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The BG News August 26, 2004 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 8-26-2004 The BG News August 26, 2004 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 August 26, 2004" (2004). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7302. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7302 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. J ^ M W Bowling Green State University THURSDAY } August 26, 2004 USA: Women'sML)I basket- ^^^ Mjw m \XRl/l/ A baU dominated Olympic ^^ 1 II II I 1 AM SHOWERS HIGH:82 ILOW68 yesterday; PAGE 7 II J L 1 -J 1 1 K^J www.bgnews.com —U VJ :== VOLUME 99 ISSUE 5 Bullet casings tied to sniper suspects By Carrie Spencer sheriff's office issued an arrest corroborate witnesses who saw hole in the car roof, he said. Sept. 3 to decide if he will plead IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS warrant. a man who looks like McCoy "At least in our mind, it pins innocent by reason of insanity. COLUMBUS, Ohio — McCoy, 28, has near a small dark down the person behind the A Madison County Municipal Documents released Wednesday pleaded innocent to car. gun," O'Brien said. "You always judge released the results show that bullet casings were 24 counts in shoot- "At least in The pistol McCoy want to have as much as you of the search warrant after a found in the vehicle of the man ings from October our mind, it owns discharges can." public records request from charged in a series of highway through February, pins down casings to the rear Defense attorney S. Michael The Columbus Dispatch and shootings. Prosecutors say that includingthedeathof and right when Miller said he couldn't com- television station WBNS. supports witness reports linking a 62-year-old woman the person fired, O'Brien said. ment on the evidence. The state Bureau of Criminal the shooter and the car. in November. She behind the If someone were McCoy has severe paranoid Identification and Investigation, Investigators found three cas- was the only person pointing the gun schizophrenia, a mental ill- where the car is impounded, is ings inside the defroster of the hit in the shootings gun." out the driver's side ness that includes delusions, a in London in the central Ohio green Chevrolet Metro belong- that occurred mostly window, "it would defense psychiatrist has said. county. ing to Charles McCoy Jr. The around the Interstate RON O'BRIEN, go in the wind- The defense says McCoy is In seeking the search war- vehicle was searched in March 270 beltway on the FRANKLIN COUNTY shield area and fall legally competent to stand trial rant, the Franklin County sher- shortly after McCoy was arrested city's south side. PROSECUTOR into the dashboard while medicated, but a formal iff's office said that investigators JaylaPrett APPholo in Las Vegas. His mother's home, Franklin County into the vents," hearing 10 rule on his compe- were looking for spent shell cas- SHOOTER: Charles A. McCoy Jr. listens where he lived, was searched Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said. tence is set for Friday. to testimony at an prelimary hearing. on the day the Franklin County O'Brien said the casings could There also is a possible bullet McCoy's attorneys have until SHOOTINGS, PAGE 2 Mysterious double crash puts Russia on edge, officials say no evidence yet of terrorism Will Clark BG Ne« WIRELESS WEB: Student uses wireless Internet. Wireless On Campus By Allison Halco REPOBtER Beginning this semester, stu- Mishj Ijpjndie AP Photo dents living in Offenhaucr RUSSIAN SOLDIERS: Russian Emergency Ministry soldiers walk near Towers and Kohl Hall will be debris of a Russian Tu-134 airliner carrying 43 passengers. able to access the Internet more easily than ever. By Mike Eckel Witnesses reported hearing Wireless Internet access IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS three explosions before a Volga- points have been installed in BUCHALK1, Russia — Russian Aviaexpress airline Tu-134 went both residence halls, allow- investigators labored yesterday down in a field near Buchalki, ing residents living there to to determine whether terrorism about 125 miles south of Moscow, go online without the use of caused the near-simultaneous with 43 passengers and crew. cables. crashes of two jetliners, killing all The wreckage of a Sibir airlines 89 people aboard and spreading Tu-154 with 46 people aboard Wireless-enabled laptop anxieties about a possible bloody was spread over a few hundred computers will also be avail- escalation of the Chechen con- yards in a rugged field near able in each building for flict. Gluboky in the region of Rostov- residents to use starting next Officials stressed that no evi- on-Don, some 600 miles south week. dence of a terrorist attack had of Moscow. The Tu-154 jet had This new service is part of yet been found among charred activated a signal indicating the an effort to make die Internet wreckage and said they opened plane might have been hijacked wirelessly accessible dirough- a criminal investigation as they or in distress. out campus. looked into other causes like bad Reports of far-flung wreckage Although no definite time- fuel, equipment malfunction and suggest an explosion may have lines are set, the University human error. The planes' data preceded a crash, said Jim Burin is working to offer wireless recorders were recovered, but of the U.S.