Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-28-1994 The BG News January 28, 1994 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 January 28, 1994" (1994). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5640. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5640 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. G The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence' Friday, January 28, 1994 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 87 Deputy Attorney General resigns Expert speaks at meeting by Michael J. Snlffen The Associated Press division during the Carter admin- > istration. WASHINGTON - Deputy At- Most of the hottest potatoes torney General Philip Heymann, and Reno's priority programs i*_ 0 jg^ -mm a veteran of were sent to Heymann's office four adminis- for handling, including a review trations who of mandatory minimum criminal served as right- sentences, a report on the FBI's hand man to bloody siege of the Branch Da- i ' Janet Reno, re- vidian complex in Waco, Texas signed unex- and the department investigation p e c t e d I y of Rodriguez, which was later Vi Thursday - a transferred to the internal move they both watchdog unit. 1 attributed to Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., differences in told reporters, "The Justice De- 1 — « 1 i management style and chem- partment ... is being run by istry. someone who could qualify for A special assistant to Reno, the original amateur hour and Tki BG Ntwi/Reii Weltintr Lulu Rodriguez, who is under who has been less than what this Justice Department in- nation should be demanding as an Janet West, president of the AAUP collective bargaining congress, tion in anticipation of the collective bargaining vote, scheduled for vestigation over alleged vote attorney general." addresses the audience on the benefits of faculty unions Tuesday Feb. 9 and 10. fraud in a Miami-area election, At the White House, spokes- night. The speech was sponsored by the BGSi:Faculty Associa- also resigned, spreading turmoil woman Dee Dee Myers denied to the top of a third key Cabinet the administration was embar- department. rassed by the resignation. "Cer- West believes bargaining good for open communication There has been speculation tainly not. I think Phil Heymann University Professors. if they agree, they will pass it. that Reno herself has fallen from served well for a year. I think he by Leah Barnum communication between the "[Collective bargaining] However, if the administration faculty members and the ad- favor in the White House, which made clear what his reasons News staff writer President Clinton denied as re- were for leaving," she said. does not mean the joint gover- does not agree, it goes into a ministration at the University cently as last week. A special An expert in economics and nance would diminish," she "black hole somewhere," she of Kansas has improved since "I think the American people said. "What having a contract said. counsel has been named to in- understand ... how one goes labor relations spoke on the they adopted collective bar- means is that you have a guar- "But with collective bargain- gaining. vestigate financial dealings in through the process of building a benefits of collective bargain- "The communications are Arkansas including some by the team in which people are compa- ing Tuesday night at the Facul- department's No. 3 official, Web- tible, in which their styles are the ty Association meeting. better now than they were be- fore," West said. "There are ster Hubbell, when he was a law same," Reno said. Janet West, of the University "What having a contract means is that you very few times when we have partner to Hillary Rodham Clin- Reno and Heymann sat side- of Kansas in Omaha, said col- have a guarantee of joint governance and an ton. lective bargaining is a good not been able to come to a by-side to announce his depar- meeting of the minds." Reno, a former state pros- ture. way to ensure joint governance increasing of that power." The universities, as institu- ecutor, is the first attorney gen- "We don't have any great poli- and open communication be- Janet West, president of AAUP collective bargaining tween faculty members and tions, work much better with eral in recent memory to operate cy differences," Heymann in- congress without a chief of staff. Instead, sisted. "There is no precipitating administration. collective bargaining, West said. she relied heavily on Heymann, case or event. The fact of the West said collective bargain- who served at Justice in the ing has benefitted the Univer- antee of joint governance and ing, nothing goes into that "Everybody wants the uni- matter is our chemistry isn't an increasing of that power." Johnson administration, worked good. We don't work as well sity of Kansas in many ways. black hole," West said. versity to work as well as pos- for the Watergate special pros- together as we should, and that's West is also president of the She said when a faculty sen- Grievances are also ad- sible - that's what I see hap- ecutor during the Nixon adminis- collective bargaining congress ate votes on something and dressed in a more favorable the conclusion we've both come sends it to the administration. See SPEAKER, page 3. tration and ran Justice's criminal to." of the American Association of way, she said, adding that Harding admits knowledge LSU struggles Skater fails to come forward "I had no prior with corporation knowledge of the with information by Melissa Llpowskl "The acceptance of the channel planned assault on News staff writer will teach many valuable lessons Nancy Kerrigan. I about life," he said. "In small of attack In an attempt to gain access to towns like Bowling Green, there am responsible, the Latino Gable Channel Univ- are very few opportunities for by Bob Baum however, for failing ision, the Latino Student Union cross-cultural exploration and The Associated Press and the People for Racial Justice this will be one opportunity for to report things I committee are currently in- people to explore other cul- PORTLAND, Ore. - Her hands learned about the volved in an ongoing struggle tures." trembling and her voice strained, with the Wood County Cable Cor- At the December meeting with Tonya Harding admitted Thurs- assault when I poration. the department of Multicultural day that she failed to come for- returned home from Since 1988, the LSU has been Affairs, Larry Miller, th<- direc- ward with what she learned after trying to make Univision availa- tor of operations at Wood County the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, nationals." ble to the Bowling Green Com- Cable, announced that any new but pleaded not to be denied "my Tonya Harding, Olympic munity and University students, channels could not be considered last chance" at an Olympic gold figure skater but has repeatedly been denied until February, according to Har- medal. access from Wood County Cable, ida Fernandez, president of the The U.S. Olympic Committee said Christopher Smitherman, a Latino Student Union. said it was "deeply concerned" Harding in the Jim. 6 attack. member of the People for Racial "The Latino Student Union and about Harding's admission. The Harvey Schiller, executive di- Justice Committee. the People for Racial Justice committee and the U.S. Figure rector of the USOC, issued a The addition of the channel Committee have been requesting Skating Association have said statement saying the organiza- would not only serve as an asset this channel since 1988," Fer- Harding could be removed from tion "is deeply concerned with for the Latino or Spanish-speak- nandez said. "There is such a the team if she is linked to the at- statements made today by Tonya ing members of the community, large demand for the addition of tack. Harding relative to her stated but it would also serve as an edu- the channel." "I had no prior knowledge of knowledge of the attack on cational tool for other members Since the FCC imposed a strict the planned assault on Nancy Nancy Kerrigan at the national of the community as well, Smith- regulatory rate freeze last Sep- Kerrigan," Harding said. "I am championships." erman said. tember, Wood County Cable has responsible, however, for failing The figure skating association "Univision is a channel geared not been able to expand its to report things I learned about said Harding would be on the list for all people, not just Spanish-s- system's channels, Miller said. the assault when I returned home of official entries in the Lille- peaking individuals," Smither- "Until all of the guidelines and from nationals. hammer Games submitted to the man said. "Many of the commu- revenue is amended and the rate "Many of you will be unable to USOC, but the association has AF Plata/Jack Smltk nity members are not even aware freeze is lifted, we have to hold forgive me for that. It will be appointed a hearing panel to in- U.S. Figure Skating champion Tonya Harding checks her notes as she of their interest in the Latino cul- back on all capital expenditures difficult for me to forgive my- vestigate, a first step in the pro- delivers a prepared statement at a news conference Thursday In Port- ture because they have never and improvements," Miller said.