Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-1-1986 The BG News April 1, 1986 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 April 1, 1986" (1986). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4508. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4508 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. At long last! Bloom County returns, page 2. THE BG NEWS Vol. 68 Issue 101 Bowling Green, Ohio Tuesday, April 1,1986 Student arrested for 2nd sex offense by Valerie Ciptak they walked into the building to use the officer and escorted him out of the on the door of Ruggiero's apartment he was leaving. staff reporter restroom. Lewis reportedly went into restroom to Lewis. and after hearing Ruggiero answer, After Lipton left, Lewis and Lathem the first floor men s room and came Ruggiero was then arrested for im- identified themselves. waited outside the apartment until A University graduate student found out. Lathem then went in and sat in the portuning and released on his own The officers alleged that another Ruggiero walked out about five min- guilty in December of importuning was third stall from the door. person began telling them through the uteslater. arrested on a charge of the same In December Ruggerio pleaded no door that Ruggiero was not there and Lipton was arrested March 27 for offense the Thursday before break. A PERSON in the next stall, later contest to importuning charges and that he did not know where he was. obstructing official business and jus- Jamie Ruggiero, 723 Third St. Apt. C, identified as Ruggiero, allegedly began was assessed a fine of $375 plus court Lewis told the man that because he tice. is being charged in connection with tapping his foot on the floor. When costs and put on one year probation dealt with Ruggiero before, he knew Police reports show similarities be- soliciting a University officer in Uni- Lathem tapped his foot back Ruggiero with no sex offenses by Bowling Green the first voice was his. tween the August incident Ruggiero versity Hall March 20. reportedly passed Lathem a note writ- Municipal Judge James Bachmun. The police report stated Lewis confessed to and the recent allegations. He is also being charged with violat- ten on toilet paper and rolled around a The court put out a warrant March 21 warned Ruggiero's roommate, Jeffrey In the August incident, Officer Dan ing his one year probation, which stip- pen. Lathem returned a message. In a for Ruggerio to face charges of violat- Lipton, that denying Ruggiero's pres- Adams reported Ruggiero passed sex- ulated he not be charged with any other series of notes that followed, Ruggiero ing his probation and Lewis and La- ence is an obstruction ofofficial busi- ual notes to him under a stall in the sex offenses. allegedly propositioned Lathem with them went to summons him that day. ness and justice. first floor restroom and asked him to Campus Officers Bill Lathem and specific sexual acts. Lipton reportedly told the officers meet him on the second floor of the Chuck Lewis were on foot patrol when Lathem identified himself as a police THE OFFICERS reportedly knocked again Ruggiero was not there, and that building. Mexican Official airliner charged in crashes sex crimes 166 passengers by Patricia Rttter killed on impact staff reporter A University assistant direc- tor of placement pleaded not MORELIA, Mexico (AP) - A guilty to gross sexual imposition Mexicana Airline jet carrying and corruption of a minor yes- 166 people crashed into a moun- terday in an arraignment at tain in central Mexico yesterday Wood County Common Pleas shortly after leaving Mexico Court. City for two Pacific resorts and Los Angeles, and all aboard Jerry Richardson, 41, of 221 were killed, the airline said. W. Merry St., will appear at a The Boeing 727 went down pre-trial conference April 18 be- about 90 miles northwest of Mex- fore Judge Gale Williamson. ico City, near Maravatio. Richardson has been released It was the worst air disaster on his own recognizance until since a chartered DC-8 with a then. crew of eight that was carrying Richardson was indicted by a 248 U.S. servicemen home for grand jury March 19. Christmas from the Middle East Court records state Richard- crashed just after takeoff from son had sexual contact with a 13- Gander, Newfoundland, on Dec. year-old boy in May 1981. In a 12, and all perished. separate instance, in December 1984 he allegedly engaged in "Unfortunately, there are no fellatio with a different minor. survivors" among the 158 pas- sengers and eight crew mem- Gross sexual imposition