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ESTABLISHED 1920 A daily independent student press serving THE BG NEWS the campus and surrounding community Tuesday April 24,2007 Volume 101, Issue 143 WWWBGNEWSCOM Dance leads to brawl in Union Diet fads come and they go, but never last City police dispatched with pepper spray after event ends in violence These diets consist By Holly Abrams of three things: fat, Spring lest, an after party of two officers administered pep- and president of Dry Dock. and escalate,'' he said. "It's like ... Editor-in-Chief music and dancing in its llttl per spray alter those students According to Brittany they want an altercation so the protein and carbs year, was scheduled to take place tailed to comply with orders to Davidson. University alumnus party doesn't go on." | P«,eS What started out as a campus that evening from 11:30 p.m. to stop fighting, according to the who was taking pictures at Spring Sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha social event, turned Into a lighl 2 a.m. I Jniversity police report. lest, there were several small Fraternity, Inc. and Dry Dock, subsequently with police using The event came to a halt when This mass of several hundred lights between girls on the dance the aim of Spring I'est is to unite Virginia Tech pepper spray to subdue crowds a light broke out around 12:15 students then began pushing floor before a larger fight started, Bowling Green and Toledo area returns to daily both inside and outside the a.m., according to lill Can", dean through the Union doors and leading to the event's end. The students, Cisco said. Dry Dock schedule Union. of students, who was present. running outside to the parking event Dl stopped the music five is a campus group that works to Early Sunday morning several "Some sort of confrontation lot. About I,(KM) students wire times to ask campus police to promote alcohol-free events and A week later, the Bowling Green city police offi- occurred during the dance in the anticipated to attend the event, intervene with the fighting stu- unify and retain students in the memories are not cers were dispatched to assist ballroom," she said. and according to Can*, nearly all dents, hi'said. BGSU black community. University police with traffic and About six University offi- the tickets sold. Davidson said he questioned "We thought it was going to forgotten and victims crowd control near the Onion cers were already at the event "Mace doesn't do anything but the campus police's plan of be a social event," said David are remembered after a fight broke out inside for security. After an altercation Induce panic and make people action in macing students. | PageS moments prior. between about six to 10 students. run," said Andre Cisco, junior "You just don't let things go on See BRAWL | Page 7 Companies sued for Katrina funds University students gather to shed light in a time of darkness USG passes Nationwide is the latest, settling out resolution for of court after clients demand payoff for damages | Page 6 environment ByK.llyD-y Senior Reporter Students Although the University has charged after environmental programs girl's death like recycling competition "Recyclemania" and energy Five friends of a girl who saving "Power Down," environ- was killed by a freight mentally conscious students are train face charges of ready to see progress in milking the University a "green" campus. supplying the girl with At last night's Undergraduate alcohol | Page 8 Student Government meeting, the recently-elected senate, led by President lohnnie Lewis and Vice Girls softball President Nick Gamero, passed win streak ends their first resolution, hoping to infomi University administrators Over the weekend, LAUREH SHINDOLLAR -1 "' '.'.'. students arc concerned about the the team loses three environment. games to EMU and Members of environmental : CMU|Page13 REMEMBRANCE: vilmun Erin Motley. 0»My Madison and Kelly action groups approached Lewis Nightingale stand sombeily in remembrance ol the Va Tech victims Left Kayla about their concerns with BGSU s Sprained ankle Sdieiiher lets het light bum bright at last nights vigil Below: Freshman Amanda lack of programs. won't stop him Hight and Pat Haney share their light for the students who lost their lives. Bottom: "They're afraid that they aren't Students come together to support their fellow college students. being heard," Lewis said. Injury won t keep And according to lewis, their Lebron off the court fears are valid because the gen- | Page IS eral feeling among administrators is that smdents don't care how "green" campus is. "If the administration who are saving we don't care about a green movement on this campus, this is saying 'yeah we do," he said. SeeUS6|Page2 LAURSN SHINDOLLAR •HSBC.HEWS Boris Yeltsin Panel explores passed away at the age of 76 debate around Read about the life of gay marriage former president of By Chriity Johnson Russia that took down Reporter the Soviet Union | Page 11 I lomosexual couples do not share the same privileges and rights that heterosexual couples share. ■Will John McCains This is a fact. comments on Iran LAUREN SHINDOIUMI LAURLN SHINDOLLAR •• W, -JL.'