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FALCONS DO THE 'SPLITS' IN TOLEDO Baseball team loses sixth inning lead to squander a twinbill sweep; Softball pitcher Lisa Hufford wins her third game over UT this season ...see Sports p.7 ^? \ The Nation's Best College Newspaper Weather Wednesday Vol.72 Issue 118 April 25,1990 Bowling Green, Ohio High 84 The BG News Low60e BRIEFLY Hubble launch Residential VP retires 'looks perfect' Replacement Michael Vetter praised as innovative CAMPUS by Harry F. Rosenthal by James A. Tinker Associated Press writer staff writer Sit-in planned: The Grape Boycott Committee has scheduled a CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Seven years late, the Hub- After more than two decades, the University rally for 4 p.m. today in the Union ble Space Telescope is where it belongs: out of this world will have a different assistant vice president of Oval and will proceed to the and in search of others so distant that they may have been student affairs and residential services. McDonald East cafeteria for a sit-in. formed at the beginning of time. Fayetta Paulsen, who is retiring June 30, will The sit-in is not necessarily in Less than five hours after it rode into space aboard the be replaced by Michael Vetter, currently the di- response to Food Operations refusal shuttle Discovery on Tuesday, the $1.5 billion telescope sent rector of residence life at Western Illinois Uni- to boycott table grapes, but the slow back its first test radio signal. At the sign of life, applause versity and a former University graduate stu- manner it has taken in addressing the and cheers erupted at the Goddard Space Flight Center in dent. issue, said Susan Plummer, GBC Maryland where astronomers monitored the spacecraft. According to Mary Edmonds, vice president of "As near as we can tell, everything looks perfect," said chairperson. student affairs, filling Paulsen's shoes will not be Vetter Paulsen Table grapes should be boycotted astronaut Steve Hawley from the shuttle. Hawley's Job to- an easy task, but she believes Vetter is capable. A*n because of the immoral and illegal day will be to drop the telescope overboard for a la»year "We all think Mike is up to the job," she said. tion, residential management and a seat on Ed- treatment of grape workers, GBC stay in space. Vetter's responsibilities will include on and off- monds' executive board. members claim. D See Hubble, page 4. campus housing, Greek Life, residential educa- D See Vetter, page 6. "They go into poison fields and die there," said Lyaia Jenkins, a member of the GBC. "The same things that are killing them are on the grapes we eat." Bigotry CITY present Rail to trail: An abandoned stretch of railroad tracks between Bowling Green and North Baltimore could become a nature trail, park among officials said Tuesday. Officials of the Indian Trails Park District plan to obtain a 60-f oot right of way for a 13-mile long recreational students trail through the southern part of Wood County. Editor's note: This is the second in a Plans call for a paved four-part series on racism on-campus. bicycle-hiking trail, 8 to 10 feet wide, for the length of the park, with a separate horse trail a possibility. Land on either side would be by Jill Novak permitted to grow back naturally. staff writer Racism does exist on this campus in an overwhelming fashion, according to NATION many University students, and blacks are the main victim of this growing problem. Smoking courtesy: Common courtesy often does not exist Students say racism is a problem, when it comes to smoking: Half of the but ironically some of these same stu- smokers surveyed said they light up dents admit to practicing and advocat- indoors without asking if anyone ing racist attitudes. minds. And non-smokers are reluctant to ask smokers not to puff despite the habit's declining social acceptability, according to a study released Tuesday. "The bottom line is that most non-smokers are stiff eringin silence," said Dr. Ronald Davis, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. "Yes, sometimes I guess I may be Shelters banned: The racist because I make fun of black peo- Church Universal and Triumphant, a ple or say things about the way they religious sect girding for the act," according to Alicia, a sophomore apocalypse has been ordered by a psychology major who is white. judge to stop building fallout shelters But, she believes many blacks may near Yellowstone National Park after think she is making fun of them just be- thousands of gallons of fuel leaked cause they are black, and sometimes from underground tanks. "it is just because they are weird peo- The order Monday came on the day ple and happen to be black." that began what the church's spiritual Alicia said she was brought up with a leader said is a 12-year "dark cycle" good background and in her senior year of global danger and catastrophe, one of her best friends was black. from which the shelters are to protect However, her general perception of 750 followers. most black people is "they seem loud," she said. Jamie, a sophomore business major who is white, said racism is discrimi- WORLD BG News/Jay Murdock nation of someone because of his race, Differing Disciples and she admits to sometimes making racial slurs. Deadly snake: An Iranian "Sometimes I make fun of (blacks), hunter was shot to death Monday near Sophomore Richard Maher (right) argues with Brother Rick, a minister of "the church of Brother Jed," in the Union Oval how they talk, or sometimes (my Tehran by a snake that coiled itself Tuesday afternoon. Despite student efforts to cut short his sermon, Brother Rick attempted to inform students of their friends and I) will tell jokes," she said. around his shotgun as he pinned the evil ways. reptile to the ground, the official D See Racism, page 6. Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The agency, monitored in Nicosia, quoted another hunter as saying the victim, Ali-Asghar Ahani, tried to Kent memorial dedicated New ID plan catch the snake alive bv pressing the butt of his shotgun behind its head. Ambivalent feelings expressed toward May 4 ceremony spurs debate But Florence and Louis Schroeder of Lorain, O., (USA Today-CIN) — Women who are tired of ob- HISTORY by Thomas J. Sheeran parents of another slain student, William Schroeder, scene phone callers may be able to stop them with Associated Press writer plan to attend, and Mrs. Schroeder is to speak. technology. "It's not as big a memorial as some people would Caller ID is part of a wave of new telephone tech- On this date: In 1974, local like, but it suits us just fine," she said, "we did not nology starting to be offered to consumers. It lets the protests against the Great Scot food KENT, 0.— On a campus whose name sometimes ask for a memorial. We were perfectly content with receiver see a caller's telephone number on a display store on Wooster Street were called to seems to stand only for the senseless deaths of four (the) little plaque" set in a grassy island of a parking screen before picking up the receiver. a halt after the United Farm Workers students 20 years ago, Kent State University is final- lot near the site of the shootings. Most people would applaud Caller ID's ability to ended their nation-wide boycott of ly dedicating a memorial. For Kent State and those connected to it, there is stop obscene callers, but the concept is controversial stores selling non-union grapes. Many of Kent State's 24,000 students weren't even no escaping the memory of that springtime Monday and a debate is emerging on whether to limit the ser- A former chairman of the campus born when nervous National Guardsmen fired on a 20 years ago. vice, which critics contend can invade your privacy chapter of the Committee in Support crowd of protesters hurling rocks and yelling obscen- "When you get asked, 'Where do you go to school?' as much as protect it. of the United Farm Workers said the ities May 4,1970. But most have had front-row seats " said Andrea Whitaker, chairwoman of May 4 stu- Advocates of Caller ID said it provides an "elec- strikes were called off because they for a still- rancorous debate on how to memorialize dent activities, the response typically is, "Oh, that's tronic peephole" to prevent intrusive callers from affected other workers associated the dead, the wounded and the student activism of a where the students were shot." invading the privacy of their home. with grocery stores. past era. Rarely a week goes by without the Daily Kent Others who feel Caller ID is worth the money are Intense feelings are not limited to the campus.