Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-9-1996 The BG News September 9, 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 September 9, 1996" (1996). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6039. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6039 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. Opinion H E Andrea Wood looks at the history Tyson wins title of the history books. Mike Tyson knocks out Page 2 Bruce Seldon to win the WBA championship • *. Campus See page 7 _ Scores Indians 2 Steelersc# 31 Program focuses on healthy eating Mariners 1 Ravens 17 habits for students Reds Lions 21 Page 3 NEWS Giants Buccaneers 6 Monday, September 9, 1996 Volume 83, Issue 151 The News' Briefs Tragedy strikes BG student Library presenting workshop series Suspect Lois Sonnenberg, assis- McClure native remembered tant director of adult learn- ing services at the Univer- Brandon Wray and Joe Boyle summer as a parking lot at- The Kanes were active in the and enrolled at Defiance Col- sity, will conduct ca- heldfor The BC News tendant where her friendly community, according to John- lege in 1992. reer/education planning demeanor was Important ac- son. However, after two years, workshops at the Wood The murder of Julie Kane cording to her mother. Mrs. Kane decided to switch majors County District Library on has sent tidal-size ripples Kane described her daughter "Julie was in volleyball and and transferred to the Univer- four consecutive Mondays murder, through the small village of as a hard worker. Softball in high school and sang sity. in September. She will con- McClure, Ohio - 25 miles west duct free informal sessions "Julie set goals, and she was in the choir," Johnson said. Johnson remembers Kane as on issues affecting adult of Bowling Green and a million meeting them," Kane said. "Her mom and dad are in- a lifelong friend and an easy- learners from 6-8 p.m. each assault miles away from the notion of Julie was employed at Wood- volved In the Legion. Some- going woman. Monday from Sept. 9 murder. lane School where she worked thing like this shocks a small "She was really friendly. She through Sept. 30 at the li- Dawn Keller and Brandon Wray Julie Kane was a senior dual with retarded children. Julie's community." got along with just about brary, which is located at The BC News major in special education and brother, Aaron, is a sophomore Johnson and Kane attended everybody," Johnson said. 2S1 N. Main Street in Bowl- developmental handicaps. She technology major at the Uni- McClure school until it was Johnson expressed shock ing Green. No motive has been established was going to graduate in May. versity. Jennifer Johnson was shut down in the early-1980s, and outrage at the killing. The first workshop on in the Saturday evening murder According to Roberta Kane, a life-long friend of Kane's, at- when the students were trans- "This is the first time any- Sept. 9 involves building of a University senior special ed- her mother, Julie always had a tending the same schools as ferred to Napoleon. thing like this has happened to self-confidence and assess- ucation major. smile on her face and a wave ing Interests. In this ses- her from kindergarten through anybody around here," she Craig Baker, Fostoria, is being ready for anyone she saw. Julie their sophomore years in col- The two women blazed a said. "It's senseless and ridicu- sion, participants will be- held by police in connection with come aware of the many worked at Cedar Point one lege. similar path after graduation lous." skills they have acquired the murder of Julie Kane, 22, and through jobs, family and the assault of Tara Fahringer, social activites and finan- according to Bowling Green the door of Donna Allwes, 704 Allwes said Baker returned to Dove, the neighbors had seen in," Smith said. "I had my shoes cial responsibilities. When Police Chief Galen Ash. Jackson Ave. her house, after Baker was sent him go in the house and said, off and was getting ready for a applied toward new goals The Incident occurred at Kane "He started pounding on the away by her husband, but he had 'He's right in there,'" she said. bath I jumped in my van and such as career change or and Fahringer's home on Morn- door. We had the storm door shut, a more aggresive tone. Chuck Smith, 71, lived next went down the street and didn't additional education, these ing Dove Road around 11 p.m. we never open it. He said, 'Is "I heard a confrontation down- door to Kane and Fahringer, and see anything. I went around the skills can be valuable Saturday night. Jenny there?" We said, 'We think stairs. [Baker] was trying to assests. Through an infor- chased Baker after his mother- block, and then I saw the bike Police were originally called you have the wrong address,' " break down the front door, so I in-law called him about a man cops." Smith saw Baker enter the mal inventory, participants onto the scene by neighbors who will match their interests Allwes said. "He just stood there. called 911. In the course of the knocking on her door - after Kane residence, and directed with career possibilities. To claimed Baker was making a dis- He was slurred with his speech, conversation with the 911 opera- Allwes called 911 with a similar police to the front door. register call the Wood turbance outside many of the but he wasn't drunk. I think he tor, he left and went over to the complaint. "We saw him go in the house. County Library at 352-5104 houses and trying to gain entry was on drugs. He was coherent house where the girl was. As they "My wife's mother lives in the Within two minutes he had stab- into at least one. enough to repeat what I was say- were responding to this call, as brown house across the street Baker allegedly pounded on ing." the officer came up Morning and someone was trying to get See Murder, page three. Tobacco industry spends money to thwart teens smok- Crowds swarm to Black Swamp ing WASHINGTON - Feeling Amy Johnson its own health threatened, The BC News the tobacco industry spent more than $15 million in the Crowds of people surrounded first half of 1996 to thwart the main stage Saturday night as federal efforts to curtail the sounds of blues music enve- teen-age smoking, raise the loped the air. industry's taxes and re- The sights of people, the smell strict its advertising. of speciality foods only found at Industry giant Philip festivals and the sound of music Morris led the way with $11.3 million, according to welcomed each and every visitor the first-ever reports dis- to the annual Black Swamp Fes- closing special interests' tival. real expenses in lobbying Blues singer Debbie Davies Congress, federal agencies captured the attention of over and the White House. hundreds of spectators as she Congressional clerks who sung her own original works, as reviewed the reports say well as other blues singers' Philip Morris' total ap- pieces. peared to be the largest so According to Davies, playing at far among around 12,000 festivals is her favorite part of companies and groups that filed midyear reports over being a performer. the past two months. "I love being able to hear the "We have had a lot of fed- other bands," Davies said. "I play eral attention from regula- at club dates, theatres and fes- tors and the White House," tivals, and by far, festivals are said Thomas Lauria, a my favorite." spokesman for the Tobacco Originally from Los Angeles, Institute, a trade associa- Davies and her band has played tion. "It's never easy com- all over the United States and munication, because tobac- co is controversial on many, Europe. many levels." During her first break, fans ar- ranged in a line to purchase her CD's and receive autographs. "You're terrific and wonder- Htdrki Kohayuht/Tbc BG News Okinawans vote to ful," was only one of the many Brian! H. Lee in University Theater Department performs bag- on all weekend in the downtown area. reduce U.S. bases compliments Davies received as pipe Saturday at Black Swamp Art Festival. The art festival went NAHA, Japan - Okinaw- she signed autographs. ans voted more than 10-to-1 According to one spectator, Sunday in favor of a reduc- this year's festival is one of the tion of U.S. military bases best by far. Festival attracts many artists on their islands, in a re- "I go to the festival every ferendum aimed at pressur- year," said Paul Xavier of Bowl- Brandon Wray knick-knacks and pottery. Visi- I started drawing and becoming but it really is a great place and a ing Washington to pull out The BC News tors could also get a dog from the its troops. ing Green. "And this year's fes- interested in art in order to com- great festival," Blair said. tival Is running like a machine." people walking around with the pete with my brother who was Blair said he has been inter- With virtually all of the Xavier added the musicians Artists from across the coun- dogs wearing Adopt a Greyhound getting credit for drawing at the ested in art as long as he can ballots counted late Sunday and artists are of high quality.