. Panelists at the Second Annual affect his presidential Law Society Panel Discussion bid? could at least agree on this. Legislation, human rights and biology were among the topics discussed as panelists tried to convey their viewpoints on the First freely elected RSA to address controversial subjects. Then is no federal law protect- ing homosexual couples or giv- MATTDURKOT. concerns via the Web ing them access to a marriage Freshman. Construction Russian president dies license. States can choose to put Management By Molly McO.hr. "RSA General marriage or civil unions on the By Douglas Birch Reporter ballot to be voted on by residents "It could because he's The Associated Press Boris Assemblies were of the state. making fun of Iranians. Yeltsin The Resident Student Such is the case in |Page4 MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin, who Former Russian Association is catching up not enough for Massachusetts, where gay mar- kicked the props out from under president with technology. riage has been legal since 2004. the tottering Soviet empire and RSA has recently formed a students to voice But if a couple gets married in then struggled to build a nation new Web site for students to Massachusetts then that mar- from its wreckage, died yester- b» voice their concerns. their concerns..." riage is not recognized in other day after seeing many of his features and wave of white hair "RSA tiencral Assemblies states, such as Ohio, where same democratic reforms rolled back. TODAY could be seen again yesterday were not enough for students Timothy Hampel | Sophomore sex marriage is banned. Partly Cloudy The former Russian president in file footage on Russian televi- to voice their concerns, the Scientific research has given High: 67, Low: 46 was 76. sion. Web site allows things to run hall staff, program, dining hall Lance lones, doctoral student in Larger than life during his ten- President Vladimir Putin spoke more smoothly all across cam - and roommate issues. the psychology department, rea- &•".?£ ure, Yeltsin shrank from public to the nation four hours after pus," said limothy Hampel, Previously, the only way son to believe there are no social view following his retirement the announcement of Yeltsin's sophomore and director of that students could voice their or psychological differences on New Year's Eve 1999, and in death to praise briefly Russia's student concerns for RSA. concerns was through their between a homosexual person or TOMORROW recent years has rarely given first freely elected president as a Concerns that smdents can hall representatives who were a heterosexual person. The way a Cloudy interviews. But the big, bump- express through the Web site tious politician with the soft pink See YELTSIN | Page 2 and USA are residence hall, SeeRSA|Page2 High: 51. Low: 41 See PANEL | Page 2 k VISIT BGNEWS.COM: NEWS, SPORTS. UPDATES, MULTIMEDIA AND FORUMS FOR YOUR EVERYDAY LIFE 2 Tjesday. April 24 .TJO; WWWBGNEWS.COM BLOTTER CORRECTION YELTSIN Yeltsin will be buried tomor- an kills apt. manager row in Moscow's historic SATURDAY A copy editing error From Page 1 N'ovodevichy cemetery, the By Jo» Stineb.ikot complex's office, shooting the ' :!<iysBG News may have mislead resting place of such diverse fig- 5:01 A.M. The Associated Press manager and pistol-whip readers on who would be speaking at man "thanks to whom a whole ures as wrifer Anton Chekhov wlinq Green Fire plngaman trying to serve the the Undergraduate Student Government new epoch has started." and former Soviet leader Nikita Department received a call that HOUSTON \ man being eviction notice, police said, i <<a Tech New democratic Russia was Khrushchev. i porch o* an East f eviction from a luxury apart- Prantic residents called (he luledlor born, a free state open to the Putin postponed his annu- Strec' rVhen ment complex shot and killed office to warn workers thai resident world; a state in which power al state of the state address .