The BG News April 26, 1989

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THE BG NEWS Vol. 71 Issue 117 Bowling Green, Ohio Wednesday, April 26,1989 Quake Bush prunes rumbles U.S. arsenal Mexico by Norman Black by John Wright Associated Press writer Associated Press writer WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will slow or cancel MEXICO CITY - A strong several futuristic weapons programs, including Star Wars and the earthquake struck Mexico City stealth bomber, to build more of the arms already in the nation's ar- and Acapulco on Tuesday, senal, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said Tuesday. cracking buildings and an aqua- To further cope with fiscal 1990 budget reductions mandated by a duct, shattering glass and pan- new White House-congressional compromise, the Army. Navy and icking thousands of people who Air Force will reduce their active-duty strength of more than 2.1 mil- remembered the killer quake of lion by 16,800 men and women, Cheney added. 1985. Appearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Cheney One man was electrocuted cited a list of cutbacks. Many of the bigger decisions already had when power cables fell on him, been disclosed, including the fact that $10 billion had been shaved and two women were seriously from the proposed defense budget in the compromise with Congress. injured when they jumped in panic from the second story of a The Pentagon's new budget authority, if Congress goes along with swaying building during the 8:26 Cheney's bottom line, will be $295.6 billion. Left intact is a proposed a.m. (10:26 a.m. EDT) quake, 3.6 percent pay hike for men and women in the military. officials said. Adm. William J. Crowe, chair of the Joint Chiefs, said he support- Police sent on-inspection pa- ed Cheney's cuts only because of "dismal realities — both political trols throughout the city who re- and economic." ported no collapsed buildings or other deaths or serious injuries, but many buildings in the seismic-sensitive center swayed Tenure review is widely and were evacuated. "The quake produced a lot of panic because of the recent (1985) experience," said Mayor often 'awkward' Manuel Camacho Solis. He said fallen cables and short Editor's Note: This is the sec- study of nearly 2,000 institutions circuits caused power blackouts ond in a three-part series ad- by the American Association of in many parts of the city. He dressing the controversial issue University Professors. also said the Tlahuac aqueduct, of faculty tenure. At the University, a faculty one of several bringing drinking member who is in a "tenure water to this metropolis of 19 million, cracked in several by Rebecca Thomas places and caused some flood- wire editor ing. Tenure, the permanent ap- However, he said all services pointment of faculty members would be restored within three to a teaching staff, involves days. many specific terms that can be confusing at best. Although President Carlos Salinas de many people have heard of the Gortari made a quick tour of af- actual practice of tenure, not fected areas and, in a television everyone is familiar with the interview, praised residents for specific terms and qualifica- maintaining "serenity and cool- tions assigned to it. ness." He said their experience Tenure is defined in the Aca- in the 1985 disaster had served demic Charter as "the opportu- them well. nity to accept full-time employ- The U.S. National Earthquake ment through each successive Information Center in Golden, academic year at a salary ap- Illustration/Becky Nussbaum Colo., said the earthquake re- propriate to an appointee's rank gistered 6.8 on the Richter scale. with an assignment appropriate track" — an academic program On The Brink BG News/John Potter The epicenter was 40 miles east to an appointee's professional geared toward the acquisition of of Acapulco, about 200 miles training and experience as a tenure — is hired on probation Dan Dankmer. junior psychology major, prepares to descend the side of Anderson Arena Tuesday even- south of Mexico City, said seis- faculty member. for no more than seven years. ing. Dankmer and about 10 other students rapelled the estimated 60 feet to the ground as part of a military mologist John Minsch. Mexico's Currently, 63 percent of all When a faculty member is hired, science leadership course. According to assistant professor Cpt. David Troillet. the exercise is designed to Seismic Institute calculated the faculty members in the U.S. up to three years of full-time help increase the student's confidence. quake at seven on the Richter have tenure, according to a n See Tenure, page 6. scale. Salvador visit described Beer keg ruling March 17 elections with seven other dele- However, Pastor said the threats dissi- by Jill Novak gates and was "really scared." pated and she was able to leave the airport to affect greeks staff reporter "There was a transportation stoppage to begin her journey to deliver humanitarian when we got there, which means that no aid and go to the voting booths. Editor's Note: This is the first Wayne Colvin, director of A University alumna spoke about her ex- transportation was to run and people could She said during her journey she saw only in a three-part series addressing Greek Life, denied the existence Eeriences Tuesday night as she highlighted be asked to get out of their cars if they did two political billboards that contained faces the changing facets of greek of a "one- keg rule," and said er recent 10-day trip to El Salvador. travel, which could be burned," she said. which were not blacked out. social life. the policy is nothing new. Sue Pastor, former local Central Ameri- In addition, Pastor said officials told her "The policy has been in place group they may have to spend four days and This signifies two things — the frustra- can activist, said the purpose of her trip was tions of the voters and the general feelings of by Scott Korpowskl to deliver humanitarian aid while observing nights in the airport, and possibly be cut off copy editor the El Salvadorean elections. from food and water. the people that the elections are meaning- Speaking in Moseley Hall, Pastor said she "I was very nervous. These were some of less, she said. flew into El Salvador two days before the the scariest moments of my trip," she said. D See El Salvador, page 3. The days of free-flowing beer and "Animal House" style greek Birties are almost gone, as the niversity has tightened its alcohol policies and ushers in an Messages alerted Valdez era of dry social programming. In November, Greek Life — the University's greek govern- Coast Guard advised captain of impending danger ing body — passed a policy re- stricting alcohol consumption. most five times as bad, the re- bloom of plankton, an important Salmon fry tend to swim close This policy, which was relayed by Susan Gallagher cordings show. food source for the fry, was at its to the surface of the water and to fraternity social chairmen, Associated Press writer The state revised the estimate peak. remain close to shorelines until set a one-keg beer limit for of the oil spilled from the tan- "You can't stop Mother they migrate to the open sea, greek parties, or "teas." VALDEZ, Alaska — Radio ker's punctured tanks to 11.2 Nature," said Heather McCarty, McCarty said. JoAnn Arnholt, Alcohol Pro- messages recorded the morning million gallons. Officials said its spokeswoman for the non-profit Exxon estimates at least 1 gram Director for Greek Life, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef show crews had been busy with the association that owns the three million gallons of oil still is float- said Greek Life's drinking poli- the ship's captain spent up to an cleanup and were slow revising hatcheries. By mid-May, 800 ing on the water of the sound and cies follow the University's hour trying to rock the tanker Exxon s original estimate of 10.1 million salmon fry will be the Gulf of Alaska, and the fry guidelines, which mirror Ohio free, which could have sunk the million gallons. released from five hatcheries may encounter it. law. ship and spilled more oil, the Environmental damage from throughout the sound. OU-skimming operations were "The reduced drinking policy for eight or nine years," Colvin Coast Guard said Tuesday. the oil still is being assessed, but "If we don't release them now hampered by a third straight is not really a change, it is a re- said. ^'The rule didn't change, The captain ignored Coast three hatcheries in oil-soaked or within the next few days day of rough seas. Most vessels vision of our old policy," Arnholt the state law did." Guard warnings that trying to Prince William Sound have be- they'll miss the peak for plank- remained anchored in safe har- said of last year's policy allow- Although the new policy may move the ship could have made gun releasing millions of tiny ton flowering.

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