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Tuesday Weather High 85° Vol.72 Issue 5 Low 65° August 29, 1989 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News Voyager 2 BRIEFLY exploring Campus icy moon Interim director: The Office by Lee Siegel of Affirmative Action/Handicap Associated Press writer Services will be temporarily operating under an interim director due to the death of director Miguel PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Nep- Ornelas last Thursday. tune's icy volcanic moon Triton is the Robert Cunningham will act as coldest body ever measured in the interim director of Affirmative Action solar system, NASA said Monday, and — the program designed to provide the planet itself has something in equal opportunities for minorities. common with Los Angeles: smog. "We will be initiating a search for a The Voyager 2 space probe also dis- new director as soon as possible," covered auroras vaguely like Earth's said Phil Mason, executive assistant northern lights on Neptune and Triton, to University President Paul scientists said. Olscamp. Looking backward 3.2 million miles, Voyager 2 on Monday took a series of family portraits of Neptune and Triton, Theater seats: Season passes appearing as crescents as they were now are on sale for the 1989-90 backlighted by the sun. University theater season which Earlier, Voyager 2's ultraviolet de- begins Sept. 27 with "Deathtrap" by tector determined that Triton's surface Ira Levin. Passes, which are $30 for temperature is 400 degrees below zero adults and $20 for students and senior Fahrenheit, making the moon "the citizens, are on sale at the University coldest body we have seen in the solar Theater Office, and are good for all system," said Roger Yelle of the Uni- thirteen productions during the versity of Arizona. Scientists believe Pluto and its moon Charon are the second-coldest bodies in MCO admits: Applications are the solar system. currently being accepted for the In another finding, the best close-up guaranteed early admissions photo yet of another moon, 1989 Nl, Srogram for the Medical College of showed that Neptune's second-largest hio at Toledo. Open to all full-time moon has a huge crater about half as students, the program is designed to wide as the lumpy-looking, 240-mile- guarantee acceptance to MCO after wide satellite. the sophomore year. For information That indicates that a big meteorite and applications contact Michael once smacked into 1989 Nl, one of six Rastatter, associate dean of the moons discovered since June by Voy- College of Health and Human ager, according to Bradford Smith, the Services. leader of Voyager's photographic imaging team. Voyager also sent back heat State measurements to help scientists find liquid lakes or oceans on Triton, but the moon almost certainly is too cold to Peeping Jose: Jose Reyes, 33, have them, said Torrence Johnson, a of Lorain, is being accused of peeping scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion in a 15-year old girl's window. Reyes Laboratory here. was sitting in a tree overlooking the Johnson defended the theory, advan- girl's window when police arrived. ced by other scientists Sunday, that Trial date is set for Sept. 20. Triton has active volcanoes that erupt nitrogen ice particles 20 miles sky- ward. "It isn't a crazy idea," he said. MaSS march: In Cincinnati, 20 Voyager's close encounter with Nep- Black Catholics marched on the tune occurred Thursday night and it Archdiocese of Cincinnati for greater passed Triton on Friday, capping its involvement in archdiocese and epic tour of the four outer planets, in- masses. There are 19 counties in cluding Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. southwest Ohio involved in the The probe has also found five rings, archdiocese. including three thin ones and two broad bands of dust. 1989 Nl took Nereid's place as Nep- Nation tune's second largest moon after Tri- ton. Nl and the other five moons dis- Kissing couples: During the covered by Voyager in addition to Tri- Great American Kiss-Off in Reno, ton and Nereid, which were discovered Nevada three couples from the finals, from Earth, have not yet been perma- after kissing for 1812-hour days nently named. decided to get married in a furniture The latest data returned by Voy- parking lot. The three couples were ager's ultraviolet light sensor revealed each trying to win the $10,000 grand auroras somewhat like Earth's north- prize. ern and