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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-5-1995 The BG News September 5, 1995 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 September 5, 1995" (1995). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5874. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5874 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. Take a look at the The state's Korean War James P. Hoffa, has The Falcon football Office of the Bursar Veteran's Memorial will announced his bid to team prepares for through the eyes of be unveiled Saturday. be the next president this weekend's those who work Page 5 of the Teamsters union. game against there. Page 6 Missouri. Page 4 Page 7 jEheggijetos 1995 The B G News "Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence" Tuesday, September 5, 1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 5 Deadheads mourn Historic events as sales skyrocket give Labor Day Jim Barker "The popularity hasn't neces- The BC News sarily gone up, but people have become more introspective of A part of Grateful Dead fans the whole Dead phenomenon," special appeal may have died with Jerry Garcia Bilancini said. "The number of on Aug. 9, but local business pro- people bringing their own [boot- Rich Harris prietors say the singer- leg] tapes in has gone way up. The Associated Press guitarist's spirit lives on. "It has become almost more of Wayne White, assistant man- an anthropological thing than a CLEVELAND ~ Labor Day will never be the same, City Coun- ager of The Shed, 518 E. Wcoster musical thing," he said. "They cil President Jay Westbrook on Monday told construction St., said Garcia's death has talk about what generation the workers who built the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. brought out Grateful Dead fans tapes are, and how many times "Look around you - you see a new skyline, a new community, a in droves. it's been dubbed." new appreciation of Cleveland and the lakefront," he said. "A "Sales have just skyrocketed," Bilancini also said fans don't whole new doorway to Cleveland is opening, and without you it White said. "New styles of seem to be negatively affected wouldn't be there." T-shirts that have sold out, new by Garcia's passing. While Cleveland rocked, Ohio's S.3 million workers enjoyed a stickers that have sold out, all the "They are in good spirits," he day off, picnicking and playing in the mostly sunny, 80-degree old stickers we've had have sold said. "Everyone's not just sitting weather. out. I think a lot of it was the around at the bar all droopy. Many workers watched parades, and in Warren, they were the panic of everyone wanting some There are people dancing, people parade. Jerry Garcia merchandise." talking, they're having a good Hundreds of union sympathizers marched a half mile from White said some of the hard- time." WC1 Steel mill to rally in support of mill workers. United Steel- core deadheads had a difficult Maria Britt, co-owner of Imag- workers have been off the job since Aug. 31, and the mill has time dealing with the singer's ine the Unique Boutique, 134 E. hired replacement workers. death. Court St., said the full effects of The president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, William Burga, attended "A few of my friends [who] are Garcia's death have yet to be felt. the rally at the Trumbull County Courthouse. definitely 'heads and would go on "It was more than just Gov. George Voinovioh and museum Director Dennis Barrie tour had a little bit of trouble someone dying," Britt said. joined Westbrook at the ceremony honoring the workers who [with Garcia's death]," White "When he died, it was like some- built the $92 million rock music shrine. said. "But they're doing all right. thing dying inside of you." "I'm proud to say the band of construction workers played "It was almost as if he was a Britt said much of the Grateful their part and put together a harmony that will last for genera- brother or a sister that had died," Dead's popularity was due to its tions to come," Westbrook said. White said. "I mean, they would durability. Barrie, attired in the same T-shirt he wore at the museum's shed tears for a few days over it. "They never changed," Britt topping off a ceremony marking placement of the final piece of I've seen a few shows, but [the said. "It kept people coming structural steel said the hundreds of electricians, iron workers news] didn't really knock me back, getting new generations and other laborers had built "a new landmark for Cleveland and down." into it. It was a place you could go the world." Junction Bar and Grill, 110 N. where you didn't worry about "This is the heart and soul of rock 'n' roll and it's very evident Main St., has experienced in- who you were. You were your- your heart and soul was in it," Barrie said. creased attendance at its Tues- self. day deadhead nights, manager "[Deadheads] are still like a Tony Bilancini said. big family, millions of people full "Believe it or not, a lot more of happiness, sharing and loving. Art study program people started coming up here We shouldn't give that up. We [after Garcia's death]," Bilancini shouldn't give up our dreams," said. "It's gone up two-fold be- she said. celebrates 20 years cause, obviously, there aren't go- At the news of Garcia's pass- ing to be any more tours." ing, fans of the Grateful Dead Amy Johnson way, said Jules Maidoff, founder from Boston to San Francisco The BG News and former director of SACI. Bilancini, not a Grateful Dead held candlelight vigils and set up "The presentation is designed memorial shrines for their lost The Studio Art Centers Inter- fan himself, said fans attending Kelly Rigo/The BG Nc»n to show students an upbeat way deadhead night have become icon. national celebrated its 20th an- to go to Florence and study and to Coming Friday: Deadhead stu- Grateful Dead merchandise, such as the stickers shown above, can be niversary of student art study in more informed about the group's found at Imagine the Unique Boutique. live it," Maidoff said. "The film music. dents talk to Weekend Reality. Florence, Italy with a film and is a pulsing quick-image sensa- art exhibition Friday evening. tion representing a stay in the SACI is an overseas study pro- city of Florence." gram created in 197S for stu- The art exhibition presented dents to study studio and liberal art work from alumni who at- ! Serb leader defies ultimatum art at the United States universi- tended the program. The art con- ; Uam McDowell Bosnian Serb leaders, taking a ty level. sisted of oil on canvas, computer- The Associated Press more conciliatory position, had SACI has been affiliated with aided art, mixed media, oil and U.N. commanders agreed to ease the siege of Sar- the University since 1986, said wax, photographs and text, silk- SARAJEVO, Bosnia- ajevo, but Mladic's letter made Mary Beckinsale, former dean screen, etching and other forms. and new director of SACI. Herzegovina - Defying a NATO clear that they would have trou- Two University students who threat of airstrikes even as Bos- ble getting their generals to keep "We usually have IS to 20 stu- attended the program during the debate NATO attack their promises. dents from Bowling Green at- nian Serb leaders appeared fall 1993 semester and the spring ready to give in, the Serb com- The letter from the political tending the summer program 1994 semester said the SACI pro- and up to 100 in the whole pro- mander rejected an ultimatum signify that the Serbs are prepar- Mladic's letter said the politi- Serb leader Radovan Karadzic gram was a great learning expe- Monday to pull his heavy ing for a withdrawal." cians had no right to agree to fired him last month, but Mladic gram," Beckinsale said. "We rience. have an ongoing relationship weapons out of range of Sar- She said weapons were being such demands. rallied supporters in the military "I highly encourage students to with the University that I hope ajevo. assembled at Ilidza, Hadzici, "No one, not even myself, has and pressured Karadzic into go," said Catherine Zweig, a Two booms were heard in the Grbavica and Lukavica - all Sar- the right to order the with- reinstating him. continues for a long time." printmaking major. "One can ex- Serb stronghold of Pale, south- ajevo suburbs or neighborhoods drawal," said his letter, ad- In an apparent concession to perience so much, including all east of Sarajevo, less than 30 held by the Serbs. dressed to Janvier. avert airstrikes, Mladic's letter the new food and the experience minutes after a NATO deadline It wasn't clear whether the Mladic has clashed with the po- said the Serbs would halt their "We usually have 15 of learning and living a new cul- to move the weapons passed. Ex- Serbs were withdrawing the litical leadership before. Bosnian offensives around Sarajevo.

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