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I Metal detectors and surveillance
cameras have sharply reduced
weapons and crime at the
nation’s schools, but a govern-
Iment report says students are
more fearful of their safety
because of a problem that hasn’t
[changed: the school bully.
“Away from school, kids can
[stay away from their enemy. On
campus they can’t really
[escape,” said Curt Lavarello,
who works with school police
[officers.
Over the years, the percent-
[age of assaults, theft and other
crimes at schools has steadily
gone down. Six percent of stu
dents ages 12 to 18 said they
were victims of crimes last year,
compared with 10 percent in
|1995. The largest drop came for
[students in seventh, eighth and
[ninth grades.
In a 1995 survey, 12 percent
I of high school students said they
carried a weapon at school in the
past 30 days. That dropped to 6
[percent in 2001, according to a
[joint report by the Education and
| Justice departments.
While security measures
[have helped stop guns and
knives from getting into
schools, they can’t do much
Crime in
schools
The percentage of
students who said
they had been
victims of crime
while at school has
dropped, although
reports of bullying
are on the rise,
according to a
government report
released Monday.
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about the bully.
Nine percent of the students
said they had been threatened or
injured with a weapon last year,
up slightly from two years ago.
There also was a 3 percent in
increase in students who report
ed being bullied.
“Bullying was accepted as
part of the tradition of the
school. That has to change,”
said William Modzeleski, who
heads the federal Safe and
Drug-Free Schools Program.
“We’re starting to recognize
that this is a serious issue and
beginning to address it.”
Modzeleski said school
administrators need to treat bul
lying the same way they treat
other aggressive behavior.
“Bullying can lead to more
assaultive behavior,”
Modzeleski said.
A survey last year by the
U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention showed
that 10,000 children stayed
home from school at least once
a month because they feared
bullies, and half the children
surveyed said they were bullied
once a week.
Sandy Clifton-Bacon, an
assistant superintendent at
Redondo Beach Unified School
District near Los Angeles, said
teachers and other adults on
campus are becoming better
trained to deal with bullies.
“We have to. It’s a serious
problem. And lately, schools are
becoming more liable for those
things,” she said.
Last month, parents of a 13-
year-old-boy filed a federal law
suit against a rural school dis
trict in central Pennsylvania for
allegedly ignoring the bullying
of their son.
A growing number of
schools across the country have
adopted bullying intervention
programs.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Protestor planning
event in Crawford
HOUSTON (AP) — A per
sistent protester who recently
was arrested for scaling the front
gate of the White House to hang
a “No War on Iraq” banner says
she is now setting her sites on
President Bush’s Texas ranch.
Diane Wilson, a 54-year-old
grandmother from the southeast
Texas town Seadrift, said a
Washington D.C. judge advised
her last week to go home to
Texas or risk a future arrest and
some serious jail time.
But she
doesn’t plan to
stay in Seadrift
for long. She
has big plans
for Bush’s
Christmas in
Crawford.
‘‘Right
now I’m just
dreamin’ and
s c h e m i n ’, ’ ’
Wilson said.
“We want to
do a surprise inspection at a
presidential palace. He’s
demanding it in Iraq and
we’re demanding it here. We
need to see those cupboards
and guest rooms. We need to
look in the refrigerator. We
need to know: Is that jelly in
those jars, or what do they
have in those jars?”
The White House on Friday
referred questions to the Secret
Service, which declined to com
ment on Wilson or her interest in
Bush’s Crawford ranch.
Wilson, who ekes out a living
fishing for black drum in San
Antonio Bay, has devoted the
past 15 years to peaceful protest
and occasional trespass and civil
disobedience. She has sued,
fasted and chained herself to a
chemical plant tower.
Not everyone supports her
activism. Her husband has left
her. Her dog has been shot. Her
own mother wishes she’d just
keep her mouth shut, she said.
“But protesting is woven
into the fabric of my life.
It’s who I am,” Wilson said.
“Sometimes you finally
find out who you are and
then you realize other peo
ple don’t like you, but that’s
OK. I believe you have to
take the consequences of
your actions.”
Still, Wilson is disturbed by
what she considers an order
from District of Columbia
Superior Court Judge Robert
Rigsby banning her from the
capital city for a full year.
