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BAND PLAYS PLANETARIUM j^R BASEBALL OPENS MAC *#^ "Umclunk" performs during ^"iKS flL Team hopes to avenge losses ^^ ^? star show Friday Mag ■■■jBl*^ last season to OU Sports f{ L ^ ^ f* The Nation's Best College Newspaper Weather Friday Vol.72 Issue 108 April 6,1990 Bowling Green, Ohio High 40 The BG News Low 20" BRIEFLY Legislation criticized Ohioansmull English Only bill called incomprehensible language bill CITY tax forms, Monita said. by JIU Novak But not only Hispanics would be affected by pas- by Jill Novak Student indicted: Craig K. staff writer sage of the bill, he said. staff writer Taliaferro, 39, was indicted Amish children who begin school fluent only in Wednesday on charges of theft and The notion that there must be action to declare their Pennsylvania Dutch language also would be- It is 1991. Jose has traveled from Spain to live in forgery, the Wood County English as an official language is farfetched and come victims of the ruling because they would not be Lorain, O., whose county contains one of the fastest prosecutor's office announced totally unnecessary, according to the director of the able to obtain additional instruction, he said. growing Hispanic population in Ohio. He sees the dty Thursday. Spanish Speaking Affairs Committee. Subjecting children to this law would guarantee as a new frontier and is happy to be introduced to a If Taliaferro is found guilty of the Addressing the possibility of the enactment of an they would tall behind other children and this is as new culture. However, when be goes to vote, take a third degree felonies, he could receive English Only bill in the state, Charles Monita said he "insensitivity, inferiority and inadequacy," he said. drivers' license exam, or fill out a welfare form, he a prison sentence of two to 10 years "falls to see the need" for a bill, when "we already When he first heard the conditions of the bill, spon- will not be able to do so in Spanish, as was previously and a fine of $5,000. communicate in English through popular choice and sored by Sen. Cooper Snyder, Monita testified allowed before the passage of an "English Only" He is currently being held in Wood preference." against it as a private citizen. law, making English the official language of the County Jail on $20,000 bond. "(The bill) is a reported remedy for which no ma- As a citizen, he said he found the bill "totally unac- state. Taliaferro was arrested last Friday lady exists," Monita said Thursday night, speaking ceptable" and in a report to the Senate committee, by city police after a year-long before about 100 people as part of Hispanic Aware- he refuted several of the points of English Only pro- This is not an actual scenario in the state, but this investigation into an insurance fraud ness Week. ponents. English Only law now is enforced by 16 states, includ- case. Police allege Taliaferro bilked The only thing the passage of the bill would ac- For example, Monita said he has been told Ohio ing California and Florida. And, according to state Allstate Insurance Co. of Toledo out of complish Is depriving immigrants or minorities the spends great sums of money and tax revenue to pro- legislators, a proposed English Only law in Ohio about $1,500 by falsely reporting a ability to communicate in their own language before vide official documents to be printed in another lan- most likely will pass when it does hit the voting pub- theft at his apartment last May. becoming fluent in English, he said. guage. lic. "The damage to the language-handicapped is ex- However, according to Robert Schleppi, state According to Richard Rench, of the Ohio House of tensive and frightening," he said. "To suggest the printing administrator, "the requests for printing by Representatives and co-sponsor of the original bill to STATE state deprive minority groups from receiving neces- the state in a language other than English is so insig- make English the official language of the state, the sarv assistance is incomprehensible." nificant, his office does not generate and maintain a bill by no means discriminates against Hispanics or Wage increase? A bill to It would deny governmental and social services to record of such requests," Monita said. any minority group. raise the state minimum wage will peoole who may need them, including welfare and a See Language, page 6 O See English Only, page 6. remain in limbo until after the May primary elections as the House on Thursday rejected Senate amendments to the measure before Comet in recessing for the spring. The measure would increase from $2.30 to $4.25, an hour the minimum wage for Ohio workers not covered by sight as ot a federal minimum wage law that took effect on Sunday. The federal law raised the minimum to $4.25 an hour last week for most workers. North f peaks: Oliver North, by John Yaukey the central figure in the Iran-Contra USA Today-CIN affair, was expected to draw demonstrators Thursday night Newly discovered Comet Austin protesting the U.S. role in Central made its debut last week for the naked America. eye for its one pass through our solar Willie Richter, spokeswoman for system. the Dayton chapter of the Pledge of "Every year, a dozen or so comets Resistance, said pickets will be come tumbling around the sun," said stationed outside the Dayton Racquet Pennsylvania State University astron- Club, where North is scheduled to omy professor Peter Usher. "But speak. Richter said she is expecting comets visible to the naked eye are as many as 50 protesters. pretty rare — maybe one every few years." Grades issued: Ohio's grades Astronomers in the last two weeks on an economic report card handed have reduced predictions about bow out Thursday by a private research bright Austin will be, but they estimate organization ranged from "A" to it still should be visible to the naked "D." eye. The report card form the Comets are mountains of gritty fro- Corporation for Enterprise zen gases left over from matter that Development gave Ohio strong marks formed the stars and the solar system. for trying new economic policies but There are tens of thousands of Known said the state's education is lagging comets such as Halley's Comet, which BG News/Greg Horvath and too few new businesses have orbits the sun every 75 years. Wheeling and Dealing started up. "To see a comet is to see the Earth Service fraternity members brave the changing weather from noon on Thursday until noon Friday in the Union Oval for a good Cultist extradited: The son and her sister planets in slow majestic evolution," Usher said. cause. The volunteers, Tanla Subwick, Jolene Joseph, Dave Caldwell. Dana Stavely and Kevin Severtis (I to r) are selling raffle of a reputed cult leader was taken tickets for 25 cents via a booth and a grocery cart to help Special Olympics. Winners will receive gift certificates from local mer- from the San Diego County Jail Astronomers believe Austin will Thursday and returned to Ohio to face stand out clearly from the planets and chants. The event "Wheeling for Wood Lane" is sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega. charges in the slaying of a stars. five-member family. Damon Lundgren, 19, had been fighting extradition to Lake County, O., since his arrest earlier this year in Pig roast groundwork Summit to begin San Diego County. He is among 13 WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- Fitzwater said the summit — people. Including his parents, Jeffrey dent Bush and Soviet President Bush's second meeting as presi- and Alice Lundgren, who were Mikhail Gorbachev will meet for a dent with the Soviet leader — indicted in the slayings of Dennis and made final for event superpower summit in the United would be a "tough love" encounter, Cheryl Avery and their three with the crisis in Lithuania a cen- children. Bob "Buck" Bramlish and his staff of to leave this place legends. When we States beginning May 30, U.S. and 40 nearly have completed plans for leave here, that sign that says Scott Soviet officials said Thursday as tral topic. their party Saturday — a party that Hamilton Drive... we want to change it both sides returned to bargaining Bush and Gorbachev last met NATION could reach historic proportions. to Country Buck Avenue." on possible arms-control treaties. early in December at the Mediter- "Country Buck's Pig Roast n," "This is going to be the best party BG ranean island of Malta. Since then, scheduled for Saturday at the Wood has had in years,'' he promised. White House spokesman Marlin pushes for independence in Lith- Cancer link: Government County Fairgrounds, is the result of The Roast's organizers have raised Fitzwater said several major uania and other regions of the So- scientists, who a week ago announced more than two months of planning.