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The BG News October 30, 2002 Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-30-2002 The BG News October 30, 2002 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 October 30, 2002" (2002). BG News (Student Newspaper). 7025. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/7025 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. State University WEDNESDAY October 30, 2002 NEW TECHNOLOGY: The U.S. military has CLOUDY been using new biomet- HIGH 45 I LOW 33 ric technology to keep www.bgnaws.com track of terrorism independent student press VOLUME 95 ISSUE 46 suspects; PAGE 5 Career Center Russians mourn deceased ByMaraD.BHIaoy of their captors. reported. coats marched under gray, rainy freshly dug grave. Russian televi- TH( ASSOCIATED CHESS The incapacitating gas was As of yesterday, 245 rescued skies to pay their final respects to sion showed them throwing sponsors MOSCOW — Weeping rela- intended to prevent the hostage- hostages remained hospitalized, Utvinov, who was in the audi- clumps of earth over the coffin. tives bent over the uniformed takers from triggering explosives 16 listed in serious condition, ence of the "Nord-Ost" musical The solemn funerals contrast- body of Col. Konstanrin Lirvinov strapped to their waists and Interfax reported. A total of 418 production with friends when ed sharply with the mood inside job fair and threw handfuls of dirt onto rigged around the theater. It patients have been released. the terrorists struck. Litvinov's Moscow's hospital No. 13. where his coffin yesterday as Russians worked but it also knocked out Among the dead were nine for- body was laid out in uniform, the black metal gates were finally By Shannon E. KoRiedy MANAGING EDITOR began to bury the hostages killed most of the hostages, killing 116. eigners, including one American. surrounded by dozens of red car- opened to former hostages' rela- during a 58-hour standoff with Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov "There was not one scenario nations, as his anguished wife tives —some of whom had come Students will have an oppor- Chechen rebels. told the fTAR-Tass news agency that could have guaranteed the and grown children stood near- daily to wait in the rain, pleading tunity to start their holiday cele- A senior Russian official, that several dozen people had lives of the hostages and the spe- by. to be let in. Clutching flowers, the brating a little earlier this year — meanwhile, issued the Kremlin's been detained in Moscow on cial forces in a theater filled with Across town, friends of a 25- relatives cheerfully put up with and maybe find a job at the strongest defense yet of the deci- suspicion of helping organize the 330 pounds of explosive devices," year-old engineer and theater two identity checkpoints to reach same. sion to fill the Moscow theater takeover. They included a group said Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an lover, identified by Russian televi- the hospital's inner corridors. The University Career Center with a secret gas before special of Chechens picked up in a aide to President Vladimir Putin. sion as Alexei Batchkov, gathered will hold its third annual Holiday forces raided it early Saturday, minibus that allegedly had traces At a Moscow cemetery, on the muddy paths of the Hiring Open House today from rescuing hundreds and killing 50 of TNT, the Interfax news agency Russian soldiers in heavy green Kuzminskove cemetery around a STANDOFF, PAGE 2 10 am - 4 p.m. in Multipurpose Room 228 of the Bowen Thompson Student Union. This year, nine businesses, with opportunities ranging from food preparation, working with the elderly to parcel shipping, will have representatives pre- sent. The businesses will have HAPPY HAUNTING applications on hand and some will conduct on-the-spot inter- views. "I think it's a wonderful oppor- tunity to bring the businesses directly to campus, allowing convenience to both students and employers," said Peg Bucksky, job locator and devel- opment specialist at the Career Center. "It's a terrific opportunity for students to get temporary or supplemental jobs," Director of the Career Center loAnn Kroll said. Approximately 130 students participated in last year's Holiday Hiring Open House, which was held in the Career Services office in Saddlemire. This year's open house will be more centrally located to stu- dents. "I'm hoping with all of the traf- fic in the Union, the turnout will be much larger this year," Bucksky said. "The Union is a fantastic facility that offers a lot of opportunities to bring the community together with