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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-19-1994 The BG News January 19, 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 19, 1994" (1994). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5633. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5633 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. <r The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence' Wednesday, January 19, 1994 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 80 Freezing weather discussed Toledo resident by Sherry Turto For those who are forced to brave the es. "We have seen several cases of mild decision are the wind chill factor and the city editor cold, warm clothes are an imperative frostbite, all of them occuring to people's availablity of the highways. part of facing the freezing weather. ears," Kaplan said. "About half of the students commute, The heat Is on as the cold sets In. "The idea of dressing warmly is to According to Bob Martin, vice presi- which makes the roadways a major part shot on Bowling Green set record tempera- keep the core body temperature high," dent of operations at the University, of our decision," Martin said. tures Tuesday as the mercury plum- said Joshua Kaplan, director of student there is no set guideline that the Univer- After the staff meets, Martin then meted to minus IS degrees with a wind health services. "Especially the head, be- sity relies on to make the decision on makes a call to Olscamp and they discuss campus chill factor of minus S3. cause much of the body heat can be lost whether to close. the information Martin's staff has pro- According to experts, the best advice is through it." "We have one policy. We either stay vided. by Tara Stubbs to stay Indoors, especially when the wind Dressing warm is especially important open or we close, which means that no- "Paul Olscamp makes the final de- News staff writer chill factor dips below minus 20 degrees. because there is a moderate risk of body except emergency personnel cision on whether or not to close the Uni- However, with classes in session, this is frostbite with the wind chill factors that work," Martin said. "Certain activities versity," Martin said. When two Toledo residents not always possible. the city of Bowling Green has experi- must go on. Students must eat and the Another factor that figures into the de- prepared for a dance which took Many students braved the cold, while enced this week. pipes cannot freeze." cision of closing the University is lack of place in the University's Lenhart others felt it was in their best interest to "When considering outdoor clothing, The procedure to decide whether or heat and power outages. "Yesterday, all Grand Ballroom Friday night, stay bundled up in their dorm room or students must protect their skin as much not the University is closed begins at 6 the buildings were heated adequately," little did they know what the apartment. as possible," Kaplan said. "The most im- am. he said. "However, we did have a small night had in store for them. University President Paul Olscamp portant part of the body to keep warm "If the weather the night before is ex- problem in University Hall and on the Twenty year-old Jamie I. said at Tuesday's Faculty Senate meeting are hands and the ears." tremely bad, I discuss with my staff third floor of West Hall." Johnson, a resident of Toledo was that "so long as cold weather is the only Many people have called the student whether or not we should close the Uni- Cindy Davidson, Michelle Knoble and shot allegedly by a another problem at this campus, no classes will health center with symptoms of frostbite versity," Martin said. Ericka Reckman also contributed to this Toledo resident, Ronald Perry- be canceled." that have occured from walking to class- Two major factors that are part of the report. man, at 2:30 a.m. Saturday morn- ing after attending a dance at the University Union. Both men involved were re- portedly students of the Univer- Jerome Library hosts King panel sity of Toledo. by Melissa Llpowskl News staff writer University students and faculty members who were •/ 2:30 ».m. Saturday morning willing to face the bitter cold Toledo resident Jamie L. temperatures had the oppor- Johnson shot in upper arm at tunity to participate In the University dance. commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Tuesday •/ 2:30-3:30 ajn. Johnson afternoon in the conference drives back to Toledo and is room of the Jerome Library. treated at the Medical College of The presentation, entitled Ohio. "Eye to Eye with MLK," fea- </ 3:30 a.m. University police tured a panel of University administrators and faculty notified of shooting that occured members who reinforced the near the Education Building and important messages that King MoseleyHaU. attempted to emphasize and their continuing relevance in contemporary society. According to Cliff Boutelle, Instead of only focusing on University Director of Public Re- the historical perspective of lations, the dance was being King, the program made an at- sponsored as a sort of "welcome tempt to illustrate his diver- back after the winter vacation." sity, said Marshall Rose, the Boutelle said the two students director of Affirmative Action apparently knew each other. The and one of the panelists. incident occurred somewhere "Martin Luther King Jr. has near the Education Building and often been misinterpreted and Moseley. misrepresented as a dis- "One pulled out a .22 caliber engaged, pacifist dreamer," handgun and fired three shots Rose said. "But he was more into the ground and then one shot than a dreamer. He was a at the victim," Boutelle said. leader for justice." The bullet struck Johnson in Because most University The BC Niwi/Nalku Wallace the upper-arm. Not figuring the students have only had the wound to be serious, he drove From left, Jack A. Taylor, Jlsovl Eason, Lorna Gonsalvez-Pinto, Martin Luther King Jr. and what he stood for. The group was part back home to Toledo. However, See King, page three. Marshall Rose and Thomas Klein, discuss their feelings on Rev. of a panel discussion honoring King Tuesday. See Shooting, page four. Iran-Contra case comes to close by Pete Yoit that he could never have proven was "no credible evidence that Walsh said he discovered the The Associated Press in court." President Reagan violated any coverup when he found the notes Walsh criticized Bush's par- criminal statute.' of ex-White House chief of staff WASHINGTON - President dons of ex-Defense Secretary "Nevertheless, he set the stage Don Regan and Weinberger in Reagan acquiesced in a coverup Caspar Weinberger and five for the illegal activities of others 1992. Regan was a participant in of the Iran-Contra scandal that other Iran-Contra figures as by encouraging and in general the coverup, but he readily coop- was spearheaded by Attorney either "an act of friendship or an terms ordering" military aid to erated with Walsh beginning in General Edwin Meese and car- act of self-protection." The par- the Contra rebels in Nicaragua at 1992, the report concluded. ried out at the top levels of the dons were issued on Christmas a time when Congress banned The notes of Regan and Wein- Reagan administration, the pros- Eve 1992, two weeks before the ecutor concluded in his final re- scheduled start of Weinberger's port Tuesday. criminal trial. "They skirted the law; some of them broke In two volumes that were im- "President Reagan, the secre- mediately denounced by Reagan, tary of state, the secretary of de- the law, and almost all of them tried to cover Meese, ex-President Bush and fense and the director of central up the president's willful activities," others, the Iran-Contra pros- intelligence and their necessary ecutor declared that Reagan's assistants committed them- Lawrence Walshjndependent Counsel aides withheld information on selves, however reluctantly," to Reagan Meese the scandal from prosecutors and secretly arming the Nicaraguan such aid, the report said. berger disclosed that "Meese ap- Congress. Contras and to dealing arms to When the Iran arms sales be- peared to have spearheaded an facts," the report stated. that all laws had been complied Impeachment of Reagan "cer- Iran to gain release of Americans came public in 1986, Reagan effort among top officials to Reagan's White House Counsel with, the report said. Referring tainly should have been con- held hostage in the Middle East, "knowingly participated or at falsely deny presidential aware- Peter Wallison "raised concerns to this protest, Wallison wrote in sidered" by the congressional Walsh's report said. least acquiesced in the efforts" ness of the Hawk transaction," about a conflict of interest" in his diary, "I was told that this is committees investigating the "They skirted the law; some of of his top aides to cover up Rea- said Walsh's report. having Meese, a presidential ap- what the AG wanted said." Iran-Contra affair, Independent them broke the law, and almost gan's prior approval of a Novem- Meese's November 1986 in- pointee, investigate a White Walsh said there was circum- Counsel Lawrence Walsh told a all of them tried to cover up the ber 1985 delivery of Hawk mis- quiry, launched after the Iran House matter, the report said.