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CbrSg/htog "Celebrating 75 years of Excellence // Inside the News Tribe Opinion • Q and A with Dan Gaffney Cleveland tries to even LsClttipuS • Breast cancer awaeness examined 4 ;1 series.:'"" '":.'■ opOftS • Falcon football dealt homecoming loss NEWS Page 8 Monday, October 23, 1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 33 Clinton vows to veto financial aid cuts President says students Student reactions mixed are his first priority after presidential speech Dawn Keller "I think it's good that he talked Jay Young said. "I will not tolerate raising The BC News about recognizing and respecting The BC News the cost of student loans or stu- other cultures," said Amanda dent scholarships and cutting out COLUMBUS - Although some Small, a junior psychology major COLUMBUS - President Clin- opportunities." of the rain-soaked audience said at OSU. "I dont think the world ton pledged to students in Clinton, who was on the cam- they thought President Bill Clin- can work together unless you Columbus Friday that he will pus of OSU for the Midwest Eco- ton made good points Friday, repect other cultures and be- veto any plan to balance the fed- nomic Conference, told the stu- others at Ohio State University liefs." eral budget at the expense of dents that they are his first prior- said Clinton addressed what col- "I'm glad he talked about hu- federal student aid. ity in the budget battle. lege students wanted to hear. man diversity," said Christa Fer- Speaking to thousands of rain- "I believe that my first respon- Amid frequent cheers for the guson, a freshman undecided soaked students at Ohio State sibility is to guarantee you the Buckeye football team, Clinton major at OSU. "We have a lot of University, the president said he best possible future," Clinton also discussed human diversity, problems with it in this country will stand firm on financial aid said. "I want the 21st century to Jay Younf/Tkc BC Newt financial aid, the environment and it needs to be addressed.'' cuts. be a time when every American Vice President Gore and President Clinton display Ohio State Univer- and the future of America. One student said he was "I will veto, If I have to, any at- has a chance to live up to the sity football Jerseys following their speeches on the OSU Union Oval Part of the audience said they pleased that Clinton talked about tempt to mortgage your future. I Friday. Clinton pledged to veto any financial aid cuts proposed by the appreciated that Clinton touched will not let it happen," Clinton See CLINTON, page five. Republican Congress. on human diversity. See REACTIONS, page five 'Melon* vocalist Crabs take to the track passes in sleep Fast times Eileen Loh The Associated Press with slow NEW ORLEANS - After a dec- ade of drug use and run-ins with crabs the law, Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon decided to clean Pat Murphy up his act, curb his temper and The BC News be a good father to his infant daughter. Crab race assistant Brian He also anticipated a creative Yale lifted a plastic cake top departure from the breezy, and 31 crabs popped out of alternative-pop image his band their shells. Toby the Tobina- had built up since its self-titled tor took the lead, and seeing debut album skyrocketed up the daylight he crawled to the edge charts in 1993. of the table with an eye open Hoon, 28, never fully realized for the toy train that circled either goal. He died in his sleep the table. Saturday on a tour bus in New Toby stopped at the edge of Orleans. The cause of death was the red circle drawn around not immediately known, and the the table that marked the point coroner would say only that au- where the crabs race to. The topsy results were expected Tobinator's indecision allowed Monday. another crab. The Tribe, to Blind Melon was to play at the scurry by and win the first pre- famed Tipitina's music club, liminary race Tuesday night at where a wreath hung on the door the Crab Races at Downtown. in Hoon's honor. "He would have For eight years the Crab electrified this crowd," Josh Ste- Races have been a staple of the vens, father of guitarist Roger Bowling Green night life. For Stevens, said as he surveyed the While recording "Soup," Hoon the last four and a half, Jeff audience. was arrested for drunk and dis- Merrill has owned and oper- The Crab Races at Downtown have been a staple of the Bowling Green night life for the past eight Hoon's grieving bandmates orderly conduct in New Orleans. ated the races. years. The winner each week takes home a prize of $25. gathered at drummer Glen Gra- The album was skewered by Merrill, who graduated last ham's house in New Orleans, critics as unfocused and plod- May, bought the races from while I'm doing it." of the music that people ha- Still a Yankee Fan finished a "remembering the good things ding, without the crispness of the two other students for $1,200. Merrill, who has a degree in ven't heard in awhile. Like T.V. close second to Zippy. about Shannon. ... They're like a self-titled debut release and He said the previous owners elemetary education, was per- show tunes and early 80's." Highlights of the Cleveland family," Josh Stevens said. without a standout like 1993's were two seniors at the Uni- ched atop a stool overlooking Merrill also changed the Indians American League pen- . Born in Lafayette, Ind., Rich- "No Rain." The video, featuring a versity. Merrill said the races the octagon table with a giant format of the preliminary nant clinching win over Seattle ard Shannon Hoon was a varsity 10-year-old actress cavorting in a are a separate business from crab painted on top of it. Be- races, going to IS preliminary were on almost every televi- athlete in high school. At 17, he bee costume, became the group's Downtown and he is paid a flat hind him was a stereo that he races five semi-final races and sion in Downtown. In turn, the moved to Los Angeles, met his signature. fee for having the races there. took tapes and compact discs one final race with the winner loudest roar from the crowd future bandmates and began "I am hotheaded sometimes," Merrill explained his reasons out of and shoved new ones taking home $25. He said that came for the crab named After dabbling in drugs and alcohol. Hoon told the Detroit Free Press for buying the races. into. His selections ranged he revamped the pitcher kill 41 Years We're Finally Going Hoon was dogged by trouble. in a March 1994 interview. "I'm "I figured I'm out every from "The Muppets" theme contest to four people drinking totheF—in'Show. In October 1993, he faced nudity not the peace-loving guy that Tuesday night. I'm here having song to "Gloria" by Laura beer through straws. "I try to do things or say and indecent exposure charges everybody thinks I am. I've got a a great time, drinking beer and Brannigan. Prizes are given for best and things that make people after he stripped and urinated lot of bad elements Inside me. I'm into the crab races - why not "We changed the music that worst crab names each week. laugh," Merrill said. "I try to onstage during a concert in Van- trying to control them." make some money while I'm we played," Merrill said with The past Tuesday Zippy the keep people coming back couver, British Columbia. He Learning his girlfriend of 10 doing it," Merrill said. "One the banging of air hockey pad- Crab received a resounding thinking what the hell Is he go- was also charged with attacking years, Lisa Crouse, was pregnant night a week I'm the shit. I get dles In the background. "The round of boos from about the ing to say next And half the a security guard during the tap- was a turning point for Hoon. to say what I want and do what former guys played hard rock 30 people watching and racing time I'll surprise myself with ing of the American Music I want and have a great time and heavy metal. I play more in the preliminary race. I'm the stuff I say." Awards in February 1994. See HOON, page four. U.S. vows to freeze cartel assets Terence Hunt . celebration of the 50th anniver- with Americans and cuts them said criminal enterprises are Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, al- World Trade Center bombings to. The Associated Press sary of the United Nations. off from the U.S. financial moving "vast sums of ill-gotten though some of those countries the nerve-gas attack in a Tokyo Clinton signed an executive system.