Duncan Hall's Deep Secret Lack of Money Endangers Greek Sports
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7 - 4 21, 1982 LCC114-1 IT'S A (-1.T'S A . IT 's Of' I N THE e)IPLOI SKY!! -V The history of comics: Daily exercise in humor $4,zkv- Pow! Heroes, villians still fighting See page 3 &wpi\vir)rtf_mici fID Serving the San Jose State University Community since 1934 Volume 79 No 17 Wednesday, September 22, 1982 K op! 9 Lack of money Instructor consoles a shipwrecked sailor con- endangers Greek rock CSJS .m. to 1 sports programs n. to 1 !a inpus I "La By Gerald Loeb ing the Fraternity sports could be "I'm pretty sure we could get some threated by the discovery that only money, but the problem is the iu nday about $5,000 remains in the A.S. money just isn't there " 'The general fund, according to Mark a Lewis, inter-fraternities coun- Makiewicz also said the IFC ha, con. cilman-treasurer. never needed the money before "We want the money for sports, "We've never applied before. The and since we are not open to all problem is. we spent so much on tor for students to participate, we don't formal rush that we could use some imed it have a valid claim to the money; at money now." smooth least that's what the AS. says," IFC President Scott Cooley Lewis said. "We tried to sneak in a said "wasn't sure" if the IFC had ever with a $200 allocation request, but with not applied before. that much in the fund, I don't think just a "We do have an annual we are going to nk.le in get it." allocation for Greek Week," Cooley The IFC sponsors football said. games between the fraternities. The Greek Week is an annual spring IFC also pays for the referees with affair sponsored by the fraternities dues paid by the individual houses. to promote themselves, community "So we have to do it ourselves," involvement and to raise money for Lewis said. "There are other groups charity. that are more deserving than us, and In other IFC action, Cooley they've been turned down." reported on the status of Community Lewis also reported the IFC Services Day. "I've been working fund is "under $500." with the city (San Jose) on this, and Acting IFC sports chairman Ed so far we have a tentative schedule Makiewicz has a special interest in of Oct. 9 or 10." the matter. As a member of the A.S. Cooley also stressed cooperation board of directors and a member of between all the fraternities. the IFC "in some form or another "This is something that's going for the past four years," he said. to be really big," he said. Jun Wikems Where were you 117 years ago? Anthropology lab supervisor Al Leventhal goes over remains of a sailor who sank with the ship Sur John Franklin Family remembers Y,u SJSU team excavates 19th-century site murdered daughter By Ken Carbon Lawsuit Dead men tell no tales "When you find these human skulls that in the SJSU anthropology lab where will be against SJSU appealed This may seem an unshakable statement of have been lying here all these years, it puts you stored until reburial. Strict laws prohibit the By Pamela Steinrieda the obvious, but a group of students and faculty more in touch with their lives and fate," said disturbance of grave sites, so for anthropology The family of a murdered SJSU served his prison sentence and was in the Anthropology Department are out to Robert Jurmain, who co-directed the ex- student Carol Snider, who is doing the student is still seeking justice from released from Atascadero State disprove it. cavation with Alan Leventhal, anthropology osteological analysis, it will be a rare chance at the courts mom nearly three years after Hospital in 1977. With shovels, specimen bags and moral lab supervisor. "There's a cultural continuity studying the remains of recent individuals. the brutal slaying. He was participating in an SJSU justification in hand, the team in June carefully between these people and what's going on in "When graves are disturbed," Jurmain Blythe Nielsen's family is ap- alternative education program at collected the remains of four 19th-century our lives." said, "it is a legal and highly moral thing to get pealing the dismissal of a $2 million the time of the Nielsen murder. The sailors off stormy Point Franklin and now, the remains and rebury them somewhere lawsuit against SJSU, campus of- project, designed to educate ex - through examination of the bones, is trying to The team excavated the burial site at the safe." ficials and CSU, claiming that offenders, was dismantled in early determine how these men lived. request of officials at Ano Nuevo State Park. Jurman said that although acid from the students should have been warned 1981. The