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AnnouncementsCelebrations: C6, C7 Role models Several toons have boon honoured for work with street youth. C4 Section Editor: Joe Sornlx'rpT, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1998 CITY If sir 'There's nothing to say he will learn his lesson' Career criminal gets 10 years for 'senseless, degrading' assaults i 4 1 II 1 I 1 I 1 13, 1996 soured drug deal in Ottawa's west end. The charges included two counts of forcible confinement, two counts of robbery, one of aggravated assault, and weapons offences. A gun-toting Mr. Smith, whom the woman identified by the street name "Pony," was found to have confined and robbed her at her Ramsey Crescent apartment.

The woman had been made to strip and hand over her prized gold jewelry. She was gagged and bound before she found the strength to jump from her window, intending to reach safety on an adjacent balcony. "What was done to her by Mr. Smith was senseless and degrading," Judge Morin said. Mr.

Smith was also found to have robbed and assaulted Janik Quintel, who had gone to the apartment to buy hashish from him. Police found the 23-year-old Mr. Quintel hooded, hogtied and bleeding from head wounds. Mr. Smith was acquitted of four lesser charges, including uttering a threat and pointing a firearm, and of a charge of sexually assaulting the woman.

See LESSON on page C2 By Peter Hum She sat in court, clutching the cross on her necklace, waiting to see how the man who terrified her almost to her death would be punished. Almost two years ago, she miraculously survived a 10-storey fall in west-end Ottawa, having jumped from her bedroom window to escape the drug dealer she thought would kill her. Yesterday, after Justice Gerald Morin announced that Danny Smith would be sentenced to 10 years in prison, the 32-year-old woman seemed to thank God with an upward look and outstretched hands. "I'm pleased with the sentence," she said with a smile outside court. "Justice was served." Mr.

Smith took his 15th criminal conviction in stride, blowing kisses to his family as he left the prisoner's box. His parents, who had put up the deed to their house so that he could be free on $5,000 bail and a $50,000 bond, showed little emotion. His girlfriend of just a few months lowered her head and cried when the sentence was read. Earlier this month, a jury convicted Mr. Smith of seven of 12 charges against him in connection with a Sept.

1 0 PA1 MCGHAl THE OTTAWA CITIZEN June Lindsey will finally collect the degree she earned at Cambridge 54 years ago. 'My heart is in Cambridge' Rockcliffe woman granted degree 54 years late by Desmond Brown June Lindsey doesn't consider it a feminist victory to be getting her bachelor's degree from England's Cambridge University 54 years late. For her, it's a chance to catch up with old friends. 1 "I'm going back because I should be seeing some people I haven't seen for 54 years. It's a social thing to say hello to my contemporaries," Mrs.

Lindsey said. The Rockcliffe resident is one of 900 women who completed studies at the university before 1948 and were denied a degree because of their gender. "We took all the same exams as the men, but when it came to the granting of the degree, we were not acknowledged," said the youthful, energetic 76-year-old. In place of a degree, women were issued a "Title of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts," which was sent in the mail. Mrs.

Lindsey and the approximately 160 other women in her graduating class of 1944 weren't allowed to attend the convocation. Before being accepted to Newnham College, Mrs. Lindsey knew that a degree would not be awarded at the completion of her studies. "It was a fact and you didn't think about it. In England everybody knew.

It didn't matter when it came to getting jobs," she said. But the prestige of being accepted at Cambridge could not be denied. Death of female officer 'cuts right to the heart' In 1944, June Lindsey received only a Title of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts from Cambridge. But, she adds, 'it didn't matter when it came to getting because people in England understood its significance. At the turn of the century, a fierce opponent to admitting women at Oxford, Thomas Case, argued that academic standards would be lowered if women were permitted to attend university, said historian Sandra den Otter of Queen's University in Kingston.

"There was also a concern that women with their love of light literature, conversation and tea parties would compromise the masculine vigour of the university." Despite such attitudes, Mrs. Lindsey was never angry. "It never worried me. Why should I have a feeling of victory now? I suppose if you're a woman's libber it would make a big difference, but I'm not," she said laughing. Her titular degree enabled her to further her studies at Cambridge, where she received her doctorate in X-ray crystallography in 1950.

