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The Lantern
Ohio State University
COLUMBUS, Ohio (U-WIRE) -
Hundreds of Ohio State University
students covered their noses and ran
as Columbus police officers used
tear gas to disperse an unruly crowd
at a block party early Sunday morn
ing.
Columbus Police Sgt. Earl Smith
said less than a dozen people were
arrested for offenses including disor
derly conduct and vandalism in con
nection with the incident. Three offi
cers suffered minor injuries.
The disturbance started at 1 a.m.
when police responded to a caller
reporting a rape on 13th Avenue.
“Initially, I think there were two
cruisers,” Smith said. “Obviously,
that’s kind of a priority call.”
The officers arrived at the
address and found a party, either at
the address or near it, Smith said.
“They were not able to locate the *
caller or the alleged victim, but who
ever called our radio room indicated
that it had happened at a party,” he^
said.
Smith-said that some people in.
the crowd of 500 to 600 becdmo
aggressive toward the officerf,
throwing objects at the officers’ aid
their cruisers. 'J;
“The first Officers there got hit -
with bottles and rocks,”
“They called for additional officers. -
When the crowd got completely out
of hand and they wouldn’t disperse,
that’s when they used tear gas. At that
point, the majority of the party-goers
left the area.”
Brad Hall, a student from the
University of Kentucky, said the tear
gas made everyone in the crowd
uncomfortable.
“It bums you,” he said. “It bums
your mouth, burns your eyes. My
‘ face is on fire now. I can’t even sec**
Smith said that no officers orstur
dents were seriously hurt in theil^^
: dent. “Just cuts and bruises,” said. ^
The scene turned hectic a few
*minutes after the tear gas Was
released. The sound of bottles shat
tering on the pavementand rooks
banging off police cruisers ptthciuat- P
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raced down Indianolaf&ljnue, toliie ;j
delight of gathered oqjgokets.
Shaun Swiger, a heritor account
ing and finance major, said that
before police arrived, the party was
not unusual in anything other than
size.
“There was no hostility,” he said.
“The only problem they had at first
was that there were a lot of people in
the street. The cops came; the DJ told
everyone ‘Get out of the street;’ peo
ple cleared out of the street and the
cops filled the street.”
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Sexual contact proposal
back in front of council
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At Mataya’s Babydolls, patrons
can lick whipped cream off dancer’s
thighs or stomachs or receive lap
dances.
But the ordinance was vague and
could be interpreted to define kiss
ing, breast feeding and ballet as sex
ual contact, said John Ways, opera
tions manager at Mataya’s
Babydolls.
Ways filed for an injunction
March 6 to lift the ban temporarily.
At Monday’s meeting, Ways said
even if the proposed ordinance
passed, the ban would still be too
vague.
Ways said the coifncil should
instead address what h»perceives as
tbelri&t reason for die ordinance.
Ways said that Cffy Council
members may have heard rumors
that oral Sex and other sexual acts
were being carried out at Mataya’s
Babydolls.
“If you’re worried about oral sex
^ If you’re
worried about
oral sex and
hand jobs, pass
an ordinance
banning oral sex
and hand jobs.”
John Ways
operations manager
at Mataya’s Babydolls
and hand jobs, pass an ordinance
banning oral sex and hand jobs,”
Ways said.
Ways said the rumors were false.
City Council members will vote
on the new ordinance next week.
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Moore said he opposes any plan
to raise the Social Security payroll
tax or implement an earnings test so
that people with incomes above a
certain level would not receive bene
fits.
He also is skeptical of privatiza
tion plans because the market could
take a tumble, he said.
The solution he supports, he said,
is to raise the eligibility age for bene
fits - a position he admitted could be
“political suicide.”
Moore also said he supports
using current budget surpluses to pay
part of the national debt. When the
debt has diminished, he said, he will
be more supportive of large tax cuts.
DeCamp said the government
should phase out the current Social
Security system, while ensuring that
seniors receive the benefits they have
been promised. Then, as part of a
new system, people should invest
money in their own retirement
accounts and reap the benefits when
they retire, he said.
Moore said the Second
Amendment clearly protects the
right of citizens to keep and bear
arms. Noting that his wife is a gradu
ate of Columbine High School in
Littleton, Colo., Moore said no gun
law would have prevented the deadly
rampage carried out there by two stu
dents a year ago.
“I don’t think gun laws are going
to solve the problem until we as a
society solve the problem,” he said.
DeCamp said the problem of gun
violence can only be solved by edu
cation and information. Cultural
influences, including violent movies
and video games, contribute to the
problem, he said.
“We have a system of violence
that we have created, and we have to
uncreate it,” he said.
Both candidates said they
opposed gay marriage.
Although people have the right to
choose their own lifestyle, Moore
said, the government should not
grant homosexual unions the same
recognition or benefits as heterosex
ual marriages.' ... *"■
“I am not Sf the opinion that gov
ernment should bless that union, so
to speak,” he said. “I don’t think gov
ernment ought to reward that kind of
choice.”
DeCamp agreed.
“Different strokes for different
folks, but we don’t have to change
the definition of marriage,” he said.
On the issue of gays in the mili
tary, both candidates said they did
not have strong feelings. They said
I
you don’t know anyone else
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I think it
what your
ity in that
area is.”
Scott Moore
Senate candidate
mcy wouiu continue to evaluate tne
success of the “don’t ask, don’t tell”
policy.
DeCamp said he opposes the
death penalty because the current
system forces taxpayers to pay for
“appeal after appeal, judge after
judge.”
He said the death penalty should
be replaced by less expensive life
time imprisonment, so that convicted
murderers would be “living symbols
that crime does not pay.”
Although Moore said he sup
ports the death penalty, it has been
one of the most difficult issues he has
faced as a member of the Board of
Pardons, he said.
He supports the right of persons
condemned to death to have a hear
ing in front of the board, so that any
decision whether to block or approve
an execution is “a personal decision,
not just a political decision to
advance myself politically.”
DeCamp said he opposes a tax on
access to the Internet but supports a
tax on e-commerce transactions.
Without such a tax, he said, Main
Street businesses will suffer and state
and local governments will lose a
large share of their tax base.
“People who tell you otherwise
are living in a fool’s paradise,” he
said.
But Moore disagreed. The feder
al government has never collected
sales taxes, he said, so any attempt to
tax e-commerce will result in a bitter
fight over how to distribute the rev
enues.
E-commerce also presents a
valuable economic opportunity for
Nebraska, he said.
“It’s easy to say we should slap a
tax on the Internet, but now is not the
time to do it,” he said.
Moore said the World Trade
Organization, the International
Monetary Fimd and the World Bank
are important institutions for the pro
motion of free and fair trade.
• But DeCamp applauded the
groups protesting the ENJF and World
Bank meetings last weekend in
Washington, D.C. He said their
protests represented an effort to
ensure the United States does not
“surrender sovereignty in the name
of the global economy.”
Bruce Anderson, a Hastings
College political science professor,
served as the debate’s moderator.
