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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. <T The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence' Friday April 8,1994 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 77, Issue 129 Overlap prompts questions by Leah Bamum News staff writer Differences among Similar organizations focus on differences minority groups Editor's note: The following is part two of a series on campus the campus groups which the question remains as to However, those groups have and to help other students be- groups that received money from received general fee funds. whether they are different similar goals, activities and come aware of the issues that / The African People's the student- Overlap. That la a no-no for enough to go beyond ACGFA members. face black students." Association's goal is to educate the paid general groups that hope to receive their criterion number five. The goal of the African Peoples fee last month. share of the student-paid general The groups in question include: Association, as stated in the The Board of Black Cultural public on African affair* through The money fee. However, the focus of the African Peoples Association, BGSU Student Organizations Di- Activities wants to "provide lectures and cultural and social amounted to Advisory Committee on General which received $5,050; Black rectory, is as follows: "To edu- events that promote the history, $370,818 and Fee Allocations on this particular Student Union, which received cate the public on African affairs tradition, and culture of the des- events. was distributed criterion does not appear to be as $19,100; Board of Black Cultural through lectures and cultural and cendants from Africa..." and the </ The BSU serves to orient, by the Advisory stringent as some of its other Activities, which received social events; to promote re- Caribbean Association differs Committee on guidelines. $17,200; and Caribbean Associa- lationships between all people of somewhat, in that it wants "to facilitate and to foster political, General Fee Al- ACGFA has given large tion, which received $4,700. African descent and the Univer- promote Caribbean culture, his- educational, and social awareness amounts of the general fee Criterion number five reads as sity community..." tory and politics." Collectively, locations. for black students. The series is money to several groups on cam- follows: 'To the extent possible, Similarly, the goal of the Black the groups received $46,050 of attempting to not only answer pus that appear to be rather simi- requests [for general fee alloca- Student Union is "to orient, faci- the $370,818 total distributed by </ The BBCA provides events that questions concerning the various lar. tions] should not duplicate exist- litate and to foster political, edu- ACGFA. promote the history, tradition and funding criteria used by ACGFA, And even though members ar- ing programs, equipment or fa- cational and social awareness for but also the functions of some of gue that they have differences, cilities." black students at the University See ACGFA page 3. culture of African descendants. Rolling for dollars Lawyers seek pardon to stop cane/logging by Kenneth L. Whiting padding is supposed to protect the lower spine and The Associated Press internal organs, but rights groups call the whip- ping torture because it leaves permanent scars. SINGAPORE ~ Lawyers for an American teen- The U.S. State Department criticized the practice ager who pleaded guilty to vandalizing cars say in a human rights report last year. they have until April 20 to seek a presidential par- According to Singapore law, the rattan cane, don that would spare him six strokes of a rattan known as a rotan, can be no more than a half-inch cane on the bare buttocks. in diameter. The lashing end is soaked in water to Michael P. Fay, 18, who is at the center of a con- prevent it from splitting and embedding splinters troversy between Washington and Singapore, in the wounded skin. completed his first week in jail Thursday. A juvenile court convicted a Malaysian youth Fay was sentenced to the lashing, four months Tuesday of egging and spray-painting cars with behind bars and a $2,200 fine for spray-painting Fay and sentenced him to two months in a reform and tossing eggs at cars last year along with school. The 15-year-old, who cannot be named be- several other foreign youths. The jail term could cause he is a juvenile, was not sentenced to a can- be reduced by one-third for good behavior. ing. Fay's final appeal of the lashing was rejected According to Singapore law, juvenile offenders March 31 by Singapore's chief justice, and his last can be sentenced to a lashing with a lighter rotan. hope for avoiding the cane is a pardon from Presi- The court did not explain why the Malaysian youth dent Ong Teng Cheong. was spared. The beating is to be done "as soon as practica- Fay's father, George Fay of Kettering, Ohio, said ble," according to the Criminal Procedure Code. in an interview published Thursday in The Dayton The delay in Fay's case is to allow time to process a Daily News that he believes the Singapore clemency appeal. Defense attorney R Palakrish- government is making an example of his son to nan said he was directed to file it no later than send "a strong message that the U.S. should not April 20. meddle in their internal affairs." Fay's jail sentence and fine have attracted little "They're trying to send a strong message to attention, but the flogging has stirred a diplomatic their own people to stay away from Western, dec- controversy. President Clinton and U.S. Rep. Tony adent ways," the elder Fay said. P. Hall, an Ohio Democrat, have appealed to the The Singapore government denies the American Singapore government, calling it excessive. teen-ager has been singled out. If he loses his plea for clemency, the Dayton, The Vandalism Act was introduced in 1966 in Ohio, teen-ager will be strapped to an easel-like Singapore at a time of ethnic unrest as a way of frame and beaten on the bare buttocks. Leather dealing harshly with organized gangs. Crash kills presidents Anarchy, gunfire, violence break out in Africa by Pauline Jell nek \ been killed in Rwanda. He said an Gueye said 11 Belgian U.N. The Associated Press 11th body has not yet been identi- soldiers were found killed fied. He had no details on the cir- Thursday after they were kid- NAIROBI, Kenya - Rampaging cumstances of the slayings. napped Wednesday by elements troops killed Rwanda's acting The capital In neighboring of the presidential guard. The 11 premier and as many as 11 UN. Burundi was reported quiet. were trying to make their way to soldiers Intense gunfire and explosions the site of the plane crash in the Thursday dur- echoed across Kigali, U.N. central African country to try to ing fierce spokesman Moctar Gueye re- determine its cause, he said. fighting ported by telephone. He said that He said it was not clear If the touched off by there were reports of house-to- presidential guards who kidnap- TW M tUwm— We lax r the deaths of house killings and that the city's ped the Cabinet ministers and Alpha Phi Omega sorority sisters Jennifer Kananen (left) and Jenell Newmarch puih a shopping cart the presidents streets were empty except for U.N. soldiers were acting under around the Union Oval for the "Wheeling for Wood Lane" philanthropy, benefiting Wood Lane school. of Rwanda and small groups of youths armed orders from some authority, or Burundi in a with machetes and clubs. were rogue elements. suspicious "So far as we can see, it seems Sills said U.N. officers were plane crash. that there are a lot of guns in a lot denied access to the wreckage Anchor to sit in Perry's seats Reports from of hands and we dont really and could not confirm whether Rwanda's capital, Kigali, were know who is giving orders to the plane was shot down. sketchy and it was not clear who shoot at who and for what Intense gunfire and explosions by Liwrenw Hannan The event will begin at 10:30 pool," Ryan said. "In the first was Involved in the clashes or reason," Gueye said. echoed across the city, U.N. News staff writer am. and continue until Ryan has round of the tournament you got who was in control of the capital. Kigali "Just fell apart," with spokesman Moctar Gueye re- sat in every seat one point for picking the winner, Amid the violence, three Cabinet widespread gunfire and looting ported by telephone early in the BG 24 News sports anchor Ryan is doing this because he the second round was two points ministers were reported abduct- on Thursday, Canadian Maj. day. He said that there were re- James Ryan will sit In all 30,599 lost a bet with Paclone over who and so on.