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4 POST-C AZETTE: Si April CityArea Duquesne may punish student newspaper over parody The issue was bawdy and risque, but we were giving some students a chance to blow off steam." Shirey said. John Wdowiak, the sports editor and editor-elect, said be decided weeks ago not to plan a parody issue for 1985. He said the raciness of the articles snowballed, with writers trying to outdo one another in lewdness. "I think things got out of hand with a lack of taste." he said. The parody issue, which appeared on campus Thursday, is an annual tradition of the newspaper.

In the 1970s, students published The Duquesne Dupe, ana in 1980 the parody issue was titled The Nesti Plunge. Shirey said this years's paper was not as malicious to faculty members paper would be too severe a punishment for publishing an edition meant to amuse. "This was not supposed to represent the Catholic or Holy Ghost spirit of Duquesne," she said. "It was supposed to show the lighter side of the Bluff." A Page 1 disclaimer stated: "Hey Fool! This April Fools' issue is not meant to offend or upset any individual or group. Our harmless, (and slightly risque) humor is our way of presenting the lighter side of life here at DU." A short item on Page 1 says: The Duke staff reminds you that this is all in fun." Shirey said Nesti told her he received a number of letters and phone calls from people who said the publication was a disgrace to the university.

Nesti told the staff members those were his sentiments, according to Shirey. Shirey said this has been a "very bad year" for Duquesne student morale because a series of false fire alarms has routed students out of bed in the middle of the night One front-page entry tells of of students living in the Sewers (a play on a dormitory called the Towers), hurling furniture at firemen and "refusing to leave the building after the false alarm." On Page 2. the paper offers alternate names for male and female sex organs, a picture of Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelley with a sexual slur in the caption, and man-in-the-street interviews using the question, "What is your most horrible secret?" the publication. He said the administration is also considering safeguards to prevent the recurrence of such irreverent issues of the paper. "We certainly will take action," Service said.

"It's vulgar and tasteless and full of sexual innuendoes. "We're very upset It violates the principles and values we try to inculcate in our students." Members of the staff met for 30 minutes yesterday with the Rev. Donald Nesti, president of the university. The newspaper's editor. Linda Shirey, emerged from the meeting with 10 staff members, saying that the publication was "maybe a little too risque." Shirey said sanctions against the All signs of debate gone with the wind By Marylynne Pitz Post-Gazette Stall Writer The day after a nationally televised debate with the Democratic presidential candidates, the 90 volunteers who worked eight months on the program here finally got a chance to relax.

"I'm soaking my feet in my foot bath," said Marilyn Daly, president of the League of Women Voters, Allegheny County Council. "It's sort nf like the dav after Christmas when ou floo in your chair ana put your feet up." Daly went to the David Lawrence Convention Center early yesterday to tidy up the league office. "It looked like nothing happened," she said. "It was totally cleaned up. There was no sign that a debate happened.

We thought, 'Gee, was this some kind of a the voter response assured Daly that it was not. "One guy called this morning and said, 'Thanks a lot. You've helped me make up mind on who to vote for," she said. Toni Robinson, local debate coordinator, said the league received about 60 calls yesterday praising the debate or asking about registering to vote. Daly, who called the program "a iJ By Andrew Sheehan and Alvin Rosensweet Pt-Gettt SUfl Wrllors The publication of a "vulgar and tasteless" parody of the Duquesne Duke, the weekly student newspaper of Dnquesne University, may result in sanctions against the staff and the paper itself.

Kenneth Service, vice president for University relations, said the university administration is considering disciplinary actions against the newspaper's staff members for the publication of the April Fool's edition. Service said the Student Government Association, which provides funding for the newspaper and other campus activities, is considering withdrawing financial support from Elderly couple beaten to death An elderly couple was found beaten to death in their tiny Northside apartment yesterday. The decomposing bodies of John Morrison, 68, and Jessie Morrison, 64, were discovered yesterday afternoon by a rental agent, who came to ask why they hadn't paid their rent Police said they were last seen alive three weeks ago. Coroner Joshua Perper estimated they had been dead a week or two. The man's body was found on the bed, and the woman was on the floor beside him.

There was blood around the bodies. Both were badly beaten. Perper said the died of blunt force injuries inflicted by some kind of hammer. He said at least one of the deaths is a homicide and investigators are trying to decide whether both were. The doors and windows were locked at the upstairs apartment at 515 Tripoli St.

when the rental agent arrived. Police said there was no sign of forced entry and no sign that the couple had been robbed. The downstairs neighbor, who would identify herself only as Betty, said the Morrisons "argued a bit, but I didn't pay attention." The neighbor said she heard no unusual sounds from the apartment, other than the couple arguing. The Morrisons had moved to the row house in July. Neighbors said Mrs.

Morrison had been hospitalized before that time. Police said Jessie Morrison had beeira patient at Mayview and St. John's hospitals, where she was treated for mental disorders. She had a reputation for being violent, police said. One investigator said she lived "like a bag lady, but she didn't carry the bag outside." The house, he said, was filled with an assortment of bagged items.

