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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-2-1993 The BG News December 2, 1993 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 December 2, 1993" (1993). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5620. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5620 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. <? The BG News Thursday, December 2,1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 67 Briefs v^ Battle against disease continues Weather Get out the umbrella: The H(. V-W.A hip C in, . Clinton wants to Showers likely today with a high in the upper 40s. South winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain is 70 percent. lead AIDS fight Tonight, cloudy early with by Christopher Connell a chance of showers. The Associated Press Inside the News WASHINGTON - President Clinton, accused by an AIDS activist of "lots of talk, no action," said Wednesday he's trying to lead the fight University student battles against the deadly disease but, "There's no way I can now keep disease: everybody alive who already has AIDS." For senior Stacy Minshall, Speaking to researchers and doctors at Georgetown Medical the fun of college life has to Center, Clinton was interrupted by a young man who accused him of take a second seat as she failing to live up to his promises on AIDS. "Slick Willie," the man tries to cope with Lupus shouted. "The Republicans were right. It's time to put up or shut up. while still trying to keep up Bill." her studies J Page three. The president stood motionless and listened. The outburst lasted about a minute before the man was ushered out by security guards. On campus Clinton said he was not bothered by the incident, which occurred after the president had visited with AIDS patients. He said he would Get in the Christmas rather have the man "screaming at me than have given up." spirit: "Part of my job is to be a lightning rod," the president said. The annual freshman pro- "Part of my job is to lift the hopes and aspirations of the American duction is taking place until people, knowing that as long as you try to lift hopes and lift aspira- Sunday. "The Best Christ- tions, you can never fully close the gap between what you're reaching mas Pageant Ever," Barbara for and what you're actually doing and knowing for sure that there's Robinson's play about what no way I can now keep everybody alive who already has AIDS." happens when six town Health Secretary Donna Shalala and Surgeon General Joycelyn bullies get the main roles in Elders donned aprons and dished out scrambled eggs and sausages to a church pageant, will be homeless men fighting both poverty and the deadly infection. staged at 8 p.m. tonight to At Georgetown Medical Center, Clinton visited with several AIDS Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sun- victims, including Larry Singletary, 38, who grabbed the president's day at 2 p.m. in the Joe E. hand and said he's hoping "for the best and hoping that you appro- Brown Theatre. Tickets are priate lots of money so research can be done." $3 each. I^ter, in his speech, Clinton said the nation must fight every day About 40 students participated in a candlelight march on Wednesday evening as part of the World AIDS against AIDS. "The purpose of this day is to remind us that our atti- day festivities. The group hosted the vigil and march to support AIDS victims and Increase awareness tudes, behavior and passion should be revved up," the president said. Outside campus about the disease. The march was organized by the Lesbian and Gay Alliance and the Outaction Group. It began at the Union Oval and continued throughout the campus. Watch those fatty foods!: See AIDS, page three. WASHINGTON--High- fat diets increase the risk of lung cancer, even for non- smokers, according to a Buyers discuss Brady bill National Cancer Institute Kevorkian goes study published today. An NCI study of nonsmok- ing women in Missouri Weapon enthusiasts rush to purchase guns found that those whose diets on hunger strike their guns while they can. hasn't been much increase in had 15 percent or more sat- by Mike Recht The Associated Press "There's some panic buying handgun sales because of the urated fat were about six going on," Riley's salesman Run state's seven-day waiting period. by Julia Prodis times more likely to develop Hakim said. "There's no doubt But gun distributors have gone The Associated Press lung cancer than those CONCORD, N.H. -- For Alan H. about It." on a buying spree for AK-47s and whose diets had 10 percent Marcotte, there are only 90 shop- Bill Perkins, manager of Davis other assault weapons because of less of the fat. ping days left until Brady. Center Shooting Sports in Louis- they expect Congress to ban the PONTIAC, Mich. - Dr. Jack Kevorkiar wants to stay in jail "We found that as you in- As President Clinton signed ville, Ky . said the bill has been weapons next year, he said. and starve himself while the state tries to prosecute him for vio- crease the amount of satu- into law the Brady bill, with its lating Michigan's law against assisting in suicide, an attorney rated fat, you increase the great for business. "Those guns, the ammunition restrictions on weapons pur- said Wednesday. amount of lung cancer," Mi- "People are afraid. They don't that feeds those guns, have all chases, Marcotte, his son, and Kevorkian, 65, was jailed Tuesday after Oakland County Dis- chael C.R. Alavanja, an NCI want their name on papers that been swallowed up because of gun enthusiasts nationwide went the Brady bill," Davis said. "Peo- trict Judge Daniel Sawicki set a $50,000 cash bond, which must researcher, said Tuesday. go to the government," he said. shopping Tuesday. "Big Brother already knows too ple are gambling that the crowd be paid in full before he can be released. A report on the study was Effective Feb. 28, the new law His lawyer. Michael Schwartz, said he had received a tele- published in the Journal of much. They don't want these in Congress are going to come to will require a five-day waiting their senses and ban them." phone message indicating a New York man wants to post bond. the National Cancer Insti- guns traced to them because period and background check for John Marker, owner of the Kevorkian objects, but if bail is posted he will have no choice but tute. they're afraid the government gun purchasers. will eventually use this to take Black Hills Trading Post in Rapid to go free, Schwartz said. Earlier studies have "I wouldn't be here today if the City, S.D., said he has sold about While jailed, he will take vitamins and fruit juice but no solid linked high-fat diets with the guns away." bill had not passed," the 60-year- 35 assault weapons a week since food, Schwartz said. cancers of the colon, pros- The Brady bill's effect on gun old Marcotte, who has owned buyers isn't as great in states the Senate voted to ban them as "They can't force him to take sustenance," Schwartz said. tate and breast. High-fat guns since he was 12, said as he part of the crime bill. That's "That will be a horrible thing ... people strapping him down, put- diets also are thought to in- that already have waiting and his son checked the goods at periods, such as California, New about a tenfold increase in sales ting tubes down his mouth, torturing Dr. Kevorkian." crease the risk of heart The judge scheduled a Dec 10 hearing to decide whether Riley's Sport Shop. York and New Jersey. from a year ago, he said. disease. there is sufficient evidence to try Kevorkian in the Oct. 22 death "It's the principle of the thing," "State laws here make the Alavanja said his research of Merian Frederick of Ann Arbor. Frederick, 72, who had Lou Marcotte said as he picked out a Brady bill look like nothing," said "They're buying them while compared the diets of 429 handgun. "We want to enjoy the they can," Marker said. "It's an Gehrig's disease, died by inhaling carbon monoxide gas in Ke- nonsmoking women who had Frank Caso, owner of Caso's Gun- freedom and right before the A-Rama Inc. in Jersey City, NJ. investor item. They're better vorkian's Royal Oak apartment. lung cancer with the diets of Twenty people have died in Kevorkian's presence since July government takes them away "It won't mean anything here." than CDs [bank certificates of 1,021 nonsmoking women from us." The pending crime bill is in- deposit]." 1990, including five since the Legislature enacted a law specif- who did not have lung can- The Brady bill and the crime creasing gun sales even in states ically to stop him. While the law is under appeal, Kevorkian cer. The women all lived in bill moving through Congress awaits two trials under it in neighboring Wayne County.