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Rodent dro] College Pre? Service IOBOKEN, N.J. ? No one expects a raternity house to be featured in a picorial in House Beautiful magazine, but esidents of the Pi Lambda Phi house m the Stevens Institute of Technology ampus obviously set their sights much ower. While on a routine safety inspection, wo Hoboken firefighters noticed an overwhelming odor coming from the baseaent of the fraternity house. Fearing inlivable conditions, the firemen placed i quick call to the Hoboken Health De tiXl tilicllt. After an immediate inspection, the it/s health inspector said that living onditions in the house were a threat to hose who lived there. He ordered the louse vacated, leaving the 10 Pi Lambla Phi residents in search of a new, al eit temporary, home. The Health Departments^ tour of the litchen, which is located in the baseaent, revealed numerous rodent droplings on counters, shelves and the floor, is well as inside the kitchen's cabinets nd refrigerators. "The entire building smelled like a aixture of urine and spoiled food predicts," said health inspector Frank Saso, adding that the search revealed a reek-old chicken on the kitchen counter. The odor was overwhelming." The other two levels of the house were a similar condition, with garbage and x>d products strewn on the floor. The athrooms were filthy, Sasso said, and here were rodent droppings throughut the building. Although fraternity members weren't CI A - suspeui in returned R 3ARLEST0N (AP) ? Joseph Gardner, t dling the trigger in the 1992 death of a C ts been brought back to South Carolina nd. Gardner, 24, of Detroit was brought Fri lia to Charleston. Wearing leg irons and ly "yes, sir'' during a magistrate's hearin ed bond. Police say Gardner and five others madi ation to rape and kill a white woman as ars of oppression of black people. Gardr Melissa Ann McLauchlin, who is whit :e five times Dec. 30,1992, and left to di Intervie Thui Mor & Tue! To s The 6t ppings close 1 allowed to sleep in the house, they were 1 allowed to enter the building to clean it. sail They began scrubbing right away and pul were able to move back in two days lat- ent er after promising to hire an extermi- woi nator. ' Richard Everson, dean of student af- con fairs at Stevens, said both'the school and wei the city will inspect the building regu- Gal larly. Fraternity members face a fine if they fail the city inspections. a li] Pi Lambda Phi members acknowl- der edged that they are living in the house fres once again but said they have been told hot by their fraternity's executive director owi not to talk to the press about the mat- cen ter. anc t Students live in luxury " anc after NYU overbooks bed tre; NEW YORK?New York Universi- I ty students who were placed in an off- Soi campus hotel were none too thrilled when ela their permanent housing assignments mit finally arrived. 4 This fall, NYU officials overbooked woi the freshman class, expecting a signifi- sta] cant amount of students to decline the "Bu university's acceptance. But when more 1 freshmen than usual decided to attend stu NYU and live in the dorms, school offi- ' cials scrambled to come up with resi- wa; dential options. aloi Initially, the students weren't pleased. 1 1QQ9 murdar At/ %J md iiilUUVl iday to Char ;he man accused of near Summerville. Police i Jharleston woman, raped and tortured, and jailed without Six other defendants h , . , , to related charges. Two i day from Philadel- sentenced to life in prisor handcuffs, he said D ,r , , , , , But Gardner, who the g when he was de- . ... ' tngger, had fled the area. 5 a New Year's res- List since May. retribution for 400 He was found workinj ler is black. and arrested Oct. 19. ;e, was shot in the Gardner, a Charlestoi e alongside a road out leave from the Navy. SB line wing on C rsday, January: .^hiftQ inrludf* W I I I I III W VI VI v m m i.-Fri. 6-9pm, llpm-2c s.-Fri., Sun. llam-2:3 chedule an interview, vis i Career Cent h Floor, BA Building An equal opportunity employer Crat house ] "Our phones were ringing quite a bit," ^ d Virgil Renzulli, NYU's director of )lic affairs. "Students and their pars were concerned about where they old be staying." *" rhat concern, however, turned into 0 tentment after some 200 freshmen re temporarily placed in the South te, an off-campus hotel. 1; The students there ended up living ^ fe of luxury, especially for college starts," said Renzulli, adding that the t ihmen enjoyed all of the comforts of ' el living and more, including their i kitchens, TVs, an in-house fitness ^ ter and a trolley that took them back Q 1 forth to campus. 1 think they especially loved the maid dee. These students go away to school, v I they still have someone make their ^ L A lot of them didn't even get that ^ atment at home." p 3o it was understandable that the ^ ith Gate students weren't exactly " u ted when they found out that dor- ^ ;ory housing had become available. ^ 'If they had a choice of where they ^ lid stay, I'm sure they would have a /ed at the South Gate," Renzulli said. 0 t as rooms opened up, we filled them." rle said the hotel was cleared of NYU a dents by December. ^ 'Everyone is adjusting to their new S( y of life," he said. "They're getting a ig just fine." v Even without the maid service. P caught, ; leston ; P 3ay the 25-year-old woman had been P Si ave been convicted or pleaded guilty ^ nen were convicted of murder and f I other defendants all said pulled the e , He was on the FBFs Most Wanted k g at a grocery store in Philadelphia t( SI l-based Navy sailor, is absent with- ^ d I S( ampus 26 41 I I Opm it: er f > ' \, i! Raise credei nilAC*A PTA?? SorvicA On television, trumped-up resumes tre fertile material for sitcom humor. \> nab a job as a perfume clerk, the lead haracter on the show "All-American Jirl" claims she has worked for the rock ;roup Aerosmith. Fox's blue-haired lousewife Marge Simpson re- enters he work place with a list of accomilishments so dazzling, she'd be a serius contender for the Nobel Prize. In the real world, credentials fraud 3 just as common, but university regstrars aren't laughing. More and more ieople are listing fake