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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-9-1989 The BG News November 9, 1989 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 November 9, 1989" (1989). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5003. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5003 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. The Nation's Best College Newspaper Thursday Weather Vol.72 Issue 47 High 45° November 9,1989 Low 30s Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News Confession BRIEFLY perplexes Campus Fox's trial Corps recruits: The Peace Corps will be sponsoring a film and information session on its by Mitch Weiss organization today in the Taft Room Associated Press writer of the University Union at noon and 7 p.m. Recruiter Susan Solomon, who A man's alleged confession in the recently returned from working in strangling and stabbing of a college Senegal in West Africa, will be the student should be suppressed because featured speaker. he was not advised of his rights before talking to police, his lawyers said Wed- nesday in court documents. Richard Fox,33, of Tontogany, has City pleaded innocent to one count of aggra- vated murder and one count of kidnap- ping in the Sept. 26 death of 18-year-old Bond plays BG: The Leslie Keckler. The aggravated mur- Cleveland-based band, Oroboros, will der charge carries death penalty spe- be in Bowling Green this evening at 10 cifications. to perform at Soft Rock Cafe, 104 S. Fox on Oct. 2 allegedly told Sgt. Main St. The 9-year-old band plays a Thomas Brokamp of the Bowling variety of music including Eric Green Police Department and John Clapton, The Grateful Dead, The Helm of the Wood County prosecutor's Beatles, Buddy Holly, Steve Winwood office that he killed Keckler because and Otis Redding, in addition to its she called him a derogatory name after own originals. rebuffing his sexual advances. A Dec. 11 trial has been scheduled in the case. The alleged confession should be State ruled inadmissible as evidence because police violated Fox's Fourth, Fifth and Crisis ends: In Lorain, Ohio, a Sixth amendment rights, according to man who held police at bay for 10 a motion filed in Wood County Common hours in his home following a dispute D See Fox, page 4. with his wife died Wednesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound suffered during the standoff, authorities said. James Lees, 23, of Lorain, was pronounced dead at 7 a.m. Area stores Wednesday at St. Joseph Hospital and Health Center, the morning after he called his wife at work and threatened defrauded to commit suicide, police and hospital officials said. Lees had learned that his wife, Deniseann Prevec-Lees, had filed for by scandal divorce, Police Capt. Cel Rivera said. The wife, who also is Lorain by Greg Plagens County's emergency 911 supervisor, city editor told police of her husband's threat and warned officers her husband had at Out-of-town dry cleaning bills are be- least one gun in the house, Rivera ing presented to local businesses by in- said. dividuals trying to obtain money for Officers visited Lees' home about 1 clothing damages which they claim p.m. Tuesday. have occurred at the stores. Lees told them to stay back or he Employees of J.C. Penney, 1234 N. would shoot himself with a .22-caliber Main St., reported to the Bowling rifle. A police SWAT team was called Green Police Department a woman in. and officers began negotiating and two small children entered the with Lees by telephone, Rivera said. Woodland Mall store Monday night Hours later, at 11:05 p.m., Lees with a bill from a Dearborn, Mien., started "a countdown on the phone," cleaners claiming it was for clothing according to Rivera. A gunshot rang damages sustained previously in the out, and a SWAT team entered the store. home and found Lees with a gunshot The clerk, aware of the fraud, pho- wound in the head, he said. tocopied the receipt and told the woman a check would be sent to her. Flight ends in injuries: After the woman left, the clerk called TwoMichigan men suffered minor the residence listed on receipt and injuries Wednesday when their small found it to be false. plane made a rough landing at Blue The woman, without the children and Ash Airport in Blue Ash, Ohio, a escorted by a man, reportedly then Cincinnati suburb, police said. went to Elder-Beerman, 1234 N. Main Police identified the pilot as Ralph St., and sought reimbursement for Allswede, 50, and the passenger as damages with another receipt and a Calvin Kern, 58, both of Eaton Rapids, BG News/John Grleshop similar story, police said. Mich. Both suffered minor injuries A Study in Protest A store clerk, also alert of the situa- and were treated and released at tion, confiscated the receipt and had a Bethesda North Hospital, police said. Craig Olszewski, two-year member of the University's Air Force ROTC. studies inside a replica of a prisoner of war holding cell in security guard follow them out of the Police said the pilot made too low the Onion Oval Wednesday. Olszewski, who will remain in the cell until Friday afternoon, hopes to improve public awareness of store, police said. an approach to the airport in the the plight of the POW's still possibly imprisoned in Vietnam. two-engine plane, a 1978 Piper a See Scam, page 3. Aerostar, and made a rough landing in a grassy area 800 feet short of the runway. Blue Ash police and the Federal Allegedly racist Program director named Aviation Administration are investigating. drome and will be based largely on the University's sign at grocery by James A. Tinker own AIDS class, she said. Man dies: Police say the death staff writer Although a great deal of information is already a- of a Chillicothe, Ohio, man over the vailable concerning AIDS, such information has not weekend was the first homicide in the 'misunderstood' The director of the new AIDS education program necessarily affected the behavior patterns of stu- city in two years. has joined the College of Health and Human Services dents, she said. ''That's the way we're treating it by Michelle Banks and will begin work Nov. 27. "It's not just the information, but the way you until we find out anything different," staff writer Betsy Bunner will direct the program intended to teach it that is effective," she said. Police Capt. David Hough said. develop an AIDS curriculum and educational re- The teaching process will be aided through the use The body of 43-year-old Alan sources for college students statewide. of videotapes that will be produced and updated by Workman was found by a passerby on In response to an alleged incident of racism in Currently, Bunner is an AIDS health care social the college and Channel 27 WBGU, said Patrick Fitz- the berm of a road shortly before Food Town Super Market, 840 S. Main St., the presi- worker at the Medical College of Ohio, and she said gerald, director of television learning services. midnight Sunday. Workman was last dent of the grocery chain said the sign's message her background is in working with AIDS patients. seen alive at a bar and was reportedly was directed at an organization, not an ethnic group. "I take this task as a very serious challenge which The videos — eight to 10 are initially planned — walking to his house when he was According to Rich Iott, president of Food Town will impact students," she said. will cost about $2,000 each to produce and should be killed, Hough said. Super Markets, the sign read "Do not let Black Afri- Dean of the College of Health and Human Services completed by September. An autopsy showed Workman was can Peoples Association charge." Clyde Willis said he believes Bunner is highly quali- Willis said the videotapes are intended to assist in hit in the back of the head with an He safe it was not "Do not let Black-African people fied for the position. the instruction process in lieu of professional exper- unknown instrument. charge," as one student reported to the People for Willis was responsible for procuring the $96,700 tise. "He had a head injury...a skull Racial Justice committee Tuesday. grant from the Ohio Department of Health to imple- "I want to make sure the videotapes we produce fracture," said Dr. Donald Berling, "It (the sign) was directed toward an organization ment the program at the University which Bunner will be a good teaching tool,'' Bunner said. Ross County coroner. "We don't know not a group in society," Iott said. will direct. Bunner received a bachelor of arts degree from what the mechanism of the injury However, the source who initally reported the inci- The course design will concern the biological and Cleveland State University and earned a master's of was." dent said he took his roommate back to Food Town social aspects of acquired immune deficiency syn- education from the Medical College of Ohio. Police have few clues in Workman s after seeing it for the first time on Oct.