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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-21-1992 The BG News February 21, 1992 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 February 21, 1992" (1992). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5338. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5338 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. G The BG News Friday, February 21,1992 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 74, Issue 101 Weather The Boys of Winter Woman aims sexism charge at ice arena byTrtsh Davis news editor Partly sunny: TlltflmplynottraditJona. Partly sunny Friday. High for (matt (fere skaters to around 40. Northwest winds A professor claiming ice arena 10 to 15 mph diminishing to facilities discriminate against tekt shows at the rink." less than 10 mph in the women has filed a complaint with Sue Barber, IAAC afternoon. Friday night, the University's Office of Afflr- chairwoman mostly cloudy. Low in the mative Action. mid 20s. Cloudy Saturday. A Barbee T. Mynatt, an associate chance of snow or rain. High professor of computer science, lems have been worked out. in the upper 30s. Chance of said the ice arena's facilities are "Hockey players may no precipitation 50 percent. unfair because there is no locker longer store their equipment In room/shower area set aside for the studio locker room and men women. may not use the room while there Mynatt said she filed the com- are women using It," Barber said. Inside The News plaint based on an experience she "The IAAC decided at Its last and two other faculty members meeting, with a broad repre- Get yer motor runnin': had while enrolled In a hockey sentation of men and women pre- He studied at the Univer- class last semester. sent, that this was a very worka- sity. He became vice presi- "We wished to use the showers ble solution," said Ice Arena Di- dent of one of the most noto- after class," Mynatt stated In a rector Greg Jordan. rious biker gangs in Amer- letter submitted to Office of Af- Mynatt said she had hoped that ica. He was looking at up to firmative Action Director Mar- Jordan would designate the seven years In prison for shall Rose. "Although there are men's studio locker room with a federal guns and drugs five locker/dressing rooms con- shower a women's locker room charges. And then he found taining showers set aside for men and change the women's locker the Lord. Find out about in the ice arena, there is no such room to one for men. BG's most interesting alum- room with showers for women." "It makes sense to switch the nus. Mynatt and two other women men's and women's studio locker were eventually allowed to use a rooms because men have availa- a See The Insider men's shower, however, the facil- ble shower facilities elsewhere in ity chosen still created problems the building," Mynatt said. for women. Barber says Mynatt's solution "There were problems with is not feasible because the floor Outside campus men storing their hockey equip- space in the women's studio ment [in the studio locker room] locker room is slightly larger Israelis attack: and sometimes there were men than the men's. The extra floor TYRE, Lebanon - Israeli in there using the locker room," and locker space is needed to ac- troops and tanks breached Mynatt explained. comodate the number of female U.N. barricades in south Le- Mynatt also said there was an figure skaters that use the ice banon Thursday, going after incident which she was not in- arena. Barber estimates this Shiite Muslim guerrillas volved in where a man refused to number to be at least half, if not who have been rocketing Is- The BG NmUay Murfeck leave the studio locker room more, of the total number of peo- rael. Prime Minister Yitzhak while women were using it. ple who use the facility. Shamir said Israeli would Despite temperatures In the upper 30s, Jeff Wolfe lets fly with a fastball on the basketball courts near According to Ice Arena Ad- Barber, who also advises the keep up the attacks "until Krelscher Quadrangle Thursday afternoon. Wolfe said be has played baseball In high school and In visory Committee (IAAC) chair- we quiet them." summer leagues. woman Sue Barber, these prob- See Arena, page five. The action came after three days of attacks on northern Israel by Hezbol- lah guerrillas using Katyu- sha rockets and those at- tacks continued Thursday. South African apartheid to 'Hyperactive' boy The Israeli incursion drew a sharp protest from U.N. Secretary-General Boutros undergo whites-only vote threatens sibling, Boutros-Ghali, who called for an immediate pullout. by Sahm Venter end of March. The Bush administration The Associated Press His action was seen as an attempt to outmaneuver officer at gunpoint expressed "deep concern." pro-apartheid forces while he still retains white sup- port. In a sibling spat, a 10-year-old Troy Township boy Accuser drunk? CAPE TOWN, South Africa - President F.W. de Klerk Polls say he is supported by a majority of whites. But held his sister and an off-duty Lake Township police stunned the nation Thursday by announcing a whites- the government's power base has been crumbling rapid- officer at gunpoint Tuesday until the officer was able CLEVELAND - A woman ly because of white unease over the rapid pace of politi- who has accused rap per- only referendum on ending apartheid, and he promised to disarm him. to resign if defeated. cal change and ending apartheid, the policy of racial se- After quarreling with his sister, the boy, who is former Joseph Simmons of paration in a country of 5 million whites and 30 million rape appeared intoxicated The move came a day after his ruling National Party under • doctor's care for hyperact ivity, took a .25-ca- blacks. and frightened when she lost its second special parliamentary election to the liber semi-automatic pistol and a magazine of cartrid- Conservative Party, which wants to reinstate apartheid If de Klerk were forced to step down, his departure ges from the bedroom of bis parents, who were not told officials at a hotel would throw political reform into chaos. He has been where the group stayed that and create a separate homeland for whites. home at the time He then loaded the gun and pointed The vote had been seen as a test of white support for the driving force in dismantling apartheid and negotiat- it at his sister and some of her friends. she needed an ambulance, ing a non-racial constitution to give the vote and other according to testimony political reforms that have been moving the country The girls ran out of the house to find Sgt. Danny toward multiracial democracy. political rights to the black majority. LaDuke, who lives in the area of the boy's home. After Thursday. Black groups would resist any attempt to reverse re- Alan Miller, the hotel's Now de Klerk will put the issue of apartheid to a talking to the boy on the phone, LaDuke decided to go restaurant and lounge man- whites-only vote. forms. to the house to help him because he was threatening "If I lose that referendum, I will resign," clearing the The African National Congress, the main black oppo- ager, said he filed the re- MtaMa. way for a whites-only general election, de Klerk told sition group, and its allies denounced the referendum After a 10 to IS minute standoff with the boy hold- port. He testified that a plan. ing LaDuke at gunpoint, LaDuke was able to disarm woman who asked him to Parliament. "It's a question of honor," he said at a later news con- "A whites-only referendum is not only the hallmark of the boy by pretending to take the phone out of his call an ambulance appeared ference. racism but also has the effect of delaying movement hand and instead grabbing the gun. to be intoxicated. De Klerk did not set a specific date for the re- toward peace and justice for all our people," an ANC Joseph Simmons, 27, of ferendum, but he indicated it could take place by the statement said. New York City, was indicted Aug. 23 on three counts of CLASSIFIED STAFF SALARY vs. CPI SALARY INCREASES rape and one count each of kidnapping and gross sexual imposition. Simmons, who is Classified staff wants raises Run of the rap group Run-DMC, is accused of rap- ing a 22-year-old Cleveland to end one-year pay freeze woman on Aug. 9 In his hotel room. by Klmberly Larson receive longevity pay; and the "Providing salary increases Cost of Living Sy/ The BG News implementation of Phase 2 of a for faculty and staff remain the market adjustment committed to highest budget priority for next 20000" _s Lottery by President Paul Olscamp. year," Dalton said. "We need to Wages The University's classified "The recommendation was know the state financial situation staff is requesting a raise next based on the fact that we haven't to see if an increase is possible, O 1S0G0- Pick 3 Numbers Q 7-4-3 year to recover wages which been keeping up with the cost of and if it is, how much of an in- crease we can give." have been frozen since spring of living," said CSC Salary Com- 18000 • Pick 4 Numbers last year.