Waterloo Courier (Newspaper) - May 17, 1995, Waterloo, Iowa HUGE GRANT HIM BULLS Paged WADENA DEAD WEDNESDAY MAY WATERLOO 50 cents 36 pages 5 sections Waterloo Cedar Falls Iowa KEN THE Martin to be interim president COUNCIL BLUFFS Nancy Marlin vice president and provost at the University of Northern Iowa since 1989 was named the school's interim president this morning by the state Board of Regents Board members voted unanimously to appoint Marlin to fill until a manent replacement can be hired for out- going President Con- stantine Curris who steps down June 1 to take over the top job at Clemson University It's a great honor to be asked to serve as acting Marlin said I will work to continue to move the university for- ward Martin's salary will be based on per year hold the post until the regents agree on Curris successor There are six finalists for the job with the visiting the UNI campus today School officials say they hope to have a new office before classes start next fell Marlin 43 came to UNI after eight years as vice president for academic affairs at University of Missouri She is a New York native Mm Nancy Martin own contract By CHARLES V ZEHREN Newsday the executive director of the politically powerful Christian Coalition drew fire from some of his members in January when he agreed not to press their social causes m Congress until Newt Gingrich had a chance to push through his Contract But Reed knew to reap you must sow The former operative spent money and mobilized its 1.6 million members on a campaign in fevor of though it- and concerns instead of school prayer abortion and other cultural agenda can only if we gain momentum by passing and gaining the Most of the contract passed the House with critical support from the coalition which was founded by Pat Robertson And now Reed is slated to go to Capitol Hill today and give his to the Republicans in the form of his own Contract With the American Family School prayer The centerpiece of Reed's legislative package will be a proposed Religious Equality Amendment to the Constitution allowing voluntary school prayer and the use of religious symbols in public In addition the contract will call for giving local school boards more power and spending million to fund pilot programs for public and private school choice Ralph Reed is coming to collect for the loyalty his organization showed to the Republican said Mathew Freeman See CONTRACT page A8 wait between gambling votes Some doubt constitutionality of new law By KEVIN POTTER Courier Staff Writer Exactly a year ago today Black Hawk County voted down a plan to machines at Waterloo Greyhound law signed by Gov Terry Branstad on Tuesday won't see another expanded bling referendum until September 1996 The new law requires a two-year waiting period between votes on whether to expand gambling Iowa Initiated by local legislators during the 1995 General Assembly it is retroactive to the last gambling referendum in Black Hawk County That ballot initiative foiled by 72 votes out of about cast last Sept 26 causing considerable sion in the especially between Waterloo which generally supported the plan and Cedar Falls where residents generally voted The first referendum last May 17 was voted down by about votes The county has twice said No we don't want to expand and this at least gives the county two years to reflect and catch its said Rep Don Hanson the Waterloo Republican who lead the effort in the Iowa House to approve the limit Proponents wanted slot machines at the dog track to pay off million in debt owed by its owner the National Cattle Congress That red ink forced to decide against holding its annual fair in Waterloo last fall for the first time in decades John Tifler attorney for the NCC said it was possible the organization could challenge the legality of the legislation In particular Tiller said past Iowa courts have ruled that it's to make a law applicable to a date before it was passed I don't know if this is or not I think we'll take a real hard look at he said Gambling proponent Sen Jim Lind agreed the NCC See GAMBLING A3 Timothy McVeigh admits to bombing OKLAHOMA othy McVeigh says he bombed the federal building because it housed several government offices but that he didn't know a day-care center was inside The New reported today 1 r McVeigh admitted to two unidentified sources who they talked to the suspect since his arrest 75 minutes after the sion the paper said McVeigh's attorney Stephen Jones doubted any such confession had been made Jones often come forward sions in order to settle a score publicity or cut a better deal for themselves I have practiced law nearly 30 years and I was trying to remember if there had ever been a capital case where the death penalty is being sought and somebody didn't coine forward and say John Doe con- fessed in jail arid this is what he told Jones told The Associated late Tuesday McVeigh and his friend Terry Nichols