Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-19-1992 The BG News November 19, 1992 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 November 19, 1992" (1992). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5456. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5456 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. G The BG News Thursday, November 19, 1992 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 75, Issue 61 Weather Mr. Clinton goes to Washington by Terence Hunt Clinton said he talked with Bush about Russia, Bosnia Bush strode from the Oval Office to greet him. The Associated Press and the Middle East. The president escorted Clinton to the colonnade in "It was helpful insight," Clinton said. "It was a great front of the Rose Garden where thty smiled and shook meeting." hands again for the benefit of the cameras but declined WASHINGTON - President-elect Clinton swept To one shop owner, Clinton talked about the need for triumphantly into the capital Wednesday for a "terrific" to answer questions. meeting with President Bush that ran 45 minutes over banks to make more credit available. "It's the quickest schedule and touched on more than a dozen potential way to generate more jobs in America," he said. They met in the Oval Office for an hour and 45 trouble spots the Democrat could inherit "We've got some plans and we're going to put them in minutes. A White House statement called it "a warm and I think Congress will go along," Clinton said. Clinton said he and Bush discussed such global tin- and informative conversation." Clinton will go to Capitol Hill on Thursday for meet- derboxes as Russia, Bosnia and Somalia. "He was very Clinton said Bush "was very helpful to me. We talked candid," the president-elect said. "He gave me a lot of ings with Senate and House leaders. about a couple of domestic issues and more than a dozen Repeat performance: Washington lawyer and transition chief Vernon Jor- insights. The American people should be pleased. actual or potential trouble spots in the world. He was Today, cloudy. A slight dan was the host for a dinner party Wednesday night. very candid. He gave me the benefit of his thinking on a chance of rain. High 40 to "It was a terrific meeting." Clinton also was attending a fund-raising reception for lot of things. It went a half-hour longer than expected. It 45. East winds 10 mph or The White House visit was the first stop on a two-day the Children's Defense Fund, the advocacy group his was terrific." less. Chance of rain is 30 whirlwind of high-powered meetings and social en- wife once led. Pamela Harriman, Washington hostess Clinton and Bush went next door to the Roosevelt percent. Tonight, cloudy gagements with the lions of the Washington estab- and Democratic fundraiser, invited the Clintons to her Room where transition leaders for each man were meet- with a chance of rain. Low in lishment. Clinton's visit was intended to pave the way Georgetown mansion Thursday evening. ing. Bush said he wanted a smooth transition and he the upper 30s. Chance of for a smooth transition and signal the new president's Clinton and his wife, Hillary, flew into town on a char- "appreciated the task that lay ahead of the transition precipitation is 40 percent. readiness to deal with Washington insiders. tered plane, its cost subsidized by the dozens of report- team," the statement said. Friday, rain likely. High Clinton went directly from the White House to ers who accompanied them. The Clintons were staying Bush was represented by his transition chief, Trans- near SO. Chance of rain is 60 Northwest Washington for a walking tour of one of the in the presidential suite of the luxury Hay-Adams Hotel, portation Secretary Andrew Card, and two other admin- percent. city's black business districts. with a commanding view of Lafayette Park and the istration leaders. Chase Untermeyer and Bob Zoo] lick. Thousands of well-wishers strained against police White House. Clinton was represented by Jordan and other leaders lines for a glimpse as Clinton ducked into stores near Mrs. Clinton planned to visit the White House on of the transition team: Warren Christopher, Alexis Inside The News the Georgia Avenue intersection. Thursday for a tour of the private living quarters by Herman and Mark Gearan. Their discussions focused on There have been eight homicides in the last year Barbara Bush procedures for making appointments, including FBI within a mile of the neighborhood Clinton visited. As Clinton's limousine arrived at the White House, clearances and financial disclosure forms. Canadian brothers