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B3. News in Brief B2 Wednesday, February 25, 1998 Philadelphia Online: M'p 'www pMiynpws com 1 EMM Temple's Liacouras challenged over school's admission plan "If we depend on that Philadelphia school district we will Temple president Peter Liacouras, defending his plans to reduce remedial education summer, Liacouras wrote: "Temple cannot survive as a major university relying primarily on Philadelphia students." Between 1989 and 1996, Temple's overall enrollment declined by 13 percent, or 4,313 students. Right now, 7,909 of Temple's 17,980 undergraduate students come from Philadelphia, while 5,730 come from Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware and Chester Counties. That has to change, Liacouras told the trustees. He said of suburban students: "They are more likely to graduate.

Their financial condition is better than the aver-See TEMPLE on B4 budget supplicant. "If you're suggesting that we should admit unqualified students, we're not going to admit them," Liacouras replied, saying at another point: "If we depend on that Philadelphia school district we will be out of business." Asked to respond to Liacouras' comments, Philadelphia school district spokesman William Epstein said the district knows its achievement "leaves a lot to be desired." from the suburbs. "I would like to hold you a bit more accountable than the kind of global statements you have been making," Schwartz told Liacouras. The president, who was cochairman of a state commission that recently issued some controversial recommendations to reform urban schools, fired right back, quickly abandoning the deferential air of a state (' -Site By Ken Dilanian INQUIRER HARR1SBURG BUREAU HARRISBURG A Philadelphia senator Challenged Temple University president Peter Liacouras yesterday over his plan to toughen admission standards and lure more suburban students, sparking a testy exchange that could presage more debate about Temple's mission. During a budget hearing before the state Senate Appropriations Committee, Democrat Allyson Schwartz questioned whether city schools' graduates would be hurt by Temple's highly publicized effort to cut back on remedial programs and recruit Recycling efforts faltering in Phila.

The number of tons has fallen and state goals have not been met. The streets commissioner got an earful from Council. By Cynthia Burton INQUIRER STAFF WRITER the city's recycling program is slipping from 49,000 tons of paper, glass and aluminum in 1995 to 44,000 tons last year. I It did not meet the state goal of recycling 25 percent of the city's Solid waste by early last year, according to Streets Commissioner Lawrence Moy. Citywide, only 6.5 percent of residential trash and 19 percent of commercial trash is being recycled, he said.

And the city lost a $500,000 state grant aimed at encouraging the public to recycle and to buy recycling containers for municipal buildings and large recycling centers, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. All this came out during three hours of strenuous questioning of the streets commissioner by several City Council members at their budget hearing yesterday. They concluded that the city's recycling program is declining. "Six percent is abysmal," said Councilwoman Happy Fernandez. Activists agreed.

Britta Ipri of the Clean Air Council, who also sits on the city's Recycling Advisory Committee, said, "It's slipping. It's good to see City Council bring it out. The average person has a commitment to recycling, and the system is not up to it." Moy said the department was working on a plan to boost recycling to more than 49,000 tons this year. "We have to get there incrementally," he said. Several factors contributed to the decline in recycling tonnage, according to Moy.

First, the recycling program, which began in the Northeast and Northwest neighborhoods in the See RECYCLING on B4 1 be out of business." and to recruit from the suburbs. But he said recent gains in student test scores were "documented evidence that we're moving in the right direction. I think if Temple makes the effort, they can find any number of good students coming out of the Philadelphia School District." At issue is Liacouras' plan to "renew Temple's mission" in the face of declining enrollment, particularly from the suburbs. In a report to university trustees this past anarchist. "People can or should be able to organize their lives without coercion, without intolerance, and without authoritarian societal structures," he said.

At the same time, he added, "We try to make fun of ourselves." "NATION OF SHEEP. RULED BY WOLVES. OWNED BY PIGS," says a button for sale at the front counter. Jeavons played on the store stereo a Tracey Chapman CD followed by a wilderness chorus of frogs. The store's founders chose Wooden Shoe for a name because the word for wooden shoes in French is sabot, as in sabotage, Jeavons explained.

The word "sabotage" dates See BOOKSTORE on B4 The Philadelphia Inquirer REBECCA it i tw i i -n i A rj tTW I The Philadelphia Inquirer CHARLES FOX Rebecca Ewing, 22, is a performance artist who swallows flaming torches. She's also a volunteer at Wooden Shoe Books, in the 500 block of South Fifth Street. "If we didn't carry these books, no one else would," she said. A bookstore stocked with anarchy It is run by volunteers. Also on the shelves: the erotic, the unusual, and the comical.

J'-'-jyr' fit that Wooden Shoe carries more modern titles such as Her Tongue On My Theory, a "kiss-and-tell" book of lesbian erotica banned in Canada. "If we didn't carry these books, no one else would," Ewing said. "A lot of the groups represented here are oppressed groups." Alex Jeavons is the oldest member of the collective that founded the bookstore in 1976. The members donate their time. "Nobody draws a salary.

