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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 3-29-1988 The BG News March 29, 1988 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 March 29, 1988" (1988). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4782. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4782 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. Spring sports kick in, see story pg. 10 THE BG NEWS Vol.70 Issue 102 Bowling Green, Ohio Tuesday, March 29,1988 Panamanian police stop chaotic mob PANAMA CITY, Panama its second week. (AP) — Police and soldiers us- Ignoring an order to disperse, ing shotguns, rubber truncheons a crowd of more than 10,000 and tear gas broke up a march cheering, singing people mar- Monday by thousands of oppo- ched about half a mile toward nents of Panama's strongman, the capital's central business Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, district Monday afternoon be- and arrested five of the protest fore being attacked by soldiers. leaders. A water cannon, a tanker Soldiers later surrounded the truck fitted with a revolving tur- Marriott Hotel, used as a base ret atop its cab, sped through the by many foreign journalists and line spraying people with a chok- as a headquarters by the oppo- ing mixture of waters and chem- sition National Civic Crusade. icals. There were reports that crusade Behind the truck charged leaders were arrested and police and soldiers firing bird- cameras and equipment confis- shot and beating people with cated from reporters, photogra- 18-inch truncheons. phers and television crews. Reporters saw several people Meanwhile, a general strike hit by shotgun pellets but there that has closed down an esti- was no official account of injur- mated 90 percent of Panama's ies or arrests. industry and commerce entered □ See Panama, page 6. Racism possible proficiency topic by Jackie Jackson copy editor The Undergraduate Student Government is recommending that racism be the topic for next fall's English 112 proficiency exam. A proposal was passed by USG March 17 and was addressed to Lester Barber, chair of the English department, according to Denise Doherty, chair of USG's minority affairs and human relations com- mittee. The proposal was received by Barber on March 21 and the topic 'Maine' Man Photo courtesy the Key/Brad Phalin has been put on the agenda for Thursday's English department staff meeting. Bowling Green goaltender Paul Connell and defenseman Alan Leggett cons' season ended after losing the two-game, total-goals NCAA se- Barber said he thinks the proposal is a very promising idea. skate away aimlessly as Maine's Bob Corkum reacts after scoring in ries, 9-4. See page 9. Because the proposal was suggested by USG, a non-academic unit the Black Bears' 4-3 victory Saturday night in Orono, Maine. The Fal- a See Proficiency, page 5. Six vie for teaching award Gillmor endorses by Barb Weadock staff reporter improvement bill The field for the University's by Jared O. Wadley future of higher education in staff reporter Ohio and in the future of Ohio." 1988 Master Teacher Award has The University will receive $9 been narrowed to six finalists. million for an addition to the The winner of the award will Ohio Senate President Paul Fine Arts Building, $1.3 million be announced April 18 at the Gillmor, R-Port Clinton, Mon- for basic renovations, $1.3 mil- Alumni Association and Under- day signed House Bill 810, which lion for instructional equipment, graduate Alumni Association Browne Stong-Groat Kantonkl Spinelli Allgeier Stimson includes $14 million in capital $826,000 for asbestos removal, Outstanding High School Junior Joseph Spinelli, associate teacher, according to Mariann Students and faculty nor* .te improvements for the Universi- $525,000 for data processing Awards Banquet. professor of geography; Eli- Reinke, assistant director of on-campus teacners, she said. ty- equipment, $340,000 for modifi- The finalists for the award are zabeth Stimson, associate alumni affairs. One eligibility factor is teachers After Gill- cations of the Continuing Educa- Elizabeth Allgeier, associate professor of education and cur- "The most tangible reward is must have taught on campus, mor signed the tion offices, and $307,000 for roof professor of psychology; M. Neil riculum instruction; and Cyn- the $1,000 cash, a personal pla- full-time, for at least three bill atlhe Uni- repairs and replacements. Browne, professor of econo- thia Stong-Groat, associate que and the winner's name is years. versity's The University's Firelands mics; Vincent Kantorski, assis- professor of biology. placed