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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-20-2001 The BG News April 20, 2001 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 20, 2001" (2001). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6802. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6802 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. State University FRIDAY April 20, 2001 SIBS&KIDS: SHOWERS For three days the cam- HIGH: 64 I LOW 46 pus becomes their giant wvw.bgnews.com playground; PAGE 9 independent student press VOLUME 90 ISSUE 144 Shepard to AUTHORITIES speak on campus SEARCH U today By Marie Cliiche ■ OHIO »»0 N1II0N SFPORltB Michael lehmkuhle BG News ludy Shepard, Matthew LONG WAIT: Press waits patiently for information on the recovery of Shepard's mother, will lx' speak- Rizzi's body but receives little response from authorities. ing on campus Friday, April 2t) at 2 p.m. in 101 Olscamp. The event, organized lor the 2001 Office of Residence Life Paulsen Lecture, is called "File Tragedy of I late." According to Michael Ginsburg, Interim Assistant Director of Residence life, ludy Shepard is going to talk about the situation With her son anil how the University and the community can help to prevent hate crimes, Vision and the Office of Residence life Diversity Committee helped post livers and posters about the event On October 12, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21 year-old college student in Laramie, Wyoming, died from severe injuries due to brutal beating and torture I le was attacked because he was gay Since the death of her son, ludy Shepard has been actively light- ing against hale crime. With tin- help of her husband, she founded the Matthew Shepard foundation to help carry on Matthew's legal y by supporting the causes their son had championed, such as working for gay and lesbian equality and helping prevent hate crimes. On May 11, 199!), she testified before the Senate ludiciury Committee in support of the I late Crimes Prevention Act. She appeared in two Human Rights Campaign public service televisior spots aimed at curbing anti-gay violence and promoting a greater understanding of gay McluelLaluikuNeBGfan issues. She has also become SEARCH CONTINUES: Authorities began searching the area between Wood County Airport and Perry Field House Thursday morning for Michelle Rizzi's body. involved with Parents, families and Friends of I esbians and (lays. THE ludy Shepard has made the prevention of hate crimes the RIZZI'S BODY POSSIBLY ON CAMPUS SEARCH focus of her efforts, and she is now speaking to audiences nation- The "X" to the By Marie Chiche and Jordan Fouts local authorities searched the accumulation of dirt. wide about what they can do to BG HEWS REPORTERS mound between the Wood Around 10 a.m, a Michigan right is the make their schools and commu- approximate An almost year-long County airport and Perry Field State Police helicopter surveyed nities safer for everyone, regard- search may be near the House, within sight of lots 5 the scene from overhead. The location where less of their race, religion, or sexu- end. Police searched all and 12. area was cordoned off, with officers are al orientation. day yesterday for the remains of Since the area is a dumping campus maintenance workers searching for "Our director had actually seen Michelle Rizzi. a 1999 University site for Union construction, restricting access. Michelle Rizzi. her at a conference last year," graduate, missing from search crews had to use bulldoz- Present were agents from the i I i i -i I i i i i Oinsburgsaid. I le added that they Michigan since June 29,2000. ers, backhoes, shovels and thought she would have a power- Michigan State Police and canine units to excavate a year's SEARCH, PAGE 5 Rebecca Holt BG News ful message for the students. O.A.R. gives exclusive interview entire band on hand. As it went Culos: Don't get us wrong we Gershman: The popping The BG News sent Assistant on, the band filtered out and only love it though. sounds in The Wanderer and Entertainment Editor Dan Nied Roberge was left to answer ques- RO: Sometimes listening to the Soul's Aflame I think are pretty to Toledo last week to interview tions The second part took place new CD over and over again, you cool. Of A Revolution -, vocalist Marc in Roberge's hotel room for about hear how professional everything Roberge, Bass Player Benj an hour, It wrapped just 15-min- sounds and sometimes I get sick What abcut the four tracks you Gershman, Guitarist