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Newsmakers Man gets 30 years for raping student John Wayne Todd was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday for raping a USC graduate student he tried to hire for his publishing company, The State reported Saturday. Witnesses said Todd had been using the USC Career Center to find female employees when he was arrested this past May. During the trial, the victim said she met Todd through a colleague, who testified that Todd had molested her, but was frightened and didn't warn the victim. The victim said Todd called her when he found her resume on file at the Career Center. He said he needed a publicist for a publishing company he was starting, and on their third meeting at his apartment, he demanded she spend the night, she testified. She said he gave her pills and held a large knife while raping Iier. She said the pills made her groggy so she didn't get up until morning. Defense attorney James Corley maintained Todd's innocence and pointed out that the victim willingly met with Todd and willingly went up to his apartment after midnight that night. Students getting more financial aid Despite state and federal college budget cuts, students nationwide got more financial aid in 1986-87 than they did the previous year, the College Board reports. However, the increased loans, which caused parents and students to go into a $10.1 billion debt altogether, did not buy as much education as it would have in 1985-86. Even though students have access to 21 percent more aid dollars than they did in 1980-81, tuition has risen so fast during the same period that ?II :~ 1 J it-- r: ?_1 ? ? - ?iitii tin is ?itiu itnu uune, me i manual pooi actually nas snrunk oy b.i percent during the Reagan years, the report said. This past year, federal, state and local governments as well as colleges themselves granted, loaned or paid students a total of $20.5 billion in aid. Milk industry pursuing crate thieves HARRISBURG, Pa. ? The milk industry has decided to get tough with students who use stolen milk crates as bookshelves, record racks and laundry baskets. As of this term, crate crooks caught in Pennsylvania can get up to 90 days in jail or a $300 fine if caught using stolen boxes. Milk crate thefts and crackdowns are, of course, not limited to Penn syvania. i he California Coalition tor Milk Case Recovery brings back about 4,000 crates a month. In recent years, milk companies and police have conducted roundups at Iowa State, North Carolina State and the universities of Nebraska and Oklahoma, among others. People ? mostly students ? steal about $100 million worth of milk crates a year, said Dawn Brydon of the Milk Industry Foundation in Washington, D.C. Basketball media guide causes uproar NATCHITOCHES, La. ? Women's sports officials from around the country arc blasting the Northwestern State University of Louisiana's women's basketball media guide, designed to resemble a magazine, as derogatrory and sexist. The media guide, created by Northwestern sports information director Tom Wancho, features the team wearing bunny ears and fluffly tails on the cover. Above the photo, the title announces "These Girls Can Play, Boy." "It is using women as sex objects," said Dorothy Harris of the Women's Sports Foundation. "Fire the sports information director," said Donna Lopiano, the women's athletic director at the University of Texas. "In this day and age, this is hard to believe." I rffc< Filing Da I <>**7) StucU Vl^rh Govern: i jj Cr?M/ Elccti I ^ Students seeking a Student G< !j Office or Senate position mi || THEIR CANDIDACY FORMS 1 i: Filing Dates: January 2, ij Forms may be picked up jj Student Government Office, Ru I 7~~I, CtARMI A. AJL\ X ^ ? ^ ^ iIh Keeping her cool Summer Smith, perhaps the small game against Clemson, watches anx The Gamecocks lost 69-65. Research.^ stated research mission of free and open exchange of scientific knowledge and discovery, said government and international studies professor Peter Sederberg. The Savannah River Plant laboratories are divided into two main sets of laboratories, Scderberg said. The first is the ecology-research laboratories, a set managed by the University of Georgia. 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The Soviet Union said it would: (a) allow an official Israeli delegation to visit Moscow to inspect the Israeli special-interest section operated by the Dutch embassy there; (b) resume full diplomatic relations with Israel later this year; (c) send officials to Israel to set up a Soviet mission; (d) impose a shoe embargo against Israel. 8. As leaders of the services began to trim $33 billion from the military budget for fiscal year 1989, which begins next October, Gen. Alfred Gray, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, said cuts in the Corps would amount to nearly: (a) 32,000 Marines; (b) 3,100 Marines; (c) 1,500 Marines (d) nothing. ANSWERS: I .a 2.c 3.a 4.c 5.c 6.c 7.a 8.b it is an opportunity the university should not pass up," E. J. Cousar, president of the College Republicans, said. But nsvcholocv Graduate Connir Raybuck said some form of protest would be called for if the university's proposal goes through. 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