Overindulgence Ends in Death of UWM Student Children of War Speak
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Overindulgence ends in death of UWM student by Rob Priewe Police report, Washington had receive friends there from 7 to 8 spent part of Wednesday evening p.m. A UWM student was found playing a drinking game with Some UWM students have dead last Thursday in a friend's some friends in one of the organized a dance dedicated to room in the North Tower of resident's rooms. He had pur Washington. The event will take Sandburg Residence Halls. chased a quart bottle of vodka and place Friday in the South Tower Jeffrey Washington, 18, was a the group started drinking at Recreation Center of the Sand- freshman at UWM studying about 9 p.m: JTurn to p. 12] engineering. By the end of the evening, The official cause of death was almost all the contents of the listed as acute central nervous bottle had been consumed, the system depression due to very report stated. severe alcohol intoxication, accor According to the medical exam ding to the Milwaukee Medical iner's report, two friends helped UW System Examiner's report. A spokesper Washington to his room. But he son at that office said Washing couldn't locate his keys, so he was ton's system had become so taken to the room of another focuses on depressed by the alcohol that his resident. system simply malfunctioned. Washington vomited several alcohol use According to the report, Wash times, according to the report. ington's blood alcohol content was The friends remained until he had about .372 percent—.30 percent is stopped vomiting and had fallen by Doug Hissom "usually fatal," another spokes asleep and was snoring. person said. When another friend tried Alcohol drinking is running Washington was pronounced waking Washington later that rampant in the UW System,v dead at the scene at 9:30 a.m. The morning, there was no response according to some members of the last time Washington was seen and he did not appear to be UW System Advisory Committee alive was at about 1:30 a.m. by breathing, the report continued. on Alcohol Education. Estimates two friends who had put him to that as many as 90 percent of all Traffic moved north toward campus on Maryland Avenue Monday. oed. Paramedics called System students drink alcohol How long is it before this view from the Maryland Avenue Pedestrian Drinking game Paramedics were called to the were brought forth in the com Bridge is obscured by snow? Post photo by Dave Kallmann .• According to the University scene and performed CPR, the mittee's second meeting Nov. 20 report states, but Washington was in Stevens Point. never revived. Robert Trotalli, UWM assistant dean of students and a committee SA appoints two new court justices Washington was the only child member, said that these figures of Lela Washington of Milwaukee are no cause for alarm. "I'm not sure that's accurate... Two justices were appointed to search-and-screen committee, reasons. and Charlie Edwards of St. Louis. that's not saying an awful lot," he the Student Court Nov. 19 by said the students' fairness, open- First, he said, "They came out A family spokesperson said said. "The percentage that abuse Student Association President mindedness and attitudes toward on top of the review committee's Washington loved music and had it (alcohol) and get drunk is the Larry Pritchett to fill vacancies students and administration were list." Second was their ability to many friends. He got pretty good real concern." He said nationally open since the beginning of the considered important by the com rationalize and third, their re grades and liked his schoolwork, 8-10 percent of drinkers abuse semester. mittee. sponses to a few questions which she said. This was Washington's first alcohol. A search-and-screen committee Michael said that the court tested their reasoning. semester at UWM. He graduated Trotalli said it was common made up of two senior court sought people of diverse back "They handled what I dished from West Division High School knowledge that the majority of justices and three SA appointees grounds and opinions for the out to them very well," Pritchett this spring. students drink alcohol at one time interviewed eight candidates for justice positions. said. The funeral will be held at 11 or another, but "it's foolish to say the positions. Grogan said he sought a posi 'When selecting people, we're tion on the Court both as back a.m. Friday, at the Bethlehem we don't have a problem." Kristy Wisnicky and Michael looking for a diversity of opinions ground work for his major, crim Baptist Church, 1801 N. 35th St. The committee was formed Grogan, who were selected as the to make the court quasi-represen inal justice, and for the experi Burial will be at Pinelawn Mem under an order from System top two candidates by the com tative," he said. ence. He said he thought he Would orial Park and Mausoleum, 10700 President Robert O'Neil in Octo mittee, "were head and shoulders Pritchett said there are no bring a "common-sense, straight W. Capitol Dr., following the ber. The purpose of the committee above the rest of the candidates," ' 'etched-in-stone qualifications'' forward approach" with him to his ceremony. The body will be at is to recommend different types of according to Assistant Chief for being a Court justice other new position. Reid & Yarnell Funeral Home, education and counseling pro Justice David Michael than being a UWM student. He Wisnicky could not be reached 5665 N. Teutonia Ave., Thursday grams on alcohol and drug abuse Michael, a member of tl> said he chose these two for several for comment. from 2 to 9 p.m. The family will |Turn to p. 10] Children of war speak out for world peace by Thomas Pfeil Seng, a 16-year-old Cambodian boy. Chicago Humboldt Park neighborhood don't need gangs. And we have to stop At Shorewood High School, 1701 E. where she lives. paying taxes to kill. The name' 'Children of War Tour' * tells Capitol Dr., Ed Cap, the adult accompa "You can walk through that area and a big part of the story. Six children from nying the Midwestern tour, said that of you can see people being mugged, and Forced to leave various parts of the world told the rest in the 38 children, 12 were citizens of the you can see girls being raped and gangs Chacon spoke softly and rapidly, but meetings Nov. 19-23 at churches and United States. Six of these represented killing each other," she said. "And the her meaning was clear. She said that in El schools in Milwaukee, Madison and minority groups. gangs that are formed, they want to feel a Salvador she had belonged to an organiza Campbellsport, Wis. sense of power. They're minorities, and tion to help poor people called Christian The nationwide tour of 38 children, 13 Indirect victims as minorities they ^retreated as incapable— Communities. She explained that because to 17 years old, began in New York City In pxplanation of the participation of the incapable of doing good. When we go to of their involvement in the organization, Nov. 10. It visited 36 U.S. cities before she and her family were forced to leave ending Nov. 23. The tour was sponsored the country. by the Religious Task Force of the "They went to the house of my Mobilization for Survival, a national "They went to the house of my brother's best friend and took brother's best friend and took him at coalition of 60 religious organizations and night," she said. "We never saw him peace groups. him at night. We never saw him again. And we were afraid that again. And we were afraid that would The 38 children on the tour were would happen to my brother, so we had to get out of my country. " happen to my brother, so we had to get divided into six groups to tour various Salvadoran refugee out of my country.'' parts of the United States. The Midwest Chacon said children in El Salvador ern group that visited Milwaukee included today "are just trying to survive," and Maria Elaine Chacon, a 15-year-old do not have a chance to go to school. She Salvadoran girl, Jackqueline Jimenez, a U.S. children in the tour, particularly of get a job, they don't look at us once or said that since 1979, 1.500 schools have 16-year-old Puerto Rican-American girl those representing minorities, Cap said, twice; they look at us three or four times. been closed because of the lack of from Chicago, Pamela Kennerly, a. 15- "If not the direct victims of bombs and "In Chicago we need better jobs, we teachers and supplies. year-old American girl, David Imbili, a bullets; they are certainly-the victims of need better housing, and we need better "In El Salvador, of every 100 children, 17-year-old Namibian boy, Wahib Najjar, an economy geared to bombs and bullets '' ways of making it possible to survive," 80 are sick from malnutrition." she said. a 15-year-old Lebanese boy and Cum Jimenez said there are 55 gangs in the she said. 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