DAILYINFORMING THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY ATSUNDIAL CAUl'ORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY AT NoRTHRIDGE ' EPC vote upholds add/drop policy IY PHILLIP SKAGGS approval through weeks Staff Writer two and three. Also, drops will be al- The Educational Policies lowed through TIR during Committee voted Wednes- the first two weeks of the day to maintain the current semester. system ofadding and drop- Several Associated Stu- ping classes and not shorten dents senators auended the the change of program pe- meeting, making their plea riod from the current three- not to shorten the add/drop week time allotment. as had period because doing so been previously consid- would adversely a ffect stu- ered. dents' academic careers. The current policy. up- "When we enroll in held by the EPC. states that courses, it's a louery," said students may add a class Marc Levine, A.S. presi- through TIR during the dent-elect. "We're not all Several hundred people mashed in the USU Court of Community Wednesday during the A.S. SPACE Noontime Conceit, featuring Face to Face. See blioJwl, page 7. first week of classes, and add classes with instructor SeeEPC,P1P3 T-shirt exhibit honoring victimized women on display IT SUMMll SIMMONS ful ones." Staff Writer CSUN students who saw the display agreed. AT-shinexhibit that serve.~ "How horrible to be a little as a visual depletion of vio- child and make a T-shin for leocc against women will re- yourdead mother." said sopho- main on display in front ofthe more Lisa Harrel "It'sjust so Matadomc through Friday. powerful, so sad." The Clothesline Project. Junior Cary Martin said the which has hccn displayed na- Clothesline Project is needed. tionally and internationallyand " I didn' t realize violence isatCSUN forthesct·oncltfolC. against women was such a consi\ts of shirts hung on a huge problem:· Manin said. clothesline. decorated by sur- Promoting awareness is vivors of violenC£ or their exactly whlll the project is for. friends and relatives. according to J. Julie, assistant AccordingtoJean Morrison directorofthe Women's Cen- of the San Fernando Valley ter. "It's a great way to make chapl.erofthe National Orga- people aware ofwhat goes on niLation for Women, the out there," she said. projet.1 has four stated goals: ThcClolhcslineProjcctwas T-shiltsarehwlgaspartoftheClolheslineprojecthonoringblllteredwomenontheMllUdomei.wrt. To acknowlodge women who started in 1990 by the Cape have been victims ofviolence, yellow, beige and brown ones unsuccessful," Maroko &aid. "One woman llmidly came Cod Women'sA,eooainMas- to help the helling process, to depict women who have been "We didn't realize what a in (wtilc they were holding a sacbu9cns, Maroko said. raise awareness in socic1y and battered or assaulted. personal act Ithat making a bee]," Mlroko said. "She saw 1be women who founded to provide a national network Susan Maroko. director of T-shin is). We were asking she - theonly.One thereand the project had gone IO the ofsupportforbancrcdwomcn. CSUN's Women's Center, women to come forward and she left." Veterans Memorial in Wasb- According to project dircc- sai!I it was DOI difficult to SCI say I am asurvlvorofrapeor Mlrokosaidtheimponancc ingtOn D.C. and were Inspired IOl'S, the oolor-coded u.ns thll studenlS IO volunleer with the violence and that' s very dif- of the project is to call ancn- IO aclleIOIDClhin& similarfor makeupthedlllplaydepictdif- project. but it - diflicuh IO ficult IO do." tion totheproblemofviolence women who were killedorwho rctenc types ofviolence cape- act them lQ actually make and Maroko said the most suc- dirccled llwomen. survived violence, she said. ricnccd by women. dollllC shins. cessful shin maldna bees arc "It makes the problem vis- For cumplc, white shins "'IlleWomen'sCent.crtrlcd onesheldwhenrqRSCIQlivcs ible," she said. "Some of the UilM ill CJtiefMicliMI rcpre1ent women who have a couple oftimes to have shirt go to shelters where survivors shins arc made by children s,_, clHllrilHllU,. been killed by violence, while making bees, but we were feel safe. and dlolc me the lllOll power- u.;,_,. 2 '!!llndl!