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Campus H E Sports Campus cops remind careless cyclists to bind bicycles Scores AL NL Page 3 Cleveland 7 Atlanta 6 Milwaukee 0 Cincinnati 12 Detroit 6 Pittsburgh S Nation Chicago 11 Colorado 2 Kansas City 6 Florida 9 Carolina coast evacuated, courtesy Toronto 0 Chicago 2 Hurricane Fran Page 5 NEWS See sports on page 6 Thursday, September 5, 1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 83, Issue 149 Kemp in In Brief... Ohio to tout Dole Toledo man tax plan faces 100 years John Nolan in jail The Associated Press A Toledo man faces 40 MASON, Ohio - Republican to 100 years In prison for the vice presidential candidate Jack alleged rape, felonious Kemp campaigned in Ohio today, sexual imposition, aggra- raising campaign funds and tout- ing Bob Dole's tax cut plan. vated burglary and extortion At Cintas Corp., a commercial- of a 74-year-old North wood uniform manufacturer that em- woman. ploys about 500 people, he prom- According to Wood ised a crowd of about 1,000 County Prosecutor Alan workers and supporters that he Mayberry. Robert Lee and Dole want to Increase take Roughton. 37, will be ar- home pay for working families. raigned in Wood County Kemp said the government Common Pleas Court Sept. already is taking nearly 30 per- 19 in connection with these cent of the gross income of a crimes. family of four. "They act like it's their money. Do you all think it's their money?" the former Buffalo Mountain biking Bills quarterback said. The crowd chanted back in un- team schedules ison, "No." Moments earlier, company meeting A*?"" " ■ . board Chairman Richard T. Far- mer - a major Republican fund- Anyone Interested In . -;. raiser - drew laughs when he Joining the University moun- Shannon W«rkman/Th« BG New. mistakenly introduced Kemp as tain biking team can attend Construction continues through the center of campus In front of the Ing, according University officials. "the next president, uh, vice Union. The $900,000 pedestrian mall will be completed by Thanksgiv- an informational meeting president, of the United States." Monday. Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. Kemp was flanked by Farmer In the second floor lounge of and state Treasurer Ken Black- the University Union. well, a former deputy aide to Questions about the Fences will remain during fall Kemp when he was Housing and team can be directed to Don Urban Development secretary. at Cycle Werks, 352-8578 "Raise your hands and tell me Union pedestrian mall to be completed by Thanksgiving you don't need a tax cut. Raise your hand if you don't want your Jay Young tivities related to the project. available. We used to run exten- of Prout Hall. taxes cut and you're going to vote The BC News Conservancy "Considering all of the delays, sion cords out there. This is much Engler said fences will remain for Bill Clinton," Kemp said. No Students will have to continue it's been moving along as well as safer." up around the new East Hall. He one did. names new to walk around fenced off areas could be expected," Engler said. "We've also run cash register said work on the building is He also expressed support for during the fall semester as "We had to do some tunnel work terminals out there, so you can ahead of schedule. the Iraq mission. director workers complete a campus between Prout and Hayes, only plug in one of the Food Services "That project has been moving Kemp said Republicans sup- project currently under way. because they weren't where we registers out there," Crooks said. along just great," Engler said. port President Clinton's goal of Daniel D. Riedell. a A $900,000 pedestrian mall be- thought they were." He said the new oval will be a "It's about a week ahead of trying to force Iraqi president naturalist/ranger with the tween the Union and Eppler Union Director David Crooks, better place for students to spend schedule right now. The general Saddam Hussein back inside the Sac County (Iowa) Conserva- Center, which began four months who assists orgranizations using time. contractor Is targeting Thanks- United Nations defined boundar- tion Board, has been named ago, will be completed around the oval, said the renovated area "It's going to create a gather- giving to have the building tota- ies. full-time executive director of Thanksgiving, according to Uni- will make activity preparation ing place," Crooks said. "Closer lly enclosed. They are currently "Irrespective of our political the Black Swamp Conser- versity Architect Rollie Engler. more convenient. to the Union you have a smaller framing the fourth floor, which is party, we all share the goals of circle created by benches that is vancy. Engler stated in April that fen- "I think it is going to make the the last floor they have to do." the mission," Kemp said. ces should be down by the start use of that space much easier for kind of a place to gather and re- Riedell was selected Engler said workers should Earlier, Kemp toured the Cin- of fall semester. He said the de- the organizations," Crooks said. lax on some of those beautiful meet the May completion date tas distribution plant, after ad- from a pool of over 50 appli- lay was caused by unexpected "We've included electrical out- Bowling Green days." for the building. dressing a fund-raising breakfast cants. existing site conditions and coor- lets out there so student activi- In addition to the new pedes- "We'll have the building ready at the Queen City Club in Cincin- The Black Swamp Con- dination of the brick sculpture ties or other kinds of activities trian mall, workers also installed to occupy and ready for use a See KEMP, page five. servancy Is a private, non- with other new construction ac- located out there will have power ramps on the east and west side year from now," Engler said. profit land trust working to assist property owners who wish to preserve their farm- land, woodlot. open space, Heritage 2000 plans in the works wetland or flood plain. Riedell Is a graduate of walks, raise new gas street lights Briar CliffCollege, Sioux City. Sarah Bednarskl The BC News and change to parallel parking on Iowa, with a Bachelor of Sci- the streets. ence degree in Biology. In the 1970s there was the Her- To encourage community in- itage 76 project which aimed at volvement, surveys have been improving the image of Bowling distributed in area banks. People Green's downtown by painting have the option to vote on which College Demo- and fixing up downtown build- street improvement plans they ings to make them more attrac- like best based on sketches by crats welcome tive. Today, there is a new local artist Dudley Fleming. project, Heritage 2000, which Redfern hopes to revitalize downtown. In March the Heritage 2000 "We want to create an envi- committee selected E.G.&G., Ohio House of Repre- ronment that will attract people Inc., a downtown consulting firm sentatives candidate Chris to the downtown to shop, re- from Fairlawn, Ohio, that spe- Redfern will be visiting create and possibly even live," cializes in landscape archi- campus next week as a said Richard Gordley chairman tecture, planning, and engineer- speaker for the College of the Heritage 2000 project and ing to help with the project. Democrats. president and CEO of First Fed- E.G.&G. Inc. along with local Redfern Is running eral Bank, Bowling Green. Bowling Green subconsultants, against incumbent Bob The proposed area of revitali- Poggemeyer Design Group, were Latta In November. zation encompasses Thurstin hired to plan and implement the The function will be Street, west to Church Street and final stages of the project. from Clay Street south to Ord- Tuesday. Sept. 10 In room way Street and Lehman Avenue. Most of the money for the 111 of the Business Admin- project has been funded by istration building. The 1970s revitalization Community Block Grants. The project focused on building fa- rest of the money will come from cades, according to Gordley. This the private sector. time, however, the focus will be Project construction Is to begin Compiled from staff reports on rear entrances of buildings in May of 1997. for better customer convenience. With this in mind, the commit- Susan Wisecup contributed to Cumiv of Dick Gcriley tee has planned to widen side- this article Brick and concrete would cover the Four Corners area at the intersection of Wooster and Main streets ■ Opinion Page 2 September5, 1996 Hollywood's summer of duds When we were tykes, sum- lawyerfest and you've got, uh, sions of their debuts, artistic devel- mers were a time of refuge from you've got... "Kazaam"? opment be damned. the nine months of "responsibility" It's almost as if the industry The daring "indie spirit" is in is afraid of going too far out on a I am writing this letter as an open invitation to the students, that our young minds found so op- danger, too.