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H BG sight for 'Backyard Brawl', see page 11 Friday Weather Vol.72 Issue 32 High 75° October 13, 1989 Low 50° Bowling Green, Ohio The BG News BRIEFLY Attorneys try media ban Campus Photos of Dance sponsored: The University Activities Organization is sponsoring a Homecoming Dance this Fox's trial evening in the Lenhart Grand Ballroom from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Admission is $1. The Cleveland-based band, "Champion" will play. permitted by Beth Church Center dedicated: A news editor dedication ceremony of the Hazel H. Smith Off-Campus Center will be at 3 &m. today on the lower level of The First and Sixth amendments oseley Hall. The University's Board battled in Judge Donald DeCessna's of Trustees voted last April to rename Wood County Common Pleas Court- the center in memory of Smith, the room Thursday morning, as alleged founder and first full-time director of kidnapper and murderer Richard E. the Off-Campus Student Center. Fox made bis initial appearance in The ceremony will unveil a special court. plaque and the first recipient of the Preliminary motions entered ear- Hazel H. Smith Scholarship. lier by defense attorneys John Calla- han and Peter Halleck attempted to prohibit members of the news media Author lectures: Author from taking photographs throughout Rick Bass will read from his works at the trial procedings and to prohibit all 7:30 this evening in ISO at Jerome officials connected with the case from Library. The reading is part of the speaking with media members. Visiting Writers Series sponsored by "The court has a balancing act to the University Creative Writing perform between the First Amend- Program. Bass has received the 1988 ment of freedom of the press and the PEN/Nelson Algren Award Special Sixth Amendment of the defendent's Citation for •'magic realism. His right to a fair trial," DeCessna said. book "The Watch" was published last In the end, both the media and the year by Houghton Mifflin and his defendant were victorious as the novel, "Where the Sea Used To Be" is judge decided to allow photographers scheduled for publication next year in the court room but placed a gag or- by W.W.Norton. der on all court officials. The presentation is open to all and The judge reminded the attorneys is free. present of the Code of Professional Responsibility and of their committ- ment to it. "The court is sure the attorneys are State aware of their professional responsi- bility," DeCessna said. The judge upheld the defense mo- tion prohibiting any officials connec- Students object: In Athens, ted with case, including sheriff's de- Ohio, a spokesman for Ohio puties and police investigators, from University students opposed to CIA discussing the case in any way, ex- recruitement said a meeting cept in speaking of procedural mat- scheduled Wednesday with OU ters, DeCessna said. President Charles Ping was a "We will do the best we can to see last-ditch effort to go 'Through the the media is informed of any court right channels." procedings," he said. Five people were arrested for Callahan said the motion was en- trespassing during an anti-CIA tered in fear of jepordizing Fox's demonstration in a university right to a fair trial. building Monday and a CIA Because of the inordinate amount spokesman said such demonstrations of publicity ... we fear the influence of often work in the agency's favor. Four the media," Callahan said. "The were also charged with resisting community will be prejudice against arrest. The 11 students who took part the defendent." were referred to the university for "This is too important of a case to disciplinary action. be tried in the newspaper," he said. The group demanded that charges "It will be difficult to choose a fair against demonstrators be dropped, and impartial jury. that there be a one-year moratorium DeCessna said he was trying to re- on CIA recruiting on campus and that main impartial by avoiding watching there be no legal or academic television news reports and news- discipline against students involved in paper articles about the case. future CIA protests. However, the judge overruled the motion to bar photographers from the BG News/John Grleshop courtroom because he said he be- Reflections of Justice lieved the situation does not warrant Wood County Common Pleas Court Judge Donald DeCessna talks with Richard E. Fox at his first hearing Thursday. Fox wil Nation O See Fox, page 8. soon stand trial for the kidnapping and aggravated murder of Leslie Renee Keckler of Bowling Green. Request denied: A terminally ill U.S. Defense Department employee who was denied an Air Force air ambulance House favors Shatzel office switch begins ride home to Norwood, Mass., from Palmdale, Calif., has died. Avram by James A. Tinker However, Angela Spence, ethnic studies graduate Brody had sought an airlift to banning of staff writer assistant, was working in her office Thursday with Norwood so he could be with his not a box in sight and said "there's no excuse for us family when he died. The Air Force to not be packed by now." refused, saying Brody did not meet Beginning Monday, occupants of Shatzel Hall will the criteria for such help because he flag burning go where no faculty nas gone before when they make Spence said moving to another office will probably was not a uniformed officer, the flight WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted final, the cross-campus trek to the new College Park office be similar to moving into a new apartment and she was not needed to save his life and his overwhelming approval Thursday for a federal ban building. admitted she does that at the last minute too. illness was not caused by his work. on flag burning, just four months after a Supreme Brody died of a brain tumor in Court decision allowing destruction of an American Shatzel will be renovated during the next two years The office building's distance from central campus California. flagas political protest. and the just-finished office building was designed to — located on the northern edge of campus between 'This is the least we can do to protect the sanctity provide temporary offices or "swing space," said Leroy and Frazee avenues — might lead to some of the flag," Rep. Butler Derrick, D-S.C said before Robert McGeein, director of capital planning. difficulties, faculty members agreed. Veteran dies: A Vietnam the House voted. 371-43, to approve the bill. Students may be reluctant to walk that far to visit a veteran, wearing a military Jacket Members of the Ohio House also voted ovewhelm- The renovation is expected to take 15 months at a professor, although parking might be easier, sug- garnished with a Bronze Star and ingly in favor of the ban, 20-1. Rep. Louis Stokes, cost of $3.6 million, he said. gested Akiko Jones, Japanese instructor. carrying his Aug. 9 divorce papers In D-Ohio, voted against the ban. Relocation will be staggered over a two-week one hand and a 357-caliber pistol in However, President Bush and many Republicans period for the six departments and faculty and grad- However, the shuttle service will provide transpor- another shot and killed himself at the say Congress must do more than pass a mere statute uate assistants will follow the day after their de- tation from the College Park office building at 9 and foot of the Tampa, Fla., Vietnam War and they have been pressing for a constitutional partmental offices, said Pat Bressler, philosophy 10 a.m., noon, 12:30,2:30 and 3:30 p.m. to the Univer- memorial. Robson James Mabry, 39, amendment to outlaw flag destruction or desecra- secretary. sity Union and Jerome Library, said Jean Yarnell, was found dead by a jogger in tion. The Senate will take up that issue next week. director of Parking and Traffic. Veteran's Memorial Park. Mabry Still, 154 Republicans joined 217 Democrats in sup- Environmental and Personnel services, ethnic shot himself in the head as he sat on porting the statutory ban on Thursday, while only 18 studies, German/Russian and Asian Studies, The service will be available during regular class the grass beneath a flagpole. Republicans and 25 Democrats opposed it. The bill romance languages and philosophy will be moved. days throughout the academic year, she said. Mabry earned a Bronze Star while passed the Senate 91-9. The College Park building will be used during the serving in the Army from 1989 to 1971. House Speaker Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., said he Faculty and staff members agreed the move next ten years as structures are renovated and will Previously, he was not diagnosed as assumed Bush would sign the measure into law, de- should not affect classes, but office hours will be "a not affect housing assignments, unlike the renova- having post-traumatic stress spite his clear preference for a constitutional mess" until everyone is settled into their new as- tion of Williams Hall, McGeein said.