• llll'Cll 23, HH NEWS "John the Baptist lived in the wilder- bill would retain the curren defini- California redwood Commuter shooter ness, a humble man, and he was ~ tion of rape: sexual intercourse by gets max sentence into prison for no reason," be said. force or threat of force. logging opposed "He was beheaded by a criminal jus- MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP)-Thc man tice system slmil8' to this. SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - who gunned down six people on a Officer charged in Environmentalists wem to cowt Tues- commuter train and then cross-exam- death of asthmatic day to try to block salvage logging in ined survivors of the massacre at his Nonviolent sexual the last privately-Owned stand of an- trial was sentenced Wednesday to the assault biJl debated NEW YORK (AP) - A veteran cient redwoods. maximum - six consecutive terms police o.ticer was charged with neg- The Sierra Club and the Environ- oflife in prison. HARRISBURG,Pa(AP)-Legis- ligent homicide Tuesday in the death mental Protection lnformalloo Center Colin Ferguson also received con- lators 'loted to rewrite state law that of an asthmatic man who scuffled asked a Superior Cowtjudge inEureka secutive terms ofeight and one-third says it's not a crime to have sex with a with police aftertwice hitting a patrol to order an endangered species review to 25 years in prison on each of 19 woman who says "no" ifshe doesn't try car with a football during a casual before allowing the logging on 6,CXXJ counts of attempted murder. That to fight back. game in a Bronx street. acres in the Hpdwaters Forest on most like means he would not be The bill, which broadens the defllli- Francis Livoti, 35, a member of California's scenic North Coast. eligible for parole, the judge said. tion of sex crimes to include sexual the department since 1983, pleaded Kathy Bailey, theSierra Club 'schair- "You, Colin Ferguson, will never intercourse without consent, was passed innocent to the single felony count woman for state forestry in California, again return to society, but will rather by the state House on Tuesday, the day and was released on his own recogni- said the forest is a nesting area for spend the rest of your natural life in after it cleared the Senate. zance after a grand jury indictment marbled murrelets, a bird comidercd prison," Judge Donald Belfi said. 1bemeasure was prompted by out- was unsealed in state Supreme Court. by federal officials to be threatened and Ferguson, who acted as his own rage last year over a state Supreme Bronx District Attorney Robert T. by state officials to be endangered. attorney at the trial, was convicted of Court ruling that overturned a man's Johnson alleged l.,ivoti ignored fam- Last week, the state Deparuncrt of killing six people and wounding 19 rape conviction because there was no ily members' pleas to recognize the Forestry and Fire Protection accepted a as he walked down the aisle of a evidence of force or threats. The all- man was ill after he was arrested for proposal from Pacific Timbcr Co. to crowded Long Island Rail Road train male court held that state law re- disorderly conduct in the early morn- remove dead, dying and diseased trccS on Dec. 7, 1993, shooting a semi- quired such e.vidence. 1be court did ing hours of Dec. 22, 1994. from the 6,000 acres in Humboldt automatic handgun. let stand a misdemeanor indecent as- Nancy Borko, senior assistant dis- County, including the 3,000-acreHcad- In a statement before the judge sault conviction. trict attorney said the man was visit- waters Forest imposed the sentence, Ferguson tried The woman involved said that she ing his family for the holiday_s and Wilson administration officials said to rebut statements from survivors continually said "no" during the 1987 confronted the cop after Livoti took conditions imposed by the state would and relatives of the shooting victims. incident in a college dormitory room, his younger brother into custody fol- protect the forest, but environmental- As he started to speak, everyone in and said she hadbeen taughl not to fight lowing a casual family football game, ists said the salvage logging would re- the courtroom except reporters and backfor fear shecould have been killed. in which the officer's car was hit by move trees needed for wildlife habitat court officers walked out. They re- The new category of crime, non- the ball. State officials said that the state De- turned to hear Belfi 's sentence, and violent sexual assault, would be clas- A struggle ensued and the medi- partments of Fish and Game and For- burst into applause when Ferguson sified as a second-degree felony , cal examiner later ruled the man estry and Fire Procection and the U.S. was led out of the room. whichcarriesafive-to 10-yearprison died of asphyxiation "due to com- Fish and Wildlife Service would work In his statement, Ferguson com- sentence. Rape, a first-degree felony, pression of his neck and chest and withPacificLumber to determinewhich pared himself to a martyred saint. carries a 10-to 20-year se11tence.1be acute asthma." trees should be removed. ...,,_ .... Taunu ................ _.... (Aprtl 21 lO MaJ 21) ,. ..................,....,y......._,......... 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