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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-4-1992 The BG News February 4, 1992 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 February 4, 1992" (1992). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5325. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5325 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. G The BG News Tuesday, February 4,1992 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 74, Issue 88 Weather A long night for Council: Snowy and windy: Tuesday, cloudy with a chance of rain or snow. High in the mid-30s with tempera- tures falling to near 30 by evening. Winds becoming northwest 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation 40 percent. Tuesday night, cloudy with a slight chance of flurries. Low in the lower 20s. Chance of snow 30 per- cent. Wednesday, variable cloudiness. High in the mid-20s. Inside The News Report due out: The mediation committee to resolve the dispute be- tween Phi Beta Sigma Bf Ntwi/J«y MurdKk fraternity and the Universi- ty police has completed its (above) Students show their support for a call to redistrlct voting wards at the Bowling the wards issue. USG had an emergency meeting, at which a protest resolution was ta- report and the administra- Green City Council meeting Monday night. About 15-20 students showed up. (right) bled, before marching to City Council. tion Is expected to make a Undergraduate Student Government president Mike Sears speaks to the council about final decision on the matter today. j See page four. Students state redistricting views by Doug Baker and Julie Tagllaferro City council votes The BC News right to equal representation on Hoffman said. "We're not cons- Outside campus our City Council?" piring to deprive you of your vot- Other students also spoke at ing rights." against rezoning Between 15 and 20 students at- the meeting. Hoffman added the student Outstanding!: tended the City Council meeting "BG wards have been illegal, community already has consid- Bowling Green's Out- Monday night to voice concerns unfair and wrong for 19 years," erable political power including by Jacqueline Porter standing citizens were that they were not receiving the student Mike Cook said. "It is an the ability to elect a mayor. city editor able to attract any kind of in- - named at the Chamber of proper amount of representation issue about representative "If it hasn't been done it isn't dustry in the area for 20 years, and there were no im- Commerce Annual Dinner due to unevenly distributed city democracy. If any of you are because of any obstacles the city Dance Saturday night. against rezoning you don't repre- has put up," he said. After a two and a half hour mediate prospects expected, wards. Spittler said Charles Bartlett, a former Undergraduate Student sent us and you should resign." Council president Joyce Kepke hearing, Bowling Green's mayor of the city, and active Government president Mike Citizen Ray Martin stated he and Ward One council member City Council voted unani- Paul LeBlanc, a planner as- sociated with Design Plus of in assistance to Bowling Sears outlined the students' found It somewhat comical the Scott Ziance advised that the city mously against the rezoning Green since 1955 won the complaints as he spoke to coun- students think they are unfairly needed to take a long look at the of property where a Meijer Grand Rapids, Mich, said Meijer has a good history and Outstanding Man Award. cil. represented, citing the number ramifications of the options store was proposed for con- Martha Gamble, who was a •Tor the last 19 years all BGSU of faculty and University gradu- available to the city. struction. if one was constructed in the founding member and students have been unfairly rep- ates on the present council. Mar- "An issue of this magnitude Robert Spittler, who spoke area, it was highly unlikely businesses of inferior quality president of the Wood resented by your malapportion- tin also said decisions student deserves a public forum," Ziance as representative for Meijer, County Hospital Guild, was ment and we will no longer be council members could make will said. "I do empathize with your said at the hearing the city's would follow. given the honor of Outstand- silent," he said. "How can you still be affecting him when an position because I feel this is un- master plan had allowances ing Woman of Bowling pretend to function as a legiti- 18-year-old council member is 35 fair to all Ward One residents, for both small industrial, or Bennet Enterprises repre- Green. mate governing body when Ward or 40. "I've heard a lot about permanent and students." factory use, or commercial, sentative Robert Armstrong One consists of 47 percent of the fairness," Martin said. "Without The issue will be examined by retail use. - whose company owns 26 The Athena Award for the city's population? Doesnt this owning property in BG you have the Counil's Government and Big Boy Restaurants along outstanding professional bother you?" the opportunity to increase my Personnel Committee, and that Spittler said Meijer was an with other franchises - said woman in Bowling Green The controversy concerns the property taxes without me committee will make a recom- excellent company, and the Meijer Company was very was given to Diane Huff- city's 1973 redistricting, which having the chance to do the same mendation about where the issue would encourage both types good to work with and would man, an attorney in the firm was based on voter registration to you." goes from there. of development after its con- bring in additional retail dol- of Spitler, Vogtsberger and figures rather than actual popu- University student Greg Ri- Earlier in the evening, Under- struction. The company also lars to the area. Huffman. lation. The BG News editor John chey voiced his opinions about graduate Student Government agreed to make all street and Armstrong said the com- Kohlstrand broke the story in Martin's comments. voted to table a bill Monday night traffic light additions - at no pany would attract other Friday's edition. "Restricting voting rights to calling for the redistricting of cost to the city. businesses, industrial as well Mr. Manners: "The question we want an- property ownership was over- the city wards. as commercial, and would METHUEN, Mass. - A swered here tonight is why it turned hundreds of years ago," The bill sponsored by senators According to the proposal, greatly aid the city. city official who was thrown took nearly 20 years for anyone he said. "I'm just as affected by Michael Brennan, Scott Michae- the traffic would not be as out of a Housing Authority to take action concerning this in- taxes as permanent residents." lis and Mike Sears was con- congested as it would if a fac- Bowling Green land de- meeting for using obsceni- justice and why was this action Mayor Wes Hoffman respond- cerned with the unequal and pos- tory was built, where trucks velopers also spoke in favor ties is proposing an amend- taken by a group of students," ed to the statement by Sears and sibly unlawful distribution of the would regularly transport of the rezoning at the hearing. ment requiring good man- Sears asked. "Could it be because other students who spoke at the wards. their goods. ners at official functions. we demand the same rights as meeting. "There certainly was no After much debate USG de- Also, the city has not been See Meijer, pages. the permanent residents of this deliberate attempt to dis- Councilor Raffi Takesian city, and one of those rights is the enfranchise any students," See Students, page S. said his "be nice" rule is to protect constituents who have been called crazy and stupid by town officials when expressing opinions Accused UT murderer linked to fires on subjects such as water and sewer rates. Campus police officer held on $1 million bail, hearing set for next Tuesday "Even if you don't happen by Mitch Weiss Toledo Police Chief Marti Fel- to agree with what tax- The Associated Press jail on $1 million bond in the ker and police Capt. Tom Gulch shooting death of nursing student payers say, you have to give "He's a man with an exemplary record. This isn't the type ot said Hodge was one of the search them the right to say it," Melissa Anne Herstrum, 19. He was being held on the medical thing that he's ever been involved with or accused of. He's team officers who found the stu- Takesian said. "Who says TOLEDO - A University of dent's body. you're right all the time? Toledo police officer accused of floor of the Lucas County jail. never been arrested. He's never been in custody. So killing a student may also be re- His lawyer, Alan Konop, said You may learn something obviously these are very difficult times for him" Police said wrist marks indi- from these people." sponsible for the fires that dam- police were watching Hodge to aged several campus buildings, prevent him from possibly harm- Alan Konop, lawyer for accused murderer Jeffrey cating the victim may have been the school's head of security said ing himself.