Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-26-1996 The BG News January 26, 1996 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News January 26, 1996" (1996). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5953. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5953 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Inside the News This Week in Rtttitv City • Bowling Green gets crime lab Where else will you find Nation • Flat tax in hot debate in Congress The Bursar, Vinyl, Barry White and The Best Music Sports • It's gut-check time for hockey team 8 of 1995? WR Friday, January 26, 1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 68 The News' Government is open...for now Final B p i e f s Alan Fram of federal agencies functioning Despite an apparent truce over For the next seven weeks, the The Associated Press tHrough March IS, though at extending the debt limit and stopgap spending measure would lower levels than 1995. The Sen- pressure from Wall Street to do finance many agencies whose exam NHL Scores WASHINGTON - Bruised by ate was expected to approve the so, the two sides fenced over how 1996 budgets are incomplete, in- Hartford 8 two government shutdowns. Re- legislation Friday, and the White It would be accomplished. cluding the departments of Vet- Los Angeles 2 publicans embraced legislation House said Clinton would sign it "Since I gave the State of the erans Affairs, Interior and Labor times Thursday that would keep fed- After taking a drubbing in pub- Union address, there have been and the Environmental Protec- eral agencies going through lic opinion polls for their con- some encouraging things said by tion Agency. Most would receive Boston 4 March IS. The White House said frontational tactics. Republicans the congressional leaders," Clin- less than they got in 199S, and 10 Tampa Bay 3 President Clinton would sign it as were no longer vowing to halt ton told mayors visiting the minor programs - such as money given the yearlong budget fires cooled government's most basic func- White House, continuing the pos- for the native Hawaiian and A- on all fronts. tions unless their demands for a itive tone he took in that speech. laska native cultural arts - would Darla Wamock Detroit 4 After solving an impasse over balanced budget in seven years "But I would remind you that we be eliminated. None of Clinton's The BG News Ottawa 2 abortion restrictions, the House were met. still have some roadblocks In the major Initiatives would be cut be- moved toward passage of a But all the embers from the way that I think need to be low 75 percent of last year's The University finals measure that would keep dozens budget Inferno were not dead. cleared away." levels. schedule for this semester Washington 1 was released Tuesday, in- New Jersey 2 forming students when their final exams will be Runaway found at boyfriend's home taken May 6-10. Montreal 6 Laura Waggoner, direc- Florida 2 Michael Graczyk apartment Wednesday night. termined the birth certificate gal alien. tor of Registration and Re- The Associated Press Sotelo was jailed under $200,000 was forged after social workers Police say the girl and Sotelo cords, said the basic sched- bail on a charge of aggravated interviewed the girl Thursday. gave them false names but didn't ule was formulated years NBA Scores HOUSTON - A girl who dis- sexual assault and could get life A copy distributed to reporters resist when confronted by offi- ago, changing each semes- appeared after claiming she was in prison. shows her birth date and place as cers four days after she ran away ter only as needed. 10 years old and eight and a half "The certificate that we had is Sept. 13, 1985 in Houston, al- from a shelter for abused chil- "The final exam schedule Washington 120 months pregnant was found with the only documentation of her though the certificate was not is- dren. They were found after a has been around for ages," Houston 85 a phony birth certificate and is age and apparently a fake," said sued until July 31,1989 woman took them, cold and hu- Waggoner said. "It's some- probably about 14, authorities Linda Edwards, a spokeswoman "Nobody in this family has giv- ngry. Into her apartment and had thing that has been worked said Thursday. for the Texas Department of en helpful, consistent informa- a friend call 911. out for many years." Detroit 93 Cindy Garcia's flight from Protective and Regulatory Ser- tion," said Judy Hay of Harris Cindy had been taken to a shel- According to Laura Dallas 92 social workers earlier in the vices. "We think she's about 14. County Children's Protective ter by authorities after she Straley, Registration and week prompted a desperate hunt We don't know exactly." Services. "Whether she's 10 or turned up at a welfare office with Records clerical specialist, because of fears that she was en- As far as Sotelo is concerned, it 14, she's been sexually abused the phony birth certificate. the process of putting it May graduation ap- dangering her life and that of her wouldn't make any difference. A and we will protect her." together is a tedious one, unborn child. 14-year -old in Texas can legally Ms. Edwards said police are Social workers had panicked consuming a lot of time. plication deadline Police found her with her have sex only with someone no • looking into the possibility that when Cindy ran away because 22-year-old boyfriend, Pedro today more than three years older. she was carrying the forged she was just two weeks shy of See EXAM, pane four. Students who are apply- Sotelo, hiding in a Houston Ms. Edwards said they de- documents because she's an ille- her due date. ing for May graduation must apply by 5 p.m. today. Students should apply through their individual of- Having a ball Campus to focus on safety fice. Computer Services Vlnce Guerrierl horse Billy and an opportunity to week is at the Commons. A bro- The BG News have your children photographed chure will be released in a couple to offer free sem- and fingerprinted. of weeks with more information inars Campus Safety Awareness "It's a way to reach out to peo- about campus safety. During the Computer Services will Week starts Jan. 29, and activi- ple who might be neglected when week, there will be a display at offer free seminars for ties are planned to inform stu- we talk about safety," said Mar- the Union of personal safety de- anyone at the University in- dents about various safety pre- cie Wahba, a student involved in vices. terested in expanding their cautions on campus. the program with USG and W6- "We're really looking at Cam- computer knowledge. A variety of organizations, in- myn for Womyn. pus Safety Awareness Week as a Seminars, which begin cluding the Department of Public Jan. 31, Include: Getting started on the Mac, Intro- Safety, Resident Student Asso- duction to Microsoft ciation, Undergraduate Student "It's a way to reach out to people who might Windows and Intro to Government, and Student Hous- be neglected when we talk about safety." Microsoft Word. Anyone ing and Residence Programs, who Is Interested needs to have planned activities. contact Computer Services From Jan. 30 to Feb. 1, the De- Marcie Wahba at 372-2911. partment of Campus Safety will USG and Womyn for Womyn representative be having an open house at 104 Elizabeth Dole's Commons. Planned activities in- speaking fees create Amy J. Van Honi/Thc BG New clude ride-alongs, a rape presen- The open house is the first in kick-off," Hughes said. "We want concern Raymond Schafer, a freshman construction technology major, tation, a self-defense workshop, five years. According to Rich to keep safety in the forefront of gets some extra practice for class Thursday afternoon. an appearance by the mounted Hughes, associate director of everyone's mind for the rest of LOS ANGELES-Eli- unit of Sfct. Blackburn and his zabeth Hanford Dole SHARP, the main focus of the the semester." received speaking fees of more than $875,060 over a four-year period and kept more of it than disclosed by State congress to vote on legislation affecting BGSU her husband in financial disclosure reports filed with the Senate, according Senate to make decision about gender equity proposal to a published report. Ohio House of Representatives may The Los Angeles Times Jay Young bases its report in today's The BG News offer student trustee voting power editions on annual financial disclosure statements and If legislation being proposed in 1995 Female Trustee Statistics Jay Young on the outside, containing vital income-tax returns in the Ohio Senate is passed, the The BG News and substantial information, released by Mrs. Dole and University will have to find at Nine Member Boards looking in." her husband. Senate least two more women for the A former University student After giving her testimony, Majority Leader Bob Dole. Board of Trustees by 1999. trustee testified in front of the Chappell said students offer a The legislation mandates at College and Universities Sub- viewpoint the current voting least four, but no more than five, committee In the Ohio House members do not have.