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UNIVERSIIY OF KENTUCKY. LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY

Library plan ‘lllBQﬂl,’ lawmaker says

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thus making the state use money for a
project it had not approved, Brown said.
Meanwhile, UK ofﬁcials are trying to
ﬁll some large budget ga 5 left in the wake
of the library project’s 3 million annual

annual payments coming from the Ath-
letics Association.

The attorney general’s ofﬁce has twice
upheld the legality of UK’s plan — both
in October and at last week’s Capitol

Executive Editor

VVlth a $41 million bond sale just around the cor— cost.

ner, the UK library lan has suddenly
become a “bone 0 contention” for
the chairman of the state legislature’s
Capitol Projects Committee.

Rep. Mark Brown (D-Branden—
burg) said last night that UK’s lan to
pay for the library internally affer the
General Assembly turned down fund—
ing for the project this summer, is
illegal.

“To me, it’s just a round-about
way to make the state pay for the project,” Brown

Woihinaion

UK President Charles Wethington has

still not decided where money will be real—
located to account for gaps in three major
areas, including:

VA $655,000 scholarship fund for UK

students.

VVarious programs drawing money

from the UK General Fund pool of

money.

VPart of the University’s operations

and maintenance budget.

Next week’s bond sale by the Lexing-

a round— out
way to make
the state pay

for the

project. ”
v

Rep. Mark Brown
D-Brandenburg, on
UK ’I plan to pay ﬁir
2]): Central and
Lie Science:
Library.

said.

Brown has twice challenged an attorney general’s
decision that the libra project is legal.

rfiuilt, the state will most likely

end up paying to operate and maintain the facility,

Once the library is

library as its own.

ton—Fayette Urban County Government
on behalf of the UK Alumni Association
will begin a 30-year process for UK to claim the

Projects Committee meeting.

If UK is planning on state funding
coming from a special session of the
General Assembly in January, Brown said
they can forget it. He doubts that Gov.
Brereton Jones will offer the project for
approval.

“I see the need for a library,” Brown
said, but noted that UK’s private plan
could set a harmful precedent for other
state agencies to follow.

UK Comptroller and Treasurer Clay
Owen refuted Brown’s claim and said
that the plan is as “solid as a rock."

Although the plan seems complicated,

he said, it is truly a simple transfer of cash from one

agency to another. And with the attorney general’s

Until then, the ﬁnancing plan calls for the Alumni
Association to pay for the

0nd sale, with $3 million

See LIBRARY on Page 2

BASH-ing in

”I" Iﬂl‘lllll
offers tips ‘
to students

By Perry Brothers
New; Editm-

So you got caught, and you
gotta go to jail. Help is but a
forum away.

Repercussions associated with
drunken driving usually fall into
three categories. Either some-
one gets hurt, the perpetrator
goes to jail or both.

Tonight at 7, a representative
from the UK police and Cyndi
Weaver, Student Government
Association’s legal counsel, will
ﬁeld questions pertaining to
Driving Under the Influence.

“There aren’t many ways to
get out of (a DUI),” Weaver
said, “but I’ll discuss what the
chances are ofbeating a DUI —
they aren’t very good —— but if
you are pulled over, you do have
certain rights.”

The program is sponsored by
SGA’s Committee on Alcohol
Responsibility, and Amy Aber-
nathy, SGA’s executive director
of Student Affairs, said the idea
for the project came about while
“mulling over” legal issues that
students

face.
For exam-
ple, Aber-
nathy said,
what hap—
ens if on
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take the ahead
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thinking of £3352
situations be held
that college toni In at 7
““15 get on t e third
themselves ﬂoor ofthe
into,” she Commons.
said, “and we
decided to

have a forum
to educate students of their
rights.”

Abernathy sid the forum will
be informal.

“It’s not a formal panel dis-
cussion, and the audience mem—
bers can ask the questions.”

Weaver has advised several
students who have faced DUI
charges, she said, and most of
these students were not aware of
the laws designed to protect
them.