southern lights over wide sec- tions of Neptune's skies and over much Roy remembered: In Roy See Voyager, page 3. Orbison's hometown of Wink, Texas 2,500 fans gathered Saturday for a memorial concert to pay tribute to the late singer. Proceeds will go to a Professor dies of cancer Activists go too museum in his honor. Orbison died Miguel M. Ornelas, director of Affirmative Action Ornelas was a member of the University's Gradu- Dec. 6 of a heart attack at the age of at the University and head of the Ohio Hispanic Insti- ate Student Center, the Third World Graduate Asso- 52. tute of Opportunity, died Thursday in Wood County ciation and La Union de Estudiantes Latinos. Hospital after suffering from cancer. He was 55. He received many honors and awards, including far for freedom Terrific tippers: Italian Ornelas also served as an ethnic the First Hispanic Award by Project Search and the restaurants receive more tips than studies and sociology professor in Academic Achievment Award by La Union de Estu- by Mark J. Porubcansky Chinese or Mexican restaurants, addition to heading the Affirmative diantes Latinos at the University. He was also named Associated Press writer according to a recent poll conducted Action/Handicap Services Office to the Board of Trustees of the Owens Technical Col- by the Internal Revenue Service. The since July 1987. lege, the Committee on Migrant Farm Workers and MOSCOW (AP) — President Mikhail Gorbachev survey also showed that those that He earned his master's degree in the Hispanic Task Force — all by the Ohio governor. has told officials of the Lithuanian Communist Party accept credit cards received more sociology from the University in "Miguel was a friend and close adviser, and served that the Baltic republic has gone too far in its drive tips than those that served alcohol. 1975 and his doctorate in 1976. the University well," said University President Paul for independence, an activist said Monday. From 1975 to 1979, Ornelas ser- Olscamp. "He strived to improve working conditions In an attack on ethnic activists in another republic, Waste not: This year's ved as a minority counselor and and increase the hiring of women and minorities on the Communist Party daily newspaper Pravda ac- National Award for Beneficial Reuse ethnic studies adviser. He was the campus, and to ensure fair treatment for the handi- cused the People's Front of Moldavia of trying to of Sludge, given by the interim director of the Guadelupe Ornelaa capped." "take power on the crest of a muddy wave of chau- Environmental Protection Agency, Family Clinic in Toledo and worked as a bilingual '"He had more committment to Affirmative Action vanism and separatism." • was presented to Austin, Texas for its health specialist with the Ohio Department of and to the advancement of minorities than I've ever use of 250 tons of sludge per month. Health. O See Death, page 8. O See Soviets, page 8. The town uses it for fertilizer for city park grass and for crops. Hearty tomato: Gardening Sroved to be enriching for Minnie accaria in Eatontown, N.J. Zaccaria Trail erf ire kills two won $1,100 for having the largest tomato, 4.27 lbs. in Monmouth County Smoking materials ignite deadly blaze and the state in the 12th Annual New Jersey Championship Weigh-in. Police said they found evidence by Beth Church of smokers living in the trailer Super solar: Officials say solar news editor when they discovered several cars are a thing of the future, but ashtrays full of cigarette butts. James Worden of Cambridge, Mass. A fire which killed two men in a Burns declined to estimate the has been commuting 13 miles to work house trailer at 525 Thurstin Ave. cost of damage, but said the in his solar car for four years. The #6 Friday night was accidental, trailer is "not liveable" now. 350-1 b silver three-wheeler has a quiet according to the Bowling Green Robert Maurer, owner of the engine and goes as fast as 35 mph and Fire Department. trailer, had it boarded up for holds two people. "The fire started in the couch in safety purposes Saturday. the living room, due to smoking Michael L. Benner, 35, and his Postage increase: By early materials," said Capt. Joe Burns, nephew Leslie A. Broshious, 19, 1991, first class postage will cost 32 acting fire chief, after an in- were the two victims of the fire. cents — a 25 percent increase, vestigation of the scene was com- Wood County Coroner Douglas Postmaster General Anthony Frank pleted Saturday morning.