Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, October 23, 1994                   TAG: 9410240078
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: METRO 
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IN VIRGINIA

ABINGDON - Democrats are crying foul over a community college mock election, charging that Republican students cooked up a scheme in which only GOP campaign materials would be available.

Administrators at Virginia Highlands Community College in Abingdon locked a ballot box Friday after saying Republican students who organized the mock election failed to notify the local Democratic party about it.

When the balloting opened Friday morning, several people outside the polling area offered campaign literature for Republican Senate nominee Oliver North and Republican congressional candidate Steve Fast. There was no campaign material in sight for Democratic or independent candidates.

Lawyer Mark Graham, chairman of the county Democratic Party and an adjunct professor at the college, said Republican students were trying to gain media attention for their election results.

- Associated Press

Rodeo rider, 15, trampled, dies

TAZEWELL - A 15-year-old rodeo cowboy died Saturday morning after being trampled by a bucking horse at his stepfather's rodeo.

Johnnie ``Johnathan'' Wayne Shifflett Jr. suffered multiple injuries when the horse threw him during the Lions Club rodeo at the Tazewell County Fairgrounds on Friday night, said Sgt. George Horne of the Tazewell County Sheriff's Department.

``He came out of the chute on the back of a bucking bronco, and it threw him over its head,'' Horne said.

Shifflett, the first rider in the rodeo's opening event, reportedly was en route to the University of Virginia Medical Center when he died at 2:58 a.m. A resident of Kents Store in Fluvanna County, he was the stepson of the rodeo's owner, Bob Alexander, Horne said.

- Associated Press

Randolph-Macon installs president

LYNCHBURG - Kathleen Bowman was inaugurated president of Randolph-Macon Woman's College on Saturday, telling students and faculty that the education of women will be crucial for solving problems in the next century.

Bowman became the Lynchburg school's eighth president and its second woman president, following in the footsteps of former president Linda Lorimer.

``It is widely accepted that the education of women is an essential component in successfully addressing the problems of the 21st century,'' she said. ``Women have the ability to see things whole and to form the kind of relationships that will be important in the cross-cultural solution.'' Ms. Bowman became president this past spring after leaving her post as vice provost for international affairs at the University of Oregon.

Bowman was a Fullbright Senior Scholar in Japan and Korea in 1993. She has a doctorate in English Education from the University of Minnesota.

- Associated Press

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