The UK police representative
will discuss how one is arrested
for drunken driving, Abernathy
said.

Weaver said the forum is just
part of the overall expansion of
the SGA’s legal services division.
In addition to continued out-
reach programs, legal counseling
is now available to students free
from Tuesday through Friday, 9
am. to noon.

“We used to only have hours
three mornings a week,” she
said, “but now we come in every
morning.” .

Weaver attributed this ex an-
sion to a grant which ena led
the group to increase their hours
and programming.

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SAB to bring
Man in Black

for concert

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Ed'm '" “ml Tickets are $15 and can be
purchased at the Student
Center Ticket ijﬁce.

he Man in Black is com-
I ing to campus.
Johnny Cash — the

Ticket: for the April 6
Johnny Cash concert in
Memorial Coilreum go on

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country music le end whose

appeal has recent y spread to college
radio — will bring his classic sound to
Memorial Coliseum for a concert on
April 6. The concert is sponsored by
Student Activities Board.

Tickets go on sale Friday for UK
students, faculty and staff at the Student
Center Ticket Ofﬁce and on Saturday
for the general public.

About 3,800 tickets are available for
the show, which will also feature June
Carter and the Carter Family withJohn
Carter Cash.

Since 1955, Cash has been a country
music mainstay. But, with his April
1994 release American Recordings, Cash
be an to receive considerable airplay on
coﬁege radio and climbed the alterna—
tive music charts.

“He became this kind of alternative
cult hero,” said Ross Compton, SAB
concert committee co-chair. “It’s kind
of weird because he hasn’t really
changed anything, but all of a sudden
kids are listening to him.

“We’re hoping to get a good college
turnout.”

Cash doesn’t tour very often, but
Compton said SAB has “a good working
relationship with his agency.

“We started contacting them in the
summer about the possibility of a
show,” Compton said.

“Hey Porter” was Cash’s ﬁrst big
single in 1955.

A car later, Cash to ped the Bill-
board, Charts with his biggest hit “I
Walk the Line.” Other memorable
songs since then include “Folsom
Prison Blues,” “Ring of Fire,”
“Ghostriders in the Sky,” “A Boy
Named Sue” and.“Man in Black.”

Cash, 62, has been inducted in both
the country music and rock and roll
halls of fame, along with the Songwrit—
ers Hall of Fame.

He has won seven Grammy Awards
and has sold more than 50 million

records.

For American Recordings, Cash
hooked up with producer Rick Rubin
and compiled 13 tracks of acoustic
material.

His down-to-earth, stripped down
style is what appeals to the younger
generation, some fans say.

“I like him because he’s stayed true

to what country music originally was,”
said Cash fan Will Burchard, a telecom—
munications junior and DJ at WRFL—
88.1 FM. “He hasn’t sold out to this
fake, fabricated crap they call country
today.

“He’s just real. He’s true to his roots,
and he plays good, acoustic country
folk.”

Program lets kids talk to Santa on phone

By Cynthia Wan
Suﬁ Writer

Santa will be in town before Christ-

mas, checking his list and checking it
twice.
Alon with those regular holiday
chores, ﬁe will also be taking time out to
make phone calls to children all around
the Bluegrass.

The “Santa Calls” program is spon-
sored by the UK Campus Recreation
De artment.

ts urpose is to offer young children
of stu ents, faculty and staff a chance to

talk directly to St. Nick. Santa will try

several times to reach the children
between the ages of 3—8 at home on
Dec. 13 and 14, between 6:30 and 8:30

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P Parents who would like their chil-
dren to receive a call from Santa can
obtain an application form in 145
Seaton Center.

The form requires sever? ..
al in-depth questions to be
answered so that Santa ‘
will have a clue of the
child’s background.

Some examples are V
the child’s grade in
school, his or her best
friend’s name and and any
recent illnesses.

It also asks if the child has
ever written a letter to Santa.

