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Friday, February 23.1990
Established 1922
Vol. 95 No. 81
Bomb scare
causes stir in
Peters Bldg
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By Zarina Zumbro
Copy Editor
A bomb scare at the Leon S. feters Business Building last
night triggered an evacuation of students from their classes.
Officer Brad Wardle said It alj began with a phone call to the
Campus Police Department late last evening.
The call Informed officers that someone was throwing lighted
ashtray tops from garbage cans off Ihe top of the business
building and that smoke could be smetled.
When police arrived on the scene, they found an unfamiliar
object on a red garbage can In a comer of the northwest side of
the building.
They also found cinders of burnt paper nearby.
The area was portioned off with a yellow and black tape that
said 'Caution: Police line. Do not cross.*
Officer Rick Janlckl said the suspicious object was a Quaker
Oatmeal containerwith pencils clipped onto elthersldeof it with
rubber bands that were under tension. It also had a striker
plate on the bottom . tape all over the container and air holes
on the top.
-A student who had been In the building, Jeff Lee. said most
of the students were calm when asked to evacuate.
"Everybody down there was pretty mellow." said Lee.
The students had to leave their belongings In the computer
labs they were in until the police tiould be sure lh«»rl v.... n>
danger.
Three bomb specialists arrived at 9:10 p.m. and went Into the
partitioned art a with a gray briefcase.
Among the people watching was Doug Hatmaker. who said
that around 4 p.m he'd seen two oriental males taping the lop
of the Oatmeal container.
■ Victoria Kuhn. also at the scene, said she'd seen the object
earlier; about 4:30 p.m. She thought the object was a kind of
drum she'd seen audiences at games use.
The bomb specialists had set up bomb de-fuslngequipment
by then, which included x-ray and camera equipment to help
determine what was In the container.
At 9:39 p.m. one of them gave a whistle which informed
officers Wardle and Janicki that what they'd found was not a
bomb.
Jim Jones, one of the specialists, said that the container
looked like a science project gone awry.
Janicki held up a flashlight for the onlookers to get a glimpse
of the object. It had Inch-deep raw egg floating on the bottom
and the interior walls had brown strips of tape over them.
"I was just beginning to like Quaker." said Janlckl.
There will be regular classes at the Leon S. Peters building
today.
Tarry Pimon/Daily Collegian
FSU's Simone Srubek blocks LBSU's Renae Duffle shot late in the first half of Thursday's
104-98 loss. Srubek was named Big West Playerof the Week last week after scoring 79
points in three games. She followed last week's efforts with 31 against Long Beach. The
Bulldogs face No. 2-ranked UNLV Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. In the North Gym.
Harjo addresses Native American need
By Sahrina Kelley
StaffWrtter
Envlromnental pollution, human
rights, educational equality and cul¬
tural Identity were the main topics of a
lecture given Thursday night by Wash¬
ington lobbyist and Native American
journalist, Suzan Shown Harjo.
Harjo, a Cheyenne and Creek Indian,
is the president and director of The
Morning Star Foundation, a non-profit
organization that advocates policy for
Native American cultural rights. She
advised the mostly Native American
audience to."take over and re-define
themselves."
"Indian people have been stereotyped
as merciless, ungenerous murderers and
this is not true. We were too generous,
that's how we lost this continent," she
said.
Part of Harjo's redefinition plan was
lobbying for legislation that would re¬
quire The Smithsonian Institute to re¬
turn any Native American artifacts to
the Indian tribes that owned them. Harjo
reported that In 1989,asacred Shawnee
Indian burial ground in Kentucky.was
bulldozed over and the bones and arti¬
facts were stolen from graves and sold to
collectors.
Harjo said she was outraged by this
sacrilegious act and Instigated legisla¬
tion that would repatriate the human
remains of Native Americans and gtve
them the human right to a proper burial.
As a result of this legislation, more
than one million artifacts were recov¬
ered and will be on display In New York.
Details concerning the display are pend¬
ing. An exhibit to conunemorate the
qulncentennial anniversary of the Inva¬
sion of Columbus is scheduled for 1992.
One of Harjo's major accomplishments
was implementing legislation that ap¬
proved the building of the National
Museum of the American Indian In Wash¬
ington. D.C.
In her "No Progress Report On Native
Peoples Rights," Harjo states that ac¬
cording to the United States Commis-
See HARJO. page 8