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THE ROAD TO 'THE JOE' Falcon icers blaze path with 7-1, 6-5 sweep of Ohio State; # Lake Superior up next as BG tries to capture CCHA tourney ...see Sports p.9 The Nation's Best College Newspaper Tuesday Weather Vol.72 Issue 93 March 6,1990 High 35' Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News Low 20° BRIEFLY Accused plead not guilty SPORTS by John Kohlstrand city writer Athlete dies: Hank Gathers, one of only two Division I players to Accused murderers Dale Ferguson lead the nation in scoring and and Tassick P. Zimmer pleaded not rebounding in the same season, died guilty to murder in Wood County Sunday night after collapsing during Common Pleas Court Monday, with Loyola Marymount's West Coast Ferguson's lawyer claiming insanity Conference tournament game against as his client's defense. Portland. He was 23. The two were arraigned separately Gathers, a senior, was pronounced before Judge Gale Williamson for the dead at Daniel Freeman Marina Feb. 19 shooting death of 10-year-old Hospital, where he was taken by Steve Bankey Jr. at their East Poe ambulance after collapsing with 13:34 Road apartment. left in the first half. He died at 6:55 Ferguson, 30, who police said actual- p.m. PST, a school spokesman said. ly pulled the trigger of the .22 caliber Cardiologist Mason Weiss said rifle that killed Bankey, entered pleas cause of death was unknown and an of not guilty and not guilty by reason of autopsy would be performed. insanity to the charges of murder and a firearms violation. ... Williamson said Ferguson would be referred to a court diagnostic center CAMPUS where he will undergo psychological testing. His next pre-trial appearance is set for March 30 at 1:30 p.m. Club goes national: The The men are accused of shooting University's Sales Club became a Bankey after a night of drinking with chapter of Pi Sigma Epsilon, a the boy at their apartment, police said. national professional business The pair allegedly discussed leaving fraternity in marketing, sales and town over a beer at Howard's Club H sales management. Seventy-five before going to Taco Bell to report the BG News/Mark Deckard members were initiated Saturday. crime. After interrogation by Bowling Dale Ferguson awaits the start of his ar- Green police, they were formally raignment on a murder charge Monday Drug program charged with Bankey's murder and de- morning in the Wood County Courth- sponsorear'Drug Fest '90," a tained in the Wood County Jail, where ouse. drug awareness program sponsored they each remain on $100,000 bonds. Zimmer had convinced Ferguson they by the Rodgers Hall staff and St. Zimmer pleaded not guilty to the should stay in town and turn them- Vincent Hospital's Tennyson Center, charges against himself and his court- selves in. will take place Wednesday at 8 p.m. in appointed lawyer John Duffin argued "It was Tassick who arranged for the Rodgers mezzanine lounge. The that the six-figure bond should be Klice to meet them at the Taco Bell," (irogram will feature a representative BG News/ Mark Deckard lowered. iff in said. rom Tennyson Center who will Tassick Zimmer stands alongside his lawyer as he enters a not guilty plea to murder Duffin told the court Ferguson had conduct a presentation and answer Monday morning. Zimmer is accused in the death of 10-year-old Steven Bankey. actually committed the crime, and D See Arraignment, page 7. questions. Concert tonight: The Trombone Choir will perform tonight South Africa Senate issues a concern at 8 in the Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. coup ends Trustees may be forced to face current questions bloodlessly by James A. Tinker the trustees never responded, he said. Trustee Virginia Platt, a former fac- STATE staff writer Presently, the trustee agenda is pre- ulty member, endorsed Blinn's resolu- pared by Board Secretary Philip tion. by Greg My re Mason, who is also executive assistant "As far as I'm concerned, I will vote Associated Press writer Although he believes the Board of to University President Paul Olscamp. for it," she said. Spending proposed: Gov. Trustees can sidestep Faculty Senate The president has input on the agenda She said she believes the University's Richard Celeste on Monday unveiled JOHANNESBURG, South actions, senator Elliott Blinn is trying which receives final approval from decision makers are well informed, but a record $945.7 million construction Africa — South Africa sent to force the trustees to face campus