Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-15-2000 The BG News December 15, 2000 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 December 15, 2000" (2000). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6739. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6739 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. ' VJZ S23E3" —«..., >. i. Green State University W/T-w^ -. a.„,m FRIDAY December 15, * •- 2000 1 BW?> *Kmm.-.*-..*m'V-. JUST HOW BAD? The NOW team rates CLOUDY this year's best and HIGH:35 ILOW20 worst films, books and www.bgnews.com independent student press VOLUME 90 ISSUE 74 albums; P*GF7 Student charged: felony arson By Mary Beth Hurtha ASSIS'ANT EDITOR 1 A University student turned himself in to campus police Monday on charges of arson. Christopher 1. Appleby, 18, was charged with two counts of aggravated arson, a first degree felony, and one count of induc- ing panic, a fourth degree felony. He is accused of setting six small fires Saturday on the third floor of Bromfield Hall, where he is a resident. According to lim Wiegand, chief of University Police, burn- ing papers were found on a win- dow ledge and under a bulletin board. Pins were also found in the rest room, the lounge and the main stairwell. Wiegand said that the build- ing was evacuated and the Pliolu Pwvided Howling Green Fire SISTERS FOR LIFE: Lynn Maddox, bottom right, poses with her Sigma Lambda Gamma Sorority. Inc.. sisters. Department notified. Inspector Scott Eschedor of the BGFD will continue an investigation. According to police reports, Appleby first denied he set the fires and later volunteered information that he did. He turned himself in to the campus IN police station Monday at about 5 p.m. After his anest, Appleby was transported to the Wood County lustice Center. Sgt. Chuck l^wis took his PF.D and room key, which were to be returned to the residence hall staff, and campus police filed MEMORY paperwork with Student ARSON, PAGE 2 LIFE WITHOUT YOU We all love you dearty Miranda I personally —OF wish you wre still here By: Ryan Morris, But you went first to welcome me and dying I do not fear Bush Where do we go and what do we do You are there doing all the things big sisters Remembering Miranda Life isn't worth living it it's without you do I know you are wit h us everywhere we go Just like last year when I was coming up to see you Miranda E. Moms, 19, a Residence Hall for Dance But it is hard because m miss you so the miss ot your laugh the smile on your lace I feel special to know I have a big sister who begins to sophomore business Marathon. She was active in the tou lived lire to its fullest you savored much knows so much more now than I ever will major, died Nov. 16 in campus ministry group 1120, taste The thing I know now is it was the heavenly I don't know how to put into words what you Father's will her residence haU room of formerly known as Thursday meant to us all So deda just like when you were here I otter epilepsy-relaled causes. Night live, and she attended But we do know you are there to catch us you a deal from a little brother to the older sister choose The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fairview United Methodist whenwefaH whom I love very much life is tough and is hard to get through Wait for me and when it is my time I will be John Morris and sister of Ryan Church in Dayton. But we know you love us and we do love you, there as soon as I can and when I amve we can Morris of Dayton, Ohio, she is Pratt said Morris was plan- too stay together lor ever and never lose touch described as a caring and chal- ning on going into restaurant tou left us all with much remembered happy I wouldn't have wanted you to leave so soon cabinet times not in a million years never lenging person by close friend management, and had switched But when It is my time we can soar above the But leave us with soothing sounds like rush- By Ron Fournier Elizabeth Pratt, also a University her major from music educa- ing winds and dangling wind chimes clouds together forever. I will try to cany on all that you left here, and AP POLITICAL WRITER student. tion. She loved to dance, and lite with out you is unbearable and is most ot the time really rough try to live the way you would want me to be WASHINGTON — Victory "She was always thinking of took dance classes until she got I will do that for you deda. I will try my best to Knowing we can't talk to you is especially secured, President-elect Bush other people," Pratt said. "She to Englewood High School in tough be happy So as long as you are happy all the time KHI invited a Democratic senator to picked up a second job last Dayton. This semester she But the things that help us and get us through the day are there Texas for a job interview and Christmas to afford presents for began taking dance again. Makes it easier fa you parting to bear Is the way you did thing, in your own special tinkered Thursday with the final all the people she wanted to buy In addition, she brightened way For no one can ever replace the part you have of my heart components of his White House presents for." hall council meetings at You did them with much determination and a will to get them done After all you're my big sister, you and rap can, and national security teams. Morris was a Dancer Group And most ot the time dunng it you lound a never be apart Sen. lohn Breaux, D-I.a., Representative for Founders MIRANDA, PAGE 2 Mirranda Morris waytomakeitfun under consideration for energy secretary, will visit the incoming president Friday in Austin, Texas, as part of his promise to reach across party lines after the Lynn Maddox lives on in sisters memories fiercely contested campaign against Vice President Al Gore, Rhonda Lynn Maddox, 21, involved with the new Greek them and went on to get an edu- advisers said. a senior middle child- Independent Counsel. cation." Plucking a Democrat from hood education major Perhaps more importantly, Other sorority sisters agreed the Senate would embolden and involved University student, Maddox was a sister in Sigma that Maddox worked to keep the Republicans in the chamber, died of an embolism Dec. 11 at Lambda Gamma Sorority, Inc., sisterhood close, and that she which will be split 50-50 next was always the one to keep the Wood County Hospital. which she joined in the spring of year. Republican Gov. Mike Maddox was from Perrysburg, 1998. sisterhood there. Maddox was an intelligent Foster has been put on notice Ohio, and was an Honors stu- "She had a lively spirit," soror- by the Bush campaign that he woman, Nieves said; in fact, she dent and actively involved in ity sister Nicky Nieves said. "Her might be called on to appoint a many organizations. nickname was Amable," which had earned a scholarship to the replacement for Breaux, GOP University in conjunction with She was a resident adviser in means kind in Spanish. Nieves officials said on condition of work she had done before her Founders Residence Hall during said that it was a fitting nick- anonymity. the 1998-99 school year and also name, because Maddox would freshman year. She also had a Bush aides said no Cabinet or a four-year member of the think of other people before she sense of humor: "Lynn was very outgoing. She always had some- White House announcements Latino Student Union and the thought of herself. would be made Friday, but the Honors Student Association. She "I consider her a strong per- thing funny or silly to say," weekend would bring new worked in the clinical lab in the son. She had a lot of challenges names and faces to the Bush education building and was also growing up and she overcame LYNN, PAGE 2 Lynn Maddox team. The senior White House staff is pretty well set, and soon to be STORIES BY MARY BETH MURTHA • PHOTOS PROVIDED / - BG NEWS STAFF BUSH,PAGE 2 - 2 Friday, December 15.2000 BG NEWS In Memory of Bush begins choosing cabinet Miranda Morris members; prepares for presidency MIRANDA, FROM PAGE 1 spirited for BGSU. BUSH, FROM PAGE I Cheney, who is running Bush's nary discussions between Bush Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating a Pratt, who roomed with Morris transition team. and the senator say they suspect former FBI agent and Justice Founders and coordinated activi- in McDonald last year, remi- announced: Condoleezza Rice, Once the president-elect turns Breaux won't take it. He may be Department official, or outgoing ties for her hall, including the nisced about Morris' ragged and national security adviser; Karen to the economic posts, cam- more likely to promote Johnston Missouri Sen.