Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-16-2001 The BG News February 16, 2001 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News February 16, 2001" (2001). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6764. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6764 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. State University FRIDAY February 16, 2001 FUEL: CLOUDY Fuel is coming to Toledo. HIGH I LOW See NOW for details. www.binem.com PAGE 7 independent student press VOLUME 90 ISSUE 99 DID YOU KNOW? feeling a bit • Every 13 minutes one person dies in a motor vehicle crash. • Aggressive driving was a factor in up to two-thirds of the highway deaths in 1996. • Speed-related crashes cost an estimated $28.9 billion AGGRESSIVE per year. Source: US Department of transportation National Highway Trattic Safety "■ behind the wheel Administration Crazy drivers could cause injury, death if anger is not controlled when driving magine driving along the high- Iway on a peaceful Sunday afternoon when someone cuts in front of your car, and neariy crashes into you. Many peo- ple, in this instance, react in violent or aggressive ways that may be detrimen- tal to everyone on the road. Aggressive driving, often referred to as road rage, can lead to injury or death when one becomes too consumed with anger. "Road rage may impair a person's ability to concentrate on the road and react quickly and may therefore con- tribute to occurring accidents," said Anne Gordon, assistant professor of psychology. Lt. Linda McCool, of the Bowling Green Police Department, shared simi- lar thoughts. "It can be very serious. It can cause injuries and death." Kevin Vortiws BG News Illustration There are a number of things that can cause road rage. A person may become time. This feeling of frustration may "Road rage may be thought of as a "It is more healthy to let your angered when they are cut off by anoth- cause a driver to lash out against other form of displaced aggression," she said. problems out by giving er vehicle or when following a slow- individuals, in the form of aggressive Often a boss or spouse may anger someone the finger or cussing someone and they take their anger out moving car. driving or yelling or swearing at them." them out, than to hold it in One cause, according to Gordon, may Road rage isn't always caused by traf- to the road, she said. "The aggression is be, "a person may be on his or her way fic incidents, Gordon said. Domestic directed at a convenient target such as for 20 years and go to work to an important meeting and be caught and work problems can also lead to the stranger in a nearby car." with an uzi." in traffic and may thus be prevented road rage and anger being taken out on from arriving at their appointment on other drivers. RAGE, PAGE 5 TRAVIS FORTNEY. BOWLING GREEN RESIDENT American dream Laptop rental now at library lost to hate crimes ByletlAmett the library right now, one in the doctoral student, said he thinks work would be wonderful." ICCHNOLOCf REPORICR Student Technology Center and the laptops are great, especially Dobb said. "It also gives students By Susanna Vagman Northwestern University basket- Students are now able to one on the eighth floor. since he can't afford his own a chance to use a laptop." UWIRt ball coach Ricky Byrdsong who check out laptop computers at Therefore wireless access works $1600 laptop. One reason for getting the lap- BOSTON—" (Hate crimes are) was killed while walking with his the lerome Library, thanks to a in parts of the west side of the "I can type up my notes and e- tops was to encourage computer a kind of harm, a serious assault children, spoke about the new program started this past first Door and on the seventh and mail them to myself," Heckman literacy, Dobb said. Another was ... on our dignity," Anthony changes she experienced after Monday. eighth floors. said. He said that while his pro- to explore possible uses for the Appiah, Harvard University pro- her husband's death. The laptops are green Apple "There are some times when fessors prefer to leaf through new network. fessor and official on hate crime "I was living the American iBooks and they can be checked students would like to use the books and write on paper, grad- "We're experimenting with research said. Of 7,876 hate dream, truly," Byrdsong said. "We out for three hours. Overdue Internet in the library, but they're uate students his age tend to ideas all over campus because crimes reported were approach- fines are $7.50 per 15 minutes not by a machine," said Linda embrace new technology. we have this new infrastructure by the FBI in "At times I fear ing 20 years of late. The software on them Dobb, executive vice president. "It's nice to save paper," he coming up," Dobb said. 1999, half of marriage. We includes Microsoft Office, Dobb, who used to be the said. "(Technology] will change She said the University might them involved that we are were enjoying iMovie and Internet utilities. dean of libraries, was one of the everything" make laptops available in the racial bias and becoming, life with our They also have wireless net- people behind getting the lap- Dobb mentioned possible new Student Union. 19 percent were three happy work access, which means a stu- tops for the library. She noted benefits for group work, like the As of yesterday (he laptops assault and as a nation, children, ... liv- dent can sit down by the book- that she herself would prefer typ- students who work at the long had been checked out about 40 aggravated cold-hearted ing in a nice shelves or periodicals and take ing notes on a computer to writ- tables by the library doors. times. Mary Beth Zachary, head assault, he said quiet suburban notes or check their e-mail. ing them on paper. "I think for groups like that to in a speech and insensitive. neighborhood. There are two wireless hubs in Davin Heckman, a first-year take a laptop and do some group LAPTOPS, PAGE 2 given at Harvard On July 2.1999. University. SHERIALYN BYRDSONG a beautiful Judy Shepard, Friday evening, mother of my American Matthew Shepard also addressed dream became a nightmare.... A the audience. 21-year-old young man, white,... Future of music on net uncertain "My son was murdered in drove by and sprayed shots at my Wyoming in 1998. Since then, my husband and two children. ... By Ion Reese When the Ninth Circuit Court family has been plastered with One bullet hit my husband in the U-WIKC of Appeals ruled Monday to hate crimes," Shepard said. back, killing him prematurely SEATTLE - In essence, the uphold an injunction to halt the According to Shepard, hate and senselessly. Seventeen Internet is a huge shared net- trading of copyrighted music on crimes affect everyone and - months later, I still strongly feel work, a collection of individual Napster, it may have also dealt a along with the two murderers the violent act" computers whose users seek serious blow to the future of who killed her son - society is to "At times I fear that we are Information. The introduction of online file-sharing and indeed, blame becoming, as a nation, cold- Napster, the free mp3 swapping the Internet as a whole. Napster "If someone has been verbally hearted and insensitive." program, could be considered may be shut down, pending a hateful toward you, that's a hate Ismael Deto spoke of his broth- Internet media's coming-out trial within the next few weeks. crime, In my opinion," she said er, loseph, a postal worker, who party. The Internet could do Universities have been in the "I blame society because soci- died in a shooting at the North more than just display static web crossfire since fall 1999, when ety allowed them to murder. ... Valley Jewish Community Center pages; it could power a file-shar- Napster was first introduced and (the murderers) regarded in Granada Hills, Calif., on ing network that has grown to miDions of college students with Matthew as subhuman," August 10,1999. Associated Prtss Photo over 50 million users in less than Shepard added. a year and a half. NAPSTER. PAGE 5 NAPSTER: A Clemson U. student looks at Napster in a library. Sherialyn Byrdsong, the wife of HATE CRIMES. PAGE 5 A 2 Friday, February 16,2001 BG NEWS Laptop rental program at U. Cheney tells conservatives Bush UPTOPS, FROM PAGE 1 of access services at the Jerome Library, said she thinks most of will govern in Reagan tradition the students who have used them are comfortable with computers By Win Lester group was told he couldn't make He said the military will be (particularly Apple computers). ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER it because of his trip to Mexico restructured "to make our forces lighter and easier to move, hard- Also, only the people who have ARLINGTON, Va. — Vice on Friday. seen the signs in the library would President Dick Cheney told con- Cheney reminded the conser- er for our enemies to find and more lethal in action." know about it servative activists Thursday he vatives that Reagan addressed "It needs to be a bit more visi- and President Bush will govern their group two decades ago He restated Bush's recent ble," Zachary said.