conscience on campus
Campus Protest Condemns Cash for his inaction
A university says it can’t expel a witness in the trial of Jeremy Strohmeyer since the teen faces no charges.
Las Vegas Review Journal – August 27, 1998 – Lori Roniger
-- A spirited protest Wednesday at University of California, Berkeley, demonized David Cash Jr. for a day but failed to convince school officials that the sophomore, a key witness in the murder trial of Jeremy Strohmeyer, should be expelled. The school's chancellor said Wednesday there were no plans to expel the 19-year-old, who was with Strohmeyer the night 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson was killed at the Primm Valley resort, 43 miles south of Las Vegas in Primm. Strohmeyer's trial begins Monday, and he faces a possible death sentence for the May 25, 1997, slaying of the Los Angeles second-grader. Cash has admitted he saw Strohmeyer, also 19, with the girl in the bathroom stall where her body was eventually found, but did nothing to stop what was happening or notify security or police. Cash, who has not been charged with any crime, was admitted to the university prior to Sherrice's murder. He was not present at Wednesday's protest, though he was seen on school grounds during the day. The rally, in the campus' Sproul Plaza, was led by about 50 people from the Los Angeles area, including Tim Conway Jr. and Doug Steckler of KLSX-FM, hosts of a Los Angeles area talk show. Rally organizers handed out fliers depicting Cash and Sherrice that asked, "Should he walk free on Berkeley's Campus?" Although hundreds of students swarmed through the plaza during the noon rally, University Police spokesman Capt. Bill Cooper pegged rally attendance at about 75. "Berkeley, how can you and your chancellor allow David Cash to walk your sacred halls?" Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League, asked during the protest, which lasted less than an hour. Also speaking were Yolanda Manuel, Sherrice's mother,
A university says it can’t expel a witness in the trial of Jeremy Strohmeyer since the teen faces no charges.
Las Vegas Review Journal – August 27, 1998 – Lori Roniger
-- A spirited protest Wednesday at University of California, Berkeley, demonized David Cash Jr. for a day but failed to convince school officials that the sophomore, a key witness in the murder trial of Jeremy Strohmeyer, should be expelled. The school's chancellor said Wednesday there were no plans to expel the 19-year-old, who was with Strohmeyer the night 7-year-old Sherrice Iverson was killed at the Primm Valley resort, 43 miles south of Las Vegas in Primm. Strohmeyer's trial begins Monday, and he faces a possible death sentence for the May 25, 1997, slaying of the Los Angeles second-grader. Cash has admitted he saw Strohmeyer, also 19, with the girl in the bathroom stall where her body was eventually found, but did nothing to stop what was happening or notify security or police. Cash, who has not been charged with any crime, was admitted to the university prior to Sherrice's murder. He was not present at Wednesday's protest, though he was seen on school grounds during the day. The rally, in the campus' Sproul Plaza, was led by about 50 people from the Los Angeles area, including Tim Conway Jr. and Doug Steckler of KLSX-FM, hosts of a Los Angeles area talk show. Rally organizers handed out fliers depicting Cash and Sherrice that asked, "Should he walk free on Berkeley's Campus?" Although hundreds of students swarmed through the plaza during the noon rally, University Police spokesman Capt. Bill Cooper pegged rally attendance at about 75. "Berkeley, how can you and your chancellor allow David Cash to walk your sacred halls?" Irv Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense League, asked during the protest, which lasted less than an hour. Also speaking were Yolanda Manuel, Sherrice's mother,