the students." The businesses represented at the Holiday Hiring Open House include Bowling Green Manor, Convergys, FedE-x Ground, Ruffalo Cody, Waffle House, Wendy's, the United Parcel Service, Wood County Nursing I lome and The Buckle. Most of the businesses are from Bowling Green, however, some are locat- ed in nearby Toledo and Maumee. Students are encouraged to Erin Career 8G Nws HALLOWEEN SPIRIT: Passersby get a glimpse of local Halloween festivities. This Bowling Green home is decorated from top to bottom with cobwebs, tombstones and bats The JOBS, PAGE 2 witch in the front yard is reminiscent of Halloween folklore and legends. Candidates discuss platform issues ByUuta Co!l:iii secondary education. He "Why would someone want ing tax incentives to businesses REPORTER believes that more money to stan a business here when who give money to Ohio Representing Wood County should be spent on schools and they could go to Michigan and schools, he said. "I want to make on this year's ballot for State school construction. pay a good percentage less in Ohio so exciting people don't Representative are Republican Secondly, Latta wants to taxes for starting the same busi- want to leave." Robert Latta and rjemocrat improve the budget. He wants to ness?" Latta said. McCarty also said the past Scon McCarty. make sure that a substantial Candidate McCarty has a sim- congress should not have spent Latta, who currendy sits in the amount of the budget goes to ilar plan. The first main focus of Ohio's Rainy Day Fund. "It's state legislature, said lie does not education. his campaign is improving high- ridiculous," he said. When asked like the word "politician." The third point of his cam- er education. He wants to in a recent interview what he "I consider a politician to be paign is to reform taxes. He restore funding to the schools would've done instead, he sim- one who tries to take as much as wants to put information that because he believes that the ply replied, "Arithmetic." F* Photo possible from die people," Latta was collected from select hear- recent cuts were unnecessary. McCarty also brought up the said. "I would rather be known ing committees into legislation. Secondly, he wants to pass the fact that his opponent, Latta, ROBERT LATTA SCOn MCCARTY as a public service man, one By doing this he will also create Prescription Drug Fair Pricing had reportedly accepted money who works on giving to the peo- more job opportunities by mak- Act, which would give a drug from Enron. Latta admitted that AFFILIATION: Republican AFFILIATION: Democrat ple." ing it cheaper to start or open a card to all Ohioans who don't he did accept money from the HOMETOWN: Bowling Green HOMETOWN: Northwest Ohio 1-atta, who graduated from business in Ohio, rather than in have prescription drug coverage. corporation, but it was only ORGANIZATIONS: Wood County ORGANIZATIONS: Fraternal Order the University in 1978, wants to one of the neighboring states And his third main point $150. He put it into a scholarship Historical Society, Bowling Green ot Eagles, Served in the U.S. focus on three main things if re- where taxes are currendy lower focuses on improving the econ- fund at the University in honor Chamber ot Commerce Marine Corps from 1978 -1983 elected. His first point of focus is for businesses. omy. He plans to do this by giv- of his father. m s FOUR-DAY FORECAST * ™ FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY The four-day forecast is taken ^i Cloudy High: 45' Snow High:39' Snow High: 35" Partly High: 36" from weather.com Low: 32" £3 Showers Low: 20" Flurries Low: 23" Cloudy Low: 24" ..... FOR All THE NEWS VISIT WWW.BGNEWS.COM ■ 2 Wednesday. October 30.2002 WWW.BGNEWS.COM Fair offers Anti-gay e-mail not a crime relaxed IHE ASSOCUUO mm The e-mail said Spectrum and The e-mail was fictitiously sexual orientation known in a even have the courage to sign his OXFORD, Ohio — An anony- its members "weaken the moral signed with a name that does not "National Coming Out Day" or her real name," Little said. mous e-mail sent lo members of foundation of this country." It belong to any student at Miami, advertisement that ran on Oct lustin Graves, a third-year stu- and festive a gay and lesbian support group went on to suggest that they and school officials do not know 11 in the Miami Student campus dent, said he felt threatened after at Miami University was "despi- "should go find (themselves) a whether it came from within the newspaper. he received the e-mail. cable" but not a crime, university ceiling rafter and a sturdy piece university, Little said.
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