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BG TRAVELS SOUTH TO BATTLE OHIO Men hope to contain high-scorina Jamerson and earn sixth MAC win; Women know struggling OU is still hungry for a tournament berth .see Sports p.9^^ # Wednesday The Nation's Best College Newspaper Weather Vol.72 Issue 82 February 14,1990 High 35° Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News Low 30° Endowment German unity addressed BRIEFLY Western mark discussed as possible currency for East's economy CAMPUS by alumnus by Carol J. Williams fied Germany would be a member of the North At- Associated Press writer lantic Treaty Organization. Olscamp attends forms chair The Soviets want a neutral Germany, while the funeral. James Joseph Olscamp, United States is pressing for NATO membership. father of University President Paul by James A. Tinker BONN, West Germany — The Germanys agreed Hurd made the announcement during an East- Olscamp, died Monday at Toronto staff writer Tuesday to begin formal talks on making" the West West summit on aerial surveillance. General Hospital at the age of 81. A 1951 graduate and Wood County native be- German mark the official currency of East Ger- Deep problems exist between the government of A former banker, he was a victim of queathed a $1 million endowment to the Uni- many, a move that could lay the economic founda- West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the rick- Alzheimer's disease. versity's College of Business Administration. tion for reunification. ety Communist coalition of East German Premier President Olscamp will return to James Good, who died in March, specified in In Ottawa, meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary HansModrow. campus after funeral arrangements his will that his estate be given to the College of Douglas Hurd said Tuesday that the Western allies "We still have a difficult stretch of road ahead of are completed. Business to secure an endowed chair. andthe Soviet Union are close to agreeing on a way us before fulfillment of German unity," Kohl told re- "An endowed chair gives a college the ability to unite the Germanys. porters after his meeting with Modrow. to attract and support an outstanding teacher- The announcement referred to a U.S. plan to have Their brief summit produced an agreement to set Outstanding scholar, whose work will improve the educa- East and West Germany work out procedures for a up aioint commission to devise a way how to make muSICianSUniversity student tional opportunities available to many genera- merger immediately after East Germany holds the West German mark the official currency of both Christopher Berger was named the tions of BGSU student." said Fred Williams, national elections on March 18.' nations. outstanding musician of the All-Ohio The allies of World War U — the United States, Although the commission, which is to begin talks Intercollegiate Jazz Ensemble at the See Gift, page 4. Britain, France and the Soviet Union — then will dis- next week, will deal with an important component of 1990 Ohio Music Educators cuss security questions, including whether a reuni- □ See German, page 7. Association conference. University faculty member David Melle nominated Berger, a junior jazz studies major, for the band, and Bush gears members of the band selected Berger for the award. up for drug STATE conference by Terence Hunt Drug abuse reported: A Associated Press writer Pittsburgh-based airplane servicing company employs workers who have WASHINGTON - President Bush abused drugs and alcohol while on the may use the four-nation drug summit job. according to a report broadcast to revive the idea — shunned in Latin in Dayton Monday. America — of using U.S. military WDTN-TV identified the company forces to cast a "radar net" over Co- as Aircraft Services, which refuels lombia to track cocaine-carrying air- Elanes at Greater Pittsburgh craft, a senior adviser said Tuesday. iternational Airport. Brent Scowcroft. Bush's national se- "There's been alcohol abuse, curity adviser, said the idea was "on substance abuse, smoking marijuana the shelf for the moment" because Co- on the ramp," one unidentified lombian officials balked last year at worker was quoted as saying in the news reports that the United States was broadcast. "It's been known that considering a naval "blockade" of some people come to work on their ports. cocaine; heavy drinking and smoking Scowcroft said the plan probably right there on the ramp right next to would not win approval "in the next the aircraft. People come in and they several days" — the summit is Thurs- can't even stand up they're so drunk." day — but he added that "it's an idea we think has merit." He said, "I expect Company officials said they had no it might be discussed" at the summit. knowledge of such activity. D See Drugs, page 7. Bill approved: State senators approved 25-5 and sent the House on Tuesday a long-debated bill that could Universities lead to the establishment of minimum academic standards for Ohio's Dancers at student-athletes. However, the bill stops short of help promote setting statewide standards that have University have been the chief stumbling block for similar bills in the past. birth control Afrikan Dancers, leads his Sen. Eugene Watts, R-Columbus, drummers in the Afrikan Drum sponsored the proposal that requires by Jeremy S. Weber Call (above) during their concert Ohio's local school boards to establish staff writer in Bryan Recital Hall Monday a minimum grade-point average as a night. The group is an award- requirement for students Although the University does not winning Afrikan drum and dance participating in football, basketball, officially sponsor any events for group that performs traditional baseball or other extracurricular National Condom Week, other Ohio col- west Afrikan dances. activities in which they are not given leges take advantage of the opportunity Nairn Abdur Raduf demon- grades. to make birth control devices and in- strates the Afrikan xylophone, or formation available. balafon (right). The group makes Ohio University and the University of all of its own instruments, as well NATIONAL Akron both have condoms available on as their native costumes. Keita campus, and Ohio University is holding said the group used to lust per- Oil reaches beach: Waves events to promote National Condom form their dances without ex- of grimy crude oil spilled by a tanker Week. plaining them, but they dis- invaded a two-mile stretch of Ohio University student Andrea covered that Western audiences Southern California beach Monday Greiner said several events are taking tended to appreciate the dances near a refuge for endangered pelicans place this week, both on campus and in more when they understood their and other birds. the city of Athens. significance. Authorities closed about 10 miles of A safe sex rally, a concert to promote Offenhauer Towers sponsored BG News/ Jay Murdock popular surfing and sunbathing condoms and the annual "Condom the performance in cooperation beaches to the public for at least three Street Shuffle," in which local bars with University Programming weeks because of the health threat pass out condoms to patrons, are and Minority Affairs. posed by fumes from the oil. a See Condoms, page 4. Cleanup crews dispatched to the fouled Bolsa Chica State Beach discovered what authorities called the most serious beach pollution since the spill of an estimated 400,000 gallons Electricity price rates low in BG last Wednesday. The tanker American Trader apparently punctured itself twice on its own by Wynne Everett anchor as it maneuvered near a city writer submerged pipeline about two miles Electric Costs in Ohio College Towns offshore. (based on cost per 500 kilowatts per hour) A recent survey of Ohio cities shows Bowling Green residents pay among the lowest electric rates in the state. The Ohio Office of the Consumers' Counsel released a survey of 27 randomly Town School Cost 1/89 Cost 1/90 chosen Ohio cities showing Bowling Green electricity prices were the second HISTORY lowest of the cities surveyed. Bowling Green BGSU $31.00 $31.00 The cost of 500 kilowatts of residentially consumed electricity for the months of January 1969 and January 1990 showed Bowling Green residents paid $31 for On this date: in 1985, Marietta Marietta College $27.81 $27.78 electricity in both months. University police officers were Wooster Wooster College $36.66 $36.71 The highest electric rates included in the survey were paid by Elyria resi- Investigating a reported arson in the dents who spent $56.86 in January 1989 and $57.10 last month, while residents of Delta Tau Delta fraternity house. A Delaware Ohio Weslyan University $39.71 $36.11 Marietta, which had the lowest rates, paid $27.81 and $27.78. fire was set to a poster mounted on a "I'm suprised to see they're coming up with figures that show Bowling Green bedroom door in the house, causing Athens Ohio University $39.71 $3811 like that, said Daryl Stockburger, the city utility director. "Our rates have $25 to $30 damage.