degrees on reumes, and it's worth being alarmed bout, said Joe Orndorff, who is one of he nation's few experts on transcript ecurity. His Cincinnati-based compaiy produces copy-resistant documents Dr universities, and he gives seminars n how to foil "wannabe" graduates and ihony professionals. He just did a survey in cooperation nth 47 universities to count the numer of questionable inquiries received y their records offices in September. A eview of calls checking on people claimig to have either attended the schools r graduated from them found 615 of he individuals couldn't be verified, jnong the institutions surveyed were Jniversity of Colorado-Boulder, Indina's Ball State and Miami University fOhio. Registrars say a portion of unverifible inquiries result from a caller's misake about a former students' name or chool. In the maze of letters that are cronyms for southern California's uniersity system, there's bound to be some rrors, said Karen Peltz of the records ffice at University of California at Los mgeles. Someone may think a job applicant eported attending UCLA, when it was dually UCSD, USC, UCSC, UCSB or nother on a brain- fogging list. But registrars say most errant calls represent eople who have lied to potential emloyers about where they've attended chool or received degrees. Some im USC'J has opei 1 hour / . I ><J#| a ? ' a n F( Dr. Ri w_ * . i ' WHO: WHAT: WHERI WHEN: If y< 2' Member NASD & SIPC S ^ J Guysi1 Sing? C_^ " A g : ''* Iff * MMll /* p ifr ' l / / Vv ' # II ostors even shoot for the Ivy League. "We get inquiries of that type," said hurston Smith, associate registrar at larvard University. "We say we've nevr heard of this person. "Schools like Harvard are fairly well jiuwii anu are parucuiariy suscepiiDie ) this type of falsehood. We do take it sriously. If there is someone out there [aiming to have a degree who doesn't, diminishes the value of real Harvard egrees. That's a problem for the uniersity and the students." One woman who works in Yale's tran:ript department, who asked not to be WC Wll I itials no laug named, said she also gets calls about phantom former students. "They pretend they've graduated when theyVe attended the school with out graduating or they ve never been to Yale," she said. No one is sure how many false statements about degrees are never checked or how many resume frauds function in the workforce undetected. Occasionally a fake draws media exposure because of the politics or sensitivity of the circumstances. In Denver, Joy Ching was forced to resign from Mayor Wellington 'Schools like Harvard are i particularly susceptible tc We do take it seriously. II there claiming to have a diminishes the value of i Harvard University's Associate Webb's office because she failed to produce a bachelor of science degree from Boston's Northeastern University that she'd listed on her resume. "The irony," said Briggs Gamblin, spokesman for the mayor, "is a degree wasn't a pre-requisite for the job." Ching had been hired as a purchasing director when Northeastern was contacted and wouldn't verify her claim of a degree, only that she'd taken courses. She was given three days to produce evidence and chose to resign. "She had the right experience," Gamblin said. "She could have had the job without the degree. It was an issue of falsification." Another fakery case left Denverites feeling a little less secure, because it centered on a phony "engineer," who was involved in the construction of the foundation for the embattled Denver International Airport. At times, applicants to secondary or professional schools falsify their records to gain admission. In late November, a federal grand juiy issued an eight-count indictment against 32- year-old Jorge Chambergo for applying to the University of Pennsylvania Law School using r.K . 1.1 iaise laenuncauon. When providing application documents to the school, Chambergo, a resident of Jackson Heights, N.Y., allegedly combined his own name with that of Dae Kyung Seu. Chambergo applied to Penn's law school as Dae Jorge Seu Chambergo, using Seu's social security number as his own. He then used Seu's identification to get a copy of Seu's LSAT score sent to the school. i Chambergo also submitted three \V. 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Chambergo has been charged with seven counts of mail fraud and one count of using a false Social Security number in a scheme to obtain scholarship and ;airly well-known and are > this type of falsehood. F there is someone out degree who doesn't, it eal Harvard degrees/ > Reaistrar Thurston Smith loan money. If found guilty, he faces up to 40 years in prison, up to three years of supervised release and as much as $2 million in fines, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Colin Diver, dean of Perm's law school, said the department occasionally receives false applications, which are usually discovered pretty easily. "Most of these people think that they 1 .11 it.' 1 J T x xl nave an meir Dases coverea, dud mey usually don't," said Diver, adding that once department officials find a discrepancy, they forward the information to the university's general counsel. "Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who choose to misrepresent themselves to gain access to something they have not earned outright." OrndorfF said falsifying documents is easy and that employees often don't check. "If you want, you can sit down at a computer, crank out a transcript with above average grades, prepare a resume which is obviously inflated and create fake letters of reference," he said. Catching cheats is the object of OrnJ a>? l : TT 1:?j _ne - 1 uuius uuaineaa. ne ciiuveu uu a xiorrurhouse gallery of tales, including people posing as doctors and nurses and treating unsuspecting patients. A high-tech world makes it all easier, Orndorff said. Computers can scan and copy official university emblems and signatures. Laser printers can create more realistic-looking documents. Mnof +V* A fim a a!1 L i luv/oi ui uic tiuiC) an tiuo liigirtcwi hoop-jumping can be grounded by simple calls to the named schools and agencies. 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