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State University TUESDAY April 17, 2001 SLIDING: SNOW SHOWERS The Bowling Green soft- HIGH: 39 I LOW 28 ball team won despite www.bgnews.com the cold weather; PAGE 11 independent student press VOLUME 30 ISSUE 141 Riots subdued, city curfew lifted By lames Hannah unrest in Cincinnati since the "Their anger is not just at officers, U-WIRE 1968 assassination of Martin but their own black leadership. CINCINNATI — Promising lo Luther King |r. The feeling is we're not listening make police more accountable, The streets were mostly quiet and we have to turn that around." the mayor lifted a citywide cur- over the weekend, and city offi- Luken said he will appoint a few Monday thai helped end cials had hoped to lift the curfew commission to look into solu- days of rioting over the police because it was hurting business- tions. Unlike previous groups, he shooting of an unarmed black es. The curfew was scaled back to said, the panel will be able to man. 11 p.m. Sunday to allow more oversee implementation of its "Now that the disturbances time for Easter celebrations. plans. That would require City have subsided, they must never loining Luken at a news con- Council approval. occur again," Mayor Charles ference were religious, business The City Council planned to Luken said. "We have an oppor- and community leaders who meet Tuesday to discuss tunity for a new Cincinnati." have been discussing ways to demands by black leaders for a However, the mayor did not lift address underlying causes of the city ordinance allowing officials the state of emergency, which violence. to bypass Cincinnati police offi- allows him to impose curfews "If we put our heads back in the cers and firefighters when hiring and other restrictions. sand, that sand will once again new chiefs. Associated Press Photo The 8 p.m.-to-6 am curfew grow hot with rage. The opportu- The city charter requires chiefs LEFT IN SHAMBLES: Missy Lynn and Gene Goldschmidt stand outside their store, in Cincinnati, that was imposed Thursday after nity will be lost," said Ross love, to be promoted from the ranks, three nights of arson, looting, speaking on behalf of black com- but black leaders say that perpet- was vandalized by demonstrators protesting the police shooting of an unarmed black man. attacks on white motorists and munity leaders. uates problems The 1,000-mem- accused the police department of from officers trying to arrest him was placed on paid administra- clashes with police. The Rev. Damon Lynch, a black ber police force is 28 percent failing to end 30 years of police on 14 warrants, mosUy for traffic tive leave. Dozens of people were injured, clergyman, said the city's black offenses. Fifteen blacks and no whites black; the city of 311,000 is 43 per- harassment of blacks. The FBI, police and the county more than 800 were arrested and youths do not know how to chan- cent black. The flash point for the protests prosecutor are investigating the have died in confrontations with arson damage was put at more nel their anger. "They just feel like Cincinnati was sued last was the fatal April 7shooting of shooting by Officer Stephen police since 1995, four of them than $200,000 in the worst racial nobody's listening," he said. month by citizen groups who Timothv Thomas, 19, as he fled Roach, who is white. Roach, 27, since November. Council Bowling Green Concert | II. sludciils wailed in line lor more than six hours. USG considers approves new fall curbs calendar By Ionian Fouts By Chuck Soder CI IT RE PORIC R USG REPORTER Citizens filled city council's Members of Undergraduate meeting room Monday night to Student Government passed a voice their concern with a revised version of an earlier bill planned sewer project. that asks the administration to Residents of South Grove and make fall semester begin and end Sand Ridge roads requested that a week early on years when the the city install curbs as part of the last day of finals falls later than sewer and water line work along December 20. those streets. The changes proposed last Thomas Gerken of South Grove night, should the administration road said residents want curbs adopt them, would not go into because of water damage to the effect until 2006, according to the roads and sidewalks. WAITING PATIENTLY: bill. The original bill, which USG "About a week ago, after a tor- t' Loyal fans began stand- voted down on April 2, suggested renrial downpour, the road was ing in line at 1:30p.m., that changes go into effect imme- not a road-it was a river," Gerken in 40-degree weather, diately. said. Most students who contacted Current plans leave the side- for tickets to The Roots USG opposed the original bill walks exposed to water infiltra- and Run DMC concert. because such immediate changes tion, which freezes and causes the Tickets went on sale at in their summer schedules did sidewalks to crack, he said. 9:00 p.m. last night. Top not give them enough time to William Blair, director of public renegotiate contracts with land- works, said curbs are not planned ■j Left: A crowd of more lords and employers, according to because the streets do not have than 100 University stu- Brian Saxton. one of the revised storm sewers, a prerequisite for dents had already bill's authors. installation of roadside curbs. begun to line up at 6 Other than the time of imple- In order to place curbs, it would mentation, the original and be necessary to lower the roads by p.m. in hopes of gaining revised version of the bill have the removing their bases, Blair said. It a ticket to the concert. same goal: to allow students more would cost at least $45,000 to Top Right: Garrett time to prepare for the holiday install curbs, in addition to the season. price of the sewer project. Wheeler studies for his Not only was the bill passed But Gerken later said that, with- Biology test to pass the unanimously, but it also received out protection from weather, five hours he waited. support from Ron Lancaster, chair sidewalks would have to be Left: Some fans break- of the Computer Science depart- replaced when damaged. ment, who helped create the cal- "You have to pay for everything danced to keep warm endar system the University uses eventually ... When you make a and to entertain others. mistake in planning you pay for it romRndBGNws USG, PAGE 5 later." Public Works will investigate residents' requests and present a report at the May 7 City Council meeting. Later in the meeting Second Ward council member Patrick Ng requested a vote on approval of Oil companies spill into poor areas supplemental funding for city expenses for the rest of the year. By Amy Nicotettj Underground. on domestic environmental EAG's Earth Week, which is April Also at 9 p.m., the benefit con- But before the council voted. ENVIRONMENT REPORTER According to Brisibe, a leader abuses that U.S. communities 16 to April 20. cert Big Eco Jam will be at Ng asked logn Fawcett, director of People in the Niger Delta in in the stuggle against the oil face and the struggles that occur Today at 7 p.m., a Sierra Club Howard's Club H. There is a $5 the Heritage 2000 project, about Nigeria are losing their villages industry's destruction of the overseas. speaker will discuss factory cover and all proceeds will bene- the project's designer. EG&G and their lives because of the Niger Delta, entire communities According to James, 23 million farming. The presentation will fit local environmental pro- Contracting. environmental racism of multi- have been destroyed and thou- tons of toxic chemicals are be held in Olscamp 115. Tony grams. Ten prizes will be raffled. Ng recalled that at a recent pub- national oil companies. sands killed by soldiers. released in Louisiana Almost all Saladji will speak on factory The bands playing are Crazy lic meeting to discuss Heritage Environmental racism is the Brisibe said the corporations of the chemicals released are in farming. Eddie, the Big Creek, Sugarbuzz 2000's progress, EG&G reported practice of large companies have destroyed the culture of the communities of color. "The conditions are absolutely and Noah and Daryl. Joni Caudill that the project is 50 percent moving into poor communities Niger Delta "We can do without At one point in the presenta- inhumane," said Joni Caudill, a said the main focus for the dona- done. Ng said he doesn't want to that are unable to fight the oil in Nigeria" Brisibe said. tion, James held a moment of member of EAG. Animals, such tions is on the University's recy- pay the contractor for more than destruction and pollution of She said that before the oil silence for those in jail for as chickens, are kept in cages cling program and the Wood lot.