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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 5-14-1982 The BG News May 14, 1982 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 May 14, 1982" (1982). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4000. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4000 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. Tlie weather Sunny. High in the low 80s, low in the mid 50s. 30 percent chance of good precipitation. morning BG News Friday Bowling Green State University May 14, 1982 Oppose U.S. Air Force Students hold protest by Mlk« Weary protesting effort was a small-scale one. The set-up was quiet and low-keyed. "It has to start somewhere," she A large U.S. Air Force-owned van was said. "I know that everyone always stationed in front of the Student says that... but what the hell? BG is Union. It harbored plenty of litera- a good place to start, I guess." ture, films, and slides depicting some of the technical progress which the SHE STRESSED that her values Air Force has made, encouraging are diametrically contrary to the va- students to join the USAF. lues she sees as prevalent in the , TRAVEL TO A few yards from the van sat an armed forces. equally serene group of a few stu- "They have no value on human life dents, sporting a sign that read: "Join - the land, the air - they have no value (EXOTIC. the Air Force. Travel to exotic, dis- whatsoever," Dubielak said. "I be- tant lands, meet exciting, unusual lieve that human beings are basically people, and kill them." good." »STAW LWffls, Cindy Dubielak, a senior at the Although a self-proclaimed idealist, University, was the leader of this Dubielak said that she possesses no minute group of protestors. sparkling visions of such protests IMEET EXCITING resulting in a modern-day Utopia. "I DIDNT LIKE (the Air Force's) "We know that we're not going to being here because they're against change the system," she said. everything I believe in," she said in a mmuL PEOPLE calm and relaxed tone of voice that IT'S DEFINITELY a slow proc- showed hardly a trace of agitation. ess," agreed junior Tom Vottler, AND |(|LL THEM "But I have no personal grudge crouched next to Dubielak. "It's a against those men in the trailor," she very gradual thing." added, pointing out that it was the Dubielak said that people who end military institution as a whole which up joining military forces often do so she was protesting against. without considering the true implica- The members of the Air Force tions behind their newly-acquired uni- displayed little bitterness toward Du- forms. bielak s presence. "One of the reasons that people join "She said that she was just going to the armed services is for money," she protest and mind her own business, said. "But when you put on a uniform, which is fine with us," said technical you take on values, and you can't A small group ot University students staged a quiet protest in objection to the Air Force's recruiting yesterday. BG News pholo'Ron Hagler sergeant Mike Doran. separate yourself from these values." Dubielak said that she realized her see PROTEST page 5 Braniff airlines files for bankruptcy Psychiatrist GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) - Bra- itously," Putnam said. "We were in a the first three months of this year. port, said Braniff's cash situation first-class and coach service late last testifies niff International filed for protection race for summertime and we lost." $160 million last year, and had a total grew so tight that payroll checks year and began a one-class, lower- WASHINGTON (AP) - A psychi- from creditors under federal bank- Braniff, which becomes the first of $336.4 million in losses over the past issued to the 8,500 employees earlier cost, no-frills service. Despite special atrist led a jury through John ruptcy laws yesterday, and airline major U.S. airline to fail since the three years. It is also burdened with a this week will not be honored because deals such as two-for-one tickets, its Hinckley's tormented mind yester- officials said they hoped to resume industry emerged from the barn- debt of $732 million and has been "there is no cash to meet them." traffic fell 0.6 percent for the first day and described "the inner some flights in about six weeks. storming days in the 1920s, had sus- unable to foot the interest payments. Earlier this year, the airline deferred quarter of the year while its major world" that drove the brooding Braniff chairman Howard Putnam, pended all flights late Wednesday and The bankruptcy proceedings give one week's pay for its workers. competitors, American and Delta, young loner to stalk former PresP his voice breaking with emotion, told notified most employees not to report Braniff the right to continue operating Putnam added, however, he was not reported increases. dent Jimmy Carter and to shoot reporters that his debt-strapped air- for work yesterday. and protect it from its creditors, "planning to preside over liqui- Putnam said the abrupt shutdown President Ronald Reagan. line had filed the petition after realiz- Late that night Putnam and two whose previous loan extensions had dation" and said the petition under Wednesday and the clandestine filing Dr. William Carpenter said ing it could not stay afloat until the lawyers appeared at the home of been keeping the nation's 10th-largest Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy of the papers were necessary because Hinckley's "mind was filled with start of the crucial summer travel federal bankruptcy Judge John Flow- airline aloft. Act was the "only way" to save the the airline's assets, specifically its thoughts of homicide, suicide, season. ers to file the petition. Putnam, addressing reporters at airline. fleet of airplanes, might have been death and the end of the world." "The passenger load factor, the the company's world headquarters liable for seizure without protection of He said Hinckley intended to kill cash situation just declined precip- THE AIRLINE lost $41.4 million in near Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Air- BRANIFF SCRAPPED traditional the bankruptcy proceeding. Carter when he was campaigning in fall 1980, "but had not been able to psych himself up to do it." Carpenter said that after the City barber practices election Hinckley "lost interest in Carter and was now devoting his activities and thinking" to Reagan. profession in style Hinckley was in Washington on Dec. 8, 1980 when ex-Beatle John by Mike Weary hair-cropping career, he says. He Lennon was murdered in New isn't about to worry too much about a York, an event Carpenter said The incessant blare of automobile customer decline spurred by a grow- "stunned him out of the stalking of horns pollutes the airwaves of the ing inclination for people to head to President Reagan." hustling, congested intersection of beauty salons and the like for their But March 30, two months and 10 Main and East Wooster, but nestled grooming needs. He simply has de- days after the inauguration, Hinck- amidst the commotion is a rather cided to take what business is still ley shot Reagan and three others. serene hair-cutting center named Ho- available by himself. He is on trial for trying to assassi- tel Barber Shop, owned by Warren "I used to work four barbers, but nate the president and assault with Bassitt. The quiet, easy-going atmo- now I work by myself," he says. He intent to kill. sphere of the shop creates the illusion began running his shop on his own in of something of an oasis on a cluttered the early 1970's, and he hasn't em- THE PSYCHIATRIST SAD) af- metropolitan corner. ployed four barbers since 1968. ter seeing the movie "Taxi Driver" Bassitt has been in business since Several hair-styling trends have 15 times in 1976, Hinckley increas- 1936 (he's owned Hotel Barber Shop come and gone while Mr. Bassitt has ingly related to the main charac- for 20 years), and he is undaunted by made his living trimming hair. He's ter, Travis Bickle, who stalks a the fact that customers today may not watched the flat tops of the 1950's give presidential candidate after he is be quite as abundant as they were way to the long, radical hairdos ofthe rejected by a woman working for throughout some of the earlier years late '60's and the early '70's, when that candidate. of his career. business inevitably became scarce as "There's probably more people frequent hair cuts became unfashio- Eg to beauty shops," he says, sit- nable. comfortably on his barber's chair "PEOPLE DIDNT even want you a characteristically calm and to comb their hair, let alone cut it, he tranquil expression on his face, "but I says. He said he isn't certain why don't pay any attention to that." such a style prevailed during this time period. I'm not sure what INSIDE THE VETERAN BARBER has started it," he says. "It may have been through quite a bit in his lengthy see BARBER page 5 Stanley hits BG Michael Stanley of the Michael Stanley Band discusses his band's success and current concert tour, which includes a stop at the Uni- versity Sunday.