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SPORTS • 8 NATION • 7 TODAY If you have a news tip or have an idea tor e story, call us between noon and 7p.m. BG women's basketball coach Jaci Clark A student got suspended for wear- High: 70 372-6966 will know by Monday if she has a new job ing a Pepsi shirt on Coke day Low: 53 • * • • * THURSDAY March 26,1998 • • * Volume 84, Issue 120 Bowling Green, Ohio News * • • • • "An independent student voice serving Bowling Green since 1920" Help offered to fueding tenants, landlords New bar Q The city has worked leases happen because of one with Housing Directions party not living up to its end of "We are not on the side of the tenant or the of Toledo to offer cpun- the bargin. opens up Between the two, one party is landlord." seling services once a bound to end up displeased over Bowling Green because they montn for landlords and something. have seen an increase in calls in town When this happens, there is a from the area As a result, Hous- tenants with problems. place for students to turn If they ing Directions and the city de- □ The owner of have questions. cided to bring the counseling Mary Ellen Sielicki Kamikazes bar has By CAROLYN STECKEL According to Mary Ellen Sie- services to the area once a month of Housing Directions of Toledo The BC News licki, executive director of Hous- for free. made a few small ing Directions of Toledo, coun- Housing Directions has been changes to spruce University students and their selors will be available on the mediating situations between educating them about their said. "If a students has a problem up the old Gar- off-campus landlords may be first Wednesday of every month landlords and tenants for 12 rights and responsibilities. They with a landlord, we tell them how able to find a common ground at the National City Bank on years throughout the Toledo also attempt to educate landlords to go about doing things. We also goyles location. with a new city-sponsored coun- South Main Street. area about dealing with conflict. have landlords that come and ask seling service. According to Siellcki, housing The service hopes to prevent "We are not on the side of the By BRANDON WRAY tenant or the landlord," Sielicki Conflicts over contracts and counselors are now available in the tenant from being evicted by • See HELP, page five. The BG News Kamikazes is the answer to the question of what was Play it again Sam going to happen to Gar- goyles' old home. The new bar opened offi- cially last Wednesday after trial runs the previous weekend and on St. Patrick's Day. The bar is owned and operated by Rick Ault, who also co-owns Checkers and the Toledo bar Captain's Quarters. "Things went pretty well on our first real weekend," Ault said. "Thursday was good, Friday was a little slow with the weather, a lot of people coming, checking things out and not hanging around ~ and Saturday was excellent. We were packed the whole night." Ault said he thinks Kami- kazes will be successful be- cause of the location. "I had always heard that the location there was great. It's the closest bar when you first get to down- town," he said. "You wouldn't think it would matter because every place is so close, but being the first one people see is im- portant. I think we will be successful once people get in here and especially next fall when a new class comes in." When the owners of Gar- goyles decided to move, Ault said he jumpe i at the chance to get the building, which is owned by Robert Maurer. "I heard they were mov- BG New* PhMO by Jeremy MM nI n ing and I scurried to get an alcohol license and get the Well, fuiliy, play il again |im. )im Koch, of the Big Creek Band, stands outside his South Enterprise house Wednesday afternoon.The band will be headlining building," Ault said. Ault has made a couple -.■ce Marathon, which will take place at the University Friday night. changes to improve the at- mosphere in the building. "It's amazing what a few Womanjirst to die under doctor-assisted suicide law mirrors and a coat of paint can do," he said. "We paint- □ An elderly woman years ago, had been having an in- measure took effect, there had wanted medical assistance to die. again. ed the walls white and add- creasingly difficult time breath- died after taking a lethal not been a single case of someone Though that groundswell has A warning from Washington ed mirrors. It looks much ing and recently was told by her coming forward to take advan- not materialized, opponents were clouded the law almost as soon as brighter and bigger too, dose of prescribed me- doctor she had less than two tage of the law and make a public still dismayed at news of the first it went into effect. The Federal with the mirrors. We also months to live, the advocates point about the right to die. state-sanctioned suicide. Drug Enforcement Administra- put in a new floor behind dication. said. Even supporters of the "This is a tragic and sad day tion, in a notice solicited by Con- the bar. The old one was The Associated Press The woman's own doctor re- measure say they have had nu- for Oregon and the United gressional opponents of the Ore- disgusting and smelled." fused to assist her in committing merous inquiries from patients, States," said Bob Castagna, a gon law, warned that any doctors PORTLAND, Ore. ~ An elderly suicide, so the woman turned to but this is the first case they spokesman for the Oregon Catho- who prescribed drugs for suicide Other improvements Ault woman stricken with breast can- the advocacy group to find a doc- know of where a person has used lic Conference. "Assisted suicide could risk sanctions. would like to work on in- cer has become the first known tor who would. the law. has begun in the state of Oregon Justice Department officials clude creating better bath- person to die under the nation's Surrounded by family mem- "For the first time to our know- to our profound regret and sor- have since indicated that federal rooms and an improved pa- only doctor-assisted suicide law, bers and her physician, she fell ledge, a terminally ill patient has row. May God have mercy on all drug officials are unlikely to in- tio area an advocacy group said Wednes- into a deep sleep five minutes ingested a lethal dose of medica- of us." terfere with the Oregon law. At- Ault is staying with what day. after taking the concoction. "She tion and died as a result," Said Gayle Atteberry of the torney General Janet Reno is ex- he thinks is a good musical The woman in her mid 80s, swallowed the medication and Coombs Lee said. group Oregon Right to Life: "It pected to issue a final decision format, '80s favorites and whose name was withheld by her died a half hour later, very State officials, citing privacy makes my heart break that we soon. dance music He is also add- family, died Tuesday night, about peacefully," said Barbara laws, would not confirm whether have stooped so low in society ing a karaoke night on 30 minutes after taking a lethal Coombs Lee, author of the law. there has been a case. They say that we allow the terminally ill to The latest furor over the law Wednesdays. dose of barbiturates mixed with Oregon's Death with Dignity they will release a preliminary kill themselves Instead of reach- came last month when a state syrup, and washed down with a Act, first passed by voters in report as soon as they have re- ing out with true compassion that panel made assisted suicide part Ault is no stranger to the glass of brandy, the advocates 1994 and affirmed last year, al- corded 10 suicides. would be being with them to the of the list of procedures available Bowling Green bar scene. said. lows doctors to prescribe lethal Oregon's chief epidemiologist, end." to the 270,000 low-income resi- He started the bar now "I'm looking forward to it," the drugs at the request of terminal- David Fleming, said he had no The law has been the focus of dents covered under the state's called Tuxedo Juntion in woman said in a tape played for ly ill patients who have less than previous word about the elderly national debate since the first health plan. Federal money, by the '70s and worked at Col- reporters by the group Compas- six months to live. Doctors may woman's suicide plans. campaign in 1994 when voters law, cannot be used in assisted lege Station for 12 years.