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ring
Two students, one from Colum-
bia University and one from New
York University Law School, were
among 16 people arrested late at
night Feb. 5 for their involvement in
what police described as a $10-mil-
lion-a-year sports-gambling ring.
The New York Police Depart-
ment accused Joseph Delia Pietra, a
junior majoring in economics at
Columbia, and William Basso, a
third-year student at New York Law
School who had attended Columbia,
of taking bets from students and
others and distributing winnings to
the gamblers.
Pietra allegedly worked out of
his room in the Zeta BetaTau frater-
nity, where he received bets from as
many as 30 Columbia students, po-
lice said. A search warrant was is-
sued for the fraternity house be-
cause police believe that Pietra
stored his betting records in the
room.
A spokesman for Columbia said
Sunday that university officials had
started their own investigation.
Spokesman Alan Stone said univer-
sity officials thought it was the first
time in at least 30 years that a Co-
lumbia student was accused of in-
volvement in a gambling ring. "We're
cooperating with investigators,"
Stone said. "We've been scrambling
to find out what they know."
Pietra's lawyer, Joseph Tacopina,
told The New York Times that his
client denied all the allegations.
"He's just a college kid, and he's
upset to be connected to these people
he doesn't know," Tacopina said.
"Keep in mind that there are plenty
of college students with an interest
in sports who will place a bet every
now and then on a football game."
According to police reports, the
entire operation was based in an
apartment in Queens, N.Y.. and in
the back room of a pizza parlor in
Massapequa, N.Y.
In both locations, police found
multiple telephone lines, calculators,
beepers and computers. The ring
allegedly took bets averaging $40 to
$50 each on college and professional
sporting events from bettors in nine
states. "" ..
Source: The Chronicle of Higher
Education On-line, Feb. 9.
El Nino cancels class,
floods Stanford library
Caught in the eye of an El Nino
storm, Stanford University was
thrown into an uproar Feb. 4. The
storm caused damage to several
university buildings and forced can-
cellation of classes.
University Registrar Roger
Printup said cancellations were nec-
essary because of flooding and dam-
age caused by the more than five
inches of rain that fell the night of
Feb. 2.
The storm drains around Green
Library could not handle the sud-
den onslaught of water, which cre-
' ated a backflow that flooded the
library's basement, Director of En-
vironmental Health and Safety I^arry
Oibbs said.
The battle to save thousands of
books! recordings and other library
materials began in the evening, as
muddy rainwater seeped into the
libraries and other buildings.
Within a few hours, materials on
the basement floors of several li-
braries were submerged in up to
two feet of water. The flooding dam-
aged or destroyed 120,000 books at
Green and 10,000 recordings at the
Braun Archive of Recorded Sound.
The damage to buildings and
materials is the most significant the
university has seen since the 1989
Loma Prieta Earthquake. Although
no formal damage estimates have
yet been made, projections indicate
that costs will far surpass Stanford
University's $1 million flood insur
ance coverage.
Hundreds of volunteer students
showed up at the libraries to help
and proved crucial in the effort.
Dean of Students Marc Wais re-
ceived a call from the Provost's Of-
fice at 3 a.m. asking him to gather
"as many students as possible" for a
campaign to save the materials,
Interfraternity Council Presfdent
Brad Rodrigues, who placed some
early morning phone calls to frater-
nity presidents,estimated that more
than 100 members of the Greek com-
munity volunteered to help.
"They were tough to get out of
bed, but very- willing to help,"
Rodrigues said.
In the early hours of the morn-
ing, volunteers worked With flash-
lights in water up to their calves.
Wais estimated that 150 students
were at Green at 3:30 a.m. forming
lines to pass books upstairs. By 11:30
am, a total of 3,000 boxes of materi-
als had been moved to higher
ground.
The thousands of books damaged
can probably be saved by undergo-
ing a freeze-drying process which
minimizes water damage.
Source: The Daily Texan On-line,
Feb. 6.
Chinese students join
Communist party
These days, more and more Chi-
nese college students hope to join
the Communist Party instead of the
workforce or graduate school. This
influx of students into the Commu-
nist Party has increased since 1991,
after the party's lowest point in 1989
during the Tiananmen Square inci-
dent.
At Beijing University, the
country's most prominent college,
ten percent of 8,733 students are
now party members, up five percent
from 1991. Now, 20 percent of Beijing
University's students are seeking to
join.
Two explanations could account
for the party's gradual increase in
popularity. Many consider commu-
nism an opportunity for change.
Twenty-year-old Beijing Univer-
sity junior Wang Dang said, "This is
an outstanding party with an out-
standing purpose, to change society
for the better. It's attractive to any-
one who is searching for higher ide-
als in life." Others might seek mern-
bershipfor power and personal gain;
with the party come many benefits
and advantages, especially in the
political sphere. Some have joined
the party for more job opportunities
that would allow them to live in
Beijing.
Source: 'Hie New York Times,
Jan. 31.
Lafamilia Nino causes
weather nightmares
The infafrious warm-water
weather phenomenon known as El
Nino will continue to cause weather
nightmares through mid-year, and
might be replaced by his little sister
la Nina.
Unlike her brother, bi Nina is a
cold water phenomenon that pro-
duces effects that are opposite to El
Nino's. She will produce rain where
it was previously dry and vice versa.
Ixt Nina occurs every few years and
will most likely cause a cold stretch
from July to September.
El Nino is already responsible
for the wet weather in California,
unusually warm weather in the South
and downpours in Kenya and Soma
lia. 'Hiis huge Pacific Ocean, warm-
water .mass is also responsible for
making 1997 the warmest year in
history. It has increased the global
temperature 0.8 F, for an average
temperature of 61.7 F.
The last time El Nino struck was
1982-83; but this year, however, rep-
resents El Nino's strongest effects.
This storm system occurs every two
to seven years and produces strong
episodes roughly every 15 years.
Source: Houston Chronicle,
Jan. 31.
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