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Inside the News Opinion Sports • Kentucky wins NCAA championship Sports • Falcon baseball goes 3 for 4 against Miami Roark says big government is not a problem Sports • Women's tennis goes 1 for 3 over break Page 2 Tuesday, April 2,1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 107 The News' Hungry? Council talks of Briefs cemetery fencing AL Scores Brandon Wray "People west of the railroad Minnesota 8 The BC News tracks are concerned with the replacement of the funds that Detroit 6 Bowling Green City Council will go towards the fence that are discussed the on-going Issues of coming from their fire station Texas 5 fencing Oak Grove Cemetery and funds," McGeein said. "I want to the Greenspace group's acquisi- be assured that the funds will be Boston 3 tion of greenlands and heard repaid." from a citizen group on the issue A group of concerned citizens NL Scores of juvenile delinquent group reported to council on the pro- homes Monday night. posed group home for delinquent Atlanta 10 Greenspace has officially a- teenage girls. dopted 3 out of the 22 acres It has The home, which would be on San Francisco 8 planned to acquire from the North Christopher Street, would Boardner Group according Parks be run by a Christian minister New York Mets 7 and Recreation Director Bob Cal- and house up to 10 girls who lecod. could not live at regular foster St. Louis 6 Funds for the new cemetery homes. funds are coming from fire The girls will come from all Chicago .5 Patrick Snydcr/rhr Aiioclated PTCM station allotments and Council- over the state and can have any man Bob McGeein raised the is- kind of background according to San Diego 4 Kay Rosale, member of the Murat Shrine Circus troupe, puts her head In the mouth of Munchle the tiger during a performance In Indianapolis. sue of how the funds will be re- Laurie Moss, part of the citizen payed. group. Los Angeles 4 Houston 3 Pittsburgh 4 Union detour will remain until next fall Florida 0 ty tunnel system. tunnel starting at the Centrex shut down that area until next ing to have all the walkway Jay Young systems done and grass growing The BC News Bob Boucher, Physical Plant Building and north to Ridge fall." mechanical engineer, said the Street The work is being done in University architect Roland by the middle of August and be- Organizations Students returning from section will most likely be 300-foot Increments. Engler said the mall construction fore the start of the fall semes- spring break were greeted Mon- blocked off until the end of the will begin as the tunnel work ter. We've got to get grass grow- sponsor project to day morning by a barrier be- spring. Just as the barriers surround- moves toward Ridge Street. Eng- ing before the start of the semes- deliver Easter bas- tween the east and west side of "It may move along faster, but ing the tunnel project are re- ler said the area between the ter so we don't wind up with a campus. Due to construction, at this point It Is probably going moved at the end of the school University Union and Moseley mud hole out there." kets to children walking paths will not return to to be mid-May. Then they will year, blockades for the pedes- Hall will be blocked off to Ridge The Delta Gamma house, Street during the mall construc- Engler said during the summer Panbellenic Council and the normal until next fall. move ahead," Boucher said. trian mall project will be erected. Interf rat ernity Council's Barriers were placed north of More than four miles of tun- "By the time we're out of there, tion. He said things should return construction people will still Community Service leaders Moseley Hall and between nels are below the campus, serv- the campus mall project will be to normal by next fall. have access to the front entrance will sponsor a community Moseley and University Halls at ing as a highway to supply each starting," Boucher said. "After "We should have It all opened of the Union. He said trees and service project to make and the start of the break as con- building with utilities. Repairs the pedestrian mall project starts up by the time the fall semester shrubs will be added to the mall deliver Easter baskets for struction began on the Universi- are currently being made In the that will probably pretty much begins," Engler said. "We're hop- around October. 25 children at the Medical College of Ohio on April 3. The groups are asking for one representative from each chapter to participate. Liberty Bell not headed for the border Officials Transportation will be pro- vided. Those Interested in helping should contact their Taco Bell's April Fool's ad suggests corporate ownership of monument will not chapter's community ser- vice chair. Michael Raphael prosecute Mayor promises to The Associated Press find vandals TOLEDO - The mayor PHILADELPHIA - A cursory marine check of the Liberty Bell on promised Monday to find a The Associated Press group of youths suspected Monday found no trace of taco of using spray paint and juice on the iron, no Burrito Su- WASHINGTON - Fed- markers to vandalize an premes in the crack. eral officials will not pros- area on the city's north side. No, Taco Bell didn't buy the More than 40 damage re- ecute a Marine who was ar- Liberty Bell. rested as he allegedly tried ports were expected as a In an April Fools' Day joke, the result of the vandalism. to scale the White House Mayor Carty Fuikbeiner fast-food chain took out full-page fence because he thought said he has ordered police ads In eight newspapers an- he was at his base south of to place a high priority on nouncing that it had purchased Washington. the case. America's symbol of freedom to Police Interviewed help shrink the federal debt. The Secret Service said several youths who blamed The bell will henceforth be Cpl. Jebediah Morris, 21, of a group of high school stu- called, the ads said, the Taco Lib- Enid, Oklahoma, was "ex- dents for vandalizing erty Bell. tremely intoxicated" when homes, cars, garages, an el- By noon - the traditional time ementary school, a televi- arrested early Sunday and for confessions - the company charged with unlawful en- sion repair shop and a con- came clean. The bell will remain venience store. The damage try. The U.S. Attorney's of- occurred late Saturday or in its home outside Independence fice decided Monday to early Sunday. Hall, and the Irvine, Calif., com- drop the charge, leave any The group is known to use pany will donate $50,000 toward discipline to the Marines, some of the phrases and preservation and maintenance. U.S. Attorney's spokesman names found scribbled "We would never say we didn't Kevin Ohlson said. throughout the neighbor- need the money," said Martha B. hood. Aikens, superintendent of Inde- A Secret Service pendence National Historical spokesman said an agent Park. "But the word sale never found Morris, who was un- came up." armed, outside the fence Quote of before dawn. Queried, Mor- CKrlB Cardncrrrbc AoacUUcd Pre•■ ris told the officer he the day "1 think my School children surround the Liberty Bell and listen to a park guide give the history behind It. The Lib- thought he was at the Quan- sixth-graders will eat erty Bell was the brunt of an April Fool's Day hoax In which Taco Bell announced It had purchased the rJco Marine Base in subur- "Get out of nation's foremost symbol of liberty In several full-page advertisements. ban Virginia. it up." A few minutes later, Janet Friedman same - 2,080 pounds - as 11,093 amazement - before the truth "I'm having enough trouble here! You Morris allegedly tried to tacos and would need 5,376 pack- came out. teaching my kids American his- can't just teacher from Ann Arbor climb the fence but was re- ets of hot sauce to fill It up). "Get out of here!" said Arthur tory," Friedman said. "I think my buy that." Davis, 37, as he visited the bell. sixth-graders will eat It up." strained. "We're not about to run for the Chief Warrant Officer Taco Bell refused to say how "You cant just buy that." So did the White House. border," said Kevin Feeley, a BUI Wright, Quantico base -Arthur much it paid for the ads. City Hall spokesman. His boss. Janet Friedman, a teacher "We will be doing a series of spokesman, said Morris Legally, the federal govern- Mayor Edward G. Rendell, said from Ann Arbor, Mich, was these things," press secretary Davis, 37, was released to the custody ment couldn't sell the Liberty hoax or not, he would hit up the angry about the "commercializa- Mike McCurry said.