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Give us a call Day cool weekdays from I pm.lo 5 pm..or Askins hurls five shutout just one earned run in 14 institution e-mail: "[email protected]" innings in Falcon win innings on the hill coverage High 55 Low: 40 WEDNESDAY April 23,1997 Volume 83, Issue 140 The BG News Bowling Green, Ohio "Serving the Bowling Green community for over 75years" Delts get 4 -year probation □ The Delta Tau Delta According to Gregg DeCrane, "None of this is finalized until into account, according to De- dean of students, the fraternity their appeal," DeCrane said. Crane, were sanctions handed fraternity receives their will be on probation until spring Fraternity members feel the down from the national chapter sanctions stemming 2001. DeCrane said the terms of punishments were handed out of Delta Tau Delta and the past from an alleged hazing the probation will be that the unfairly, according to member record of the fraternity. fraternity will face greater sanc- Kevin Kale. He said it would In the past, members of the incident which occured tions if another incident occurs seem the University is out with a fraternity were involved in drug last fall. during the probationary period. vendetta. and gambling activity and the In addition, the fraternity can- "They're trying to condemn fraternity was removed from its not participate in any Greek our charter," Kale said. "We still on-campus fraternity house in ByVINCEGUERRIERI social events for one year and haven't figured out why. We 1993 for lack of educational pro- Ihv lIC, News cannot participate in any Greek don't think the punishment fit the gramming, unpaid bills, not sporting events in the fall. There crime." filling the house sufficiently and There will be no Delta Tau Del- will also be no rush or pledge DeCrane said the punishment damages to the property. ta pledge class next fall as part of class of Delta Tau Delta in the determined by the University Kale said the severity of the the sanctions handed down to the fall. came about as a result of recom- punishment was unexpected. fraternity In relation to a hazing DeCrane noted these sanctions mendations from the University incident last Nov. 14. are not yet official. discipline committee. Also taken • See DELTS, page three. Teenager expresses her gratitude □ Carrie Abbott, whose family benefited from BG Newt Phata by Hidekl Kobayuhl the Ronald McDonald Ohio Secretary of State Bob Taft gestures while addressing a House, contributes by crowd of students during an afternoon on campus Tuesday. collecting soda can tabs. Taft focuses on By SARAH BEDNARSKI The BC News high To say "thank you" to the Ron- ald McDonald House for giving □ Secretary of State support to her family, 15-year- constraints. old Carrie Abbott is collecting for Ohio Bob Taft "The state's squeezed right pop can tabs. visited campus to now," Taft said. "Education's Abbott said she first came up listen to student and a priority, but it's a difficult with the idea while eating at a climate right now." local McDonald's restaurant. She faculty concerns Taft said his priorities In- said she first saw the cardboard about the future of clude allocating more money houses there and thought it was a higher education. toward investment programs, good idea. like education, rather than According to Abbott, while eat- maintenance progams like ing at one of the University's welfare. He said the state ByVINCEGUERRIERI government is taking steps to cafeterias, she noticed the The BC News houses again. She said she de- reform the budget and be- lieves the government has a cided to start collecting the tabs Bob Taft, Secretary of State to give back to the Ronald role in society, but doesnt for Ohio and potential candi- want that role to be overex- McDonald House for being so date for governor, was on tended. good to her family. campus yesterday to listen to "I saw in the cafeteria the "I'm not hostile to govern- concerns of students and fac- ment," Taft said. "They have a houses and said to myself, 'I'm ulty. job to do. We're governed by going to give back to the Ronald As secretary of state, Taft McDonald House,'" Abbott said. the laws that exist today." Carrie Abbott pulls tabs off pop cans for the Ronald McDonald House on the first floor of University told an audience of students he There isn't a lot of support Dianne Abbott, Carrie's mom, Hall. Abbott is doing this because her mother lived in the House when she was ill. had little to do with the state's said her daughter spent some for higher education, Taft role in education, but the gov- said. He said this isnt practi- time in 1991 at Toledo's Medical versity Hall Friday and possibly ernor has a great deal of say in College Hospital for EKG test- next week. According to Abbott, cal, as the future of the nation "/ saw in the cafeteria the houses and said to education. He denied that his lies in knowledge and technol- ing. While her daughter was hos- she will continue to collect pop trip was part of a campaign myself, 'I'm going to give back to the Ronald can tabs until the project ends ogy, which are both products pitalized, Mrs. Abbott stayed at for the gubernatorial election of higher education. the nearby Ronald McDonald sometime in May. Abbott said next year. McDonald House.'" she has a three-foot high con- Phil Mason, director of House. The state government is government affairs, said atti- "They were wonderful there tainer that is half full of tabs and committed to improving edu- Carrie Abbott she hopes to fill it to the top be- tudes regarding higher educa- and it was set up just like a cation on the secondary and tion must change. home," Mrs. Abbott said. "It was fore the project ends. post-secondary level, accord- a godsend." Mrs. Abbott said she thought it ing to Taft, but there are fi- "Higher education has been was great that her daughter was Mrs. Abbott said her daughter nancial constraints. Taft cited perceived as a luxury," Mason stayed briefly at the house over "The [Ronald McDonald tabs in University Hall at 8:30 collecting the tabs. the growing prison budget, said. "We need to move from Thanksgiving and saw what the House] was good to my mom and am. yesterday and continued un- "This doesn't surprise me be- providing relief to taxpayers the direction of looking at it as place was like. I just wanted to say thanks," Ab- til 5:00 p.m. last night. cause she is always doing stuff and a lack of growth in state a luxury and [as] more of a Abbott said she plans to con- like this," Mrs. Abbott said. "It's Abbott said the house took care bott said. revenues as examples of these necessity." of her family. Abbott started tearing off the tinue collecting the tabs at Uni- just another adventure for her." Third In a series Test's possible outcome causes anxiety □ Many people fear simple test. medical educator at the Univer- because they are not sure if they As of July 1996, nearly 1.4 mil- A test which not only effects sity and the educational coor- are ready to know the result. lion AIDS cases In adults and getting tested for HIV you, but anyone else Who has dinator of David's House in "People know HIV is a death children had been reported AIDS because of the possi- been your intimate partner. Toledo. "They deny they can be sentence," Rutt said. through the World Health Organ- That test is an HIV test. at risk and they fear if they do However, according to Rutt, ization. Additionally, globally, bility of testing positive. HIV is the virus that causes test positive of how it will change the HIV "death sentence" repu- there are 8,500 new infections AIDS. HIV causes a defective their life." tation keeps changing due to bet- daily with 90 percent of these By AMY JOHNSON immune system and AIDS is the Imagine waiting for the re- ter therapies and medicines that occur ing In developing countries. TheBC News final stage of the HIV disease. sults. One may keep trying to are available today. Bunner With these numbers, one may EDITORS' NOTE: This it the third of a 1996 marked the fifteenth year of concentrate on classes, going out agrees. think taking the HIV test would four-part scries on AIDS Education.