Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 11-21-1985 The BG News November 21, 1985 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 21, 1985" (1985). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4457. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4457 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. i Panly cloudy. High 40 Vol. 68 Issue 51 THE BG NEWSThunorsday, November 21,1985 Seat belt bill locked in Senate COLUMBUS (AP) - Slate lawmak- be patient." Gov. Richard Celeste when the House, Bay Village. Aronoff, R-Cincinnati, president pro ers adjourned working sessions for the Pfeifer called off efforts to complete which had narrowly defeated it last Sens. Marigene Valiquette, D-To- tern of the Senate, both said they would year late yesterday after a highly passage of the measure after failing to week, reconsidered the bill, approved ledo, and Thomas Carney, D-Girard, changed their earlier vote from no to controversial bill requiring the use of round up the 17 votes needed in the 33- it 52-41, then sent it to the Senate for who voted for the proposal in May, yes.Tnat made up for two of the lost auto seat belts hit a final snag in the member Senate to concur in House approval of changes made in the House were absent yesterday. Former Sen. votes, and the presence of Valiquette Senate. changes. version. Lowell Steinbrenner, another yes vote, or Carney would have put the bill over The chief sponsor, Sen. Paul Pfeifer. He fell "just one vote short," due to THE HOUSE sponsor, Rep. Arthur resigned and has since been replaced the top, Pfeifer said. R-Bucyrus, said he was disappointed the absence of two senators who had Bowers, D-Steubenville, picked up sup- by Sen. Dick Shafrath, R-Wooster, who The seat belt bill sets a $20 fine for that the measure was not enacted prior voted for the bill in May. port from some members who were said he planned to oppose the bill. drivers who do not use the safety to the heavy travel of the year-end Earlier yesterday, it appeared the absent from the House last week, in- But Senate Minority Leader Harry device, and a $10 levy against passen- holidays but said, "We'll just have to measure was headed for the desk of cluding that of Rep. Jeffrey Jacobs, R- Meshel, D-Youngstown, and Stanley gers. Women focus of Smokeout Lung cancer now a leading cause of death in females by Janet Pavasko and Jim Nteman staff reporters • Video helps smokers break habit, page 4. Women who smoke will be the focal point of the ninth annual cent of the women said they had Mary Ann Frost, coordinator of Great American Smokeout that kicked the habit. the Well. is being held today. "The goal of The Well is to "The focus ... is on the fe- KIRBY SAID the Bowling make the campus aware of the male because of the great num- Green office of the ACS, in work- smokeout," Frost said. ber that are turning up with lung ing with The Well in the Student "Students will also be able to cancer." said Anita Kirby, exec- Health Center, will have a booth send out good wishes through utive director of the American set up from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. campus mail and our wish Cancer Society (ACS) in Wood today in the University Union board," she said. "Any money County. ACS Is sponsoring the Foyer where literature on smok- donated to the wish project will program. ing and lung cancer will be dis- be donated to the American Can- Kirby said that this year, fot tributed, along with buttons and cer Society." the first time in the United wristbands for smokers. "ITS IMPORTANT for col- States, lung cancer has passed The wristband can be used by lege students to become aware breast cancer as a leading cause friends of smokers who want to of smoking and cancer. Students of death among women. "Adopt a Smoker" for a day, are building a lifetime of habits The primary reason for this. Kirby said. The friends can pick while they are away at school," Kirby said, is that the number of up the wristband at the informa- Frost said. "If students smoke women who smoke has nearly tion booth and put it on their while at school, they usually caught up with men. Twenty- friend's wrist. smoke throughout their life." eight percent of all women "If you adopt a smoker, every Frost said some of the ACS smoke, according to a recent time they feel like smoking they tips on how to quit smoking Gallup poll, while 31 percent of can pull at the wristband as a include drinking plenty of fluids, all men smoke. reminder," Kirby said. She but not caffeine-related bever- However, Kirby said the rea- added that the friend could also ages. son for alarm is in the percent- pull the wristband as a re- "Caffeine increases nervous- age of each sex that has quit minder. ness, and smokers find theyneed smoking. While 29 percent of the Counselors from The Well a cigarette to calm their men in the poll said they had have organized the booth and nerves," she said. "Another given up smoking, only 17 per will be staffing it, according to • See Smokeout, page 6. BG News photo illustration/Alex Horvath and Joe Phelan Commerce approves University IDs Leaders conclude Student Government made a proposal re- have other forms of identification along by Nancy Bostwick questing endorsement of the photo ID. with it," he said. two-day summit staff reporter One of the other forms of identification At the October meeting members of the must have a Social Security number on it, The Chamber of Commerce has given its Chamber were concerned with card vali- 'Broad areas of agreement' claimed stamp of approval to the use of University although neither has to have a photo, he photo validation cards, hoping to encourage dation and the possibility of students alter- said. GENEVA (AP) - President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail ing IDs."As long as its validated ... every Gorbachev concluded their extraordinarily personal summit area businesses to accept them as valid semester there's no problem," Gordon said. Although Howard's has just begun accept- identification. yesterday, claiming "broad areas of agreement" but providing Some area businesses have already begun ing University IDs, Uhlman said the Cham- no details on whether the superpowers had resolved any major In the Nov. 1 meeting the Chamber Exec- accepting them and Uhlman's is one of ber of Commerce endorsement did not issues. utive Committee announced to its Board of them, according to Barb Chapptiis, assis- affect his decision to accept them. "The news is so good that we're going to hold it for tomorrow," Trustees that the Chamber endorses the tant manager of Uhlman's. Uhlman said he is also concerned about Reagan teased reporters after the formal talks had ended. A joint cards, according to Joan Gordon, executive students falsifying their validation cards farewell ceremony was hastily scheduled for this morning. manager of the Bowling Green Chamber of SHE SAID Uhlman's has been accepting and would like to implement a policy that A U.S. source indicated that there would be a joint statement to Commerce. the ID cards as identification for check would give Howard's the right to confiscate provide impetus on arms control but that the leaders would issue cashing since the cards came out. alteredlDs. no specific guidelines to help negotiators break the current "This is entirely up to the discretion of the Jeff Uhlman, owner of Howard's Club H, merchant," she said. said that photo ID cards will now be ac- "I want to work with the University on said only, "I hope there will be," when asked if any During the Chamber's October meeting, cepted as valid identification. this so that if we find that it's falsified, we Joint agreements would be signed. "We'll be accepting them but you have to won't be handing them back," he said. representatives from the Undergraduate REAGAN'S CHIEF adviser on arms control, Paul Nitze, was among experts who continued discussions following the end of yesterday s formal negotiations. It was an indication that the summit's most contentious issue remained unresolved as the leaders adjourned for dinner. The leaders, sitting with advisers and their wives before a roaring fire in the library, went over and endorsed the experts' telephone report. The U.S. source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, pre- dicted at least one surprise at today's farewell and said plans for a follow-up summit might await a post-summit decision. White House spokesman Larry Speak es declined to comment on • See Summit, page 5. Prof: 'Star Wars' could be harmful by Melissa McGUUvray clear weapons," he said. reporter He compared the capability of today's nuclear weapons to that President Reagan's proposed of the atomic bomb dropped on "Star Wars" defense system Hiroshima in 1945. ^^ would probably cause United "The city was utterly de- StatesiSoviet relations to worsen stroyed by a 20 kiloton bomb," instead of get better if it went he said.