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Redesigned MCAT adds almost three hours
More than 40 percent of medi- UCLA students hold several court cases since.
cal school admissions officers affirmative action bake sale The club charged Asian-
think the revitalized Medical Americans $2.50 per baked good,
College Admission Test will A chapter of Young Americans whereas White students were
be harder than the current one, for Liberty at the University of charged $2, Latino students $1.50,
according to a Kaplan Test Prep- California, Los Angeles hosted Black students $1 and Native
survey featured in The Daily an "affirmative action bake sale" American students 50 cents in a
Northwestern on Monday. last Friday, where items bore dif- "satirical representation" of its
The new exam will be six ferent costs based on the buyer's stance against affirmative action,
hours and 15 minutes, nearly race, The Daily Bruin- reported YAL chapter co-president Tyler
three hours longer than its cur- Friday. Koteskey explained.
rent duration. Students will likely The event was a response to a Asian American Studies stu-
need to take more prerequisite series of protests during the prior dent Jazz Kiang protested the
courses if they wish to succeed week in opposition to a California event, claiming that the bake sale
in the face of additional questions law that prohibits the consider- imposed a dangerous ideology
about biochemistry, psychology ation of race, sex or ethnicity in about affirmative action.
and sociology. The updated test areas of public employment, con-
will also include two new ques- tracting and education. The law
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Engineering sophomore Meghan Jacobs carves
pumpkins at an event held on North Campus Tuesday.
CRIME NOTES
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES E T HNYO
tAY
Tickle fight Bump the bus Linkedln
WHERE: East Quadrangle
Residence Hall
WHEN: Monday at about
6:30 p.m.
WHAT: Two subjects
were reportedly scream-
ing, according to University
Police. Officers determined
the dispute to be two sub-
jects tickling each other. No
report was filed.
Window break
WHERE: Medical Center
WHEN: Monday at about
2:30 p.m.
WHAT: A vehicle parked at
the Medical Center had its
windows broken between
1:40 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.,
University Police reported.
No property was reported
taken and there are no
suspects. .
WHERE: Bishop Ave. near
Northwood II
WHEN: Monday at about
10 a.m.
WHAT: Two University
Blue Buses scraped mirrors,
University Police report-
ed. The traffic incident
between the two vehicles
resulted in minor damage
and no injuries.
A valet snafu
WHERE: East Medical
Center
WHEN: Monday at about
10:30 p.m.
WHAT: While parked with
a valet service, a vehicle
reportedly sustained dam-
age to a passenger door,
University Police reported.
The incident occurred
between 6:30 p.m. and 10:30
p.m. There are no suspects.
workshop
WHAT: Career Center
experts will explore the
professional social media
site Linkedtn during this
event.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: Today from 5:30
a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Student Activities
Building
Lunchtme..
1tOn Monday, Hawaiian
organ concert Gov. Neil Abercrombie
said he predicts same-
WHAT: Local musician sex marriage will pass in
Brandon Spence will pro- Hawaii within the next few
vide a block of lunchtime weeks, Al Jazeera America
organ music. reported. If passed by legis-
WHO: School of Music, lature, marriages could com-
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 12:15 p.m. mence on Nov. 18.
WHERE: School of Public
Health Building1, Commu- Why do only 6 out of
nity Room 100 rapists ever face
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jail time? For survivors
Expert talks CAPS common ofsexual assault,'holding an
alleged perpetrator account-
royal women concerns series able isn't an easy feat.
FOR MORE,, SEE STATEMENT
WHAT: Join archaclogist WHAT: Counseling and INSIDE
Piotr Michalowski of the
Department for Near East-
ern Studies for a lecture
on royal women in ancient
Mesopatamia. A reception
will follow the lecture.
WHO: Kelsey Museum of
Archaelogy
WHEN: Today from 5:30 to
7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Kelsey Museum
Lecture Hall
Psychological Services will
host the second in a series
of events to address the
top concerns of members
of the University commu-
nity struggling at school or
work.