Organizers are asking parents to
send or copy the letter so Santa can be

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more knowledgeable about the child.
Santa will also help parents to give
instructions to the youngsters, suc as
cleaning up their room or eatin
vegetables. If parents thin
their ' nagging is not
effective any more,

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/

Santa as a second
mentor for the family
chores.

However, Santa
will not make any
romises concernin
C ristmas 'fts nor wi
he make any ong distance
calls.

Ap lication forms must to be com-
pleted) and returned by Dec. 9.

attacked and killed while cleaning a prison bathroom
yesterday in a gruesome end for the former choco—
ate-factory worker who strangled and dismembered
17 boys and men and ate some of them.

Another inmate was being held in Dahmer’s slay-
ing and in the severe beating of another prisoner at
Columbia Correctional Institution.

Authorities wouldn’t identify the suspect, who
was serving a life sentence for murder, or offer a
motive.

A bloody broom handle was found at the scene,
but Corrections Secretary Michael Sullivan said he
didn’t know ifit was the murder weapon.

The 34-year-old Dahmer had extensive head
injuries and died at a hospital about an hour after he
was found. Dahmer, who had been imprisoned since
his crimes came to light in 1991, had been attacked
once before.

In July, an inmate tried to cut Dahmer’s throat
during a chapel service, but the razor blade attached
to a plastic handle fell apart before it could hurt
Dahmer.

Clinton makes linal push lor- GATT

WASHINGTON — President Clinton assem—
bled the economic stars from eight previous admin-
istrations yesterday to give a ﬁnal push for congres-
sional approval of a 123—nation trade agreement.
“We have to do it now. We can’t wait until next
year,” he declared.

Supporters predicted that the rewrite of the Gen—
eral Agreement on Tariffs and Trade would sail
through the House today with perhaps as many as 60
votes to spare.

But the fate of the trade deal was far less certain in
the lOO—member Senate, where it must win 60 votes
on a procedural question of waiving the Senate’s
budget rules.

m Serbs move into sale zone

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Rebel Serbs
were re orted in hand-to-hand combat yesterday
with de enders of the last government stronghold in
northwest Bosnia. Western diplomats, stung by the
United Nations’ inability to save the “safe zone,”
scrambled to broker a cease-ﬁre.

There was little sign that Bosnia’s Serbs would
agree to one — except on their terms.

They have seized up to 40 percent of the safe
zone in the Bihac enclave that was declared off—limits
to combat by the United Nations, and they were
intent on forcing the government garrison there to
surrender.

The Serbs’ war gains have created a crisis for the
international community.

Three NATO airstrikes on Serb positions last
week were ineffective, and more than 400 U.N.
peacekeepin troops have been detained by the
Serbs to ward off more attacks.

Em Smoking workshop today

If quitting smoking has been on your agenda for a
while, the UK Wellness Program is a good place to

o.
g Lead by Leslie Stamatis, M.S., the Wellness Pro-
gram will be holding a pre—quitting workshop today
from 11 am. to 1 pm. in 231 ofthe Student Center
Annex.

The workshop teaches smoking cessation without
nagging, insults or scare tactics.

During the class, which will include a 10—minute
smoke break, four mini-lectures will be presented.
The are:

V“Whv Smokers Love and Hate Their Habit”

V‘WVellness For Smokers”

V“Getting Ready to Quit”

V and “How to Stay a Non-smoker After You
Quit."

This curriculum is designed to empower the
smoker to quit on his/her own schedule whenever
he/she is ready. The program focuses on a gradual
quitting, rather than trying to stop all at once.

The Wellness Program’s pre-quitting workshop
is free.

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HACKENSACK, NJ. —— The notion might have

driven Coco loco: Danny Aiello attired in a lovely
little Chanel outﬁt.

“I look like Margaret Thatcher,”
the actor said of his cross-dressing

erformance in the upcoming
obert Altman movie “Pret a

Porter.”

Aiello plays a fashion director for
a Chicago department store who has .
a secret penchant for wearing
women’s clothes.