is- Chairman of the Board J. Warren Hall. added "I don't think the trustees real- bill that he said responsibly addresses troops into the black homeland sues. Mason said if Blinn would investigate ize how well they could do." Ohio's needs for higher education, of Ciskei on Monday to quell "I'm clearly upset that there is a wall the procedure for setting the trustees' economic development and prisons. widespread looting and arson around the trustees that the Faculty agenda, he would agree the board Hall said he was deeply concerned At a news conference with following a military coup that Senate can't bridge," he said."If (the should set its own agenda. Hall agreed, with the perception among faculty — as legislative leaders who helped draft ousted the territory's au- trustees) want open dialogue, they'll saying it would be foolish for the senate indicated in a BG News survey — that it, ne said the plan — his fourth and thoritarian president. discuss the issues that concern us." and trustees agendas to be almost iden- trustees are unaware of issues and last before leaving office in 1991 — is Brig. Gen. Oupa Gqozo of the At today's senate meeting, Blinn is tical. concerns at the University. funded with existing resources and Ciskei army, who seized power expected to introduce a plan requesting However, Blinn said he is not asking "It is the farthest thing from the can be paid off in 15 to 20 years. Sunday, tola cheering support- any senate motions calling for trustee to prescribe anyone's agenda. trustees' intent either to ignore some- Nearly 93 percent of the projects ers the African National Con- action be automatically placed on the The Faculty Senate represents stu- thing the senate passes or to be una- will be funded with proceeds from gress and other anti-apartheid trustees' agenda within three meetings dents, faculty and the administration ware," Hall said. Anything the Facul- self-retiring revenue bonds and the groups would be allowed to after the senate approves a motion. and deserve a guaranteed reply to ty Senate does we are ultimately aware rest from a mix of tax revenues and operate freely under his new "Basically, the trustees in one way or resolutions calling for action by the of." other sources, Celeste said. government. another have a mechanism of flushing trustees, he said. Perhaps the trustees have allowed South African Foreign Minis- these things down the toilet," Blinn "I at least want the respect of a 'no,' this misperception to perpetuate, but ter Pik Botha said his govern- said. "They don't want to be in the posi- " Blinn said. that image needs to be remedied, he gihipans support ment intervened at the request tion to say no, because then they have If the Faculty Senate approves said. ush Nearly three of every four of Gqozo, who led the bloodless to explain themselves." Blinn's resolution, Hall said it would "The Board of Trustees know more Ohioans polled approve of President coup in the nominally indepen- Blinn recalled a senate resolution receive "spirited" discussion from the about Bowling Green and higher edu- Bush's performance, but Vice dent homeland on the Indian advocating on-campus housing for trustees, but he could not predict if it cation in general than people give them Ocean coast. graduate students, Dut mysteriously would be approved. credit," Mason said. President Dan Quayle did not fare More than 50 factories, many nearly as well in the results released owned by Israelis and Taiw- Monday. anese, were set afire in a second Of those surveyed in the Ohio Poll, day of rioting and looting in Fox declines several parts of Ciskei, witnes- Last in ring sentenced 74 percent approved of Bush's job ses said. Two hotels and dozens performance, and 20 percent of vehicles also were burned, to have case disapproved. Six percent had no they said. by Beth Church opinion or were neutral. Tnere were no deaths reported editor are serving time in the Mansfield insti- in Sunday's coup, but doctors at heard by jury tution for their involvement in the case. Forty-five percent of those Cecilia Mikilwane Hospital said Scott Kent, another University student surveyed approved of Quayle's three people were fatally stab- Richard Fox, alleged murderer of an The last member of the men's swim and swim team member, was sent to performance in office, while 24 bed and dozens more injured in 18-year-old Bowling Green woman, team involved in the University com- prison, but Williamson granted him percent disapproved and 31 percent the subsequent rioting.