“He told me I could not be
arrested for protesting again for
a whole year, and I had to get out
of Dodge City. I was kicked
out,” Wilson said in Monday’s
editions of the Houston
Chronicle. “They said if they
saw my face in Washington, I
would be arrest
ed immediate
ly-”
Wilson’s
court file
shows no such
order, which
she says was
delivered ver
bally. Neither
the judge nor
Wilson’s court-
appointed
attorney,
Reginald Towe, returned calls
from the Chronicle seeking
clarification, and a transcript of
Wilson’s hearing Tuesday was
not yet available.
Wilson’s file indicates only
that if she manages to avoid
arrest in the next year, a misde
meanor charge of unlawful entry
for the White House incident
could be dismissed.
The activist’s Washington
troubles began Sept. 18, when
she and other protesters call
ing themselves
“Unreasonable Women” dis
rupted a congressional hear
ing on Bush’s plans to use
military force against Iraqi
leader Saddam Hussein.
Wilson and Medea
Benjamin, a San Francisco
activist and founder of the
human rights group Global
Exchange, unfurled a banner
reading “U.N. Inspections, Not
War” behind Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld as he tried to
testify before the House Armed
Services Committee.
After shouting questions at
Rumsfeld, the women were
removed from the room by
Capitol police. They were not
arrested, but the stunt earned
the protesters a spot on CNN
and photos in several major
newspapers.
We want to do a
suprise inspection at a
presidential palace.
— Diane Wilson
protestor
Two charged in death
of man found in car
CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) — Police charged two people in the
death of a man found slumped over in a car in a hospital parking lot.
Police believe thd man was mauled to death by a dog.
State police arrested James Heath and his girlfriend Michelle Lee
Malmberg, both 24, on Route 17 in the town of Union, Broome
County, at about 5 p.m. Friday.
The former Cortland residents were charged in the death of 24-
year-old Eric Tallman, who was found on Wednesday in a car parked
at Cortland Memorial Hospital, 30 miles south of Syracuse. His face
was injured so severely in an animal attack that he drowned in his
own blood, police said. He was reported missing by his family a
week earlier when he failed to show up for Thanksgiving dinner.
Police were investigating the case as a homicide and believe
Tallman was mauled to death by a dog, Cortland Police Chief James
Nichols said.
A pit bull taken from the vehicle the suspects were riding in
Saturday was secured by
Broome County, Nichols said.
“We believe it was a dog. I’m
not going to say this was the
particular dog that caused
it,” he said.
Heath, a fugitive from jus
tice in Jourdanton, Texas, 40
miles south of San Antonio,
was arraigned and was sent to
Broome County Jail without
bail to await extradition. He
was wanted by the Atascosa
County Sheriff’s Department
on a felony marijuana posses
sion charge, Atascosa Chief Deputy David Soward said.
Authorities said he, Malmberg and Tallman smuggled 48 pounds
of marijuana from South Padre Island, Texas, on the Gulf of Mexico
and planned to sell it on the East Coast.
Police arrested Heath on Oct. 31 in a rented car with two pounds
of marijuana near a motel where all three were staying. That led
police to another rental car parked at San Antonio International
Airport, 30 miles away. They found 48 pounds of marijuana in the
car. Soward said all three, and maybe two others, used the cars to
drive the marijuana to Florida to sell.
“Our investigation showed that they were part of a marijuana
smuggling operation,” Soward said. He could not say how long the
operation had gone on.
Tallman was with Heath and Malmberg in Texas on Oct. 31, Soward
said, but flew to Buffalo that day before deputies arrested Heath.
Malmberg and Tallman were to be charged with felony posses
sion of marijuana, Soward said.
“We expect to charge her on Monday,” Soward said. “The only
reason we won’t be charging him (Tallman) is because he’s dead.”
Police have said Tallman, of Sempronius, a small village 15
miles southeast of Cortland, left his 10-month old baby with his
mother to run some errands the afternoon before Thanksgiving.
Our investigation
showed that they were
part of a marijuana
smuggling ^
operation.
— David Soward
Atascosa Chief Deputy