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THE BG NEWS Vol. 71 Issue 96 Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, March 9,1989 Campus media grill candidates by Laura Hardy staff reporter The Undergraduate Student Government presidential and vice-presidential candidates outlined their primary goals and answered student ques- tions during a panel discussion Wednesday night. The forum, organized by members of the Founders Quadrangle resident advising staff, provided University stu- dents and a panel of represent- atives from various campus media with an opportunity to ask the USG candidates about their campaign platforms. Panel members included Jeff Ingalls, general manager of WFAL; Matt Keough, general manager of WBGU and Julie Wallace, editor of The BG News. Jeniffer Butterfield and Mi- chelle Revelt, resident ad- visers in Founders, served as moderators for the event. Candid Candidates BG News/Brock Visnlch Candidates were asked by one panel member to explain (Jndegraduate Student Government presidential candidates Kraig Baker (left).junior pre- didate Kevin Coughlin (center), freshman political science major, at the (JSG Forum in their proposed solutions to the law major, and Jamie Slavin (right), senior sport management major, listen to fellow can- Founders cafeteria Wednesday night. lack of classes offered by var- ing Green charges, I believe tuition increase is inevitable, alcoholic bars which currently ious University departments. (the University) should deliver we can take this money and use OK not to drink." dents will never use," Craig Colleen McGinty, vice- the same quality of education exist on campus "provide A third issue the candidates Taliaferro, vice-presidential it in a positive sense to hire excellent alternatives for stu- discussed was campus lighting candidate, said. presidential candidate, said to the students," she said. more teachers," he said. dents who don't want to drink. she will work with her running- Kraig Baker, presidential Another issue addressed to and safety. Todd Gibson, vice- mate, Kevin Coughlin, to lobby candidate, said in addition to the candidates by the panel Jamie Slavin, presidential "The reason there has been presidential candidate, said he the University Board of offering more course sections, was the planning of more non- candidate, said she will work to no money for additional light- will work with Baker, his run- Trustees for additional courses he believes the University alcoholic events Tor students. implement programs for stu- ing on campus is because that ning-mate, to allocate money in high-demand areas. should hire more faculty. Kevin Coughlin, presidential dents which will hopefully money went to pay for an in- for additional lighting in cam- "For the size of tuition Bowl- "I think that even though a candidate, said the non- make them understand that it's formation booth which the stu- pus parking lots. Tobacco sale ban possible Witness informs North jury meeting Tuesday, Faculty Sen- "If we do these things, we by Barbara A. Weadock ate voted down the proposal to show our maturity as an institu- copy editor ban smoking in University build- tion," Brennan said. "This kind ings and the sale of tobacco of patronizing approach to stu- of Contra contribution pleas Despite two recent decisions products on campus. The vote dents and faculty is contrary to not to endorse a University came one day after the Under- everything a shared governance by Harry Rosenthal Channell said, "didn't laugh, but he chortled." non-smoking proposal. Univer- graduate Student Government system stands for. Associated Press writer North himself did not take the checks, Channell sity President Paul Olscamp unanimously rejected the pro- "Even though I disagree with said, and at the end of the meeting with Hunt he expects to implement a campus- posal. Dr. Olscamp on this particular left, saying "something like 'you all are going to wide ban on the sale of tobacco Bartley Brennan, chair of action, I praise his efforts in WASHINGTON — Oliver North made talk about money and I can't take any money. products before Fall semester. Faculty Senate, said if Olcamp working with a shared gover- impassioned pleas about the Nicaraguan Contras At the time. North was a lieutenant colonel in the Olscamp said the possible ban implements the proposed ban on nance system." to well-heeled contributors who came through Marine Corps and assigned to the National Secur- is an administrative matter, tobacco sales. Faculty Senate Until a definite date is given later with large checks, a witness told the North ity Council in the White House. During the con- therefore, he does not need the will take the matter to the Board for suspension of tobacco sales, jury Wednesday. He described one contribution gressional Iran-Contra hearings two years ago, he University Board of Trustee's of Trustees. Greg Predmore, Union adminis- that exceeded $i million in stocks. testified, "I do not recall ever asking a single, soli- approval to institute the ban. He Senate Counsel Steven Ludd trative assistant, said he will North, who is charged with lying to Congress tary American citizen for money, although "I added that he will discuss the said during Tuesday's meeting keep ordering tobacco products about his activities on behalf of the Contras, was showed a lot of munitions lists." ban with the trustees at their "without specific statutory au- for sale in the University Union. also quoted by the witness as saying he was willing Channell had set up a charitable foundation, the meetings March 9 and 10. thority to restrict the sale of "For the most part the stuff I to risk iail and didn't "care if I have to lie to Con- National Endowment for the Preservation of Lib- Olscamp said he is following tobacco products, the University order runs out in a week any- gress about this." erty, to receive money for aid to the Contras at a one of the recommendations of may be targeting itself for fu- way, so I will have no problem Once, testified conservative fund-raiser Carl K. time when Congress had forbidden any official the University Task Force on ture litigation by those who selling what I have (if a ban is Channell, North met Nelson Bunker Hunt in Dal- U.S. help. Because the organization was a tax- Health by banning the on- would allege it has selectively approved)," Predmore said. las' fancy Petroleum Club and went through a exempt foundation, donors were able to take tax campus sale of tobacco. He said, and without a rational basis Dave Crooks, director of the Eitch about what North said was a need for $5 mil- deductions. according to University counsel prohibited the sale of their prod- University Union, said although on to $6 million for planes, missiles and other aid — the law offices of Marshall ucts." the Union would lose several to keep the rebels going. One of the 12 criminal charges against North is and Melhorn —there is no prob- Brennan said education pro- thousand dollars annually if "The only thing that sticks in my mind is that that he conspired to defraud the Treasury of Tax lem with banning the sale of grams on the hazards of smok- tobacco sales are banned, it is a Bunker said, what are you going to do? Do you Revenue because the donations were for an im- tobacco products at the Univer- ing should be started instead of loss worth taking. mind getting into trouble?" Channell testified. He Sroper purpose — military aid for the rebels. Six of sity. unilateral action to ban legal said North replied: le charges accuse North of making false state- However, during its regular products. See Ban, page 4. "I don't care if I have to go to jail for this; I don't ments and obstructing Congress by attempting to care if I have to lie to Congress about this." Hunt, hide his efforts on behaif of the Contras. Three charged Satellite unites U.S., Russia by Fred Wright tween politics and warfare. He in city drug bust staff reporter said there is an excess of nu- Class pioneer addresses clear weapons possessed by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that is covered drugs, rolling The man who initiated the international instruction equivalent to 1.2 million Hiro- by Beth Church papers, a set of scales and first joint class via satellite be- assistant wire editor tween American and Soviet stu- shima-size bombs. other drug paraphernalia. dents spoke about the program The global classroom pro- said. In another incident Sept. 4, and the effect Soviet Premier gram combines students at Sherwin, author of the 1976 Pu- Gorbachev has pursued the After three to six months of 1988, officers were informed Mikhail Gorbachev has had Tufts University in Boston and litzer Prize runner-up book "A reduction of nuclear weapons investigation. Bowling Green through the Crimestoppers upon education his country. Moscow State University stu- World Destroyed: The Atomic for two reasons, he said. police charged three area Erogram of a large amount of Martin Sherwin, director of dents discussing such topics as Bomb and the Grand Alliance." "He has recognized that nu- men with drug violations ashish — a narcotic made the Nuclear Age History and the nuclear arms race, the Cu- has traveled to Moscow eight clear warfare is insane and that Monday.