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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-10-1989 The BG News November 10, 1989 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 10, 1989" (1989). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5004. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5004 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. The Nation's Best College Newspaper Friday Weather Vol.72 Issue 48 November 10,1989 Bowling Green, Ohio High 45e The BG News Low 35° BRIEFLY E. Germans 'open the gate' by Nesha Starcevic nouncement and it was not known whether visas Associated Press writer would be issued at border crossing. There were no Campus immediate reports of East Germans pouring directly Isolation ends; into West Berlin or West Germany. BERLIN — East Germany's embattled Commu- There was no unusual activity at the Berlin Wall an Auditions scheduled: The nist leaders said Thursday they would throw open hour after the announcement. Visitors at Checkpoint University Theater will hold open western borders and allow citizens to travel freely Wall unlocked Charlie, the crossing used by foreigners, said it was auditions for two productions The anywhere for the first time since the Berlin Wall was quiet as was the Friedrichstrasse railroad crossing. Nerd," by Larry Shue and erected in 1961. isional step until a law is passed to allow East Ger- East Germans reacted to the news with astonish- "Seascape," by Edward Albee, at 7 The move would end decades of fencing in East mans greater freedom of travel. ment and jubilation. p.m. Nov. 13,14 and 15. Tryouts for Germans to prevent their flight to the West and could Schabowski did not say when the law would be "Is it really true?" asked Mario Schmidt, 18. '•The Nerd" will be in 402 University leave the wall — a symbol of the differences between passed and it was not immediately clear when the "Now I no longer feel locked in here," said Uwe Hall while "Seascape" tryouts will be East and West — as a mere monument to the Cold borders would be opened. He also said East Ger- Landgraf, 28, who hoped to travel to Paris. in 405 University Hall. War. Since 1961,191 people are known to have died many was not yet ready to tear down all its barriers. "I think that even some of those who left recently "The Nerd" will be presented Feb. while fleeing to the West from East Germany. The decision, made during a Central Committee will come back now," said a 25-year-old electrician 7 through Feb. 11 and ''Seascape" will "Open the gate! Open the gate!" chanted about 100 meeting, means all East Germans "can travel over who would give his name only as Thomas. be performed Feb. 14 through Feb. 17. East Berliners who gathered Thursday night at the all East German border checkpoints," including For more information about the Brandenburg Gate, the huge monument just over the through the Berlin Wall, Schabowski told reporters The Berlin Wall has divided Berlin and the two auditions, contact the theater Berlin Wall in East Berlin. in East Berlin. German nations since 1961. Communist authorities department. New Communist leader Egon Krenz also urged a Those who want to emigrate can go to West Ger- built it to stop an exodus to West Germany. It be- law ensuring free and democratic elections in a des- many directly without having to go through a third came a symbol of the differences between East and Blood drive successful: perate attempt to gain control of his country. country, Schabowski said. East Germans nave been West, differences that Soviet President Mikhail S. Response to the American Red Cross More than 200,000 East Germans have fled West so fleeing through Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Po- Gorbachev has sought to erase by urging reforms in weeklong blood drive has been far this year; more than 50,000 have left since Satur- land. the Soviet bloc. "excellent —the best we've done in day alone. Hundreds of thousands of people have Schabowski said those who only want to visit the Every U.S. president since John F. Kennedy has years," according to Stacy Bolyard, taken to the streets to demand democratic reforms West need visas, but that those should be issued urged the East Germans to tear the wall down. student coordinator of the event. and the end of 40 years of one-party nile. quickly. He mentioned no limit about the length of President Bush hailed the announcement as a Bolyard said as of Thursday Guenter Schabowski, a member of the ruling Po- stay abroad. "dynamic development" and said it was "clearly a afternoon 700 students came to the litburo said East Germany's heavily fortified fron- The offices that issue travel visas closed for the big development in terms of human rights." Lenhart Grand Ballroom in the tier with West Germany would be opened as a prov- night by the time Schabowki made the historic an- r'We welcome it," Bush said. University Union and attempted to give blood, and while some have been turned away for health reasons, 600 pints of blood have been collected. Today is the last day of the drive Students arrested and students may still blood from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. without an appointment. Bolyard said she expects several hundred more in processing IDs students to donate. "We're hoping to get at least 1,000 by Greg Plagens years and/or a fine of $2,500. pints — that's our goal," she said. city editor Police confiscated a 3 by 2 foot board The Red Cross collected 877 pints of designed to appear as an Ohio driver's blood in its April 1989 blood drive and license. The numbers and letters were 785 pints in February. Arrest charges or possible grand drawn on plastic sheets so they could eiry indictments are pending for five be changed and a space for the pho- niversity students implicated Wed- tograph Had been cut away. nesday night in allegedly processing A person holding the board in front of State fake driver's licenses. a red or blue sheet could put their head Two students, third floor residents of in the cut-out area and have a pho- Darrow Hall, were reportedly involved tograph taken that when developed and Problem discussed: During in making the fake driver's licenses trimmed to the proper size, would ap- a statewide conference Thursday in and three others had their pictures tak- pear to be a real driver's license. Blue Ash, Ohio, doctors and en for fake ID's. Also confiscated by police were: art psychiatrists said finding pregnant However, the students' names are supplies they believe were used in mak- drug users and persuading them to being kept confidential until formal ing the board, a 35mm camera valued seek help for their addictions is a charges have been made, police said. at about $700. a Polaroid camera, a problem for people who treat such Police were notified about the fake string of M-60 blank ammunition, a box women. Leaders of the conference licenses by a local film processor who of 9mm live ammunition, a Browning examining the problems of was developing the film for the stu- high-powered 9mm pistol, two large cocaine-addicted mothers also said dents. hunting knives, a slingshot and a gun they will fight efforts to make it a From one of the pictures on the roll, used to shoot paint pellets, police said. crime for women to use illegal drugs police were able to determine that the Possessing dangerous weapons on duringpregnancy. students lived in one of the newer dor- campus is in violation of school policy Ira Chasnoff, a specialist from matories on campus. After several and could warrant a suspension from Chicago said it is essential to educate random inquiries by city police offi- the University. not only the public about the problem, cers, a resident adviser of Darrow "Anybody that has a dangerous but law enforcement officials identified the students and police were weapon in their room can be suspended —including prosecutors and judges — able to obtain a search warrant. for at least one year," said Derek Dick- who might otherwise prosecute such "They all know they've been had," inson, director of Standards and women. said Det. David Stuckey of the Bowling Procedures. Chasnoff said his recent study Green Police Department. "By next Dickinson said he has been at the Un- showed that about 11 percent of Monday or Tuesday, we'll probably iversity for 20 years and has not had an infants —about 375,000 nationwide — have everything put together and they incident involving a gun on campus are born each year suffering from the will be charged?' since the Vietnam War era when sol- effects of cocaine. The students will probably be diers returned from the war and direc- charged with a fourth-degree felony, tly enrolled in school. Parma man charged: A either under the criminal simulation or However, he said those incidents Parma, Ohio man has been charged forgery sections, police said. were quickly cleared up and dangerous with three counts of second-degree BG News/Brock Vlinlch Criminal simulation or forgery in- weapons have not been a significant vehicular homicide in an accident A Sweeping Curl volves passing or possessing objects problem since then.

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