Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-6-1999 The BG News April 6, 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 April 6, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6477. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6477 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. 3& ■ L^S GNews VISION CRISIS presents Rainbow opinion 2 in Daze ■ Columnist Jena ' Lohrbach wants to By ROBERT RECKER try something new for Kosovo The BG News a change. Historically, the colors of the rainbow have come together to symbolize peace, hope and hap- NATO says Serb ground troops piness. ■ BG professor speaks This week, the members of about the Russian in Kosovo now primary target VISION want those colors to perspective on the express growth, creativity, coop- The Associated Press showed pictures of a huge fire- eration, respect and pride. Kosovo situation. ball. The private news agency BELGRADE, Yugoslavia - VISION is the University's Beta quoted Navi Sad's mayor, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgen- Aided by clearing skies, NATO Caslav Popovic, as saying the world and nation 4 struck fuel depots, bridges and der, queer, questioning and sup- power station at the city oil portive straight student organi- army barracks throughout refinery had been hit. Yugoslavia on Monday, and zation. It will be sponsoring ■ Man pleads guilty in NATO also targeted a fuel Rainbow Daze, a week-long Matthew Shepard said it was taking particular depot near Sombar, 12 miles aim at Serbian ground forces series of programs and festivities case, cutting trial south of the Hungarian border aimed at raising awareness. accused of terrorizing ethnic and the coal mining center of short. Albanians in Kosovo. "It's an opportunity for us to Aleksinac south of Belgrade, show our pride to the campus Yugoslav President Slobodan television reported. Milosevic brushed off the con- and let the campus know that we Kursumlija, a drab industrial don't feel a need to hide," said tinued barrage, defiantly town on the road linking north- I Supreme Court rules promising to rebuild the bomb- Brian Niedzwiecki, president of eastern Kosovo with the mili- Associated Press Photo VISION. police can search damaged structures and tary headquarters at Nis was drivers personal denouncing NATO "aggres- Each day will represent a dif- also hit, Serb television said. People and soldiers watch a fire at a Serbian power station ferent color, which stands for belongings during sors" and "criminals." President Clinton promised after NATO's airstrike in Belgrade Sunday. As night fell, air raid sirens distinct core values. Activities traffic stops. an "undiminished, unceasing that day will be geared toward sounded again in Belgrade, and unrelenting" air campaign. is to persist until we prevail." officials said better weather Monday allowed them to expressing that value. heralding the 13th straight He said it would no longer be The 13th day. of NATO increase the number of bomb- Monday, yellow, focused on sports 8 night of NATO bombardment. enough for Milosevic to just airstrikes aimed to cut the ing missions. intellectual and spiritual growth. Two strong detonations were stop the killing. He said "a Yugoslav military's lines of sup- The better weather was little The event kicked off with a pic- heard late Monday in the north- Kosovo denied its freedom and ply and transport — roads, I BG baseball in first ern city of Novi Sad, Tanjug bridges, airports, fuel depots nic at the Union Oval at 11 a.m. devoid of its people is not At 6 p.m., a suicide awareness place following said, and Serbian television acceptable," adding, "Our plan and command centers. NATO weekend games. • See KOSOVO, page ten. presentation was given at the Women's Center (108 Hanna Hall). The day wraped up at U.S. sends Apache helicopters to Kosovo South Hall's Elsewhere Theatre ■ Tennis team remains at 9 p.m. with the Rainbow undefeated in the The Associated Press Cabaret, where students showed off their talents through poetry, Mid-American WASHINGTON The monologues, music and Conference after United States agreed to send more. winning three 24 Apache attack helicopters, Tuesday, orange, will repre- matches over the 18 multiple rocket launchers sent the topic of creative imagin- and 2,600 troops to Albania so weekend. ings. VISION will continue their NATO can closely strike Serb tradition of showing a movie the troops and tanks in Kosovo first Tuesday of the month when index and "tighten the noose they present two films: "Wed- 2 around" Yugoslav President ding Banquet" and Entre Nous." Opinion Slobodan Milosevic's forces. 3 The films will air free of charge Page Three Although U.S. troops will at 7:30 p.m. in the Saddlemire World and Nation 4 be put at greater risk in esca- Lounge. Sports 11 lating the nearly 2-week-old Wednesday's color will be Sports Agate 13 NATO airstrikes across green, symbolizing cooperation. Yugoslavia, Pentagon officials TWo of the week's key events said the Apaches could help will be held: National Day of say w at? halt the Serb's ethnic cleans- Silence and Breaking the Silence. ing campaign. It already has Students are asked to take a "They brought in a cleared the province of more nine-hour vow of silence, from 8 lefty to face me, so than 350,000 ethnic Albanians a.m. to 5 p.m. and could halve the estimated "People have been silenced they'd have the 1.9-million Kosovo popula- because they weren't able to say odds and I just took tion that once was only 10 per- who they were for various rea- Associated Press Photo cent Serb. sons," Niedzwiecki said. "The my nice smooth "This will basically help point is to think about the voices v swing. I just went Oh U.S Army Apache helicopters fire rockets during the Rapid Response '98 exercise. The U.S. has NATO tighten the noose that you will not be hearing on my gosh.' I hit it took agreed to send Apache helicopters to Albania, giving NATO the ability to directly attack Serb troops and tanks. • See CHOPPERS, page ten. about five steps, and • See RAINBOW, page ten. knew it was gone." Sean Ryan Society offers students financial aid for law school Freshman baseball player the funds for the scholarships. Although the fund has been By JEFF HINDENACH Letters were written to many started, Anway said the scholar- electronica The BG News alumni who are attorneys and ships will not become effective The BGSU Law Society The newly-redesigned Law within months, the society start- immediately. Check out: Society has a special project that ed receiving financial donations. "We are looking at a price that Presents University Alumni, Cynthia Hoffman, will financially help students Lynda Ackerman, an advisor we would like to hit before we an international corporate lawyer. www.bgnews. looking into a future in law to the Law Society, said this fund start implementing the scholar- com school. is a two-fold opportunity for law ships, and right now, we are not According to Stephen Anway, students and a much-needed at that price," he said. "Once we News, web extras and a president of the Law Society, the addition to the society. hit it, we will begin awarding whole lot more. idea was bom when the society "Law school is very expen- scholarships. We also hope the decided to reorganize. The group sive, and at the end of your alumni will continue to donate to Want to get in touch? met in the summer to discuss senior year, all your debts come help make these scholarships how to revitalize the society. One at you at once, and now you will annual." mikewen@bgnet of the ideas was to start a schol- be taking on more debts with But according to Anway, 4he Wednesday, April 17 at 9:15 p.m. in room 117 of the BA. arship fund. law school," she said. "This dis- scholarships are just one of the .bgsu.edu "The alumni attorneys were courages most students from law aspects of the newly revamped school. school, which Anway sees as a Your direct line to your mainly concerned with starting a school, but with this fund, they society. He said the main focus of "Usually, students have no must for students. newspaper scholarship fund for students in will have more alternatives." the society is providing informa- idea what the LSAT is all about," "Unless a student visits differ- the law society," Anway said. "Also, sending more students tion to pre-law students about Anway said. "The society offers ent schools, they cannot make an "Alumni can now specify where from BG to law school makes the what is necessary for them to get information on the test and educated decision about where Or call us: they would like their money to program look strong," Acker- into law school. Some of the allows them to take practice tests to go to school, because they qualifications are a high GPA, go" man said. "If the program looks so they are prepared when they don't know what the school has 372-6966 After the decision was made strong, the law schools will letters of reference and a good go into the test." to offer," he said.