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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-1-1993 The BG News November 1, 1993 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 November 1, 1993" (1993). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5601. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5601 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. 4? The BG News Monday , November 1, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 48 The BG Ncwi/Tcrcia Thomai Briefs Gunman Weather shoots Brrrr! It's getting cold: doctor in Monday, becoming mostly sunny. High 40 to 45. Northwest winds 10 to 20 stomach mph. Monday night, mostly clear. Low in the middle 20s. Tuesday, partly cloudy with The Associated Press the high In the upper 40s. CLEVELAND - A doctor In- On campus jured In a shooting at University Hospital was In fair condition Sunday, officials said. Chinese journalist speaks Dr. E. Byron Marsolais, 55, of tonight: Shaker Heights, was shot in the A renowned Chinese dis- abdomen Saturday night by a sident and an award- man whose identity had not been winning journalist who wit- determined, police said. The man nessed the Tiananmen mas- suffered a fractured skull, ap- sacre will be at the Univer- parently in a struggle with Mar- sity today. solais, police said. The man was Chinese journalsit Binyan in satisfactory condition Sunday Liu and Ross Terrill, author of the recent book "China in at University Hospitals, said hospital spokeswoman Tamela Our Time" will speak on Neiningcr. "China after Deng" at 10 The man was dressed in a doc- a.m. in the McFall Center tor's coat, but was probably Assembly Room gallery. wearing it to try and get out of The event is open to the public and is sponsored by the hospital, said Fifth District Commander William Tell. Police the Asian Studies Program, were unable to talk to either man and the history and German to determine what happened, but departments. the unidentified man was under police guard. Police said there Get your tickets now: were no witnesses. The shooting occurred about 7 The University Theatre's p.m. on the fifth floor of the next production in the Eva Marie Saint Theatre is Os- Harry J. Bolwell Health Center, car Wilde's classic "The Im- police said. A briefcase with a horror portance of Being Earnest." Pumpkin Time mask, an ice pick, a piece of pipe Allen Kepke, chairman of and bullets was found on the Katie Mauk, 10, and her brother Matthew, 5, wait for their neigh- her home with pumpkin trash bags and pumpkin posters to kick the theatre department, is floor of an examining room near bor. Shelly Mueller, to come home from college and play with off the Halloween season. the director of the Universi- tbem. Mueller said she was bored one day and decided to decorate ty's production. See SHOOTING, page five. The play will be presented Nov. 3 to Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 7 at 2 p.m. Reserved seat tickets can be pur- chased at the theatre box of- OSU greeks discuss homosexuality fice in University Hall. Outside campus by Leah Barnum When three of the four gay members of When they first publicly came out, ganization, Casto said. environment reporter the 38-member Chi Phi chapter openly people reacted dramatically at first, Ste- Although the men have resentment admitted they were gay two years ago, vens said. toward the government and the military River Phoenix dies at age "everyone [in the fraternity] was totally The first month was difficult because for their homophobic behavior, they do 23: "Coming out of the closet" is difficult floored," Casto said. many members had a lot of questions not feel the same toward their brothers, LOS ANGELES--River for many homosexuals, but problems Casto, who had a girlfriend for about about the gay members' lifestyles, Ste- Casto said. Phoenix, whose natural in- may be compounded when they reveal six months during that year, had every- vens said. In addition, he said members The situation has brought them closer tensity as a teen-age actor in their sexual preferences to their fellow one fooled, and so did the others, he said. were concerned that people interested in together, Casto said. the 1986 film "Stand by Me" sorority or fraternity members. "Being in the closet requires a lot of joining the fraternity would not because They chose to come out because they launched his career, col- David Casto and Paul Stevens, mem- planning and energy," Casto said. "Fags some of the members were openly gay. want to have the same rights as everyone lapsed outside a nightclub bers of Ohio State University's chapter are some of the best actors in the world." "Everyone was terrified that someone else, Casto said. early Sunday and died. He of Chi Phi fraternity, spoke to University Although "fag" and "queer" are gen- outside of the chapter would find out and "The reason I feel like I have to be out was 23. students about what it is like to be gay erally derogatory terms for homosexu- it would hurt our Rush," he said. "But in is because I only have one life to live and Friends reported that members of the greek community. als, they jokingly refer to each other as the end, It blew over and the people who I want those 80 or so years to be comfort- Phoenix was "acting The men were guests at an open forum such, which is acceptable, Casto said. had a problem with it were people we able and fulfilling," he said. "I don't want strange" as he left the Viper Thursday night which was organized by "It's a move to reclaim the language," didn't want or need in the chapter." Room in West Hollywood the Order of Omega he said. Some people just drifted from the or- See SPEAKERS, page three. about 1 a.m., said sheriffs Deputy Diane Hecht. She didn't elaborate. Paramedics were called when the actor collapsed Germans attack Californians step up to and he was rushed to Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He was pronounced dead short- ly before 2 a.m. American luge help fire victims in need "At this time the cause of death is under investigation. by Jell Barnard Thirteen major fires in a night and Tuesday. The winds The exact cause will be de- team members The Associated Press 200-mile stretch from Ventura are expected to blow at 20 mph to termined at autopsy by the The Associated Press cial bruises but was not se- County to the Mexican border 30 mph with gusts up to 45 mph -- coroner," Hecht said. torched 167,700 acres, damaged milder than the winds that The autopsy will probably riously injured. Robert Pipkins, who is LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. - or destroyed 787 buildings, in- spread the wildfires. be performed Monday, she BERLIN - German righ- black, apparently was the - Jack and Elaine Lund lost their cluding at least 650 homes, and Out-of-town crews were han- said. Sheriff's detectives tist extremists insulted and target of the attack, said home, clothing and 25 years of injured 62. A preliminary esti- dling the heavy work of snuffing were handling the case, as a hot spots with hand tools, said beat up two members of the Bob Hughes, the U.S. Luge memories when a wildfire mate from the state Office of matter of routine, but "it's American men's luge team leveled their house near Emerald Emergency Services put damage Capt. Michael Wilson, a Califor- not a homicide investigation Association's marketing di- nia Department of Forestry fire- In training at an eastern rector. Bay. at $500 million. at this time," Hecht said. fighter in Hivercide County. German winter resort, Pipkins, the 1992 junior But when they went to church The Laguna Beach fire, which A year after his 1985 film Sunday in newly purchased "If we get the hard winds, we'- police said Saturday. world champion and a stu- destroyed 366 homes and busi- debut in "Explorers," clothes, they volunteered one of re looking at everything happen- dent at Drexel University nesses and charred 16,680 acres Phoenix showed his star po- their few remaining possessions ing all over again," Wilson said. The assault occurred in Philadelphia, pushed one of brush and suburban land- tential in director Rob shortly before midnight to help others left homeless in scape, was contained within a "We need to- get everybody fed Reiner's "Stand by Me." of the assailants, and Dun- last week's firestorm. They of- and rested." Friday In the Kurparkk- can Kennedy of Lake Pla- line of bare earth A destructive In his brief career, fered the use of their pickup In the tourist center of this af- lause discotheque in Ober- cid, N.Y., stepped in to 5,700-acre blaze above Altadena Phoenix played a male hus- - hof, a small town about ISO truck to carry victims' belong- was 60 percent contained but fluent town of 24,000, there was tier in Gus Van Sant's 1991 divert the attackers and little sign Sunday of the dev- miles southwest of Berlin. took the brunt of the pun- ings.