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U. of California project to put
industry
40 million tobacco
documents online
by Billy O’Keefe
TMS Campus
February 1, 2001
The University of California, San
Francisco, this week announced
plans to create a massive Internet
archive of tobacco industry docu
ments and develop facilities for the
study of the material. The announce
ment comes in the wake of a $l5
million donation from the American
Legacy Foundation, an independent
public health foundation dedicated
to helping decrease the use of to
bacco by Americans.
The two proposed facilities, the
American Legacy Foundation Na
tional Tobacco Documents Library “Early research in this important
and the Center for Tobacco Control area, led by UCSF, has already re-
Research and Education, aim to vealed so much about how
streamline access to the approxi- the tobacco industry
mately 40 million pages of docu- operates behind the
ments related to the tobacco \Jj scenes, and this
industry, according to the knowledge has for
university’s announcement, \ ever changed public per
“ This gift is an incredible ception of tobacco prod
opportunity to develop a \ ucts and the tobacco in
single portal to documents from ' dustry,” said Flealton.
six tobacco companies,” said While the new facilities
Karen Butter, who will direct (C ' will cater mostly to scholars,
the new library. “By combin- 1 researchers and journalists,
ing emerging digital library they will be open to the gen
standards with highly effective eral public,
online search systems, we will ere- v \j
ate a freely available resource for
the world wide commu-
For many high school football stars, entrance tests tackle their dreams
by Andy Friedlander
Knight-Ridder Newspapers
February 5, 2001
FORT WORTH - By far, the most sig
nificant moment of Lee Foliaki’s high
school football career occurred off the
field. It came three weeks ago, when
the Trinity linebacker and “Star-Tele
gram” Defensive Player of the Year
went to his mailbox and found an en
velope from ACT, Inc., a firm that ad
ministers college entrance examina
tions.
It was the word he’d been waiting
for, confirmation he had posted a 20
on the ACT, good enough to immedi
ately become eligible for NCAA Di
vision I competition. His dream of
playing major college football was
alive.
“Man, that feeling was great, the
best,” said Foliaki, who gave his oral
commitment to Colorado last week.
“That beats anything I’ve felt on the
field, no doubt. Without this, you can’t
go on. I’ve never felt so relieved.”
Wednesday, national signing day, is
a day of celebration for recruits such
as Foliaki, whose high school exploits
will earn them a free education. Many
of the area’s and state’s top players,
however, won't be celebrating.
The importance in establishing the
permanent archive lies in the 1998
Master Settlement Agreement, a
settlement between the industry and
46 states which, among other things,
allows the industry to order the re
moval of existing documents from
the Internet by 2010. This includes
documents in UCSF’s current digi
tal library, located at http://
www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco.
In addition, foundation President
Cheryl G. Healton said, sites
launched by the industry are clumsy
to a fault and difficult to navigate,
not to mention a hard sell to the pub
lic.
They’ll be sweating, hoping time
hasn’t run out on their hope for a
scholarship.
Despite repeated warnings from
their coaches, counselors and recruit
ers the past two years, they waited too
long to ensure they had a high enough
score on the required standardized
test, the ACT or SAT, to earn a schol-
arship.
Without those test scores, athletes
aren’t eligible to play at the Division
I level as freshmen and are often
dropped by recruiters.
Fourteen of the “Star-Telegram’s”
list of the top 75 area players are still
missing a qualifying score, meaning
they are unlikely to sign this week.
They’re left to hope schools still have
interest should they get their test score
at a future date.
NCAA spokeswoman Jane
Jankowski said the percentage of ac
tively recruited players who failed to
qualify has held steady at 12-13 per
cent for the past five years.
Those involved in the process are
mystified why the athletes aren’t
qualifying at a higher rate. In almost
all cases, say those close to the pro
cess, the students wait too long to take
the ACT or SAT, not leaving enough
NATIONAL CAMPUS NEWS
Cold cash: Schools struggle with rising gas bills
by Matthew McGuire
TMS Campus
January 31, 2001
This past month was the coldest De
cember Bruce Braun could remember.
As director of facilities management
at the University of Wisconsin, Braun
said the last month of 2000 was the
most expensive month to heat the
campus in recent memory. Prices
doubled in December, with heating
bills reaching about $95,000, com
pared to $47,000 to heat the campus
in Dec. 1999, Braun said.
The Madison, Wis., campus is not
an exception, as the combination of
freezing temperatures and skyrocket
ing natural gas prices are taking their
toll on college campuses across the
U.S. this winter.
According to the U.S. Department
of Energy, the average world oil price
increased from $17.35 per barrel in
1999 to $27.60 in 2000, a 59 percent
increase. The increase in price is more
pronounced because oil prices fell in
1997 and 1998 due to an oversupply
of oil. To counterbalance the price
drop OPEC reduced oil production in
1999, and oil and natural gas prices
increased due to higher than expected
demand and to tight supplies.
