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Police shoot football player
Pace University football player
Danroy "DJ" Henry was killed by
a New York City policeman last
Sunday morning after fleeing the
scene of a bar fight, according to
an Oct. 21 article in the New York
Post.
Henry, age 20, was driving
football teammates Brandon
Cox and Desmond Hinds in his
vehicle when they were pulled
over outside a bar by New York
Police Department member Aaron
Hess. Henry drove away, and
Hess began firing shots through
the windshield, according to the
article.
After the shots, Henry was
pulled from the car by police and
handcuffed, lying roadside for 15
minutes without medical atten-
tion.
Cox, who suffered a minor gun-
shot wound, begged cops to lethim
give Henry CPR but was refused
permission, the article reported. do and it doesn't hold us back."
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH
FLORIDA STUDENTS
ANSWERQUESTIONS
ABOUT HIJAB
Members of University of South
Florida's Sisters United Muslim
Association spent last Wednes-
day answering questions from the
student body regarding hijabs,
or head coverings, according to
an Oct. 21 article in Tampa Bay
Online.
The goal of the event was to cre-
ate an understanding of why Mus-
lim women wear the hijab and to
let their peers know that women
do have a choice in the matter.
SUMA President Ala Gebarin
said in the article that she felt it
was important to abolish stereo-
types about the hijab, explaining
that "it's something we choose to
U. OF ALBERTA FRATERNITY
INVESTIGATED
FOR HAZING
Officials are conducting an
investigation regarding hazing in
the fraternity Delta Kappa Epilson
at the University of Alberta in
Canada, according to an Oct. 22
article in the Toronto Sun.
The article reports that the fra-
ternity engaged in hazing in Janu-
ary2009. Accordingto the article,
the pledges "were made to eat
their own vomit, locked in a ply-
wood box and deprived of sleep."
The fraternity refused to
answer phone calls, and when
reporters showed up to ask about
the allegations, they found the
windows and doors of the house
boarded up, the article reports.
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The Burton Memorial Bell Tower undergoes renovations for the
first time. The construction started in September and, according
to Site Superintendent Bob Leporowski, will end in November.
CRIME NOTES
Beating around Failed robbers at
the bush construction site
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Climate change Poetry reading
WHERE: Buhr Building
WHEN: Thursday at about
9:45 a.m.
WHAT: Several bushes with
an estimated total value of
$500 were destroyed, Univer-
sity Police reported. Officers
are investigating the incident
as a case of vandalism but have
no suspects at this time.
WHERE: Law Quadrangle
WHEN: Saturday at about 3
a.m.
WHAT: Two University
students were arrested after
officers observed them on
the Quad's construction site
with stolen property includ-
ing a sledge hammer and a
large chain, University Police
reported.
Sign of damage party punch
and poiicy talk
WHAT: Roger Pielke,
Jr., University of Colo-
rado professor and author,
will give a lecture about
issues of climate change
and policy concerns.
WHO: Science, Technology,
and Public Policy Program
WHEN: Today from
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Weill
Hall, Room 1110
Depression
workshop
WHAT: An informa-
tion session aboutsymp-
toms of depression and
ways to cope with it.
WHO: Counseling and
Psychological Services
WHEN: Today from
4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
WHAT: A reading by poet
Yusef Komunyakaa who will
read from his own work,
which includes Talking
Dirty to the Gods, Thieves of
Paradise and Dien Cai Dau.
WHO: MFA Program
in Creative Writing
WHEN: Today from
5:15 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art,
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Voice recital
WHAT: A free singing per-
formance by students in the
School of Music, Theatre &
Dance voice department.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Tonight at 6:45 p.m.
WHERE: Walgreen Drama
Center, Stamps Auditorium
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California's Proposal 19,
which would permit lim-
ited posession and growth
of marijuana for people 21 or
older, will be included on Cali-
fornia's Nov. 2 ballot, Silicon
Valley Mercury News report-
ed. The proposal does not
propose to legalize use in pub-
lic, when driving or around
minors.
The Michigan hockey
team split its weekend
series with the NCAA's
best scoring offense, Uni-
versity of Nebraska-Omaha.
FOR MORE, SPORTSMONDAY, INSIDE
NASA director Simon
Worden discussed a new
"Hundred Year Starship"
program that would utilize
alternative energy sources,
such as electric and microwave
power, to further explore the
moons of Mars, news.com.au
reported.
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WHERE: Fletcher Carport
WHEN: Friday at about 8:45
p.m.
WHAT: Officers recovered
a damaged stop sign on the
ground floor of Fletcher Car-
port, University Police report-
ed. The sign was suspected to
have been thrown by several
unidentified juveniles.
WHERE: Vera Baits II Coman
House
WHEN: Saturday at about
11:30 p.m.
WHAT: A female University
student was taken to the Uni-
versity Hospital after being
struck at an off-campus party,
University Police reported.
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California church documents report abuse .
Almost 150 people
report sexual abuse
in church documents
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Attorneys
for nearly 150 people who claim
sexual abuse by Roman Catho-
lic priests made nearly 10,000
pages of previously sealed internal
church documents public yester-
day, revealing at least one previ-
ously unknown decades-old case in
which a priest under police inves-
tigation was allowed to leave the
U.S. after the Diocese of San Diego
intervened.
After a three-year legal battle
over the Diocese of San Diego's
internal records, a retired San
Diego Superior Court judge ruled
late Friday that they could be made
public. The records are from the
personnel files of 48 priests who
were either credibly accused or
convicted of sexual abuse or were
named in a civil lawsuit.
