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BG News ,lume 85/lssue 75 daily independent student press Monday, February Heritage rrtly Taken Dudy by revisited African Americans * Surprise Igh: 24 relive past through Sixth-place BG takes Miami Harlem Cotton Club ||W: 6 by storm Saturday, 69-58 By IRENE SHARON linion Stacey jump-started the team SCOTT By TOD McCLOSKEY with a long-range 3-pointer. The BG News .TanTaylor discusses The BG News "I thought he (Stacey) came out with a great look in his eyes," A wealth of talent was dis- pologies and In an effort to keep its --nances played by University African- for a home-court first-round Dakich said. xgiveness. BG pushed the lead to 47-35 American students Saturday playoff game alive, 'he Bowling midway through the second half when the Harlem Cotton Club Green men's basketball team (16- with a Kirk Cowan baseline recreated the past through 9 overall, 11-6 Mid-American jumper. When Stacey picked up impersonations, dancing and Conference) made a statement his third personal foul at the 16:11 singing. 'aul Khacherian says Saturday in Anderson Arena. A mark, Cowan was called on to One ol the highlights of the huge statement. hnarriage is a sham. guard Szczerbiak. night was senior music educa- With a raucous crowd of 4,912 Cowan responded with a tion major Gabiel Marquez's on hand, the Falcons dished out physical inside presence, battling impersonation of Cab CallowaV, orid and nation 4 their strongest defensive effort of Szczerbiak for inside positioning in which he sang "Minnie the the season, upsetting Miami 69- and finishing with 14 points and Moocher" The night also fea- Vilford Berry's death 58. Fans stormed the court fol- tured dancing by the Cotton lowing the final buzzer. three blocks. "Wally's a great player, (but) Club girls and a skit performed I provides relief and But the RedHawks (19-6 over- we can't stand out there and let by Sallye McKee, a special assis- 'disappointment. all, 14-3 MAC) did not go down him do what he wants to do," tant to the provost, and Michelle without a fight. Miami pulled to Cowan said. "If we do that he Taylor, a junior psychology 52-49 on a 3-pointer by Wally might score 50, so you just got to major. Szczerbiak. The Falcons go out there and play defense. Afwandi Shuman, a senior answered with a 7-0 run to push Oregon health And that's what we did." elementary education major, said their lead to 10. Cowan and Szczerbiak were the program was wonderful. funding covers Anthony Stacey hit two free called for a double foul under- "BG is definitely not lacking throws tallowing a Szczerbiak I. assisted suicides neath the basket, elbowing each in talent," she said. "All the stu- foul and added a lay-up on the against wishes of other. dents > aptured the essence of the run. lie finished the game with Congress. "I'm not going to back down in I larlem Renaissance." 12 points. a situation like that," Szczerbiak Almost 500 people experi- "Don't let his sixth-place team enced a night of first-class treat- jrtainment 8 fool you," Miami coach Charlie said. "Guys are all over me and hanging on me. Your margin of l_ - - ment Saturday when the Center Coles said. "Don't let the fresh- BG New$ pho[o/ JASON SUGGS error is absolutely none when for Multicultural and Academic 4y Favorite Martian" man of the year fool you. Don't Miami's Wally Szczerbiak is about to block DeMar Moore s Initiatives held its 10th annual let amnesia strike. Stacey's the lacks humor and fast break layup in Saturday's 69-58 upset victory over dinner theater in the Lenhart I special effects. leader of this team." • See BASKETBALL, page nine. Miami. I Grand Ballroom. This year's theme was "The Cotton Club Revue." Junior makes $5000 snot Saturday The night featured a social iports 10 hour, a bullet dinner and enter- Putka ran around the court throwing his hands The BG News tainment. Entertainment includ- in the air. ed a slide show, skits, dancers As the Bowling Green men's basketball team "I was just stunned," the junior from Lake- and a comedy act. The focus of was enjoying a surprising 32-26 lead over wood, Ohio said. "1 didn't know what to do. It the night was educating through Miami at half-time, Greg Putka hit the most was just a total shock." entertainment. surprising shot of his life Saturday in Anderson Putka qualified for the Megashot by making "Performances with dinner Arena. a lay-up in a preliminary round earlier this year. are invaluable for the creative Putka was randomly selected from 30 people He received a T-shirt and a pizza. ways in which they teach history to attempt the Domino's Pizza Megashot. All he "I didn't know until Tuesday (about the and culture," said Lillian had to do was make a $5,000 half-court shot. Megashot)," he said. "On Thursday and Friday Ashcraft-Eason, one of the actors |,i BG hockey upsets With a near-capacity crowd on hand, Putka I went to go see how much I needed to put on in the revue. "'Cotton Club' was heaved the ball toward the basket. the bail." ninth ranked Notre fabulous. Applause to students "It looked short," he said. "Then it hit the After taxes, Putka is expected to receive and directors." Dame. 5-1. back of the rim and of course it just fell in. It around $3,500. The performing segment BG News Photo/ SCOTT FAUBER was just weird.' "It hasn't sunk in yet," he said. "I just don't began with a slide show which Greg Putka holds the basket- As s^f, ^ me ball fell through the hoop, know what to say." provided background on I larlem index ball he used to sink his shot. and the Cotton Club. According to Michael McKee, the narrator, jpinion 2 in the earlv 1900s, the name of 13age Three 3 I larlem took on magical conno- I World and Nation 4 AIDS victim gives hope through speech tations to American blacks. It I Entertainment 7 1 IIV, but later caused cirrhosis of laboration with Campus Cru- suffering with AIDS. Since he was the largest black community was a college student, he under- I Sports 8 By MELISSA NAYMIK his liver. Today his liver resem- sade tar Christ, Sawyer look his in the country. Additionally, sev- stands how students feel when eral blacks established business The BG News bles nothing more than a piece of story of finding hope in God to | Sports Agate 10 they are depressed or lacking to serve the Harlem community. thin scar tissue. the stage and this week his story Someone once said, "Live The entertainment segment of Despite the fact that his doc- will come to BGSU. hope, he explained. each day like it is your last." "I le has a message students the night comprised dancers, say what? tors could no longer help Steve, According to Phil Washburn, Steve Sawyer, an HIV-positive can relate to and be meaningful singers, a performance by the he found someone who could. president of Campus Crusade *^Wo can't stand out public speaker with Campus By attending Campus Crusade for Christ and senior biology to their lives," he said. Africana Dance Troupe, skits and Crusade for Christ, is living Michael Brown, director of Ithere and let him do meetings at Harvard University, major, the organization booked a comedy act. proof that a terrible disease does what he wants to do. If Steve drew closer to God. His Sawyer back in October since he Campus Crusade lor Christ in Shelia Brown, co-coordinator not have to destroy a person's we do that he might faith in God led him to hope. is a popular speaker. Bowling Green, said Sawyer will of the dinner theater, said stu- ability to want to live. not be apologetic, but he will dents were an integral part of the I score 50. so you just got After February 1995, when "We scheduled it with the In the early 1980s, Sawyer, faith he'd survive and be able to simply share his story. This will show One audience favorite was to go out there and play who was born a hemophiliac, doctors told Sawyer he only had six to 12 months to live, he come here,'' Washburn said. not be a speech about AIDS the "banana dance" performed was using a medication called defense." dropped out of college. Howev- Washburn believes everyone awareness, even though he by Frvn Whitfield, a freshman Factor XIII, a blood product con- Kirk Cowan er, he decided not to let his dis- is looking for hope and Steve taining 1 lepatilis C and 1IIV.