Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 9-18-1995 The BG News September 18, 1995 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 September 18, 1995" (1995). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5883. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5883 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. Clir gig ilftua "Celebrating 75 years of Excellence » '' e" 1995 Inside the News Sports Opinion • Dan Gaffney discusses cruelty to animals 2 The Bowling Green football C^CimpUS* Expansion of Internet use discussed 4 team stomped Akron, 50-12. The team's record moved to State' Effects of contraceptive studied 5 2-1 on the season. Page 6 Nation • Sewer problems plague astronauts NEWS Monday. September 18, 1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 83, Issue 12 Splish splash Board approves request Ribeau attends first meeting of Trustees Jay Young projects. Improvements for the phase one, is a very important The BG News Health Center, University, one," Bryan said. "The sense was Hanna and Moseley halls were that it is an awfully important The approval of a state-funded included in the plan. project." capital request summary high- Trustee David Bryan said an Ribeau began his first report to lighted President Sidney important priority is phase one of the Trustees by thanking them Ribeau's first Board of Trustees the network infrastructure for the chance he has been given meeting Friday. project. as president. The Trustees approved a "I think it was the sense of the "I would like to take this oppor- $19,596 state-funded capital committee that priority number request that included seven five, the network infrastructure See TRUSTEES, page si». Student voice appointed Jay Young A non-voting member of the they need to take the students' The BC News board, Bristol said he is looking view into account." forward to his two-year term on Bristol, who replaces Jodi Governor George Voinovich the Board. Chappell, said he has learned a has appointed a new student "I think it is going to supple- lot in his first few months on the Hidcki Kobayashi/I he BG Newt voice to the Bowling Green ment my education and add to my board. Board of Trustees. Jason Bristol, experience at Bowling Green," "I'm really enjoying the posi- Sophomore Stephanie Szabo rows her boat in the Mud Tug Philanthropy Saturday morning. The event a junior environmental policy was held at Peregrine Pond between Harshman and Kreischcr quadrangles. Bristol said. "My goal is to be an tion," Bristol said. "[The major, said he is honored to be asset to the board when they the new student trustee. have issues or question when See BRISTOL, page six. Marilyn makes way for looting Kevin Galvin lief flights. A quarter of the people. lost their facades, gaping open The Associated Press houses on the island were des- Six people were killed on St. like dolls' houses. FEMA at first uoyed, and nearly all the others Thomas, home to 51,000 people. said half the island's houses were CHARLOTTE AMALIE, V.S. damaged. On St. Croix, the most populous destroyed, but later said a quar- Virgin Islands - The yachts that In Charlotte Amalie, capital of of the Virgin Islands with 55,000 ter were destroyed and another used to be in the marina are on the U.S. Virgin Islands, hundreds people, two people died. One per- 75 percent damaged. the highway. The red roofs of of people looted stores at a son was killed in Puerto Rico. Marilyn blew out the windows houses are strewn on the ground. waterfront shopping center. No President Clinton declared the of St. Thomas' hospital and The duty-free shops where tou- policemen were in sight. U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto flooded it, making it virtually rists used to look for bargains are "These are all odd shoes, man," Rico disaster areas, making them unusable. Doctors were trying to filled with looters. said a young man at a Foot eligible for federal emergency care for 49 patients, including Hurricane Marilyn has moved Locker store. "I can't find some- aid. nine critically injured in the on from St. Thomas, but the Car- thing that fits." Seven military transport storm and four on life-support ibbean island that it left behind The hurricane, the fourth to hit planes landed Sunday on St. units with erratic generator was a changed place Sunday. the Caribbean in as many weeks, Thomas with the first relief sup- power, said Dr. Manuel Guzman. The Associated Pieil Electricity, water and phones tore through the Virgin Islands plies for island residents - plas- Eight