The price increase has left college
campuses searching for alternate
sources of heat and ways to reduce
costs in budgets already strapped for
cash.
Large universities like the Univer
sity of Wisconsin and Colorado State
University have large central heating
plants that in addition to burning natu
ral gas can also bum cheaper alterna
tives like coal and fuel oil. In addition
to changing fuel sources, the univer
sities are finding other ways to cut
back costs.
Ron Baker, director of facilities
management at Colorado State Uni
versity, was at the university in the
1970's when the U.S. was facing a
more dramatic oil crisis and he's em
ploying some of the same strategies
he used back then. The university is
rolling back the thermostats in some
of the administrative buildings and
asking the staff to bring sweaters to
Student wins right to sue ex-professor for calling her “Monica"
by Helen Peterson
Knight-Ridder Tribune
February 2, 2001
NEW YORK - Better watch those
Monica Lewinsky jokes.
A federal judge has given a former
student of State University of New
York at New Paltz permission to sue
her former professor for repeatedly
referring to her as “Monica.”
The woman, Inbal Hayut, 23, said
Alex Young also made such remarks
as, “How was your weekend with
Bill?” and "Shut up, Monica. I’ll give
you a cigar later,” according to court
papers.
He once mentioned she was wear
ing the same color lipstick as
Lewinsky.
time to retake it in case they score low
the first time. The required test score
depends on a recruit's grade-point
average in core curriculum courses.
There is no limit to the number of
times a student can take the test.
Eastern Hills running back Douglas
Sherman, the “Star-Telegram” Offen
sive Player of the Year, is one such
player who is paying the price for pro
crastination. He took the ACT as a
sophomore and failed to score 17,
which turned out to be his minimum
score to be eligible based on his cur
rent GPA. Instead of retaking it as a
junior, or early in his senior season,
he waited until Jan. 27. Because the
College Board, which administers the
SAT, takes three weeks or more to
report results, the vast majority of
Division I scholarships will be filled
by the time Sherman gets his score.
Even if he qualifies, he might find any
recruiting interest in him gone.
“Nobody has been calling,”
Sherman said. “I’m not confident
about getting a scholarship. I just hope
something will be there.”
Sherman said he considered taking
the test as a junior but decided he
would wait until he had taken an SAT
preparatory course last fall. He missed
work. Several projects have also been
planed throughout the campus to up
date older buildings that to leak heat.
“In the past, with oil prices being
rather economical, a lot of projects that
we could have done to insulate build
ings wouldn’t have paid back for us,”
Baker said. “It didn’t make sense for
us to make the modifications. But a
lot of those projects, with the increased
oil prices, are becoming financially
viable.”
Ohio State University isn’t planning
any insulation projects, but has also
switched over to burning coal to steam
heat the campus buildings.
“Our power plant can bum coal and
the process is significantly cheaper
than using natural gas, even prior to
the increase in gas prices,” said Terry
Conry, director of facilities manage
ment at Ohio State.
But while coal may be cheaper to
purchase, it isn't always cheaper in the
long run
“Even though we’re paying a lot
less for the coal, we’re spending
money on hauling away the ashes,”
said Bruce Frantz, director of physi
cal plant at North Dakota State Uni
versity. “Coal creates a lot of issues,
in the removing of ash and in handling
it.”
Like most cities, Fargo, N.D., reg
istered one of the coldest Decembers
on record, with temperatures on the
North Dakota campus reaching 20
below zero 60 below with the wind
chill. As of the middle of January,
heating costs have already exceeded
the school's budgeted amount by 10
percent, with almost two months re
maining of frigid temperatures, Frantz
said.
Chicago’s DePaul University has
been hit with gas bills three times
larger than they’re used to paying, said
university spokeswoman Robin
Florzak. And while the university has
a “contingency fund” to offset the cost
of unforeseen costs, even the back-up
plan won’t cover all of the bills.
The university is currently in talks
with the local natural gas company,
People’s Gas, to set up a payment plan
over the next year to payoff the bills,
Florzak said.
Hayut is suing Young and several
SUNY New Paltz officials who alleg
edly failed to respond to her sexual
harassment complaint. Young could
not be reached for comment, but his
lawyer, Kenneth Kelly, said his client
was just teasing Hayut because he
thought she resembled Lewinsky.
“It may not be polite, it may not be
politically correct, but it is not sexual
harassment,” Kelly said.
Young, who retired after the case
surfaced, has not been accused of
propositioning or improperly touch
ing Hayut, Kelly said.
The remarks were made while
Hayut was a student in Young’s po
litical science class in the fall of 1998.
“The timing of these comments, oc
curring as they did at the height of the
the registration for taking the test
again, however, and college coaches
never looked in his direction after that.
