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fake college professor
rdered to stand trial
United Press International
CARLISLE, Pa. — Paul Craf-
i, the college professor ac-
ed of faking up to 34 identi-
— mostly as other, more
bmplished professors — was
■dered to stand trial but was
led a “brilliant” teacher and
red of one charge.
After a 4V2-hour preliminary
I jaring in Cumberland County
, j||urt Tuesday, District Justice
Bnald Daihl dismissed a charge
) )f theft by deception against
fton for his alleged imperso-
S ^ion of Professor John Hextat
ihippensburg State College.
B Daihl ordered a trial on 12
|er counts stemming from the
jppensburg incident,
nother preliminary hearing
be held May 26 in Lancaster
<. : County on charges Grafton
, jjT^ed as Professor Peter Pearse
’ ; IcMillersville State College.
[ o, B^iithorities alleged Grafton,
i )9, of Potomac, Md., had used
^identities since 1977 in a vari-
TsjJiof schemes, including get-
jjg teaching jobs at seven col-
lippedj
i Ltai
leges in at least five states.
John Pyfer, Grafton’s attor
ney, hailed the dismissal of the
one charge as a victory.
“I’m overwhelmed. I didn’t
expect this to happen at this
level. We established the fact
Paul Grafton is a brilliant profes
sor who can teach computer sci
ence,” Pyfer said.
Grafton, gray-bearded and
bushy-haired, smiled and shook
hands with Pyfer when the deci
sion was announced, but de
clined to speak to reporters. He
remained free on $ 100,000 bail.
The dropped charge carried
a maximum penalty of five years
in jail and a $10,000 fine.
Pennsylvania Deputy Attor
ney General Kim Daniel said he
was disappointed, but added,
“I’ve been in criminal practice
long enough to never be sur
prised.”
Daniel argued Grafton’s per
formance as a professor was
irrelevant to the criminal
charges facing him.
“The commonwealth is not
charging this man with being a
bad professor,” Daniel said. “We
are charging him with misrepre
sentation of his identity and his
credentials.”
Although Daihl did not ex
plain his finding, the testimony
elicited from a prosecution wit
ness was apparently crucial in
his finding the crime of theft by
deception was not committed.
James Sieber, chairman of the
mathematics and computer sci
ence department at Shippens-
burg, who recruited Grafton as
Hext, read from his own obser
vation and evaluation reports
describing Grafton as a “hard
working, interested and contri
buting member of the depart
ment” who gave “beautiful” lec
tures.
Grafton has engineering de
grees from the University of
Maryland and was a legitimate
professor at George Washing
ton University for 26 years but
claimed in his application to
Shippensburg he had degrees
from Cambridge in England.
ormone ‘risk’ to heart
E United Press International
ESl-pEW YORK — A study link-
ttletrBhigh levels of a female sex
he snflnone to heart attacks in men
five lay help doctors single out and
nta’s f&ibly protect men who are at
c. ■ of developing coronary
BSl-roblems, researchers say.
: Scientists found elevated
^ er v jvels of the estrogen hormone
Clarll» a[ ii 0 j i n a group of men 61 to
i a twm ears qU who have had heart
iants Racks, while comparing them
lDINim e n of the same age who were
:Sho*m f r0 m heart attacks.
atidyV
urrumB^' 16 blood estrogen levels
}anetB e t ^ ie on *y significant differ-
to arnon g the two groups,
jgg tone of the established risk fac-
for coronary heart disease
oGue* different — cigarette
runijB^ n g. cholesterol, hyperten-
osnapB and high density lipopro
teins— the Journal of the Amer
ican Medical Association report
said.
Dr. Gerald B. Phillips of Col
umbia of Columbia University
College of Physicians and
Surgeons and co-author of the
report said it was significant the
study of older heart attack suf
ferers duplicated findings in a
similar study several years ago
involving men 34 to 43.
Another participant in the re
port, Dr. William P. Castelli,
medical director of the Fra
mingham Heart Study in Fra
mingham, Mass., cautioned that
conventional risk factors still
must be respected and a man
with a low level of estradiol
should not consider himself im
mune to the warnings against
cigarette smoking and such.
awyers claim trial unfair
; si.n New Orleans police case
itate its United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A federal
the fringe in Dallas has been asked to
with i® it or retry three police offic-
eglaniP'vho were convicted in March
mes baptiolating the civil rights of sev-
New Orleans residents.
Defense attorneys claimed
three New Orleans police-
Jt did not get a fair trial be-
pe one juror told the others
berating the case that she
|e was illegally detained by
ce.
The attorneys have asked
. District Judge Jerry L.
Buchmeyer of Dallas, who pres
ided over the trial, to acquit or
retry Sgt. John E. McKenzie and
detectives Dale Bonura and
Stephen Farrar.
The three-week trial was held
in Dallas because of extensive
publicity in New Orleans.
The three officers were
found guilty of conspiracy to
violate the civil rights of black
New Orleans residents during a
police investigation into the
November, 1980 slaying of
officer Gregory Neupert.
Four other New Orleans
policemen accused of similar
violations in the case were ac
quitted.
The government won the
three convictions with the help
of a black New Orleans police
detective, Oris Buckner, who
testified he saw and helped in
several beatings.
Defense attorneys, in their
request to Buchmeyer, con
tended juror Lana Houston dis
closed she had been illegally de
tained by police, but failed to re
port it before she was picked as a
juror.
cirly Aggie sports star dies
United Press International
ABILENE — Abilene Christ-
[University athletic director
:ritus A.B. Morris, who
ed ACU for 59 years, died
dnesday at age 83.
"lorris, who joined ACU af-
a stellar career at Texas
suffered a stroke Tues-
and died early Wednesday
est Texas Medical Center.
During the early 1920s, Mor
ris starred as a shortstop on the
Texas A&M baseball team and
quarterbacked the football
team, helping carry the Aggies
to Southwest Conference cham
pionships in both sports.
He was inducted into the
Texas A&M Hall of Fame in
1976.
Morris coached at ACU from
1924 to 1955, the became athle
tic director. In 1969 he retired
and became active in ACU athle
tic fund raising.
Surviors include his wife, Re
becca; and son Charles of Kan
sas City, Mo., an associate execu
tive director of the National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics.
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A finding of a high level of the
sex hormone, Castelli said,
should mean a man should be
more aggressive in trying to re
duce the other risk factors.
He said a finding of high
estradiol might also signal a man
should take aspirin on a regular
basis, one of the experimental
methods of attempting to re
duce heart-attack risk.
Aspirin makes blood platelets
slippery, preventing the forma
tion of clots.
Phillips, also on the staff of St.
Luke’s-Roosevelt Medical Cen
ter, said no one knows why high
levels of the female sex hormone
circulating in a man’s blood
appears to be a precursor for
heart attack while high levels of
estrogen in women is supposed
to protect them against heart
attacks.
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you ean make.
(next to going to A&M, of course)
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