WHO: Counseling and Pys-
chological Services
WHEN: Today from 4:15
p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union
Multiple cases of polio
have broken out in
~Syria, mostly among
children, BBC News report-
ed. The World Health Orga-
nization says vaccinating the
population has become more
difficult since civil war broke
out in 2011.
N.Y.'s stop and frisk policy
ruled an invasion of privacy
Russia breaks Oly
pledge with 100 df
mpic
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Judges rule
that 'passive'
crime deterent is
unconstitutional
NEW YORK (AP) - A fed-
eral judge's conclusion that New
York City police officers some-
times violate the constitution
when they stop and frisk people
has made officers "passive and
scared" to use the crime-fighting
tactic, lawyers warned a federal
appeals panel Tuesday as they
asked thatthe ruling be suspend-
ed while it is appealed.
The three-judge 2nd U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals asked
plenty of questions but did not
immediately rule in a case that
may be affected in a major way
by next week's mayoral elec-
tion. Democratic candidate Bill
de Blasio, who is leading in polls,
has sharply criticized and prom-
i
1
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i
i
l
H-0
ised to reform the police depart- constitution.
ment's stop-and-frisk technique, "That means constitutional
saying it unfairly targets minori- stops are being chilled and that's
ties. not good for the safety of the
Attorney Celeste L. Koeleveld, community," she said.
arguing for the city, said officers But lead plaintiffs' attorney
are "hesitant, unfortunately" to Darius Charney for the nonprofit
use the tactic anymore. legal advocate Center for Con-
Attorney Daniel Connolly, stitutional Rights noted that the
making legal points on behalf of drop in stop and frisks came even
former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani before the judge ruled and said it
and former U.S. Attorney Gener- was accompanied by a drop in
al Michael Mukasey, told judges murders and other crimes.
that city officers were "defen- And Christopher Dunn, asso-
sive, passive and scared" about ciate legal director of the New
using the technique. York Civil Liberties Union, said
"This decision is bad law," it would be premature for the
he said. "No one counts on fed- appeals court to staythe effect of
eral judges to keep us safe on the the lower-court ruling because
streets." the police department thus far
Attorney Courtney Saleski, has not been required to make
arguing on behalf of the Ser- any changes to the program.
geants Benevolent Association, He said that if police officers
noted that stop and frisks were on their own are engaging in
down 50 percent in the first six fewer unconstitutional stops,
months of this year compared "that's a good thing."
with a year earlier. She said offi- During legal arguments that
cers were afraid stops violate the lasted nearly three hours, two
of the three judges seemed con-
cerned about the manner in
which Judge Shira A. Scheindlin
reached her August findings that
the police officers have system-,
atically violated the civil rights
of tens of thousands of people
by wrongly targeting black and
5 4 6 Hispanic men. She appointed an
outside monitor to oversee major
1 7 - 9 changes, including reforms in
policies, training and supervi-
sion, and she ordered a pilot pro-
gram to test body-worn cameras
in some precincts where most
stops occur
Circuit Judge John Walker
said Scheindlin responded to
the city and police department's
staunch defense of the program
7 3 4 as if they were former Alabama
Gov. George Wallace stand-
4 ing in a schoolhouse door at the
University of Alabama in 1963
to block the arrival of two black
students.
He said reforms she ordered
6 as part of her findings were
broad and of the kind that might
result when the judiciary is fac-
ing "total hostility on the part of
the authorities."
Landfill in Sochi
violates no-waste
promise to deliver
'clean' Olympics
AKHSHTYR, Russia (AP) -
Trucks rumble to the edge of
a gigantic pit filled with spray
cans, tires and foam sheets and
dump a stream of concrete slabs
that send up a cloud of limestone
dust. Other trucks pile clay on top
and a bulldozer mixes everything
together in a rudimentary effort
to hide the mess. This landfill
outside Sochi, which will host
the Winter Olympics in 100 days,
is smack in the middle of a water
protection zone where dumping
industrial waste is banned.
As a centerpiece of its Olympic
bid, Russia trumpeted a "Zero
Waste" program that promised
the cleanest games ever, saying it
would refrain from dumping con-
struction waste and rely on reus-
able materials.