be- come our sisters: Bowling Green and St. Thomas, Ontario officials Waiting And Waiting And ... Group says christened a new sister-city agreement between the two cities with an exchange of union not municipal friendship resolu- tions during a visit by Cana- dian city administrators best option Wednesday morning. j See page six. for faculty Outside Campus by Michael Zawacki faculty reporter Coffeehouse concert: Saturday, Nov. 21 at The Advocates for Academic Grounds for Thought, 174 S. Independence have distributed a Main St., Bowling Green new Key Questions flier that residents and students can questions certain aspects of the get a taste of the theatre as Faculty Association's academic well as coffee. charter dealing with procedures One in a series of weekly and organizational structure of a events that take place at faculty union. Grounds for Thought, Bowl- Milt Hakel, chairman of the ing Green Opera Theatre AAI, said he does not like the will be performing a "Cof- status quo any better than the feehouse Concert." leaders of the Faculty Associa- tion, but he believes there are other ways to promote change than to create and pay dues to a Death by potato peeler?: self-perpetuating bureaucracy. LORA1N, Ohio (AP) -- A Hakel said if collective bar- woman has been sentenced gaining is adopted, the Faculty to 60 days in jail for acciden- Tkc BG Newi/rim Nortmn Association Charter represents tally stabbing her boyfriend Pushing for Thanksgiving donations for the poor, freshman busi- tion Building steps. Today is the last day for the drive which Is an astonishing removal of indi- to death while peeling pota- ness administration major Eric Tolenson asks passersby for vidual faculty rights. toes. sponsored by Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi canned foods or spare change Wednesday afternoon on the Educa- Beta. The donations will go to the Seagate Food Center of Toledo. "The Faculty Association Fannie Payne, 37, of Lor- Charter would make whole sec- ain, was sentenced Friday tions of the Academic Charter ir- after pleading guilty to neg- relevant and obsolete," Hakel ligent homicide in Lorain said. "I do not believe that the Municipal Court. She will faculty wants a handful of union begin serving her term Dec. Prisoner files lawsuit against county officers to be the single most 26. powerful determiner of their On March 29, Payne fatal- by Chris Miller professional futures." ly stabbed her boyfriend, courts reporter charge the result of a prior felony conviction of burglary. Convicted Ron Stoner, chairman of the Dwight L. Patton, 45. felons are prohibited from owning a gun under federal law. BGSU-Faculty Association, said Payne first told police she In a telephone interview with The News, Donaldson denied the gun he believes this not to be true be- was cutting a potato she had Robert Donaldson filed a $65 million lawsuit Monday in Wood was his or that he was responsible for the shooting. cause a union would not be the just removed from a County Common Pleas Court claiming his constitutional rights were "I had no motive to hurt Dave West," Donaldson said. primary determinant of microwave at the kitchen violated after being found guilty of felonious assault in 1986. The current lawsuit names as defendants the State of Ohio, Wood someone's future. sink when her boyfriend Donaldson, currently an inmate at Marion Correctional Institution [ County, Wood County Common Pleas Court, Judge Charles Kurfess, "[Faculty] will continue to de- came up behind her. M.C.I.], Marion, Ohio, is serving a 15-year sentence as a result of the the North Baltimore Police Department and its chief, the mayor of termine their own professional She told police she sus- 1986 conviction. Donaldson mailed the complaint from M.C.I, on Nov. North Baltimore, and two men who were prosecution witnesses at the future," Stoner said. pected Patton was about to 3. 1986 trial, Kyle and Richard Peters. Hakel said he believes the Fac- kiss her and turned toward According to court records, Donaldson fired a shotgun into the Donaldson is demanding a jury trial to "judge this civil lawsuit," ulty Association Charter is a car- him, accidentally stabbing home of a North Baltimore man, Dave West, after an altercation be- claiming the defendants "acted in bad faith knowing they were violat- icature of a democracy. him with an 8-lnch serrated tween the two in 1985. On Jan. 24,1986, Donaldson was found guilty In ing the civil rights of the plaintiff." "It creates a highly autocratic knife. Wood County Common Pleas Court on one count felonious assault and structure," Hakel said.