“Altman says to me, ‘Danny, I Milli!
want to brin you out of the closet,”
Aiello told he Record of Hackensack. “I said, ‘Bob,
no way. I am the last of the heterosexuals and I am
standing ﬁrm.”

But Aiello, star of “Moonstruck” and dozens of
other movies, went along in the end.

The movie also stars Teri Garr, Julia Roberts,
Sophia Loren and Lauren Bacall.

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The UK Hospital is among
the top 100 hospitals in the Unit—
ed States, according to a study
published this month in Modern
Healthcare magazine.

The study “100 Top US.
Hospitals; Benchmarks for Suc—
cess” relied on a selection process
that rated hospitals in five peer
groups by size.

UK Hospital is the only facili—
ty in the state on the list, and this
is the second consecutive year
the institution has received the
honor.

[t is listed among 15 hospitals
from a group of 112 teaching
hospitals with 400 or more beds.

“\Ve are pleased to be listed
for the second consecutive year
among the top 100 hospitals in
the U.S.," said UK’s Vice Chan-
cellor for Related Health Ser—
vices Frank Butler.

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as one at top 100

Butler, who is also the director
of the UK Hospital, said the
coordinators of the study
assessed several aspects of hospi-
tal operations.

“This ranking recognizes the
high value we place on providing
excellent service to our patients
while operating in a managed
care environment that requires
us to be cost effective in all
areas," he said.

The purpose of the study was
to identify a set of benchmarks
for the hospital industry that rep-
resent a balance of high care
quality, efficient delivery and
good ﬁnancial capabilities.

In identifying the top 100 per-
formers, the study compared
hospitals with others in their
peer list, and then allotted a cer-
tain number of representatives in
each category.

Nearly 4,000 hospitals were

assessed in preparation of the list.

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Study suggests babies born smart

By Lance Williams
Aizi‘oaare Editor

Long stares from infants in
their cribs may be more than just
their mere fascination with their
new environment.

A UK researcher said that
babies may be learning and gain-
ing experience fir beyond what
studies have siid they are capable
of.

Psichologist Ramesh Bhatt said
he believes that babies can per-
ceive events with more sophistica—
tion and detail than researchers
ever thought possible.

“We used to believe that
babies’ memories were non—spe—
cific and lasted only a few seconds
and that they learn all they know

through experience,’ Bhatt said.
“We are finding now that babies
are not blank slates —~ they are
born with innate knowledge and
skills and With highly developed
capacities for memory and percep—
tion.”

The interest in this research is
aimed at trying to find out what
new information is used and how
it is processed.

“The question is not how
long," Bhatt said. “but what
aspects do they remember (about
their environment)."

The results of four years of
research were recently published
by Developmental Psychology.
Bhatt arrived at UK this fall, but
has previously worked on the pro-
ject at Rutgers, the State Universi-

library

State lawmaker
criticizes ﬁnancing
From PAGE 1

decision in hand, UK is preparing
for the first stages of implement-
ing the plan.

After the bonds are sold at a
fixed interest rate on Dec. 8,
VVethington said he will make the
ﬁnal reallocations in the budget to
account for the shortfalls in schol—
arships, general fund money and

the operations and maintenance
budget.

He said he will officially report
the differences to the Board of
Trustees Dec. 13.

Until then, he said he has
already finished constructing a
plan to account for the $3 million
annual shortfall.

“It’s simply a matter of plug—
ging the numbers into holes” once
the bonds are sold VVethington
said.

\Vethington has pledged that
programs, salaries and jobs at UK
will not be cut by the plan to
internally pay for the $58 million
(lentral and Life Sciences Library.

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you don ’t understand, we have a paper to put out

ty of New Jersey, where he was
associate director of the Rutgers’
Early Learning Project.

Bhatt said he hopes to continue
his research and develop a model
for learning in infants.

