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Eastern Kentucky University Encompass Eastern Progress 1997-1998 Eastern Progress 10-16-1997 Eastern Progress - 16 Oct 1997 Eastern Kentucky University Follow this and additional works at: http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1997-98 Recommended Citation Eastern Kentucky University, "Eastern Progress - 16 Oct 1997" (1997). Eastern Progress 1997-1998. Paper 9. http://encompass.eku.edu/progress_1997-98/9 This News Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Eastern Progress at Encompass. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eastern Progress 1997-1998 by an authorized administrator of Encompass. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Taking a visit to Third time a ► WEATHER TODAY SOUTH PARK CHARM? Hi: 64 ► Arts Low: 37 Conditions: Clou Twisted cartoon generating loyal After foiling to Murray for two local following/11 eft straight years, the football : 55, Cloudy •AT: 56, Scattered showers team tries again Saturday/ SUN: 55, Showers Eastern Pro Heading south Eastern spends $1.5 million to expand Alleged rape Dorm for criminal justice Room to grow first reported department first ► Eastern spent $10,666 an acre to purchase the Hobart Carnes Jr. property Aug. 29 planned project since 1994 BY JUUE CLAY BY KRISTY GILBERT ly knew the person who raped News editor Assistant news editor them, Reynolds said, which can Campus is now moving in the A 20-year-old Eastern student present more problems for the vic- only direction it could. reported an alleged rape to public tim. Surrounded to the north and safety officials Oct. 9. Some things to remember if west by the community and the The alleged rape occurred at 3 you've been the victim of a sexual Richmond cemetery to the east, a.m. Oct. 7 at a Brockton trailer. assault is to first call the police. "the south was the only way for The victim told police that the 27- This is to preserve physical evi- expansion," Eastern President year-old man had been drinking dence, Lindquist said. Hanly Funderburk said. and had forced himself upon her. If you have been raped, get Eastern increased its land She said she had repeatedly told medical attention at student size by nearly a quarter Aug. 29, him to stop, but he wouldn't, the health services, a hospital or see a when it purchased 140 acres on case report said. doctor right away. Lancaster Road from Richmond This is the first sex offense At this time, an attending physi- Planning and Zoning Chair reported on campus since 1994, cian at the hospital should collect Hobart Carnes. Jr. and his wife, specimens and make detailed Helen. said Tom Lindquist, director of public safety. notes about physical evidence Carnes has lived on that land such as cuts, bruises, torn cloth- for 75 years. He was born in the Teresa Reynolds, educator and counseling coordinator at the ing and traces of semen, a old brick homestead a rock's "Preventing Date Rape on throw from the house in which Lexington Rape Crisis Center, said that only two out of 10 rapes are Campus" pamphlet said. he now lives. A decision to pursue legal He has farmed that land reported. "Rape is the most underreport- action does not have to be made through the years, raising cattle J Residential area not right away, but evidence of the and crops alongside his brother ANE Included In purchase ed crime," Reynolds said. "And James and his cousin Kermit most rapes are acquaintance rape should be gathered because Carnes. rape." it will not be retrievable later, the The Carnes are building a Between two-thirds to three- pamphlet said. new house a couple of miles quarters of victims of rape actual- down Lancaster Avenue, and See Rape Page A6 will stay in their present house until it is completed sometime next year. ► Downtown shooting The almost $1.5 million ■ Eastern expansion has been a desired one for some time, Funderburk said. Suspect already The land has been on the master plan as something to acquire since it shared a com- mon boundary with land held on other charge Eastern already owned, PROGRESS STAFF REPORT four times striking Amry in the Funderburk said. ,- head and in the lower stomach just "We've had our eye on it for Richmond Police have ques- before midnight, Isaacs said. seven to eight years." he said. tioned at least one suspect in the Several family members were Immediate plans for part of Oct. 3 shooting death of Tarek with Amry that night and at least the land include building a new Amry of Lexington, Detective one was arrested stemming from an 300-bed dormitory for the Randy Isaacs said. incident at O'Riley's, Isaacs said. Department of Criminal Justice The suspect is being held in the Brandon Dickson, a distant Training, said John Bizzack, Madison County Detention Center cousin of Amry's from Ann Arbor, commissioner of the criminal Tim MoHette/Progress