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Inside the News Opinion State • Jury convicts riot leader Joe has veal with Jim Carroll Nation • Search for killer ends 4 Sports • Hockey hosts OSU Page 2 Friday, February 23,1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 88 The News' Briefs I love my soaps! NBA Scores N.Y. Islanders 5 N.Y. Rangers 3 Serials are release in 'unsure world' Detroit Genell Pavellch Toronto The BC News Some University students Philadelphia 5 may rush home after classes In Washington 3 the afternoons to see if Jack and Jenn are back together yet, if Cricket and Paul are getting Dallas 3 married, or If Noah and Julia Ottawa 2 will live happily ever after. No, these people aren't their friends, but students do feel NHL Scores like they know them. The peo- Chicago 96 ple they rush home to see are characters on soap operas. Atlanta 91 Jack Nachbar, Popular Cul- ture professor, said soap Houston 86 operas are popular with stu- dents for many reasons. Cleveland 80 "I think in a real unsure world where there Is always Utah 102 pressure, whether It be about Toronto 86 grades or the future, it is com- fortable for students to sit down and watch familiar char- Doctor works to acters,'' he said. "It is almost like a ritual." Juan Hcrrlf/Tk! BG Ncwi clear his name He also said that even though CLEVELAND-More the soaps have familiar charac- University students sit around every afternoon watching to see Sonny and Brenda on "General Hospital" and Danny and Cricket than 40 years after his wife ters, they also have new stories what's going on with Jack and Jennifer on "Days of Our Lives," on "The Young and the Restless." was murdered, and more than 25 years after he him- so they never get boring. He viewer may begin to take it ryline continually moves along I was little because my mom self-destructive." self died, Dr. Sam Sheppard said many students who watch personally." and there are no reruns," she got me hooked." He also said that an argu- has moved a step closer to soap operas may have started Mike Calca, Junior finance said. "It changes everyday and ment in defense of soap operas wiping the stain of infamy watching even before they major, said soaps can be very there Is always something Nachbar agreed that soap Is that they are a 20th-century from his name. came to college. "addicting." He said he has new." operas can be used as ways to art form. But the case that helped "Students, and people in watched All My Children for at relieve stress. inspired the television se- general, tend to refer to the least IS years of his life. Mara Reitzel, junior second- "They do provide a sense of "Soap operas are a fairly new ries and movie "The Fugi- show as 'my' soap," he said. Jenny Brickner, junior ary education major, said soap relaxation, and I think they do art form in that even though tive" won't go away quietly. "Sometimes, they may have have some theraputic value," The prosecutor's files on communication disorders operas can also be good stress they do have exaggerated the 1954 slaying have dis- taken up watching the show In major, said she agreed. relievers from classes. be said. "People may watch plots, they are open-ended con- appeared, perplexing pros- high school or earlier and they "Soaps can be very addicting "Soap operas are a good them to seek relief from their tinuous serials," he said. "That ecutors and family lawyers stick with It. There is that com- and I think people keep watch- break from studying," she said. pressures, which Is better than had never been done before alike. fort of familiarity, and the ing the shows because the sto- "I've been watching them since other alternatives that may be soap operas." "I'm not saying there was a cover-up," said Sheppard family lawyer Terry Gil- bert. "This whole thing may be Innocent. But everybody would like to see what's in UT professor talks on Africa's promise those files." Sheppard, a socially prominent osteopath, was Dawn Keller according to Samuel Aryeetey- said Attoh, who spoke at the Uni- and any other word you can think "Africa is the cradle of civili- convicted in a sensational The BC News Attoh, an associate professor of versity Thursday night. of," he said. "I prefer to look at zation," he said. "It's contributed trial of killing his pregnant geography and planning at the He said people can look at the 'P's,' which are possibilities, to several civilizations and in- wife, Marilyn, at their home African development elicits University of Toledo. Africa through the 'D's" or the potential and prospects." fluenced technology, crafts and in the Cleveland suburb of heated dicussions because It "There's a growing concern "P's." Attoh said the possibilities for socialization." Bay Village. deals with a range of issues and because African development "The 'D's' are drought, debt, Africa are endless because of the has a wide variety of definitions. disartlculation, doom, disaster, continent's history. See AFRICA, page five. He spent 10 years In has taken on added dimensions,'' prison before his conviction was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, which de- Unmasked nounced the circus-like Future of tech sessions in publicity surrounding the trial. He was acquitted at a second trial and died in 1970. question after poor turnout Now the family ~ Includ- ing Sheppard's son, 48-year- old Sam Reese Sheppard, of Dim Wamock Baker said she will not contin- lieves they will still continue to Oakland, Calif. - wants to The BC News ue to offer the sessions if the offer the sessions. finish the Job of clearing his demand continues to decrease. "It would be very surprising to name. But before they can Technology sessions have been "I won't [offer more sessions] me if we didn't," Work said. file a wrongful Imprison- offered each semester to teach unless I get a large demand of Mark Gromko, associate dean ment lawsuit In the Ohio faculty how to use the equipment people," Baker said. of academic affairs, said he Is Court of Claims, they must available In Olscamp Hall. The Informative sessions are unsure whether attendance has convince Judge Ronald Sus- Julie Baker, University media not required for faculty, al- really been that bad. ter of Cuyahoga County specialist, said attendance to "The number might actually be Common Pleas Court to de- though It is recommended by In- clare Sheppard innocent. these sessions has been poor, structional Media Services. higher than that," Gromko said. causing departments to question Baker said IS people came to the He explained many faculty whether they should be offered session offered In the fall, out of members do not attend the ses- or not. about 144 people who teach In the sions because they are already building. Three sessions have familiar with the technology Quote of Kevin Work, director of In- been offered total, one each se- available. structional Media Services, said mester since Olscamp Hall the day the sessions are available to any opened. "A lot of faculty might already faculty who needs to learn more know how to use it," Gromko ['It's almost about the technology they are "We felt the Institution needed said. "They would find it dupli- working with. to learn how to use the equip- cate." like a ment," Baker said. "They are for anyone who Work explained the sessions Baker said the technology ses- ritual." wants to sign up and take them," are not made a requirement be- sions are not worth the effort it Work said. "We send out a notice cause it Is challenging to coordi- takes to produce them, which Is —Jack Nachbar, to every one of them." nate the schedules of faculty why they may not be offered popular culture Each session lasts about an with the times of the sessions. again. Hldckl Kob.> ..hl/Tkc BG New. professor about hour, with time allottedfor ques- "We've tried to offer them at The two senior members of SIC-SIC are unmasked at the F — tions. Each person who attends various times," Work said. "It's "They would be discontinued cons' basketball game Wednesday night. Every year the graduat- soap operas the session receives handouts really difficult to do." because of a lack of interest," ing members of SIC-SIC are unmasked and two new members concerning the policies about the He said although attendance at Baker said, "for all the tune and are selected to replace the graduates. equipment and how it Is used. the sessions has been poor, he be- effort it takes to put It together." —— e. " ' ■ Colored Ink [ . V^^^i in '■' —»*'. i1".1.* . ....r • Opinion page two Friday, February 23,1996 E.A.R.