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C The BG News "A Commitment to Excellence" Friday, January 21, 1994 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 82 Woman can attend school Clintons to be Faulkner investigated by Carolyn Skorneck Fiske said he would not use any enters The Associated Press of the Justice Department pros- ecutors now investigating the Citadel WASHINGTON - President failed Madison Guaranty Savings Clinton and his wife should be & Loan and its links to the Clin- classroom questioned under oath as part of tons' investment in Whitewater a "thorough Development Corp. by Bruce Smith and impartial "In order to conduct a truly in- The Associated Press investigation" dependent investigation, I should of their Arkan- have people working for me who CHARLESTON, S.C. - Shannon sas land deals, are not also reporting to the at- Faulkner walked into a biology Robert B. Fiske torney general," Fiske told a class at The Citadel on Thursday Jr. said Thurs- news conference. and made history. She became day as he was The selection of Fiske, now a the first woman in the school's named special Wall Street lawyer, fits sugges- 151-year history to take a class counsel to ex- tions that the special counsel be a with the corps of cadets. amine the case. Fiske veteran attorney and a Republi- "It wasn't like walking into any The former Republican U.S. at- can. While Fiske was appointed other class, when there are 30 torney said he was prepared to by Republican President Ford to guys in the class and you're the "go flat out," in the investigation. be U.S. attorney for the Southern only woman," said Faulkner, who "It's important for the country to District of New York in Manhat- also celebrated her 19th birthday get this done and get it done as tan, he served mainly under Thursday. quickly and as thoroughly and as Democratic President Carter, "My first day of class went fairly as possible," Fiske said. from 1976 to 1980. well," she said. "The cadets have His appointment by Attorney He declined to say for whom he spoken to me. I don't think I'll be General Janet Reno fell on the voted in the last presidential having any problems." first anniversary of the presi- election. She got a $10 ticket for parking dent's inauguration. in the faculty lot. Faulkner said Senate Republican leader Bob As a private attorney, Fiske de- she thought school officials told Dole said it should not stop con- fended the manufacturer of the her she could park there. gressional committees from nuclear reactor at Three Mile Faulkner, who had all gender their own investigations. He Island in a $4 billion damage suit references removed from her pulled back from earlier calls for and recently represented key de- high school transcript, first was establishment of a special in- fendants in the Bank of Credit accepted by the school, then re- vestigating panel. and Commerce International jected when Citadel officials Fiske said he planned to speak fraud case. found out she is a woman. So she directly to the president and his sued the state-supported military wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Republican leader Dole told college last year, saying its all- "I would certainly expect that reporters he doesn't know Fiske, male policy was unconstitutional. before this investigation is over but "people who know him think that I would question both the he is extremely well-qualified, is A federal judge ruled she could president and the first lady and independent." attend day classes, although not that it would be under oath," as a cadet, while her lawsuit Fiske said. Dole said, "Some of the con- proceeded. The Citadel went to White House officials said the servative Republicans have not the Supreme Court to try to keep Clintons would cooperate with been happy with him." They her out, but Chief Justice William Fiske. When asked about the were angered by his involvement AP Photo/Lou Kraiky Rehnquist on Tuesday said she counsel's plan to seek their in the American Bar Associa- could attend classes. statements under oath. White tion's screening of potential Shannon Faulkner of Powdersvllle, S.C, arrives for class at The Citadel, Thursday. Faulkner Is the House Press Secretary Dee Dee judges. first woman In the 151-year history of the military college In Charleston, S.C, to take classes with all- See WOMAN, page 3. Myers said, "He hasn't done it Fiske's Republican credentials male corps of cadets. yet. We'll deal with that when it wont end a GOP push for a con- gressional investigation. More than 100 Officials receive proposal by Leah Barnum die in cold spell News staff writer by Michael Bass ■*■ The Associated Press A proposal by the Ohio Board Ohio Regents implement Voinovich's bill of Regents to improve under- by Leah Barnum vich's proposal, it focused in on titled "Securing the Future," The temperature was 20 below zero in northern Wisconsin; the graduate instruction has just News staff writer some of the major intentions of was released a few months ago, gusts of bitter wind made it feel like 60 below. Toini and Erny Oberg been received that proposal, and is now being Barber said. were five miles from home when their car hit an icy rut and slid into a by University In a separate effort to revise implemented by the OBOR, Since then, another commit- ditch. officials, but higher education. Governor Barber said. tee of the Ohio Board of Re- Toini Oberg was 74 and had undergone heart bypass surgery, but many questions George Voinovlch originally But many faculty members gents, the Regents Workload her husband was older and frailer, and needed a walker. need to be ad- initiated the Managing for the are unaware of all of the impli- Committee, has been devising Mrs. Oberg borrowed her husband's leather mittens, wrapped her dressed before Future Task Force two years cations, or lack thereof, sur- a way to implement the plan in coat and scarf tightly around her, and set out for help. Her des- official policy ago to improve efficiency and rounding that bill, Barber said. all the state universities. tination: their son-in-law's home, 500 yards away. can be made. effectiveness of undergradu- Faculty members have ex- The committee has sent a From the car, 81-year-old Erny Oberg watched in horror as his wife The proposal ate instruction, according to pressed concern that their version of the regents' guide- trudged uphill into the wind and collapsed. demands that Lester Barber, assistant to workload will be increased, lines to all of Ohio's state uni- versities for review and com- Mrs. Oberg died Tuesday - one of 101 deaths blamed so far on the faculty mem- Muego President Paul Olscamp. Barber said. record cold weather that has battered much of the nation since late bers increase About the same time, the bill "Much of the feeling of ment. last week. The toll has been rising daily, even as temperatures edged attention directed toward under- - which demands a 10 percent threat comes from misinfor- above zero and reached double digits for the first time In a week. graduate instruction by 10 per- increase in attention toward mation," he said. After the faculty members of Many have died In accidents on ice-slick roads. Some have suffered cent, according to Lester Barber, undergraduate instruction - The Board of Regents re- all the state universities have a heart attacks while shoveling snow. A few have been killed by their executive assistant to President a was approved by the Ohio vised Voinlvich's plan to better chance to review the proposed efforts to keep warm, such as a North Carolina man who died in a fire Paul Olscamp. legislature. Although it was a suit the needs and purpose of plan, it must be passed by the that began when he tried to thaw his water pipes with a blowtorch Within the next several days, separate action from Voino- higher education. Their report, Board of Regents. The victims include a Minnesota woman who fell as she stepped each faculty member will outside to feed birds; a Pittsburgh woman who collapsed while re- receive a copy of the proposed "[The proposal] puts emphasis ties' definitions of teaching, Many faculty members fear trieving mall; and a New York motorist, caught in a snowstorm, who guidelines to review on his or her on undergraduate Instruction Muego said. their workloads will be in- knocked at a house for help and was turned away. own, said Eloise Clark, vice that is deserved," Hakel said. Therefore, the regents have creased, and even doubled, Hakel With temperatures in some places 30 and 40 degrees below zero president for academic affairs at However, there are many am- decided to allow each of the state said. But the policy should not af- even the slightest exposure can be fatal.