Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-30-1995 The BG News October 30, 1995 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 October 30, 1995" (1995). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5913. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5913 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. "Celebrating 75 years of Excellence // 1920 - ,995 Inside the News Opinion CampUS • E-mail is the most-used computer program 4 ■ Dan Gaffney notes simi- Stat6 • New hiring law may save money 5 larities between elections and Halloween. Nation • Intelligent orangutan teaches childen 6 Page2 SportS • Men's and women's cross country win MAC 7 NEWS Monday, October 30, 1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 82, Issue 36 Thanks for the memories Tribe fans Cleveland put Series fans proud, hopes on ready for next year next year DarlaWamock Rich Harris The BC News The Associated Press Although ending their CLEVELAND - First came comeback year with a 1-0 disbelief. Then the sad truth set loss to the Atlanta Braves in in for intensely loyal Cleveland the sixth game of the World Indians fans Saturday night. A Series, Cleveland Indians World Series victory celebration fans are confident that the will have to wait last has not been seen of the Their team, which used explo- Tribe. sive hitting to dominate major Shelley Bigley, freshman league baseball this year, was undecided major, believes limited to no runs and one bloop that the Indians still had a hit Saturday night as the Atlanta great year, one that de- Braves won the climactic sixth serves recognition from all game 1-0. fans, regardless how the "It was a great year. A great series ended. year. What can you say?" said "I'm proud of them be- Dominic Favazzo, 27, of May- cause they made it this field. He and thousands of other far." Bigley said. "They Indians fans ignored wet and brought Cleveland out of cold winds to view the game on the slums and gave them big-screen TVs at "The Field of hope that we can do better." Dreams," a mockup of a ballpark Bigley's feelings were grandstand built at the Nautica matched by many other op- entertainment complex in the timistic Tribe fans. Even riverside district known as the though most were disap- Flats. pointed by their loss, they "Whether they won or lost, it are still proud of their was a great season all around. AP Photo/Anthony Onchak team. You cant ask for anything more Cleveland Indians fans Heather Lyell, left, and Chris Davis, both 19, Complex in Cleveland, after the Indians lost the World Series to the "The Indians were the than what they did tonight," Fa- are consoled by friend Bob Wood, 20, at the Nautica Entertainment Atlanta Braves with a 1-0 loss In game six Saturday night. best team this year," said vazzo said. freshman education major A crowd of about 6,000 fans Four emergency vehicles appointment in Cleveland to- Jacobs Field downtown. seven-month love affair with the Jeff Sprague. "They have a lined a fence along a runway for created a line of flashing lights night" and "Thank you Tribe for Few fans seemed inclined to Indians and Jacobs Field. good chance of winning about a quarter-mile to cheer the and sirens for the players and a great season." gripe much. In a year when base- See FANS, page four. team when it arrived early Sun- their families. Fans chanted "We Six motorcycle police officers ball around the country strug- "I am proud of them - they day at Cleveland Hopkins Inter- love you Tribe" and held signs led the team motorcade from the gled to remake its strike- came this far," said Cheryl Pe- national Airport. such as "There Is no dis- airport back to their cars at tarnished image, Cleveland had a trov, 29, of Sagamore Hills. ^4 More coverage of "The Dream Season" on page 8 Quebec makes appeal to voters Sniper attack David Craty The Associated Press MONTREAL ~ The two sides in stuns soldiers Quebec's bloodless but bitter war Estes Thompson of secession made final appeals past, The Washington Post re- Sunday to the undeclared voters The Associated Press ported in Sunday's editions. who will cast the crucial ballots The newspaper, citing In the vote on splitting from Can- FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Still stunned by a sniper's ambush anonymous military and ada. government sources, offered "We know we have a chance to that left one dead and 18 wounded, paratroopers of the no details of the problems and win - let's grasp it," separatist said Kreutzer had become leader Lucien Bouchard told one Army's 82nd Airborne Divi- sion tried to shake off their "hostile" recently. of the final rallies before Mon- Kreutzer, from Clinton, Md., day's referendum. 