A. Newsstand Folo

     The plight of newsstand operator Rosario Marvello has been featured in The Freeport News and on local broadcast stations and people are calling on the mayor to take action.
     Two days after the newsstand was demolished, the mayor issues the following news release. Use it as the bases of a story of 300 words.

The City of Freeport Office of the Mayor

For Release: Immediate

Statement by Mayor Sam Parnass

     I was upset to learn that a newsstand operated by Rosario Marvello was demolished in error by the Sanitation Department. This should not have happened.
     Everyone makes mistakes, including those of us in government. The important thing is to right those mistakes. I have ordered that the newsstand be rebuilt or replaced and turned over to Mr. Marvello immediately without cost to him. The work has already begun and it will be on the same site he has had for 12 years.
     Deputy Mayor Stan Brezen talked with Ruth Marvello, expressing the city's regrets about this unfortunate incident and assuring her that any property taken by the Sanitation Department would be returned or the department's community funds would pay for any property destroyed.
     While we are restoring Mr. Marvello's business, it is important to remember that the Department of City Planning and an interagency task force are engaged in a long-term study of the rules for location and design of newsstands. Our aim is to rationalize decision making on this issue so that the distribution of newspapers and magazines flourishes while legitimate community concerns, chiefly about impediments to pedestrian flow on the sidewalks, are addressed.
     In a reaction to preliminary recommendations, publishers, editorial commentators and columnists have suggested that the city wants to eliminate newsstands. Nothing could be further from the truth. Newsstands are an essential part of the city and provide valuable service to people.
     It is absolutely not our intention to diminish the sale of newspapers. On the contrary, we believe more news and editorial coverage of matters of public interest benefits the city and its people.
     At the end of this process, it is my hope that we will have developed sensible criteria that encourage the creation of attractive newsstands in busy locations that people in neighborhoods around the city will welcome.
     It is conceivable that at some future date Mr. Marvello will be asked to move, but if that happens it will be part of a citywide reorganization plan. It will not be as the result of a demolition raid.

B. Provost

     St. Mary's University has appointed a new provost, Stanley Stiga, 42, who was a professor of chemistry at Michigan State University. The announcement was made today by university president, N. Francis Simms. You attend a news conference at which the announcement is made. In answers to questions, Stiga advances this list of actions he intends to initiate:

• Greater emphasis on research by the faculty. "We must make this university stand out, and the way to accomplish this is through research and publication of the research of our faculty. I will be stressing to all department heads that advancement depends on such activity."  A fund for tutoring all students having difficulty in a course. "Our task is to teach students, and some learn slower than others or can see better with direction from someone with another perspective."
• More self-government among students. "A student judicial council could take over all disciplinary matters outside of the academic area. College students are just a few years away from taking on responsibilities in the real world. Why not train them here? In fact, you might say that I look at college students as adults. The days of in loco parentis are gone."
• A meaningful advisory system. Every student should have a student advisor in the freshman year as well as a faculty advisor. "We want to be able to anticipate any problems. When a student is having trouble in class, in a dormitory or with parents or a friend, we want to be able to be in a position to offer help. Students sometimes are better able to help than faculty members."
• Coeducational housing should extend to most of the campus. "Again, this is part of the business of treating college students as adults. At Colby, the fraternities began to show an interest in such living arrangements, and one did welcome several women as residents. No one should be forced to live in a coeducational facility. Indeed, some students are much happier and productive in a single-sex housing facility. But the option should be there. This is the reality of life students will face. Anyway, the arguments in its favor are well known, and the issue now is hardly earthshaking."

     Write 300 words.