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FEATURED PHOTOS ICERS HOST FLAMES BG News photographers BG looks to clinch Q show off their best Friday Mag third-place CCHA finish Sports p.9 The Nation *s Best College Newspaper Weather Friday Vol.72 Issue 84 February 16,1990 Bowling Green, Ohio High48c The BG News Low 30° BRIEFLY Hall arson Plant's layoffs delayed arrest made Automotive sales slump, but Chrysler pushes back plan CAMPUS TOLEDO (AP) - Indefinite uled to shut down for a week. by Michelle Matheson layoffs of 724 workers at Chrysler "I know a lot of The two plants, which manufac- staff writer ture Cherokees and Grand Wa- Map grant received: The Corp.'s Jeep plants have been people think the goneers, employ 5,300 people. pushed back two weeks, and some Chrysler has said the layoffs are University's map-making class will A resident of Founders Quadrangle was ar- workers said Thursday they hope plant is eventually soon be charting a new course thanks the layoffs can be avoided all due to slumping automotive sales. to a $3,750 educational erant form the rested Wednesday for the alleged arson of the going to close, but When the plants reopen, vehicle Mapping Information Systems Corp. door of a resident adviser in his hall two weeks together. production will be reduced from The grant will be used to provide ago. '"There's been a lot of uncer- they're wrong. I don't 950 a day to 875. Joseph Bostic, 313 Mooney Hall, has been tainty about the layoffs," said the geography department with charged with aggravated menacing, a first- Barry Risner, a welder standing think these layoffs The layoffs will mark the first updated computer software, which outside the plant that produces time in more than two years that students will use to learn how to make degree misdemeanor, police said. are going to come. layoff notices have been issued to maps. Bostic, 19, a sophomore business major from Jeep Cherokees. "But I've said all Not with things Jeep employees without listing a Garfield Heights, O., is scheduled to appear in along that if sales pick up, I think date when they would return to Actors needed: Open Bowling Green Municipal Court Feb. 21 for a pre- we would be OK." picking up." work. auditions for "The Boys Next Door" liminary hearing where he will plead to the His friend, Jack Reynolds, Chrysler spokesman Doug Nicoll will take place at 7 p.m. on Feb. 19,20 charges. agreed. "I know a lot of people think the said Cherokee sales have increased and 21 in 405 University Hall. For The penalties for a first-degree misdemeanor -Jack Reynolds, over the last month. more information, contact the range from a maximum jail sentence of six elant is eventually going to close, In January, Chrysler sold 13,081 University Theater at 372-2222. months to a maximum fine of $1,000. lit they're wrong. I don't think Jeep welder Cherokees, compared with 11,000 At the University, this misdemeanor is con- these layoffs are going to come. Not with things picking up," he during the same period last year. Black History speaker: in sidered a trigger offense, requiring the suspect The rush depleted inventories at celebration of Black History Month, to appear at a hearing with the Ohio Board of said. employees at the two Toledo some dealerships. former member of the Oakland Regents, according to Director of Standards and Chrysler said Wednesday it plants. Instead of March 19, the "Apparently the market is such Raiders football team Darnel Haney Procedures Derek Dickinson. would postpone for two weeks in- layoffs are now expected to begin that we can delay the shutdown for will address the Undergraduate D See Arrest, page 4. definite layoffs scheduled for 724 April 2, the day the plant is sched- a week," Nicoll said. Student Government Monday night at Haney is the Dean of Student Life at Lorain Community College and will Coughlin speak about African Heritage. seeking Icy rain LOCAL results in Laywers request funds: election A request by defense lawyers for outages accused murderer Richard E. Fox to by Michelle Banks hire a private investigator was staff writer granted by Wood County Common by Wynne Everett Pleas Judge Donald DeCessna Undergraduate Student city writer Thursday. Government President Kevin DeCessna said he would approve Coughlin announced at a Overnight ice storms kept all funding the investigator "if If is a press confrence Thursday available city crews out Thurs- reasonable amount." that he will