redwood coffins, which were buried on the decomposing coffins has deteriorated the that ex -offenders were on campus. The family's attorney has This osteological study, coupled with the promontory shortly after the wreck, had been bones, the biological history of the men still A trial date has not been set for argued a safe campus environment historical research of graduate student Gail exposed by winds and time, their contents ought to be traceable. Donald James Cummings, an ex-con should have been provided for Smallwood, intends to complete a picture of the scattered and pilfered by fisherman and other "I would think they are the bodies of and former SJSU student, accused students. life and demise of the clipper ship the Sir John passers-by. relatively young sailors," Jurmain said. "They of raping Nielsen and murdering her The Nielsens are appealing Franklin. For two days the team sifted through a 30- should show the wear and tear of that kind of with a piece of firewood on Nov. 4, Santa Clara County Superior Court Although the ship, which ran aground on a foot surface spread, finding one "fairly com- lifestyle." 1979 in her 12th Street apartment. Judge Bruce Allen's June 1, 1982 hazardous promontory near Half Moon Bay in plete" skeleton, various bones of the other He said the age, nutritional habits and any She was 21. dismissal of the $2 million suit. 1865, has limited historical significance, the three men, some brass buttons, burial shrouds, significant diseases of the men may be Cummings, now 26, also is Bart Nielsen, the victim's attraction seems to be the intrigue that belongs pieces of clothing and two skulls. determinable. charged with the stabbing death of a brother, said his family is unable to only to t he past. The remains were cleaned and inventoried c.w.o..' MI NNW 6 59-year-old woman on Jai. 3, 1981. comment on the appeal because "we Convicted of rape in 1974. Cummings don't want to mess anything up." Allen dismissed the Nielsens' suit because Cummings had paid his debt to society and had a right to go to the university, according to court Duncan Hall's deep secret University Police arrest clerk Jack Clinch. "As far as notifying other students, it's like trying to tell all suspect in bomb threat SJSU's radioactive waste site 'no hazard' to student parents that a child molester has been freed and is in the area," Clinch said. By Bruce Barton Byilamela Stainriede Cummings will face trial for the Deep vi )(Inn the bowels of SJSU's Nuclear Science radioactive material," he said iniyersity Police arrested a the Univesrity," Lane said. "He two murders, three counts of Department at Duncan Hall, exists a facility that many The waste materials, usually consisting of rubber man outside the police station's spends a lot of time at the Student burglary and three counts of assault call "the cave," a storage site for radioactive waste gloves, glassware and other material to which radioactive front door about 30 minutes after Union, and about 75 percent of the with a deadly weapon. materials. particles can cling, are put in a cement sack filled with receiving a bomb threat call time he stops by on his way home The investigating officer, Sgt. But before cries of fear and protest are made, it diatomeceous earth (used as an absorbent), covered with early Tuesday morning. and buys a Coke at the machine Jim Smith of the San Jose Police should be relieving to know that the cave, surrounded by multi-layered paper, sealed "air-tight" in a plastic bag Glenn Corey Eskeldson was downstairs." Department, said the case is on the three-foot concrete walls, poses no danger to students. and then stored in plastic -lined. 55-gallon barrels. arrested about 1 a.m, while Eskeldson, 23. is not a SJSU "trailing calendar." Ths means it "There's no hazard here," said Roger J. Kloepping, purchasing a soft drink from a student, according to Lane. may be called to court at any time. radiation safety officer and "keeper" of the cave. "I'm Once filled, the barrels are bolted down until the cave vending machine 10 feet awway Police said the bomb threat "It's an unfair situation for the exposed to more radiation hiking in the Sierra-Nevadas is filled to capacity. The cave can hold 20 to 24 barrels, from the police office lobby. At caller demanded $500 and witnesses and victims," Smith said. than I do working here." according to Kloepping. 12:12 a.m., a dispatcher in that threatened to set off the bomb if Cummings' attorney, Bryan The cave is an eight-year-old facility, initially The 500-pound barrels are then shipped to a large office received a threat to ex- he didn't receive the money.