are the only people charged so far in the April 19 attack mat killed 168 people including 19 children Both face the death penalty if con- McVeigh said he was surprised to learn that children had died when the truck the face off the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building accepted responsibility he think he had committed a crime the paper said The spoke on tion of McVeigh told them that planning for the bombing began at least nine months ago and Oklahoma City was one of several that had been con- Courier Staff Photographer Katie Fattey and brother Joe get caught In a downpour Tuesday after- noon while walking home from school along Summit Avenue The metro area officially received 04 of an Inch of rain Tuesday For the month there has been 1.47 Inches jess than half the normal average rainfall for the month Waterloo may exempt more students from phys ed classes Courier Staff Writer School leaders are considering action that would let hundreds of high school students sidestep physical education class The Board of Education Monday will decide whether fo exempt students from phys ed participate in athletics p They encounter unavoidable scheduling conflicts with an academic course The exemptions already available to seniors would and required It's a patent Director of Instruction Norm Felland said The exemption is voluntary not required The student and the parent would make the decision have the right to choose Ordinarily siate law requires students to enroll in at least one physical education class per semester get daily physical activity through athletics physical education teachers are concerned with the change I've got hundreds of questions and no one telling us what's going East High teacher Ron Johnson said There are a lot of issues that need to be resolved before the board makes that kind f Teachers say sports are no substitute for physical education classes which students can use Larry Hensley a of Northern Iowa of physical education said allowing the exemptions is a slap in the physical tion A quality physical education program means more Let's roll out the ball and play dodge he said There are well-documented health benefits associated with being physically active It's the goal of a good program to develop a student's interest and enthusiasm for staying cally active after he or she is out of school Phys ed classes also provide health education and first well as education to freshmen through the DARE program Felland said the district might add a health course to address those topics At West High this year roughly 735 students are involved in extracurricular sports during school year at East 490 students are involved There's no accurate way to say how many students would be Felland said We don't know how many parents would consent to it or how many students would take the exemption This issue springs from a decision by the Iowa See PHYS ED page AS Goldman's blood is on glove found at house expert testifies LOS state testified Tuesday that the blood of Ronald Goldman and sibly Nicole Brown Simpson was on the lining of the leather glove found outside Simpson's Brentwood home The testimony by Gary Sims a DNA expert at the California Department of Justice was the first evidence the jury has heard of man's blood being linked to son Sims also indicated that Nicole Simpson's blood was rather than dropped on socks found near OJ Simpson's bed a possible contradiction of defense claims that blood was planted Simpson is charged in the June 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Goldman Sims took the stand Tuesday morning after a week of devastating testimony from Robin Cotton director of company that performed several DNA tests for the prosecution She said genetic printing tests showed Nicole son's blood matched blood on the sock and Simpson's blood matched a blood drop near the bodies Sims was questioned by the lead DNA expert Deputy District Attorney Rockne Harmon who tried to elicit testimony to implicate Simpson in the crime and to discredit defense claims of a He repeatedly asked whether the stains on the socks had soaked through to the other side which would indicate that the stains had been placed there I did not detect anything in that particular Suns said Outside the courthouse defense lawyer Carl Douglas downplayed the sock evidence saying there was never a dispute about whose blood was on the sock The far more interesting question is when it got there and how it got he said Douglas noted that blood on the sock was not detected by Los les police crime lab officials until But Sims said it was only after a few examinations that he saw all the blood on the sock including some that police lab officials had not found weather D1 chance of rain Bridge D4 Crossword D8 Markets C7 Sports Business C6 Daily Record D2 Metro Theaters 85 tU Cipher D8 Horoscopes PS A2 TV 01 Obituaries B6 Classified Comics B6 Lifestyles Opinion A6 B8
