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It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. |» m m Bowling Green State University FRIDAY November 9, 2001 PARTLY CLOUDY The Falcons defeated W ■ I i 1 1 I I HIGH: 48 | LOW: 32 FV_/ Shawnee State 89-70 A ■ -^ ■ J—J I 1 www.bgnews.com P Ki TNEWS VOLUME 92 ISSUE $1 =U VJ ===== NA adds another BG meeting by Chuck Soder the group. The more meetings cost. Anonymous encourages its program. NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS THE BG NEWS recovering addicts attend, the "It doesn't really matter what members to focus on quitting for NA changed only the first of MEETINGS IN BG Narcotics Anonymous, a group more likely they are to stay drug your background is like," he said. today and to think about tomor- the 12 steps: The word "alcohol" for recovering drug addicts, start- free, he said. "You will see this entire spectrum row when it comes, Dave said. became "our addiction," Dave ed a second weekly meeting in "Vfe suggest that new mem- of people (at the meetings)." "Quitting forever is overwhelm- said. "We come to admit that we 1: The First Presbyterian Church, Bowling Green on Tuesday. bers attend a meeting a day for 90 The fact that every member is a ing," he said. "The group has a were poweriess over our addic- 126 South Church, in Room 121, The nonprofit group held days," he said. recovering addict helps blur their motto: Breathe in, breathe out, tion." on the second floor. Wednesdays meetings al 126 South Church on Though Bowling Green only differences and create a nonjudg- and don't get high in between." The group also follows 12 tra- at 7 p.m. Wednesdays for four years before has two weekly meetings, there mental atmosphere. "There's a NA has over 25,000 meetings in ditions. Several of those tradi- adding a second meeting at the are several others nearby. The feeling of acceptance," Dave said. more than 70 countries. Before tions stress that members keep 2: The United Christian United Christian Fellowship Toledo area alone has 28 different This connection between the group was founded in 1953, their identities confidential, Fellowship Center, 313 Thurstin Center on Tuesdays. I lolding two weekly meetings. "That's four a members helps them heal, he there were no organized support according to the group's Web site. Ave. Tuesdays at 7 p.m. separate meetings each week day on average," Dave said. said. "The therapeutic value of groups for drug addicts, Dave Identification threatens a gives recovering drug addicts The group encourages anyone one addict helping another is said. Once formed, NA got per- member's recovery and gives All meetings are free. opportunity for more for support, with the desire to stop using unparalleled." mission from Alcoholics according to Dave", a member of drugs to attend a meeting at no For therapy, Narcotics Anonymous to use its 12-step NARCOTICS, PAGE 5 Exhibit recalls atomic bomb by Shannon E. Kolkedy IHE BG NEWS The University's Asian stud- ies program is sponsoring The Spirit of Hiroshima: Hcllfireand its Survivors for Peace" exhibi- tion that will begin on today in McFall Gallery and continue through Nov. 16. WHIE Sanders BG News The exhibition will feature LOT 6 CRIMES: Cars in Lot 6 Overflow have been targets of crime on campus. Most recently, two cars were broken into on the afternoon of Friday, Nov. 2. photographs, a number of speakers and drawings and posters from the 1945 atomic bombing of I liroshima, lapan. It will begin today from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., tomorrow from 9 a.m. On-campus thefts increase to 5 p.m., Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. and Nov. 12-16 from 9 by Will E Sanders thing that is an accessory to a car, a.m. to 5 p.m. 1HE BG DEWS it is vehicle accessory theft," Campus police "Basically, this exhibition is Thefts have always been a Gullufsen said. "Stealing a radio dedicated to peace ... by major problem at the University, or other car parts is considered sgt describes reminding us of the tragedy of but this year the number of vehicle accessory theft." how campus nuclear explosion which wiped grand thefts is soaring. During the fall and spring out the city of Hiroshima." said The number of reported grand 2000-01 school year, five vehicles thefts occur Fuji Kawashima, director of thefts since the beginning of this were stolen. There have been Asian studies and professor of by Will E Sanders history. school year to Nov. 6. 