Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 12-4-1996 The BG News December 4, 1996 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 December 4, 1996" (1996). BG News (Student Newspaper). 6097. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/6097 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. Opinion H E Sports Mike Wendling downs holiday Municipal Stadium, in capitalism. memoriam. Page 2 Page 7 State Guard Jay Larranaga is out for at Cleveland school evacuated due to least two weeks with illness. chemical leak. Page 4 NEWS Page 8 Wednesday, December 4, 1996 Bowling Green, Ohio Volume 83, Issue 208 The News' AIDS organization seeks volunteers Briefs Darii Wamock at David's House, told the group made a decision. I wanted to get chology major and volunteer at "I don't know. It's a painful The BC News of potential volunteers about his involved." the house, also encouraged stu- process," Hood said. "There's no Ex-Amish harass experiences as a volunteer for He said he formed a bond with dents to get involved in the or- easy answer." former brethern Opportunities to volunteer at the organization. the professor that influenced his ganization. Both Hood and Gentile said the David's House was the main "It's a really rewarding expe- decision to volunteer at the "It's such a positive environ- benefits of working at David's ASHLAND, Ohio - Three focus of discussion by represent- rience," Hood said. "I think for house. ment. You get to meet all kinds of House outweigh those negative former Amish men and a atives of the organization at an me It is a way to give back to the Volunteers at David's House people," Gentile said. "You learn ones. Each also said that a num- non-Amish 15-year-old were information session Tuesday community." have the opportunity to partici- a lot from these people. It's hum- ber of small reasons add up to arrested last week on suspi- night- Hood told the small group of pate in a variety of areas, includ- bling." make their work worthwhile. cion of harassing Amish and David's House is an AIDS Ser- students about his experiences in ing hospice care, resident's care, A student raised the issue of "A lot of it is just being there vandalizing an Amish farm, vice Organization In Toledo. The working with AIDS patients. He the buddy program and adminis- death and how the volunteers are and being a part of their lives and Ashland County authorities services provided at the house able to deal with it on a regular said. No charges have been said it became a rewarding expe- tative work. them being a part of yours," filed. are open to everyone, however rience because of the re- Anyone may be a volunter, but basis. Hood said. The suspects were identi- many of them focus on providing lationships that were formed first they must take a four hour Hood explained that just as fied only as non-Amish men for the lower class and disad van - through it. class on AIDS. The University other people have to deal with Anyone interested in vol- ages 18,19 and 21. The taged. "I had a professor who died of also offers the same in a one death, the volunteers have to unteering should contact Donna 21-year-old lives in Wooster Robert Hood, a philosophy AIDS," Hood said. "That re- credit course, MEDT 205. learn to adjust and support each Koehn, the volunteer organizer, and the others live in Sulli- graduate student and volunteer lationship got stronger and I had Angle Gentile, a senior psy- other. at (419) 244-2682. van, near Ashland in north- central Ohio. "They were just ex- Amish men who left the Postal pot Amish community and came back for revenge, ba- Doctor leads University center sically," county sheriff's purchase Detective Larry Martin said Jay Young Monday. "We're looking at The BC News hate crimes against the puts people Amish." Editor's note: This is the 12th The four allegedly dis- part in a series about campus rupted an Amish wedding, leaders. vandalized three Amish in pokey properties and overturned As director of the Student two buggies. Health Center, Joshua Kaplan Dawn Keller The men said "they hated is one of the few real doctors The BC News the Amish people because on campus. of their religion and they Kaplan, who was named di- With the assistance of the U.S. were getting back at them," rector in December 1984, leads Postal Office, Bowling Green Detective Ed Staley said. a center that averages 30,000 to City Police arrested a University The juvenile apparently 35,000 visits each year and em- student and two former students got involved because he ploys four full-time physicians. on related drug charges Monday. lives near two of the men, Some student health centers Carlos A. Sanchez, 19, was authorities said. charged with trafficking in mari- The sheriffs department don't have a medical doctor directing the facility. Kaplan juana and felony drug abuse. began investigating after Jeremy L. Lozano, 19, was receiving two telephone said being a doctor has its ad- calls Thursday night about vantages. charged with complicity to felo- disturbances in the Amish •Tor a health service this ny drug abuse. Julie M. Pendell, community near Polk. size a physician director makes freshman biology major, was One caller said someone sense. You could hire an ad- charged with possession of drug had entered a barn and ministrator for less than I paraphernelia. broken windows and make, but most places I know "U.S. Postal Service Inspector dumped feed bags. Another don't have a half-time adminis- (John Wascak) contacted city reported a suspicious car trator, they have a full-time police after intercepting a pack- driving around the Polk age that was supposed to be area. administrator and at least half of the time I do things that re- mailed to a University student," quire I be a physician," he said. said Doug Hartman, Bowling "Knowing what goes on at a Green City Police detective. The student, who was sent the more direct level at the care- D*U| Khnr»«v§ky/The BC Nfwi Welders add insult providing end of this place lets package containing three pounds to injury of Cleve- me be more efficient as an ad- plan said he implemented after came from a California emer- emergency department, Ka- of marijuana, was not charged. ministrator." becoming director was peer gency room where he worked. Hartman said they went to de- land Stadium One of the first things Ka- reviewing. He said the idea As assistant director of the See KAPLAN, page three. See POT, page five. CLEVELAND - Welders demolishing Cleveland Municipal Stadium touched off a fire Tuesday that burned part of the seating Bomb explodes into French metro area at the former home of the Browns football team and Indians baseball team, Elaine Ganley French radio. authorities said. The Associated Press The passenger said he grabbed No injuries were report- a fire extinguisher and pushed ed. PARIS - A bomb tore apart a through the panicked crowd to A crowd of spectators packed subway car in the heart reach the burned-out hulk of the gathered on the lawn of the of Paris on Tuesday, killing two subway car. neighboring Great Lakes people, wounding dozens and "The car was still burning. Science Center to watch the evoking fearful memories of a There were no more seats. The roaring fire through a gap- bombing campaign that terror- ing hole created by demoli- doors were folded in half," he tion of the old scoreboard in ized the city last year. said. center field. Heavy black "It's starting again," said Este- Mutilated people lay on the smoke billowed out of the Ue Campos, clutching her 6- and ground, and one body was building along Lake Erie. 12-year-old sons tight near the already covered with a sheet, he The fire, which broke out subway station. "It's always the said. at 3 p.m., was under control same people who pay." Witnesses described a scene of in less than two hours. It The bomb was fashioned from panic, of thick black smoke, the was extinguished by early a 28-pound gas canister - the chilling wail of ambulances and evening. signature bomb used In the 1995 paramedics frantically carrying Demolition began eight attacks that killed eight people days ago. away the wounded on stretchers. Fire battalion Chief Frank and injured 160. "I saw lots and lots of smoke Mullanax said the fire be- There was no Immediate claim and I heard a big boom," said a gan in some of the roofing of responsibility for the rush- man who gave his name only as material, which floated hour bombing. It happened at Jean-Francois. "People were cry- down to a second-floor seat- 6:05 p.m. at the Port-Royal ing and in a state of shock." ing area behind what was station on the RER regional line The first ambulances were on once home plate. Part of the that shuttles thousands of com- the scene within two minutes, a burning debris fell to the muters in and out of the French witness said.