on a plaque in the Alumni Mileti Alumni campus, in Huron, will receive tant professor of musical arts; The award is beneficial for a Center," Reinke said. D See Master Teacher, page 3. Center, it was $94,000 for basic renovations, sent to Colum- $62,900 for instructional equip- bus for Gov. ment, and $18,800 for data pro- Richard cessing equipment. Celeste's sig- nature before Robert McGeein, assistant Dismembered body identified the governor animor vice president of operations and TOLEDO (AP) — Police continued to Police Sgt. Bill Burpee said officers con- Body parts found so far include the head, Con a trip that will last more director of capital planning, said search Monday for clues in the death of a tinued to search the area for body parts right arm and left thigh, said Joe Inman, a two weeks. the University will spend the woman after finding some parts of her House Bill 810 covers all of the money July 1,1988. and evidence that could lead to Arthur's Lucas County coroner's office in- state's capital improvements. body in several plastic bags along banks of assailant. He said there are no suspects. vestigator. He said the woman had been McGeein sent a request to the the Maumee River near downtown Toledo shot in the head. Gillmor said the University Ohio Board of Regents during the past weekend. Burpee said there has been a lot of ille- did better than other universi- the summer of 1986. He said uni- Capt. Kenneth Koperski, head of the gal dumping in the area near an old pain He said he suspects the body parts were ties in terms of receiving most of the money it requested. versities and colleges send capi- Toledo Police Division's crimes against mill where the bags were first spotted, and tied in the brown plastic bags and thrown tal improvement requests to the persons unit, identified the woman as that this makes the search difficult. in the Maumee, but washed up on the bank. "Bowling Green State Univer- Ohio Board of Regents every Cecelia Arthur, 50. of Toledo. Three teen-agers found the first bags of Rocks and other debris along the shore sity has distinguished itself as a two years. He said police have evidence she may body parts late Friday, and police found probably caused the bags to rip open. truly outstanding institution of McGeein said he originally have been killed at her house. He declined additional bags Saturday. So tar, about 70 higher education," Gillmor said. asked for $24 million in capital comment on what evidence has been pieces of Arthur's body have been dis- The bags were strewn along a 350-yard "The state capital improve- improvements. found. covered in the bags. stretch of the river, Inman said. ments bill is an investment in the (University's) future, in the !_ See Gillmor, page 8. Tuesday News in Brief Latta claims Gillmor poll Giiimor, who is leaving ius post as Ohio senate Jackson to visit Dayton : University President Paul Olscamp r president to run for congress, said he is not con- ' spent Spring Break in Austria, receiving SnOUld be disregarded ducting a poll and that the calls were an effort to DAYTON (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a an award at the University of Salzburg, get his message out to voters. contender for the Democratic presidential norni- see story page four. BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — A candidate Latta, Gillmor and Rex Damschroder of Fre- nation, will visit Dayton April 30 for a fund-raising for a congressional seat here says a telephone sur- mont are the three candidates seeking Republican reception and dinner, state Rep. C.J. McLin, his 1 DThe University's Coop Office has vey by his opponent, Paul Gillmor, is unscienti- nomination for the congressional seat in Ohio's state chairman, said Monday. more requests from students than It is fie, phony and should be disregarded" by Republi- May 3 primary. able to accomodate, see story page six. cans. "I have had calls from people who were offended Jackson will appear at a $250-per-person re- 1 Robert Latta, who is seeking the 5th Con- and upset at the grave inaccuracies and bias ception at Mayo Industries and attend a $30-a-plate [ 'Bowling Green baseball team's first gressional District seat his father, Delbert Latta, shown in this poll," said Latta, a Bowling Green dinner at the Lakeview Palladium, said McLin home game Is today at 3 p.m.. see story is vacating alleged Monday that Gillmor's poll- lawyer. "For example, the poll only mentions two D-Dayton. page ten. sters were urging Latta's supporters to vote for candidates, Gillmor and me, while there are three The dinner will be sponsored by the Mount Olive Gillmor.