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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-23-1999 The BG News September 23, 1999 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 September 23, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6529. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6529 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. ' !K^!WsP!<r""",ffl^'^^^T MMI ■MW OPINION NOW CITY SPORTS ? Columnist Jud Laipply Students act out The Bowling Green area is The Falcon challenges the commonly Complete Works of expecting new businesses to Invitational proved accepted notion of diversity. Shakespeare increase the local commerce. to be a successful (abridged). meet for the Women's Golf Team. Weather Today: Monday sunny August 30. 1999 High 95, Low 70 Volume 87 & Issue 5 GNewsA doily independent student press Assault increases due to alcohol By BRENT RYMAN become common in Bowling ken cheek bone. end up a victim," said campus said to the wrong person. added that keeping a possible The BG News Green. When the campus police Much of the finger-pointing police officer Lt. Gene Bratt. "I "Then comes the pushing and loud-mouth — and there is broke it up, everyone fled that concerning the number of don't want to tell students not shoving." always one — in check is a good A rash of fighting among was able to.. aggravated assaults in Bowling to go downtown — but that is While Bratt admitted there idea. students has pushed the prob- Instead of sleeping in his Green is directed downtown, where the fights start." is no magic method for avoid- "Be careful of your conversa- lem of drunken brawling to the comfortable dorm bed that toward the hotbed of the pubs. The hostility frequently ing bigger and drunk individu- tion when you're passing oth- lips of the campus. night, the student left behind To many, it is all too obvious erupts from packs of inebriated als looking for an excuse to ers," Bratt said. As two groups of students was discovered bleeding on the that the mix of alcohol and males making the crawl back throw a right hook, he did sug- Lt. Gary Spencer of the City walked home from the bars cold cement of the sidewalk. He machismo is a ready recipe for toward campus. gest some safety tips for those police division agreed that September 11, some misspoken was taken to Wood County street brawls. "The words are always brave enough to venture out drinking and partying can words started a fight that Hospital and later to Toledo "If you're going to frequent transmitted first," Bratt said, past dark. broke out into a full-fledged Hospital for the treatment of places where assaults occur, explaining that most fights "Number one, there's safety street brawl — a trend that's serious lacerations and a bro- there's a good chance you could start after the wrong thing is in numbers," Bratt said. He i See CRIME, page five. Investigation ends, USG members held "accountable »» By BRAND! BARHITE signed a release to make the The BG News records open to the public or if they decided to talk to the The investigation into a golf media. cart incident involving the USG Gault would not comment on President and USG Chief of the results and Simmons could Staff has been completed and not be reached. '"both have been held account- The Family Education able for their actions." accord- Rights and Privacy Act is an act ing to Jill Carr, associate dean that allows colleges and univer- of students in the Office of Stu- sities to withhold the results of dent Life. a student disciplinary case, Clint Gault, USG President according to Nancy Footer, Uni- Associated Press Photo and Kevin Simmons, USG versity general counsel. A resident checks her mailbox on a still-flooded street in the Mt. View section of Wayne, N.J. Chief of Staff, were under Footer said that until the investigation by the Office of Miami Student versus Miami Student Life for allegedly using University case, an Ohio Students affected by Floyd a golf cart without authoriza- Supreme Court Case, involving tion, crashing it and leaving the the Miami University newspa- By IRENE SHARON SCOTT Fla. "Floyd was bigger than the lines are down. Their water evacuated and taken to high scene on the morning of Sept. per editor requesting to see THE BG News size of Florida diameter wise, supply hasn't been shut off or school auditoriums and gymna- 13. school records that the school people can still get hurt." contaminated. In preparation siums, homeless shelters and to The specifics of the ruling denied the requesting, is Even though Hurricane As of Tuesday, severe flood- for the hurricanes, her family the Red Cross. and what Gault and Simmons resolved, universities will not Floyd has passed ing was still effecting eastern has boarded up their house, "When evacuated, people can are being held "accountable," release information. Florida and is current- North Carolina, flooding more stocked up on groceries and only bring clothing and food for, however, could not be "Had it been USG as a whole ly in eastern North Carolina, than 30, 000 homes. Hundreds gasoline. but not their pets," Goldstein released because of the Family and not two individual USG the effects of the hurricane still of roads are also impassable "They were without electrici- said. "Floyd isn't as bad Education Rights and Privacy members, the information hit home for those living in and rotting livestock carcasses ty and it was hot and muggy," though, I went through Hurri- Act. Carr said the only way the could have been released Bowling Green. and floating sewage is starting she said. "All they could do was cane Andrew in 1992 when I media could obtain the ruling is to create a public health threat. light candles and make the best was in sixth grade and that if those involved in the case • See USG, page five. "I am so afraid and worry According to Goldstein, hur- out of it." was one of the most destruc- that my dog and that my house ricanes commonly occur during However, in Miami, Fla., tive." • will be destroyed," said Lani the fall and winter months. The where the hurricane was of However, death tolls of Hur- New phone lines Goldstein, a freshman undecid- usual damage done are tree6 greater impact, houses were ed major from Fort Lauderdale, are being blown and power destroyed and people had to be • See HURRICANE, page five. 3r installed for students ByJEFFARNETT problem might be harmful to Nation recovers The BG News someone who needs badly to call off campus. Twenty new phone lines "I always wondered what after hurricane have been installed by the Uni- happens when there's an emer- versity and 10 more have been gency," Giles said. By MELINDA DESLATTE places dry out. ordered, yet some students are The reason lines are clogged Associated Press Writer "We lost everything we had," still having problems connect- is a combination of growth of said Carolyn Whitehead of ing to local and 800 numbers. the campus population and ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — Greenville, who on Wednesday Toby Singer, executive direc- behavior changes, according to The ground is too soggy to bury moved into a state-built trailer tor of Information Technology Singer. A primary cause, he the dead. Entire farms of tobac- on the edge of Rocky Mount. Services, said ITS is aware of said, is the rise in use of 800 co and cotton have disappeared. "But we've still got our health the continuing problem and is numbers for long distance.. Dead hogs and chickens bob and now we've got a place to Associated Press Photo addressing it. Many students use calling along with kitchen chairs and stay. I just want to take a hot A stray dog wades through the flood waters covering Vail Lane "Some calls are coming in cards that use 800 lines, and an coffins in the filthy floodwaters. bath." in Greenville, N.C, to sniff out a fire hydrant. and we are addressing the increasing number of parents Misery comes in a million Officials say Hurricane vest; farm losses expected to and that toll was expected to problem," Singer said. are purchasing 800 lines. forms these days in eastern Floyd's floodwaters spawned exceed $1 billion; millions in rise. Chaz Giles, a sophomore According to Singer, 800 North Carolina, from swarms of the worst environmental, agri- uninsured home and car losses; "There's no doubt there are business pre-law major, said he numbers use local lines, rather blowflies feeding on bloated cultural and human disaster in and at least 41 people dead. individuals out there who were has had recent problems call- than long distance lines. As a livestock to broken dams, the history of North Carolina: Altogether, the storm killed swept off roadways and whose ing home. He had to try for an 30,000 flooded homes and miles rivers fouled by human waste, at least 69 people from the hour and a half to get a free of cars turned to junk. And it hog waste and debris of all Bahamas to New England — line on Monday, and he said the i See PHONES, page five.