ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, January 14, 1997 TAG: 9701140078
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A3 EDITION: METRO
Citadel to suspend suspects
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Any cadet accused of harassing female classmates at The Citadel will be thrown off campus while the charges are investigated, the school's president warned Monday after two of its first female students resigned.
Starting immediately, all reported incidents of hazing will be forwarded to law enforcement agencies for possible prosecution, interim President Clifton Poole told reporters after addressing the approximately 1,800 cadets in private. Removal from campus amounts to suspension.
Under the old policy, the school investigated incidents and turned over the reports only if criminal charges were pursued, said Bryant Butler, the highest-ranking cadet officer.
Two of the four women who entered the military college last fall, breaking the school's male-only tradition after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, said Sunday they would not return for the spring semester. The two remaining women have moved into the same barracks room.
The Citadel put panic buttons in their room and made plans to have adults sleep in all barracks.
- Associated Press
Food Lion asks jury for $1.9 billion
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Food Lion attorneys urged jurors Monday to be ``policemen on the media highway'' and punish ABC by making it pay up to $1.9 billion for hidden-camera reporting on the supermarket chain. It was the first time Food Lion has suggested a price for the punishment.
Food Lion attorney Tim Barber suggested between $52.5 million and $1.9 billion in damages - his estimates of the profit that ABC made during the 15 days its undercover reporters worked at Food Lion, and 10 percent of ABC's net worth in 1995.
The jury ruled ABC and the reporters had committed fraud, trespass and breach of loyalty in its 1992 ``PrimeTime Live'' expose.
- Associated Press
Clinton chooses 2 to head DNC
WASHINGTON - President Clinton on Monday picked Colorado Gov. Roy Romer to be general chairman of the Democratic National Committee and Massachusetts businessman and longtime Democratic activist Steven Grossman to be the DNC's national chairman and run the party's day-to-day operations, two administration officials said on condition of anonymity.
Clinton plans to announce his picks later this week; they must be approved by the 431-member DNC.
- Associated Press
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