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LffiCAIL The Pittsburgh Press Section Thursday, November 21, 1991 Officer cites lack of evidence, concludes missing boy is alive School boundary plan draws board into fight By Mike Hasch The Pittsburgh Press A McKees Rocks police officer says he believes a missing 8-year-old boy, last seen Nov. 9 walking with his fishing gear toward either Chartiers Creek or the Ohio River, is still alive. Lt. Donald Panyko said yesterday there is no evidence at this time that William Majewski of Chartiers Avenue is dead. "We've searched the creek extensively and did not find his body," Panyko said.

"We are treating the case as if he's still alive. It's my personal opinion he's still alive." Panyko said there is "no evidence of foul play," but he said the boy's disappearance is a riddle and declined to speculate where the child may be. McKees Rocks Police Chief Robert Martineau today said he also has doubts the boy drowned. "I might be wrong, but if he was in the water, I think his body would have surfaced by now. If it doesn't in the next few days, he's not in that creek.

"If he's not dead, there's only two other possibilities," said Martineau. "You can't rule out the possibility that he was Please see Boy, C7 By Bill Zlatos The Pittsburgh Press City school officials have unveiled a plan to redistrict eight elementary schools next fall and open two more schools to relieve overcrowding on the North Side. Under the redistricting plan, many of the 3,500 students now attending the eight schools would be transferred. The plan was announced yesterday during a facilities planning meeting that erupted in a shouting match between board members anxious to protect the interests of their constituents. The board asked the administration to set up a committee on combining Rogers Middle School for the Creative and Performing Arts with the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

No deadline for the merger was established. Louise Brennen, deputy superintendent of elementary and middle schools, recommended redistricting Chatham, Clayton, King, Manchester, Mann, Morrow, Northview Heights and Spring Garden elementary schools. Five of the schools Chatham, Clayton, Mann, Morrow and Spring Garden have more students than they are supposed to accommodate. The district's overcrowding results from the city's stable birth rate and an increase in students from private schools. The new attendance boundaries, to be proposed by a task force in January, would reduce the enrollment at Chatham from the current 323 students to an estimated 280 next year, Clayton from 337 to 325, Manchester from 536 to 534, Mann from 431 to 313 and Spring Garden from 298 to 254.

King's enrollment would grow from 576 to 585 and Northview Heights from 489 to 504. "We need two (more) schools on the North Side one school in addition to Spring Hill," Brennen said. The board already had targeted Spring Hill, an administrative center, for reopening as a school next fall. But Superintendent Richard C. Wallace pressed for the opening of Please see Crowd, C7 William Majewski Was last seen on Nov.

i it 'It 1 'ffi Cable repairer fatally stabbed on service call By Matthew P. Smith The Pittsburgh Press It was supposed to be a routine service call, one of about 300 such calls that cable TV technicians for TCI of Pennsylvania respond to every day. But the call yesterday to an apartment at 5704 Perm Ave. in East Liberty ended in the stabbing death of cable technician Thomas P. Stanley and a homicide charge against an apartment resident.

Stanley's fellow workers were in a state of shock yesterday, said Evan Pattak, a company spokesman. "We're a pretty tight-knit shop," Pattak said. "Everyone's pretty shook up." Robert Owens, 24, was arrested in a hallway in the apartment building minutes after the incident at 2:30 p.m., police said. Stanley, 43, of McLain Street, Mount Washington, was pronounced dead at the scene by city paramedics. He was stabbed once in the back.

Police have recovered a butcher knife believed to be the murder weapon. Investigators said they do not know what led to the stabbing but said Owens told them his horoscope predicted he was going to have a "lousy" day. Owens was arraigned last night before County Please see Stabbing, C7 Ferlo's expletive punctuates memo By Jon Schmitz The Pittsburgh Press It's not always easy to wean politicians from their perks. Several city officials have agreed to Mayor Sophie Masloff's request that they begin paying for their reserved parking spaces, to help the city through its financial crisis. But one councilman has weighed in with a less-than-enthusiastic response.

you! Sophie Jim Turner," Councilman Jim Ferlo wrote on a General Services memo asking him to agree to a $3-per-day charge. (He spelled out the first word in his message.) Ferlo signed his name and returned the memo to its author, General Services Director Louis DiNardo. Ferlo said in an interview yesterday the message was intended as a private "joke" to DiNardo and not an official response. But he refused to say whether he will agree to a parking fee and declined further comment. "I didn't take it as a joke," DiNardo said of the Please see Park, C7 Robin RombachThe Pittsburgh Press Elizabeth Meislin watches tape of her Rottweiler being taken from her Oakland apartment after attack On mend, Rottweiler owner sorts out dog's attack By Eleanor Chute years turned on me.

