Injured Student Wins Settlement

Injured student wins settlement February in a move that also saw the state Local representatives of the fraternities By John Miller drop its counter-claim against Bolstad. named in the lawsuit haven't been informed Staff writer Bolstad was injured during the 1988 of the details of the settlement. A lawsuit stemming from a 1988 fraternity "Miami Triad," an annual party held by Ryan McIntyre, president of WSU's Sigma incident which left a former WSU student Sigma Chi, Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Chi fraternity, said at this point he is not cer- paralyzed finally was settled out of court last Theta. tain how the case is being handled. month for $150,000. During the party, held at a farmhouse just "It would be impossible to say anything The suit, filed in May 1991 by Eric A. outside of Palouse, Bolstad dove into the right now," McIntyre said. "I really just Bolstad and his mother, originally charged Palouse River while participating in an infor- don't know." WS , the InterFraternity Council, three fra- U mal "belly-flop" competition. He struck his The local attorney who represented 'Sigma ternities and their parent corporations with head on an object in the two-foot-deep water, Chi until the case was assumed by the frater- failing to supervise a party where Bolstad fracturing his neck. nity's insurance companies, said he still was was involved in a diving accident resulting in Bolstad, who was 2 I at the time of the his permanent paralysis. incident, was the Sigma Chi social chairman. See LAWSUIT on page 12 WSU was released from the case in late Rock 'n roll by Darcy Reinhart Harley Sharrard comes up for a breath after he rolls his kayak Monday night at Bohler Pool. Sharrard was just one of the participants in this kayak rolling course, which is taught through the Outdoor Recreation Center. Polling Cambodia still suffers, speaker says cian. "I went through Hell and I have this to a victim protecting its killer. By Jennifer Graves become a messenger (of Cambodia's pain)," Staff Writer Cambodians know the Khmer Rouge shot sites open he said. down a United Nations helicopter a few Cambodia exists in a state of "peace with He said Cambodia was a neutral country weeks ago even though investigations have ;\SWSUpoUin,g sites open pain" because the world has legalized the until the Communists 'dragged it into the not proven the Khmer Rouge was responsi- Khmer Rouge's Communist position of 'Tuesday and close Wednes- Vietnam War by using the country to regroup ble, he said. Another problem, Pran said, is power within the country, a Cambodian jour- troops before entering Vietnam. He said the 350,000 refugees who are stranded along daY, nalist said last night. polling sites will be open Cambodia must return to its former position Cambodia's' border because of land mines in of neutrality. the area. frorn 8 a.m, ~o7 p.m .• and Dith Pran, whose true story was told in the $11 WSU students are eligible movie "The Killing Pields ," said Cambodia Pran said the United Nations is considering While China has helped strengthen the to vote. has a very fragile peace. "The fat lady did a $2 billion mission in Cambodia that he said . Khmer Rouge, the United States and south- polling sites for voting not sing yet," he said. he hopes will aid the country until it reaches eastern Asia have provided assistance to the districts are as follows: a fair democracy again. He said this would anti-Communists, Pran said. He said China Pran saved the lives of three foreign jour- require the support of the United States and and the United States want to use the Khmer J)istric:t O~ poHing site~ nalists during the war between the Khmer therefore bring back "the killer." Rouge to punish Vietnam. Cotllpton Union Building. Rouge and the American-supported Lon Nol J)istrkt ~ polling site- government that began in 1970. Pran also Pran said Cambodians hope to bring the Vietnam wants to dominate Indochina but J¢at11S Mall. served time in a labor camp after being part Khmer Rouge leaders to court and gain world is too poor to do so, he said. J)istrid three pOlling site- of a forced exodus of 2 million people from support for their anti-Communist efforts. He Pran said Cambodian history is compli ~sMaU. the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. said the Khmer Rouge receives protection from the Chinese government. He' compared. See PRAN on page 12 J)istriet four polling site- Pran said he is neither a hero nor politi- ~Mall. J)istrid five pOlling sites ... jObbies of Rogers Hafl ao<.t orwn llano Two suspeclsarresled in alleged weekend rapes Vistrict 'six potting sites- Darren J. Shank, 18, was arrested on a By Spring Gillingham she was raped by the suspect early that morn- lObbies of Waller Hall and second-degree rape charge in his residence ing when she went to visit him at his B Staff Writer GOldsworthy HaiL hall room at Street residence. District seven polling site- Two Pullman women reported being raped Stephenson The alleged victim told police she knew tp"by of Stevenson Center. this weekend, in unrelated incidents, and two North and the man. pistrict eight polling site- men were arrested as suspects. was booked A 20-year-old student reported an alleged into the Lance R. Runje, 19, was arrested on a lobbY of Regents Hall. charge of second-degree rape and was later rape to Pullman police Saturday morning. Whitman pistrict nine polling slte- released. He also was scheduled to appear in lObby of Wilmer-Davis din- The victim claims she was raped in her off- County Jail. campus apartment Friday night at approxi- court. iog ball. He was mately II :30 by the suspect after he walked scheduled to appear in Whitman County Both women were treated at Pullman J)istrict 10 p<)lIing sites- her back to her apartment. She told police Superior Court Monday afternoon. Memorial Hospital and released. all polling sites. she had met the man at a party prior to the In a separate incident, a 19-year-old stu- Formal charges have not been filed against alleged rape. dent r~ported Saturday afternoon to police the men at this time..

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