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Show I THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1995 Cochran: 'Stop this cover-up' LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a thundering small daughter, Sydney, and spoke of a father's love. summation that rocked the court, Johnnie "Someone has taken these children's Cochran Jr. exhorted O.J. Simpson's mostly mother," he said. "I hope your decision black jury yeste.rday to "do the right thing" and acquit Simpson as a message against doesn't take their father." racism and police misconduct. He listed 15 points of reasonable doubt in At the end of Cochran's passionate, final the case and finally turned to the Bible in his presentation to jurnrs, the judge said final moments at the lectern. He cited prosecutor Marcia Clark would conclude her sections of Proverbs dealing with false rebuttal today, clearing the way for the case to witnesses who must be punished and urged be placed in their hands in the afternoon. jurors to carry out God's will. In the fevered style of a revival preacher, "I know you will stay the course, keep your Cochran invoked biblical texts, referred to two eye on the prize and do the right thing," key detectives as Coch.ran said. Cochran's "the twin devils of impassioned deception" and told appeal, which the spellbound enraged the father jurors that fate had of one murder given them a chance victim, was to change history. followed by the "Maybe there is a reason why we're ~ cooler, scientific here," he said. ::! analysis of defense "'attorney Barry "Maybe you're the § Scheck, who told right people at the right time at the jurors: "There is a right place to say: ~ cancer at the heart 'No more!'" of this case." ______. ~ Scheck insisted "Stop this coverup! Stop this cover- Double-murder defendant O.J. Simpson, right, they could not up!" Cochran confers with his attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., trust any of the bellowed in the DNA analysis of center, as attorney Robert Blasier, left, listens to second day of his blood because the the defense closing arguments in Simpson's summation. "You double-murder trial. samples were contaminated and are the consciences of this community." tampered with in Far from Los Angeles, President Clinton said the "black hole" of the Los Angeles Police he was uneasy about the racial implications of Department crime lab. "Somebody played with th.is evidence," he the trial. "I'm concerned about it and I hope the said. "There's no doubt about it." American people will not let this become Using an analogy posed by forensic expert some symbol of the larger racial issue in our Henry Lee, Scheck compared the defense discovery of flawed evidence to finding a country," the president told NBC-TV in cockroach in a bowl of spaghetti - enough of Washington. a sign that the whole bowl is infested. In his final words to the jury, Cochran "How many cockroaches do you have to implored jurors acquit Simpson, invoking the find in the bowl of spaghetti?" he asked. image of his two small children. He stood "This is reasonable doubt." before a wall-size blowup of Simpson and his g Cost of college on the rise-Again WASHINGTON (AP) - The price of college rose about 6 percent this yea.r - less than the double-digit jumps of the early 1990s but still twice the rate of inflation, the College Board said yesterday. And the annual increase, roughly the same as last year, shows no signs of stopping. Tuition and fees, not counting room and board, average $2,860 at public four-year colleges, $12,432 at private four-year colleges and $1,387 at two-year pµblic colleges. Prices jumped less at two-year private colleges, 4 percent, to $6,350. Those price are daunting to parents and students, acknowledged Kathleen Brouder, spokeswoman for the board's financial aid arm. But college can still be affordable if families save, seek financial aid or take advantage of bargain , she argued. "Families and students must decide if the sacrifices of going to the most high-priced schools are for them," Brouder said. For Congress, the jump adds fuel to a fierce Republican-Democratic debate: Should the government increase federal loans and grants, now lagging far behind college prices? Or should it keep aid the same or less, and try to encourage colleges to hold tuition down? Sharon Morris, a 38-year-old mother who works part time and attends the University of the District of Columbia, said losing aid could keep her from school. "I probably wouldn't be able to finish my degree - or it would take me a lot longer," Morris said. "I would have to work full time and go to school part time." But Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., said colleges can do more. "They benefit from student aid. I do think they have a responsibility to keep their prices down," Kassebaum said. Colleges argue they're doing all they can. Their labor intensity causes the increases, especially the cost of health care for faculty and staff, said David L. Warren, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. The Education Department found that, in the last decade, colleges also shifted more money from instruction into administration, including marketin& financial aid and counselors. At public universities, tuition is up because states have provided less money since the early 1990s. St.ates cut education spending because of increases in Medicaid and prison spending. THE NATION ll~I NATIONAL DIGEST REYNOLDS GETS FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE IN SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CASE: Rep. Mel Reynolds was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison for having sex with a teen-age campaign worker and trying to cover up the investigation of the case. Judge Fred Suria sentenced to Reynolds to the mandatory minimum four years in prison for criminal sexual assault and gave him an additional year to be served consecutively for obstruction of justice. Reynolds, a _M_el_R_ey"--n_o_l_d_s_ _ _ Democrat, was elected in 1992. BOMBING SUSPECT'S LAWYER SEEKS TO REMOVE JUDGE FROM CASE: The judge in the Oklahoma bombing case is a victim of the bla t and shouldn't oversee the trial, the lawyer for su pect Terry Nichols said. Michael Tigar filed a petition Wednesday with the 10th U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver, seeking to remove District Judge Wayne Alley and all the federal judges in Oklahoma's Western District from the case. "We are stari.ng in the face a fact: He is a victim," Tigar said. Two weeks ago, Alley rejected a request from the defense and the prosecution that he step aside. But he ordered the trial moved to Lawton, 90 miles away, because passions are running high in Oklahoma City. PEROT'S PARTY FACES FINANCIAL OBSTACLES HIS WEALTH MAY NOT SOLVE: If Ross Perot's proposed new party gets off the ground, its presidential candidate won't enjoy the immediate financial benefits that Republican and Democratic contenders are guaranteed from taxpayers. And unless Perot himself runs, he won't be able to shower unlimited amounts of his own money directly on the party's nominee. ln 1992, Perot spent $65.6 million on his own bid for the presidency. This time, the most Perot could contribute directly to his Independence Party's candidate would be $2,000 - $1,000 each for the primary and general elections. Where his fortune could come in handy, though, is in financing generic party-building activities, for which there is no limit on contributions. SCIENTISTS DEBATE OBESITY DRUG: Scientists debated yesterday whether the government should approve the nation's first new obesity drug since 1973, a compound that makes people believe they are full even though they have eaten less. But the drug, dexfenflurarnine, has been shown to cause brain damage at very high doses in animals, prompting concern about how it would affect the thousands of Americans likely to use it. The manufacturer, Intemeuron Pharmaceutical Inc., told a Food and Drug Administration panel that the levels it would suggest are too low to hurt anyone, and maintained that the need for a better drug to treat the 78 million obese Americans is vital. BLACK CAUCUS CHAIRMAN LIKENS MILLION MAN MARCH TO 1963 GATHERING: Next month's march of 1 million black men in Washington can have the same impact for participants as the 1963 civil rights march, the chainnan of the Congressional Black Caucus said yesterday. "Just as the 1963 march on Washington aroused the country to the seriousness of the civil rights struggle, it is our hope that this will be a defining moment for Louis Farral<han African-American men in this era," - - -- - - - - Donald Payne said. The caucus has endorsed the Oct. 16 march, which is organized by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and Benjamin Chavis, the ousted director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
