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SportS • Cross Country teams to run at Notre Dame 6 NEWS Page 2 Thursday, October 5,1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 86, Issue 23 Women They Keep Going... Baldwin's work, advised spirit alive after to take 1970s 'malaise' Andrea Wood Champion said he saw Bald- caution The BG News win's effect on the University and its students first hand. Since Lee Bute Author and essayist James 1990, Champion has researched The BG News Baldwin stepped onto University and written a book about James grounds during the sleeping 70s Baldwin and Chlnua Achebe, an- Thinking ahead and being pre- and awoke a spirit that pulses other prominent literary figure pared are important parts of long after his departure and of the '70s. The book is due for eliminating the danger of rape, death. release this week. according to University officials. Baldwin be- Champion's book, "Mr. Bald- The number of on-campus gan as a writer- win, I presume James Baldwin - rapes at the University seems to in-resldence in Chinua Achebe: A Meeting of the be on the rise. There was only 1977 and even- Minds," outlines Baldwin's con- one rape reported in 1992, but In tually became a tributions to the University and 1993 there were two and In 1994 distinguished his shared visions with Achebe. there were four. visiting profes- In the book's preface, Cham- "Women really need to use sor of ethnic pion wrote,"It was only because good judgement and common studies. He he loved America that he felt that SMcle McGrt w/Tht BG Newi if nobody else would, he at least sense and realize that it can hap- remained a Baldwin pen here and it can happen to A WFAL member blesses Junior Bob Gorkin's stick before he strikes a Duracell bunny in the Union part of the would stand up and demand that Oval Wednesday afternoon. He broke the CD-filled plnata and won a CD player. them," said Barb Waddell, the University community until we look at ourselves in the mir- public information officer for the 1981. He died in 1987. ror and decide whether we like campus police department. Known by his students as Jim- what we see." Julie Broadwell, the director of my, Baldwin challenged them to J.S. Scott, professor of ethnic victim/survivor services at The question the authenticity of the studies, said he enjoyed a friend- Link, suggested that women "facts" being presented in their ship with Baldwin during his learn self-defense techniques. BG's two-sport star classes. He took particular inter- time at the University. Scott said "You should always be pre- est in the educational experience he believes Baldwin's contribu- pared to defend yourself," of black students. tions to the University prompted Broadwell said. "Learning self- Local man Andy Tracy punts, plays 1st base Much of Baldwin's writing, in- cultural and creative awareness, defense techniques helps you to cluding his first novel "Go Tell it both collectively and individual- be able to react in bad situa- on the Mountain," deals with ra- iy. Scott Brown us," baseball coach Danny cism in the U.S. Baldwin wrote of Scott directed a theater pro- tions." Schmitz said. "He's doing an out- Staying in lighted areas when The BG News colonialism, Christianity and duction in the late '70s titled standing job with the football walking at night and being aware slavery, and how these historical "From the Region of his Mind," team, too, so I'm sure that coach [ of surroundings are also impor- institutions contribute to Ameri- based on a collection of Bald- Andy Tracy's Tale of the Tape GarylBlackney is happy with his ca's race relations today. win's works. tant, Broadwell said. takes a beating between football According to Waddell, the main play thus far." Ernest A. Champion, professor "James Baldwin made a valua- and baseball. "He's a very gifted athlete," of ethnic studies and director of ble contribution to this Universi- thing women should remember is His 70-yard punts equate into Blackney said. "Anybody who to never walk alone at night. cultural diversity curriculum, ty," Scott said. "He awakened the little more than short pop-up can hit four home runs in one offered Baldwin the original in- University out of its social and "You just cannot be walking by outs. His game and then turn around and yourself at night - not just at BG, vitation to teach at the Universi- political malaise after the activ- 400-foot home punt a football 70 yards has to be ty. ism of the '60s had faded." but anywhere," Waddell said. runs would sail a gifted athlete." Waddell advised that if a stu- well up into the Of baseball and football, it is on dent is alone and needs to go Perry Stadium the diamond where Tracy can somewhere, they should call the bleachers. expect to find the most success Campus Escort Service, which is So it goes for on the next level. He was drafted Study examines open until 2 am. seven days a the Bowling by the Cincinnati Reds in the 26th week. Green native, round of the June amateur draft The Internet seems to be the whose two-s- after his stellar junior season. newest place for rapists to find Tracy black criminals port antics at Tracy decided to forego turn- their victims these days, Waddell his hometown ing professional in favor of play- count iy Sport! In format Ion c f dec said. university are impressive ing one more year for the Falcons Connie Case Andy Tracy li a star at the plate The Associated Press Earlier in the school year, a enough even without the All- and earning his degree. He is a (above) and with the football (be- University student met someone Conference numbers he boasts in sports management major. low) for Bowling Green. over the Internet and decided to each. WASHINGTON - Almost one in every three young black men is go to a party with him, where she "The only thing is the time "I was really happy being se- my draft. It kind of insulted me a serving a criminal sentence - either prison, probation or parole, ac- was later raped. constraints," said Tracy, the pun- lected by them," Tracy said. "It little bit. I dont think the money cording to a study by an advocacy group. That's a dramatic increase "The Internet is a new toy and ter for the football team and first was also a letdown. I was really from five years earlier, when the proportion was one in four. Sec TRACY, page nine. a new way to communicate, but baseman for the baseball team. disappointed in the placement of The statistics released Wednesday are sure to fuel arguments there's still a high risk involved," "I haven't had any time off in about whether blacks are treated fairly by the criminal justice WaddeU said. three years. You have football in system - a theme that permeated the O.J Simpson trial. It also is an Waddell advised women who the fall and then you jump right issue cited by organizers of a national black men's march for unity find themselves in this situation into baseball, then you have and atonement to use common sense and not summer baseball." "If one in three young white men were under criminal justice su- give out their phone numbers or Tracy is having a career year pervision, the nation would declare a national emergency," said Marc addresses. She also advised that on the football field, averaging Mauer, co-author of the study by The Sentencing Project, a research if a woman sets up a meeting 41.1 yards a kick. He had a ca- group that supports alternatives to prison. with someone she meets over the reer-best 71-yarder against Cen- The report argues that the mandatory minimum sentences and Internet, she should not go alone. tral Michigan and a 65-yarder stepped up enforcement that began with the 1980s "war on drugs" According to Waddell, if a last week against Temple. have fallen disproportionately on blacks and women. woman has been sexually assaul- He is coming off a career year The report says that explains why blacks accounted for 24 percent ted but has also been drinking al- in baseball, too, where he of all drug arrests in 1980, but the figure climbed to 39 percent in cohol, she should still come to the cracked a school record-tying IS 1993. police station and file a report. home runs and had 40 RBIs. Blacks make up 12 percent of the U.S. population. "Our primary concern is the Both his head coaches have A Justice Department spokesman, John Russell, said the depart- victim's well-being," Waddell lauded him for his play.