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CALIFORNIA LIFE -chni A better birdhouse Feathering a nest for your little chickadees SCENEFAMILY G1 SPORTS El Tiio king of kidsing ananaphone tour slips into the capital Sad stats Loss to Utah kicks Kings back below 500 mark Copyright 1995 The Sacramento Bee Founded 1857 Volume 277 The FINAL 46 SATURDAY March 11 1995 Professor defends sex lecture heard round the world Cj I had no idea there would be a worldwide ripple from this one lecture 99 CSUS professor Joanne Marrow charging that the discussion was crude insulting and degrading to men The complaint is the first step in a possible lawsuit against Marrow and the university The case made public this week has touched off an emotional national debate about academic freedom and boundaries Marrow in her first interview about the case Baid she has been contacted by the Geraldo Rivera show Time Please see LECTURE page A28 professor in the psychology department who studies sexual repression in women was a great lecture and getting all of this good Meanwhile Craig Rogers was seething One of more than 100 students in class that day last year he was not impressed by admittedly graphic and highly personal lecture which focused on the joys and benefits of female masturbation lie has since filed a $2 5 million sexual harassment claim against the university By Cynthia Hubert Bee Staff Writer Joanne Marrow was on when she stepped out of the auditorium at California State University Sacramento that December day having delivered her standard lecture on female sexuality or 12 women had approached me after class and told me what a wonderful lecture it was and four volunteered to be in my research" said Marrow 50 a tenured Bee Anna Chadwick Williams Trees fall victim to Flooding debris close some 50 roads BeeKimD Johnson By Sam Stanton Art Campos and Mareva Brown Bee Staff Writers The City of Trees fell down Friday With ferocious wind gusts and rainstorms lashing the area all day hundreds of elms stone pines and other trees that have graced the city streets for decades toppled split in two or were literally ripped apart Most fell harmlessly but others among the 2 million trees in Sacramento called miracle" that no one was hurt County blocked road ways and damaged vehicles and power lines and one enormous elm virtually split a downtown duplex in two early Friday whole middle of the house was to the Peggy Haase said as she stared at the wreckage of her duplex at 21st and streets where she and her boyfriend were awakened by the crash at 7:45 am the time we could react it was over said her boyfriend Brian Marshall just bailed out the back No one was hurt in the crash something one expert called And officials throughout the Sacramento region were marveling late Friday at how little damage or flooding the latest series of storms caused been pretty fortunate thus said Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna Jr city isnot in a flood situation here the areas around Sacramento Yolo Tehama Colusa Glenn and Butte counties all declared states of emergency Friday because of widespread street flooding and some minor house flooding But there was nothing resembling the devastating floods that roared through in January By 10 pm the National Weather Service had reported 106 inches of rain in Sacramento in the previous 30 hours about one-fourth the amount that rained down in some areas in a four-hour period during the January floods Please see TREES pageA27 Michael Synhorst was on a city crew called to remove a tree that split a duplex at 21 st and streets It was Hundreds rousted in state along the Napa and Russian rivers were grounded in Sacramento by treacherous winds But a chopper from Lemoore Naval Air Station reached 40 people caught in a flooded Monterey canyon fished two of out of the said Bob McElroy of the county emergency office towed the rest across the water in a In El Dorado County rescue crews Friday night rescued six adults and two children after the Santa Cruz Mountains Helicopter crews rescued flood victims near the central coast Creeks flowed over highways and threatened homes in the San Joaquin Valley In Napa County 200 to 300 homes and business were damaged and the financial toll from the storm was expected to exceed $7 million Continued flood warnings were posted as the Napa River was expected to reach 28 feet three feet above flood level National Guard helicopters that were on call to evacuate residents By Peter Ilecht and Maria Camposeco Bee Staff Writers Driven by relentless winds a Pacific storm pummeled California for a second day Friday forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes as surging rivers continued to overflow and sodden earth toppled hills and mountainsides Winds of up to 80 miles per hour blasted through mountain passes as avalanches and mudslides blocked roads from the Sierra Nevada to the Denise Mansfield coordinator of flood relief In Rio Linda helps with the miserable work of filling sandbags on Cherry Lane Friday Please see STATE back page A28 Jobs picture brightens in US state IINilOEl FORECAST SHOWERS HIGH 59 LOW 42 ary to 73 percent a level not seen since February 1991 Wage and salary jobs which exclude the self-employed surged in California by 82500 in February the best monthly gain since 1989 But economists emphasized that much of that growth rep- resented a rebound from weather-depressed figures in January number is a good number Please see JOBLESS pageA25 report helping spark a rally that took stocks to record levels The Dow Jones industrial average hit 403561 an all-time high But some analysts found cause for concern suggesting that the Federal Reserve may move again to slow the economy by raising interest rates The employment picture also brightened in California where the jobless rate tumbled from 82 percent in Janu By Paul Schnitt Bee Staff Writer After slowing in recent months national job growth got a healthy second wind in February as payrolls grew by 318000 the Labor Department reported Friday The unemployment rate dropped 03 percent to 54 percent matching December for the lowest rate since July 1990 Investors found good news in the jobs Talk show gets blame after guest held in lulling Bee News Services John Schmitz told police in Auburn Hills Mich that being surprised before a national talk-show audience by a male acquaintance professing a crush on him was embarrassing and humiliating But he said he thought he had handled the situation well and was putting it behind him What set Schmitz off was finding a note with sexual references from Scott Amedure attached to his apartment door Thursday morning police said when Schmitz went out and bought a 12-uuee shotgun and five rounds of ammunition then drove to Orion Township mobile home shot him twice in the chest according to police mvestigators Amedure died almost immediately Blasting producers of Jenny Jones Show ikland County Prosecutor Richard Thompson on Friday charged Schmitz with first-degree murder and using a firearm in a felony Plena JONES page CIA nominee withdraws amid accusations made by Elbino Runas a Filipino citizen to the Senate intelligence committee and the FBI Runas lived with the Cams family in the Philippines and the family obtained immigration documents to bring him with them to Hawaii in 1987 He subsequently moved with them to Washington and stayed with the family until 1992 )f Please see (5u4 page All A senior administration official said Clinton in a conversation with Cams Friday accepted that decision and offered the CL nomination to John Deutch deputy secretary of defense Deutch who had turned the CIA post down before it was offered to Cams has accepted the official said The announcement is scheduled for today Cams in an interview said he was withdrawing in the face of accusations By Ann Devroy and Walter Pincus Washington Post WASHINGTON Michael Cams the retired Air Force general selected by President Clinton to head the CIA said Friday night he has asked that his nomination be withdrawn because he was unwilling to fight and abusive accusations" in his Senate confirmation hearings I.