seek re-election day restoring electrical power to Defense laywers Peter Halleck and as head of the student the many neighborhoods struck John Callahan requested funding of government body for 1990. by outages. more than $6,000 for University Coughlin declined to com- Fallen tree limbs and ice on S-ofessor Joseph Jacoby and the ment on campaign goals or electrical wires caused city- opulation ana Society Research announce his running mate wide outages beginning at about Center for its survey of Wood County because offical campaigning 7 a.m. and lasting throughout voters concerning their awareness of does not begin until Monday. the day, City Utility Director the case. "I wanted to be careful not Daryl Stockburger said. DeCessna said he will make a ruling to campaign until Monday," Crews from the city's electric, concerning these motions after both he said. sewer, water and street div- defense and prosecuting attorneys Other candidates who filed isions worked all day to repair have submitted written briefs. petitions for the USG presi- lines, remove fallen limbs, clear dency by the Thursday even- storm drains and maintain ing deadline are: John Corri- sewer service after Wednesday STATE gan, USG senator, and Craig night's storm. Taliafen-o, President of the Stockburger said the exact NAACP. number of circuits repaired is Coughlin said he decided to unknown because many had to Summer jobs: The Cincinnati vie for the office for a second be restored more than once be- Nature Center and Long Branch time to accomplish the cause limbs and wires continued Farm have job openings this summer projects he coula not com- to fall throughout the day. for college students and teachers. plete this year. "We haven't had many neigh- The openings include both paid and "Many projects take longer borhoods that haven't been out volunteer positions working with than a year to complete and I at one time or another," Stock- children and teaching programs in can sack around for more burger said. biology, ecology, natural history, than a year (to complete Anyone experiencing a power nutrition, genetics and meat them)," he said. outage should call the city's production. Another reason Coughlin electric or utilities divisions dur- For more information call David said he is planning to run con- ing business hours, Stockburger Tennant or Marcy Taylor at (513) cerns his personal opinion of said. After regular business 831-1711. the office. hours, residents should call the "I find the work very re- police department. warding and enjoy what I "We're getting to them as fast do." as we can, Stockburger said. NATIONAL Twenty-two students have On campus, the only electrical declared their candidacy for BG News/Greg Horvith failure was a momentary power Bathroom reading: The General Assembly seats, Winter returned Wednesday night with Ice storms leaving many Bowling Green residents without outage in Harshman Quadran- struggle to promote geographic which is an increase from 14 electrical and phone services. ' See Outage, page 3. literacy among college students has last year. entered a novel arena at Davidson College. Students at the Dean Rusk Program in International Studies have taped Ice: Mainland drug threat Epidemic of Area railroad world maps to the sides of about ISO "Ice,* a highly addictive drug, is turning up in Hawaii in epidemic campus bathroom stalls. proportions. Officials want to counter its arrival on the mainland. "It's a place where people have safety studied time on their hands. We're hoping this SOURCE: Most ice entering the United Slates 'ice' spreads will help them use it constructively," originates in the Philippines. South Korea and other by John Kohlstrand said senior Mary Snyder, who is Asian nations. The drug has been limited to Hawaii, city writer but recent mainland arrests lead many to fear it's by Ken Miller spearheading the effort, dubbed the USAToday-CIN Bathroom Brigade For Geographical taking root in other states. Railroad officials and representatives Literacy. from several Wood County law enforce- PRICE: Expensive. About $50 lor a tenth of a gram. WASHINGTON — California narcotics agents ment agencies met Thursday and discussed Sold on the street for up to $400 a gram, about three slipped into a cul-de-sac in the Sacramento, Ca- strategies they hope will reduce the area's HISTORY times the cost of crack cocaine. lif., bedroom suburb of Elk Grove Jan. 12, not railroad crossing fatalities.