Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-14-1999 The BG News April 14, 1999 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 April 14, 1999" (1999). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6483. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6483 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. cloudy UAO axes spring concert Fans Low ticket sales result in cancellation of They Might Be Giants high: UAO's graduate advisor, the "They're a huge college act," upset By MIKE WENDLING band's total fee was $15,000, but Weaver said. "All the info we low: 36 The BG News the total amount needed to put had indicated that this would They won't be coming. on the show would ha be a good band to bring with The University Activities been about $40,000. here." Organization has scrapped "We figured if we cut One of the schools plans for the' spring concert, it off now, we could cut UAO consulted was some of our losses," Otterbein College in UAO which was to be headlined by i Columnist Natalie They Might Be Giants, due to Larson said, citing T- Westerville, OH., By BRANDIBARHITE slow ticket sales. shirt printing and just outside of Miller defends some The BG News The decision was made after a paying for security as Columbus. They illegal acts saying marathon four hour meeting two costs that would Might Be Giants She was so excited about the they should be legal. Monday night, according to Joe have to be incurred if played Otterbein's They Might Be Giants concert Weaver, UAO concert director. UAO had held out Rike Center in Jan- that she arrived one hour Weaver said as of Monday, longer. uary. According to before the tickets went on sale, fewer than 900 tickets had been Weaver said the Patricia Kessler, to ensure she got to see her UAO concert commit- executive director of Guest columnist sold. Anderson Arena holds favorite band. 5,000 people. tee's budget pays for college relations at Yet her excitement turned to expresses frustration "We needed to sell 2,700 to publicity, but not much Otterbein, the school anger when one week later, with BGSU and break even," Weave/ said. else. expected to sell about 800 UAO cancelled the concert. excitement over Tickets for 17 out of 29 rows "We have no budget to 1,000 tickets in an arena "My first reaction was that could pay for the show, there with a capacity of 3,000 peo- graduation. on the floor area of Anderson UAO screwed up yet again," isn't that sort of money," he said. ple. The show ended up draw- said Jen Lyons, junior comput- Arena were sold as of Monday. Two "There's enough money for pub- ing nearly 1,700, however. er science major. By contrast, when the Violent dates for Lee's appearance were licity alone." Tickets for the Bowling Green Lyons was so excited about Femmes played the arena two scheduled, and both were can- "It was a really difficult deci- show were $20, $17 and $14. By the concert that she wrote a'lel- nation 4 years ago, the entire floor area celled. sion to make, but to put the contrast, tickets for the Otterbein ter to The News April 6, was sold out in one day. "I don't think this is a reflec- show on would put UAO in show were $5 for students. expressing her exuberation. "Ticket sales were at such a tion on UAO, it's a reflection on i Toledo citizen group pace that it wasn't going to hap- debt, and that's something I did- One advantage Otterbein has "Several weeks ago, my n't want to do," Weaver said. the band's ability to sell tickets," over BGSU is that it is a private petitions for a recall of pen," Weaver said. "We sold 40 said Larson. "People just weren't friends and I saw the date post- tickets on Monday and 20 on Fri- "Next year, UAO will have the institution and does not rely on ed on TMBG's web page and Mayor Carty same goal, to bring a concert to interested in the band." general fees to fund student Finkbeiner. day." During the planning stages of nearly had a heart attack. They BG in the spring." activities. Otterbein was able to Might Be Giants? In Bowling There will be no replacement the concert, UAO collected The cancellation is the most draw on funds other than stu- Green? What? What a total sur- event, but the rest of the Sibs 'n' research from BGSU students as recent setback for UAO, which dent fees to put on the concert, prise, someone was bringing Jack Kevorkian Kids weekend events will«go on well as from other schools who as scheduled. in the (all had arranged to bring Kessler said. sentenced director Spike Lee to campus. had hosted They Might Be to 10 to 25 years According to Brian Larson, Giants in the past. • See GIANTS, page nine. • See REACTION, page nine. in prison. Monk talks of Tibetan horrors Indian folk "Despite the fact that they ByJEFFARNETT "If the human rights situation in Tibet has have been doing this in front of singers plan The BG News changed today, it has changed for the the whole world's eyes, we have not lost hope," Gyasto said. "I performance Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso worse. have hope because I believe spoke last night to a full house in there is international law." By ANNE MOSS Olscamp 111 about the treatment Palden Gyatso Gyasto urged all students to of Tibetans at the hands of the The BG News Tibetan monk "help stop the suffering." Many Chinese since 1959. students seemed impressed by Shringara Nepal, an Indian "It just shocked me," said his presentation. folk group, is currently on their arms behind their backs and China. Gyasto said that the situ- freshman hospitality manage- "The talk was very informa- first United States tour, and will hang them from the ceiling, fire ation has not improved. ment major Jeff Preece after the tive," said freshman secondary be making a stop at Bowling "If the human rights situation presentation. "I didn't really and various electric instruments, education major Alicia Walter. Green State University today. in Tibet has changed today, it has know about the torture." which Gyasto handled while he "It made me understand the The three member band will Baseball tops Xavier described how the guards used changed for the worse," Gyasto Gyasto, who spoke through a effects of communism more." perform music that represents 5-3 yesterday. said. "Prisoners there are treated translator, spent the bulk of the them. Sophomore sociology major the power and beauty of the jun- worse than animals in the West." presentation describing the hor- Gyasto said one of the electri- Greg Newton said he thought gles, hills and Himalayas in Even more astounding than rors of his imprisonment. He cal torture devices was even the talk changed his thinking India. The group uses constant stuck in his mouth, causing the horrible treatment of political was arrested in 1959 for taking regarding the situation in Tibet. musical motion throughout their intense pain, severely burning prisoners by Chinese guards, part in a demonstration and was "I think it probably changed performance, moving from fast his tongue, and causing the loss however, was his claim that the released in 1992, after Amnesty everyone's thinking," Newton and thrilling, to calming and Opinion 2 of his teeth. He also noted that in Chinese government is actively International spent a number of said. "I think I'll make more of delicate. The University is one of and purposefully attempting to Page Three 3 years petitioning for his release. some cases, the cattle prod has an effort to contribute to some of two stops the group will be mak- eradicate the Tibetan people. World and Nation 4 "Amnesty International saved been used on prisoners' privates. the organizations he was talking ing in the Midwest. 10 my life," Gyasto said. "Is there any government "The Tibetan people is endan- "Shringara Nepal builds their Sports gered now," Gyasto said. "It is about." During last night's program, more cruel than the Chinese pol- Roger Zender, secretary for music from somewhat spiritual Sports Agate 1 1 clear that time is running out for the Buddhist monk showed the icy toward us?" Gyasto asked. Amnesty International and one to fast and exciting," said David audience several of the instru- Gyasto also related stories of us." of the organizers for the event, Harnish, coordinator of the Gyasto cited the forced steril- ments of torture that were used extreme starvation, even to the said the program was successful. event. izations and abortions that are on him. The first was a pair of point that some prisoners licked "We had a lot better turnout Harnish is bringing the group being carried out in Tibet as evi- handcuffs that, upon being the floor and ate their clothes. He than we were expecting," Zender to the University because he dence for a plan for wiping out "Anyone who knows locked, would continue to grow said that if he had not had his said.