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Campus SPORTS TUESDAY USG proposes investigation I Offense sputters in football's loss to BSU; deadline of Bowling Green cops I Skid continues for soccer team against Marquette Tuesday Vol.73 Issue 20 October 2,1990 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News ^s&An Independent Student Voice for 70 Years ssass BRIEFLY Campus asbestos Oil-producers benefitting CAMPUS removal may have Court selected: from Iraq trade embargo Homecoming King and Queen voting continues to- NICOSIA, Cyprus — Saddam dark shadow over the prospects hard winter as they struggle to day and tomorrow in the been unnecessary for world economic development reorient their socialist economies Union Foyer. Hussein's conquest of Kuwait has diately remove all asbestos. sent economic shock waves and prosperity," Japan's to the marketplace. Students will decide on 10 by Jennifer Taday Information was released stat- around the globe, doubling oil Finance Minister. Ryutaro Ha- They have been dependent for male and 10 female candi- staff writer shimoto, declared last week in decades on cheap Soviet oil and dates. The Homecoming ing that when tiny fibers are in- prices, plaguing stock markets, haled and go into the lungs and undermining business confidence Washington. made little effort to develop court will be announced on The industrialized world was alternative energy supplies or Thursday at the pep rally The University and state have other parts of the body, respira- and leaving poor countries in spent more than $1 million on as- tory ailments and cancer of the Eastern Europe and Asia in dire better prepared to cope with this curb consumption, which had and the king and queen will crisis than the oil shocks of 1973 been double that of Western be crownedat Saturday's bestos removal from campus lungs, stomach and chest lining straits. game. buildings, but the removal may occur. But it has brought windfalls for and 1979, despite inflationary Europe. not have been necessary, accord- Johnson said no diseases oil-producing countries who will pressures. But the debt-ridden Earlier this year, Moscow cut Homecoming parking: ing to a recent national EPA re- caused by asbestos have infil- make billions of extra dollars this Third World faces a grim time. back on its oil deliveries because Parking spaces will be in port. trated the University population. year as crude prices climb. Since The Financial Times, London's of declining production and its demand this weekend for According to Lewis Johnson, "Actually, asbestos diseases Iraq's invasion, they have gone respected business daily, said the own economic woes. Now Homecoming. Students are industrial hygienist at the Uni- are quite rare, except for those from $16 a barrel to around $40. Iraqi invasion "has put on hold Romania, Poland and much of requested to remain parked versity, the EPA is referring to who were employed full-time in Some analysts believe prices hopes that the 1990s might usher the rest of Eastern Europe — in on-campus student lots to removal that occurs in areas asbestos work," he said. could pass the $65 mark before in a new world order, founded in with little hard currency to pay provide sufficient parking where the fibrous fire-retardant Recent removal has occured in long, fueling inflation and raising the eclipse of Communism and for increasingly expensive oil — tor Homecoming visitors. is not potentially dangerous. the Psychology Building, Shatzel the specter of recession and generating prosperity in which are in deep trouble. Students who park their Asbestos removal is sensible, and Overman Halls, Gish higher interest rates. all mankind might share." In Czechoslovakia, officials say vehicles in f irelanes, re- he said, but the University should Theatre, the stadium and sorority "The [Persian] gulf crisis is Among the hardest hit victims they will not be able to cope if oil served spaces and areas, continue to remove asbestos as houses, he said. not only disrupting world peace so far are the infant democracies loading docks or on the part of a renovation project only. The Psychology Building will and security, it's also casting t of Eastern Europe, who face a D See Oulf, page 5. grass are subject to tickets. According to Lance Teaman, be an ongoing project because Internships available: associate architect, a scientific removal only occured in the three If a highly professional, study published in January worst areas, he said. personally enrichingintern- suggests asbestos removal can be Asbestos was removed in the ship in Washington, D.C. is more dangerous than containing basement, fifth floor and in the what you need To supple- it, because the breakup causes penthouse, Teaman added. ment your college experi- fibers to become airborne, he Other areas that have had as- ence, then Michael Smith, said. bestos removed were in boiler- Vice President of the Wash- If a sloppy removal job would type rooms in the stadium and ington Center for Inter- happen in an area not hazardous, pipe insulation removal in a ships, may be the man to the project could cause more number of sorority houses, he talk to. damage if the fibers are inhaled said. According to Smith, nine by personnel, he said. All of the According to Robert McGeein, out of every 10 Center in- University projects to date have assistant vice president of capital terns surveyed felt their run well and safely, he added. Blanning, asbestos removal from time spent in the nation's The University will continue to le Psychology Building will cost capitol was the "most im- remove asbestos and has plans to substantially more than a million portant and interesting se- remove more when renovation dollars when completed. mester of their undergrad- begins on Hayes Hall spring se- "A speculated figure for com- uate career." mester, he said. plete asbestos removal for exam- The presentation will be- "The removal is not just a ple may be $50 million but there is Ein today, at 4:00 pm in 105 health concern, but more of a lia- no need to remove all of it, only outh Hall. All majors wel- bility factor," he said. those areas which are fry able and come. A state agency — especially in hazardous," McGeein said. PUSH week continues: the public's eye — is obligated to Teaman said fryable asbestos Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is remove anything that poses a is the most dangerous type of as- holding its annual PUSH threat, he said. bestos. (People Understanding "Bowling Green State Univer- "These are the spray on types Severly Handicapped) held sity's policy is: when you encoun- and are white, flaky and chalky," at the Union Oval. It began ter asbestos, remove it," he add- he said. "These particles are eas- on Monday, Oct. 1 and will ed. ily broken up." end on Oct. 5. There will be In 1970 the EPA regulated as- Another type of asbestos which a 100 hour wheelchair bestos as a hazard and recom- may exist in old floor tiles are not PUSH-a-thon, a sorority mended that all agencies imme- as easy to break up, he said. Suarter race, and Wednes- ay, Oct. 3 at 10 p.m., Male Review will take place at Uptown. A PUSHbooth is Some leaders regret set up in the Union Oval and donations can be presented there. Drumroll, please... East Merry arrests Chuck Curtis, senior marketing major, is the winner of the Trivia Bowl Officials fear negative image contest for week two. The contest is sponsored by the The BG News and is run by Jeremy S. Weber each Tuesday before Stu- staff writer dent Apprecitation Day Oct. 20. University administrators are not planning an official reaction to the East Merry-Frazee arrests STATE of Sept. 7 and 8, out some leaders fear the incident may have tarni- shed the University's image. Pictures allowed: Lester Barber, executive as- Jurors got their first look Coughlin Olscamp Monday at the seven Robert sistant to University President Mapplethorpe photographs Paul Olscamp, said the arrests that resulted in obscenity may make the University look "You can't blast down the door charges against an art gal- less attractive to prospective stu- and search the place without a dents. warrant, cite people for no reason ■O News/Paul Verncn lery and its director. "To the extent that it is known, and call it disorderly conduct and Overturned Tumbler Kathy Altonen, a junior on the BG Gymnastics team, flips during the 2nd annual The jury of four men and Sault-a-thon to raise money for the team. According to Altonen, the money raised though sponsors four women in Hamilton it could have — although I hope it leave," he said. "We're going to doesn't — a negative effect in the keep the pressure up and make and donations will go toward traveling expenses and a computerized scoring system. Altonen said County Municipal Court eyes of parents and prospective sure the city doesn't sweep this that she did 300 flips during the event, which she thought was the most done.