Despite a senior season during which
he rushed for 2,001 yards, Sherman
said he has received strong recruiting
interest from only two colleges - Di
vision II schools Tarleton State and
Midwestern State.
For top recruits, missing a test score
doesn't always mean the end of re
cruiting interest. Division I and II col
leges are allowed to accept partial
qualifiers - athletes who score 720-
810 on the SAT or 14.75-16.75 on the
ACT - but there are often severe lim
its on the number a college can take.
College coaches in some cases are
willing to take the chance of wasting
a scholarship on a blue-chip player,
hoping he will become eligible or will
at least enroll as a partial qualifier.
Many coaches are also willing to sign
a recruit whose score is close to quali
fying because he can take the test
again in the spring and summer in an
attempt to become eligible.
“It depends on how far off a kid is,”
Texas Tech coach Mike Leach said.
“If someone is just a whisker off (on
the test), you figure with the tutoring
and test prep classes available, he’s
Adolph Haight, director of facilities
management at the College of Will
iam and Mary, estimates that the
school's natural gas bill has doubled
over the last year. And unlike some of
the larger universities, William and
Mary doesn’t have a heating plant that
would allow the option of switching
over to cheaper alternatives like fuel
oil or coal.
That’s when things can get unpleas
ant in the financial department.
Sam Jones, vice president for fi
nance at William and Mary, said he’s
had to hold off on general equipment
purchases and take a closer look at
“one time expenditures.” He’s also
had to make choices regarding the hir-
Dave Staubitz clears snow from his business, located in Ely, Min
nesota. Many consumers, including businesses and universities,
have had to endure escalating gas prices this season along with
severe winter weather.
White House sex scandal, is ... sig
nificant ... in determining the legiti
mate inferences which might be
drawn from them,” Northern District
Judge David Hurd wrote in a decision
made public Thursday.
The judge said that looking at the
facts from Hayut’s standpoint, the
comments were the equivalent of
Young telling her classmates that she
would perform, or was performing,
sex acts on “older men in positions of
authority.”
Hurd said the comments could have
created a “sexually hostile environ
ment” for Hayut, who has transferred
to another college.
Her lawyer, William Martin, said
the remarks left her feeling “embar
rassed ... and humiliated.”
probably going to pass. But if it’s not
close, if it looks like there’s no chance,
we’ll go after someone else.”
Sherman is not the only area foot
ball star who saw schools lose inter
est. Before he received his qualifying
score, Foliaki watched the large num
ber of schools pursuing him dwindle
to three - Kansas State, Colorado and
TCU. When he chose Colorado, he
said the decision hinged at least in part
on Colorado’s willingness to stay with
him when it seemed as if he might not
make it. lowa State was looking hard
at Everman tight end Mike West, but
when West scored 800 on the SAT,
20 points short of qualifying, the Cy
clones canceled his scheduled visit.
West blames himself for waiting too
long to prepare for the test.
“Our coach always tells us to start
now,” he said. “He’s always staying
on us about that. But I was like, “I
don’t need to think about that,’ until
suddenly it all comes down to your
senior year, and you haven’t got it
done yet. It gets real serious after
that.”
High school coaches say they can
only do so much to remind their play
ers about the importance of follow
ing the necessary steps to qualify for
ing of new faculty.
“Most of our money is tied up in
people, so our expected short term
approach is that you stop filling posi
tions," Jones said. “You look at what
positions you have vacant and you
might be able to hold off hiring some
one for a couple of months. But you
must look at the long run. It's likely
that in the long run it's critical that the
position be filled."
With the escalating costs and bal
ancing act in the finance office, Jones
summed up what most college fi
nances offices must be thinking.
“Let’s just hope these energy prices
are a one-time spike."
He described Hayut as “quiet, shy
and reserved” and said she never
laughed or encouraged any banter.
Martin said Hayut corrected Young
when he called her “Monica,” saying,
“that is not my name.”
a scholarship.
“I just tell them they have to pass
the test for colleges to be interested
in them or to get a scholarship,”
Lamar coach Eddy Peach said. “1 tell
them they should take the test in their
junior year and keep taking it until
they get the score. But I’m not going
to sit there and argue with them. I’m
not going to push the kids or their par
ents. They need to get it done.”
This year, three of Peach’s players
have yet to qualify, including running
back Willie Montgomery, who took
the ACT in the spring of his junior
year but waited until Jan. 27 to take
another test. He is waiting for the re
sults, like Sherman, and has received
little recruiting interest. He is consid
ering going to a junior college or to
Division II Emporia (Kan.) State.
“Definitely, if I had to do it again, I
would take l/4Rthe SAT 1/4S three
times as a junior,” Montgomery said.
“But kids are hard-headed. They’re
going to wait until the last minute. I
have to deal with the consequences. I
don’t know how this happened, but it
happened, and now I just have to hope
for the best.”
Sadly, it’s a refrain heard often each
February.