2001 has three reported incidents during THE BG NEWS reached 43. That number is high- this fall semester. 1 liroshima was the first city to er than the amount of total grand Campus Police have been hav- Kevin Gutekunst be wiped out by an atomic thefts that happened on campus ing problems with many of these walked away from his bomb. At the time of the explo- during last year's fall and spring crimes in Lot 6 and Lot 6 backpack in the library for sion, Hiroshima had a popula- semesters, a campus crime Overflow. only a tion of nearly a half million. report indicates. Forty-two people who report- second. If someone had Approximately 140,000 died in "Grand theft is anything over ed to the police last year that had wanted to take it, they the explosion, said Kawashima, $500," said Sergeant Richard Uieir bikes stolen, but only 14 this could have. and many more died later as a Gullufsen with the Campus school year have. And someone did. result of the effects of radiation. Police. "Petit theft is anything According to the crime report, Fortunately for "Instead of just hearing about under $500, which means one is there were no cases of bicycle Gutekunst it was Sgt. it, we would like to have first- a felony and another is a misde- accessory theft, robbery or Richard Gullufsen of the hand testimonies and promote meanor." armed robbery last year or this Campus Police who took a mutual understanding Gullufsen said that stealing a year. the backpack and between the United States and credit card or a bank card is con- The crime report also indi- returned it when he came lapan and promote our com- sidered grand theft because of cates that last year there had back. mitment to peace," said the amount of money involved. been ten occurrences of breaking "I just went to the bath- Kawashima. Another problem that and entering, but so far this year room, I just expected it On Tuesday a reception will Campus Police deal with is vehi- there has not been one. would be here when 1 got be held in McFall Gallery at 11 cle accessory theft Last school "Breaking and entering is back" Gutekunst said. "1 a.m. The exhibition continues am from suburbia. I don't Will E Sanders BG News year there were 19 cases report- when someone enters an unoc- Wednesday with a speech of ed, but so far this year there have cupied place, such as a storage peace education. The speech EASY PICKINGS: Sgt. Richard Gullulsen demonstrates how been 15 reported cases. will be given by President BOOKBAG, PAGE 5 easy it is for someone to steal an unwatched backpack. "When someone takes any- THEFT, PAGE 5 Tsugikazu Nishigaki and pro- fessor Osamu Shinohara of Hiroshima logakuin University. Also on Wednesday, a tele- conference will be held with a survivor in Hiroshima at 8 p.m. The teleconference will include Vegan writer links sexuality, meat consumption a welcome speech from the mayor of Hiroshima, and by Dan Wed the Women's Center in Hanna question the consumption of of using the breasts and legs in photos of women which, she Bowling Green Mayor lohn IHE BG NEWS Hall, Adams presented a group meat, and examine the role that advertising to call to mind the said, were designed to make Quinn will also speak. Carol Adams' book "The of about 70 students and faculty the materialization of women female body. women into animals and show In addition, two Hiroshima Sexual Politics of Meat" deals members to images of slaugh- plays in the meat industry. Adams also argued that their "accessibility and survivors, Fumiko Sora and with the patriarchal ideals tered carcasses, sexualized car- "The purpose of this depicting females as animals, impulses." Setsuko Thuriow, will gfve testi- behind meat and the way it is toon animals and even an image slideshow is to get people from and vice versa was a highly sug- The backbone of Adams's monies on their firsthand expe- marketed toward men. of a masturbating pig. point A to point B," Adams said. gestive practice, and added to slideshow was a term known as riences of the bombing Both Yesterday, in an event spon- "I took much of the disturbing "It is to get people to go from eat- the idea of women as "Pigs" and the "Absent Referent," the idea survivors will give their testi- sored by the University vegetari- material out," Adams: id before ing animals to vegetarianism.