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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1995
Page
2
Three police academy instructors were fired after ordering two cadets to eat cigarette sandwiches as punishment for smoking. The cadets vomited and one collapsed unconscious, later hospitalised but recovered fully.
A man in a Santa Claus outfit robs a Texas truck stop restaurant of over $5,000 during a Monday night heist in a Sea Son’s Greetings bag. He steals a taxi in flight but is pursued by patrons and captured by police. Frank Sidney Smith, 35, a former employee, faces aggravated robbery charges.
Tom Washington, president of the National Rifle Association, died Tuesday at Oakwood Hospital Dearborn after nearly three weeks since a heart attack while deer hunting. He was 58 and had just begun a second one-year term in May as NRA grew more political and activist.
The Supreme Court held a three hour session on whether majority minority districts drawing for racial representation comply with the Voting Rights Act and 14th Amendment scrutiny. Justices debated the Texas and North Carolina districts as Justice O Connor signaled skepticism over race based remedies.
An Education Department study finds preschoolers with mothers lacking high school completion or non English primary language lag in naming colors recognizing letters and counting to 20. At risk children show the biggest gaps though most attend some preschool or daycare before kindergarten.
A Harvard study linking living in fraternity or sorority houses to high binge drinking rates reports 86 percent of fraternity residents and 80 percent of sorority women binge drink. The 1993 survey of 14,700 students at 115 colleges also notes elevated rates among nonresident fraternity members. Wechsler urges action at host institutions.
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