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Show GNPOST i WEBER STATE COLLEGE QUINN JACOBSON THE SIGNPOST GRADUATING student Steve Ahrensbach gets a sneak preview of the weight of the world two weeks before commencement exerslses. Graducting students this year commence June 8. WSC students and police foil burglary Ogden City Police join three students in high-speed chase; two suspects arrested By Staff writers of The Signpost Weber State Police arrested two suspects in a car burglary Friday, after a morning of confusion and high speed pursuit involving the Ogden City Police Department. Officer Ryan Hogensen of the WSC Police Department arrested Anthony W. Richards, 18, of Ogden, while WSC Detective David Heston later arrested a juvenile suspected of being involved. The juvenile's name is being withheld. According to the WSC police report, the suspects broke into a 1987 Honda CRX Si ownedby WSC student Stacy Moore. The car was parked in Wasatch Hall parking lot, Rl. The suspects broke the rear passenger window, left various scratches and dents on the car, and stole a reported $950 in stereo equipment and belongings. The report stated that the suspects then attempted to break into a Nissan Pathfinder entrusted to Paxton Cobb, WSC student. The Pathfinder's car alarm alerted Wasatch Hall resident Larry Anderson, who woke up Cobb and fellow resident Gene Ethridge. WSC Police were notified by Cobb at 3:30 am. Officer Hogensen said that while obtaining a report from Moore and Cobb, a young man holding a dog by its collar approached and started asking questions about what happened. "I told the kid that the cars were burglarized. I then asked him what he was doing, he said that he and his friend were looking for his friend's dog, but he had found it." Hogensen said the young man mentioned he was going to look for his friend who was driving around in a little tan truck. "He just walked off with the dog. "I thought to myself that something about this kid was not right, so I told the residents to stay around the cars until I got back to take some pictures of the automobiles. "While I went looking for the kid, he doubled back to the parking lot and got in a tan pickup and proceeded to leave campus." While Hogensen searched for the man with the dog, Anderson, Cobb and Ethridge got into a Nissan Centra. They proceeded to look for the tan pickup and Officer Hogensen when "they spotted the tan pickup leaving the campus and decided to follow, said Hogensen. According to an Ogden Police report, Patrolman Mike Santos was traveling south when he observed two vehicles running a red light at 12th and Washington. He pursued the vehicles in excess of 75 miles per hour. The two vehicles stopped in the vicinity of 100 N. and Washington. Santos held both vehicles on an Attempt To Locate call, issued by Hogensen. The call specified the suspect's vehicle being involved in a car burglary on campus. Officer Santos notified Officer Hogensen that he had the suspect in custody. With the aid of the three students, Officer Hogensen identified stolen merchandise in the suspect's vehicle. Richards was arrested for vehicle burglary and attempted vehicle burglary, both class A misdemeanors. Hogensen took custody of the suspect and transported him back to Weber State for further questioning. "Eventually the suspect told us of his friend and how he had borrowed the dog from a house near campus to substantiate his aliby." The juvenile suspect was picked up by Detective Heston in the vicinity of Washington Altematice School. WSC Police Chief Lee Cassity said, "Although we encourage students to be observant and we appreciate their aid, we definitely do not suggest the students take these type of actions." MS S W By J.P. Nielson News editor of The Sgnpost Tnt aSWSC sdprcr'e court has ruled that the 1J0 elections are valid. This decision is a result of the court case "Richard Bennett v. ASWSC Elections Committee and Senate." The supreme court heard arguments on the case last Friday and announced the decision on Monday morning. Bennett was appealing the the elections on three points. 1) ambiguity in insLnucioris on the ballots; 2) tr orep.fdnr of rules and Ly-lawe governing election procedure by the elections committee; and 3) discrimination by the student senate in resolution 90-39. Bennett questioned the elections because over 900 votes were consisdered invalid when students voted incorrectly. He also questioned the use of photographs requested by the VOliri C')IT:'.TlittOO, ':ld SUgesVc' the- entire voting: process p.s specified by the student senate is discriminatory. "Basically, they told me I was right," said Bennett when asked to comment on the decision. "But they didn't want to do anything about it." The brief further states "the instructions on the ballot clearly state that voters are to vote for 'one c)Rii.' Trie f-.ct that many voters apparently misunderstood these instructions in no way proves these inst- uctions to be ambigious." "That is the most contradictory statement I've ever heard," said Bennett. The brief also states that "Apparently there was some miscommunication, misunderstanding end bed ji :;;romert on te p:-';"i cf c!;-en :n t-Tic.ais r?r.rd:ng t.-.c- d:sy:' cf pictures this pasi election. However, the by-laws governing student elections state nothing about pictures being on display. Thus, no rule3 or by-laws are (See VALID page 11) |