Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 10-15-1993 The BG News October 15, 1993 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 15, 1993" (1993). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5590. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5590 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. /? The BG News Friday, October 15, 1993 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 76, Issue 37 American pilot's Briefs release may lead Weather Rainy weekend ahead: toward agreement Today, partly cloudy. that he had been badly beaten by High In the mid 60s. South by Michelle Faul The Associated Press a crowd and stripped naked after winds 10 to IS mph. Chance his capture. of rain 20 percent. Tonight, Officials said Durant would be becoming cloudy and not as MOGADISHU, Somalia - U.S. flown Friday to a U.S. military cold. A chance of rain after helicopter pilot Michael Durant, base in Ramstein, Germany, and midnight. Lows near 50. battered but buoyant, returned to then taken to a military hospital Chance of rain 40 percent. freedom Thursday on a stretcher in Landstuhl, where his wife, Saturday, showers likely after 11 days as a captive of a Lorrie, would join him. and mild. Highs in the mid Somali warlord. Aidid has eluded capture since 60s. Chance of rain 70 per- The United States said no deal June despite a U.N. ransom of cent. was made for the release of Dur- $25,000. ant, captured in an Oct. 3 battle Inside the News between U.N. troops and Mo- Aidid called for the uncondi- hamed Farrah Aidid's fighters, tional release of 32 Somalia de- and of a Nigerian private cap- tained by the United Nations, in- tured in a Sept. S gunfight. cluding three top aides and his Safer crossings in works: Aidid emerged from hiding to chief arms supplier. Railroad crossings in the announce the release at a news city will be getting new conference. Clinton said it was "up to the gates and lights. The freeing of Durant spurred U.N." whether Aidid's lieuten- 3 See page 4. more calls from Congress for ants would be released. "We speeding ui the departure of U.S. made no deals to secure the troops from Somalia, and Presi- release of Chief Warrant Officer Bomb precautions: dent Clinton indicated he might Durant," Clinton said at a news Campus police have de- be flexible on his March 31 dead- conference in Washington. veloped a procedure for line for withdrawal. University departments to Durant, 32, clenched his teeth Asked whether he still wanted follow if they receive a and his eyes teared as he was Aidid's arrest, the president did bomb threat. carried out on a stretcher from a not give a clear "yes" or "no." He □ See page 3. walled compound and handed said a U.N. resolution had called over to Red Cross representa- for the general's capture "and we tives. He clutched a note from his ought to pursue It, [but] there And speaking of getting wife and parents that the Red may be other ways to do it and bombed: Cross gave him just before his I'm open to that." Researchers at the Uni- release. He declined to speak to versity are paying students reporters. Clinton called Durant's release to get drunk as part of a Dr. John Hoi comb of the 46th one of the "hopeful actions" he study in how people become U.S. Army Field Hospital said the said indicated U.S. policy in So- intoxicated. pilot suffered a broken leg, a malia was "moving In the right Q See page 3. broken cheekbone and a frac- direction and making progress." tured back, but appeared to have been treated fairly well by his Rtd. Adm. Jonathan Howe, the Outside campus captors. The leg was in a splint, U.N. secretary-general's special but had not been set and was representative to Somalia, said quite painful, Holcomb said. Thursday he could not meet Ai- Stalker faces sentencing: "Mike is fine, basically," Hol- did's demand for assurances that SHAKER HEIGHTS - A comb said, adding that Durant the United Nations would not psychiatric patient faces up "cried a little bit." hunt him down. to six months in jail and a An Autumn Amble He said most of Durant's injur- $1,000 fine on his no contest ies probably were sustained Howe called for talks with Ai- plea to stalking a college Nick Hufflne, 4, and Cbelsie Thomas, 5, walk hand-in- hand during a field trip to the environmental when a rocket-propelled grenade did's Somali National Alliance classmate. woods on West Woosler Street Thursday. Hufflne, Thomas and other children from the Child Devel- blasted the tail off his helicopter, and said U.N. relations with Ai- Police said Jon Killlan, 31, opment Center learned about the environment and the forest during the trip. although Durant said in an inter- did were like "sniffing dogs, cir- of Cleveland Heights, was view while he was in captivity cling each other." obsessed with a John Carroll University student. He pleaded no contest Wednes- day to stalking the 19-year- old woman and threatening Crop Walk aids in hunger programs her life. Shaker Heights Municipal by Leah Barnum Judge Virgil E. Brown Jr. environment reporter place Oct. 17 at 1 p.m., is to heighten cent of the proceeds will go to the World treasurer of Reach Out. revoked Klllian's $10,000 awareness of the hunger problems in the Church Service and affiliated organiza- It is a combined effort in which com- bond and ordered that he world, said Bill Thompson, the advisor of tions, and the other 25 percent will go to munity members and University stu- remain at the Cleveland In this comfortable, virtually hunger- Reach Out, a service-oriented student as- the Wood County Food Pantry, Thompson dents will work together to accomplish a Psychiatric Institute until free town, some residents tend to forget sociation which works to recruit partici- said. goal, Thompson said. sentencing. No date was set. about the millions of starving people in pants for the event. The 10 km walk will start at the Bowl- Stalking Is a first-degree far-away lands like Somalia "I would like to see people walking be- ing Green City Park and encompass the "It gets the community involved," Las- misdemeanor under an Ohio The sponsors of this Sunday's "Crop cause it [makes a statement]," he said. University campus, he said. ter said. "It's something to bring the law passed last November. Walk" hope to bring the permanent resi- "We forget about all the people around Sponsored by the Church World Ser- community together." The victim made a tearful dents and students of Bowling Green the world that are hungry." vice, the event will take place with the statement to the court, say- together and reiterate thoughts of the Participants will ask people to pledge help of Reach Out and a local committee Laster, who is participating in the ing, "Over the past year, this hungry in their minds. them a certain amount for each mile of community. University and church event herself, said it is a worthwhile has interfered with my stud- The goal of the event, which will take walked or ran, he said. Seventy-five per- members, according to Lisa Laster, cause to spend time or money on. ies, with my friends. I want it to be over." The BG Newi/Ter*M Thwnai Police said Killlan first saw the woman in a class they both took in September 1992. He said he never In- Victim shares tended to harm the woman. Bite your tongue: story of rape NEW YORK - Apologize by Melissa Llpowshl for using a Yiddish term health reporter some people consider a ra- cial slur? Feh, says Jackie Mason. The recent outbreak of rapes on and off the University cam- pus has many women living in fear. No matter how confident a woman may be or how prepared The comic repeatedly she thinks she is to fend off an attacker, when the situation actu- used the word "shvartze" ally arrives, no victim can predict how she would react. for blacks while accepting a For one University student, the fear of rape became reality Person of the Year award three years ago. The event was very unexpected and emotional Sunday from a 2,500 for Stacy Pettit, a senior psychology major from Sidney, Ohio. member organization It has taken Pettit a long time to fully cope with what hap- of Jewish police officers. pened. Until last year she was not yet ready to accept and deal with what had happened. However, within the last year, Pettit Mason was forced to step has become more willing to share her experience in order to down as an adviser to Ru- educate others about rape. dolph Giuliani's 1989 Three days after she arrived at the University her freshman mayoral campaign after he year in 1990, Pettit and a few of her new friends met a group of jokingly described David men from Purdue University at Some Other Place. Dinkins, now the mayor, as The men were visiting Bowling Green's chapter of their "a fancy shvartze with a fraternity.