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Enjoy Spring Break on Ice today in the Mews THE BG NEWS Vol. 69 Issue 97 Bowling Green, Ohio Tuesday, March 17,1987 Inmates, officials reach settlement by Don Lee Correction, that the jail would provide administrators) followed through and hunger strike Friday when the set- ABLE, WHICH represents 12 in- wire editor voluntary blood tests for inmates who the situation was resolved Friday af- tlement was reached. mates and one former inmate in their were worried about having contracted ternoon," Prosser said. He had been joined in the strike by Eevance filed with the law firm late Inmates protesting health and sani- hepatitis from an inmate who was Lt. Mick Shetzer, jail administrator, inmate Marc Griffin, and inmates t month, did not act on the inmates' tation procedures at the Wood County diagnosed as having the disease. That said that be had not talked with Turker Ralph Webster and Eric Lee had joined behalf in regard to the strike because it Jail have reached a settlement with jail diagnosis was not returned from Wood personally, but confirmed that inmates in the strike after West, Webster and was an action the inmates initiated administrators in their latest griev- County Hospital until after the inmate could now request blood tests for hepa- Lee were sent to Henry County Jail last themselves, Randall said. West, Griffin ance against the jail, an attorney rep- was released. titis, within jail guidelines. week and returned the following day, and Webster all signed the grievance. resenting the inmates said yesterday. Randall said the settlement was a ABLE is representing 12 inmates and Randall said. The grievance is part of an OMMlMj However, a related lawsuit filed result of ABLE's request, made Fri- one former inmate in a grievance Shetzer said that he had seen no lawsuit brought against the jau by against the jail in September 1986 by day, that ODRC's jail inspection divi- against the jail complaining of over- evidence of inmates refusing to eat, but seven inmates. The suit was filed by another inmate is still pending. sion take action with respect to the crowding alleging poor health, sanita- said he had been told by Henry County inmate Kenneth Kerlin in September Jane Randall, an attorney for the inmates complaints. tion and medical practices. The Jail officials that West, Webster and 1986 in the Sixth District Court in To- Toledo-based law firm Advocates for Bob Prosser, ODRC relations officer K'evance was filed with ABLE late Lee were trying to start a hunger strike ledo and was amended in October to Basic Legal Equality, said she had with the department, said that jail t month. there. include six other plaintiffs, all inmates been told Friday by Jill Goldhardt, inspector Melda Turker had spoken Randall said that Mark West, who "I don't go in there (the cells) and or former inmates. adult detention administrator of the with jail administrators Friday. allegedly began a hunger strike Feb. 25 watch them (the inmates) eat," he Kerlin was later transferred to a Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and "SHE GAVE them advice, they (jail in protest of the conditions, ended his said. state prison. AFRICA stages racism protest Family by John Meola honors staff reporter About ISO people gathered in the Union Oval yesterday hostage to protest racial incidents and the lack of minority aware- ness on campus. LORAIN (APi- An aunt of The demonstration, which Terry Anderson hung a yellow began at 11:30 a.m., was or- ribbon outside City Hall yester- ganized by the group Ameri- day as family, friends and rela- cans Fighting Racial tives of the American journalist Injustice Through Concern marked the second anniversary and Action, or AFRICA. of his kidnapping in Lebanon. The protest began with "I did not ever think that we statements from Bui Thomp- would get together on this sec- son, a minister with the ond anniversary of Terry's ab- United Christian Fellowship. duction," said Gwendolyn Thompson said he is in favor Jones, Anderson's aunt who of creating an "inclusive so- lives in nearby Westlake. "But ciety" where we "celebrate we are here and we must not our differences." lose hope. We must pray be- "The dominant culture is cause ... in the end that will be white male. It is important what will help Terry get out." that we're taught more inclu- Anderson, 39, the AP's chief sive thinking," Thompson Middle East correspondent, was said. captured by armed men on Part of the process of teach- March 16,1985, and is the long- ing that type of inclusive est held of eight Americans st2l thinking, according to in captivity in Lebanon. He was Thompson, is having a man- born in Lorain, about 30 miles datory class in multicultural west of Cleveland, and lived diversity for incoming fresh- here for about seven years until men. his family moved to New York. "We need to orient incom- Lorain Mayor Alex Olejko pro- ing freshmen to other peo- claimed yesterday "Remember ple's cultures and that means Terry Anderson Day" and different kinds of people such joined Jones in hanging the yel- as low-income people, of low ribbon on a flag post during which I would like to see more a ceremony outside City Hall. of at the University," he said. "We hope that we don't have Thompson also called on to convene here another time the University to teach non- but on the occasion of having violent means of social Terry Anderson in our midst, change. said Olejko. WHILE ANDERSON has been JUST AS Thompson fin- in captivity, his father, Glenn ished making his remarks, a BG News/Pete Fellman Anderson Sr., and his brother, University pickup truck de- Pamela Branson, freshman biology major, rests her legs while watching (he activities at the racial demonstration held in the Union Oval yesterday Glenn Anderson Jr., have died of livered the remains of a The demonstration, which was organized by the Americans Fighting Racial Injustice Through Concern and Action, protested the occurance of racial cancer. Another aunt, who lived 0 See Protest, page 4. incidents on campus. in nearby Amherst, also died. Bald men's club Bulimia cases increase on campuses Editor's note: This is the first of next to in class. a three-part series on eating Her name is Melissa and she is says 'skin is in' disorders. The names of the bulimic. Eating disorders: bulimia victims mentioned in Bulimia is growing in epide- The emotional and physical costs NEW YORK (AP) - You can "So what?" said Capps, a 46- this story were changed to pro- mic proportions. On college entice them with all manner of year-old printer who heads the tect their identity. campuses, it is estimated that as pills, potions and promises, but 18,000-head club from his home many as one out of five women many a chrome dome out there in Morehead City, N.C. ("More by Judy Immel are bulimic, according to infor- with harmful physical and psy- Center for Eating Disorders,J is proud of his pate. head, less hair," Capps quips). staff reporter mation from the Northwest Ohio chological consequences. said people with bulimia become The group boasts members Center for Eating Disorders at While everyone occasionally preoccupied with food. Consider the passionate re- from all SO states - the North- She is a tiny bundle of energy. St. Vincent Medical Center in abuses food By overeating be- "Their whole world revolves sponse of John Capps III, east is baldest - and 28 coun- Her ihfoot-2 frame is covereain Toledo. The number of men with cause of stress or not eating to around food," she said. "It is the founder of Bald Headed Men of tries. The first and only member a fashionable, oversized sweater bulimia is also increasing. lose weight, people with eating primary concern in their lives." America, when he heard that a from Samoa just signed up. and a pat of baggy gray pants. Bulimia is a compulsive ad- disorders develop identifiable Bulimia is also known as the government advisory panel yes- "We believe that skin is in," In high school, she was a swim- diction and one of two chief patterns of signs and symptoms binge-purge syndrome. A person terday recommended approval Capps explained in a telephone mer, a 4.0 student, an actress. eating disorders. The other is which are predictable. with bulimia binges on large of the first drug shown to make interview. "If you don't have it, She is the cute girl you say 'hi' anorexia nervosa. An eating dis- Barb Kuzma, a registered di- amounts of food, and then, over- hair grow on bald men. flaunt it." to across campus, the one you sit order is a pattern of food abuse etician at the Northwest Ohio See Bulimia, page 9. ■ Tuesday News in brief tax forms for graduate students.