Retired scientist
receives honor

NORTH Vancouver resident and physicist
Dr. Klaus Rieckhoff is a 1998 honorary
degree recipient at SFU.

Rieckhoff has not only watched the university grow
into the respected institution it is today, but has actively
helped it get there, says an SFU press release.

Despite heavy research and teaching demands, he’s
been a contributor to university governance and adminis-
tration.

Rieckhoff sat on senate for a record-setting 28 years,
and on the board of governors for 12 years.

He served as acting dean of science, and associate and
acting dean of graduate studies.

In 1982, the university recognized his contributions by
renaming the former senate chambers in his honor.

Rieckhoff retired in 1993, but continues his active
intercst in the affairs of the university.

The university’s 1998 spring convocation ceremonies
take place on June 4-5.

Other degree designates include retired high school
principal Robert Carkner, former B.C. cabinet minister
Stan Hagen, physicists Albert Overhauser, and Vancouver
business executive Milton Wong.

Spud bong
evidence up |'
in smoke

COLERAIN Township, Ohio
— According to a police
report, 2 restaurant: manager
trying to rid his property of
drug parapherralia turned
over a homemade bong pipe
that he found in a rear corri-
dor of his building.

The bong was actually a
hollowed-out potato rigged
with masking tape and alu-
minum foil, with marijuana
residue inside.

Since it was perishable
food, the erganic bong was
destroyed by the police, rather
than kept as evidence.

Former Portland State
University library employee
Mary Joan Byrd, 61, was
indicted recently for theft of
more than $10,000 over a
two-year period from the
library’s photocopy machines.

A report in the school’s
student newspaper also specu-
lated that she may have taken
as much as $200,000 over a
10-year period.

According to Byrd's
lawyer, who asked a judge for
leniency, Byrd was just using
the tnoncy temporarily.

That is, since she spent
almost the entire amount on
Oregon's government-spon-
sored video poker machines
and never won, the state gor
all its money back.

Just before being convict-
ed of the murders of two
counterespionage — agents,
international terrorist Carlos
the Jackal was sentenced to 10
days” solitary confinement for
calling a Paris prison guard a
“gnu.”

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Montreal Canadiens’
defenceman Dave Manson
underwent surgery to remove
a Christmas tree needle that
had gotten stuck in his ear.

The father of the fate rap
singer Tupac Shakur, fighting
for pare of Shakur’s multimil-
lion-dollar estate in Los
Angeles, told a hearing he was
a good father.

Despite his having had no
contact with his son after age

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

five, William Garland said he
would often tuck in lice
Tupac, a bedwerter, with
another Garland son, also a
bed-wetter.

“They could pee with each
other,” Garland said.

Wasilla, Alaska —- Duane
Carr was sentenced to 28
months in prison for sexually
molesting his 15-year: -old
baby sitter.

Carr maintained that he
did not know the girl was
under the legal age of 16
because he and the girl are
Jehovah’s Witnesses, whose
members do not celebrate
birthdays.

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The winner of September's
annual Angeles Crest ultrami-
rathon, which started at the
Wrightwood Resort in the
San Gabriel Mountains near
Los Angeles and finished in
Pasadena, was Mexican
Tarahumara Indian Cirildo
Chacarito.

The 52-year-old covered
the distance in a time of 19
hours and 34 minutes.

Incredibly, Chacarito beat
all the guys who were wearing
$200 running shoes; he ran
the race in sandals made from
old automobile tires.

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Officials at the Florida
Agency for Health Care
Administration have decided
it was fine for male employee
Dale Robb, hired as a coun-
sclor in 1996 after 20 years in
the military, to report for
work every day dressed as a
woman named Sabrina.

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