1997_11 The Daily Collegian November 1997

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THE DAILY
COLLEGIAN
Wednesday, November 5,1997
News of the Weird
By Chuck Shepherd
Lead Stories
New York City special-effects
artist Matt McMullcn. 28, has been
offering his life-size, authentically
detailed, stccl-skclctoncd silicone
dolls, under the name "Real Dolls,"
for several months on the Internet,
for around $4,000 each plus op¬
tions. So far, Stacy, Natasha, Nina
and Leah are available, with choice
of hair color, skin color and height
(either "supermodel" or short and
voluptuous). His original doll was
intended as sculpture until lonely
men bombarded him with price in¬
quiries. Said McMullcn, "There is
no way this can compete with the
real thing, but it can fill a deep void
in someones's life.?
"Mommy!" The Orlando Senti¬
nel reported in August that a man
had gotten into a bind al a Winter
Park, Fla., massage parlor when he
couldn't pay a woman the $150
price for sex and was threatened by
the woman's bodyguard. So the
man telephoned his mother and
asked her to bring the money to a
nearby restaurant. And in an Atlanta
suburb in September, Sherrod
Terry. 19. and Akram Muhammad,
20, were charged with armed rob¬
bery of a long John Silver's restau¬
rant after a short stand-off in which
police trapped the men inside. Po¬
lice said one of the robbers/fresh
out of ideas on how to handle the
siege, had telephoned his mother
for advice.
In September in Newmarket,
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constantly refers to people as Mexi¬
can- Americans^ African-Ameri¬
cans, Asian-Americans, and so on.
He is segregating people just by
classifying them, judging them by
their ethnicity or skin color. Isn't
that what makes a person racist?
Bottom line is Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. had a dream, Jesse Jack¬
son has a crutch.
Proposition 209 was intended to
get rid of state sanctioned segrega¬
tion. No more judging people by the1
color of their skin. Nq more classi¬
fying people and making them dif¬
ferent. It w*as intended to judge
people by personal character. Yet,
^ Mr.. Jackson must feel insecure
about his personal character. If he
feels he is on pace with a majority
of Americans, then Mr. Jackson
should start referring to himself as
a person, not an African-American.
After all, if affirmative action
really worked, then Jesse Jackson
would have a real job by now.
Larry Famsworth is a senior po¬
litical science major. You can email
him at largop@hotmail.com
Ontario, a jury foreman announced,
"We find the accused (and here, the
foreman cleared his throat) guilty,"
but the judge and other court per¬
sonnel heard it as, "We find the ac¬
cused not gyilty." The defendant,
Howard Burke, charged with at¬
tempted murder, did not wait
around for clarification, but the er¬
ror was detected within minutes,
and Burke finally gave himself up
three days later and had the correct
verdict imposed.
Compelling Explanations
St. Petersburg, Fl., Baptist min¬
ister Dr. Henry Lyons, president of
the National Baptist Convention
and who had been accused of mis¬
spending church funds and falsify¬
ing documents, explained in August
why he had told an interviewing
committee (when applying for the��position of president) that he was
single, when actually he had been
married and divorced twice: "I for¬
got (those marriages)." (He noted
that the marriages had bewi brief.)
Reports surfaced in July from a
San Francisco social-service orga¬
nization that poor kids who partici¬
pated in a summer lunch program
were being served moldy green
bologna in sandwiches (for many
of the kids, their main meal of the
day.) According to Dr. Johnson Ojo,
the Health Department's principal
inspector, what he saw while inves¬
tigating the complaints was "not
that bad," and that moldy bologna
will not cause food poisoning.
John E. Hcrndon, at his May
sentencing.(he got 20 years) in
Little Rock, Ark., for using two
teen-age girls in pornographic pho¬
tos after giving them alcoholic bev¬
erages: 'They were my muffins and
my flowers," he told the judge.
"They were earth angels. I renew
my promises to the girls as a born-
again Christian that I will always
love them and protect them."
Lee Walter Nance was^arrcsted
in Hood River, Ore., in June on sus¬
picion of public indecency when
police found him nude in a parking
lot on the complaint of a woman
who said Nance was harassing her.
According to police, Nance ex¬
plained that he was merely work¬
ing on his tan because he was on a
church softball team and was afraid
that if he didn't have a base tan, he
would get sunburned.
. Weird Science
Two high school chemistry stu¬
dents from Skipwith, Va., experi¬
menting with a slime they had cre¬
ated in order to play a joke on their
teacher in Oct. 1996, accidentally
produced an edible plastic, and in
June 1997, a company paid them
$100,000 for a one-year option on
their invention. Fuisz Technologies
Ltd. specializes in Melt-in-the-
mouth medications and believes the
substance might make a better cap¬
sule, at which point the boys' work
would be worth about $1 million.
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