Richard On, utes before OAR. was due on of it. put on Risen that you had Saxophonist Jerry DePizzo and stage. released on the previous two drummer Chris Culos- who will What about the other two albums? take the stage at Anderson Arena Do you guys listen to (Their albums: CGWe didn't record them over tomorrow at 8 p.m.. New Album) Risen a lot? CC: It's amazing how we to try and make them better ver- The first part of the interview ON: No, It's kind of hard to lis- recorded them for like $8 when sions of what we had. was conducted backstage at ten to you're own record because we were in high school and the Toledo's Seagate Center with the you know it so well. sold thousands of copies. O.A.R., PAGE 5 Panel discusses crimes against humanity Cincinnati crowd listens ■yCnfeSmonl Holocaust rememberance death of his mother and sister, to NAACP message CHIEF RER0RTER which he said was the toughest The holocaust took the lives of lives with those who survived thing to go through, because By loanna F. Hughes t Dm Daugtitry UC students to the meeting in U-WIRE many Jewish people during they were sent to death in gas three vehicles. Worid War II. However, it did not Holocaust survivors. he was sent from boot camp to trucks. CINCINNATI - Members of Richardson said, "We are going claim everyone, including Philip Markowicz began talking boot camp and managed to sur- "It still bothers me today that University of Cincinnati's chapter to let our city know they awak- Markowicz who spoke on cam- about his experiences in vive. Each time, he thought he human people can do such a of the NAACR a former chairman ened a sleeping giant." He added, pus yesterday. Germany and how he avoided would face death, he said he was thing," he said. of the university's Board of "The youth in this city are sick About 100 University stu- near-certain death. sent to work for the German Keller was next to speak to the Trustees and other community and tired of the police harassing dents, faculty and visitors were "It's a miracle of miracles thai army crowd. He had been with the leaders congregated at the and killing us." ;in 121 West Hall to listen to I am here, that I survived," he During his time of trying to 46th division of the army, which Greater New Ught Baptist church Dr. O'dell Owens, former Markowicz, Bill Keller, who was said. "It's like winning the lottery. survive, he was forced to go was responsible for liberating in Avondale Thursday to discuss member of UC's Board of .' a member of the United States All the numbers have to line up through the loss of his father and the boot camps. the Cincinnati riots. Trustees, was among the local army and Nick DelCalzo, who to win the prize." brother-in-law, who died of star- Robert Richardson, president | has photographed hundreds of Markowicz talked>about how vation. He also had to face the HOLOCAUST. PAGE 5 of UC's chapter of the NAACR led » HAACP.PAGE* 2 Friday. April 20.20001 CAMPUS BG NEWS Undergraduates part of MTV's Jackass show By Richard Ferrara motley characters - Nitz, Rocko, monkey. Cal is the pretty boy that noia of a tech school and the wild Its jokes are forced and pedes- to them that makes effective use U-WIRE Gimpy and Cal - - who are attend- gets all the girls and has an parlies and general hysteria of a trian as seen by anyone pasl the of the cartoon medium. The first TALLAHASSEE. Fla. - MTV has ing three different colleges in the annoying voice. rambunctious community col- age of pubescence, wringing out couple of Undergrads episodes devised its latest animated series same town. "Undergrads" is a step away lege. banal humor from social faux pas and the strained eccentricity of its seem to be lacking in this, resort- to be aired as part of its "Jackass" Nitz is an eccentric non-con- from MTV cartoons like Beavis & Sunday program line-up. Apparently, the cartoon aims characters. With only a few minor ing to the sort of dull humor that formist who finds himself facing liutthead in that it does not strive to target college audiences who will have a hard time getting Undergrads is based on the real- a personal catharsis as a fresh- for the single goal of getting alterations, a more appropriate life experiences of its creator, 22- might be able to relate to the place for this one would be a day- laughs from a college-level audi- man undergraduate that causes laughs, but tries to create an material or possibly find it amus- year-old cartoonist Pete Williams, him to reconsider his preconcep- abstract depiction of the fresh- time slot on Nickelodeon.