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Show ____The Salt Lake Tribune THE WEST Wednesday, December 2, 1998 Al3 Topless Woman May Be Hate-Crime Vie i Burning cross, Molotov cocktail come on heels of indecent-exposure acquittal SCRIPPS-MCCLATCHY WESTERN SERVICE MOSCOW, Idaho — Onedayafter winning acquit- tal for walking topless in Moscow, Lori Graves awoke early Tuesday morning to find her front porch burning anda flaming cross in her yard. MoscowPolice Chief Dan Weaversaid theinitial investigation found that a Molotov cocktail shattered on rocks in front of the home had ignited Graves’ porch, A separate fire was started just feet from the porch where a wooden cross, said to be a couple of feet high, had been stuck into the front lawn. Graves notified police of the fire at 4:15 a.m. Flames were extinguished beforefirefighters arrived and no structural damageorinjuries were re- ported. Weaversaid the incident wasbeinginvestigated as arson anda hatecrime,but he doubtedthatthefires wererelated to Graves’ acquittal on Monday. “Who would be upset about topless women?” he said. Graves could not be reached for commentabout the fire. But on Monday, she celebrated after learning that 2nd District Judge John Stegner had dis- missed indecent-exposure charges against her and two other women who had walked topless downtown in July. Current Moscowcity code says anyone whoexposes “his or her personor the private parts thereof in any place wherethere are other personslikely to be offended” is breaking the law. Stegner ruled Mondaythatthe indecent-exposure ordinance did not define “private parts” and was vague about what the term “person” meant. Within hoursofthe ruling, City Attorney Randy Fife had drafted a new ordinance that would prohibit “pubescent female breasts below the top of the areola” in public. An exception would be made for breast-feeding. U.of California Grad Students Stage Strike That Chokes System LOS ANGELESTIMES LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of teaching assistants walked off the job at eight University of Califor- nia campuseson Tuesday,staging the largest laborstrike by graduate students. Unlike sporadic strikes on individual campuses in previous years, this one was orchestrated essays," said UCLA sociology professor Ruth Milkman, “I'm not really in a position to do that. ‘There's going to bea lot of noise when students don’t get their grades on time.” The strike is being carefully watched across the country, wherecollege and university campuses have becomebattlegrounds throughout the UC system tohit for the labor movement. Nationwide, graduate students nerable: just before final exams. Thestrike, part of a 15-yeareffort by UC graduate students to win recognition as a union, forced have won collective bargaining rights at 18 universities. But thestrike called by student associations representing 9,000 UC teaching assistants, readers when the university is most vul- the cancellation of hundreds of classes, catching some students by andtutors is by far the largest. James Burnett, a junior at the University of California, Irvine, arrived at a discussion group Tuesday hoping for some guidance from his teaching assistant before writing his term paper. But no one else showedup. thing of this magnitude,” said surprise. “There has never been any- The UC administration in- structed professorsthat it is their responsibility to make sureclasses continue without disruption. Yet professors in the most heavily hit academic departments said they cannot possibly shoulder the grad students’ hefty teaching loads. 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