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OPINION WORLD NEWS NOW SPORTS 8 Columnist Brian Taylor sends a Texas A&M NOW reviews "Austin Powers: BG football team message to the University University students The Spy Who Shagged Me." beats Central president. begin burying their which is out on video. Floriaa in overtime. friends. *>! Weather Today: Monday cloudy November 22. 1999 High 63. Low 50 Volume 87 & Issue 63 The BGNewsA doily independent student press ilLLENNI MONDAY Festival lights up weekend ■I': By IRENE SHARON SCOTT The BG News Y2K The Bowling Green and the University community were unlikely to exposed to Indian culture at the India Student Association's annual celebration of Diwali, affect festival of lights, Saturday. The evening included Laksh- medical mi Puja (prayer), dinner, enter- tainment and fashion. There was also a raffle for small devices prizes. More than 200 people There are 38 days left in the attended the celebration. millennium and in order to Lilly Hakobyan, a graduate celebrate, reflect and prepare public administration student, said Diwali was a good expo- for the 21st century, The sure to Indian culture through News will run a millennium- entertainment, fashion and related story every Monday. spicy food. "Diwali is a festival that helps bring people together to By LAURAN NEERGAARD celebrate the festival of lights," AP Medical Writer said Gauri Tambay, a second WASHINGTON — The Food year graduate communication and Drug Administration disorders student. "It is also moved recently to ease linger- beautiful and lively." ing concerns that some medical The festival also gave Tam- devices might be hurt by the bay an opportunity to wear her Year 2000 computer glitch, Indian costume, which was a releasing results of an audit red and green sari that is "six that found no serious prob- yards of silk draped around the lems. body." "The medical device manu- St. Thomas More Parish was facturers have done their job," decorated with Christmas said FDA associate commis- lights, colorful fabrics and holi- sioner William Hubbard. "We day decorations. dles Framed photo.' BG News Photo/ MIKE have not found any problem According to Vijaya L. three goddess Lakshmi. (god- 11 cuisine from different parts LEHMKUHLE that warrants any public Shrestha, who led the Puja, dess of wealth), Satyanarayan, of India. Some of the dishes health concern that these Diwali is the worship of Laksh- (goddess of well being) and Sri were Samosa (potato-filled pat- Three male and three female things might fail." mi. goddess of wealth. Diwali Venkateswara, (goddess of ties); Tandori Chicken (Indian dancers performed a tradition- The FDA already has said signifies the victory of good power) were draped with silk or barbecue); Butter Chicken al Indian dance at the India that makers of prescription over evil. In India, Laksmi is flowers. Some of the offerings (spicy chicken with rich gravy); Student Association's Diwali drugs and other medical thera- celebrated Nov. 7. made that night were fruits, Shahi Paneer (cottage cheese in celebration known as the festi- pies appear ready for the new "It was a time when Rama flowers, jewelry and rice. rich creamy gravy); Gulab val of lights. (Right) Emily year. came to Ayodha to defeat the "When we give offering, we Jamun, dessert; and Raita Ramakrishnan (5) daughter of Also, a government spon- evil demon, Ravana," she said. bow and pray," she said. "The (yogurt-based salad). University professor, Sub, sored survey showed that the "Everyone was happy because goddesses don't care about Entertainment included five seats herself on the window proportion of U.S. bank cus- what type of offering is made as performances through Hindi he then became king." sill while eating the ethnic tomers who say they definitely At the festival, there was a long as we give it with an open songs and a traditional Indian foods and enjoying the festive or probably will withdraw table to give offering to the and pure heart." dance. Resham Bhattacharya, atmosphere. extra cash during the Y2K Hindi goddesses. The table was The food catered by Indo- transition period has fallen to decorated with lights and can- Pak, an Indian restaurant from • Sec DIWALI, page seven. 39 percent from 62 percent in March. The survey by the Gallup Organization, based on some University opens center for neuroscience 1,400 interviews, was commis- sioned by the Federal Reserve By KATIE WOODS science, Mind and Behavior. tionally, according to Moore, Neuroscience, Mind and Body Scott was regents professor Board and the Federal Deposit The BG News The opening of the center was but the goal of the center is to got its name. The center not of psychology at BGSU for 15 Insurance Corp. The 90s is the decade of the celebrated by a number of peo- help make Bowling Green's pro- only looks at why certain years until his retirement in The FDIC chairwoman. brain, said to Dr. Jaak ple in the field at a dinner that gram and research recognized species act a certain way, but 1980. He published his Donna Tanoue, said the results Panksepp, professor emeritus took place at the Toledo Zoo Fri- as one of the best in the world. takes it a step further by con- research in more than 230 underscore "growing consumer of psychology. Panksepp said day night. Moore said that other goals centrating on what makes the short publications and eight confidence that banks are pre- According to Dr. Paul Moore, of the center is to create a grad- species exhibit that certain pared for Y2K and that it will that more has been learned books. The dedication still has associate professor of biological uate degree in neuroscience, behavior. to be approved by a board be business as usual for bank about the brain in the 1990s sciences, the center was started create endowments to help The faculty members in customers on Jan. 1, 2000, and than ever in past history. because it made sense. There finance research and to hire charge of the start of the pro- before Scott receives the honor. thereafter." "The miracle is that there is are enough faculty members on more faculty members. gram would eventually like to In conjunction with the cen- On the medical front, doc- so much more to be learned in staff here at the University "The center is unique in that dedicate the center to J.P. ter, an undergraduate major tors have maintained that the future," he said. interested in neuroscience. we specialize in an area Scott. Making the full name of will be created in neuroscience. while Y2K might affect com- Bowling Green is taking a The research in the neuro- between neuroscience and the center the J.P. Scott Center The graduate program will be puterized billing practices, the step toward the future by open- science field is already recog- behavior," Moore said. for Neuroscience, Mind and in charge of the undergraduate ing the Center for Neuro- nized nationally and interna- That is how the Center for Body. major. • See MILLENNIUM, page seven. Penn State Bus Accident Films explore Puerto Rican culture By IRENE SHARON SCOTT the highest sterilization than titles that examines the devel- The BG News any women in the world." opment of cultural identity Ana Maria Garcia, an The film contains interviews among teenagers in Puerto acclaimed filmmaker from with women who had been ster- Rico, including the preference Puerto Rico, showed two of her ilized or experienced complica- of salsa and rock. It examines award-winning documentaries tions due to sterilization. It also how class, nationality, race and in the Gish Film Theater in includes exposure of women other factors are relevant in the Hanna Hall. going through the sterilization development of a cultural iden- One hundred students and operation. tity. Individuals who prefer faculty members came out on Sterilization was legalized in salsa music were labeled the the rainy Friday evening to 1937. Sterilization was the "Cocolos" and those who prefer view the films. The two films highest form of birth control rock music were labeled the were "La Operacion," which used by Latin Americans by the "Rockeros." addressed the issue of steriliza- late 1960s In Puerto Rico, "40 The film included multiple tion in Puerto Rico, and "Coco- percent of women of childbear- interviews with teenagers who los and Rockeros: For Rock or ing age have been sterilized label themselves either Salsa," which examined the fac- and 48 percent of all married "Rockeros" or "Cocolos" and tors that affects the develop- women," according to the film. their reasons for doing so. One ment of Puerto-Rican Julia Strange, a freshman young man, who was a Cocolo teenagers' cultural identity. English major, said "La Opera- "low-rider." said he prefers "La Operacion" (1982) is a cion" was "startling." salsa because when he was into 40-minute documentary that "We don't hear much about rock music he was into drugs explores the controversial use this subject anymore in this and not keen on life.