College Clips
Published July 11, 2007
Party over at St. Cloud State University summer hangout
Warner Beach, a hangout popular with St. Cloud State University students, has been deemed by local authorities as a booze-free zone for young partygoers.
The ban, enacted this summer, has provoked a variety of responses from students and community members.
Charles Leckelt, a college student from the area, said although he has enjoyed drinking at the beach for a number of years, noticeable disturbances have occurred.
Eric Edison, also a student, said he thinks the ban is just in its results.
"When people drink, people drown," Edison said.
Although the beach area is policed for drinkers sometimes twice a day, Leckelt said alcohol is still smuggled into the park.
— University Chronicle
(Saint Cloud State University)
Iowa locks down on meth ingredient
Iowa advanced in its battle against methamphetamines with the recent and successful completion of an anti-drug initiative proposed by state lawmakers to place nearly 24,000 locks on tanks filled with anhydrous ammonia, a key ingredient in methamphetamine, across the state.
"We consider this a major victory in the war against meth," said Jennifer Mullin, spokeswoman for Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.
Harkin helped Iowa earn $1 million in federal funds to pay for the locks.
Anhydrous ammonia, plentiful in the state because of its use as a farm fertilizer, is not the only ingredient used in the genesis of methamphetamines.
Gary Kendell, director of the state's Office of Drug-Control Policy said now that theft of the tanks has declined, more efforts will be concentrated on curbing pharmaceutical theft of other ingredients that can used to make the drug, such as psuedoephedirne, which can be found in various cold medicines.
— The Daily Iowan
(University of Iowa)
Duke rape case attorney disbarred
Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong, who is the prosecuting attorney for the rape case involving players from the Duke University lacrosse team, which ended several months ago with charges against the defendants dropped, has been disbarred by the state of North Carolina and might face criminal charges for contempt of court in the case.
Nifong's public statements, made shortly after his appointment as prosecutor in the case — sometimes referring to the racial implications surrounding the case, which involved three white players from the team and a black plaintiff — were cited by the North Carolina State Bar Association as a major ethics violation.
It was revealed during the course of the trial that Nifong had made a deal with the director of the DNA lab responsible for handling samples from the case to withhold certain samples for evidence.
— The Dartmouth
(Dartmouth College)