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The Nation's Best College Newspaper Thursday Weather Vol.72 Issue 43 High 35° November 2,1989 Low 25 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News BRIEFLY Celeste appoints Campus student trustees by Angela Blandina Author reads editor OSSOysMichael Scharang, a controversial Austrian writer, will read from his latest work on Nov. 2 in Gov. Richard Ce'este again ap- Room 2 College Park Office Building pointed the presidents of two Uni- at 7:30p.m., sponsored by the versity student governing bodies University's departments of German, seats on the Board of Trustees. Russian and East Asian Languages Effective last Friday, Under- and the Austrian Cultural Institute. graduate Student Government President Kevin Coughlin and Frazer Coughlin Scharang is expected to read from his Graduate Student Senate President most recent collection of political Ricardo Frazer became members one of the appointments. essays, "The Miracle Austria or How —minus voting privileges — of the "I'm in a position to be aware of Things in a Country Can Get Ever current nine-person board. the needs and concerns of graduate Better While They Continue To Get The two assumed the seats of for- students, which can be helpful to Worse." mer GSS president Teresa Tancre members of the board," Frazer Scharang is the author of six novels, and former USG president Tim said. numerous volumes of short stories Peterson, who resigned due to his Coughlin, who along with Frazer and essays, several film and TV graduation and whose term expires served as a student representative scripts and radio plays. this March. to the board, said he hopes to con- Rich Murray, a spokesman for tinue the good communications be- Candidates to debate: At Celeste, said Coughlin's two-year tween USG and the board. He said 7:30 tonight in 121 West Hall, two term will end in March 1991 and from past contacts, "I've become candidates from the Bowling Green Frazer will complete Peterson's familiar with the trustees and have City Council from the First Ward will a good working relationship with debate. Incumbent councilman term. Donald Pond and his opponent James Frazer said he felt it was appro- them." Davidson will debate on various priate the president of GSS received D See Appointments, page 6. issues in the free presentation. The debate is sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, a political science honor society and The BG News. AIDS to be targeted City through new grant Suspect sought: Police are Statewide curriculum to be developed searching for witnesses who may have observed a tall blonde suspect by James A. Tinker believed to be one of the two people staff writer involved in the murder of a Detroit man found Sunday about midnight. According to Lt. Chuck Frizzell of The College of Health and Human Services has received a $98,700 grant to the Wood County Sheriff's Office, the develop an AIDS education program aimed at students of all Ohio colleges suspect was seen near the blue 1979 and universities. Plymouth Volari with Michigan plates found Monday in the 500 block The grant from the Ohio Department of Health will be used to guarantee of Maple Street, Fostoria, with that all Ohio schools have ready access to up-to-date information and for- bloodstains and its rear window blown mats for AIDS education, said Clyde Willis, dean of the College of Health out. and Human Services. The murder victim, identified Wednesday as George Leon A search for a program coordinator is currently underway, he said. Washington, was found on the west Additional state funding will be provided in subsequent years to allow the side of State Route 23 about one-half program to continue, Willis said. mile south of Greensburg Pike. "It was largely through Dr. Willis' initiative that we received the grant,'' Police estimate Washington, 25, said Eloise Clark, vice president of academic affairs. was murdered at 10 p.m. Sunday in He said it is critical that students understand the acquired immune defi- the 1979 Plymouth which was ciency syndrome and this is the first attempt he is aware of that an AIDS ed- reported stolen in Southfield, Mich. ucation program is being targeted at college students. He had been shot twice, once in the "If tomorrow's leaders are not educated about AIDS how can we hope the side and again in the back with what general public will be educated? " he asked. police said could have been either a A yet-to-be designed curriculum will suggest strategies to effectively edu- .38 caliber or .357 magnum handgun. cate students and will be partially based on the University's own AIDS edu- Washington was released from Iona cation class, he said. prison in Michigan on Sept. 1,1989, Fall Harvest in Northwest Ohio BG News/ John Grieshop after being convicted for Educational materials will be developed, produced and updated at the Un- Krticipation in a burglary of a iversity throughout the multi-year project, he said. As winter approaches, area farmers take to the fields for the annual fall harvest John troif police officer's home. The University will also be the coordinating institute for Northwest Ohio, Kidd Jr., a farmer in Weston Township for 42 years, shells the corn In preparation for its while Kent State, Miami University, The Ohio State University and Ohio Un- shipment to Cargill grain elevators in Toledo. Kidd said the corn will eventually be used iversity will be the other regional coordinators, he said. for cattle feed and to make products such as corn flakes cereal. Kidd said this year's Nation Coordinating institutes will be responsible for the dissemination of infor- yield is up from last year's drought-stricken harvest, but is not as bountiful as usual be- mation to institutes in their geographical areas, he said. cause of the early spring rains. Tobacco advertised: R.J. D See AIDS, page 7. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has mailed smokers videotapes to get its message on TV screens despite the two-decade-long ban on cigarette House votes for wage increase commercials. The nation's second-largest cigarette maker says Congressional researchers say two-thirds of them the 78-second videotape commercial by John King "This will have to be our best, are women and between 25 percent and 33 percent of about its low-tar "Now" cigarette is Associated Press writer them are heads of households. Eleven states have targeted at smokers of Canton, made our pitiful best. We're not really laws mandating minimum wages higher than the by American Brands. WASHINGTON — The House voted overwhelm- being fair to those 8 million current federal floor; a few of them already are at Reynolds says the videotapes do not ingly Wednesday to raise the hourly minimum wage the $4.25 level. violate Congress' intent when it from $3.35 to $4.25 by April 1991 and create a new, Americans who work at the banned cigarette commercials. lower wage for teen-agers with less than six months minimum wage.... This is indeed The agreement on the subminimum, an anathema "We're not forcing anyone to watch work experience. to organized labor that was demanded by Bush, it. If someone is not interested, they The 382-37 vote on the compromise struck between a bitter pill to swallow." cleared the way for the compromise and was the could simply throw it away," said President Bush and congressional Democrats sends focus of most of the House debate. Reynolds spokeswoman Maura the measure to the Senate, where leaders have prom- Payne. ised to pass it before Thanksgiving. -Joseph Gaydos, Pennsylvani a U.S. That debate was short and subdued, with law- ''The fact is there are roughly 48 Buslrs signature then would trigger the first in- makers from both parties finding fault with the com- million Americans who choose to crease in the minimum wage since January 1981 and Representative promise; most Democrats said the increase was too smoke and they have a right to know end an eight-year political stalemate between the small, while conservative Republicans said there about the products," Payne said majority Democrats in Congress and two successive workers from 16-to-19-year-olds 85 percent of the should be no boost and for that matter no minimum Tuesday. We would defend our right Republican administrations. Srevailing minimum wage for their three months in wage. to give customers access to That stalemate has kept the minimum wage at le work force. The subrninimum could be paid for information about our brand." $3.35 an hour since January 1981. The compromise an additional three months provided the youths were "This will have to be our best, our pitiful best," provides a 45-cent increase to $3.80 next April 1 and in certified training programs. said Rep. Joseph Gaydos, D-Pa. "We're not really Attacks blamed: People who another 45-cent jump a year later.