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The Battalion
Monday, August The 1
Ten-year-old faces
being tried as aduli
on murder charges
Mon
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) —
The defendant wriggled in his chair,
hiking his elbows onto the armrests.
He crossed his arms when he stood
before the judge, who called him
Mr. Kocher and told him he had
been charged with shooting a 7-year-
old girl in the back with a hunting ri
fle.
Cameron Kocher pleaded inno
cent, moving closer to becoming ap
parently the youngest person ever in
the country to be tried on an adult
homicide charge.
He is 10 years old.
The boy let out a heavy sigh as he
turned to his parents, Keith and Pat
ricia Kocher, after his arraignment
Friday.
Prosecutors have ruled out the
death penalty if the the fourth-
grader is convicted. Mark Pazuha-
nich, a Monroe County assistant dis
trict attorney, said life in prison re
mains a possibility, although he
hasn’t decided yet what punishment
he would seek. No trial date has
been set.
Cameron’s lawyer said prosecu
tors, who fought a request to move
the case to juvenile court, should re
alize they are not dealing with “a
miniature adult.”
“He doesn’t understand the con
cept of murder and doesn’t fully un
derstand the concept of death,”
Charles Hansford said after the ar-
she was shot as she rode on
of a snowmobile
Schools were closed lhatd,]
cause of heavy snow, Camero
sica, 13-year-old Shannon Ra:
other children were spendic billion
day playing video games at odu r b
non’s house in Kresgeville.ato ors > ’h*
250 people in the foothills of it foreclo
cono Mountains. IjSove
After Shannon’s father, fe banker
Ratti, found dirty dishes
house, he put the video gantt P* e £ es {
limits, and the children wento«S^'f te
to ride snowmobiles. ButCanit« lau ; s *
parents had told him nottoH-^68
snowmobiles when they kcB* 1 ' n
around, and he angrily weniiB 0 ’ at
home next door, Ratti testified raone y
The hoy said the shootingk;H“ raz
accident while he was playing
gun. But investigators gaveil
count of w’hat happened next
ing off a list of deliberate steps
the judge cited in his decisi
have the Ixjy tried as an adult:
Cameron took a key fromuml
lamp in Ins parents’ bedroom ■
opened lus f ather’s gun cabinet:
out a .35-caliber Marlin levers
hunting rifle his father had a I of
ordi
|mpili
nee,
him to shoot, and loaded it.
raignment.
Ca
iameron is charged with killing a
playmate, first-grader Jessica Carr.
She died March 6, two months be
fore Cameron’s 10th birthdav. after
After unlocking a bedroom
dew and opening it, Cameron
out the screen and set it aside,
he pointed the rifle out the to
investigators said.
At 1:05 p.m. a shot rangoutt
Jessica, about 100 yards awav
from the back of the snowns
Shannon was driving.
Woman resumes study
of piano after 70 years
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After her high school graduation
in 1918, Edith Levy stopped taking
piano lessons.
But when she started a part-time
job as a receptionist at Chicago’s
Sherwood Conservatory of Music
two years ago, she got the idea to re
sume piano study — nearly 70 years
later.
“The piano had always been an
important part of my life, and there
I was in an environment where peo
ple were playing the music I‘d always
loved most — classical music,” Levy,
now 87, says.
Having completed a group piano
class and begun biweekly private les
sons, her current project is a com
plex piece by Bach.
“As my granddaughter puts it,
I’ve never been the kind of grand
mother who just sits at home and
knits,” she says. “I enjoy being active,
and playing the piano gives me that
opportunity.”
One of Levy’s fellow students at
the conservatory is 67-year-old Wel
don Hall, who began piano study
while in his 50s.
Now that he’s retired, Hall spends
more time than ever practicing the
piano — about 90 minutes each day.
“I never could
much time to practice while I
working,” he says. “Now 1 tot
real sense of accomplishment
Sod
ype o
pewir
cause I’ve mastered some veryi f*oon
cult pieces — and I’ve overcomt
shyness about playing in front
other people.”
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Brenda Dillon, a Dallas
ano teacher who teaches sew
older adults, believes self-confitte
is the most important factor dett 0 mil
mining whether or not theysttm Berblo
at piano study.
“There’s a myth that older [W
have lesser abilities to memorizet >erha|
perform, and that’sjust whatitis
myth,” she insists.
The only handicap 1 see in i'if the so
th;
ictive i
heoth
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how n
piano students is that sorties:
they start believing themythtlif
selves.”
Dillon reminds her olderstude
that w’hatever physical difficult if vol<
they may have, technical proble >road,
can be found in piano studentsof
ages, “and with older people, oft
their great enthusiasm and self-du
pline more than makes up for
physical challenges they mayhavt
At the Sherwood conservator!|
ano teacher Harry Davidson-
counts Hall and Levy amongals]
dozen students over age 65—aj
ject d
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Groups take steps to sto]
banning books in U.S.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
This week more than 40 million
public school children and 13 mil
lion college students begin returning
to their classrooms. But in many of
these halls of learning, the shadow
of censorship hangs over that source
of light and knowledge, the library.
Freedom of speech and the press,
to write and to read whatever you
like, remains protected in America.
But those freedoms are frequently
challenged. Public and school librar
ians often feel under seige.
Books as seemingly harmless as
Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”
and L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard
of Oz” have been challenged. And
some of the most-frequent targets
are John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and
Men,” Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaugh
terhouse Five” and J.D. Salinger’s
“Catcher in the Rye.”
But, as the school board in Eliot,
Maine, said in rejecting a parental
request to ban Judy Blume’s novel
“Forever” as pornographic: “. . .
while you have the right to censor
material for your child, we do not
believe you have that right for other
children in the system.”
It’s estimated that since Guten
berg invented the printing press
some 25 million individual books
have been written and published, al
most a third in the English language.
Worldwide there are another
350,000 titles published every year,
at least 50,000 in the United States.
To house and protect this multi
plicity of ideas, the U.S. supports
more than 115,000 libraries of all
kinds.
Judith Krug, who writesancttHlj
the American Library Associat 1 ™
Newsletter on Intellectual Free
chronicles those individuals
groups “who attempt to rei
t hose materials from public avail;
ity and accessibility ...
“This is a constitutional repd
but the constitutional republic
not work unless the electorate^
lightened. We are a nation of*
governors, but in order to make
propriate decisions we need toft
information available and acc (
ble.”
In three weeks, authors and0^
rities will visit bookstores and lift
ies across the country to read
licly excerpts from banned bool
they did when Salman Rusft
“The Satantic Verses” raised slid
furor.
In Los Angeles, for instance,
Center West, an author’s group*
hold a gathering in Malibu *'
readings of banned books by autt^N
and celebrities. Among the in'
are Steve Allen, Alice WalkerJ
tin Sheen, Ray Bradbury, Hi]
Lange, Alvin Toffler, Larry ^
and Billy Crystal.
In the 1986-87 academic) 1
People for the American Ws)
ported there were 153 attemp;
remove books from public scl#
libraries in 41 states, 37 percei 1
them successful.
In the year ended May 19H-
American Library Association
E ons that more than 100 boob'
rought up on charges, iiw 11 "
Jim Davis’ “Garfield: His
Lives.”
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