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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-11-1995 The BG News October 11, 1995 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 October 11, 1995" (1995). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5900. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5900 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. "Celebrating 75 years of Excellence // Inside the News Opinion City • John Miller discusses his Ward 1 candidacy Kim & Dan talk about YfOrlu • A pyramid is closed down musk. SportS • The soccer team prepares for Michigan NEWS Page 2 Wednesday, October 11,1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 87, Issue 25 An inquiring mind Rush figures show growing participation Genell Pavelich events taking place the first two The BC News weekends after school had start- ed, rather than the week before. Over 350 women registered for "This new schedule of rush formal sorority rush this fall and helped to encourage people to get 280 men went through formal involved," she said. "The sched- fraternity rush, figures that are ule may have been a little too up from previous years, accord- overwhelming when everything ing to members was upon the rushees at once, of the Panhel- though, and that may have helped lenic Council in some people's decisions to and the Inter- drop out" fraternity Monahan said a few more peo- Council. ple dropped out this year than in Mollie Mon- the past, but it seemed like a lot ahan, Panhel- of people, because everyone was lenic Council here on campus and aware of vice president what was going on. for rush, said Si Rob Rinto, IFC vice president the increase of rush, said the fraternity rush from previous years demon- also went well this year. He also strates the recruitment strate- said a lot of men may have joined gies are working. a fraternity during open rush Sttph.nk Ml.VmwbThc BC Nen She said sorority numbers may which would increase the num- A itudent speaks with a spokesperson from the Peace Corps at the Career Expo ID the Union ballroom Tuesday afternoon. also have been affected by the new scheduling of rush with the See RUSH, page four. Expo expounds FBI explores terrorist track Oil ^CdCC l^Oi p S Federal agents examine various motives for train wreck Jennifer Schab offers educational benefits such Michelle Boorstein speaking on condition of anonym- The BC News as loans credits and scholarships, The Associated Press ity, told the AP in Washington financial benefits in living allow- that a disgruntled Amtrak em- The Peace Corps visited cam- ances and transportation and HYDER, Ariz. - FBI agents ployee or someone simply bent pus on Tuesday and will be here safeguard benefits such as medi- hunting the saboteur who de- on mischief might have concoc- again today with the "Career cal and dental care plus counsel- railed an Amtrak train worked ted a note to deflect attention. Expo" ing and emergency leave. Tuesday to determine whether At a news conference Monday, The Peace Corps have set up a According to Carol Hofer, the "Sons of Gestapo" is really an Amtrak President Thomas M. booth in the Union Ballroom Peace Corps representative, the anti-government terrorist group Downs said, "I don't know if this where students could pick up in- Peace Corps offers a variety of or just someone with a grudge is a disgruntled employee of ours formation and talk to a repre- opportunities and programs. against the railroad. or another railroad, or someone sentative between 1 and 5 p.m. At Students who volunteer are Agents expanded a painstaking else. Someone did know enough 5 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge in placed in at least one of nine search of the desert floor to a about the railroad to wire this." the University Union the Peace groups based on their skills, mile-square area surrounding Downs said the saboteurs re- Corps will show a film to all in- Hofer said. They have programs the gulch where the Sunset Lim- moved a 3-foot, 18-pound steel terested students. in AIDS education, agriculture, ited lurched off a damaged track bar that holds sections of rail "The Peace Corps has been economic development, educa- and toppled 30 feet from a together, and bridged the gap coming to BG for quite a few tion, environment, health and ur- bridge, killing a crew member with a wire to disable an electri- years," Jeff Johnson, assistant ban initiatives. and injuring at least 78 people. cal system that gives a red light director of career services said. "The Peace Corps gives vol- A letter found at the scene to warn trains of breaks in the "They provide international ex- unteers two years of experience mentioned federal raids on track. perience, work in communities, overseas," Hofer said. "You get right-wing extremists at Waco, Twenty-nine of the spikes that and an excellent opportunity not to go all over the place, learn a Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho. It hold the rail to the wooden cros- only in helping other people but new language, and work with was signed "Sons of Gestapo," sties on a 19-foot section of track in learning about cultures and people who are different from raising fears the sabotage was had been removed, according to a developing life skills essential to you." the work of anti-government ex- source who spoke on condition of your success." tremists. anonymity. Johnson said the Peace Corps See PEACE, page four. Phoenix FBI spokesman Jack The train, carrying 248 pas- Callahan, at the scene Tuesday, sengers and 20 crew members refused to comment on the letter from Miami to Los Angeles, de- or other details of the in- railed about 1:20 am. Monday vestigation. along an isolated stretch of track Gay rights battled The case was put under the su- 55 miles southwest of Phoenix. pervision of Assistant FBI Direc- Four cars were thrown into a tor Robert Bryant, who runs the gulch. in Supreme Court bureau's national security divi- The White House stressed that sion, according to a senior Jus- it was too early to be sure terror- Tymkovich did not provide tice Department official who ism was Involved, but President TIM BMMtoM Pr«w*ric Drattcr Laurie Atseo Clinton expressed outrage. The Associated Press an example. But he argued spoke to The Associated Press in that voters have the right to Washington on condition of ano- "We will do everything we can Federal investigators search for clues at the scene of the sabotaged within the federal government to Amtrak Sunset Limited near Hydar, Ariz. The train derailment on WASHINGTON - Colora- bar all state and local laws giv- nymity. The division handles ter- Monday, Oct 9, killed one and injured at least 78 others. do's solicitor general ran into ing homosexuals "special rorism cases. catch whoever Is responsible," skeptical questions from protection" from bias in hous- "Bryant's national security di- he said. "I am determined that ing, employment and public vision has the case because it has we will make sure In the United the damaged cars. said. several Supreme Court jus- "Once everyone is satisfied tices Tuesday when he argued accommodations. the potential to become a terror- States that we will have the tools, Gov. Fife Symington said he The case Is the most impor- Ism case, but we have not the means we need to keep the with the information they have, has read the "Sons of Gestapo" the state's residents have the letter. right to prohibit laws that tant involving homosexual reached any conclusions yet American people safe." well start clearing away the protect homosexuals from rights to come before the whether terrorism is the motive The investigation - carried out wreckage," said NTSB in- He wouldn't talk about what it discrimination. court In nearly 10 years. or not," the source said. by the FBI, the National Trans- vestigator Mike Martino. said, except to say he was told It has been watched by gay No group called Sons of Ges- portation Safety Board and other Amtrak has stepped up its own there were multiple versions that "I would like to know were "comparable in terms of whether in all of U.S. history rights activists in Cincinnati. tapo is known to experts at state and federal agencies - was security and asked freight rail- there has ever been anything They say some of the wording fOanwatch, which tracks hate run from a staging area six miles roads whose tracks it uses to do content" like this," Justice Ruth Bader of the contested law Is similar groups for the Southern Poverty from the crash site and accessi- the same, said spokesman Ste- Symington offered a $10,000 Glnsburg told the state's law- to a Cincinnati 1992 human Law Center in Montgomery, Ala ble only by dirt rood. phen Taubenkibel in Washington. reward for information leading yer, Timothy M. Tymkovtch, rights ordinance that, in part, And an extensive search of news Construction crews began The line also Is working with to an arrest and conviction and archives turned up no reference widening and grading a road to commuter railroads, he said. said the Maricopa County Board who asked the high court to "We're asking that everyone be reinstate the ban.