and bers, Mexicana spokesman corruption of a minor are third Fernando Martinez Cortes told degree felonies. If convicted, reporters. He said Federal High- Richardson could face a maxi- way Police were the first to mum penalty of 10 years in arrive at the scene and reported prison and a $5,000 fine for each all those aboard apparently charge. were killed on impact. Richardson, a 1966 University "A little more than halfway up graduate, started working at the the mountain you could see a University in 1967 as a statistical ?lume of smoke, white smoke. BG News/Jim YouU clerk in the campus planning ou could distinctly see the office. In 1970, he joined the plume of white smoke and seve- Savage tan University's administrative ral small fires around it," said Kris Rynearson. freshman undecided major, gets ready to work on her tan in the courtyard behind Founders Quadrangle. staff as assistant director of Associated Press correspondent placement. Isaac Levi, who flew near the site in a chartered aircraft. THE AIRPORT at Morelia, the capital of Michoacan state, Summit rejection called 'lost opportunity made arrangements to receive the bodies. One hangar was be- ing prepared as a makeshift WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Ameri- Rep. Les Aspin, chairman of the House into a corner and forced to be nice" but warheads were not deterioriating and morgue, and airline officials re- can arms control negotiators expressed Armed Services Committee, said of ad- because "there's no other way." likely to malfunction. quested lime, bags and other regret yesterday at President Reagan's ministration officials, "They are reject- ENTERING THE minority view of The United States found after ending a emergency supplies from Mex- rejection of a U.S.-Soviet summit meet- ing something that's worth pursuing." U.S. analysts now prominent in the pri- moratorium 20 years ago that several of ico City. ing to ban nuclear weapons tests, calling And a Soviet official visiting here said vate arms control community, James its warheads, including the W-52 tactical U.S. Embassy spokesman it a lost opportunity to curb the arms Gorbachev will not be deterred in offer- Hackett, former acting director of the ballistic missile, "didn't work at all" and Vince Hovanec said airline offi- race. ing proposals to challenge the Reagan U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament had to be replaced. "It's like recalling a cials reported 25 non-Hispanic While none of these analysts was sur- administration to slow the nuclear weap- Agency, said new U.S. weapons tests car with faulty brakes," Hackett said. surnames were on the passenger prised by Reagan's rebuff of Soviet ons competition. were ''absolutely essential to maintain But four former U.S. officials and nego- list, but the manifest did not list leader Mikhail Gorbachev's proposal, "We will be coming up with other the integrity" of the American nuclear tiators. Paul Warnke, Spurgeon Keeny, citizenship. "We have no way of they were virtually unanimous in charac- initiatives," said Sergei Plekhanov, a deterrence. Gerard Smith and John B. Rhinelander knowing now if there are any terizing the president's action as a set- department head at the U.S.S.R. Aca- Hackett, now an official of the Heritage said in separate interviews that Reagan Americans aboard," Hovanec back and in saying it broke a long-term demy of Sciences. He said that will hap- Foundation, a conservative research was wrong to reject Gorbachev's invita- said. commitment with the Russians. pen "not because we have been painted group, said it was the only way to assure tion to hold a summit." Policeman begins new job by MeUua McGilllvray He said he believes his young about 1,250, often did not need staff reporter age will be an advantage in police protection, he said. dealing with college students' "Sometimes there was noth- He may be younger than some problems. ing at all going on," he said students, but this young man has James has lived in Bradner all the authority to do anything "I'm going to try to be under- his life, and became an auxiliary from making arrests to getting standing and sympathetic to policeman right after high keys out of locked cars. their problems," he said. I just school. ^ graduated from a technical col- At 21, Tim James is the newest lege so I'm very familiar with Sometimes this caused prob- and youngest member of the students problems, which are lems with people who knew aha University police force. He was very real. while he was growing un to hired last week to fill the second said.