“I want to see the manner in
which this develops their future
behavior, ” Bhatt said. “More gen—
erally, I want to get at the
mechanics of cognitive develop-
ment.”

Bhatt said the model would
hel him and other researchers
understand the different ways
adults and infants process new
information.

The new model could also hel
gain more information about chilp
dren who are born with mental
disorders and how their develop-

ment differs from other babies.

Bhatt’s study involved 45 three-
month- old infants who were given
three separate trials.

On two consecutive days, the
researcher placed a mobile with
different shapes over the babies’
cribs.

The researcher then tied a rib-
bon to the baby’s foot and
watched as the baby learned to
move the mobile by kickin

A week later, they put tiie same
mobile above the crib, but left the
baby’s foot unattached.

The baby would then kick in
anticipation of the mobile moving
again.

In similar studies, Bhatt found
that six~month- old infants had
even more developed memories.

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allowed to stand

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court agreed yesterday
to use an Oregon case to decide
whether school districts can
require student athletes to under~
go drug testing.

The court said it will hear the
Vernonia School District’s argu-
ment that mandatory drug testing
is necessary and “may be the only
effective way to deal with a drug-
use epidemic among school chil-
dren.” '

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The Vernonia school board
voted in 1989 to require drug tests
for students who participate in
interscholastics rts.

District of lcials said their
teachers believed drug use was
responsible for an increase in
unruly behavior by students since
the mid-19805.

All students who signed up for
interscholastic s orts were
required to be teste at the be 'n-
ning of the season and coul be
selected randomly for additional
testing during their sports respec-
tive season.

The students were tested by
urinalysis for amphetamines, mar-
ijuana, cocaine and LSD.

Those who failed a ﬁrst time

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had to attend a drug treatment
program, while those who failed a
second or third time were sus-
pended from sports for up to three
seasons.

James Acton tried out for the
football team when he was a sev-
enth-grader in fall 1991, but he
was suspended after he refused to
be tested for drugs.

His parents, Wayne and Judy
Acton, sued the school district in
federal court.

Their lawsuit said the policy
violated James’ right, under the
Constitution’s Fourth Amend-
ment, to be free from unreason—
able searches.

A federal jud e ruled against
the Actons, but t e 9th U.S. Cir-

.own, __

cuit Court of Appeals reversed the
decision.

It said school ofﬁcials had failed
to justify random testing of stu-
dents who are not individually sus-
pected of drug use.

The school district’s appeal
relied heavily on a 1985 Supreme
Court ruling that said the need to
maintain order in public schools
can justify less Fourth Amend-
ment protection for students who
'want to participate.

But the Actons’ lawyers said
school ofﬁcials did not prove drug
use was a major problem, or that
there had been any drug-related
sports injuries.

They said only two students
tested positive in 3 1/2 years of

testing.

The case is Vernonia School
District vs. Acton, 94—590.

In other actions yesterday, the
high court:

VRefused to kill a lawsuit that
accuses cigarette-maker R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. of using
cartoon character Joe Camel to
entice children to smoke
cigarettes.

The ruling sends the case back
to a California state court.

VAgreed to decide whether the
Constitution requires police with
court warrants to knock and
announce themselves before
entering a home to conduct a
search.

Kentucky Kernel, Tuesday, November 29, 1994 8

Court to hear case on drug testing in high schools

VLet stand lawsuits that threw
out a lawsuit by animal rights
oups trying to protect two mon-
eys from being used for medical
research.

The lawsuit had been ﬁled
against the federal government
and Tulane University in New
Orleans.

VRefused to reinstate a lawsuit
ﬁled by a Navy reservist who said
the government should pay her
because she contracted the AIDS
virus by having sex with a Navy
enlisted man.

She said Navy doctors failed to
order the man to tell potential sex
partners he carried the virus that
causes AIDS.

911 dispatchers disciplined

Change creating newjobs

U.S.-built Japanese surpass
imports first time in history

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — For the first time last year,
Japanese automakers produced more vehicles in the
United States than they 5 i ped to this country, a
Japanese auto association sai yesterday.

