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Low 41 Volume 87 & Issue 57 AGNews daily independent student press Ex- student sent racist e-mail By BRENT RYMAN chief of Campus Police and those initial interviews we re- sentenced up to five years in The BG News director of public safety, said interviewed her and she admit- prison and a $2,500 fine for the A former University gradu- that Odegbami came to the ted at that time that she had third-degree felony of tamper- police in April with a malicious sent the e-mails." ate student admitted she sent ing with evidence, Mayberry racist e-mails to herself in message she received from a After the alleged fraud was said he intends to seek commu- order to claim racial intimida- Hotmail account. uncovered, Wiegand contacted tion and harassment. "It was very derogatory, the United States' Attorney nity control sanctions against Omobonike B. Odegbami, 27, racist and threatening — a office. When it decided not to Odegbami with a condition of Sylvania, pled guilty to the very vicious e-mail," Wiegand pursue the prosecution, the being mental health counsel- said. "We immediately started case went to Alan Mayberry, charge of tampering with evi- an investigation and contacted the Wood County prosecuting ing. dence Oct. 28. The charge is the FBI because of the nature attorney. "The important things are punishable with a possible of the case. We looked at it from "It was our determination that she gets the help she needs $2,500 fine and up to five years a civil rights perspective." that this type of action would in prison. and BG knows that this terrible Wiegand said Odegbami not go unpunished whether violent person was not real, but "From the bottom of my claimed to receive two similar actual or made up," Mayberry heart, I am deeply sorry for the messages within a few days. As said. "There was significant the product of someone's imagi- pain, anguish and confusion I the investigation progressed, fear and anxiety among stu- nation," Mayberry said. "There caused," Odegbami said in a the evidence pointed to a dents, staff, administration and is enough racial prejudice exist- prepared statement quoted by sender close to Odegbami. law enforcement. Significant ing in our society without fan- BG News Photo/ MIKE LEHMKUHLE The Toledo Blade. "I made an "Because of some of the con- time was spent by BGSU ning the flames of racism error in judgment during a very tent, it appeared to us that the Police, the FBI and my office where they do not exist." Michael Dunston and Jessica Miller participate in a Dry Dock painful time in my life and I am sender was known to her," Wie- investigating this wild goose activity at the Student Rec Center. Dry Dock is an organiza- very remorseful." chase." Odegbami will be sentenced gand said. "We interviewed fac- tion that sponsors alternative, alcohol-free activities, two to James Wiegand, BGSLTs ulty and students. Based on While Odegbami could be Dec. 23 at 1:30 p.m. three times a month, for students around campus. Apartment building collapses in Italy, many feared dead Experts say technology By ELLEN KN1CKMEYER building crumple." renovating a garage under- Associated Press Writer By nightfall, authorities had neath; Di Spazio said that will change FOGGIA, Italy — A six-story accounted for only 17 survivors would be investigated. apartment building came out of the 70 to 75 people In Rome, politicians urged medicine crashing down upon 24 sleep- believed to be inside. The lat- Parliament to push through a By EMMA ROSS ing households in southern est, a young man, was pulled proposed law that would make Associated Press Writer Italy Thursday, trapping them out more than nine hours after buildings subject to periodic LONDON — Picture a in a 15-foot-high heap of con- the last survivor had been inspections. world where wheelchairs can crete and dust. Only one family found. After a day of seeing "It is absurd that cars must climb stairs and insulin sacs escaped intact, fleeing with sec- only covered bodies on gurneys undergo periodic checkups implanted in diabetics auto- onds to spare after a frantic go by, the dusty search crews while buildings don't," said matically release just the right attempt to save their neigh- stopped digging to applaud the Cristina Matranga, a lawmak- amount at the right time. bors. rescue, shouting, "He's alive!" er for the opposition Forza Such breakthroughs are on Wakened by the sound of the Searchers recovered 13 Italia party. the horizon as medicine looks building shaking itself to corpses, wheeling them out Emergency crews evacuated likely to change more in the pieces, the family of five ran under green sheets with broken an adjoining building in the next 20 years than it has in the apartment to apartment, ring- limbs dangling. neighborhood, a cluster of tidy, last 2000 — mostly because of ing doorbells and pounding on Paramilitary police Capt. well-kept apartment blocs in new technology, the British doors. The effort nearly cost Antonio Di Spazio said he the city of 150,000. Awakened Medical Journal said Thurs- them their lives, said building feared about 50 people had in the night by the crash and day. superintendent Luigi Lacanta, been killed. then by screams, neighbors The prestigious publication who ran from the building with Many may have died on the packed balconies to watch the is one of 42 worldwide devoting the family at the last minute. stairs, trying to escape. daylong rescue effort. editions this month to explor- Associated Press Photo "I took a step back, thinking Authorities suspect a struc- The apartment building fell ing how technology is changing I could see someone stick their tural failure brought down the about 4:30 a.m., and fell hard. medicine in the new millenni- A man injured in the rubble of an apartment building in Foggia, head out the window," Lacanta 30-year-old building. Some res- um. Italy, is rushed to the hospital. said. "Instead, I saw the entire idents said workers had been • See COLLAPSE, page five. "Cures aren't really our final destination," said Dr. Thomas Reardon, president of the American Medical Associa- International Festival offers taste of 20 countries tion, in London to launch the themed issues of the British By IRENE SHARON SCOTT our own countries." ty and Bowling Green commu- country who volunteer to repre- the international students. Medical Journal and the Jour- The BG News Sarkar-Barney said that the nity through entertainment sent that country to show Sarkar-Barney said there will nal of the American Medical World Student Association International Festival is one and food. The entertainment unity." be 20 different dishes repre- Association. and the Center for Internation- day where international stu- includes singing, dancing and a She recalled from last year's senting the cuisine of various Predicting and preventing al Programs will sponsor Inter- dents can unify and celebrate fashion show where students celebration when an Indian countries. diseases, mostly through tech- national Festival '99, an event one festival. model garments from their student sang a song in Chinese "Students can go to a restau- nologies that allow us to better that promises to educate the "It is called an International countries. Also there will be with a Chinese student. rant to try one type of dish at understand our genes, will be University community and pro- Festival because it is like cele- cultural booths with photos, Hinkle perceives the festival one time," she said. "At the fes- more of a focus than trying to vide a cultural experience, Sat- brating Diwali, Hanukkah, ornaments and other items as an opportunity to travel tival students are able to get a diagnose and treat them, Rear- urday. Christmas and Ramadan all from their countries. around the globe in one night. taste of different cultures in don said. "It's a showcase of what together," she said. There are both American "Many Americans haven't one evening." One paper in the British international students bring to Although the executive offi- and international students who had the opportunity to leave Mukiira said most students Medical Journal predicted that the Bowling Green community," cers don't know the exact year are helping with these events. the United States," she said. "It that attend this event ask drugs and lifestyle changes said Shreya Sarkar-Barney, the event began, Sarkar-Bar- "We are all learning about is not like being there, but its many questions. would be the preferred pre- WSA president. "We have more ney said it has been running other cultures and representing an opportunity.