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Page 5 City NHL scores National League Championship Series Alleged serial rapist Eric Pearson's Red Wings 2 Edmonton 0 prior convictions overturned on a Atlanta 4 St. Louis 2 "technicality." Anaheim 2 Page 4 NEWS Chicago 0 Thursday, October 10, 1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 83, Issue 174 The News' Noe testifies in Briefs Community COPS Court of Claims to hit the streets Jay Young Judge Fred Shoemaker cut into the testimony, reminding those WASHINGTON-Ohio The BC News communities are in line for involved that his judgement nearly $700,000 In the latest A former University employee would be on immunity ~ not round ofpolice-on-the- had her first day in court Mason. streets funding. Wednesday as part of her $9 mil- "Mr. Mason's not here to de- The Justice Department lion dollar civil suit against the fend himself. People have certain on Wednesday announced institution. rights, and one of those rights is more grants under Its In an Immunity hearing, Ber- to defend themselves," Shoe- Community Oriented Polic- nadette Noe testified in Ohio maker said. "I dont know if they ing Services program. The Court of Claims that as director have jokes together. I dont know money is intended to help of planned giving she was sexual- if they go out together. I don't police departments move ly harassed by her former boss, care. We're not going to sit here uniformed officers to street jobs, either by buying Phil Mason. In her lawsuit, Noe and talk about Phil Mason when needed equipment or hiring claimes former President Paul you haven't chosen to file a law- civilians for desk jobs. Olscamp, University Attorney suit against him." Nancy Footer and Affirmative Nevertheless, Mason contin- The department said the The BGNmU« Boyle latest grants for Ohio were Action Director Marshall Rose ued to be the focus of Noe's tes- for equipment purchases. Bowling Green Police Patrolman Ken Fortncy points to the location of the Sept 1993 attack Eric Pear- son was convicted of Wednesday. Fortney was assigned to the detective bureau at the time. conspired to reject her allega- timony. After stating she had Akron will receive $451,688, tions. spoken to Development Director Toledo will get $198,923 and Questioned by prosecuting at- Ken Frtsch and then-Director of Columbus will get $43,499. torney Nancy Miller and defense Personnel John Moore about Rapist Pearson sentenced attorney Jim Dyer, Noe told how Mason's behavior in the fall of Supreme Court she was hired and then forced to 1994, Noe said she was forced to overturns libel case leave the University. cancel some meetings and events After applying and not being to avoid being alone with Mason. COLUMBUS - The Ohio Abductor of former student will serve 7 years selected as the director of devel- Later in the fall, Noe said Supreme Court has ruled opment in 1992, Noe said she that a Lorain County judge Joe Boyle dence or witnesses. "I told him I liked him and we Mason became angry at her be- was wrong to throw out a The BC News The first witness called in the could have a relationship," she made a goal to get a job at the cause of a memorandum she sent defamation and libel law- morning session was the abduc- said. University. Noe was later con- to Athletic Director Ron Zwler- suit against a newspaper. Alleged serial rapist Eric Pear- tion victim, a former University The victim then led Pearson to tacted by Mason about an oppor- lein. She said the letter con- The dispute started when son will spend at least seven student now living out-of-state. the house of some friends - four tunity as director of planned giv- cerned funding for the weight Common Pleas Judge years In state prison for the 1993 Admitting she was "drunk" the bouncers from Up- ing. training room. She testified that Lynett McGough cited abduction of a University gradu- night of the attack, the victim town/Downtown bar on Main Noe, whose husband resigned Frisch later told her Mason was Cleveland lawyer James C. ate. testified she immediately Street. from the Board of Trustees when upset about the memo. Young for contempt of the governor appointed him to She said she was approached court in July 1992. The A jury of seven women and sobered up after she was at- The attacker then stopped five men found Pearson guilty in tacked. about 10 times during their trip the Board of Regents in Sept. 95, about the letter by Zwierlein at a (Lorain) Morning Journal described Mason and herself as home football game. reported that " Amhcrst at- just over one hour, and Wood The victim said Pearson physi- from Clough Street to Fourth torney James Young is fac- County Common Pleas Court cally picked her up in the 400 Street to kiss the victim. She tes- "business friends" at the start of "He came over and said, 'I just ing a contempt of court cita- Judge Gale Williamson sen- block of Clough Street, and tified that she kissed back to re- her employment. Noe testified want you to know Phil's after tion." tenced him within 20 minutes of dragged her behind the house, main safe. that in her first year she intro- your ass,' " Noe testified. "Ron An attorney named James the verdict. where he threw her to the Pearson repeatedly asked the duced him to his current wife, said 'I wasn't upset about it Phil H. Young then sued the Williamson issued instructions ground, kneeled on her legs, victim if she was drunk. after Mason stated he was divor- called me Friday afternoon to try paper and its parent, the to the jury at 4:46 p.m., and they claimed he had a gun and said "He asked me a ton of times if I ced. She said she felt Mason was and get me upset about the Journal Register Co., alleg- announced to Bailiff Linda were drunk [sic)," she said. happy to have her there. memo.'" ing that the story bad hurt "I'm not usually like this, I just Myers they had reached a ver- need someone to love." "That's clearly what he wanted When asked by Miller about Noe said she submitted a letter his law practice. Mason's office conduct, Noe said of resignation Feb. 7, 1996. She The case was dismissed in dict at 5:56 p.m. The victim said these circum- me to say." The foreman of the jury, who stances led her to believe she had Pearson broke contact with the he often used "explicitly sexual said she called Trustee Valerie common pleas court, but a terms." Newell, who Noe said had be- Lorain County appeals wished to remain anonymous, one of two options. victim in the parking lot of her court overturned the de- said the jury "got along well," "I thought he was either going friends' apartment. Within "Phil's a very extroverted per- come a business friend of hers, cision on the grounds that and reached the verdict quite to rape me or kill me," she said. minutes, she and the friends be- son. He's very friendly," Noe tes- about a week after resigning. the story was not a substan- gan combing the neighborhood tified. "He had a habit of telling easily by a vote. Believing the best way to stay See NOE. page three. tially accurate report of the The trial, which was scheduled alive was to be nice to her at- for any sign of her attacker. bad jokes." court record. to continue through Friday, was tacker and lead him on, the vic- The next morning, Bowling The Supreme Court on cut short as the prosecution tim told Pearson they should go Green Police Detective Ken Wednesday sent the case called only three witnesses, and somewhere besides the backyard back to the common pleas court. the defense presented no evi- of the house. See PEARSON, page four. "Clearly, I'm disappoint- ed in the verdict," said John Cole, the newspaper's edi- tor. Gore, Kemp offer views "At this point we intend to go back to trial." Justice Paul Pfeifer, writ- ing for the majority, said a Half of those polled rate VP debate victor summary judgment for dismissal should be granted only when "reasonable John King Kemp and Gore faced off in St. and middle-class families pay for minds could come to but one The Associated Press Petersburg's bayfront Mahaffey college. conclusion, based on the Theater. Reform Party vice Kemp countered that govern- evidence." ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Vice presidential nominee Pat Choate ment should not engage In "social Pfeifer said a combina- President Al Gore and Jack was excluded, on grounds he and engineering" by picking winners tion of the omission in the Kemp differed politely but Ross Perot did not have a real- and losers through its tax policy.