Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-6-1991 The BG News December 6, 1991 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 6, 1991" (1991). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5304. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5304 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. 4? The BG News Volume 74, Issue 68 BOWLING GREEN, OHIO Friday, December 6,1991 Briefly !Hostage's family waits in Ohio W LORAIN,I/1RATM OhioOhin (AP)f&Pl — Mem-M«m. 6^yearsfiV?vpars inin capUvity.rnntivitv. ButRut Ander-Anrlpr- -■■ ... ■ , '. .... bluehlue ribbonsHhhnnc aroundamunrl everyeverv lampL bers of Terry Anderson's extend- son's Ohio relatives said they "He needs some time together with his and signpost after his release, Local ed family said Thursday they are don't expect to be there. alongside the yellow ribbons that biding their time while the form- "As far as going to Washington, family and Peggy." were put there during his 6V4 er hostage meets with his sister or something like that, we toyed years of captivity. Oldie but goodie: and gets to know the daughter with that, but right now ... in a "This is our sign of freedom," The Toledo Repertoire he'd never met. way, there's two feelings," said —Leila Arden, cousin of released hostage Terry said Pat Akromas, who with Theatre will present Early Thursday, Anderson fi- LeUa Arden, one of Anderson's other residents waited more than Charles Dickens' A Christ- nally met his daughter Sulome, cousins. Anderson 12 hours Wednesday for confir- mas Carol, and it will be an born three months after his ab- "One, we're still just kind of mation that Anderson, the long- old-fashioned ghost story. duction in 1985. Sulome and her getting over this thing," she said. Eileen Perusek, another ward Jones, who also live in est-held Middle East hostage and Three performances are mother, Madeleine Bassil, ac- "And the other thing is, as much cousin, said she understood that northeast Ohio. the last American captive, had scheduled in the Toledo Mu- companied Anderson on a flight as we love Terry, we're a second Anderson "has a lot to take care "We're just looking forward to been freed. seum of Art Peristyle Win- to Wiesbaden, Germany, where family in a sense. He needs some of" before coming to Lorain. But seeing him face to face," Arden When Anderson appeared on kle Stage. Curtain times are he is recuperating at a military time together with his family and family members hope Anderson said. "Peggy knows how much television from Damascus, Syria, 8 p.m. Dec. 20 and 21, and 2 hospital. Peggy." will come to the city in June, Lorain has been interested and on Wednesday afternoon, the p.m. Dec. 22. Anderson was also accompan- Lorain. where Anderson was when Lorain holds its annual In- concerned about Terry. I'm sure waiting ended. For tickets caU 243-7000, ied by his sister, Peggy Say, who born ana lived until age 7, cele- ternational Festival. she will relay the information and "God, he looks great!" ex- or purchase discount tickets fought tirelessly for her brother's brated his release Wednesday "We do expect to see him in the invitation. claimed Candee McConnell, an at Food Town. release. with a rally on the City Hall steps. June, but it's hard to say if we "We'll be talking to Peggy. But organizer of Batavia's celebra- From Germany, the chief Arden and other family members will before that," Perusek said. we're not demanding of their tions. "He looks absolutely fan- State Middle East correspondent for tore down a yellow ribbon that "It depends on Terry, what his time right now." tastic." The Associated Press will fly to had adorned the flagpole since plans are." Meanwhile, in Batavia, N.Y., About 70 people gathered at Ba- Live show auditions: Andrews Air Force Base near shortly after Anderson' abduction Anderson has another cousin, residents of Terry Anderson's tavia's Salvation Army hall Kings Island will have Washington, finally home after March 16,1985. Jim Anderson, and an uncle, Ed- hometown tied red, white and Wednesday night. auditions for its 1992 line-up of live shows beginning Jan. 25 at Kings Island and con- tinuing through Feb. 9 in Campus eight mid western cities. Approximately 200 per- former, instrumentalist, technician and specialty act security- positions will be tilled dur- ing these auditions. For more information call (513) 398-5600. votes to Nation Mass murderer dies: unionize JOLIET.Ill. — Mass