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The Newspaper For The Ithaca College Community .Issue 15 April 5, 1990 28 pages *lFree Search and Seizure: Armed police raid IC party Schwartz's cousin, Jon Schwartz, ordered 79 guests to put their hands vcstigation by 11:45 p.m. The Schwartz was released Sunday By Eve DeForest apartment residents then desig­ morning on $5000 bail pending also an IC student, was charged on their heads and to sit on the nated a few friends to clear out his appearance in Ithaca Town New York State troopers, in with criminal possession of a con­ floor and remain quiet. Police then and secure the apartment in their Court. The bail was posted by trolled substance. After searching proceeded to break down doors conjunction with Ithaca City police, Matthew Schwartz. the red Subaru sedan belonging to leading to the bedrooms of Reader absence. raided a party being held in College While searching the apartment State Police Senior Investigator Schwartz, officers uncovered two and Ungvary in addition to two Circle Apartment 8A last Friday bedrooms of Feldmen, Reader, and Roney conducted the investigation. evening. A search warrant giving bathroom doors. While searching the room of Ungvary, the Ithaca Police and The According to Roney, the probable the officers authority to "search State Troopers found no traces of cause used to obtain the search the premises and anyone in it"was Matthew Schwart;,. officers dis­ ". .. Search the premises covered more than 25 grams of drugs or paraphernalia. Also, warrant was based on "information executive at 9:30 p.m., March 30. Reader, Schwartz, Feldmen, and that there would be drugs upon Ithaca College students Thomas marijuana. a Class A misdemeanor possession. Ungvary were strip searched and the premises." The police then took Feldman, Brian Reader, Matthew and anyone in it." nothing was found on their person. that information before a judge Schwartz and Jeff U ngvary were During the apartment search, guests were frisked and asked to Jon Schwart7 was then arraigned who decided there was enough charged with "unlawfully dealing probable cause to issue a warrant. with a child" for serving alcohol to produce identification. In addition before Ithaca Town Justice James to the routine frisking, several Herson. Herson remanded "We had information that on that minors. After further investigation. ounces of Psilocybin, more com­ date there would be drugs_ present Schwartz was also charged with monly referred to as "mushrooms." female guests were strip sea1chcd Schwartz to Tomokins County Jail by a female officer. on $5,000 bail or a 10,000 property at that location." said Roney. possession of marijuana and crimi­ Upon entering the apartment. Sec Page 2 nal possession of a forged instru­ officers protected by bulletproof Police confiscated two half-keg~ bond. Police also impounded ment. vests and armed with handguns of beer and concluded the in- Schwartz's vehicle. Inst1rilllci(0)1r ~t 11Il1ldiiaurna U flDr<e(ffi for teaching ful1t§ §tmtdents that the Holocaust nev~r happened Courtesy of CPS never happened, was left under A history instructor has been and turned it over to school administrators. the door of Stanford University's fired for teaching his class that the Hillel Foundation. Holocaust never occurred. Hiner denies he is anti-Semitic, saying he just attempted to teach Hans Schmidt, GAN-PAC's Donald Dean Hiner, a part-time chairman, told the student news­ instructor at Indiana University­ another school of thought. "1 do not consider myself a paper, the Stanford Daily, that Purdue University at Indianapolis "Holocaust st\Jdies is based on (IUPUI), was dismissed for lectur­ revisionist," he told The Indiana­ lies." ing that the Holocaust is a Jewish polis News. myth, and asserting that "none of A few fringe political groups it makes sense unless you look at trying to concoct a historical it from the prospect of Israel rationale for anti-Semitism have ... he just attempted lthacalll Mkhelk Morris getting a lot of wealth from this simply denied the Holocaust ever A speaker addresses the GALA rally \: story." happened. Six million Jews, dis­ to teach another on Blue Jeans Day last Tuesday The Simon Wiesenthal Center, sidents, Catholics, gypsies and a Los Angeles-based organization other innocents died in German dedicated to teaching about the concentration camps during World school of thought. Holocaust, hailed the University's Warll. decision. Short of evidence for their asser­ GALA attempts to tion, they lately have begun calling "We are deeply gratified at the themselves "revisionists," borrow­ More recently, fliers distributed 0 University's swift and proper ac­ by the Church of Jesus Christ tion,"said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, ing the name from a scholarly, widely respected, research-oriented Christian at East Texas State increase awareness associate dean of the center. "This University in November claimed decision reinforces the commitment group of historians that during the 1960 s and 1970 ~ exposed a dark the Holocaust never happened, but of academic integrity and the is widely reported because Jews pursuit of truth, while striking a underside of American history. on the IC campus Anti-Semitic groups also have supposedly control American blow against bigotry which mas­ tried dressing the charge in a cloak media. On Tuesday there was a querades as scholarship." of academic respectability by No record of any kind has even By Christopher J. Dyer rally. At the rally there were making occasional forays onto been found pertaining to the gas­ several speakers who discussed what sing of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, campuses. it is like to be gay in a straight criminals or anyone else," the On Tuesday, April 3, the Gay and "I also am all for In I 988, a leaflet published by world Some of the six speakers Lesbian Alliance (GALA), the German-American National pamphlet read. "The Zionistic Jews have complete control of television sponsored its third annual Blue included IC politics professor, Political Action Committee (GAN­ dismissing professurS and the printed page, and, con­ Jeans Day to increase awareness of Martin Brownstein and IC professor PAC), a Washington, D.C.-based gay and lesbian issues on campus Suzanne Morgan. An estimated 75- group that says the Holocaust sequently, our politicians." and in the world. Some of the 100 people attended the rally. On who preach this" issues that face the gay and lesbian Tuesday night there was a Blue community are: gay and lesbians Jeans Day Forum to discuss how cannot many; they need protection the day went. A video was also from hate crimes; and there is presented. Most of the members of "My general reaction to this is discrimination in the work place. GALA thought the day went really that everyone has a right to free Unseasonably cold Sat. & Sun.. well and felt that the day was a The concept of a Blue Jeans Day speech but when it is a blatant lie, Sa.turday... Chance of snow originated on the campus of Rutgers success. as in the case of this professors University. The first Blue Jeans GALA is currently working on comments, I consider it an outright High 30 Day was in 1982. The purpose of several issues. They have circulated fabrication and I am against it," Low in te~- Blue Jeans Day is to give people a a petition_ protesting the possible commented Michael Faber, Jewish Sunday.-..Partly sunny sense of what it is like to be gay. establishment of a ROTC chapter Chaplain at Ithaca College. It forces people to face the issues on the Ithaca college campus. '1 also am all for dismissing High 30 that gays face every day. ' RITTC has discriminated on the professors who preach this. That Low in teens basis of sexual orientation. · The There were a series of events kind of situation has no place 011 Monday... Considerable sunshine surrounding Blue Jeans Day.. On group thinks that students should be our campus.'' said Faber. Monday night, the video 'The able to participate in the ~omell High in 40's Rene Arb~kle, an JUPUI sopho­ Low 25 to 30 Times of Harvey Mille" was See Page~ more taped Hiner's Fel>. 9 lecture presented in Textor 101. 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