I'm a big animal person. I always had a dog." Last week, Ms. Meislin was released from St. Francis Medical Center after spending a total of seven weeks there and at Presbyterian University Hospital. She had seven operations and still is to have more surgery as a result of dog bites so severe that bone was exposed from her mid-calf to her foot.

She now is staying with her father, Jeff Meislin of Brentwood, while she recovers. While in the emergency room at Presby, the petite woman gave permission for the 165-pound Rottweiler, which she got when it was 6 months old, to be destroyed. "I miss the dog I raised. I do not miss the dog from that night," she said. By "that night," Ms.

Meislin means the early hours of Sept. 18. She was asleep in the Oakland apartment where she had moved with the Rottweiler, named Kodiak, and a Labrador retriever named Rudy just 17 days earlier. "I spent more money on those dogs than I did onmyself. He (Kodiak) was my golden boy.

I brushed that dog every night. He was distinguished looking," she said. They had moved from an apartment with a fenced yard and two other people to the new apartment, where Ms. Meislin lived alone and needed to walk the dog if he wanted out. Please see Rottweiler, C7 The Pittsburgh Press After nearly losing her right leg when her Rottweiler turned on her, 22-year-old Elizabeth Meislin is left with memories of the seemingly gentle dog and the mystery of why he bit her more than 200 times.

"I raised him with all kinds of joy and love," she said yesterday. "That dog slept at my feet. If I woke up, he woke up. He protected me. If someone came within 10 feet of me, he was upset.

"I just wonder why the dog I raised for three Judiciously correct nudity is in the eye of the beholder I ft O'Neill Nudism is a lot of fuss about nothing Piccolo Pete, Pictorial Weekly, 1932 LAST WEEK, a judge in upstate New York ruled that women's breasts should not be distinguished from men's. No kidding. Monroe County Judge Patricia Marks overturned the convictions of 10 women exposing their breasts in public, saying that legally classifying women's breasts as different from men's breasts is a violation of the state and U.S. constitutions. That's about all I know of this great moment in American jurisprudence.

But I mention it here as prologue to the main story, because the news brief on this decision came over the wires only one day before reports of a big fuss at Penn State about a 200-year-old portrait of a nude. A female English professor succeeded in having the offending poster, a reproduction of Goya's "The Naked Maja," taken down from a classroom where it had hung for more than a decade. A committee of university faculty found it created an uncomfortable atmosphere for women. Women have been seen naked since, well, since Adam made that unbeatable deal on a spare rib, if you believe the Bible. For millions of years, if you have any faith in evolution.

But these two stories show that there is still disagreement on when and where and how nude and semi-nude humans should be seen, and even how they should be defined. Both of these incidents unrelated, at first blush were declared victories for women, thereby making life here in the last years of the American Century just that much more confusing. What happened at Penn State was this. A female English professor at the university's Schuylkill campus was given a due to a lack of space. She shared it with a male music professor.

As Denise Foran, director of university relations, relates the story, this professor felt the students' attention was not on her. "There was eye contact with the poster while she was talking," Foran said. The class was in basic writing skills, so this poster was hardly a teaching tool. Trying to put myself in this professor's position, I can understand her concerns. If a poster of Michelangelo's "David" were hanging behind me, I might find it difficult keeping students focused on the dangling participle.

Anyway, this professor went through all the proper channels and all art posters in the room were removed over the objections of the music teacher. The university determined that the Goya poster created a chilly class environment. Though there was a flurry of protests by the Student Government Association about censorship, that has reportedly died down since last Friday, when the poster was hung in the television reading room at the student center. "If something offends you there," Foran said, "you can walk out." It seemed a fair decision. Within reason, a teacher ought to be able to set up her classroom the way she sees fit.

As for the argument that live women should be able to bear their breasts in public if they see fit, well, that's far less persuasive. Is this judge really saying you can't distinguish between men's and women's breasts in the state of New York? I wish I had heard that as a teenager. It sure would have saved me a lot of time with National Geographic. (Brian O'Neill's column appears in The Pittsburgh Press every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.) classroom where the poster of Goya's "The Naked Maja" hung. More specifically, the poster hung right behind the teacher.

Now, I don't know if you've ever seen this painting, but the Maja was, as they used to say about Mrs. Paul in those fish stick commercials, a fine looking woman. Goya would later paint a clothed version of the model in the same reclining pose; the nude he painted in 1800 was so controversial it was not shown to the public until 1901. The ownership of a nude was forbidden in Spain by the Inquisition, the art histories tell us. But the poster had been hanging rather quietly in this Penn State classroom for more than a decade.

The model was in much the same pose that so many of her modern-day sisters would strike in the centerfolds of Playboy. (One can only guess what the Maja would answer to that stock Playboy question about her "turn-offs." Inquisitions perhaps? Cold knights?) But nobody ever went public with any complaints because, well, this was ART. The classroom went from an art history class to a music room and then, this year, it was assigned to this English professor.