But on a visit last week to Akh-
shtyr, just north of Sochi, The
Associated Press found that Rus-
sia's state-owned rail monopoly
is dumping tons of construction
waste into what authorities call
an illegal landfill, raising con-
cerns of possible contamination
in the water that directly supplies
Sochi.
The finding shows how little
Russia has done to fulfill its ambi-
tious green pledges. Its $51billion
budget for the Olympics contains
no provisions for treating con-
struction waste.
In a letter obtained by the
AP, the 'Environmental Protec-
tion Agency in the area where
Sochi is located told the Black Sea
resort's environment; council in
late August that it had inspected
the Akhshtyr landfill and found
"unauthorized dumping of con-
struction waste as well as soil
from excavation works." The
agency said it fined Russian Rail-
ways, whose Sochi project costs
billions of dollars, $3,000 for
the dumping. It didn't order the
dump closed.
The EPA's Sochi representative
visited the site earlier this month
and insisted it was being cleaned
up, villagers and activists who
were present at that meeting said.
The agency was unavailable for
comment this week.
The main health concern sur-
rounding the landfill is to the
water supply.
Authorities confirm that Rus-
sian Railways operates the Akh-
shtyr dump without a license
- but it wouldn't be able to obtain
one even if it tried.
That's because the village lies
in an area where dumping con-
struction waste and soil is for-
bidden under the Russian Water
Code. Moisture from the landfill
seeps through porous karst rocks
into underground springs that
feed the nearby Mzymta River,
which provides up to half the
water supply in Sochi.
"Water from here will be con-
taminating Sochi's fresh water
springs forthe next10 to15 years,"
said Vladimir Kimaev, a member
of the Environmental Watch on
North Caucasus.
Boris Golubov, a geologist with
the Russian Academy of Sciences,
said it is impossible to accurately
judge the impact of the Akhshtyr
dump without a chemical break-
down of the waste and a full geo-
logical survey of the rocks. He
said, however, that the landfill's
location on karst is potentially
hazardous.
"Whenever you start dumping
something or dig, you've got to
think twice," Golubov said.
Russian Railways is building
the most expensive piece of Sochi
infrastructure, a 48-kilometer
(30-mile) highway and railroad
link between the airport and the
Alpine venues that has already
cost the government 270 billion
rubles ($8.5 billion).
President Vladimir Putin was
in Sochi this week to inaugurate
a train station that serves as a
hub for the link ahead of celebra-
tions Tuesday marking exactly
100 days before the opening cer-
emony.
ays to go
The press office of Russian
Railways' construction unit,
which is responsible for the
road and manages the limestone
quarry-turned-waste dump in
Akhshtyr, told AP that it paid
the $3,000 fine in August. The
company blamed the dumping
on a subcontractor, insisting that
the waste management firm had
"rectified the violations" - even
after being told that AP had seen
trucks dumping concrete and that
the pit was still filled with con-
struction waste.
Outside the crater the size of
three football fields, villagers
complain that trucks continue to
bring in construction waste by
night and soil by day - as they
have been doing for at least three
months.
Russian Railways isn't only
dumping in the pit: Just outside
the quarry's fence, aplotof land it
leases is strewn with broken hel-
mets, plastic tubes, foam sheets
and tires. Residents say they have
been complaining to authorities
aboutthe dumping for months.
"Authorities are telling us that
this quarry is illegal and that
it has been closed, but you can
see that it's still here," said vil-
lage chief Alexander Koropov.
"We don't know what to do. We
would like to petition God, but we
haven't got his address. He's the
only person we haven't petitioned
yet."
To compound Akhshtyr's
problems, the village'swells dried
up as the road project got under-
way, depriving it of its own water
source and forcing it to rely on
weekly deliveries in large cis-
terns. Local officials concede that
wells began to go dry as soon as
construction started, but won't
place blame.
Dmitry Kozak, the deputy
prime minister in charge of the
preparations for the games, has
persistently dismissed claimsthat
Sochi is failing on its green com-
mitments. Speaking to reporters
this year, he admitted "certain
violations," but denied claims
that trash still gets dumped in
illegal landfills.
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