8 University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 5, 1991 Surgeon general condemns liquor advertising strategy The Associated Press Certain images target underage drinking, report says WASHINGTON — Surgeon General Antonio Novello asked the alcohol industry yesterday to pull television ads that used cartoon characters, bikers and other parties both parties and other such images that she said targeted underage drinkers. Industry representatives defended their companies' ads, saying they will discuss teenage drinking with Novello who have no plans to halt all of their ads. Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., who is sponsoring legislation to require that alcohol advertising carry health and safety warnings, said it was naive to believe the industry would act voluntarily. Novello said that she would seek stronger action if the industry did not comply, but did not say what that action might be. Most of her criticism was directed at ads that portray beer-drinking as part of a sexy and glamorous lifestyle of attractive young people that include skiing, surfing and skiing and surfing. The ads imply that drinking builds confidence, she said. "The constant pounding of messages about drinking widens the opportunity for kids to believe it is OK to drink." A child's safe self-doubt "safe to detect" the "surgeon general said Novello, who has been campaigning against teen-age drinking, said she wanted the beer and wine industries to sell their products to youth with music or cartoons. Liquor products are not advertised on TV. Novello invited the top executives of major brewers, vintners and distillers to meet with her Dec. 11 to discuss her criticism of their advertising. Jeffrey Becker, a representative for the Beer Institute, said industry leaders were willing to meet with Novello he was optimistic about change. "I don't think you're going to see the end of the lifestyle eats. There is a middle ground," he said. "I don't know what that is." John De Luca, president of the Wine Institute, said his industry's voluntary advertising code did not condone the use of athletes, rock stars or anything that targets underage drinking. Novello also released an inspector general's report that concluded that federal regulation of the alcohol industry was fragmented, that enforcement standards were ineffective and that industry standards did not effectively restrict ads that appeal to youth. While praising Novello's effort to heighten awareness of underage drinking, Kennedy said her recommendation fell far short of solving the problem. Novello's meeting with alcohol companies and calling on them to clean up the city. "But expecting these ads to disap- pear because of a meeting is naive and counter to the industry's track record," he said. "As long as there are billions of dollars to be made selling alcohol to young people, ads for beer and wine coolers will continue to target them." "I'm not a prohibitionist," he said. "I think people should have a realistic view of what alcohol can do to your body and your mind." Teens, alcohol and advertising Highlights of a survey on public attitudes on teenagers and alcohol advertising: Is underage drinking a problem? How can underage drinking be reduced? Alcohol advertising is a major contributor to underage drinking. Somewhat ___ Strongly disagree disagree Somewhat agree Strongly agree Does not equal 100% due to rounding SOURCE: Writhlin Group poll of 1,500 adults 21 years and older during Sept. 1990 Knight-Ridder Tnbune News/JUDY TREIBLE IOWA CITY, Iowa — Faculty and students at the University of Iowa mourned yesterday as a funeral and memorial services replaced classes two days after a vengeful former student went on a shooting spree. The Associated Press University of Iowa mourns five dead Gang Lu, who received a Ph.D. in physics, killed three professors, an administrator and a student whose dissertation was honored over his last spring. A sixth victim was seriously wounded. After the rampage, which included a return to the scene of the first three shootings to finish off a victim, Lu killed himself. "We all truly feel the shock and dismay, as with the families, over the loss of our loved ones," said Henry McGill, 20, an engineering student from Marion, S.C., who presided over a memorial ceremony on campus. "It is midnight at the university right now,"he said. Flags were at half-staff on campus, and classes were canceled for the day. More than 500 people grieved at a funeral for a slain administrator. Several hundred attended other memorial gatherings. "The injuries we have suffered are devastating," said Hunter Rawlings, president of the 28,000-student university. "We cannot make sense of this. We are out of our depth." "The injuries we have suffered are devastating. We cannot make sense of this." Hunter Rawlings University of Iowa president "Suddenly, without warning, in less than an hour last Friday afternoon, the university was senselessly diminished." Elsewhere on campus, hundreds of students and faculty attended brief, silent vigils and placed wreaths near the shooting sites in memory of the victims. A university-wide service was scheduled Thursday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Lu, 28, was assisting in university research while looking for