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El Good, clean sex, see Friday Magazine na The Nation's Best College Newspaper Friday Weather Vol.72 Issue 52 High 30° Low 20° November 17,1989 Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News Damage BRIEFLY a result of Campus Students challenged: The tornado fifth annual Holiday Challenge by Hoyt Harwell Tournament will be held at Firelands Associated Press writer College on Nov. 18 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Contestants will answer HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Rescuers questions in areas of literature, crawled through collapsed homes and mathematics, American and world shops Thursday looking for more vic- history, fine arts, biological sciences, tims of a tornado that carved a 3-mile government, physical sciences, stretch of destruction, killing 17 people, geography and language arts. injuring 463 and leaving 1,000 home- The winning high school team will less. be eligible to compete in the annual "It's like taking six to 10 city blocks statewide competition, receive a and putting them in a blender and put- plaque and a $500 scholarship. The ting it on liquefy," rescue worker Bob tournament is sponsored by the Caraway said. He was among those Firelands College faculty and staff. called out to help dig through rubble for survivors or the bodies of the dead. Concert programmed: The tornado was one of a series that The Fall Wind Ensemble and Concert touched down Wednesday in an arc Band will give a free concert at 8 p.m. spanning at least seven states from the this evening in Kobacker Hall. Deep South to the Midwest. The other Selections will include "Concerto No. tornadoes caused at least 19 injuries 1 (1988) for Alto Saxophone, Winds and far-flungproperty damage. and Percussion," by University In Huntsvflle, teams with cranes and graduate Robert Steel and featuring floodlights searched for the injured or faculty saxophonist John Sampen. dead, hampered by wind-whipped rain The concert is under the direction of and temperatures that plummeted Mark S.Kelly. overnight from 73 degrees into the 30s. Gov. Guy Hunt sent SO National Ballnese music featured: Guardsmen to help. The Lila Muni Gamelan Ensemble, Elsewhere: under the direction of JaFran Jones, —In Georgia, 19 people were injured, will present traditional and Amercian four critically, and at least 200 people contemporary Balinese music were evacuated after a tornado struck Saturday at 8 p.m. in Bryan Recital two mobile home parks and an inter- Hall. Mezzo soprano Tina Bruce, state highway near Palmetto, about 25 baritone Douglas Wayland and miles southeast of Atlanta, authorities violinist Bernard Linden will be said. featured in a performance of —In the Carolinas, a pair of torna- "Sweet-Breathed Minstrel," by does destroyed a vacant house in Hen- Vincent McDermott. derson County. N.C.. and a tornado toppled trees, downed power lines and Choruses to perform: The damaged 20 houses near Greenwood, BGSU Men's and Women's Choruses, S.C. No injuries were reported in either directed by Richard Mathev, will state. perform at 3 p.m. in Kobacker Hall —Tornadoes caused minor property Sunday. Tickets are $5 for adults and damage in Mississippi, Kentucky and $3 for students and senior citizens. Indiana. —In West Virginia, high winds be- German concert: A German lieved to be tornadoes swept Jefferson medley of folk songs will be among County early Thursday, overturning the selections performed at a free trailers, blowing roofs off homes and concert by the BGSU Tuba Ensemble, downing power lines, authorities said. under the direction of Jerry Markoch, Four people were injured, two serious- at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Choral ly- Rehearsal Room. Other selections —Heavy thunderstorms destroyed at will include "Fairest of the Fair," by least a dozen homes in Alorton, 111., kill- John Philip Sousa, "Three Moods," ing one person and injuring 20 others, by Dan Boone and "Eine Kleine five seriously, authorities said. Nachtmusik," by Wolfgang A. "It was fast," said Lucy Lee Rusk, Mozart. whose apartment was battered by de- bris. "It was like one big pop and that's when everything went. The National Weather Service had BG News/Brock Vlsnich City issued a tornado watch earlier in the Artificial Photosynthesis Research day, but did not issue a more urgent tornado warning until 4:39 p.m. GST, Bill Ford, post-doctoral fellow in photochemical sciences, aligns a dye sample to an apparatus designed to measure the length of Holiday season: Bowling when the tornado was spotted at the Ume the molecules in the sample are stimulated when a laser Is pulsed through It Ford Is researching artificial photosynthesis he Green's holiday season will open this municipal golf course. By then, It was process in which solar energy breaks down water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen, which is a source of energy. evening with the annual Community already tearing up the city. Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at 6:30. Elementary and nursery school children have been invited to make decorations for the tree and will receive a special treat from Recounted levy votes spur hope McDonald's. Mayor Edwin Miller will throw the switch to turn on the lights clare a winner until next Wednesday morning, the on the tree. Caroling will also be a by John Kohlstrand Some 125 ballots were added to second count put the "yes" vote ahead by 20 votes part of the program. staff writer with a 13,579 total, according to Mary Lou Emails, The Christmas Tree Lighting the second count from a stack director of the Wood County Board of Elections. Ceremony is sponsored by the An unofficial recount of the votes by the Board of the board approved after the In the original count, the tax levy was rejected by Promote Bowling Green Committee. Elections this week indicated that the Wood County only 11 votes. Mental Health levy may have gained enough votes to computer could not read them pass. originally and some ballots that Some 125 ballots were added to the second count Nation Programs such as The Link and the Wood County from a stack the board approved after the computer Mental Health Center will now be able to increase have come in late from overseas. could not read them originally and some ballots that their services to county residents with the increase in have come in late from overseas, she said. Wall col lapses: In Newburgh, funding, said Norm Merkel, executive director of the New York, an elementary school MentalHealth Center. A few ballots were also forgotten in the ballot cafeteria wall collapsed early boxes and never counted, she said. Thursday afternoon during a wind The defeat of the mental health levy would proba- "Obviously we are happy to continue and expand If the "yes" vote is confirmed, $500,000 will be add- and rain storm, killing at least six bly have forced Merkel to cut back in the number of our services," Merkel said. ed to the mental health budget this year and $1 mil- school children, authorities said. people his center employs, he said. While the Board of Elections will not officially de- lion will be added next year. State Trooper Ron Harris confirmed the deaths and said 15 other school children were injured. Wind toppled a tree and sent it Explanation given State funding desired crashing through the wall of a cafeteria where pupils were eating Board of Regents discusses capital appropriation bill about 12:30 p.m. at East Coldenham Elementary School, said Carole on Heard's arrest ommendations for funding when the Capital Armstrong, a secretary to the Valley by James A. Tinker Despite charges pending Falcon football team, pleaded staff writer Improvement Appropriations Bill is an- Central School District. against BG football player Ron not guilty Wednesday in Bowling nounced on Dec. 15, said Linda Ogden, Board The school is about five miles west Heard for the assault of a police Green Municipal Court to the al- of Regents information officer. of Newburgh, a city of about 23,000 officer and the obstruction of leged incident and faces a pre- Construction of a new $11.7 million aca- "By then every institution will know what Cle located about 60 miles north of Justice, members of Ron trial hearing Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. demic budding is scheduled to begin in 1991 if is in their proposal and what is not," she York City. leard's fraternity who were His lawyer has instructed him state funding is approved. said. ■ Officials with the State Emergency present when he was arrested not to discuss the case with The 86,900 square foot facility will not University President Paul Olscamp told Management Office could not claim he was actually struck in anyone, but Heard was present house any academic offices, but is planned to the Board of Trustees he is hopeful the immediately confirm reports that a the throat by his arresting offi- while Troy Hardgrow, vice have eighteen 40-seat classrooms, two request will be approved, but It is doubtful tornado hit the school, said Gary cer.