-based Flight Safety Internet access all over cam- experts were only just starting to Foundation. He also said bad fuel pus in the near tuture, accord- retrieve information from them. could cause an airplane's engines ing to Mike Hachtel, assistant The planes crashed just days to fail, but the crew likely would director of Residence Life before a Kremlin-called presiden- have reported it well before for Information Technology. tial election in Chechnya, whose engines quit. However, this is too big of rebels have staged suicide bomb- "I would expect some commu- a project to be completed ings and other attacks across nication from the crew that we're immediately. Russia in recent years, including having trouble," he said. "IRight now] the goal is to the 2002 seizure of hundreds of Russian authorities had MikhailMetzel APPholo have at least one access point hostages at a Moscow theater. FAMILIES MOURN: A relative of a Tu-154 plane crash victim cries at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, yester- per residential area," Hachtel CRASH,PAGE 2 day. said. The growing accessibility to wireless Internet on campus is primarily a result of the expec- Opportunity for students to shape the American political landscape tations of students. "We've expanded because Student groups offer the opportunity this week from The goal of 100 registrants is important," NAACP President lakell there is demand and interest chances to register to vote various spots on campus per day may seem like a Wilson said. "We're the leaders of tomor- for it." said Tim King, asso- Students will find sign- lofty one, but in a joint row, and our generation should be ciate director of Residence in time for the election up tables near the front EMOTION effort the BSU and heard." Life for Administration and BobMoser entrance of the Bowen NAACP were able Like the rest of the nation, America's Technology. COPV CHIEF Thompson Student to surpass this youth has grown increasingly polarized Wireless Internet access is The opportunity for students to shape the Union, courtesy of 4»2004^ number on the over topics like outsourcing, the war in also a result of the fact that American political landscape will present the University's Black first day of registry. Iraq, and an apathetic turnaround for the more students are bring- itself on November 2, and many social and Student Union and They are confident economy. A Harvard study found that 62 ing laptop computers to the political groups on campus have taken College Republicans. that the success- percent of college students say they're University with them. it upon themselves to help prepare their Students can also register I|| § | P fulreful response will continue planning on voting this fall, compared to Last year, approximately 40 Bowling Green brethren. on their way to and from class throughout the rest of this 50 percent in the 2000 election. percent of students had lap- Students 18 and older who have yet to fill on the front steps of the Education week. tops. This year, about 50 per- out their voter registration forms will have Building, set up by the NAACP and BSU. "Students will realize that their voice REGISTRATION, PAGE 2 WIRELESS. PAGE 2 FOUR-DAY FORECAST ™" SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY The four-day forecast is taken *t~ Partly High: 84" 7^^"%. Showers High:81* Partly High: 73" Showers High: 75' from weather.com i , -> ', \ Cloudy Low: 62' ^3 Low: 61' Cloudy Low: 58' law: 53' FOR ALL THE NEWS VISIT WWW.BGNEWS.COM 2 Thursday. August 26.2004 WWW.BGNEWS.COM Voter Authorities Registration Mysterious Russian Plane Crash seize evidence CRASH. FROM PAGE 1 before 11 p.m., according to initial dme cal problem. Officials also said the crew of REGISTRATION, FROM PAGE 1 from suspect estimates. the other plane gave no indication anything "We would like to get as many expressed concern dial Chechen separatists Domodedovo airport said in a statement was wrong, although people on the ground SH00TIN6S, FROM PAGE 1 students registered as we can," might stage new attacks before the Sunday that both planes "went through the stan- reported hearing a series of explosions.
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