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Directory SPORTS -,—,. 6 TODAY Swiichboard 372-2601 Men's Basketball Women's Basketball Hockey Hockey Classified Ads 372-6977 Display Ads 372-2605 Editorial 372-6966 Toledo 79 BG 89 BG 2 BG 3 Sports 372-2602 cloudy Entertainment 372-2603 BG 92 Toledo 94 Miami 3 OSU 3 Falcons get fifth in a row Puthoff scores 32, but Physical battle against Short roster a big and cold Story Idea? Give us a call over northwest Ohio rival Falcons fall short in Redskins results in loss factor in tie with Ohio weekdays from I pm. to 5 pm., or e-mail: "[email protected]" with Saturday's win classic contest ' for Falcons State Buckeyes High: 30 Low: 15 MONDAY February 24,1997 Volume 83, Issue 104 The BG News Bowling Green, Ohio "Serving the Bowling Green community for over 75years" # Enrollment Warm Weather! strategies show results By DARLA WARNOCK The BC News Administration Enrollment management strat- management team is focusing on egies already put into place at the learning what students want and University are beginning to have need, along with attaining the re- a significant effect on recruit- sources to provide them. ment numbers, according to a One way of showcasing the report presented to the Board of University to prospective stu- Trustees Friday. dents, McKee said, was recently Sallye McKee, assistant to the done by way of a special preview provost for K-12 partnerships, day. said the University is starting to Held on Presidents Day, the pay more attention to the details second annual event attracted of recruiting and retaining quali- about 3,300 students and families ty students. to tour the University. She explained to the trustees Students and their families that the best-case scenario for were encouraged to tour Univer- rail semester at this point is 3,000 sity facilities and get acquainted full-time students. The worst with current students and faculty case is 2,870. Last year, the Uni- to help answer any questions versity enrolled 2,874 new full- they had. time students. "This past Monday made you "Certainly we aren't where we proud to be at BGSU," McKee were a year ago," McKee said. said. "It was also a day that says "But there are still some areas of •BGSU is the place for you."' great concern." University President Sidney Registrations for the current Ribeau said preliminary results spring semester were 366 stu- of the combined enrollment dents fewer than last year, reach- management strategies have ing only 17,115 students There been positive. He explained attention to de- were 387 fewer freshmen, 66 BC Nrwi Pa«o by Jeremy Mania more sophomores, 125 fewer jun- tails such as reaching students iors, 164 more seniors, 64 fewer early and admitting them into the The sun cast shadows in Oak Grove Cemetery this weekend. Un- Green last week, but temperatures are expected to drop back to graduate students and 30 more University sooner. seasonably warm weather gave a small taste of spring to Bowling near normal this week. students registered at the Fire- "The numbers speak for them- lands campus. McKee said the enrollment • See TRUSTEES, page three. Internet 2 may clear academic roadblocks Universities ties in Ohio access to the internet puter Center of Ohio. network, Gordon said. University faculty are not yet without traffic from non- "Internet 2 would help re- Once the research is com- Technology involved with the Internet 2 pro- attempt to keep academic users. searchers because there will be pleted, a document will be sent to cess; however, OARNET repre- part of internet Case Western Reserve Univer- no commercial traffic," Carey- state institutions, according to every other month at SCO in sents the University's interests sity, the University of Cincinnati, Treyens said. Gordon. Columbus to discuss problems in the process of developing In- research-exclusive Ohio University and Ohio State Steve Gordon, coordinator of "Bowling Green might decide and changes in lines that provide ternet 2, Moenich said. University are the four schools Internet 2, said although the that they have a group of re- internet services to state institu- Internet 2 can provide a sepa- By MAUREEN BARRY spearheading the research pro- system is still in its beginning searchers interested," Gordon tions. rate system with a gateway to the The BC News cesses to develop Internet 2, ac- stages, it will have a lot of possi- said. current internet, or universities cording to Kate Carey-Treyens, bilities for the future. Terry Moenich, campus net- According to Moenich, OAR- can use two separate systems for A new internet system is being assistant to the director of exter- All state institutions will have work manager for computer ser- NET provides all of the Universi- research and commercial uses, developed to provide universi- nal relations for the Supercom- the opportunity to tap into the vices, said he attends meetings ty's internet services. according to Moenich Accident on Wooster Street Seven tourists slain atop Empire State Building Man opens fire on world's best-known tourist sites, the landmark building "just to re- [_%•?*'■ 7 4 authorities said. lax myself a little bit," said the observation deck Dozens of people - many of man said something about Egypt them foreign tourists - fled in just before he began firing. of NYC landmark panic toward the stairways and Nys said he also heard other elevators as the unidentified man witnesses say the gunman had The Associated Press sprayed bullets around the large, been asking tourists if they were IfefcvaaaBa^^^UaHkV^I |BMW^^^^ ' "** ~' '4. windowed room that opens onto from Egypt. NEW YORK -- A man opened the observation deck. A 5-month- Jean-Luce Will, 40, his wife, fire into a crowd on the obser- old baby and a 1 1/2-year-old Catherine, and two sons, 10 and vation deck of the Empire State child were knocked from their 13, said they had just arrived at • Building Sunday, killing one per- mother's arms in the panic and the Empire State Building on the son, wounding six others and hospitalized. Seven others were second day of a trip to New York. sending dozens of panicked tou- injured. "I heard a loud popping noise," rists running for cover. "I'd been out there about one Will said. "I thought at first it The man, who muttered some- minute when I heard what I was little child playing with thing about Egypt seconds before thought to be firecrackers," said fireworks. There was one shot, he began shooting, later shot David Robinson, a tourist from then two or three seconds passed himself in the head but survived. England. "Then everyone started then three shots, pop, pop, pop." "I've never seen so much blood panicking." The Empire State Building Is in my life," said Belgian busi- Four of the shooting victims one of the most loved and ad- nessman Stef Nys, who said he were in critical condition, hospi- mired tall buildings in the world. saw the man shoot himself and tal officials said, while a 44-year- The 102-story skyscraper was BC Neva Paolo by Hlotkl Kobayaabl fall, his dentures popping loose. old French man and his 36-year- completed in 1929, opened May 1, "The most scary part was when old wife were in serious condi- 1931 and reigned for decades as A car driven by BGSU student Maria Hughes hit a car driven by Jeff Mellott of Toledo on Wooster people started to panic." tion A 35-year-old New York the world's tallest until 1972, S reel Friday. Mellott was arrested for failure to maintain an assured clear distance after hit car hit a The man began shooting at City man was also shot, hospital when it was overtaken by the c ir driven by Adriene Rickinberg, a University of Toledo student. about 5:15 p.m. on the 86th floor officials said. observation deck of one of the Nys, 36, who said he came to • See SLAIN, page three. 1 1 page two The BG News Tuesday, February 18, 1997 Mike Wendling Opinion Editor Opinion 372-6966 JASON E. WOLFE H E Is Jesus a liar, a lunatic, or Lord? Many moons ago. when I began Lord?" Let us examine each of case with Jesus. His messages to be Julius Caesar would a serious spiritual search for the these areas beginning with "Was almost entirely dealt with honesty, expectantly be either subjected "Rationally "truth" (whatever that might be). I Jesus a liar?" forgiveness and compassion to psycho-therapy or eventually came across a rather peculiar To naively suggest Jesus was toward both others and oneself. locked up. thinking, I trilemma addressing the nature of simply a liar Is actually More to the point, his teachings There Is Just one problem: cannot per- Jesus' Identity. Before I actually underestimating the nature of are consistently wholesome, Nowhere can one find behav- sonally con- begin to examine the question of his ministry's effects.