permanent work, despite his anger about his doctoral dissertation not receiving an academic honor, authorities said. One of Lu's victims was T. Anne Cleary, an associate vice president for academic affairs. Lu had filed a complaint with Cleary about the honors nomination process. Two red roses were placed in the form of a cross on her casket in a funeral at St. Patrick's Church. The woman who remembered her positive spirit. "Anne would be the first to scold us should we allow animosity or anger to cloud this day," he said. Cleary's brothers, Frank, Mike and Paul, planned to send a letter to Lu's parents in China "to share with them their prayers and their hope that grief may soon give way to peace and trust." Devo said. University officials were trying to locate family or relatives of Lu, who came to the United States from Beijing in 1985, said Ann Rhodes, vice president of university relations. His visa, as well as those of about 300 other Chinese students on campus, was extended until 1914 by President Bush after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, Rhodes said. He killed a third professor in his office and moved to another building, where he killed Cleary and shot Miya Rodooli-Sioson, an assistant who remained in serious condition at University Hospital. Lu opened fire with a 38-caliber pistol at a weekly physics and astronomy department meeting, shooting two professors and Linhaud Shan, the student whose dissertation was selected instead of Lu's. Using her head Julie Jacobson/KANSAN While studying for an exam for her human anatomy laboratory, Ginny Cox, Hugoton junior, review: every detail of a human skull. Cox was studying yesterday afternoon in the bones room at Anschutz Science Library. Court reinstates lawsuit for prenatal loss The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that a child who was a 2-month-old fetus when his father was killed during a bank robbery can sue Los Angeles police for allegedly violating his civil rights. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the decision was the first of its kind. It recoiled the right of any "person" to sue for civil rights and the principle that the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling that legalized abortion: that a "fetus is not a person." John Crumpton IV was a 2-month-old fetus when his father was shot to death in a Burbank bank robbery in September 1982. The family claimed his killers belonged to a Los Angeles police "dethusq" that since 1966 has performed numerous robberies and decided had escaped justice. The city has denied that such a squad existed. Without deciding the merits of the case, the appeals court reinstated the child's lawsuit. The court said he was entitled to claim that police, through excessive force, deprived him of a relationship with his father. "A familial right cannot arise until a fetus is born and suffers from not having a parent," said Judge Robert Boochever in the 3-ring. He said young Crumpr- ton "was a 'person' when the injury (to his rights) occurred, at his birth." But the appeals court said its ruling, like decisions under state laws allowing lawsuits for prenatal injuries to fetuses, did not clash with the premise behind the Roe vs. Wader rulings — that the Constitution does not recognize a fetus as a person. Several federal courts in other states have rejected civil rights lawsuits on behalf of fetuses in other contexts, citing the legal requirement that only a "person" can sue for federal civil rights violations. The Associated Press 'Pee-wee' avoids jail by agreeing to no contest plea-bargain SARASTOA, Fla. — An attorney for actor Paul Reubens said yesterday the "Pee-wes' playhouse" has agreed to plead no contest to an indecent exposure charge stemming from his arrest in an adult movie theater. Under the deal, Reubens would pay a $50 fine plus court costs and perform 50 hours of community service. He'd be free of a conviction on the misdemeanor charge because prosecutors said they wouldn't seek a guilty finding. If convicted in a trial, Reubens could have faced 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. "It was an offer too good to refuse," attorney Ron Dresnick said. "I've wanted to get the whole thing behind him and avoid the personal trauma of a trial." Reubens, 39, who grew up in Sarasota and lives in Studio City, Calif., was arrested at an adult theater here on July 26 after detectives said they saw him masturbating twice in 10 minutes during showings of pornographic movies. Soon after Reubens was arrested, prosecutors offered him a $500 fine and a year probation and community service in exchange for a guilty plea. Those negotiations collapsed when authorities released a booked photograph of Reubens with long hair, pony tail and a goatie, very different from the animated childlike Pee-wee Herman character he plays. After Rebuens' arrest, CBS dropped rerums of the Saturday morning children's hit "Pee-wee's Playhouse." On Oct. 29, prosecutors offered Reubens the deal he has agreed to accept. Sarasota County Judge Judy Goldman had set a hearing on that offer for today. Dresnick said he and Reubens would not show up today, but he expected the judge to set a plea date, possibly for late this week. 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