patients were evacuated The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Point Ledge is seen atop a sea wall were out. Air traffic controllers, and eastern Puerto Rico on Sat- tic sheeting, water, telephone Sunday, all by helicopter because In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Sunday. The ship as well as several the windows of their tower blown urday, blowing apart homes, equipment, emergency medical debris blocked the road to the other yachts and boats on the island were tossed onto land by out by 100-mph winds, used bino- tossing parked airplanes into the supplies. airport. Tin sheets from roofs Hurricane Marilyn, Saturday. culars and radios to guide in re- air and killing as many as nine In St. Thomas, many buildings lined the highway. UN extends Serb Audience decides withdrawal time to keep swimsuit The Associated Press ing the Bosnian capital. The second 72-hour period contest in pageant SARAJEVO, Bosnia- ends at 10 p.m. (4 p.m. EDT) Herzegovina ~ NATO and the on Wednesday. United Nations on Sunday Hours before the extension, gave the Bosnian Serbs an U.S. Defense Secretary Wil- Miss Oklahoma receives birthday extra 72 hours to remove liam Perry said Bosnian Serbs heavy weapons around Sar- had picked up the pace of surprise, crowned Miss America ajevo. withdrawal. Western commanders ex- Perry, speaking to reporters in 75th anniversary of ceremony tended a deadline of 10 p.m. (4 in the former Yugoslav repub- "I'd like to take the opportunity p.m. EDT) Sunday evening, lic of Slovenia, said NATO The Associated Press to tell everyone in the United saying the Serbs showed "ini- warned the Serbs late Satur- ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Miss States, thank you so much for tial compliance" with de- day that they were moving too Oklahoma Shawntel Smith got coming together in a time of need mands to pull the artillery and slowly. other heavy weapons back at "Today, some escalation the birthday present many young in my state. We received so much girls only dream about Saturday: least 12 1/2 miles from Sar- has, in fact, occurred," Perry support and so many prayers She was crowned Miss America. from other people around the na- ajevo. said. U.N. and NATO generals "Therefore, we agreed that But she had to share her party. tion," Smith said. would be deciding later Sun- Swimsuits took center stage as the suspension of the air- day whether to extend the Miss Oregon Emily John Orton strikes be extended for an ad- viewers voted overwhelmingly to was first-runner up, followed by deadline, he said. retain the controversial swimsuit ditional 72 hours," said a "I expect, and certainly Miss Arkansas Paula Gaye competition, in keeping with 75 statement by NATO com- hope, that they will be able to Montgomery, Miss California mander Adm. Leighton Smith continue the suspension of the years of pageant history. Tiffany Stoker, and Miss Illinois Smith blew kisses to the crowd, and U.N. commander Lt. Gen. bombing," Perry sa*d. Tracy Hayes. Bernard Janvier of France. AP reporter Jovana Gee, on mouthed thanks to the judges and Most of this year's contestants blinked back tears after her "It is our common judgment a tour organized by Bosnian said they supported the swimsuit AP Photo/Tim Cotlcllo that the Bosnian Serbs have Serb officials, saw about 60 name was announced. "I don't be- competition. Opponents included Miss America Shawntel Smith continues the traditional photo shown a substantial start pieces of heavy weaponry lieve this," she appeared to say the outgoing Miss America. session by leaping Into the air Sunday, the morning after she was towards withdrawing their near the edge of the 12 before Heather Whitestone pin- "If you're competing for a crowned Miss America. Smith continued the tradition under ad- ned the crown on her shimmer- heavy weapons beyond the li- 1/2-mile zone, heading away scholarship and a job to become a verse driving winds and rain. mits of the exclusion zone," from Sarajevo. ing red hair. Then she took a vic- spokesperson for your platform, the statement said. The convoys - one heading tory walk down the runway in a you should be judged on your ing that the tradition helps show University. It didn't say how many south and one heading west - beaded white gown. heart and mind and how you han- off contestants' physical fitness. In the talent competition, she weapons the Serbs withdrew d included tanks, howitzers, "I could not have gotten a bet- dle yourself, not on how you wear The 10 finalists donned red sang "Woman in the Moon." by the 10 p.m.