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The BG News January 19, 1996 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-19-1996 The BG News January 19, 1996 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 January 19, 1996" (1996). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5948. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5948 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. ■mWMMM* Inside the News inion City • Wood County adult program gets grant. State • FBI arrests Georgia fugitive in Ohio. excercisin. Nation • Americans support judge's sentence for abuser. 6 Page 2 Sports • Falcons face Toledo. Friday, January 19, 1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 63 The News' Briefs President will deliver message address, only to let fade away Terence Hunt NBA Scores The Associated Press with his failed nomination of Dr. Clinton will call for all sides to face problems Henry Foster as surgeon general. Chicago 92 WASHINGTON ~ Deadlocked Last year, soon after taking Philadelphia 89 with Republicans over a bal- 1996 campaign and preview the McCurry said the budget won't ask the Republican Congress to control of Congress, the Republi- anced budget. President Clinton themes he will throw against his be Clinton's primary focus. approve a lengthy list of initia- cans booed Clinton's speech. The mood is sure to be worse this Detroit 100 will confront a hostile Congress Republican rival. "In a sense, he will make the tives. StUl, he is expected to offer year after a year of hot tempers, San Antonio 98 when he delivers his State of the The budget battle will loom budget fight seem puny by talk- Union address Tuesday. His elec- over Clinton's address, which ing about the things that have a ideas dealing with the economy, angry battles and veto struggles. tion-year message: All sides must comes just three days before the much more direct impact on the education, crime and the envi- One thing seems certain: Clin- Milwaukee 100 face up to America's real prob- expiration of a temporary lives of Americans," McCurry ronment. He also is expected to ton's address wont be as long as renew his call for a campaign last year's 81-mlnute marathon. Golden State 96 lems of crime, education and the measure keeping much of the said. economy. government open. However, Everyone agrees it would be an against teen pregnancy - a cru- The speech will open Clinton's presidential spokesman Mike exercise in futility for Clinton to sade he promised in last year's See BUDGET, page three. Boston 108 Houston 106 Votes to eliminate Sergeant dies in peace mission AIDS quilt bee to The Associated Press member of the 191st Ordinance Stuttgart, Germany, said South- Affirmative Action Battalion. all, a native of Virginia Beach, take place Va., died of an apparent heart at- An AIDS quilt bee will TASZAR, Hungary -- A Emergency workers were take place Saturday from 9 39-year-old U.S. Army sergeant called to his barracks late tack. a.m. to 6 p.m. at the United assigned to help get American Wednesday night and tried to re- Southall was a wheel vehicle prompt protests operator with the 23rd Ordinance Christian fellowship at 313 troops and equipment into Bosnia suscitate him, according to a Thurstin Avenue. died today of an apparent heart brief statement from U.S. Army company, based in Miesau, Ger- many. His hometown was not Melissa Gregg, spokes- Michelle Locke One, offered by a student, attack. He was the first Ameri- spokesman Lt. Col. Ron Williams woman for the AIDS Quilt Ten minutes later, Southall was released. The Associated Press would rescind the vote that elim- can fatality in the Bosnia peace Committee, said people will taken by ambulance to the hospi- Southall was working at Taszar inated race and gender pre- enforcement mission that began have the opportunity to tal, where he was pronounced in southern Hungary, where U.S. make new quilt panels if SAN FRANCISCO - A parade ferences from hiring, contract- last month. of students assailed University The Pentagon -and army offi- dead earlier today, Williams said. forces have adapted an air field they know someone who has ing and admissions; the other, of- to receive troops and equipment died of AIDS, or if they just of California regents today over cials in Europe identified the vic- Maj. Drew Miller, a spokesman fered by one of the regents, at the U.S. European command in heading from Germany to Bosnia. want to volunteer. their decision against affirma- would impose a one-year mora- tim as Clement E. Souths!! Jr., a She said materials will be tive action, and each student was torium on the new policies. provided at the event and arrested for speaking longer people are welcome to bring The committee could vote than allowed - one minute. them down, refer them to the full personal things to place on Students warned board mem- Fine Art the panels. board for consideration or sim- bers they would have no respite ply table them. unless they rescinded their July Agents bust drug vote eliminating race and gender smuggling ring consideration from hiring, con- "You will find only JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - tracting and admissions de- Anti-narcotics agents in the cisions. stormy days ahead." kingdom have busted a drug "You will find only stormy smuggling ring with S3 days ahead," student Joel Tena Joel Tena pounds of heroin worth $64 said. student million, the Arab News About 100 people attended the daily reported Thursday. early-morning public comment The English-language session. Some students sat quiet- Committee members include newspaper did not identify ly with arms raised in a clenched- the ring members or say Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, a how many were Involved in fist salute. regent by virtue of his office who the smuggling operation, Ten students were arrested, made repealing affirmative ac- but said those arrested cited and released when they tion a cornerstone of his since- were not Saudis. They were spoke over their allotted time canceled presidential campaign. trying to smuggle the drugs limit A campus police officer "Last July, the Regents took an in a ship. approached each student after important and courageous step Saudi Arabia mandates the student refused to yield the toward ensuring fairness for all beheading by sword for floor when warned the minute That decision will not be under- drug trafficking. was up. mined or deterred by those who As students were led away, merely want to retain the status Donahue calling it each slapped an orange-and- quo," he said in a statement. black sticker over their mouths. The academic senates of all quits Two proposals were up for nine UC campuses have voted to NEW YORK-Phil Dona- consideration by a committee of ask the regents to reverse the hue, who invented the issue- driven daytime talk show, regents. decision. then watched his ratings slip while low-brow imita- tors outperformed him, is calling it quits at the end of Chance for full refund at area the season. A nine-time Emmy Award winner as outstanding host, book retailers ending soon Donahue will continue to work on TV specials and Vlnce Guerrierl "If you dont have a receipt, we new projects in broadcast- The BG News handle lt individually," Bucken- ing and cable, his syndica- myer said. "This starts next tor, Multimedia Entertain- Time is running out for stu- week, due to heavy traffic" ment Inc., announced dents to receive a full refund for Books are bought back year Wednesday. returned books to any of the area round at wholesale prices, but Industry analysts blamed bookstores. Buckenmyer also said that prices his departure on slipping According to Kent Kokomoor, are higher during finals week. ratings and a market crow- manager of the Bee Gee Book- ded with more sensationa- listlc talk-shows. store, the time to get a refund is based on when the semester starts, and not the date of pur- "I go case by case, chase. The last day to get a full day by day. There's refund at the Bee Gee Bookstore Quote of is Jan. 31. A receipt is needed for some flexibility. all returns, yet new books must the day be returned in mint condition. Steve Donnelly of If a new book is returned with Student Book Exchange You will find writing or highlighting in it, the only stormy days student cannot get a full refund, Kokomoor said. ahead. The Bee Gee Bookstore buys Steve Donnelly of Student back textbooks year round, but Book Exchange said he handles —Joel Tena, a the best time to sell back books is things a little differently regard- student about finals week, Kokomoor said. ing refunds. the Affirmative John Buckenmyer, director of "I go case by case, day by day," the University Bookstore, said Donnelly said. "There's some Slcphuk Mlik*wi/TW BG N»wi Action decisions students can return books for a flexibility. It depends on the in California full refund for up to three weeks book." Brinsley TyrreU't artwork titled "Deception" It on display In the University's Fine Art Center Gal- after the start of classes with a The last day to return books for lery. The statue is made of gypsum aad cement receipt a full refund at SBX is Jan.
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