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Inmate from page 5 while driving to paint a mural in down town Trenton on Dec. 17,1992. Simon was sentenced to death after he pleaded guilty to killing Franklin Township police officer Ippolito Gon zalez. He later recanted the guilty plea, saying he had made it to protect a fel low member of his Warlocks motorcy cle gang. The state Supreme Court, how ever, upheld Simon’s death sentence last month. Simon was paroled from a Pennsyl vania prison 11 weeks before Gonzalez was killed. He had served 12 1/2 years of a 10- to 20-year sentence for killing his 19-year-old girlfriend, Beth Smith Dusenbeig, after she refused to have sex with fellow gang members. The Warlocks terrorized people in the ’ 70s with hundreds of members, and Simon was particularly feared, former Pennsylvania trooper William Davis said in IQQ^ “He was a sociopath. He showed no remorse,” Davis said at the time. “He didn’t care. He was unpredictable. He had a sick sense of humor. He looked like he belonged in the Viking days. You plunder and kill, and everything’s OK, and the strong survive. He was ill-tem pered and dangerous. You didn’t know what he’d do from one day to the next. ” The judge who handled the trial in. the death of Ms. Dusenbeig, John Lavelle, said in 1995 that dozens of Whrlocks cir cled the courthouse on their motorcy cles each day and frightened the jurors, possibly leading to the conviction of on ly second-degree murder. Earthquake from page 5 Mount Pames, which is a national park and sparsely inhabited. The quake was felt across the Aegean Sea in Izmir, Turkey, about 180 miles east of Athens. In Athens, people sought safety any where clear of buildings: on road medi an strips, parking lots and in the Nation al Garden in central Athens. The gardens were near the site of a concert planned for later in the day to aid victims of last month’s monstrous quake in neighbor ing Turkey that claimed more than 15,000 lives. That quake registereda magnitude of 7.4. “Everyone panicked, especially because of the recent Turkish quake,” ' said Dimitris Lalas, head of the Athens Seismological Institute. Some women dashed out of beauty salons, their hair still wet. Men bolted from their offices in the middle of a work ing day. Thousands tried to get through on cellular phones. Others sought out public telephones or huddled around ra dios at sidewalk kiosks. Motorcycle and scooter drivers were knocked to the ground. un r. l. . j __*» ttv iuiu a vuj ouuug -wu ''P George Skordilis, a seismologist with the Athens Seismological Institute. “There has been aftershock activity but we can’t make any forecasts.” Skordilis said there was no clear con nection with the Turkish quake, but “we can say there is increased earthquake ac tivity in the eastern Mediterranean.” DID YOU KNOW? A first conviction DUI in the state of South Carolina costs an average of $13,500. Your drivers license is suspended for 6 months. Just think of what you could do with all of that money! You could go to the movies 2,350 times! (1,175 times with a date!) _Nation & World__ Civil libertarians worried about new school security measures by Richard Carellil Associated Press Washington —As schools reopen with greatly increased security, civil libertarians say concern for students’ safety is overwhelming stu dents’ rights. “It’s unbelievable, on an unprecedented scale,” said Nadine Strossen, national president of the American Civil Liberties Union. “We’re seeing the equivalent of Fortress America, and students’ privacy rights and freedom of speech are under attack from within.” Bloody tragedies, especially the April incident in which two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., gunned down a dozen classmates and a teacher before killing themselves, left an in delible mark. Police officers, metal detectors, student ID cards and surveillance cameras are new to schools across the nation. So are routine back pack searches, increased use of drug tests, stricter dress codes and less tolerance for schoolyard taunts or threats. The ACLU, aggressively challenging policies in many public school districts, might be fighting an uphill battle. “In the wake of increasing violence, courts seem to have become more deferential to school districts’genuine concern for student safe ty and security,” said Cynthia Prettyman, general counsel for Palm Beach County, Fla., schools. “Students still have rights, and I’m sure the ACLU will stay on top of this, but any legal challenge will face a high hurdle.” Still, some students have won. hi Allen, Texas, senior Jennifer Boccia is back in school after hav ing last spring’s suspension expunged from her record. She and nine other students wore black armbands to class to mourn the Columbine victims and to protest new rules imposed in their school as a result. Jennifer, an honors student, was suspended after defying an order to remove the armband. “The school district just would not acknowledge that the First Amendment applies to students,” said Diana Philip, an ACLJJ re gional director in Dallas. “We had to take them to court before an agreement could be reached.” Ray Vasvari, legal director of the Ohio ACLU, cited two “inva sions of student rights” that were challenged successfully, hi one, a Stow boy was suspended from classes for a persoml Web site titled “Stow High School Sucks.” hi another, a Youngstowarea high school sought to administer drug tests for all students participating in ex tracurricular activities. “The post-Columbine reaction is regrettable,” Vasvan said. “When rights are whittled away, they tend not to return.” In Mississippi, the Harrison County School Board rescinded^ policy that barred a Jewish boy from wearing his Star of David pen dant after the ACLU sued on his behalf. School officials had consid ered it a gang symbol. Julie Underwood, general counsel of the National School Boards Association, said school districts are well-served by programs em phasizing “culture and climate — how people treat each other, whether a respectful learning environment exists.” “We routinely get called for advice after a problem arises, after some policy is challenged,” she said. “We would like to field such calls earlier-on.” Here, in question and answer form, is a look at what rights stu dents have: Q: Students are just kids. Why do they have any rights? A: Children, like adults, have legal rights. The Supreme Court, dating back to a landmark 1969 decision, has said students who at tend public schools do not surrender all constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door. For example, the court has said school officials can’t squelch students’ freedom of speech based on “a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.” Q: What about students’ privacy rights? A: The Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, applies in public schools, but school officials get more leeway than police. And school searches of lockers and backpacks, even the use of metal detectors, are much easier to justify when the taiget is illegal drugs or weapons. - Still, courts generally require “individualized suspicion” in cer tain circumstances, barring school officials from searching all stu dents in a room just because one of them might have stolen some money or smuggled in a pack of cigarettes. IF YOU’RE A VEGAS AND IF YOU’RE NOT A