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Directory SPORTS OPINION TODAY Switchboard 372-2601 Softball Baseball Classified Ads 372-6977 vs. Akron Display Ads 372-2605 vs. WMU Tom Editorial 372-6966 pays Sports 372-2602 home for doubleheaders Entertainment 372-2603 tribute Saturday and Sunday to cloudy Slory Idea? Give us a call Falcon teams hope to fight off cold weather, weekdays from I pm. loSpm., or defend home turf and move up in MAC race S3, Jell-0 e-mail: "[email protected]" Q High: 49 Low: 35 FRIDAY April 11,1997 Volume 83, Issue 132 The BG News Bowling Green, Ohio "Serving the Bowling Green community for over 75years" Details surface Fostered Friend Students in USG scandal lend a □ Alleged USG scan- sender. helping The letter detailed exactly how dals see more high- someone could send an e-mail tech twists. message from a different iden- hand tity than the actual sender. The e- By DARLA WARNOCK mail was signed "The Justice □ Students in I PC 102 The BG News Hunting Freak." take valuable lessons Gore said she felt the e-mail A few new twists were added to message was sent to show her with them that extend the saga yesterday concerning exactly how easy it is to manip- beyond the classroom. the fraud alleged in actions sur- ulate e-mail accounts. rounding the Undergraduate Jill Carr, associate dean of stu- By MELISSA NAYMIK Student Government presi- dents, said she is just starting to The BG News dential elections. look into the alleged e-mail fraud. A campus investigation has •There will be an investigation University students learned now been launched to find if dealing with our code of con- about the virtue of generosity there has been any wrongdoing duct," Carr said. "We will begin from their professor, Leigh Ma- in the alleged USG e-mail fraud. talking to all parties." kay, by taking part in numerous The investigation comes after The University Investigation is projects. Cynthia Kent, USG's chief of separate from any police in- Makay, an assistant professor staff, alleged her e-mail account vestigation which may occur. of Interpersonal Communica- was tampered with without her Carr said details of the in- tions, wanted her IPC 102 stu- knowledge. vestigation would not be released dents to demonstrate teamwork She filed a report with Univer- until everyone Involved in the al- in the community since the sity police Tuesday. A police In- leged action has told their story. community pays for their educa- vestigation has been put on hold Sanctions, if any, would be han- tion. until more information has been ded down at that time. Makay said she thought of an found concerning the incident. In other USG action yesterday, idea to make students more Jason E. Wolfe, a former USG the presidential elections were aware of what is going on around presidential candidate, allegedly deemed official Thursday after them In the community as well as received a message from Kent's all allegations of campaign viola- the University. Her idea was to e-mail address. Wolfe said the tions were dropped. have the students create a social letter offered evidence backing Tara Gore, who is continuing action project in which they his conspiracy theory that the as USG president, said she was would go throughout the campus elections were fixed. glad to get the whole election be- and Bowling Green community Wolfe came in fourth in the hind her. BG New! PkM* by Glu Fleming searching for solutions to every- elections, 304 votes out of first "It's upsetting to have this day problems. place. happen," Gore said. "A lot of this lunior social work major Amy Snider cuddles with Sunni the rabbit. Sunni was brought into the Wood The students were put into County Humane Society after her owners let her loose. Snider and her roommates are fostering her Tara Gore, current USG presi- stuff has been negative and USG small groups and given five dent, received an e-mail message until she can be adopted. weeks to complete their particu- yesterday from an anonymous • See USG, page three. lar project. Many students thought of having food drives here at the University, as well as at elemen- Ice-clogged rivers, floods plague Plains tary schools in the area One group held a food drive even higher. spreading Red River. tween Fargo and Wahpeton, N.D., cials didn't know when it would with fifth graders at Crim Ele- Crews use crews twice threw dynamite in finally break. mentary school in Bowling Communities along the Minne- The flooding turned tragic Green. The students had a com- sota-North Dakota state line across the border in Kent, Minn., an effort to loosen an ice jam that "That type of thing decides to dynamite in was stuck in the river like a giant go when it wants to go," said petition to see which class could wrestled with overflowing small where a pregnant woman and her bring in the most cans. The goal 3-year-old daughter survived a cork. National Weather Service rivers and girded for the crest of was to have them bring in a total attempt to the Red River itself. plunge into the flood-swollen "It didnt do anything," said meteorologist Craig Edwards. Richland County Road Supervi- The weather service said ice of 80 cans per class. However, People's lives already had been Whiskey Creek only to die from the students went far and above defined by miles of pooled water exposure as they tried to walk for sor Harlan Bladow. The explo- jams could raise river levels as drain water sives needed to be put under- much as 3 feet. the 80 cans and raised over 500 and vast sheets of ice, the double help. cans. The Associated Press hit of snowmelt-flooding and a Sheriff Tom Matejka said the neath or embedded in the ice to The region's worst flooding in be effective, but getting it there decades started last week when Laura Grabiec, sophomore brutal weekend blizzard. woman apparently carried the sports marketing major, was one girl about a mile. "She just was too dangerous, he said. temperatures hit the 60s, quickly HARWOOD, N.D. - Crews "I've lived in this area all my of the University students who used dynamite on ice jams clog- life, so I know what a flood is. But walked and fell to the ground, Water behind one ice jam at the melting the winter snow that was up to twice as deep as normal. took part in the Crim Elementary ging flood-swollen rivers I've never seen anything like couldn't make it anymore," he twin towns of Breckenridge, food drive. She was Impressed in Wednesday in an attempt to drain this," said Ruby Zvirovski, filling said after the bodies were found Minn., and Wahpeton, N.D., was Then rain began Friday and Wednesday. expected to rise by as much as 2 backed-up water away from the sandbags in her driveway near • See DRIVES, page three. Red River Valley before it rises Harwood, 500 yards from the At Abercrombie, halfway be- 1/2 feet by this weekend. Offi- • See PLAINS, page three. University alumnus lives through camera's lens □ University graduate ByJACKBUEHRER graduation from college. The BG News "I was a staff photographer for Jon Sieved shares his the Blade for about four months story of being a music Meet Jon Sievert. until I got drafted," he said. "I business photographer Some people could contend managed to stay out of Vietnam - that he leads the perfect life. He which was probably my greatest and tells how others goes to concerts, he gets the best accomplishment in the Army. I might get involved in seats in the house, he takes pic- served in the Army for two years tures, gets them published in var- and then moved to Massa- the profession. ious publications around the chusetts and worked as an ad- world and to top it all off, he gets vertising manager. paid for it. "Then, in February of 1969, I Sievert, a 1965 University was snowed into Cambridge for graduate, a concert and music three days and I got a postcard business photographer for nearly from my brother, who was in Cal- 30 years, recently published a ifornia at the time," Sievert said book titled "Concert Photogra- "He told me it was about 75 de- phy: How to Shoot and Sell Music grees and sunny out there, and I Business Photographs." Pub- said. That's it,' and I moved 'out lished under his own, newly- to San Fransisco." formed label, Humble Press, It was in San Francisco where "Concert Photography" is a how- Sievert began taking pictures at to for those interested in both the many concerts he attended. music and photography and want "At that time, you could still to turn their interests into a ca- take your cameras to shows," he reer.