Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-20-2000 The BG News April 20, 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 April 20, 2000" (2000). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6648. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6648 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. WEATHER THURSDAY April 20, 2000 High, 65 WORLD NEWS OPINION Low, 48 CAMPUS The BG News SPORTS Volume 88. Iisue 66 www.bgnews.com A daily independerrr srudempness Summer classes Students celebrate 4/20 rely on enrollment Mil\ME school and pick Ihe patch STAFF. winie ol Ihe Waldos had at lei-school acliv iln BETH SHOEMAKER "I guess I could take it in the fall, that la-led around an hour, ihev decided ilic) -houUI STAFF WnnT.R but I don't really want to," she said. Hupp) New Year! meel ai 4:20 p.m "In the fall, it's at 8:30 a.m. I know Ii i>. rot Ihe approximately I nevvi liHind the patch but realized that they could talk ahoul ,\ Itin high in I runt i'l Just imagine: It's a lazy summer I'd never make it." I.irl\ use the drug known as niari Donald said that each college is II parents In using ihe code 420. day. The sun is shining, it's 80 The group of friends lollnwed music degrees and there's not a cloud indie responsible for determining if a : around the count!) today in celebration of the date 4/20 class is going to be eliminated. Each or the stonci new jeai related to the Cuaicliil Dead coiniiiiinitv sky. MH\ somehow the expression 420 got That afternoon class? It's can- class is dealt with on an individual 42H is a numlvr dial lias become symbolic of marijuana basis. out. celed. "We look at several factors Whether 11 i- smoking on April 20, w at Ihe time 1:20. or in In 1990 .: (iratelul Dead flvoi In fact, it won't be meeting all before a class is canceled," Donald r.Him 420. or smoking while driving OB route 420. marijuana from California announced a "4.2u semester. It got canceled before the said. "First, the needs of the stu- users nation-wide associate 420 with Iheir culture. on 4/2(1 gathering" and since- then J semester even started — due to low dents involved are examined. Then, There are main rumors and -lories of how iliis number 420 ha- been a majoi part ol ihe ' enrollment. we look at the expenses associated became associated with marijuana. marijuana culture. That's the problem facing acade- with keeping the class. Lastly, we Mitch Oollci).,: iumoi architecture major, has heard several foday. 420 e\e»n- ale alnio-i mic departments and students about check the history of the course to see different versions o( ihe meaning behind 420. worldwide and 4:20 p.in has summer classes. It's especially trou- the last time it was offered." I have heard a lot ol dilferent stories but I think n has become u son of miern.iiion.il bling for those students close to The Office of Continuing Educa- thing to do with a police code in "bum nine. graduation — the students counting tion tries to contact students who are California for smoking pot" Even in Bowling < ireep stu- on that summer class so they can registered for those canceled classes Dollerj '■aid. dents plan on celebrating the hol- receive their diploma. as soon as possible. This popular rumoi iday But, according to the Office of According to Donald, the best about a police code doubt about it, ' Continuing Education, everything is thing for students to do is register as -.vas proven false under control and there is no reason soon as possible. »hen the San • See 4/20, page 6 for students to panic. "We need the student count so we Ralael California "We definitely consider the needs know the status of the class," she Police Depart- of the students already registered for said. "Registering early helps us to stated io those classes, especially those who know if the class is questionable." High Time* i are graduating." said Judy Donald, Three different summer sessions ne ih.it m' director of Registration and Sched- are available to students. The first uling for Continuing Education. six-week session begins May 22, an M "fever exist, "We try to serve students the best we eight-week session starts June 19 Another is that can and work with them to accom- and the second six-week session • "'> originated modate their needs " begins July 3. i i the number ol Sophomore special education "Students can register until the ..;- found 111 major Ryanne Jaworski is registered Friday before classes begin for each mjuunu. This has for a communication disorders class session." Donald said. "But, fees - • been proven false this summer, and said that she would must also be paid at the time you . .1 ii -.■ as shown that mar- be upset if her class was canceled. register." i ma contuins a numbei ■ chemicals Jo-. Die real story. Columbine anniversary to High ■ magazine, - that 420 "a- ■ in ihe brings pain and hope .. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS dropped this week, with 263 of - . II group ot 1.885 students absent Tuesday, said A n .is who LITTLETON. Colo. —The car- school district spokeswoman Mari- ' .an S.iil penter who last year erected wooden lyn Saltzman. Attendance was "way crosses for the 15 victims of the down" Wednesday but figures were Columbine High School massacre not available by midafternoon. returned to Colorado to restore the "Most of the people I've talked to memorial as mourners prepared to are trying to get as far away from mark Thursday's anniversary of the this place as possible — the ones tragedy. who were actually there," said Karen Nielsen, who was working in Greg Zanis wanted "to honor the II jii families of the victims," his wife, the cafeteria when the first shots rang out. Susan, said in an interview from Kim Blair, a Columbine senior ,r e Ill-Hi .. ' their Aurora. III., home. who saw her friend Anne Marie ; ip to a pol His truck carried 13 crosses this Hochhalter wounded, planned to paich Ihe « time, in deference to one victim's spend the anniversary with her fam- were knov parents who had torn down the two ily in a hotel. devotion crosses representing the two student "Everybody I know is going up to gunmen. Both boys committed sui- the mountains or trying to get away cide after the rampage. for the day at least," Blair said. "For Photo The April 20. 1999 massacre was some, it's an emotional thing. Last the worst school shooting in U.S. year was so horrifying that they just history, and it affected thousands of can't be anywhere near that place at people worldwide who watched on that time." television as police circled the build- Still, officials expected a good ing and terrified students fled the False drills rise to alarming level number of students at the private school, including one seen dropping assembly. Classes are canceled for IRENE SHARON SCOTT pull station, cook- the alarms." he able to determine who pulled the from a library window. the day. and attendance is not CHIEF REPORTER ing on a grill near said. "Microwave alarm. At nearby Clement Park, where mandatory. Teddy bears sent in the an open window popcorn is a big "When you firsl lift the cover it the crosses were erected after the wake of the shootings were to be set At 2 a.m. a freshman resident is or dust and dirt problem. I recom- squeals." he said. slayings, workers unloaded orange- out for students to take if they want. peacefully sleeping in his warm bed flying in through mend that people Hayes suggested lhal students and-white barricades Wednesday in Gov. Bill Owens planned to lead when a fire alarm sends him scram- an open window. don't leave should report hearing or seeing any- anticipation of thousands of mourn- a public service at the Capitol in bling down the stairs into the cool "Smoke detec- microwaves unat- thing. ers at a public memorial service and downtown Denver, including a night air — only to find that there is tors are doing tended." "I think students feel intimidat- a candlelight vigil planned Thurs- statewide moment of silence at no fire. what they are sup- Two-thirds of ed." he said. "I don't know what day. 11:21 a.m. MDT. the time the attack 'The fire alarms are a hassle, pose to do," he the alarms are thev are afraid of, though." Elsewhere, victims' families began. said Jeff Amspoker, a geography said. caused by other In one residence hall, the pull sta- organized memorial services to Darrell Scott, whose daughter major, recalling a fire alarm in He said 90 per- things and some- tion have been pulled three lime in • mark the day. and officials prepared Rachel was killed, is to lead a ser- Chapman recently. "You never know cent of fire alarms one pulling the the same location. Hayes suggested for a statewide moment of silence.