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Show I -~, - E '·" THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL • SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.6, 1994 ., .\'1 ·Jlll THE NATION ~ - NATIONAL DIGEST JUDGE SLAMS CITADEL FOR HINDERING FAULKNER: An exasperated federal judge scolded The Citadel's lawyers for their treatment of Shannon Faulkner, who's battling to become the first full-fledged, female ( / -, · .-~• cadet at the all-male military college. .Ji "You're doing everything you can to make her unpopular and make it seem she's overstepping her bounds," U.S. District Judge C. Weston Houck said Friday at a hearing on Faulkner's request to join the orchestra, the yearbook, the student legislature and ROTC. The 19-year-old is attending day classes but not participating in military Shannon Faulkner training while the school appeals Houck's order allowing her into the corps. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has put Houck's order on hold and will hear arguments in December. f ,.. t TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT TIGHTENS CONSUMER AIRLINE RULES: Travelers will be able to Defendant O.f. Simpson sits with his lawyer, Robert Shapiro, at his preliminary hearing in Los Angeles. The long awaited Simpson double-murder trial is scheduled to begin today. Simpson trial begins today in L.A. LOS ANGELES (AP) - The O.J. Simpson murder trial formally begins today amid all the anticipation and hoopla appropriate for a case that has attracted worldwide attention. And hardly anyone will see a thing. The jury selection process will be conducted outside the courtroom pool camera's eye as the judge tries to protect potential jurors from the media glare. For the next month or more, news from the case will be dominated by the tedious yet critical task of finding 12 minds unpolluted by pretrial publicity and Simpson's fame. "We've been through so much," said Robert Pugsley, professor at Southwestern University Law School, "that by the time the 'actual' trial starts, with opening statements and both sides presenting their cases, it will seem like double jeopardy." Monday, then, will bring the anticlimactic start to a case that has been packed with drama. The public will have to wait until opening statements, expected in November, for answers to many questions, including a clear narrative from the prosecution on just what it thinks Simpson did and why. And even then there might not be as much "O.J. info" as people want. The judge, angry over what he called erroneous news reports, has threatened to yank the TV plug. But whether it's broadcast or not, the Simpson case's grip on the public likely isn't going to loosen - and the information will keep coming. It will take much more than an outraged judge for the networks to dismantle their towering camera platforms across the street from the courthouse. The case has just too much of everything for everybody - celebrity, sex, high tragedy and low comedy, to say nothing of a vivid cast of characters, including two Katos (one Simpson's house guest, the other a dog with bloody paws). Indeed, the themes in the Simpson case transcend time and national boundaries. "O.J. is tragic in the way that figures in Greek literature are tragic," said Ronald Hock, who teaches ancient Greek religion at Simpson's alma mater, the University of Southern California. He said that Simpson's plunge from elite status to murder suspect is "similar to what happens in Greek tragedy. That has its own fascination. We've never known any other famous person who's been accused of so serious a sin as O.J. Simpson has." Some would argue that this drama should star the two victims, not Simpson. But in death, just as in life, Nicole Brown Simpson has been overshadowed by her famous ex-husband. Ronald Goldman often is almost an afterthought, usually mentioned in news accounts as "Nicole's friend" or "the waiter." SLlJ Student Dav• is Bael,f Every Tuesday, All $1 Washers are 1/2 price! 1117 N. Main Cedar City 8 a.m.-10 p.m. 586-1405 ~ KC>A ~ LAU Drop your wash off... We'll do it for you! ,.; get more accurate reports of airlines' on-time performance and may be eligible for more money when their baggage is lost under new Transportation Department rules announced Saturday. In addition, the department is launching an investigation of airline ticket marketing practices. The new rule for on-time performance takes effect Jan. I, requiring that airlines include delays caused by mechanical problems in their monthly reports. Currently the largest carriers are required to report the share of departures and arrivals that take place within 15 minutes of schedule. That is considered to be on time. However, the rules exempt flights delayed by mechanical problems. That exemption will be eliminated. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT PROBING WETHER CISNEROS MISLED FBI: Justice Department investigators are trying to determine whether Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros misled FBI agents when they questioned him about money he'd given his former girlfriend. The inquiry, a 30-day initial review required by federal law, centers on taped conversations between Cisneros and Linda Medlar, in which they fretted over whether the FBI would find out about the payments and derail his nomination to the Cabinet. If this review turns up any "specific and credible allegations" of criminal wrongdoing, Attorney General Janet Reno would open a 90-day preliminary inquiry to determine whether she should seek appointment of an independent counsel. Law enforcement officials, speaking Friday on condition of anonymity, said Henry Cisneros investigators want to compare Cisneros' taped statements against his answers to the FBI before his appointment, and to staff members of the Senate Banking Committee. 360 N. MAIN• CEDAR CITY 586-6595 THE HEARTBEAT OF SOUTHERN UTAH SINCE 1927 Welcome Bacl< SUU StL1-der1ts Have a great year! |