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TODAY Directory SPORTS OPINION 2 Switchboard 372-2601 Derrick Jones discusses the Classified Ads 372-6977 Men's Basketball Championship Baseball diversity problems at BGSU Display Ads 372-2605 Editorial 372-6966 Kentucky ....79 NCAA at home vs. Michigan Sports 372-2602 Entertainment 372-2603 Arizona 84 OT 2 p.m. LOCAL smmsM 2 Falcons looking to improve 9-6 Story Idea? Give us a call Arizona shocks defending champions, partly cloudy weekdays from I pm. to 5 pjn.. or becomes first No. 4 seed in tournament record with victory over visiting USG presidential and e-mail: '"[email protected]" history to claim NCAA crown Wolverines senator election results High: 49 Low: 23 TUESDAY April 1,1997 Volume 83, Issue 124 The BG News Bowling Green, Ohio # "Serving the Bowling Green community for over 75years" McVeigh Trial Refreshing Resolution for McVeigh faculty raise to jury be put on hold selection □ Faculty Senate with- Faculty draws salary increase begins request to further clarify The resolution will be re- and discuss it, pending written and submitted at the May The Associated Press Faculty Senate meeting. re-submittal. Charles Middleton, provost and DENVER - In a courtroom vice president of academic af- protected by barricades and ByDARLAWARNOCK fairs, said the resolution was de- armed guards, Oklahoma City TheBCNewi signed to be an aspirational bombing defendant Timothy statement from the faculty in- McVeigh gazed intently at poten- A resolution requesting an 8.9 stead of a request for a larger tial jurors Monday as they spoke percent faculty salary increase raise. of their willingness to impose the has been withdrawn from today's "It was subject to so much death penalty for the deadliest Faculty Senate agenda. misunderstanding to what it was terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil. The decision to repeal the item and what it wasn't," Middleton from the agenda came as a result said. "We came to the conclusion McVeigh, wearing a buzz hair- of a need to clarify the original collectively that it was probably cut, an open-collared blue shirt intent of the resolution, accord- best to just pull it for the time be- and khakis, smiled and shook his ing to Faculty Senate chairman ing until we could have a more attorney's hand as he was HalLunde. theoretical discussion without brought into the courtroom from He said the Senate had hoped any numbers attached to it." a basement holding cell for the the resolution would represent a He said he does not want the start of jury selection. He nodded goal the faculty were aiming at, wrong idea to be brought across and mouthed "Good morning" rather than a definite number to the faculty or University through a smile when the judge they were asking to receive. community. introduced him to jurors. "It results in misunderstand- Faculty compensation in re- But during detailed and excru- ing," Lunde said. "We're really sponse to high quality perform- ciatingly slow questioning, trying to clarify what we're ask- McVeigh's glare tightened over ing for." • See SALARY, page three. his folded hands as prospective jurors discussed how they could recommend execution if he Is convicted in the April 19, 1995, blast that killed 168 people and Larranaga off injured hundreds more. "It's hard to place yourself In the role of deciding the fate of to George Mason another human being on these □ Coach ends 11 -year ■ List of candidates features terms," said a former Falcon players, coaches. middle-aged tenure at Bowling Story and graphic, page six. man identified Green as the second- only as No. 858. winningest in school "It was going to take some- "Yet there has history. thing special to lure me away be- to be some ul- cause of the great players and timate price to McVeigh people that were associated with pay" as sketched By SCOTT BROWN my program." The man, a The BC News in courtroom That 'something special' self-employed turned into a rather lucrative financial adviser, said he has not Men's basketball coach Jim deal with George Mason, con- formed an opinion about Larranaga announced his resig- sidered an up-and-coming pro- McVeigh but believes there may nation Saturday, ending one of gram in the Colonial Athletic As- be other suspects who have not the winningest eras In Bowling sociation. The university is only t jen arrested. "There are ele- Green's athletic history. ments, potentially people out 40 years old with a student popu- Larranaga left to take the head lation expected to hit 30,000 by there that are ancillary to this coaching position at George the year 2000 and a new, case, that might want to make Mason University In Fairfax, Va their strength and presence felt," 10,000-seat arena. That move was to be formally Although he said. announced at an 11 am. press The second prospective juror Larranaga conference today in Fairfax, would confirm questioned, a grandmother in her which is 20 miles outside Wash- 60s, said her dominant memory only that his ington, D.C. contract was a of McVeigh was the footage of Lairanaga, 47, ends his 11-year him in an orange jail jumpsuit be- five-year deal, tenure at Bowling Green as the the total pack- ing led out of a county jail In Ok- second-winningest coach in lahoma. age is expected school history. He had a 170-144 to be near record In that span, including a $200,000 annu- "I felt very sorry for him," she 22-10 mark and Mid-American ally. The pack- Larranaga said. "For such a young man to Conference title last season. age at Bowling waste his life" "It was a great 11 years," Lar- Green was around $85,000 a year. McVeigh's attorney Stephen ranaga said Sunday from his ho- BCNcwi Pilot* by Amy Vaa Horn Paul Westhead, a former NBA Jones then asked: "You didn't tel room in Indianapolis, where coach, was fired at George feel sorry because they arrested Cameron Hansen, a freshman biology major, enjoys catching a baseball in the sunshine outside he was attending college basket- the wrong man?" McDonald North Monday afternoon. ball's Final Four. • See COACH, page eight. Meeting retention goals may raise state university tuition caps university is $3,468 per year. when it comes to tuition in- Little said. The Associated Press waived for schools that meet the Tuition criteria. "We don't view the absence of creases." State Rep. Sally Perz, The plan currently would af- tuition caps as an excuse to Richard Little, a Miami R-Toledo, who shepherded the COLUMBUS - Public universi- LATER THIS WEEK: University fect Ohio State University, Bowl- ■ gouge our students," Shkurti told spokesman, said the school rec- measure through the House bud- ties that meet goals for freshman officials react. retention, graduation rates and ing Green State University, The Columbus Dispatch for a ognizes it must use restraint in get debate, said if schools raise Ohio residency could lift tuition Miami University and Ohio Uni- story Sunday. raising tuition. At $5,098 per tuition too much, fewer students caps under a state budget bill the versity. Those schools tra- could come as late as June 30, the Instead, the proposal offers year, it has the highest full-time will enroll and the universities House has approved and the Sen- ditionally have raised tuition at budget deadline. schools greater flexibility, he undergraduate tuition of any will lose state money, much of ate Is considering. or near the maximum amount the William Shkurti, Ohio State's said. public university In Ohio. which is dependent on enroll- The Legislature approved caps law allows. vice president for finance, said "On the other hand, the reality However, a tuition increase ment numbers. ranging from 5 percent to 9 per- The universities are waiting the school would not use the lack is that whatever we do will be re- could raise more money for stu- cent in each of Its two-year bud- for final approval of the current of a cap to drive up tuition costs. ported in the media as a percent- dent aid that Miami needs to Annual tuition is $3,885 at Ohio gets since 1990. Beginning this budget bill before they set tuition In-state tuition for a full-time age increase," Shkurti said. compete with prestigious private University and $3,464 at Bowling year, those limits would be increases for next year. That undergraduate student at the "We'll still be very circumspect colleges for the best students, Green. * t page two The BG News Tuesday, April 1, 1997 Mike Wendling Opinion Editor Opinion 372-6966 SPECIAL GUEST COLUMNIST H E Alliance site breeds racist thought A friend of mine was walking Native Americans were already history and achievements of and more white business execs alongside a residence hall when here. Columbus only made minority groups.