The BG News January 26, 1994

Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-26-1994 The BG News January 26, 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 26, 1994" (1994). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5638. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5638 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. tf The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence' Wednesday, January 26. I'Ml Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 85 Clinton speaks on new agenda President gives his first state of the union address byTomRaum and gave them the most ... pro- haul. The Associated Press ductive Congress in 30 years." Moynihan's committee will He credited his $500 billion handle both health care and wel- WASHINGTON -- Proclaiming budget plan with reducing next fare-overhaul measures. a "hopeful beginning" on prom- year's deficit to $180 billion, 40 In the past, some advisers had ises to break gridlock and ener- percent less than predicted. He urged delaying action on welfare gize the nation's economy, Presi- also noted that interest rates are reform so that it wouldn't steal dent Clinton challenged Con- at a 20-year low, auto and home attention from health system re- gress Tuesday to tackle health sales are on the increase, and 1.6 structuring. Clinton's general care and welfare reforms in an million private sector jobs were welfare proposal calls for a two- ambitious agenda for 1994. created during his first year in year limit on benefits, coupled "We must do both at the same office. with programs on education and time," he said in remarks pre- Clinton pointed to a number of worker retraining. pared for delivery. other 1993 accomplishments, in- Budget Director Leon Panetta In his first state of the union cluding the passage of the Brady said Tuesday that details of the address, Clinton also acknowl- bill gun control law, the North plan remain to be worked out. edged America's growing con- American Free Trade Agree- "We do not have agreement on cerns about crime and was ex- ment, more money for AIDS how we pay for it," he said. pected to lay out anti-crime legis- research and treatment, and Clinton also promoted trans- lation. more loans for college students. formation of the country's Clinton was delivering the ad- "All passed. All signed into law unemployment system, coupled dress to a televised joint session with no vetoes," he said. "But the with dramatic changes in the way of Congress Tuesday evening. It real credit belongs to the people workers are trained. was his third formal speech to who sent us here, pay our salar- "Re-employment - not unem- Congress. He outlined his eco- ies and hold our feet to the fire." ployment, will be the centerpiece nomic plans last Feb. 17 and first Although health-care overhaul of our program for economic re- presented his health-care pro- clearly remains the centerpiece newal, and I urge you to pass it gram last Sept. 22. of Clinton's election-year agenda, this year," he told Congress. A Clinton addressed the nation at the president was also focusing legislative package of retraining a time when both the economy on a need for prompt action on and job search assistance is to be and his own approval ratings are changing the nation's welfare introduced in mid-February. on an upswing. system. Answering critics who say Inflation and interest rates are Clinton said millions of Ameri- health-care reform is not needed, at 20-year lows. And economists cans are on the public dole be- Clinton said failing to change the are predicting that a report due cause there is no other way to af- system would leave Americans out later this week will show the ford health insurance. Signaling with "less care, fewer choices, economy grew at a rate of close a slight delay in the introduction and higher bills." to 6 percent in the last three of a welfare reform bill, Clinton Clinton, with Republicans months of 1993 - the most robust said, "Until we solve the health labeling his plan as socialized growth in over a decade. care problem we will not solve medicine, stressed that his plan Senate Republican leader Bob the welfare problem." would guarantee private insur- Dole was giving the GOP re- Aides said the White House ance for every American. sponse to the address. will not introduce a welfare re- Clinton was also urging Con- "We are the loyal opposition. form bill until the spring, after gress to pass legislation that We have to show them the differ- the health-care measure has would put 100,000 more police ences," Dole said. made some progress. officers on the beat and provide Reaching out to lawmakers and The increased emphasis on boot camps as an alternative to looking back on his first year in welfare came after a key law- prison for nonviolent offenders. office, Clinton said, "Together, maker, Senate Finance Commit- He was also expected to en- we have made a hopeful begin- tee Chairman Daniel Patrick dorse a proposal requiring those ning - and for that I want to Moynihan of New York, recently convicted of three violent crimes Vice President Gore and House Speaker Thomas Foley applaud President Clinton prior to the start of thank all of you who heard the expressed impatience with the his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday. American people, broke gridlock, pace of activity on welfare over- See ClINTON, page three. Human radiation tests persist USG proposes by H. Josef Hebert government-wide records search The Associated Press on past radiation testing on humans, said President Clinton new fee process WASHINGTON - The Energy soon will direct all federal agen- Department is still conducting cies to immediately halt any ex- by Lawrence Hannan better for everyone that the more than 200 radiation experi- periments where consent might News staff writer students have more control." ments involving humans but is be in question. The general fee allocation following strict ethical proce- She later told reporters the Undergraduate Student began in the mid 70s as Ad- dures and gaining proper con- directive was being issued, in Government proposed on visory Committee on General sent, Secretary Hazel O'Leary part, to respond to a request from Monday an alternative general Fee Allocations. At that time said Tuesday. Glenn and not because of any fee allocation process to give USG held seven of the 11 seats Most <>i the experiments in- evidence that proper consent University students more say on ACGFA. volve low-level trace doses of might not have been obtained in on how their money is spent. Criticism of ACGFA and radiation under guidelines in ef- any continuing tests. USG sec- USG began almost imme- fect at the department since While providing no details, retary Ra- diately. ACGFA was routinely 1991, she said. Mrs. O'Leary said there are be- chel Cos- accused of both financial "As far as we have been able to tween 200 and 260 experiments tanzo said mismanagement and insensi- ascertain, the department is not involving human subjects being each Uni- tivity to the concerns of wom- conducting any experiments that conducted by her department or versity stu- en and minority students. violate medical, ethical stan- by its contractors, mostly involv- dent pays Eventually criticism became dards or the Nuremberg codes," ing trace doses. She estimated $312 to the so intense that the University she told the Senate Governmen- the department was spending general fee administration decided to take tal Affairs Committee. about $50 million for the each semes- the allocation process away Following disclosure that nu- projects. ter. Stu- from the students. merous questionable radiation She said that information about dents, Senator Jennifer Mathe, an- experiments had been conducted each of the experiments was be- however, have very little say other sponsor of the bill, said during the Cold War, several ing assembled and would be put in how that money is distrib- USG would not dominate the senators had expressed concern into a computer by mid-March uted, she said. proposed new allocation some might be continuing. and be available for public re- Senator Matt Fair, one of the board. The new plan would What assurance is there that view. bill's sponsors, said he be- have 18 ACGFA seats, with there are not "rogue operators In separate testimony, officials lieves it's only fair for stu- only five to be held by USG. out there" who, despite stringent from the departments of De- dents to have control over Other seats would be held by government regulations and fense, Veterans Affairs and where money they pay is go- diverse organizations like the guidelines, still may have ex- Health and Human Services re- AP Photo/John Durlckft ing. Graduate Student Govern- periments under way without iterated that they were pressing "USG has been striving to ment, the Black Student proper patient consent? asked paper searches within their de- Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary testifies on Capitol Hill Tuesday, be- become more consumer- Union, the Third World Grad- Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, the partments for all information fore the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee which was holding oriented so it can better re- uate Student Association and Senate panel's chairman.

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