapons onto school grounds. The boy's weapon of choice was a toy gun charm, 1/4 inches long, purchased for a quarter from a vending machine. Administrators
said they expelled the boy because he wielded the toy as if it were a gun.
In February, an arbitrator ruled that officials at Fort Campbell, Ky., must reimburse a civilian employee who had been suspended from work without pay for five days for illegally using a government truck. The government had proposed to suspend him for 30 days, but reduced that to five. However, the arbitrator ruled that the law requires a minimum suspension of 30 days, and thus, the government must reimburse the employee for the improper five-day suspension.
The New York Times reported that the Environmental Protection Agency, when asked to officially respond to a congressional report charging that the agency uses too many outside contractors, paid a contractor $20,000 to write the response.
New Housing Starts
New Housing Starts Next month, near Harrisburg, Pa., former welder Violet Hobaugh, 76, will begin her second year of residence in a 5-footby-5-foot tree house, according to a report from the Knight-Ridder news service. The state Department of Transportation cut down an adjacent tree to widen Highway 22, and Hobaugh fears that if she leaves the tree, the state will fell that one too. Hobaugh said that the tree protects her house from cars that careen off the road.
In February, Antioch, Calif., artist William Leroy, 39, declared the Eucalyptus tree he had been living in during a week-long protest, to be his official address. Several days later, he began
receiving mail there from supporters, who have joined him in urging that the city not destroy the tree. Leroy can be reached at 604 1/2 Eighth St., Antioch, Calif., 94509.
As of early March, police in Newcastle, England, had not captured the "Hole in the Wall Boy," who they believe to be about 13 years-old. He lives in tunnels and air-conditioning ducts and emerges to rob and terrorize residents of a local housing project.
The Associated Press recently reported that Ernest Dittemore had completed 18 years of sleeping in a 4-foot-by-10-foot hole in the ground on his property in Troy, Kan. When his house burned down in 1974, he began to
spend nights in the hole. When neighbors bought him a trailer to live in, he moved his possessions into it but continued to spend nights in the hole.
In December, a court in Oslo, Norway, ruled that Oslo University did not have to admit a 39-year-old astrophysics major to class until he bathed. The man has been living in a cave near the campus for 14 years. He sued the university for $470,000 for denying him access to an exam, claiming that the case was about his right to decide how to live and not about whether he smelled bad or not. The court said that it was the latter.
The Los Angeles Times reported in February that station KCBS-TV carelessly edited two drug-sale
Least Competent People
news stories, one of which might have led drug dealers to retaliate against a woman who had agreed to be interviewed on TV only after the reporter promised to protect her identity. However, the broadcast left several clues, including the interviewee's first name, age, occupation, the color of her hair, the inside of her apartment and a view from the apartment's window. Three days after the broadcast, a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window.
The Diminishing Value of Life
In January, a 39-year-old man was gunned down by a friend in his home in Dayton, Ohio, after an argument over whether light or dark liquor was better and who could drink the most. Copyright 1983 Universal Press Syndicate
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