The 144 plaintiffs settled with
the diocese in 2007 for nearly $200
million, but the agreement stipu-
lated that an independent judge
would review the priests' sealed
personnel records and determine
what could be made public.
The files show what the diocese
knew about abusive priests, start-
ing decades before any allegations
became public, and that some
church leaders shuffled priests
from parish to parish or overseas
despite credible complaints against
them.
"We encourage all Catholics, all
members of the community, to look
for these documents," attorney
Anthony DeMarco said at a news
conference. "These documents
demonstrate years and years and
decades of concerted action that
has allowed this community's chil-
dren to be victimized, and it is not
until the community looks at these
documents that this cycle is ever
going to be ended."
At least one of the priests, Gus-
tavo Benson, is still in active min-
istry in the Diocese of Ensenada in
Mexico, DeMarco said. In a 2002
interview with The Press-Enter-
prise of Riverside, Benson said he
ministered to children there but
had not done anything inappropri-
ate. It wasn't immediately known
what Benson's position at the dio-
cese is now.
Donna Daly, a spokeswoman
for the diocese, did not immedi-
ately return a call yesterday and
no one answered at the main dio-
cese number. Maria Roberts, an
attorney for the diocese, did not
immediately respond to a message
left with her office yesterday.
In at least one instance, the
files included documented abuse
by a priest whose name had not
before surfaced in any lawsuit
or criminal case, the Rev. Luis
Eugene de Francisco, who was
originally from Colombia. Police
investigated de Francisco for
allegedly abusing children, but
the diocese convinced authori-
ties to drop the case if the priest
would return immediately to his
Colombian diocese and never
return to the U.S.
"In early August 1963, Father
was placed under arrest by the civil.
police of the City of San Diego for
violation of the State Penal Code,"
then-Bishop Charles F. Buddy
wrote the Colombian bishop in
the Diocese of Cali. "At that time,
arrangements were made between
this Chancery and the civil author-
ities of San Diego in which, if
Father left the United States with
the promise never to return, the
charges against Father would be
set aside by Civil Law."
Buddy wrote that de Francisco
had crossed the border at Tijua-
na, Mexico, and was "directed to
return directly to the Diocese of
Cali."
DeMarco said the papers in the
files were the first time attorneys
became aware of de Francisco.
No one filed a lawsuit, the church
never revealed the complaints and
it's unclear what happened to the
priest or if he is still alive, he said.
Church files indicate he also
served in Florida and Texas before
arriving in the San Diego diocese,
where he worked with migrant
workers in the Coachella Valley
about 150 miles southeast of Los
Angeles.
"You have won a reputation as
a zealous worker and devoted to
the poor," Bishop Buddy wrote the
priest in a December1962 letter.
"On the other hand, the 'inci-
dents' at Indio were more serious
than first presented to me, espe-
cially inasmuch as the police have
made a record of them. You know
how word gets around, so that you
be certain that the police here will
be on your trail. ... It will be more
prudent and more secure for you to
return to your own diocese."
Another caseoutlinedinthefiles
involves the Rev. Robert Nikliborc,
who was sent to a psychiatric treat-
ment facility in the 1950s after the
diocese received complaints, then
became director of a Roman Catho-
lic residential facility for troubled
boys called Boystown of the Desert
in Banning, Calif.
Boys who lived there filed
lawsuits against Nikliborc and
were part of the 2007 settlement,
DeMarco said. The priest died
while litigation was under way.
In a 1956 letter written to Nikli-
bore while he was at a "special
retreat," Buddy referred to two
incidents involving the priest
without describing them, and said
Niklibore must decide whether to
stand with God or against him.
Tropical Storm hits Honduras
Tropical Storm
Richard expected to
head to Mexico
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras
(AP) - Tropical Storm Richard
lashed Honduras' Caribbean coast
with heavy rain and wind and
was expected to strengthen into
a hurricane yesterday as it roared
toward Belize and southeastern
Mexico.
Authorities warned of deadly
floods and mudslides in Honduras
and declared states of maximum
alert in four coastal provinces.
Lisandro Rosales, head of Hon-
duras' Permanent Emergency
Commission, said civil defense
offices along the coast were pre-
paring to carry out evacuations if
needed.
Ric} ard is likely to pass near tly
Honduran island of Roatan, which
is popular with tourists and div-
ers, before approaching Belize and
southeastern Mexico late yester-
day, according to the U.S. National
Hurricane Center in Miami, Flor-
ida.
Hurricane warnings were
issued for the coasts of Honduras
and Belize, and storm warnings
were in place for Mexico's south-
ern Caribbean coast.
Early yesterday, Richard was
just off Honduras' coast, at a point
about 30 miles (48 kilometers)
north of Roatan and was moving
west-northwest at about 10 mph
(17 kph).
Its maximum sustained winds
strengthened to 70 mph (110 kph)
and were expected to reach hur-
ricane strength later yesterday,
according to the hurricane center.
Honduranofficialssaid rainwas
falling on the eastern province of
Gracias a Dios, where floods have
been severe in the past.
"Richard is travelingslowly par-
allel to Honduras' Atlantic coast
and causing rains since Friday
night on the Caribbean seaboard,"
said Daniel Posas of Honduras'
National Meteorological Service.
"Bands from Richard are
already provoking strong winds in
Gracias a Dios province that will
increase over the course of the
day."
The hurricane center said Rich-
ard could cause "large, destructive
waves" and storm surges of 2 to 4
feet above normal tides in Hondu-
ras and Belize. The storm could
bring 3 to 5 inches (7 to 13 centi-
meters) of rain to northern Hon-
duras and as much as 7 inches (18
centimeters) in some spots, which
the center said "could produce
life-threatening flash floods and
mud slides.",
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