on an unrelated charge, Isaacs said. justice program. The building Mich., was charged with disorderly Police received a name fitting a conduct after his group was asked would have a gym, an armory, a description of the suspect released physical training center with last week, and scheduled a poly- to leave O'Riley's after a fight earli- classroom and office space, Eastern's new property is er that evening, Isaacs said. now mostly farmland, lined by graph for the suspect, but the sus- Bizzack said. pect refused to take it on advice of Amry and his group went to The ■The best option would be to bams and fences. counsel, Isaacs said. Rock after leaving O'Riley's, and extend the Funderburk Building Amry, 20, of Lexington, was shot were also asked to leave. A fight for the dorm," Bizzack said. "It and killed in the parking lot of Great later began on the street in front of would reduce the cost to make it Don Knight/Progress Financial Federal Bank of The Rock. Isaac said. closer and attached." Richmond, just down the hill from Richmond Police increased See Land/Pag* A6 O'Riley's Grill and Bar. police said. patrols last week to 14 instead of The shooter used a nine millime- the normal four officers downtown ter gun, unusual for this area, firing to head off trouble, Isaacs said. ► Chemical weapons Seven alternatives to weapon incineration pass first evaluation incineration technology proposals Pennsylvania, and Burns and Roe ACWA program manager. which will then be presented to over budget In the last year, two BY GWENOA BONO have passed its initial evaluation Enterprises, Inc. of New Jersey. The ACWA program was man- Congress. employees at the Tooele Disposal News writer process. SBSBsaBS>B> The companies dated by Congress last year in "There are a wide range of tech- Facility in Utah have been illegally Congress moved closer to its The seven companies M^-^ will be awarded $50,000 response to pressure from anti- nologies," said Doug Hindman. co- fired or discriminated against for goal of finding an alternative to backing these proposals contracts to help cover incineration groups and communi- chair of the Kentucky raising safety concerns. incinerating the over a million tons are Arctech, Inc. of I the cost of filling in the ties with stockpiles. Demilitarization Citizen's Advisory The announcement of the seven of chemical weapons stockpile Virginia, Lockhcari festival sal missing data on their pro- Congress awarded the program Commission. possible alternatives shows that pri- located four miles from campus, at Martin Advanced Sunday posals. $40 million to identify and demon- "Some of them use chemical vate industry and the government the Bluegrass Army Depot last Environmental Systems, "I am very enthu- strate at least two technologies by Erocesses, some of them rely on can work together." said Craig week. Inc. of New Mexico, '■" siastic about the December 1998 that would dispose iological decomposition, some of Williams, spokesperson for the The Department of Defense's General Atomics of response from private of the chemical weapons. them use high energy to break Chemical Weapons Working Group Alternative Chemical Weapons California, Teledyne-Commodore of industry and Took forward to work- Next spring, the ACWA program down the material." based in Berea. "Unlike the inciner- Assessment Program (ACWA) Alabama, Parsons Infrastructure ing with them in the next phase of will choose at least two of these The Army's incineration pro- ation program, the alternatives pro- announced Oct. 7 that seven non- and Technology, Inc. of California, evaluations leading to demonstra- technologies to develop a full gram, as projected, is 10 years gram is on schedule and within bud- AEA Technology, Inc. of tion." said Bill Pehlivanian, deputy demonstration of their methods. behind schedule and 700 percent get." ► insldo running scam Accent BI Activities BS last six months of university employees and students Arts B3 Eastern employees suffer fraudulent credit scheme falling victims to a fraudulent credit card scheme, said Classifieds A4 Tom Lindquist director of public safety. Perspective A2. 3 BY KRISTY GILBERT have been for as much as $13,000 with most of the Lindquist said the latest scheme has involved using Police Beat A4 Assistant news editor charges being in the form of cash advances, she said. the names and social security numbers of employees to Profiles B4 One day IsabeDe White received a telephone After learning of the fraudulent actions. White called obtain credit cards in the employees' names. The home Sports B6-8 kail informing her she was late on her credit card the major credit reporting companies, and was advised addresses given on the applications were for cities in What's On Tap B2 payment The ironic thing about this call was that to have them put a note on her credit record specifying the Detroit area.