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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 2-7-1992 The BG News February 7, 1992 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News February 7, 1992" (1992). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5328. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5328 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Colored Ink G The BG News Friday, February 7,1992 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 74, Issue 91 Weather Chance of flurries: Cloudy Friday with a chance of snow flurries. High around 30. Northwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow is 40 percent. Friday night and Saturday, mostly cloudy with a chance of snow flurries. Low Friday night 10 to IS and the high Saturday near 20. Chance of snow is 40 percent both Fri- day night and Saturday. Inside The News Unification suggested: Speaker encourages Ohio The BG News/Tim Nwnu colleges and Universities to Speaking about his national strategy for health care reform, President Bush ad- Smaller Enterprises In Cleveland Thursday. Gov. Voinovich, who said he supported take uniform stance against dresses the Greater Cleveland Growth Association and members of the Council on Bush's proposal, attended the presentation along with Lt. Gov. DeWlne. state budget cuts. U Page four. On Campus Bush reveals new health policy Coin' to the chapel: by Michelle Banks Jill Novak, senior journal- The BC News system more efficient; criticized proach to health care. Communi- ism major and former editor the amount of medical malprac- "Some people have scribbled out a prescription lor ty leaders across the country can of The BG News, has ac- tice and said the growth in follow your lead," he said. cepted the CLEVELAND - President government health care pro- disaster, they want to nationalize the health system. I don't Proponents of socialized med- marriage George Bush unveiled his grams must be curbed. befeve people want to be shoveled into some new health icine often do not have all the proposal national strategy for health care According to his proposal, low facts. Bush said. printed in reform Thursday and said his income families would be issued care bureaucracy." Wednes- plan will make medical treat- health insurance certificates so George Bush, President of the United States He explained a nationalized day's edi- ment available for all citizens. dependent families could pur- health care system would create tion of the "My plan will give Americans a chase insurance. Bush said fami- made more efficient by creating prises (COSE), a Cleveland or- waiting lists for surgery and News in- greater sense of security - help lies would receive about $300 per Health Insurance Networks ganization which promotes small governmental red tape. sert Up- ease the fears so many Ameri- month in health vouchers. (HIN). businesses, implemented a plan "Some people have scribbled date cans have that changing jobs will Middle-income families would "Insurance costs obey the law last year similar to Bush's pro- out a prescription for disaster, Magazine. Novak cost them their health coverage," receive a $3,750 Insurance tax of large numbers. The larger the posed HIN. they want to nationalize the Novak Bush said. deduction while people making group being insured, the lower Bush praised COSE's example health system," Bush said. "I discovered Fry's proposal In his four point plan, Bush less than $80,000 can choose the the cost per individual," Bush and said the nation should follow don't believe people want to be while reading the magazine blasted health care's high cost; tax credit or health vouchers. said. suit. shoveled into some new health Wednesday morning in the said he will make the health care Health care costs would be The Council of Smaller Enter- 'This is an innovative ap- care bureaucracy." company of Matt and her roommates in her home. She immediately said "yes." Although unorthodox, No- vak said Matt's method of USG Board urges proposing was fine with her. U.S. forces more boat "That's what Matt wanted - for everyone to know honest campaign about it," Novak said. No plans have been set for people home to Haiti a wedding. for office-seekers by Kevin Noblet The Associated Press the sanctions had been hurting the poor rather than the powerful at whom they were aimed. Outside campus by Julie Tagllaferro from last year. At Port-au-Prince's oily, sun-drenched pier, The war continues: The BC News For example, candidates who PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The United States small groups of Haitians gathered to watch 508 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) exceed their spending allowan- ces, falsify receipts, destroy resumed its effort to return more than 10,000 of their compatriots descend from two U.S. The Senate has approved Haitian boat people, delivering two shiploads of Coast Guard cutters with bundles of clothing and returned to the House Undergraduate Student other candidates' campaign ma- Government's Elections and terials or work for another can- refugees to the capital's wharf Thursday for a and enter a large concrete-roofed patio for pro- with amendments a proposal cessing. that allows cities and Opinions Board explained the didate will be disqualified. bleak homecoming. rules and regulations of the USG The repatriation came amid indications that a "To see them return like this, truly humi- villages to use nuisance laws liated, makes me want to give up my Haitian cit- in the war against drugs. election campaigns, scheduled to This includes working as a U.S.-supported international push for a nego- tiated settlement of Haiti's political crisis was izenship," said 19-year-old Nipson Isme, a high Sen. Charles Horn, R-Ket- begin Monday. staff member on a presidential candidate's campaign while run- stalled. school student. tering, won 33-0 approval Friday marks the anniversary of the swear- Most of the refugees were expressionless, but Wednesday of the bill that Rob Routzahn, USG vice presi- ning for a senator or vice versa. dent and chairman of the Elec- The candidate for whom the staff ing-in of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Hai- a few smiled sheepishly for foreign news pho- gives local officials an addi- ti's first democratically-elected president, but tographers. Some expressed concern about their tional tool to move against tions and Opinions Board, en- member is working will also be couraged the students at the disqualified. he was in office less than eight months before future treatment by authorities. the owners of crack houses being ousted in a military coup. "Will we be beaten?" asked Alfonse Alfred, 54, and other drug trafficking meeting to be fair to each other There are 19 candidates run- when campaigning and "show ning for the 12 at-large senator Aristide, in a broadcast by the Voice of Amer- who is from a village near the western coastal operations. ica's Creole-language radio service to Haiti, said city of St. Marc. He said he had fled Haiti for The bill also gives village mutual respect for each other." positions. U.S. plans to loosen a trade embargo imposed in economic and not political reasons, but that he and municipal officials the Routzahn and the other mem- Only two students announced bers of the committee encour- their candidacy for president, as retaliation for the coup would cause his backers feared the reaction of authorities to internation- authority to continue the to "radicalize" their positions. There were signs al publicity about the refugees' plight. prosecution of nuisance aged the candidates to pay atten- cases filed by citizens who tion to new or changed rules See USG, page five. later fail to pursue pros- ecution. Lottery Trustees to decide future plans for Founders Quad CLEVELAND (AP) Here by Kirk Pavellch The BC News figuration. This time it's a question of go or not go," some people are going to be saying 'Why is the Universi- are Thursday night's Ohio Barber said. ty doing something like this?'" he said. "People have Lottery selections: Improvements to the building would include the in- looked at [those concerns] with care, struggled with Pick 3 Numbers The University Board of Trustees will meet at the stallation of air conditioning and private bathrooms in them and agonized with them." 3-0-4 each of the rooms and the conversion of the occupancy "As everybody knows we're facing a tough demogra- (three, zero, four) WBGU-TV studios today at 10 am. to decide whether they will proceed with the planned renovation project level from five persons to two, Barber said. phic period in Ohio right now and to have a residence Pick 4 Numbers for Founders Quadrangle. "Nobody wants a five-person room," he said. "In the hall that nobody wants to live in isn't any help," Barber 9-8-9-4 Lester Barber, secretary to the Board of Trustees, 1950's that was an acceptable strategy, but it's not ac- said. (nine, eight, nine, four) said today's meeting will be the third time the board has ceptable anymore. It was proposed that for an addi- The final cost of the project is expected from the Uni- Cards reviewed the plan. Last May, trustees first looked into tional amount of money we would actually do renova- versity architect at today's meeting.