See DEGREE on page C2 "Cambridge and Oxford were still the places you'd try to go to. I applied and I got the major scholarship in science," the Yorkshire native said proud-ly. On July 4, Mrs. Lindsey and the others who graduated from Cambridge University's Newnham and Girton colleges before 1948 will be honoured in the university's Senate House, a place they were not permitted to enter as students. Marjorie Bursa, 72, of Ottawa, will also be among the Cambridge degree recipients.

She graduated in 1947 with a bachelor of arts in geography and later went on to get her PhD in geography at McGill University. Like Mrs. Lindsey, Mrs. Bursa is not bitter about the delay in recognition. "It never bothered me in the slightest and I don't think it bothered any of my fellow undergraduates.

We were too busy studying." INSIDE By Jake Rupert The early-morning suicide of an on-duty female rookie police officer sent Shockwaves and grief through the ranks of Ottawa-Carleton's police force yesterday. "When we lose a member, it sends a wave of sadness throughout the whole organization," said Staff Sgt. Mel Robertson, who leads the force's critical-response unit, which helps officers through difficult events. "Everybody feels it, you can't help it. But it's especially hard on the people in their platoon.

Front-line officers are a very tight-knit group. When one is lost, it's like losing a member of a family. It cuts right to the heart." The body of 26-year-old Const. Kim-berly de Snayer, who joined the force in August 1997, was found by detectives in her cruiser, parked at the end Dave Brown Brown's beat colouring. Recently Mr.

Perry was asked to collect some snowfluent from the plant and have it checked at an Ottawa laboratory to test the efficiency of the operation. He had some in a jar on the seat of his pickup truck and stopped at an Esso station before leaving West-port. When he came out of the build- ing an OPP officer had questions about the contents of the jar. The offi That wasn't crack, of the driveway of the Twin Elms Rugby Park in southwest Nepean, at about 7 a.m. yesterday.

Since December last year, Const, de Snayer served in the force's west division as a uniformed patrol officer. She was working a regular 12 a.m. to 8 a.m. patrol shift in the mostly rural area of the region yesterday morning. Earlier in the morning, she had contacted the dispatcher over the radio to say that she was feeling despondent, but she didn't give her exact location.

To find her, police flooded her coverage area with all available cars, and her body was eventually found. She died of a single gun shot wound to her heart from her service pistol. After the incident, the force's critical response unit met with members of her platoon. See OFFICER on page C2 officer cer may have believed Mr. Perry was acting funny, because the plant operator found the situation a hoot and was trying not to laugh.

When the officer touched a finger to the substance and tasted it, Mr. Perry acted even funnier. The officer may have misread his startled reaction as fear and panic. "When I told him what it was, he spit several times. He wouldn't believe me when I explained.

He told me to get in the cruiser and drove me back to the plant so I could show him." Police training warns officers against tasting anything. The method is to take suspicious substances and have them tested in a lab. Westport is covered from Brockville OPP, where Const. John Alexander confirmed the ban on the taste test. A warning will be passed around.

See BROWN on page C2 70 Robertson Road Monday to Wednesday 10-6 Thursday and Friday 10-9 Saturday and Sunday 10-6 828-8101 tSr' It came to pass recently that Mike Perry came to know what crack cocaine looks like, and the manner of his learning has become a subject of great hilarity around an Ottawa engineering firm. Delta Engineering, with offices on St. Laurent Boulevard, is contracted to run the water and sewage systems for Westport. Delta is known as a leader in the field of artificial snow making, and some of that technology is applied to treatment of sewage in the West-port operation. In a treatment called "atomizing freeze crystallization," sewage is flash frozen, which separates out the water.

The remaining solid waste is a lumpy white powdery substance that can be used as fertilizer. It's called "snowflu-ent." Company president Jeff White says the high concentration of limestone in the Westport area gives the white and 7 $we Father's Visions of Lansdowne Two developers have created plans to revitalize the landmark and their ideas couldn't be more different. See page C3 2ad the right i fj Day gift I S-- 1 rams A lie 11 he leal h-ove! Quality Furniture Appliances DLLS Lane action recliners arepiijfr.