Everybody's a volunteer," said Jeavons, 38, a Center City artist. "It's inspiring to me that we've kept it going this long." Jeavons is a member of the gay-rights activist group Act Up. He's also a full-fledged VOW Trio eyed in theft of mine's fuel mix One confessed, naming the others, authorities said. No charges yet, but the explosives have mostly been recovered. By Monica Yant INQUIRER STAFF WRITER State and federal investigators have recovered much of the 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate mixed with diesel fuel that was stolen from a northwest Pennsylvania coal mine nearly two weeks ago in what was the largest explosives theft in the nation in five years.

In addition, officials said yesterday that they were questioning three men one of whom had confessed each from the Sligo area. The suspects were not believed to be affiliated with any terrorist or militia group, said Art Resnick, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and their motives were unclear. No charges had been filed against any suspect as of yesterday. The theft occurred between Feb. 13 and 16 at Coal Co.

in rural Sligo (population 798). Thieves broke into a locked storage bunker and took nearly a ton of an explosive mix known as ANFO the same mix used in the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center bombings plus 560 electric blasting caps and 13,000 feet of detonating cord and fuses. The suspects led investigators to the stash, which apparently had been dumped or buried outdoors. "It's embedded in mud and a pond," Resnick said. "We've recovered a great deal.

We want to make sure we have all of it." The explosives, stored in 40-pound plastic bags, could still be detonated once dried, he said. The first suspect, who was tracked down by the ATF, confessed after questioning on Monday night, Resnick said, and implicated the others, who were questioned yesterday. "There's nobody in custody yet," said Trooper Jamie LeVier of the Shippenville State Police barracks. The state police, ATF and FBI have scheduled a 10 a.m. news conference today to discuss the case.

Yesterday's developments had Sligo residents breathing easier but stunned to learn the suspects were locals. "It's pretty much been the talk of the town," said Mayor Connell Taylor, who worked at the coal company for 25 years. "I can't imagine why anybody from around here would want to do it. I thought they'd be from further away." News of the theft last Friday set off a nationwide terrorist alert, with reward money offered by the ATF and FBI. Pittsburgh prepared for the worst.

Police and firefighters there were put on alert, as were schools and abortion clinics. ANFO was used in the bombs that killed 165 people in Oklahoma City in April 1995 and that killed six and injured hundreds at the World Trade Center in February 1993. Statewide, about 750 coal mines and quarries have explosives permits from the Department of Environmental Protection. All were advised of the theft, but no additional security measures were installed. State regulations require that explosives be stored in locked bunkers, called magazines, that can withstand high-powered bullets, but no guard is required.

BARGER By Ralph Cipriano INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Rebecca Ewing is a performance artist with two-tone hair who swallows flaming torches a foot and a half long. She's also one of 30 members of an "antiprofit collective" who run a little bookstore off South Street that bills itself as the only anarchist bookstore in town. Wooden Shoe Books, in the 500 block of South Fifth Street, is the place to go if you're looking for the collected letters of Sacco and Vanzetti or a copy of the Port Huron Statement, written in the 1960s by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Ewing, 22, of West Philadelphia, is proud Mezvinsky announces bid for lieutenant governor said. Mezvinsky announced her candidacy a week after a group of anti-abortion congressmen persuaded former state Auditor General Don Bailey to run for governor.

The congressmen said that Bailey fit the "profile" of Pennsylvania Democrats with his antiabortion, progun and prolabor views. Two other Democrats, State Rep. Ivan Itkin of Pittsburgh and Montgomery County lawyer Phil Berg, both of whom support abortion rights, are also running for governor. The Democratic State Committee is expected to consider endorsing candidates for statewide office on March 7. Thus far, the only others who have said they are considering running for lieutenant governor are some local officeholders from Western Pennsylvania.

Mezvinsky, 55, said that she was content to run for lieutenant governor because both Itkin and Bailey have Harrisburg experience, which she lacks. She said she would not be MEZVINSKY on B4 The former U.S. congresswoman will seek the Democratic nomination. By Russell E. Eshleman Jr.

INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU HARRISBURG Former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, whose 1993 vote to raise federal taxes upset her constituents so much that they booted her from office, said yesterday she would seek the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. The Narberth resident, who now heads the Women's Campaign Fund, an organization in Washington that supports Democratic and Republican candidates who favor abortion rights, said she was circulating nominating petitions for the state's second-highest office. believe I bring a different perspective to the table as well as the ability to speak to a pretty large segment of the Democratic Party and population who feel disenfran-chisednamely women," Mezvinsky Donald L.

Smith, 17, receives congratulations after he was sworn in to be the mayor of Philadelphia for a day. He was one of 13 teens from the Police Athletic League who assumed municipal posts yesterday duringjhe annual PAL Day. With Smith are Police-officer Darren James and Smith's mother, Crystal..