More than 1.8 million vehicles were produced in
the United States for the ﬁscal year ended in January
1994, according to the Ja anese Automobile Manu-
facturers Association. In t e same year, Japan export—
ed 1.5 million vehicles to the United States.

“The Japanese automotive companies have invest-
ed more than $11 billion in the U.S., creating more
than 300,000 American jobs and becoming an impor-
tant, positive economic force in communities across
America,” said JAMA’s general director, William C.
Duncan.

Japan has been under U.S. pressure to produce
more cars in the United States, with more U.S. labor
and parts in their vehicles, because Japanese exports
account for $60 billion — more than 40 percent — of
the U.S. trade deficit. More than half of that comes
from sales of Japanese autos and auto parts in the
United States.

The general trend has been to produce more
Japanese cars in the United States, using American
la or.

The number of Americans employed by Japanese
automakers in the United States more than tripled
from 11,236 in 1987 to 37,435 in ﬁscal 1993, accord—
ing to JAMA.

However, Steve Beckman, an international
economist with the United Auto Workers, said

JAMA’s ﬁgures fail to address the low U.S. part con—
tent inJapanese automobiles.

Only 50 percent of the parts in Japanese cars man-
ufactured in the United States are American, on aver-
age, Beckman said, and parts on autos shipped from
Japan have near—zero U.S. content.

“VVe’d like to see 70 percent of the parts be U.S.
parts on Japanese cars made in America —— at least,”
he said.

He predicted that the U.S. trade imbalance with
Japan, and its auto imbalance with Ja an would be
this year would be “larger probably than ever
before.”

He said the U.S. trade deﬁcit in autos with Japan
probably would be $20 billion, while auto parts
would add more than $12 billion to the deﬁcit.

JANIA said that Japanese automakers’ purchases of
U.S. auto parts increased more than sixfold between
1986 and 1993 — from $2.49 billion to $15.54 bil-
lion. The number of U.S. parts suppliers approxi-
mately quadrupled during the same period, from 298
in 1986 to 1,245 in March 1994, JAMA said.

Japanese automakers own and operate seven auto
manufacturing plants in the United States, which
sometimes manufacture parts for American cars.

TheJapanese plants are: Honda, in Ohio; Nissan,

in Tennessee; Mitsubishi, in Illinois; and Toyota .

plants in Kentucky and Missouri and two in Califor-
nia.

The Japanese also have two joint venture plants
with American car manufacturers and nine research
and development centers, mostly in Michigan and
California.

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Transcripts of the 911 calls
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operators grew impatient with
some callers and waited about 40
minutes after the ﬁrst of about 20
calls to send olice. Police
responded within Eve minutes.

Mayor Edward G. Rendell said
that of 11 operators on duty that
night, three will be suspended

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Hayes also denied the prosecu-
tor’s request that Smith’s lawyer,
David Bruck, reveal whether he
will pursue an insanity defense.
Without elaborating, Hayes said
he found “good cause” for extend—
ing the time Bruck has to reveal
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uled no sooner than mid—1995. He
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Meanwhile, Smith’s estranged
husband, David, ﬁled court papers
seeking possession of the 1990
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with intent to dismiss, three will
be suspended and transferred and
one will be referred to a disci-
plina board for a hearing.

“T ey are being suspended for
abusive and rude responses to
callers. That is unacceptable,”
Rendell said.

The three who are being sus-
pended had been disciplined for
similar problems before, the
mayor said.

Polec was attacked by up to 20
teen-agers swinging baseball bats,

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of a fractured sEull. Five'youn
men have been charged wit
murder.

The‘ attack followed a false
rumor that someone from Polec’s
nei hborhood in Philadelphia
hafraped a girl from suburban
Abington.

“911 did not murder Eddie.
Five peo le murdered him with
bats,” Join Polec, the victim’s
father, told WPVI-TV after

hearing of the disciplinary action.

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