Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-17-2000 The BG News November 17, 2000 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 November 17, 2000" (2000). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6723. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6723 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 November 17, 2000 IFTC: This week in NOW, Jeff FLURRIES McGinnis takes a look HIGH38|LOW32 at the Independent www.bgnews.com Film and Theater independent student press VOLUME 90 ISSUE 55 Corps. PAGE 7 U.THE BC NEWS student dies the fact of her death, at the Samantha Knotts, sophomore A University student reported- request of Kim McBroom, pre-law major, said. "She had just ly died of natural causes in Associate Vice President and organized the 'Sex in the Dark1 Founders residence hall director of Marketing and program. She was very involved." Thursday night. Communication for the Those residing in Founders Miranda Morris, a Founders University. were very shaken by the news of resident and second-year fresh- Iinda Newman, interim direc- Moms' death. man, was reportedly found dead tor of Residence Life, directed "People need to realize that in her suite at 5:30 p.m yesterday. inquiries to McBroom, as did Morris was a student from death can happen anywhere at University police. anytime," Elizabeth Togentti, Kngelwood, a suburb of Dayton, According to friends of Morris, Ohio. epilepsy may have been a pre- sophomore business major, said. University Sgt. Robert existing condition for Morris. "It makes us realize life is pre- Blackburn denied to comment They said she was very involved cious." Thursday night on the circum- on the campus and in Founders No funeral arrangements have stances of Morris' death. Teri Hall. been announced and no other Michael LelmkuhleBG News Sharp, director of News Services, "She was on Hall Council and infonnation could be obtained at verified only Moms' name and she was a night gaurd," press time. MIRANDA MORRIS, University student, was taken to the Hanneman Funeral Home at 6:30 p.m. FBI raids KKK home By Cain Burdeau ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MANDEV1LLE. La - Federal agents raided the home of for- mer Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke on Thursday, carting off boxes of documents and a rifle during a search that lasted more than seven hours. FBI agent Sheila Thorne refused to disclose the nature of the investigation. Roy Armstrong, who identi- fied himselfas Duke's bodyguard and a caretaker at the house, said agents told him they were looking into whether Duke was illegally using money raised for his new white-rights organiza- tion for his personal use. "It's a fishing expedition," Armstrong said. Duke's associates said that the 50-year-old former KKK leader and one-time state legislator was in Russia, promoting a new book, and that they had not Sara layw BG News been able to reach him. POLITICAL PROFESSOR: David Jackson, political science professor at the U., is working at his desk. Jackson worked for Walter Mondale's presidential campaign and His new organization is the has since took his love for politics to teaching. National Organization For European American Rights, or NOFEAR. He launched it in INSIDE THE MIND OF A January, declaring that whites in the United States face "massive discrimination" at the hands of minorities. Agents from the FBI, Internal Revenue Service and the Postal Inspection Service took part in the search of Duke's home in a suburb outside New Orleans. Agents carried out about a dozen boxes. Armstrong showed reporters a copy of the search warrant, Tenth in a weekly feature which sought a variety of finan- PROFESSOR cial and personal records, including gambling and travel By Craig Grfford Association ofWorkers.) in imposing a way in which we records and direct mailings. CAMPUS E011OR Birch Run. lackson's home- vote." As for the rifle, Armstrong said "It's something I think 1 am town, is what he calls a small In order to come to a conclu- agents told him they believed it lairly good at and like to do. It's town. sion to what has been more than was stolen. Armstrong said, that the only job I could imagine "We are the town with more a week-long presidential saga, he had never seen the gun myself doing," said David stores than people," he said. Jackson said that everyone before and that he did not know lackson, political science profes- Now that Jackson is in Bowling should get their vote counted whether it belonged to Duke. sor at the University about why Green, one of the most reward- one more time. Duke appeared before a feder- he got into teaching. ing things about his job is being "We should make sure we get al grand jury in New Orleans in lackson, who has been with able to have a positive influence a fair count of all the votes in 1999 as news broke that Gov. the University for three years, on students, he said. Florida," he said. "If a manual Mike Foster had paid him more began his teaching career in "When a student decides to recount is needed, so be it. It is than $150,000 for a list of his 1992 at the University of Detroit. become a political science major better to know exactly what the supporters, supposedly for use At the age of 15, Jackson's because of your class," or "when will of the people is rather than during the 1995 governor's race. political interest was sparked students really seem to gain in a to stop the process before it is Duke had considered entering when he worked on his first noticeable way because of known." that race but ultimately stayed presidential campaign for Walter something you did or said," He feels the drawn out elec- out of it Mondale. Jackson said. tion process, which has been The grand jury reportedly was "1 campaigned door-to-door, lackson became a political sci- taking place, will be good both seeking information on whether spoke up at rallies and did mail- ence professor because of liis for him and the country. Duke paid taxes on the money. ings: basically all the grunt interest in politics and has fol- "It's wonderful; it gives us a It was not known if the raid on work." he said. lowed this year's presidential chance to show off what we Duke's home had anything to do Coming from a political family election and all its issues. know and help others under- with that matter. also kept him interested in poli- "It really does show the vast stand the electoral college. It Foster "hasn't spoken to the tics, lackson's mother ran for arrays of voting in this country keeps people calling us." Sara layne BG News FBI," said the governor's spokes- office township clerk for Birch and it is potentially problemat- lackson said this will also be a woman, Marsanne Golsby. "He Run, Mich, and his father was a ic," lackson said. "The Federal TEACHING: Political science teacher, David Jackson, talks to his member of the UAW (United Government should assist states PROFESSOR, PAGE 2 class. CRASH,PAGE 2 ■ - 2 Friday, November 17,2000 BG NEWS Prof professes love of politics PROFESSOR, FROM PAGE 1 Besides the present, and teaching about the election, good learning experience for the Jackson also looks forward to the public future. He said that along with "Maybe we'll leam thai voting seeing a former student as pres- really matters," he said. ident of the United States some He also added, "It has been day, he hopes to "continue to the media that has really messed influence students to be as this up by their need to know thoughtful as possible about who won. The public doesn't politics." need to know instantaneously "In the next 35 years, I hope to who wins the election." continue to produce good Americans," he said. KKK home raided CRASH, FROM PAGE 1 which decried integration. He got elected to the state doesn't know anything about it" House in 1989 as a Republican Foster, a Republican, paid a and ran unsuccessfully for the S20,000 fine to the state Board of U.S. Senate in 1990, pulling 44 Ethics in connection with the list percent of the vote against of supporters. Democratic Sen. I. Bennett Johnston. Duke spent years on the polit- In the 1991 governor's race, he ical fringe, first as a Klun leader shocked the political establish- with neo-Nazi sympathies, then ment by making it into a runoff Associated Press Photo as founder of the National with former Gov. Edwin MORE POWERFUL THAN A LOCOMOTIVE: Amtrak's Acela Express high-speed rail runs through the borough of Queens in New York Association for the Edwards, who was trying for a City on Thursday. Advancement of White People, comeback. High-speed rail travel debuts By Laurence Arnold bolizes the beginning of a new Amtrak wants its bullet train to for the inaugural run from ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER era of American transportation," compete with airline shuttles Washington, the day began with ABOARD THE ACELA Transportation Secretary popular with Northeast business breakfast inside a stately restau- EXPRESS — High-speed rail Rodney Slater said at a kickoff travelers.