by Jackie Rosepal murderer Richard Speck, and JJ, Thompson who shocked the nation In 1966 by stabbing and stran- gling eight student nurses, University police voted 15 to diedThursday. Friends and one in favor of unionization Tues- relatives of his victims ex- day, making Bowling Green the pressed relief and bitter- last Ohio university to unionize. ness. Mark Ankney, interim presi- "I think that it's a shame dent for the officers to unionize, that it's taken this long for said campus police decided to him to leave this earth." unionize with the International said Betty Jo Pervis, sister Union of Police Associations be- of victim Patricia Ann Ma- cause of frustrations with current tusek. health care issues and the Uni- "Judgment Day has final- versity's budget situation. ly arrived for that sucker," "We were fed up with every- said retired police officer thing that was going on and de- Jack Wallenda, one of the cided to take action," Ankney first on the murder scene. said. "And he died an easy death Ankney said the officers be- ... he should have suffered a lieve the union would allow them lot more than he did." more input on career matters. Speck was pronounced "With the union we are under a dead, one day shy of his 50th contract and the administration birthday, at Silver Cross can't say 'this is what is best for Hospital, near the StateviUe you and this is the way it is going Correctional Center, where to be,'" Ankney said. "The union he had been held for nearly allows us to be more aware of 24 years, Corrections De- what is going on and gives us partment spokesperson Nic more input into our futures." Officers have contemplated the Howell said. move since June, when they first Pot deposit: met with a union organizer. KANKAKEE, HI. — Group efforts to unionize in the What's green and goes in past have failed, but Ankney said the bank? the University's budget situation A customer at First of helped the proposal pass this A Winter Wonderland Street near Eppler North on her way back to her dorm room to America Bank came up time. Braving the snow and wind, sophomore elementary education warm up before going to her next class. Today will be cool with a with an alternative answer high near 33. to that question Tuesday. D See Union, page 7. major Michelle Fleming walks Monday morning along Ridge And now he's facing a mis- demeanor charge of mari- juana possession. Kankakee Police said James R. Bridgewater, 32, Candlelight ceremony was carrying two white Burdened 911 bags from another bank when he stopped at First of America's drive-through facility. One bag contained lines put rape to honor slain women money, the other contained by Kimberly Larson rolling papers, three mari- human diversity reporter "It's to specifically remember the fourteen juana cigarettes and a small amount of marijuana women and to mourn them, and to mourn in a plastic bag. victim on hold Women for Women will sponsor any women who have been victimized in this a candlelight vigil tonight com- Lottery TOLEDO (AP) — The director of Lucas County's 911 emer- memorating the second anniver- way, or any other way." gency system said Thursday he doesn't plan to investigate why a sary of the murder of 14 women at woman couldn't reach an operator when she called about a man the University of Montreal. Lottery picks: breaking into her house. She later was raped. — Vilvi Vannak, Women for Women member CLEVELAND — Here are Thomas Bodi said there was little the 911 service could do be- According to Vilvi Vannak, a Thursday night's Ohio Lot- cause the woman hung up the telephone after she was put on member of the student group, the tery selections: hold. program will begin at 7 p.m. with said. floor cafeteria where he fired at Pick 3 Numbers: 3-5-1 "If she just wouldn't have hung^ up, we could've listened and an open discussion about wom- On Dec. 6, 1989, Marc Lepine students, causing three more Pick 4 Numbers: 5-7-6-6 given police her address," Bodi said. en's safety in general and on col- entered the engineering building women to be murdered. Cards: Seven of Hearts Police gave the following account of what happened: lege campuses. The forum will be of the University of Montreal car- "From the cafeteria, he went to Seven of Clubs A 23-year-old woman was alone in her bedroom Saturday be- in the Ohio Suite of the University rying two magazine gun clips, a third floor classroom," she Ace of Diamonds tween 4 a.m.