Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 1-17-1995 The BG News January 17, 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 January 17, 1995" (1995). BG News (Student Newspaper). 5790. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/5790 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. mtm>fit\n6 1995 The BG News "Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence" Cloudy upper 30s Tuesday, January 17,1995 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 81, Issue 79 Nation honors memory of King Family, park service fight over preservation rights Janis L. Magln erat ion economic freedom." King, now president of the King The Associated Press More than 400 people packed Center, said the park service has the church, next door to the Mar- falsely accused the family of try- tin Luther King Center for Non- ing to profit from his father's ATLANTA - The nation re- violent Social Change and the memory. membered Martin Luther King crypt that holds the body of the "Myself and my family have Jr. on Monday amid a feud be- civil rights leader, who would been accused of protecting our tween his family and the National have been 66 on Sunday. legacy, the King legacy," King Park Service over who will The park service wants to build said during the service. "Yet we preserve his a museum and visitors center did not wake up one morning and memory and near the King Center. King's decide to start a company called how. widow, Coretta Scott King, and Martin Luther King Jr. Inc." At Ebenezer children want to create their own Up to 700 marchers walked Baptist interactive museum. through downtown Memphis, Church, where The dispute prompted the fam- Tenn., stopping at the Lorraine King was pas- ily to halt park service tours of Motel, now the National Civil tor, Dexter King's birthplace. The service Rights Museum, where King was Scott King now shepherds tours past the assassinated by a sniper on April vowed to con- home and presents a slide show 4,1968. tinue his fath- King at its own facility about a block Elsewhere: er's work away. The sides are to meet Sat- ~ In Denver, President Clinton APpkMWMelEv* through economic opportunity, urday and discuss the dis- addressed a crowd of more than Members of the congregation of the First Baptist Church of South Boundbrook pray In the aisles of the calling for a $10 billion in- agreement. 20,000 at a park as part of a day- church Sunday In South Boundbrook, NJ.. during services honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'i vestment in the black communi- The feud cropped up Monday long celebration that featured a birthday. ty. in Dexter King's church speech, two-mile parade. "Even as he citizen was even more impor- gone astray. "We've gone off on state that has not fully adopted "My father had a dream; I too and in appearances on CNN and marched all across this land and tant," Clinton said. tangents instead of taking up the the federal King holiday, about have a dream," the 33-year-old NBC by King and Troy Lissi- took that vast throng to Washing- baton and running the next leg," 25 teen-agers staked out the said in a Martin Luther King Day more, the park service's superin- ton, DC, he knew In the end... - In Boston, about 2,000 people said Jackman, a student at the sidewalk at the State-house In address. "My father delivered to tendent of the King Historic Site. that what was in the hearts and attended a breakfast in King's University of New Hampshire. Concord in a vigil scheduled to his generation political freedom. Lissimore said he thinks the minds of the average American honor, where 19-year-old Tito last from midnight Sunday to I would like to deliver to my gen- dispute could be worked out. But Jackman said his generation has — In New Hampshire, the only midnight Monday. On Thin Ice ASC to consider modifications Proposed handbook changes include leave, wage policies Jay Young A proposal to change the ma- gible for five percent. meeting were developed by the The BC News ternity leave policy would add "Many people feel that 'if I Council's Welfare Committee. time off for employees who adopt have an increased workload and Chairman Duane Whir mi re said Administrative Staff Council a child. Employees would be al- an increase in responsibilities, the proposals are an attempt to will meet Wednesday to review lowed six months' leave. then shouldn't I get an increase improve the way the University proposed changes to the council The current administrative in salary?'" Green said. works. handbook. Proposed changes in- staff leave is four months. Green clude adjustments to the Univer- said six months is being proposed sity's family and maternity leave because that is what classified "It is an attempt to communicate to all policies, wages and promotions. staff receives. administrative staff members what the The council is considering a "We couldn't see why there proposal that would change the should be any differences be- channels are for the different topics." University's interpretation of the tween classified and administra- family leave legislation. Spouses tive staff," Green said. that are both employed by the Another proposal outlines Duane Whitmire University currently must divide wage increases for members who Welfare Committee Chairman the 12 weeks of leave. Under the are assigned additional responsi- proposal both would receive 12 bilities due to the elimination of A third proposal includes an "It is an attempt to communi- Tkf BG NewiAtMl W<lt»>r weeks' leave during a 12-month another position. The proposal outline on how promotions are to cate to all administrative staff Falcon right wing, Mike Johnson, moves the pack past a Miami period. states that if 50 percent of the re- be considered. members what the channels are defender during the second period of the 4-4 tie with the Red- "We would like to say that each sponsibilities under an elim- "What we're trying to do Is tell for the different topics," Whit- skins Saturday night. individual on this campus, re- inated position are assigned to an administrative staff that if a per- mire said. gardless of whether they're mar- individual, that person will be son feels he or she falls into one The meeting, which will take ried to another University em- compensated for at least 10 per- of these things, here's how you go place at 11:30 a.m. in the Library ployee, Is entitled to the full 12 cent of his or her current salary. about requesting promotions," Conference Room, will be to dis- weeks," said Pat Green, ASC If 25 percent of the duties are as- Green said. cuss and reconsider the propos- Russian leader chairwoman. signed, that person would be eli- All proposals discussed at the als. calls for peace Homemade bomb kills teen Barry Renfrew The Associated Press The Associated Press Township was killed Sunday wick and put some sort of wax teen-agers of the dangers of when a homemade bomb he over it to seal it. And then they experimenting with explo- GROZNY, Russia - With its offensive In Chechnya stalling, Russia PORT CLINTON, Ohio - Ot- and his cousin. Jay Fahl, were lit the string, but it exploded sives. on Monday called for Immediate peace talks to end a secessionist re- tawa County authorities were playing with exploded. Fahl, immediately." Minick said Hoffman and bellion it said threatens the nation's security and well-being. considering 14, of Monroeville, was in- He said it was unclear which Fahl were playing in an are* "The future of Russia, our future, depends on resolving the crisis in ways to dis- jured. boy ignited the device. between a breakwall about 3 Chechnya," Prune Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin said Monday night courage teen- Sherif fs Lt Bob Bratton said feet high and a pier that juts In a lS-mlnute address on national television. agers from the teen-agers were experi- To try to prevent other acci- out into Lake Erie at Willow He called for talks "with all Interested parties and forces" and a experiment- menting with devices "and the dents, authorities may start Beach. The breakwall and the simultaneous cease-fire. ing with thing went off on them." sending deputies to schools and pier apparently magnified the Both sides have appealed for negotiations before, but Chernomyr- homemade Robert Mlnick, acting county "talk about explosive devices explosion, he said. din's speech - which did not Impose the usual Russian conditions that bombs after coroner, said the bomb was and the dangers," sheriff's De- the Chechens disarm - was one of Moscow's strongest statements an explosion made from an extended carbon puty Stephen LaVorchick said. Hoffman, a Port Clinton yet. that killed a dioxide canister that youths High School freshman, was The prime minister, saying he was speaking for President Boris 14-year-old use for pellet guns. Bratton said the sheriffs de- pronounced dead at the scene. Yeltsin, expressed "profound grief and condolences" to relatives of boy. "They put some gunpowder partment may distribute fliers Fahl was treated at Magruder the dead.