'Tomorrow shock and get back to work Saturday. was very close to his father, night, a people will be born." Investigators, soldiers and retired Prince George's The latest poll, by the Montreal County, Md., police Sgt. Wil- company Leger-Leger, gave the the victims' families won- dered how it could have hap- liam J. Kreutzer, acquaintan- separatists an edge among de- ces told the Post. cided voters but concluded, after pened. apportioning the undecideds, "My heart goes out to the Military officials have that the referendum was a dead person because he was ob- released no Information on his heat. viously distraught," said military record. The Post said Diane Badger, whose husband, "It's impossible to predict the he joined the Army In 1992, winning camp," said Jean-Marc Maj. Stephen Mark Badger, served as a peacekeeper in the Leger, the company's president. was killed. "What drives a Sinai Peninsula, was awarded About five million people In the man to do that? To turn on his the Good Conduct Medal and fellow man? I dont know ... I mostly French-speaking prov- other routine awards, and was can only have compassion for ince are eligible to vote, Includ- scheduled for discharge in him and hope he gets the help ing roughly 10 percent who said January. they hadn't made up their minds APPkMs/Dave Ckaa he needs." Kreutzer, who was tackled as of last week. Election officials Arlene Musiche and her 13-year-old daughter Rachel of Hamilton, Ont., and Mehrad Masoudl, take The accused, 26-year-old by a group of soldiers exercis- Army Sgt. William J. Kreut- predict an exceptionally high part In a candlelight vigil in support of Canadian unity in Ottawa Saturday night. ing nearby, is a member of the zer, had a history of psychiat- turnout. unit that was fired on early The separatists and federalists help maximize the turnout of supporters. treal and in Hull, In western ric problems and had been to each said they were mobilizing sympathetic voters. Police also were mobilizing, Quebec across the Ottawa River military psychiatrists in the See SNIPER, page five. more than 80,000 volunteers to "It's urgent," Bouchard told particularly in bilingual Mon- from Ontario. / t ion The BG News page two Monday, October 30,1995 The BG News Vote for candy and a beating Once again we come to that cent of students here) knows that its left blinker on for more than up!) that the government decided "Celebrating 75 years of Excellence" time of year where hordes of ob- this ritual originated in Bidde- five miles, but that's already to get rid of the booths in place of noxious, immature people go ford, Maine. The rest, however is been decided. cards. around from neighborhood to completely true. Halloween and the elections The history of Halloween is Leah Barnum Jim Vickers neighborhood, pounding on doors Politics, too, have many myths also have an Interesting history equally as interesting, albeit con- editor-in-chief managing editor and whining for handouts, scar- associated with it. One is that that makes you wonder how siderably more gory. Nowadays, ing people if necessary. Now, I every single vote counts. You mankind has survived this long. kids put on cheesy plastic uni- Dawn Keller Larry Hannan know some of you are thinking, hear this blather year after year, For example, back in the days be- forms and romp around well-lit "Dan, are you talking about the about howyour one single vote fore you punched holes in an en- neighborhoods asking for candy. news editor assistant managing editor November elections or Hal- can make a difference. Yeah, velope-sized card with a plastic Three hundred years ago, loween?" right! I don't know about you, but pen, the government had however, kids and candy had Aaron Gray Robin Coe Uh, both, actually. You see, thousands of elevator-sized nothing to do with it. Instead, both of these events involve im- booths with hundreds of tiny grown adults would put on ritua- city editor editorial editor mature people with only their levers inside of them. People listic masks, grab their Bible, a own needs and desires in mind. would go inside, close the cur- torch, a silver cross, a few bucks Both require dressing up and tain, and then they would have to for a stop at McDonalds, and a pretending to be something you'- flick all the little levers in one large blunt object suitable for re not, and regular, normal peo- direction or the other, depending beating demons out of possessed ple are glad when both are over on whether or not they had lost individuals.