During the past year the Morrisons lived at three different North-side addresses. The Morrisons were near strangers to their neighbors, many of whom have lived in the neighborhood, for decades. "He would go up to Hardy's and get coffee, and bring it back for her," said Eugene Sloan, who lives on the next block. "Once in a while, you'd see her sitting in the window with the light on." "He would come down and pay his rent as good as gold," said rental agent Don Muller, who unlocked the apartment door and found the bodies. Mrs.

Morrison's brother said her husband had been a dishwasher at the 1 William Penn Hotel before retiring. The state Department of Transportation plans to build a 6-foot wall next to the Parkway East, Downtown, to prevent flooding. High water closed the expressway Thursday, causing rush hour traffic jams. The wall is part of a two-year reconstruction of the parkway between Downtown and Oakland. Stormie better after transplants, looking forward to going home as others had been.

"As far as lampooning or slamming particular people, it was one of the lightest ever, she said. "It was bawdy humor in a general sense." Shirey said the staff has voluntarily agreed to write letters of apology to faculty members and others who were parodied in the issue. She said the staff produces "26 reputable issues" in a year, and she said she hopes the administration will consider that before taking disciplinary action. "We would have toned it down if we bad it to do again," she said. 'There are errors in Judgment, granted.

The only thing we can do is apologize." great success" said she would have done one thing differently. "I would have liked the format to have been announced earlier," Daly said. "We kept saying that it was going to be like the other debates. It was a little bit different I loved the idea of having the candidates ask each other a question." Even after the candidates Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson left town, league volunteers were tending to details. Robinson spent part of yesterday collecting the four lecterns used in the debate and sending them in a truck back to the league's national office in Washington, D.C.

While league members attended a reception after the debate at the Hilton Hotel, Downtown, cleanup began at the convention center. The work took about five hours, according to James Kiesel, events manager. Technicians began taking down the stage, lights and cameras immediately after the program. By 2 a.m., all the equipment was gone. Daly said the league raised half the $65,000 needed to put on the debate.

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Doctors at Children's Hospital decided she would need a new heart in addition to a liver. On Valentine's Day a heart and liver from a 4-year-old Rochester, N.Y., accident victim were transplanted to Stormie. Many months of testing will be needed before Stormie's doctors can be sure the transplanted liver will cure her rare disorder. So far, Stormie's mother said, doctors have reported substantially lower cholesterol levels. Normal cholesterol readings range between about 150 and 250 milligrams per milliliter of blood.

Before Stormie's operation, her mother said, her cholesterol levels rose to more than 12,000. Since the operation, she said, her cholesterol levels have been down around 275. The nodules still are visible, but her mother said they seem to be receding. Stormie eats a normal diet now, her mother said a welcome change from the low-fat diet she was restricted to before the operation. Her favorite foods are spaghetti, pizza, tacos, and steak.

After Stormie gets home, her I I 1 AVATT.A.RT.B I By Henry W. Pierce Post-Gazette Staff Writer Nearly two months after undergoing a historic heart-liver transplant here, Stormie Jones feels "super" and is making plans to go back home to Texas. "I can hardly keep up with her," said Stormie's mother, Lisa. The 6-year-old girl, the first person ever to receive a heart and liver transplant in one operation, has been improving so steadily that she may return home later this month. But Stormie's mother said the date is "not really certain." Stormie will undergo more examinations before a final decision is made.

Stormie jumped up and down on a big stuffed zebra at Children's Hospital during an interview yesterday. The child inherited a condition that drove her blood cholesterol to levels far above normal. Fatty nodules began welling up under the skin around her knuckles, knees and elbows when she was a baby. Local doctors, not knowing the unusual lumps were a warning, told her mother not to worry. Last year, Stormie's condition, called hypercholesterolemia, became so severe she had two heart attacks in three months.

Doctors in Dallas decided her best hope was in getting a new liver, Ruas EfentaSeaPoQls Darrell Saoo Post-Gazette mother said, the girl will spend two or three weeks in Parkland Hospital in Dallas for further observation and tests. "The doctors want to be sure the liver transplant is what counteract-. ed her cholesterol levels," she said. Stormie was discharged from Children's Hospital on March 14. She and her mother have been living since then at an undisclosed location in Pittsburgh.

They have been window shopping, visiting with friends, and spending time with her mother's fiance, Don-nie Millsap of Cumby, who has gotten a job as a construction worker here. Twice a week, Stormie reports to Children's Hospital for tests. Stormie said she likes to ride Pittsburgh's inclines but thinks the weather here is "awful." "One day it's good, the next it's bad," she said. Stormie was in one of her quiet moods yesterday. When asked how she felt she had only one comment: "Fine." Her 9-year-old sister, Misty, said Stormie has even more energy now than she does.

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